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i think the penalty for rape should be death by a firing squad consisting of the survivor and all of her closest friends 😊

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im fucking fuming over this i cant even lie like what the actual fuck is this. straight up evil behavior. also good job literally flat out admitting amber was indeed abused by depp since u fully acknowledged that she suffers from ptsd and that the ptsd is directly related/linked to him. literally just proudly telling us that ”yeah i knew he had abused amber and that amber has ptsd from it so i decided that we should try to give her panic attacks and just totally torment her like wouldnt it be so funny to give her flashbacks so she feels like shes being raped again lol she will look so craaazyyy” like honestly kill urself

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The ideas that

Prisons need a major reform

Not every prisoner can be rehabilitated

Certain crimes should be punishable by death

Can co-exist and do for me.

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Being a woman is constantly being re-traumatized over and over again by seeing story after story of women and girls being raped, abused, abandoned, ridiculed, harassed and assaulted, discarded, treated like trash and trying not to go ape shit

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'Innocent until proven guilty': False rape allegations are rare so why are people desperate to believe otherwise?

"In the 24 hours since the documentary Russell Brand: In Plain Sight: Dispatches aired, and The Times expose landed, I've seen as many "innocent until proven guilty' sentiments as I have in support of survivors of sexual assault. This feels incredibly disappointing, and serves as a stark reminder that men, especially the famous and rich, will always be defended. This phrase - "innocent until proven guilty" - is continuously used as a weapon against victims to silence and discredit them.

Rape Crisis Scotland released a research paper in 2021, that said "Public perceptions of rape reporting are often skewed by misinformation, particularly around the issue of false allegations. Claims that these are common are not supported by research and greatly harm survivors, for whom the decision to disclose or to report to the police can be agonising, with fear of not being believed one of the greatest barriers to doing so."

There is a clear correlation between this widespread misinformation and how it deters survivors from coming forward. Women are constantly accused of being liars, or told they are after money and fame, when they speak out against successful men. It is very rare that accusations of rape are false.

"Innocent until proven guilty" is used with an incorrect righteousness - as if on a personal level we are expected to be litigious. The state has to presume your innocence, in court, the average person does not. I do not have to presume Brand's innocence, on a personal level, until a jury finds him to not be. I have every right to, and do, believe victims of sexual assault as my default. It is a default that is supported by statistics, personal experience, and evidence. The other option - to believe in an accused rapist's innocence - is not."

(originally posted & shared by @/glamouruk on Instagram)

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It's sad to realize how old the history of men harassing women is. There's a 1790s rape case ("The Sewing Girl's Tale") in the colonial United States where a young woman was being catcalled by a bunch of sailors. Like, you know she was wearing something like this:

Her whole damn body covered up and she still gets harassed by sailors!

This Tumblr-famous painting, "The Irritating Gentleman," shows a guy ready to creep on a mourning young woman. She is actually covered head to toe here. A man painted this, so men knew this sort of loutish behavior happened.

This 1610 painting by Gentileschi is her take on an (extra) Biblical narrative where two old guys peep on a naked woman and then demanded she have sex with them. Gentileschi portrays Susanna as disgusted and afraid. So in the 1600s, and in the fucking 3rd century we know that men sexually harass women when they're just existing.

And it goes to show that it was never about how many clothes women were wearing, because you can be covered neck to toe and still be hit on. You can be in the bath and still your privacy is invaded!

Why does anyone think that if women dressed more 'modestly' that men would stop harassing them? It clearly would make no difference.

If you have any more historical examples feel free to reblog and add

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it’s insane that men around the world made laws stating that if a man rapes a woman and doesn’t wanna go to jail all he has to do is marry her and some countries still go by that law. like they really decided a woman should be punished for getting raped by being what is essentially tied to him (moreso his property) for life

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Reading about that poor UW Madison student who was brutally attacked and raped while walking home. Literally started crying. That man should be publicly executed for what he did to her.

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Female cops don't deserve rape

Tradwifes don't deserve rape

Conservative women don't deserve rape

Fascist women don't deserve rape

""Terfs"" do not deserve rape

MRA women don't deserve rape

Disagreeable women in general do not deserve rape

No woman no matter her shitty ideology deserves to be sexually abused

Once it's okay to excuse rape based on ideology sooner or later you'll meet someone who doesn't agree with you.

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Reuters: 'That 70's Show' actor Masterson sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for raping two women

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“If you really didn’t want it, why didn’t you fight back?”

“You fought back too hard. You hurt him. We’re going to have to fine you.”

This is LITERALLY DYSTOPIAN. What do men want us to do when we’re attacked? Fight back or not? Scream or not?

All I know is, if a man wants to rape me he’ll have to kill me first.

This woman should not be fined for defending herself. Why do men have a right to protect themselves and we don’t?

#on fighting back #I think about this woman every day since I read this on the news

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seeing libfems call trafficked women “sex workers” genuinely makes me so sick. she’s not ‘working’ - she’s being raped. she’s not having sex - she’s being raped. she’s not selling her body - she. is. being. raped. she’s not a “sex worker” - she is a rape victim. her ‘customers’ are her rapists. her ‘pimp’ is her rapist. it’s not “sex work” - it’s rape.

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how am I supposed to live out my dreams when it’s illegal to kill rapists 🙄

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A prominent women’s chess player has accused a fellow player of rape and sexual harassment as she warned a “toxic culture“ of misogyny and sexually predatory behaviour plagues the chess community.

Sabrina Chevannes, a women's international chess master, said she was raped at a chess tournament by another contestant.

The 36-year-old, who quit professional chess in January 2017, told The Independent the incident happened when she was black-out drunk as a teenager.

She added: “I woke up in the linen room of the hotel on a table. I was in so much pain. I didn’t quite understand what had happened.

“While playing chess I was in so much pain I could barely sit down. Him and his friends were high-fiving about it.”

Ms Chevannes, who won ten British chess titles, said sexual harassment, sexual assault or discrimination against women has taken place at every chess tournament she has ever attended.

She has endured racism from fellow chess players, with people often assuming she had cheated when she did well in tournaments, she added.

She told of an incident at a chess tournament when a man who was a chess master groped her.

“I was 11 years old,” she recalled. “I wanted to have a picture with him because he was famous in this world. He posed for the picture but did this thing where he put his hand down my back touching my butt. Then he turned around and winked at me.”

She encountered him again at another chess event when she was a teenager where he told her he had seen her on the front of a chess magazine, she added.

“He said ‘You are developing so well’. I said ‘I was at my best rating’, and he said ‘No, I don’t mean developing like that’,” Ms Chevannes recalled.

“He said he may need another copy of the magazine as he said he had worn his down with all the night time reading. He looked at me in a creepy, lecherous manner. When he met me when I was 18, he said ‘now you are legal in all countries’.”

The former player said she would actively avoid tournaments where he was playing. She noted he sexually propositioned her a few years ago - asking her to go back to his hotel room.

Ms Chevannes said: “He used very racist misogynistic language to my face.”

She told of another incident where a different chess player offered to let her sleep in his hotel room as she was tired from her flight but couldn’t check into her room until mid-afternoon.

“He wasn’t in the room when I was sleeping but I woke up to find one hand down my pants and one hand in my bra,” she added. “He did the same thing again when I was in the same house as him and lots of others in the chess community.”

Ms Chevannes, who now coaches chess, said she did not report any of the aforementioned incidents to the police at the time as others warned her she would not be believed.

But she explained social media posts she recently shared about her alleged experiences had been seen by the police who are now looking into her claims.

Female chess players have come forward in recent weeks to make allegations of sexual assault, violence and harassment from male players.

Earlier in the month, 14 of France's top female players wrote an open letter, “denouncing the sexist or sexual violence they have suffered” in the chess community, with over 100 women in chess signing the letter in the space of only five days.

Ms Chevannes described the chess community as an “insular world” with a rigid hierarchy where people are judged by their chess abilities and women are perpetually belittled.

“Women are seen as inferior, they genuinely believe men are superior to women in every way - including intellectually,” she added. “If you beat someone, it's described as you raped them.”

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More on the forgiveness thread — I had the thought that survivors want to believe that holding their rapist ‘accountable’ will end the violence because it’s a form of belated agency. The violence committed wasn’t because of you at all, it wasn’t something you encouraged or initiated. It was all him. And they want to think that they can end the cycle by offering the rapist the same kind of healing that they themselves were offered; but it just doesn’t work like that. He hurt you because he could and because he hates us. That’s it. He needs a bullet in his brain, not forgiveness and counseling.

Maybe we would like to think that healing is universal and is beneficial to everyone. Like sunlight, maybe, something that every person should be able to feel and appreciate, something that makes us grow. The healing you needed was something like being witnessed, being believed, being comforted, being protected, receiving healthcare both physical and mental; those things offered to a rapist will not stop him raping. He believes fervently in his victimhood and he will double down on not having done anything wrong if you and him are treated the same, as if a horrible thing happened to you both and it hurt you both equally.

It wasn’t equal. It was a man, or men, hurting a woman or women. It was intentional. It was not a mistake or an accident. It was deliberate hatred and cruelty and whatever it is in their brains or hearts that makes them do this nullifies their humanity in my opinion. I believe there is nothing worse than sexual violence in this world. If a man rapes, he deserves to be in the ground. He does not deserve your empathy or forgiveness.

#notes #forgiveness discourse