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The word “man” was gender neutral and referred to both sexes until the 13th century

The female specific pronoun “she” was invented in the 12th century. 

The word “girl” was gender neutral and referred to children of both sexes until the 15th century

High heels were invented for men and were worn predominantly by men until the 16th century

From the mid 16th century to the 19th century boys would typically wear dresses until the age of 7

Until the early 1930s pink was considered the appropriate colour for baby boys and blue was the colour for baby girls

Woke: “You, specifically, belong on your knees because you have previously communicated that you would enjoy being treated like a sex object.”

(Cont) a split second could mean death. Then teach you how to profile but "we dont profile" wink nudge. So you show up see a man bent over a woman when someone calls, says they heard screaming. React. Guy is raping her. Nope. She was having a seizure. He was her helper. Friend of mine attacked him. Easy mistake when they teach you that. Friends quits bc of guilt. Me? Always got reamed bc I didnt give out enough fucking tickets. Fuck that. "Find curfew breakers. Find lapse insurance." (Cont)

(Cont) I would sit in parking lots running random license plates while all my coworkers ride on people's asses in the middle of the night to trick them into speeding. Its not about upholding the law and arresting criminal. You're a fucking snitch, trying to fin ANY lawbreaker bc you can't be lazy. Then you see some fucked up shit. Little girl goes missing. Find her in a creek, head cracked up on a rock. Animals picked at her for a few days. You get desensitized or you can't do the job. (Cont)

(Cont) so you get numb to screaming and dead bodies and girls crying about boyfriends raping them or you go nuts. Me I thought well this small town they donr have Real Problems so they make me chase down 15 year olds with a cigarette to hand over tobacco tickets. I won't do that so the other guys relentlessly bully me for being a pussy lazy PoS. I go to city with real problems. Same damn thing. "Search for criminals! If you dont find enough you're lazy!" We aren't sitting around til you (cont)

(Cont) til you break the law we are looking for it even if its dumb shit. And then you go someplace big and tell you to look for suspicious things. Blackddues in nice suits are pimps. Black dudes in nice cars are dealers. Black women are crazy and best their boyfriends. Latina lie about being raped to get revenge. That's just how it is. So you say hell no. They eat you alive. If you need therapy you're a pussy. Hostage situation, black dude with knife holding a woman. I talk him down. (Cont)

(Cont) Guy gets arrested. I get pulled into the office and yelled at for NOT shooting him. Saved his life and hers and I got in trouble. Had to file paperwork. Didnt make any friends because they ront trust me. Cops will do drugs on weekends then arrest people for doing the same so they get their "quota" (which wink nudge dont exist). If a cop does something bad and you do the right thing and "rat him out" they will harass you. Found myself relocated when I testified against another cop. (Cont)

(Cont) Go to a different place. Same fucking shit. Cops get paid shit, taught to react first based on assumption, taught to specifically assume racist shit, taught to go OUT of their way to FIND shit, get thrown into an atmosphere of bullying if you dont comply, then get desensitized to shit. If you're a good cop, You won't make it , bc you can't come out of that shit safe. I quit before I was forty. I'm fifty now and work in a mine. Fuck cops.

Ps - former cop - using my niece's tumblr bc she showed me this, which is why I'm using anonymous. Not trying to harass anybody.

Copying anon’s follow up messages above to have the whole story in one place.

That said. You talk about having nothing to risk without knowing the fact because Adèle had everything to risk and indeed, there were consequences for what she did. The Césars are one of them. Adèle spoke out against Polanski and his defenders back in November, in a much more direct and unforgiving manner than 99% of the Hollywood stars that are championed as fighters for justice because they wear black or write a cool tweet.

She did this and she was punished for it. In France, the MeToo movement wasn’t met with support, especially in the cinema world, it pretty much passed by unnoticed. Adèle is the first public figure in France who spoke out and exposed the system of silence in place to support that abuse, and since she didn’t just share her story but she questioned the whole system and its enablers she became a target. Sure empty words of praise were spoken about her to speak out about her experience, but when it came to practical action, the support went all to Polanski and the César awards were literally set up by the media as a match between him and her, purposefully making him look like the delicate victim and Adèle the angry feminist lesbian

Want to talk about practical backlash? Portrait of a Lady on Fire lost every award except Cinematography, including Screenplay, Directing, and Best Actress, even though it literally won Best Screenplay at Cannes and Céline Sciamma and Adèle and Noémie had been considered the favorites for those awards. They didn’t award best original screenplay to a film which won best screenplay at arguably the biggest cinema festival in the world and gave instead best adapted screenplay and directing to Polanski, for a movie that’s supposed to evoke his ‘victimization’ by society and media. Adèle was threatened with a dead career for walking out. It wasn’t ‘fashionable’ for her to walk out because France is not like America and most of the support in the media/celebrity world went to Polanski, not her. There were people yelling “Bravo Roman!” in the room, in the row right behind her, which is what made her leave. She went to the awards to support the movie she made and the ideals that movie shares, consent and equality and collaboration, and found herself in a situation where with every award given to Polanski, with every joke about him, the camera cut back to her, just waiting for her reaction. Until she couldn’t take it anymore.

Why couldn’t she take it anymore apart from having basic morals and integrity? Adèle is a survivor of child sexual abuse. She was harassed and molested by the director of her first film from when she was 12 till she was 15 years old, it left her traumatized, suicidal and made her cut off all contacts with the cinema world even though it was something she loved. She spoke out about her abuse because she found out that same director would work with teenagers again for a new movie and she couldn’t let it happen. Her own father didn’t want her to speak out because he thought she was doing it for attention. She didn’t walk out of the Cesars because it was easy or convenient or whatever. She did because she’s a victim of pedophilia and she was asked to celebrate and applaud the triumph of a serial child rapist. It has nothing to do with it being ‘fashionable’. 

OK Highway Patrol Captain George Brown says the best “tip” for women to not get raped by a cop is to “follow the law in the first place so you don’t get pulled over.” http://youtu.be/BO8g8akPWcY (Last third of the video).

Three serial rapists in 3 weeks arrested in Oklahoma, all cops.

I know that sounds dumb, but hear me out. My mother is a dispatcher for the local police station. I asked her about how to pull over for a cop and even brought up the use of hazard lights, and she told me that it is not always accepted. This is what she told me you can do in order to feel safe when pulling over:

Call the police. No, really. Call and tell the dispatcher where you are and that there is a cop behind you demanding you pull over. The dispatcher can and will stay on the line with you while they look up the area you’re in to see if it’s one of their station’s cops. Then, once the cop comes to your window, you can crack it open (it only has to be an inch!) while still on the phone with the dispatcher. This is definitely, 100% accepted protocol.

The dispatcher will verify that it is their own, real cop, and they will gladly stay on the line with you throughout your interaction with the officer. And God forbid this ever happens to any of you, but if something were to happen to you during this time, you’ve already contacted 911 and given your location to the dispatcher.

Please keep this in mind if you are ever requested to pull over and do not feel safe. The dispatcher will understand. Do not, however, continue to drive, because there might be the off-chance an officer will think you’re flat-out refusing to pull over (a well-lit, populated area might be a ways away).

Let’s say you post a selfie – not even a naked selfie, just a selfie.  And 100 followers like or upvote it, 25 or 30 leave really nice comments, and one asshole says something about something pretty minor like… I dunno… a mole, or acne scar, or stretch mark.

If you can see your self worth you acknowledge the 100 human beings who Liked you and the 25-30 human beings who like you so much they took the time to actually say so.  

If you have self-worth, you get that 100 people have just included you in their universe, and by acknowledging that you’ve made your universe 100 people larger as well!

If you have no self-worth you take the one dickwad’s comment to heart, and thereby totally fucking erased not only yourself but 100 other people who’ve acknowledged and appreciated you!

And you’ve given that one pants-wetting incel more authority and acknowledgment and respect than all 100, or 1000, or 10,000 admirers.