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There is a country where the leading cause of death of pregnant women is murder by a partner. In this same country, more than a million women were raped in 2008 and women are much more likely to live in poverty than men. Local laws don’t protect their right to bodily freedom and integrity; some rape laws even state that once a woman initially consents to sex, she doesn’t have the right to change her mind.
You may have caught on by now — yes, I’m talking about the United States.
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Jessica Valenti, in “Equality begins at home: U.S. lags pathetically behind other nations in some basic rights for women.” (via azelie)
Also: “For all of our rhetoric about respecting mothers and parenthood, the United States is the only industrialized nation without paid maternity leave, putting families and children at severe economic risk. Some families pay as much as half their income toward child care costs.”
(via foulmouthedliberty)
*pregnant people.
(via prolongedeyecontact)
(Source: thedailyfeed, via fuckyeahsexeducation)
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There is a country where the leading cause of death of pregnant women is murder by a partner. In this same country, more than a million women were raped in 2008 and women are much more likely to live in poverty than men. Local laws don’t protect their right to bodily freedom and integrity; some rape laws even state that once a woman initially consents to sex, she doesn’t have the right to change her mind.
You may have caught on by now — yes, I’m talking about the United States.
"
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Jessica Valenti, in “Equality begins at home: U.S. lags pathetically behind other nations in some basic rights for women.” (via azelie)
Also: “For all of our rhetoric about respecting mothers and parenthood, the United States is the only industrialized nation without paid maternity leave, putting families and children at severe economic risk. Some families pay as much as half their income toward child care costs.”
(via foulmouthedliberty)
*pregnant people.
(via prolongedeyecontact)
(Source: thedailyfeed, via fuckyeahsexeducation)
Just…fuck the internet. People should be able to respond to stuff any way they want. And it wasn’t even, like, bad, or whatever. He was joking about porn, not even a real-life situation.
This is such a non-issue. Rape isn’t funny, but porn ‘rape’ isn’t real, so he wasn’t talking about rape.
Get mad at me if you want, internet, but you have to realize the context people are speaking in.
I’ve gotten more notes on my whole James Deen tweet post than I expected, with only a couple negative reblogs.
One just talks about how joking about rape is never acceptable, which is true. But, in reality, joking about your profession is a thing everyone can do. So what to do if part of your job is to act like you’re raping people? It’s a grey area.
And one reblog response started out saying how I obviously have never been sexually assaulted or something.
Ha. Ahahahaa…
But she deleted it so I can’t read the whole thing. Maybe she actually read my blog?
