That moment when you may have found a graduate program that looks like it was custom built for you.
All roads lead to Boulder.
Even when they break your toes, kittens > people.
People who tell you they miss being a part of your life/want to be friends again and then ignore you when you make every effort to make that happen.
If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It’s not.
If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.
If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.
If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.
If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.
Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists.
If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.
If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.
If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.
If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.
Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists.
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A Short Post on Rape Prevention (via brute-reason) Daaang! Well said. (via ladylovedie) |
You know you’re getting older when…
…the most exciting part of your birthday is throwing up on your cat’s head while cleaning up the carpet where he threw up.
Other than that, it was a lovely day.
Gorgeous cover of one of my favorite Mumford & Sons songs. He also does a crazy good cover of “Sexy and I Know it.” Really. But this. This.
3 Days Off Recap.
1. Am now brunette. Sort of. Hybridized.
2. Baked cookies.
3. Downloaded more movies onto my ipad so I don’t have to drag my computer into bed. May need an Avengers intervention.
4. Discovered that Honey Vanilla Dream can still be found on Amazon. Happiness ensued.
5. Discovered that Water Lily & Ivy can, too. For $35. Mourned.
6. Wrote and wrote and wrote.
7. Made tentative promise to someday start posting more Tumblr-y thing on here instead of making it my new LJ boyfriend. Someday.
8. Almost ready to face work again.
Because apparently I can’t link worth a fuck.
This is the article I mentioned. Interesting read, whether you’re a part of the circle or not.
http://henryrollins.com/dispatch/detail/dispatch_03-17-12_los_angeles/
