butts-with-bro-shades:

deancasotp:

pigeonloki:

The Invisible War 

• Since 2006, more than 95,000 service members have been sexually assaulted in the U.S. military
• More than 86% of service members do not report their assault
• Less than five percent of all sexual assaults are put forward for prosecution, and less than a third of those cases result in imprisonment

I hate that I can attest to accuracy of this post. I never reported my assailants. I had a friend who did. She got looked down upon, name called, moved to a crappy shift and generally treated like trash from a good number of people in our command, including some superiors. The male who molested her got a “talking” to, a slap on his wrist and then essentially promoted. And that was on shore. I can’t even begin to tell you what happened while we were on the ship. It’s just unbelievably horrifying. 

Can I fucking tell you how true this is???? Even though I did report the shit dick that did this to me; OSI treated me like I was lying, saying things like “you’re not acting like a victim”, and “this is impossible” when they made me draw out a diagram of what ‘position’ we were in when it happened. My sergeants basically called me out publicly calling me a slut, other airmen called me easy, and the bastard is still enlisted to this day. The most I got was a medical discharge with PTSD and a monthly check that isn’t even half of what I was making a month when I was enlisted. They cover their tracks and slap the assholes on the nose like they’re simply misbehaving pet dogs who pissed on your carpet. 

God fucking bless the USA. 

ronchronchronch:

skalja:

[Discussion of rape/consent issues.]

sarah531:

xombiekitty:

So, I went from being upset about things in the latest Spider-Man comics, to being furious at the response from editorial.

Spoilers everywhere in the linked piece.

Also, be aware that the things I’ve tagged here are triggers for the piece I’ve written.
Please don’t go if it may upset you. 

Amazing Spider-Man 700, Avenging Spider-Man 15.1, and the handling of sexual consent in comics.

http://www.chaoticgeek.com/2012/12/amazing-spider-man-700-avenging-spider.html

Jesus Christ, someone actually said that? And believed it?

That’s almost as bad as the ol’ “I’m not racist, you’re racist for bringing it up!” argument.

I wish I could say I were surprised, but this is standard M.O. for the Marvel staff in general and Wacker in particular. It’s Marvel’s boilerplate circular logic — “If you don’t like it, don’t buy it!”/”If you didn’t buy it, you can’t have an opinion about it!” — applied to social issues. “I am not a bad person, therefore the people suggesting I or the group which I’m associated with have done a bad thing are the real bad people.” There’s no room for admitting wrongdoing or even for

The irony of that kind of thinking associated with a franchise like Spider-Man, whose lead character is the quintessential good person working through the consequences of his bad actions…

It’s also depressing that Spider-Man’s PTB apparently learned nothing from the Chameleon/Michelle Gonzales controversy and still think this is a worthwhile path to go down.

Same shit, different writer — between Van Lente’s spider-rape and Joe Casey’s hipster racism in the book and Slott’s stalker-behavior and Wacker’s usual antagonism outside of it, the Spider-Man books are corner of the Marvel U I decided to avoid on principle.

Oh god. Is there a link somewhere so I can share in the horror?

TW: Discussions of rape and rape culture at links:

Summary:

http://www.whedon.info/article.php3?id_article=12674

Dissection and appropriate rage:

http://prozacpark.dreamwidth.org/111215.html

Full Article

face-down-asgard-up:

cocothinkshefancy:

awesome-everyday:

blkgirlblogging:

str8nochaser:

ghdos:

thepoliticalfreakshow:

“The state Supreme Court Monday threw out the conviction of a city man found guilty of sexually assaulting a severely handicapped woman.

In a 4-3 decision, the high court ruled that despite evidence the 26-year-old woman cannot speak and has little body movement, there was no evidence she could not communicate her refusal to have sex with the defendant, Richard Fourtin Jr. As a result of the ruling, Fourtin goes free and cannot be tried for the case again.” READ THE FULL ARTICLE - “Supreme Court sets accused rapist free”

UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!!

WTF?

So by this supreme court’s decision, I’m currently consenting to sex by sitting at this computer typing and drinking my chai latte. 

I’ll be consenting to sex when I run this meeting in 30 minutes. 

I’m consenting to sex while taking a shit. 

I’m consenting to sex while out cold on the operating table. 

FUCK THAT SHIT ENTIRELY. 

i can’t express exactly how angry i am about this ruling.

not only does it deny that rape even happens, but it also implies that women are to be always ready and willing for sex— an idea that i reject.

I think they just spelled it wrong. Connecticut women are in a constant state of malcontent.

i wish i was surprised. I wish

Well, time to start killing our rapists because the justice system clearly doesn’t a give a shit. I mean, it didn’t before but now it’s just really fucking blatant.

Jesus Christ. 

The judge sentencing Evans, Coconino County Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Hatch, said she hoped both the defendant and the victim would take lessons away from the case.

Bad things can happen in bars, Hatch told the victim, adding that other people might be more intoxicated than she was.

“If you wouldn’t have been there that night, none of this would have happened to you,” Hatch said.

Hatch told the victim and the defendant that no one would be happy with the sentence she gave, but that finding an appropriate sentence was her duty.

“I hope you look at what you’ve been through and try to take something positive out of it,” Hatch said to the victim in court. “You learned a lesson about friendship and you learned a lesson about vulnerability.”

Arizona. Of course this happened in Arizona.

If you’ve got a strong stomach, you can click the link and get the usual round of “Won’t someone think of all this man has done for his community?!” that crops up when cops are actually held responsible for their misconduct. He won’t be allowed to hunt with a felony on his record! Doesn’t anyone understand the suffering this poor man will endure?!

Oh, also:

Evans also pinched another woman on the buttocks an hour before sexually abusing the victim in this case, according to a witness. The judge ruled before trial that the incident would be prejudicial if it was allowed to be admitted as evidence.

May he and the judge both be repeatedly run over by horse-trailers full of Clydesdales suffering from loose bowels. 

betterthanlegos:

stfusexists:

Frustrated by a plea bargain she knew nothing about until it was announced in court, Savannah Dietrich tweeted the names of her attackers despite a gag order on her case. I don’t understand why there was a gag order in the first place. Why does admitting you committed a sexual assault (and then published the photos to the internet) grant you protection and privacy?

…Wow.