thefreespiritedone:

northernlybird:

mmafit:

fitspofitspiration:

lionheartandpride:

tintinforthewin:

goddesshyperion:

Victims of Amherst College’s rape cover-ups and the disgusting things said to them

Photographs by Jisoo Lee

Project by It Happens Here — Dana Bolger, Kinjal Patel, Sonum Dixit

Never not relevant

I can’t believe these attitudes still exist.

Always reblog

It disgusts me that I live so close to this college and know so many people who go there and this is happening.

No way…

Really. This was shocking and hard to read this :(

If I was there, I would have been like, do you need help? Do you want me to help you go to the hospital and be there for you and you can get a rape kit done, and then we can go together to the police. Rape is a crime. And I will help you all the way…even if it’s hard/painful to talk about the pain, I’ll help all the way.

Cause that’s what a friend would do.

(Which is why I am shocked at the disgusting things that the friend & other people said) >.<

(Source: katswg)

SlutWalk Minneapolis 2012

(Source: livefearlessandjoyful)

prettycraycrayfan:

“How do you teach homosexuality? Is it like French? I was born of heterosexual parents, taught by heterosexual teachers, in a fiercely heterosexual society. So why then am I homosexual? And, no offense meant, if it were true that children mimic their teachers, we’d have a hell of a lot more nuns running around.”

-Harvey Milk, Milk (2008)

strixus:

askmace:

fearlessonmybreathh:

soapyblowholes:

100percenthipster:

insanityisfree:

melrosediner:

anonymousjuice:

teasingjezebelle:

an0m0ly:

Damage

This is not my usual post. But it’s something I had to share. As you read this, imagine how your reaction would differ if this story were being told by a woman, talking about how her husband treated her.

I have been separated from my wife for over a year, though we continue to share a house. We live on separate floors. We share the house because we need to parent our son together, and because we can’t afford to maintain two households.

I’d like to tell you a story, illustrating one reason why I am divorcing her. This is an example of the treatment I have received over the past fourteen years.

This evening, while she was drinking her wine, my estranged wife took exception to the fact that I wanted to talk about how tense she’s been. She said she didn’t want to talk about it.

I left the room (so as to comply with her request).

I went upstairs to use our tiny guest bathroom. She began to yell and throw things around the kitchen, then eventually charged up the stairs and into the bathroom, just as I was finishing and getting ready to leave. She confronted me there, holding her half-full wine glass in her hand. Her voice got louder, her gestures wilder. 

She complained that I had upset her by wanting to talk when she had told me she didn’t want to talk. As I began to feel uncomfortable, I said, “You’re saying it’s my fault you can’t express your emotions responsibly like an adult?”

She said, “Yes!! It’s because you want to go off and take a vacation with your girlfriend!” Then she threw the contents of her glass in my face and smashed it against my bare chest.

The results are pictured here.

I stood there, with shattered glass at my feet, glass shards sticking in my skin, bleeding, for five minutes or so. I asked her to move so that I could leave. She waved the broken stem of the glass in the air and said, “Leave!! Who’s stopping you?”

I told her she was standing between me and the door. I felt threatened. 

She laughed and said, “You’re 6 foot 3 and 250 pounds! You can’t feel threatened by me!”

I said, “You just broke a glass on my chest and cut me. You’re standing there with the stem in your hands. Yes. I feel threatened.

She said, “No, you don’t.”

I asked her to move out of the way and let me pass. I didn’t want her to think I was pushing her or threatening her.

She held her ground, waved the broken stem and shouted, “Go on! Leave! I’m not stopping you!”

After I asked her repeatedly, she finally moved a bit and I left, carefully stepping over the broken glass.

I have posted this here as evidence, and to help those who may think that size and gender make a difference when abuse is concerned. People who, like my estranged, think some have permission to feel threatened and some don’t.

Abusers come in all sizes and genders.

She and I went to a half dozen therapists over the years. At each initial session, every therapist took a look at me, then at her (5’4” 150 lbs.). Then he or she would gravely ask my wife, “Do you feel safe?”

None ever thought to ask me.

Thanks for listening.

Because this needs to be shared. Because abuse is wrong no matter what. Because this saddens my heart.

:(

honestly, fuck tumblr. if this was a woman this would be the only thing on my dash.

with that being said, fuck people who think that women are the only ones that can be abused in a relationship. and fuck crazy women, as well.

Fuck abuse. This should have the ten thousand notes that  every women’s domestic abuse case has.

Regards,

IIF 

I’m glad to see something like this on my dashboard finally. Not the fact that he got abused by his wife, but to show that not only women are victims of abuse (like so many women claim). It’s a shame that so many stupid people out there think -and defend- only women when it comes to abuse and not men.

YES THISTHISTHISTHISTHIS ^^^

poor guy…

Anyone can be abused.  ANYONE.  I watched a 6’6, 300+ pound guy go through a horribly destructive, abusive relationship.  He wasn’t the one doing the abuse.

rebloging for the important message. ANYONE can be a victim of abuse.

strixus:

fullmetalbrony:

chotpot:

People are butts about gender sometimes! So here is a comic talking about how it really isn’t a big deal!

When I was with James this week I wrote a little poem about gender
and decided to draw a comic for said poem.

Hope you guys enjoy!

How I feel about gender in one post.

A summary of how I feel about gender, all in one post. I love people who aren’t even human. 

mynameishachi:

Change your profile pictures on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms in support of National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day