karnythia:

This is rape culture in action. He was afraid he’d try to have an affair with her so he fired her instead of getting his shit together. And the court (all male) cosigned him blaming her for being in her body & not taking any responsibility for his actions. His wife & his pastor were on board with this shit too. Amazing.

Now hold on a minute.

“We do think the Iowa Supreme Court got it completely right,” said Stuart Cochrane, an attorney for James Knight. “Our position has always been Mrs. Nelson was never terminated because of her gender, she was terminated because of concerns her behavior was not appropriate in the workplace. She’s an attractive lady. Dr. Knight found her behavior and dress to be inappropriate.”

Never terminated because of her gender. Right after says it was because she was an ‘attractive lady’. So, she was terminated for her gender then. And her ‘behavior’ = Existing, I guess.

So policing women has gotten to such a point that they can be fired and have their job security threatened for just being in eye shot of men. Whole new levels of victim blaming..

Also, never responding to a explicitly sexual out-of-the-blue text seems like a pretty clear lack of comfort to me. What was she gonna do, tell her Boss to fuck off?

mloreley:

lifeofkj:

ouyangdan:

fanaticality:

cowscratch:

typette:

slowhowl:

tsiklop:

kiokushitaka:

thepoliticalfreakshow:

“The state Supreme Court Monday threw out the conviction of a city man found guilty of sexually assaulting a severely handicapped woman.

In a 4-3 decision, the high court ruled that despite evidence the 26-year-old woman cannot speak and has little body movement, there was no evidence she could not communicate her refusal to have sex with the defendant, Richard Fourtin Jr. As a result of the ruling, Fourtin goes free and cannot be tried for the case again.” READ THE FULL ARTICLE - “Supreme Court sets accused rapist free”

UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!!

no you idiots it should be the other way around……….

Silly people. Sexism doesn’t exist.

let me guess, she was wearing a sexy looking hospital gown, too.

HA HA HA it’s good to know I don’t have rights because I have a vagina

From a disability right’s standpoint, this TERRIFIES me. So much.

PWD already face higher risks of assault and abuse. Now, through no fault of her own, a woman’s rapist is set free because … let me get this straight … her disability prevented her from saying no and from fighting back.

This is why “no means no” is such a bad way to approach rape. “Hell yes and nothing less” should be more the norm. Because, let’s be real here. A lack of “no” seems to be enough to allow the violation of a woman’s body, EVEN IF SHE IS INCAPABLE OF SAYING SO. Where does the line stop?

Seriously, if you can’t take the time to get an enthusiastic, clear, yes, then you have no business proceeding.

This court decision is horrifying on so many levels.

…..WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

The judges who ruled in favor of this are examples of how our justice systems can perpetuate rape culture. And it’s more proof that our systems need to be fixed. Isn’t it frightening that such a twisted idea of consent is allowed and ruled as legitimate? All the responsibility is put on the victim, not the rapist. This ruling implies that victims are expected to go to the point of getting physically violent with their attacker, even when this could lead to their further injury, abuse, or death. A victim should not have to risk their lives further to get a court to care about them.

The judges who pushed this verdict through have basically told this woman and many other women that they are on their own and that it’s their fault when they get raped. Wow.

lessonsinbeingadragon:

afternoonsnoozebutton:

Trigger warning: rape

cordjefferson:

Welp, there’s a self-professed rapist admitting to a bunch of rapes on Reddit right now.

A self-professed “SOMEWHAT remorseful” serial rapist.

Oh my fucking god, look at his Edit at the end:

“Came back to answer a few more questions, if I didn’t get to a thoughtful question you had, you can thank the plague of spam hate mail. I honestly don’t understand the point, you’re drowning out people with legitimate questions with shit I’ll probably never read, nor care about. I like that you’re all so self-centered you think I care about all you internet strangers little opinions on how I live my life. Anyways, hope this was helpful, gonna delete all this sweet precious karma everyone is so keen to talk about, before I become addicted. pfft. Let me leave you with this message, you never know who someone truly is, so be careful. I’m going back to my main account to do normal reddit looking at cats and posting pictures of bacon, and I think it’s kind of funny that no one will ever know if the person they’re talking to on reddit, or someone who moderates their subreddit, is me on my main account… just food for thought.”

Fucking christ, Reddit. 

Let’s praise him for coming out and being honest, y’all. Just goes to show how much more we care about rapists than we do victims. Okay cool.

Oh another day in rape culture.

mranastasiabeaverhausen:

Cardinal Bernard Law, the former Archbishop of Boston, is leading the crackdown on U.S. nuns who are focusing too much on social justice issues and not enough on gay marriage and birth control. This is the same Bernard Law who had to RESIGN as Archbishop of Boston because he covered up the rape of children by moving priests to different parishes and refusing to disclose the names of priests responsible.

The Catholic Church sex scandal exploded first here in Boston, after allegations against priests here forced dioceses in other parts of the country to do some investigating. Bernard Law resigned in disgrace and as a result got a cushy job in Rome, where he is now pontificating on morality. I don’t know about you, but aside from murder I am having a difficult time thinking of anything less moral than assaulting a child. So here we have a man who spent a lot of time trying protect child rapists telling U.S. nuns that they’re spending too much time helping the poor and downtrodden.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Catholic Church.

damegreywulf:

A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after allegedly being raped by her stepfather.

[…]

The regional archbishop, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, pronounced excommunication for the mother for authorising the operation and doctors who carried it out for fear that the slim girl would not survive carrying the foetuses to term. [Not that you need a fucking excuse for giving a nine year old girl, a FUCKING NINE YEAR OLD GIRL WHO WAS RAPED, an abortion, because PREGNANCY WILL ALWAYS BE VERY FUCKING UNHEALTHY FOR A CHILD, that’s not even including the fucking psychological issues of being raped and having to give birth to rape babies WHEN YOU ARE STILL A BABY YOURSELF]

[…]

He also said the accused stepfather would not be expelled from the church. Although the man allegedly committed “a heinous crime … the abortion - the elimination of an innocent life - was more serious”. [Saving a girl’s life and health is apparently worse than being a rapist, but then forgiveness of rapists is actually extremely common amongst Christianity, with the Vatican being the prime example itself.]

[…]

The girl, who was not identified because she is a minor, was last week found to be four months pregnant after being taken to hospital suffering stomach pains.

Officials said she told them she had suffered sexual abuse by her stepfather since the age of six.

Police said the 23-year-old stepfather also allegedly sexually abused the girl’s physically handicapped 14-year-old sister.

In case you ever forget it: All anti-choicers are scum to me, without question.