Uh oh, she has opinions!

Last night I was at the fair. It was chilly, crowded, I was with 3 other girls, and after we bought cotton candy we paused to watch the fireworks start. I was looking up at them, I had been having a wonderful night, I was right up against my best friend’s side, and then I felt a guy squeeze my ass.

The other day I was talking to my friend about a time I was restocking a hanging shelf in a tank top, as a 16 year old, and when I was stretched up on my toes trying to reach, a man nonchalantly slipped out his phone and pretended to be texting, only for the phone’s camera shutter noise to go off as he snapped a picture of my cleavage.

And apparently in three years I’ve learned nothing, because in both these incidents my first thought was “being a woman ruins everything.”

“natural protectors.” that’s what we’re supposed to believe men are. we are supposed to keep ourselves small and weak and helpless, perpetual damsels in distress, all so that some fictional big strong man can feel really good about himself if he protects us from a bad situation.

but if that’s true - if men really are biologically wired to feel a desire to protect people more physically vulnerable than them - how is it possible that you can get that many men to agree to rape a woman? how can the men who were approached to take part in it, but declined, not report him to the police?

how many of the men who took part in it have daughters, wives, sisters, mothers that they’ve hurt?

so women are supposed to live our lives knowing that in a few km radius around our home there's dozens and dozens of predators happy to come and rape a drugged out 60yo woman + more men who know abt this and do nothing. the youngest rapist was 26 the oldest 74. these men are normal citizens with wives and kids. one of them a 34yo construction worker said it wasn't rape since her husband gave permission. one of the men was a nurse, another a fireman, another a city councillor. the woman's husband also had photos of his own daughter unconscious in her underwear and filmed his daughters-in-law in the bathroom. hard to wrap your mind around the whole thing. how many women think they're married to a perfectly swell guy who's really one easy opportunity away from this?

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Huff Yupp (via yoursocialconstructsareshowing)

THIS. THIS IS THE POST THAT ALL BDSM PEOPLE NEED TO READ.