feministfilm:

prchtshrk:

so happy

USEFUL.

coma-therapy:

“I don’t know if rape jokes encourage rape culture. I don’t care. You still shouldn’t tell them.

Statistically, if you have told a rape joke to a group of more than five people, one of the people you told it to was a rape survivor, possibly of multiple rapes. They will not necessarily disclose this to you; rape apologism is endemic in society and most rape survivors are cautious about whom they tell. Some may even be too ashamed of their rape to admit it to anyone, or because of rape-minimizing narratives like “men can’t be raped” and “I consented to oral, so I couldn’t have been raped” may not admit it even to themselves. The fact remains: if you’ve told dozens of rape jokes in your life, then you have almost certainly told a joke that minimizes or trivializes rape in front of a survivor.

And if you put as your Facebook status “I totally raped at Halo today” for your two hundred Facebook friends to see, statistically, you have just reminded thirty-three people of one of the worst experiences of their entire lives.

To describe how well you did at a video game.

Good job!”

— An Addendum, On Rape Jokes.

(Copious trigger warnings.)

damegreywulf:

A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after allegedly being raped by her stepfather.

[…]

The regional archbishop, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, pronounced excommunication for the mother for authorising the operation and doctors who carried it out for fear that the slim girl would not survive carrying the foetuses to term. [Not that you need a fucking excuse for giving a nine year old girl, a FUCKING NINE YEAR OLD GIRL WHO WAS RAPED, an abortion, because PREGNANCY WILL ALWAYS BE VERY FUCKING UNHEALTHY FOR A CHILD, that’s not even including the fucking psychological issues of being raped and having to give birth to rape babies WHEN YOU ARE STILL A BABY YOURSELF]

[…]

He also said the accused stepfather would not be expelled from the church. Although the man allegedly committed “a heinous crime … the abortion - the elimination of an innocent life - was more serious”. [Saving a girl’s life and health is apparently worse than being a rapist, but then forgiveness of rapists is actually extremely common amongst Christianity, with the Vatican being the prime example itself.]

[…]

The girl, who was not identified because she is a minor, was last week found to be four months pregnant after being taken to hospital suffering stomach pains.

Officials said she told them she had suffered sexual abuse by her stepfather since the age of six.

Police said the 23-year-old stepfather also allegedly sexually abused the girl’s physically handicapped 14-year-old sister.

In case you ever forget it: All anti-choicers are scum to me, without question.

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mylifeasateenagevegan:

This is what happens when I have no assignments over the weekend…

The pink tabs are for murder, purple for human or animal sacrifice, blue for rape, yellow for slavery and green for misogyny.

Beautiful

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thecurvature:

I’d hope that Lot’s wife would actually have a few words for her husband about how he offered their daughters up to a mob for gang rape.

But for those complaining about a lack of Biblical accuracy, that’s clearly not what the poem is about. It’s about the way the story is understood in mainstream, popular culture, and how it is commonly used in rhetoric and sermons by a large number of Christians today. The word sodomy happened for a reason. Lot’s wife is used to symbolize a number of things, from the weakness of women, to the importance of obedience to God, to the perils of having sympathy for sin. Homosexuality is still understood by a large number of Christians to be a very grave sin.

The point is not whether or not the sin of Sodom was homosexuality, nor whether the Sodomites were actually intending to commit rape rather than have consensual sex with people of the same gender. The point is that most people understand the story as God destroying a city because men were having sex with men. That matters on its own.

I’d say that more Biblical stories are misunderstood by average people than are known accurately. And I’d say that those mistellings are a hell of a lot more important, relevant, influential, and worth addressing than the actual words in the book that most people clearly haven’t bothered to read. The story itself is worth discussing — especially, I think, the part about how Lot was deemed worth saving after telling a mob to rape his daughters — but it’s just not necessarily the same discussion.

Besides, it’s an utterly stunning fucking poem. And poetic license is in fact a thing.

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keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

North Carolina’s ultrasound law, passed last year over the governor’s veto, didn’t provoke the same level of controversy. It doesn’t include the words “trans-vaginal probe,” either. But it effectively requires the procedure for many, if not most, abortions.

The new law requires an ultrasound before any abortion procedure. The woman has to be shown the image of the fetus, have the image described to her, and be offered the opportunity to hear the fetal heartbeat.

In early pregnancy—up until about 8 weeks—the only way a doctor can comply with those requirements is by using a trans-vaginal sonogram probe.

Rex Healthcare’s Rhonda Thomas is president of the NC Ultrasound Society. She says abdominal ultrasounds can’t see much before the two-month mark, especially if the patient has had prior pregnancies or is overweight.

“They’re just more sensitive,” Thomas said of trans-vaginal scans. ”That’s the test of choice.”

A trans-vaginal sonogram is also the only way to hear a fetal heartbeat in early pregnancy. Thomas says the heartbeat isn’t audible via stethoscope until about 10 weeks.

Planned Parenthood of Central NC spokeswoman Paige Johnson said her group lobbied hard against other parts of the bill, but didn’t make a big issue of the probe. That’s because her group uses them, too.

Johnson says Planned Parenthood requires an ultrasound before every abortion to “date” the pregnancy. NC law allows abortion only within the first 20 weeks, except when the mother’s life or health is threatened.

If it’s early in the pregnancy, Johnson says, the clinic’s doctors use a trans-vaginal probe for the scan. And most cases are early: she says 90 percent of abortions are performed within the first 12 weeks.

“Before the law, if a woman didn’t want to undergo the scan, she could go elsewhere,” Johnson said. “Now she doesn’t have that choice.”

A federal judge has temporarily stayed the part of NC’s law that requires the doctor to describe the ultrasound image to the patient. But the requirement for the ultrasound itself is law, as are the waiting period and the mandate that doctors counsel women seeking abortion about adoption services and the availability of food stamps.

[NB: This affects more than cis women.]

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keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:

Holy fucking christ. 

At the link, there is a petition to sign and information about who in Pennsylvania to contact to voice your displeasure or rage. 

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theoppressedlittlefetus:

stfusexists:

needleg33k:

Hey all

My friend is trying to get signatures for a petition against Judge David Farrell. Recently, he sentenced 2 men to 40 months in prison for raping an 11-year old. Why was the sentence so light? Because she looked older than her ask and was “willing”, despite the fact that she claimed it was rape. Please reblog as far as the eye can see and sign this petition to voice your opinion that this is unacceptable!!

SIGN THE PETITION HERE!

Ugh. Disgusting. Please sign and reblog.

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