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On a somewhat serious note today because of a conversation the other day:
I am sure every girl can recall, at least once as a child, coming home and telling their parents, uncle, aunt or grandparent about a boy who had pulled her hair, hit her, teased her, pushed her or committed some other playground crime. I will bet money that most of those, if not all, will tell you that they were told “Oh, that just means he likes you”. I never really thought much about it before having a daughter of my own. I find it appalling that this line of bullshit is still being fed to young children. Look, if you want to tell your child that being verbally and/or physically abused is an acceptable sign of affection, i urge you to rethink your parenting strategy. If you try and feed MY daughter that crap, you better bring protective gear because I am going to shower you with the brand of “affection” you are endorsing.
When the fuck was it decided that we should start teaching our daughters to accept being belittled, disrespected and abused as endearing treatment? And we have the audacity to wonder why women stay in abusive relationships? How did society become so oblivious to the fact that we were conditioning our daughters to endure abusive treatment, much less view it as romantic overtures? Is this where the phrase “hitting on girls” comes from? Well, here is a tip: Save the “it’s so cute when he gets hateful/physical with her because it means he loves her” asshattery for your own kids, not mine. While you’re at it, keep them away from my kids until you decide to teach them respect and boundaries.
My daughter is `10 years old and has come home on more than one occasion recounting an incident at school in which she was teased or harassed by a male classmate. There has been several times when someone that she was retelling the story to responded with the old, “that just means he likes you” line. Wrong. I want my daughter to know that being disrespected is NEVER acceptable. I want my daughter to know that if someone likes her and respects her, much less LOVES her, they don’t hurt her and they don’t put her down. I want my daughter to know that the boy called her ugly or pushed her or pulled her hair didn’t do it because he admires her, it is because he is a little asshole and assholes are an occurrence of society that will have to be dealt with for the rest of her life. I want my daughter to know how to deal with assholes she will encounter throughout her life. For now, I want my daughter to know that if someone is verbally harassing her, she should tell the teacher and if the teacher does nothing, she should tell me. If someone physically touches her, tell the teacher then, if it continues, to yell, “STOP TOUCHING/PUNCHING/PUSHING ME” in the middle of class or the hallway, then tell me. Last year, one little boy stole her silly bandz from her. He just grabbed her and yanked a handful of them off of her wrist. When I went to the school to address the incident, the teacher smiled and explained it away to her, in front of me, “he probably has a crush on you”. Okay, the boy walked up to my daughter, grabbed and held her by the arm and forcibly removed her bracelets from her as she struggled and you want to convince her that she should be flattered? Fuck off. I am going to punch you in the face but I hope you realize it is just my way of thanking you for the great advice you gave my daughter. If these same advice givers’ sons came home crying because another male classmate was pushing them, pulling their hair, hitting them or calling them names, I would bet dollars to donuts they would tell him to defend themselves and kick the kid’s ass, if necessary. They sure as shit wouldn’t say, “he probably just wants a play date”.
I will teach my daughter to accept nothing less than respect. Anyone who hurts her physically or emotionally doesn’t deserve her respect, friendship or love. I will teach my boys the same thing as well as the fact that hitting on girls doesn’t involve hitting girls. I can’t teach my daughter to respect herself if I am teaching her that no one else has to respect her. I can’t raise sons that respect women, if I teach them that bullying is a valid expression of affection.
The next time that someone offers up that little “secret” to my daughter, I am going to slap the person across the face and yell, “I LOVE YOU”.
THE RAPE OF THE SAMBURU WOMEN
For more than fifty years, England has maintained military training facilities in the Samburu region of its former colony, Kenya.During this period, women in the area have faced an epidemic of rape. Women from the Samburu, Massai, Rendile and Turkana indigenous communities have filed more than 600 official rape claims against British soldiers.
Yet, despite documentation of their claims, a three-year internal investigation by the Royal Military Police (RMP) cleared all soldiers of wrongdoing.Meanwhile, the victims have been shamed and outcast in their communities, many to the point of exile.
In the mid-1990s, Beatrice Chili responded to this situation by establishing the village of Senchen, a self-sufficient community run entirely by women. There, women build homes, weave textiles, gather and grow food, and raise children. This short film visits the brave women of Senchen, who speak candidly about their suffering and talk passionately about their demands for justice.
Watch the film to hear their stories and to find out how you can offer your support.
I think this is a really important message and I wish those women the best of luck that they may finally be heard and seen.
On a side note, there is also another village that is entirely run by women, Umoja, which means “unity”, pretty much revolves around the same concept. Many women who live there have been raped as well, and have been chased away by their husbands because they felt ripped off their masculinity and ashamed that their wifes were raped. They blamed them, not the rapist.
But the good side to it is the independence these women have established. They have their own income of money via tourists, they even built a little tourist - resort so they can take in more money. They built a school for their children so they can be educated in a group effort of the women. - Sadly, most men outside of the village don’t respect their choice of life or don’t take them seriously, even going so far as to demonize them because they choose to not submit to a culture that has hurt them in so many ways.
The women in these two villages are amazing and brave people, and I wish them the best of luck that they can continue to grow and boost the signal.
This fierce lady is Juana Galán. She was a Spanish heroine known for beating Napoleon’s troops out of her village during the Peninsula War (1808-1814). During the Battle of Valdepeñas in June, 1808, there weren’t enough men to defend the village from invading French troops. Juana, who was about 21 years old at the time, immediately rallied all of the women in the village to plan a defense strategy. When the French troops marched into the village, the women dumped boiling oil on top of them. As for Juana? She stood in the street with a large club and beat seven shades of shit out of any French soldier that crossed her path. The French beat a hasty retreat from the village, never to return, and Juana was declared a hero. Her combined intelligence, courage, beauty, and general badassery make Juana my ultimate history crush.
lmao
…………… i dont find this funny to be quite honest
Well, isn’t this just a perfect encapsulation of Nice Guy thinking.
One by one, left to right, top to bottom:
1) Yeah, the gall of that bitch wanting to be your close friend instead of offering you unlimited access to her vagina! No… wait. Go fuck yourself. (HAHA THAT’S RIGHT YOU ALREADY ARE!)
2) Because women aren’t allowed to recognize good qualities you may have while simultaneously not being interested in you themselves! Though, to be fair, I’m not sure what good qualities you could possibly have.
3) It’s cute that you think that women don’t get to decide how they feel about you. By cute, I mean: you are a terrible person.
4) And you are also not who she wants. Get over it.
5) Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck yoooooooooooooooooou. If her ex actually is abusive, how about instead of trying to get with her you report it to the authorities or otherwise attempt to genuinely help her instead of victim-blaming her because she refuses to fuck you. If her ex isn’t abusive and that’s just some shit you’re saying to make yourself feel better about how much of an asshole you are: again, I say, fuck you.
6) WOMEN RUIN LIVES BY HAVING AGENCY IN THEIR OWN ROMANTIC DECISIONS!!! Or maybe you’re just a whiny, entitled shitslice!
7) Man, I don’t even know where to… she FORCES you to love her? I think, considering the tenor of the rest of these HIGH-LARIOUS memes, you are a bit confused about who’s trying to force whom to do what.
8) Group outings are just a method of torture invented by evil wimmin who want to torment poor Nice Guys. Or maybe, you know, she considers you a friend and thought y’all might have fun with a bunch of other friends. More the fool her.
9) How. Dare. She. have her own feelings that are not what you want them to be. Do you seriously not get why she might not want you considering your total and complete not even lack of concern but ACTIVE DISMISSAL of her desires, needs, and emotions?
10) A guy LIKE you, not you. Probably because you’re an asshole.
danceswithfaeriesunderthemoon:
The Smile of Hope
This is a picture of a little 13-year-old girl arrested during the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest on the Brooklyn Bridge.
The picture tells us something very important, with brutal clarity. When the police are out on the streets arresting 13-year-old kids for peacefully protesting political issues then we know beyond argument something is terminally rotten in America.
It tells us that there is hope too, though. The spark of freedom that flickered in the middle-east during the Arab Spring is being re-ignited all over in America. People are waking up from the long, bad dream. They are seeing the lies and exploitation and hypocrisy all around them and saying ‘Enough’.
The battles to be fought are formidable, the forces ranged against us are frightening, but now at least we have hope that a better America, and a better world, is possible.
Ellie
JP Morgan has also made a massive, $4.6 million dollar donation to the NYPD today. Such a strange coincidence. http://theelitist.net/nypd-receives-jp-morgan-donation-mass-arrest-of-protesters-at-occupywallstreet
Thanks to reddit user emptyhunter
I love how her smile is all like
“idgaf bruh.”
Gir hat girl is a fucking badass.
GIR hat girl wins tumblr.
psdo:
In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the “free” Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also deleting search terms by government mandate.
oh fucks no!
What happened to freedom of speech?
Nice job America.
