anime shame

hey all, i need to get real right now, because a friend filled me in on this only this morning. it feels like no one has heard this news, and that’s probably because no one is reporting it due to election overload. trump’s victim has dropped the charges. let me make this clear: she had 2 sworn eyewitnesses to the literal rape (do u know how rare that is?) so we know the case itself had some definite identifiable merit going in, and 2 days before dropping the charges jane doe was going to break her anonymity. it’s reported that she received so many death threats in the hours between announcing that action and holding the press conference to do so that her safety became a serious concern and the press conference was cancelled. later, on the 6th, she dropped the charges altogether. it’s not going to trial. 

do i think this is a coincidence? no fucking way. do i think he’s a rapist? most definitely; i don’t need a trial to recognize the truth. but we do need to reflect on the fact that this is what rape culture looks like: a world in which a woman can’t get justice for her childhood sexual assaut, because it would mean suing the president-elect of the united states and would put her life in serious danger. the lawyers were unclear as to why she dropped the charges, but it’s my firm belief that, like many survivors of assault, the pressure of laying her story out in front of the world became overwhelming, especially with so much at stake. it’s scary enough to press charges against ur rapist if ur both average people. if he’s gonna be the president? hahahahaha fun. 

Ilhan Omar of Minnesota becomes first Somali-American legislator

I don’t know if you know this but… Florida is not entirely populated by lgbt/latinx people… there are so many, racist white people in that state. So many queer-phobic people, people who hate immigrants, who hate Latinx people, black people. THOSE are the people who voted for Trump.

You just completely discredited the efforts made by thousands of Latinx people in Florida fighting against Trump, there were rallies, like you sound ridiculous!!

On the topic of immigrants, so many of the Latinx people who will be affected by Trump’s (and Hillary’s) presidency are immigrants who can not vote! Are you kidding me? It’s so frustrating to me that you made this post as if you’re in support of Latinx people but at the same time just condemned the huge percentage of us who literally can not vote.