Perfectly said.
Seems like every 6 months or so - maybe once a year - there is a debate about rape jokes. Here’s how it goes:
A dude tells jokes about rape or deals with hecklers in way that includes rape. A woman hears these jokes or is the heckler. She publicly states that she is upset or didn’t like the joke…
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How to Turn All Your Essays into Feminist Rants No Matter the Subject Matter: An Autobiography by Me.
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WOMEN: please wear high heels unless you don’t know how to walk in high heels in which case stay home and softly gnaw on bottles of shampoo
also please show no less than 64.87% of your boob and no more than 27.94%
stop having arms
when people ask you to smile, blowjob them
my tummy itches make that stop
i will think of new problems for you to have tomorrow
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- Over the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has cost more than $1 trillion and accounted for more than 45 million arrests.
- In 2009 nearly 1.7 million people were arrested in the U.S. for nonviolent drug charges – more than half of those arrests were for marijuana…
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“To JK Rowling, from Cho Chang” by Rachel Rostad
Regardless of your opinion on the Harry Potter books (I’ve been madly in love with them since way back in elementary), you should watch this video. Be sure to actually listen to the poet and not immediately jump to the defense of the books that you love. It’s okay to love something and acknowledge that it has flaws.
Watch it, it’s absolutely brilliant.
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A lot of anti-choice fucks like to talk about “Oh, abortion isn’t NATURAL!” or “It doesn’t happen in nature!” Aside from the glaringly obvious miscarriage….
The male pipefish will abort based on the female’s level of attractiveness.
Bison abort their…
Despite studies claiming that abortion has been safer for women than childbirth, the opposite actually turns out to be true! A woman’s risk of death goes up by huge percentages if she has had an abortion, and her risk of death over a…
After Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) asserted his belief that “legitimate rape” doesn’t often lead to pregnancy, Republican lawmakers were quick to attempt to configure his radical stance on women’s health as an outlier in their party. However, increasing numbers of GOP politicians’ language about the nature of sexual assault actually echoes Akin’s — including New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R), whose state’s policies use language that effectively narrows the definition of rape.
Not only did Martinez refer to “forcible rape” in an announcement instating April as New Mexico’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month — as if some kinds of sexual assault need to be qualified as more or less “legitimate” than others — but, as RH Reality Check reports, the term also appears in the state’s proposed changes to its official applications for childcare assistance. If the proposed changes take effect, women in New Mexico will be required to prove that their sexual assault qualified as “forcible rape” if they are seeking childcare assistance for a child that resulted from rape:
If adopted, this policy will have numerous implications. It establishes in state law a narrow definition of rape that can and will be applied in other areas of law and policy. It puts a heavy burden on women who have been raped and are now struggling economically to support a child or children to prove the manner in which they were raped and to meet a test set up by the state to exclude many women in need of childcare assistance who would otherwise qualify.It would force women who have left violent domestic partnerships, who were date-raped, who were impregnated as a result of incest, or through other “non-forcible” but nonetheless equally violent and denigrating means of sexual violation to first re-engage with their abusers to seek child support, putting control of their lives back into the hands of someone by whom they were violated in the most profound sense of the term.
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[tw: police brutality, racism,white supremacy, underage victims]
NEW YORK CITY, NY — A family trying to ride the MTA train in Brooklyn were aggressively attacked by NYPD officers after the mom was suspected of attempting to board the train without paying the fare.
Marilyn Taylor claims that she and her kids were preparing to board a Manhattan-bound L train on Aug. 9. She was pushing her 2-year-old in a stroller and holding her 4-year-old’s hand. The father, Dehaven McClain, carried the 5-month-old close to his chest.
NYPD officers allegedly saw the woman push her stroller through a service entrance. Officers pepper sprayed the woman and misted the entire family. Marilyn Taylor says she fell to her knees and nearly off the subway platform.
“The pepper-spray caused the children to scream out and choked the two-year old, who went into fits of vomiting,” the complaint states. The children needed medical attention because of the lingering effects of the spray. The mother and father have suffered ongoing eye injuries.
Taylor claims that the officers have continued to harass her family. “Since the incident, plaintiffs have suffered repeated harassment from the officer defendants, forcing them to avoid the MTA through the Atlantic Avenue stop,” the complaint states.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/04/01/56239.htm
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/01/new-york-police-sued-for-pepper-spraying-5-month-old-baby/
what the everloving FUCK
nypd is out of control.
pointing out that this happened on the L train, one of the symbols of gentrification in Brooklyn, passing as it does thru Williamsburg
with white people moving into these black and brown areas comes increased police presence and terrorism towards the POC population. subways included. (so white gentrifiers can “feel safe”) they go hand in hand
this is how white supremacy is enforced
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How Tough is too Tough? How rocketing school suspensions nationwide may feed the school-to-prison pipeline – and even violate civil rights, a special report by Monitor education reporter Stacy Teicher Khadaroo.
Photos: (top)Mercedes Morgan, a senior at Ralph J. Bunche Academy, an Oakland, Calif., alternative school for students with disciplinary records, listens in as the school’s restorative justice coordinator, Eric Butler (r.), talks by phone with her mother. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor
(bottom) Indicating he’s done answering a question, Oakland High School student Jesse Baldain III passes a ball to the instructor in his manhood-development class. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor
Graphics by Rich Clabaugh/The Christian Science Monitor
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AWKWARD: Witness embarrasses a GOP Senator who wants to divide immigrant families. She leaves him completely flustered.
Amina of Zaria
Amina was born around 1533 in Zaria, a province of today’s Nigeria. She was the daughter of Bakwa of Turunku. Their family’s wealth was derived from the trade of leather goods, cloth, kola, salt, horses and imported metals.
When Bakwa died in 1566, the crown of Zazzua passed to Amina’s younger brother, Karama. Their sister, Zaria, fled the region and little is known about her.
Although Bakwa’s reign was known for peace and prosperity, Amina chose to hone her military skills from the warriors of the Zazzau military. As a result, she emerged as leader of the Zazzua cavalry. Many accolades, great wealth, and increased power resulted from her numerous military achievements.
When her brother Karama died after a ten-year rule, Amina had matured into a fierce warrior and had earned the respect of the Zazzau military and she assumed the reign of the kingdom.
Amina led her first military charge a few months after assuming power. For the rest of her 34 year reign, she continued to fight and expand her kingdom to the greatest in history. The objective for initiating so many battles was to make neighbouring rulers her vassal and permit her traders safe passage. In this way, she boosted her kingdom’s wealth and power with gold, slaves, and new crops. Because her people were talented metal workers, Amina introduced metal armor, including iron helmets and chain mail, to her army.
To her credit, she fortified each of her military camps with an earthen wall. Later, towns and villages sprung up within these protective barriers. The walls became known as Amina’s Walls and many of them remain in existence to this day.
According to legend, Amina refused to marry and never bore children. Instead, she took a temporary husband from the legions of vanquished foes after every battle. After spending one night together, she would condemn him death in the morning in order to prevent him from ever speaking about his sexual encounter with the queen.
Legend also decrees she died during a military campaign at Atagara near Bida in Nigeria. Her exploits earned her the moniker Amina, daughter of Nikatau, a woman as capable as a man. Her legendary escapades made her the model for the television series Xena Warrior Princess. Today, her memory represents the spirit and strength of womanhood.
Why could we not have a black potagonist !! Fuck hollywood
I totally view Queen Amina as a “lesbian-like” woman. No one can know if she really slept with those men who spent nights with her, and maybe she killed them so that they wouldn’t go about telling everyone that she didn’t sleep with them.
A woman can speculate!
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