am squished by work & cramps but A-FUCKING-MEN on the news report. i was livid when i read that this morning. four fucking years. and then i have arguments with arseholes online who think that feminists "make themselves into victims" by talking about the prevalence of rape, and the disgraceful way it's prosecuted - when it actually is prosecuted, of course. gah! in other news, black people cause racism by talking about discrimination and gravity is caused by apples falling out of trees.
on the same cheerful note: here's a female lawyer happily spouting misogynistic crap as part of the defence in a rape case. i shit you not, she said that the fat rape victim was probably glad of the attention. holy. mother. of. fuck.
today i am despairing of society. i have already this week read a blog in which the blogger explains why an online radio station's rape-jokes aren't funny. the responses in the comments from the men who like the show made me feel physically ill. (in short? they say: she lied about getting raped; if she was raped she should be grateful because she's fat; she can't have been raped because she is too fat to fuck [because rape is allllll about desire]; she can't have an opinion anyway because she's a. a woman and b. fat and these things make anything she says meaningless because they are clear indicators that the speaker is not an actual human being; she just needs a good deep-dicking and then she'll shut the fuck up about it; omg the menz freedom of speech is being threatened [because cheering on a man who wants to "hate fuck" named women in positions of authority to death is in NO WAY hate speech. at all.]; and my favourite, the expression "fuck her to death" doesn't imply rape because it hasn't got the word "rape" in it, you silly overemotional womenz.) i would like to not share a planet with these people, please. PLEASE?
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Date: 2007-05-24 02:14 pm (UTC)am squished by work & cramps but A-FUCKING-MEN on the news report. i was livid when i read that this morning. four fucking years. and then i have arguments with arseholes online who think that feminists "make themselves into victims" by talking about the prevalence of rape, and the disgraceful way it's prosecuted - when it actually is prosecuted, of course. gah! in other news, black people cause racism by talking about discrimination and gravity is caused by apples falling out of trees.
on the same cheerful note: here's a female lawyer happily spouting misogynistic crap as part of the defence in a rape case. i shit you not, she said that the fat rape victim was probably glad of the attention. holy. mother. of. fuck.
today i am despairing of society. i have already this week read a blog in which the blogger explains why an online radio station's rape-jokes aren't funny. the responses in the comments from the men who like the show made me feel physically ill. (in short? they say: she lied about getting raped; if she was raped she should be grateful because she's fat; she can't have been raped because she is too fat to fuck [because rape is allllll about desire]; she can't have an opinion anyway because she's a. a woman and b. fat and these things make anything she says meaningless because they are clear indicators that the speaker is not an actual human being; she just needs a good deep-dicking and then she'll shut the fuck up about it; omg the menz freedom of speech is being threatened [because cheering on a man who wants to "hate fuck" named women in positions of authority to death is in NO WAY hate speech. at all.]; and my favourite, the expression "fuck her to death" doesn't imply rape because it hasn't got the word "rape" in it, you silly overemotional womenz.) i would like to not share a planet with these people, please. PLEASE?