A lot has been said about how to prevent rape. Women should learn self-defense. Women should lock themselves in their houses after dark. Women shouldn't have long hair and women shouldn't wear short skirts. Women shouldn't leave drinks unattended. Fuck, they shouldn't dare to get drunk at all.
Instead of that bullshit, how about:
If a woman is drunk, don't rape her. If a woman is walking alone at night, don't rape her. If a women is drugged and unconscious, don't rape her. If a woman is wearing a short skirt, don't rape her. If a woman is jogging in a park at 5AM, don't rape her. If a woman looks like your ex-girlfriend you're still hung up on, don't rape her. If a woman is asleep in her bed, don't rape her. If a woman is asleep in your bed, don't rape her. If a woman is doing her laundry, don't rape her. If a woman is in a coma, don't rape her. If a woman changes her mind in the middle of or about a particular activity, don't rape her. If a woman has repeatedly refused a certain activity, don't rape her. If a woman is not yet a woman, but a child, don't rape her. If your girlfriend or wife is not in the mood, don't rape her. If your step-daughter is watching TV, don't rape her.
If you break into a house and find a woman there, don't rape her. If your friend thinks it's okay to rape someone, tell him it's not, and that he's not your friend. If your "friend" tells you he raped someone, report him to the police. If your frat-brother or another guy at the party tells you there's an unconscious woman upstairs and it's your turn, don't rape her, call the police and report him as a rapist.
Tell your sons, god-sons, nephews, grandsons, and sons of friends that it's not okay to rape someone.
Don't just tell your women friends how to be safe and avoid rape. Don't imply that she could have avoided it if she'd only done/not done x, y, or z. Don't imply that it's in any way her fault. Don't let silence imply agreement when someone tells you he "got some" with the drunk girl. Don't perpetuate a culture that tells you that you have no control over or responsibility for your actions. You can too help yourself. Rape is not about sex, it's about control and power, and what kind of power comes from taking advantage of others? No power anyone should ever desire.
If you agree, repost it. It's important.
(reposted from Gloria, not sure the original source)
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Hello ljland,
I've been MIA all weekend at my first ever pirate event. it's been fun so far. It gets too fucking cold at night though, brrr! Fortunately Sean and the pugs are here curled up with me keeping my lower body warm, though not much help for my nose. Not sleepy yet so I may escape the tent for a while and sit by our neighbors fire.
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I love my little dogs and husband. They make me so happy. They're all especially snuggly in the middle of the night. And they all snore! Awe!
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Today is hard. My friend's wake is today, right now, and I can't be there.
I'm so sorry Starr.
This should never have happened, not to someone so young, not at all.
Laying in bed with pug snugs just isn't enough right now.
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Peach is so clever about escaping confinement! She jumps over the baby gate so we double gate it. Then she finds a way to knock over the bottom gate. Then I tie the gates together and she just pushes until she knocks down the top gate. Our little houdini! Poor Rose still remains stuck of course!
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I haven't baked in so long because I didn't have the space. I finally cleaned up the dining room table so I could make cookies, mmm! I didn't have eggs though so I found a recipe for egg free cookies and they turned out gooooood!
http://www.recipezaar.com/Easy-Chocolat
Dear Livejournal,
Poliana, bucket of doughnuts and I are going for a ride.
We wonder if we put a t-shirt on it if the museums will let us take it in with us, it is our love child after all, our delicious, delicious love child.
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polianarchy is in town and we're having a good time. We bought comics, ate Voodoo doughnuts, found
1900mixalot and now we're at Florida room, best thing about Flo Ro:
Fatties in a photobooth!
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