I read somewhere that this campaign lowered local rape statistics by 11%.
Keep reblogging this. Everyone.
YES YES YES YES YES YES
Please, please reblog this far and wide. We need more posters that remind people that they are in charge of their own actions and that means they can decide not to rape.
Project Consent is a global campaign designed to battle sexual assault and rape culture by raising awareness, spreading education, and promoting consent. In the past year alone, Project Consent has: spoken with well known media figures on the impact of rape culture, worked with porn industries on incorporating consent in their videos, held community seminars to discuss consent, published various submissions from survivors, produced series of videos/photographs to invoke discussion, and more. Project Consent is an ongoing movement to shed light on sexual assault around the globe. You can find more information regarding our work and impact here.
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Feminists United Club Member Grace Mann Murdered After Months of Threats of Sexual Assault and Violence
After University of Mary Washington Feminists United Club president Paige McKinsey spoke up at a student senate meeting about the culture of sexual hostility among the university’s fraternities and the university’s unwillingness to do anything about it, the anonymous social media app Yik Yak exploded with insults and threats of physical and sexual violence toward McKinsey and other campus feminists.
After the rugby team was recorded singing a song about raping dead whores, prompting FUC members to report the incident to the school administration, the threats got even worse.
Then, on April 17th, Grace Mann was murdered by her roommate, a former rugby player.
You can literally be murdered for being a feminist.
“Women are socialized to make men feel good. We’re socialized to ‘let you down easy.’ We’re not socialized to say a clear and direct ‘no.’ We’re socialized to speak in hints and boost egos and let people save face. People who don’t respect the social contract (rapists, predators, assholes, pickup artists) are good at taking advantage of this. ‘No’ is something we have to learn. ‘No’ is something we have to earn. In fact, I’d argue that the ability to just say ‘no’ to something, without further comment, apology, explanation, guilt, or thinking about it is one of the great rites of passage in growing up, and when you start saying it and saying it regularly the world often pushes back. And calls you names.”
The art of “no.” « CaptainAwkward.com (via champagnefather)
“A 2002 Chicago-based study found that 30% of exotic dancers and 24% of street-based sex workers who had been raped identified a police officer as the rapist. Approximately 20% of other acts of sexual violence were also committed by the police. According to two studies released by the Sex Workers’ Project of the Urban Justice Center in NYC, for which participants were predominantly women of color, up to 17% of sex workers interviewed reported rape, sexual harassment and abuse by law enforcement officers.”
In the shadows Of The War On Terror: Persistent Police Brutality And Abuse Of People Of Color In The United States (via bizindamowin)
 | Anonymous SAID: As a guy in terrified. If I piss a woman off, all she has to do is falsely accuse me of rape, then my life will be ruined. I'll be labeled a sex offender and go to prison, because the judge always listens to the woman as they see her as a damsel in distress. I'm terrified. The accusations are happening more and more because of feminism. This is why we need Men's Rights. |
As a woman I’m terrified. If I piss a man off, he might threaten, assault, rape, beat, batter, or murder me; then my life will be ruined. I’ll be labeled a “slut” who “wanted it” and have my character dragged through the mud, either by law officers, my friends and/or family, or the court of public opinion, because of rape culture. Violence against women is happening more and more because of men like you. We are literally being killed, tortured, and abused by male entitlement.
This is why we need Feminism.
S
If judges “Always listen to the woman” then why is it that 97% of rapists are not punished even when they have been convicted? And although nearly one in evry five women actually does report being raped, anywhere from 54% to 90% of rapes go unreported, because women know that 94% of reported cases don’t end in a conviction, they typically end in the woman being accused of being a slut, sometimes facing massive social shaming that can end in serious consequences, such as academic retaliation if you accuse the wrong boy at school, further sexual violence and even discharge from the military if you report your C.O., and the ever-present fear that a man you accuse will come after you, rape you again, beat you, possibly even kill you—and if they didn’t care the first time, why would they care if it happens again?
Trust me, sweetheart. your fear is completely unfounded. Men do not need activists for their rights. Men need to wake the fuck up to the privilege and rights they already have and stop acting like scared children every time the faintest whisper of a glimmer of what it must be like to be a woman threatens to become even the faintest part of their reality.
Reblogging because this is a fantastic round up of stats, and I thoroughly appreciate the work that went into finding all of these sources.
S
“We are outraged when an Indian police officer tells a rape victim she should marry her attacker but not when a California judge says a woman wasn’t really raped because she didn’t put up enough of a fight. We are outraged at 24,000 rapes in India but not 188,380 in America.”
Hoopstatic - First World Problems
I really recommend reading the entire article. Trigger warning for discussion of rape and rape culture - it’s a tough article but very important.
(Thanks to byunbbi for submitting)
“Even without legal proceedings, Cosby is finally paying a price. He may not be in handcuffs, but his career is taking a hit. Wednesday, TV Land announced that it will no longer air re-runs of The Cosby Show, and Tuesday both NBC and Netflix announced they are dropping Bill Cosby projects from their lineups.
It seems Cosby’s reign as America’s wholesome father figure is over. And while there are some who will defend Cosby, doing so won’t be as easy as it was five years ago. As The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates noted, “Believing Bill Cosby does not require you to take one person’s word over another — it requires you take one person’s word over 15 others.”
Until an alleged victim steps forward who can pursue legal avenues of justice, public shaming may be the only mechanism available. It’s not necessarily justice for these women, but at least it’s something.”
So you think Bill Cosby is a serial rapist. Can anything actually be done about it? (via micdotcom)
“Rape is not aggressive sexuality, it is sexualized aggression.”
Audre Lorde; Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference (via geometricpoop)
YES. It’s not about sex; it’s about domination. (via fuck-yeah-feminist)