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Kitty. 26 year old British, Literature student. Pisces (Leo moon, Aquarius rising), Hufflepuff, INFP. I love books, video games, manga & anime, knitting, and attempting to do roller derby (my skate name is Scufflepuff and I am currently between leagues). This tumblr will mostly contain activism (feminism, fat acceptance, sex positivity), geekery (Sailor Moon, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Jane Austen, Harry Potter, books and anime in general) and cuteness (kittens!). I have a cat called Milo and a kitten called Hugo. I co-mod the female form, a body-positivity tumblr, and Fuck Yeah Romola Garai. Ask me anything

January 30, 2012

madamethursday:

[Image: A screencap of a tweet from @TheIlluminati that reads: “#Ugly Girls Are Not Allowed to claim rape. They should be happy someone wanted to have sex with them.” with the words “Ugly Girls Are Not Allowed” being the hashtag. Beneath are several user icons with the text: “Retweeted by Tshea23 and 100+ others.”]

angelzash:

rfreakingpattz:

heartzrevolution:

lick-my-lamppost:

the-tevinter-fugitive:

stfuprolife:

theowlintheolivetree:

somepolitics:

xjessicles:

dumbesttweets:

::Logs off the universe::

submission from naturalista88

… Oh really now. Hold on while I flood you with HOW WRONG YOU ARE, theIlluminati.

What the fuck? Even if this is a joke, it’s in horrible taste. Everyone spam this guy with how misogynistic he is.

This happened, but I overreacted last night? Please. People re-tweeted this… I swear, sometimes I wish I could just quit humanity for a while.

stfurapeculture >:O
stfumisogyny

How ‘bout fucking no?!

As if rapists actually care about how their victim looks. also as if only women get raped.

Normally never get into this kinda stuff but jesus christ, what the fuck.

[Image: A macro of the cartoon character Professor Farnsworth from Futurama looking dismayed. The text is a quote of his that says, “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.”]

stop the planet, i want to get off.

oh my fucking god.

I’d prefer not to get off this planet. I say we kick this guy and all his misogynistic, hate-filled retweeters off the planet instead. …maybe send along the rapists themselves too.

These people make me sick.

I don’t know what makes me more disgusted. This tweet or the 100+ folks that retweeted it.

Object lesson, friends and kind relations: this is how rape culture keeps itself functioning and the wheels of it’s terrible, people destroying machine greased. It isn’t just that one person or one douchebag says or does something that turns rape into a joke, a punchline, or a triviality. It’s that A HUNDRED PLUS OTHERS give them a round of applause for it. It’s that A HUNDRED PLUS OTHERS spread it and send the very tacit, very powerful message that this is okay. That rape can be a joke and OTHER PEOPLE WILL SUPPORT YOU IN THAT IN LARGE NUMBERS.

This is how this persists. The way any hatred persists. Because the people who talk and act in these ways can be assured that they will not meet with great opposition or forceful pushback. They can be assured that people will chuckle and laugh and support them.

And this is how those who become rapists first have the idea planted in their skulls that the act of rape can ever be okay to do, that it’s ever something you can let yourself participate in. Because they see this and an insidious little seed of a thought just sort of grows, silent and unexamined and unconscious in their brains until it become a very very horrible action.