Showing posts with label reblog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reblog. Show all posts

Saturday, January 5, 2013

End Rape Culture in 2013 in the United States too




"We live in a country where politicians call rape a "gift from God" and suggest that women regularly lie about being raped. Where a group of young men in high school think so little of sexual assault that they thought it was fine - hilarious, even - to post pictures online of a passed out rape victim, and to live-tweet the rape, joking about the victim being urinated on. We live in a country where media as revered as The New York Times finds it necessary to describe an 11-year-old gang rape victim as "wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s.” Where a woman can be fired because her boss finds her "irresistable" [sic] and a woman's rape case falls flat because she isn't married. 

It's time to acknowledge that the rape epidemic in the United States is not just about the crimes themselves, but our own cultural and political willful ignorance.  Rape is as American as apple pie - until we own that, nothing will change.”

—     - Jessica Valenti, The Nation


Read the full blog post here:
http://www.thenation.com/blog/172024/americas-rape-problem-we-refuse-admit-there-one#

Friday, December 28, 2012

Breaking News repost: Delhi gang-rape victim dies in hospital in Singapore

breakingnews:
Delhi gang-rape victim dies in hospital in Singapore
BBC NewsThe 23-year-old woman gang-raped on a bus in India’s capital Delhi has died at a Singapore hospital, doctors say.
“The patient passed away peacefully at 4:45am on 29 Dec 2012,” a statement from the hospital said. The patient’s family had been by her side, it added.
The 23-year-old had arrived in Singapore on Thursday after undergoing three operations in a Delhi hospital.
Follow updates on the story at Breaking News.
Photo: A young woman, one hand covered in fake blood, takes part in a protest earlier Friday in Calcutta against the gang rape of a student. (Piyal Adhikary / EPA via NBC News)

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