Sunday, December 2, 2012

Rape is not a joke.


Nothing pisses me off more then when the word rape is used the wrong way, like then someone says "oh yeah that team raped them" meaning that they are trying to see that they beat them. I feel like this is something that greatly needs to change and people need to stop making a joke about it because it is something that is very real and happening every day in this world. Rape culture is not taken seriously and like the picture says seen as the norm. Women should now have to be afraid of walking alone at night, this should not be a fear that has been instilled in us.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

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Although my understanding of exactly how much trouble I was in grew more specific over time, as a child I surely understood enough about my condition to know it was something I’d better keep private. By intuition I was certain that the thing I knew to be true was something others would find both impossible and hilarious. My conviction, by the way, had nothing to do with a desire to be feminine, but it had everything to do with being female. Which is an odd believe for a person born male. It certainly had nothing to do with whether I was attracted to girls or boys. This last point was the one that, years later, would most frequently elude people, including the overeducated smarty-pants who constituted much of my inner circle. But being gay or lesbian is about sexual orientation. Being transgedered is about identity.
Jennifer Finney Boylan, She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders