Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win
Month
“What’re your plans for the future?”
Me:
hello my name is Ari, I’m a college student and right now I have less than $900 to last me until the end of my school year, which is June 13th.
as you can guess, this is not enough for me to live on. the ~$900 that I have left is used for groceries, necessities, gas,…
Two weeks ago a man in France was arrested for raping his daughter. She’d gone to her school counselor and then the police, but they needed “hard evidence.” So, she videotaped her next assault. Her father was eventually arrested. His attorney explained, “There was a period when he was unemployed and in the middle of a divorce. He insists that these acts did not stretch back further than three or four months. His daughter says longer. But everyone should be very careful in what they say.” Because, really, even despite her seeking help, her testimony, her bravery in setting up a webcam to film her father raping her, you really can’t believe what the girl says, can you?
Everyone “knows” this. Even children.
Three years ago, in fly-on-the-wall fashion of parent drivers everywhere, I listened while a 14-year-old girl in the back seat of my car described how angry she was that her parents had stopped allowing her to walk home alone just because a girl in her neighborhood “claimed she was raped.” When I asked her if there was any reason to think the girl’s story was not true, she said, “Girls lie about rape all the time.” She didn’t know the person, she just assumed she was lying…
No one says, “You can’t trust women,” but distrust them we do. College students surveyed revealed that they think up to 50% of their female peers lie when they accuse someone of rape, despite wide-scale evidence and multi-country studies that show the incident of false rape reports to be in the 2%-8% range, pretty much the same as false claims for other crimes. As late as 2003, people jokingly (wink, wink) referred to Philadelphia’s sex crimes unit as “the lying bitch unit.” If an 11-year-old girl told an adult that her father took out a Craigslist ad to find someone to beat and rape her while he watched, as recently actually occurred, what do you think the response would be? Would she need to provide a videotape after the fact?
It goes way beyond sexual assault as well. That’s just the most likely and obvious demonstration of “women are born to lie” myths. Women’s credibility is questioned in the workplace, in courts, by law enforcement, in doctors’ offices, and in our political system. People don’t trust women to be bosses, or pilots, or employees. Pakistan’s controversial Hudood Ordinance still requires a female rape victim to procure four male witnesses to her rape or risk prosecution for adultery. In August, a survey of managers in the United States revealed that they overwhelmingly distrust women who request flextime. It’s notable, of course, that women are trusted to be mothers—the largest pool of undervalued, unpaid, economically crucial labor.
”—Soraya Chemaly, How We Teach Our Kids That Women Are Liars (via 5000letters)
You know you’re a lesbian when: You put your finger in it instead.
OH GOD, I ONLY EVER PUT MY FINGERS IN THEM.
I did both…
i did both. i also bent it, what does that tell me now
You kinky son of a bitch.
I used to step on mine until they exploded.
i’ll stop dressing in black when they invent a darker colour
finally something to match my soul
If you haven’t seen this, it’s actually so black that if they made clothing out of it, it would just appear as though there was a photoshopped hole where your clothing is.
good
i love it when TV shows make references to other TV shows
now we just need a show that references Supernatural
You mean like
Supernatural?
I really want a science fiction story where aliens come to invade earth and effortlessly wipe out humanity, only to be fought off by the wildlife.
They were expecting military resistance. They weren’t counting on bears.
Canada’s time to shine has come
“why dont you just give him a chance”
idk because im not physically or mentally attracted to him and ‘but he likes you’ or ‘but hes really nice’ isnt going to change the fact that im not interested
Damn, I don’t think women know how much that really hurts
Peggy Carter talking about her period in order to make men uncomfortable to get the day off to go to spy work. Peggy Carter using her femininity to slip past men unnoticed and fuck shit up. Peggy Carter being a fucking boss.
This is everything I ever wanted out of this show. It is fucking golden.
every time eren jaeger or kaneki ken regenerate a limb listen very closely and you might be able to hear ed elric crying in the distance
I almost spit out my tea
not to mention if you look low enough you might also have a chance of seeing him.
“and now the world premiere teaser for antm-”
I don’t really meta or anything, but I just need to talk about how fascinated I am by Peggy Carter’s fighting style, namely the fact that it is completely fucking brutal.
Peggy Carter doesn’t fight in the graceful and acrobatic and decidedly feminine way Natasha does; Peggy Carter just bulldozes…
(via javabi)
so turns out the guy who discovered uranus originally wanted to name it “george”
just. imagine a planet called George
mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn GEORGE
I really think you need to brush up on your mythology here. Do you even know what a hydra looks like?
This is a hydra. Its defining features are its one tail and many, many heads.
So what the fuck is this supposed to be?
That, Mr Schmidt, is a fucking octopus. Its defining features are its ONE head and many LEGS.
You literally could not have gotten this more wrong.
when i’m out with my family and i see a book store
This is like the most personally accurate post I’ve ever seen another person make. A+ gif usage.
Also happens when I pass a library
have you ever had a dream that was so vivid it stuck with you in the back of your mind for years?
i have so many questions
this is another one of those posts where you just sit back and open tag viewer
We have a winner
Don’t you dare tell me we have a winner
AND LET’S NOT FORGET MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE:
“beauty and the beast” where beauty’s dad comes home with the rose and is like oh shit oh shit this terrible monster says i have to come live with him forever because i picked his favorite flower and beauty just goes fuck that and puts on her pants and marches down to the…
#and a lot of us also watch porn let’s be honest‘girls don’t have to clear their internet history’
let me explain you a thing
what
And this:
Because we don’t watch porn. We read it.
And our minds are our 1080p HD full screens.
With good acting
And generally better knowledge of the female anatomy
Guys: incognito windows. I swear to God. Incognito Google is the way to go. Never met a guy who knew what it was, though, not going to lie.
if you have someone in your life who genuinely cares about how your day went, and listens fully to the fucked up shit that goes on in your mind, and answers your texts or calls you back, and lets you know you’re important to them and/or generally makes you feel cared for, you’re really fucking lucky and i hope you tell this person you appreciate them and i hope if they treat you right and make you feel safe and loved, you hold onto them really tight.
Dear young females,
if a man ever interrupts you say “excuse me I wasn’t finished.” and finish ur statement. The looks u get and his mortified reaction will make u unstoppable.
demand respect.Replace the “me” with “you” and its perfect. Never make it sound like you’re the one who is in the wrong.
YES
lets play “which download link is the real one”
FUN FACT real download links won’t move if you drag them along with your mouse so if it does drag it’s an ad!!
