Oh thank you so much! :)
I’m really sorry you had to go through that, but I’m glad my blog could be of some small comfort. Thank you for the message, it really means a lot to me.
In 2008 a group of Norwegian researchers ran an experiment to better understand how police investigators come to a judgment about the credibility of rape claims. Sixty-nine investigators were played video-recorded versions of a rape victim’s statement, with the role of victim played by an actress. The wording of the statement in each version was exactly the same, but the actress delivered it with varying degrees of emotion. The investigators, who prided themselves on their objectivity, turned out to be heavily influenced in their judgments by assumptions about the victim’s demeanour: she was judged most credible when crying or showing despair.
In reality, rape victims react in the immediate aftermath of the event in a variety of ways: some are visibly upset; others are subdued and undemonstrative. There is, unsurprisingly, no universal reaction to being raped. The detectives were relying on their instincts, and their instincts turned out to be constructed from inherited and unreliable notions about women in distress.
brilliant. this whole article, on how much we assume by appearances, is brilliant.
Organon: To all those men who don't think the rape jokes are a problem:
[TRIGGER WARNING FOR RAPE]
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If rape jokes are a problem then murder jokes are a problem, then race jokes are a problem, then fat jokes, then skinny jokes, then retarded jokes, then political jokes, then drug jokes. Honestly you can’t just say NO RAPE JOKES….EVER. You’d have to stop telling jokes as it is. I mean fuck if you don’t find it funny don’t listen to it. If someone tells a rape joke that doesn’t mean their pro rape, or a rapists “comrade”. If someone says “why’d the chicken cross the road, to get to the other side!” and someone laughs then does that make them a murderers comrade? You can’t just solo out rape jokes because they “trigger” somebody. Because fuck, I’ll make a joke about spiders and there’s definitely someone who’s triggered by fucking spiders. Does that make me a spiders COMRADE? Your whole argument is shit covered shit with shit filling. Wait! I mean yeah let’s stop rape jokes! Execute all comedians because jokes offend people! Yeah! Makes sense…
IKR? ALL THOSE PESKY RAPE VICTIMS NOT WANTING TO BE CONSTANTLY REMINDED OF THE WORST THING THAT’S EVER HAPPENED TO THEM. THEY SHOULD JUST FILL THEIR EARS WITH FUDGE OR SOMETHING, I MEAN IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT DON’T LISTEN, (EVEN THOUGH THAT’S ACTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU DON’T LIKE SOMETHING WITHOUT FIRST HEARING IT? OH WELL.) FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BLAH BLAH, I FEEL REAL GOOD ABOUT MYSELF. THIS HAS BEEN A CAPS LOCK POST B/C W/E I DO WHAT I WANT.
“A libertarian is just a progressive who has not yet learned that forces outside your control can completely derail your life.”
What is with the unsightly rash of smug, white, Galtian-types invading the 99% Tumblr?
Don’t these people have better things to do with their time than troll? Like learn how to perform surgery on themselves or make their own toilet paper or something?
We get it: you’re a special snowflake and think the rest of us are lazy, irresponsible whiners and any troubles we’re experiencing are entirely self-made.
Now kindly GTFO my social justice movement and go fuck yourselves…which seems to fit more with your whole, self-help, bootstraps ethos anyway.
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Oh. I see what I’ve been doing wrong now.
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