“If schoolgirls must cover their bra straps because they are ‘sexual’, snapping a girl’s bra should be considered sexual assault by the school.
It is not. This is one way we teach children that the female body is criminal and harmful, but the violation of it is not.”
—datingafeminist
Tag: rape culture
“anti-anti” or in laymen’s terms someone against feminist criticism : fiction isn’t reality
bell hooks : “It’s scary to me now, because, particularly in issues around erotica and sexual violence, people want to deny the direct link between representations and how we live our lives. I think that it’s possible to embrace the knowledge that there’s a direct link between representations and choices we make in our lives that does not make that link absolute, that does not say, “oh, if I look at a movie in which a woman is fucked to death,” than I will go out and think I should let myself be fucked to death by any man who wants to fuck me. I think that’s an absurd sense of a direct link, but that is not to say, that if I watched enough of those images I might not come away thinking that certain forms of unacceptable male violence in coercion in relationship to my female body are acceptable. It’s frightening to me now when people want to behave as though certain images don’t mean anything.”
“They [men] can stop rape by not raping, and bring the sex industry to its knees by not paying for sex. Oppression doesn’t just happen to women like bad weather. Men as a group systematically oppress and exploit women, and feminism is the political movement to challenge and change that.”
— Finn Mackay, on male involvement in feminism (via discosherpa)
And men make fun of women for travelling in packs. Sighs.
Seriously, if you see this happening and you can speak up…do. If you are unable see if you can find someone who will help.
Create a mess 