Mightier Than The Sword

Can you imagine, people of Flint have been living in such environment since 2014? 

Families have been losing their children because of a high level of lead in their blood. They DIE from poisoned water while youth suffer from different diseases and even prefer to stay home rather than to go to school. I’m not talking about living conditions in general.

Texas State Legislature is considering passing a law that would mandate teachers to out young gay kids to their parents

8-year-old Jordan Jackson and his younger sister waited for their parents on a playground at Spanish Lake Primary School in Geismar, Louisiana, on November 14. A young white boy came to them and said: “You need to go back to the cotton farm.”

Jordan, who is an honor student and athlete, asked one (who is 13-years-old and son of a teacher) of three white children to stop insulting him and his sister, was pushed down multiple times and body slammed at least twice, suffering a broken arm and a concussion, which has since evolved into post-concussion syndrome.

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Cris Colbert, Jordan and J’Niaha Jackson’s uncle, has established a GoFundMe page meant to help offset the cost of Jordan’s ever-growing medical bills.

500 DAPL protestors will eat a Thanksgiving meal at Standing Rock — served by Jane Fonda

Actor Jane Fonda will be among a delegation of roughly 50 people from around the country who are traveling to Standing Rock to serve Thanksgiving to roughly 500 activists, indigenous people and their allies who are protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline

Fonda will serve dinner and contribute five butchered Bison and four Mongolian yurts to the Oceti Sakowin camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. 

Judy Wicks, a local food advocate and former owner of White Dog Cafe in Philadelphia, organized the Thanksgiving meal.

[image description: screencaps about Jewish poverty in NYC from here, with visuals depicting the percents.  Here’s the data “1 in 4 Jewish households is poor”, “1 in 9 Jewish households is near-poor” “There has been an 86% increase in number of poor Jewish households in the suburban New York area neighborhoods” “45% of children in Jewish households live in poor or near-poor households” “180,000+ children live in poor and near-poor Jewish households”]

i don’t know why every ddlg person thinks that i somehow don’t know what their nastyass kink entails and feels compelled to explain it to me?? i get it. i was involved in bdsm for years and i. get. it. i was never personally involved in ddlg but i know tons of people who were and i know enough to be critical of it and the bdsm community at large. the majority of the people who criticize kink on here are knowledgable about bdsm so save the condescending attitude, please

like the fact that you can say “take on a child-like manner” and “it has nothing to do with pedophilia” in the same breath shows that you completely do not understand my post. you only think that active, offending pedophiles sexualize children and the things that are associated with them and that is completely wrong. you can scream “consenting adults!!!” at me, you can insist that your kink has nothing to do with “real” children, you can chant “safe sane consensual” till you pass out… that doesn’t change the fact that a good number of “daddy doms” are actual pedophiles. it doesn’t change the fact that the kink relationship is modeled after an incestual relationship (how the actual FUCK can you argue otherwise when you’re literally calling your partner ‘daddy’?). it doesn’t change the fact that there are people getting off on acting like children and fucking people who are acting like children. that is the bottom line. why is it ‘hot’ to dress and act like a child? 

it’s not a “nurturing” relationship. it’s set up to mirror situations in real life that are inherently abusive (incest and pedophilia). if you participate in that, congratulations, you have a hand in normalizing the sexual abuse of children. what you do in the bedroom doesn’t exist in a vacuum. there’s a fucking reason why the majority of the people who participate in this kink have men acting in this controlling “caregiver” role, while women are submissive, child-like (naive), and always sexually available. this kink is just one head of a multi-faceted culture that exists to sexualize young/teenage girls and rob them of their childhood to groom them into mindless, submissive fucktoys. there’s a reason why “teen” is the most popular category of porn- porn which largely features women who are barely 18 with petite, hairless bodies wearing things commonly associated with children like pigtails and colorful socks and underwear with patterns on them and schoolgirl uniforms, getting violated by adult male “friends of the family” and teachers and other older men who are in positions of power over them. there’s a reason why, as a man ages, his most desirable age for a female partner still hovers around the “barely legal” mark. there’s a reason why adult women are pressured to shave their pubic hair and are shamed for having protruding labia- both of which are key markers of a woman’s sexual maturity -to appear more child-like. and at the same time there’s a reason why young girls are pressured to wear clothing and makeup that makes them appear older and more “fuckable”.

Or maybe you’ve seen how rape is made to be a joke when the victim is a young man and the rapist an older woman, often in positions of authority.

Despite it happening again.

and again.

and again.

And time and time again, we see these women receiving minimum sentences, if they get sentenced at all.

So what can we do to protect our young boys from female predators in authority positions?

1. Change the way we talk about rape.  Statutory rape is still rape, and rape is NOT a gendered issue.  When we gear rape prevention measures towards women, we allow cases involving men to slip through the cracks.

2. Contact your representatives to change the way we legally talk about rape.  A thoughtful, articulate email or phone call on the issue could make a world of difference, especially if more than one person is writing or calling.  You can find your state’s congressmen here or  find your state governor and legislators’ contact info here.

Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest and most highly-respected opera stage in the world, and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.

Around 1678 (she was like fourteen or fifteen), she was making a living in Marseilles by doing fencing exhibitions, dressed in male clothes, with her boyfriend who was on the run because he killed a guy in an illegal duel in Paris.

Then she joined an opera company and fell in love with a young woman, but the woman’s parents decided to put her in a convent to, you know, protect her honor and all that…

…so yeah, that’s when the whole “sneaking into a convent to help a nun sneak out and also putting the room on fire” thing happened.

She wounded a guy through the shoulder with a sword in a duel because he had made fun of her clothes. They became friends after she came back a few days later to ask if he was okay.

She beat a singer who was quite famous at the time because he was being a jerk to some women from her new opera troupe in Paris.

She kissed a young woman in front of everyone at a society ball, and that angered three noblemen who were there, so she beat them all in duel and fled to Brussels. Then she resumed her opera career there.

Then she returned to the Paris opera and had yet more problems with the law because she beat up her landlord.

She retired to a convent after the death of her love Madame la Marquise de Florensac, and died at only 33 years old.