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Now THIS Is How You Shut Down Victim-Blaming

Laurie Cumbo appeared on CNN to discuss the case of an adolescent woman who reports she was the victim of a horrific gang rape in Brownsville, Brooklyn last week. As you can see, Cumbo had the perfect attitude to the anchorwoman’s attempt at victim blaming. And the newscaster’s response is incredibly satisfying.

“We can change Kenya,” Halima told the Across Women’s Lives team this week in Nairobi.

Because body positivity is for every body.

Anybody else remember this episode? In it, a female villain called Femme Fatale is stealing millions of dollars in Susan B. Anthony coins. Naturally, the Powerpuff Girls go to stop her. She then convinces them that men are all horrible because female superheroes aren’t as well known as male superheroes, even asking Blossom to name some to where her only answer is Wonder Woman.

They start acting bitter, refusing to do chores when the Professor asks and even telling the Mayor to save the town himself. Ms. Bellum and Ms. Keane talk to the girls and basically explain that being mean to guys won’t do anything and that isn’t the kind of message feminists should put out.

boys said no because: i wasn’t pretty i wasn’t small i was too loud i spent too much energy on being funny on because i wouldn’t shut up what a feminazi i wasn’t smart i was too smart for my own good i was always reading i was always busy i was too needy i was too independent i was not who you took home i was too much of a house mom i was perfect and it was scary.

Male announcers mock young women for taking selfies during a baseball game 

this is disgusting in so many ways, but people are acting like “it’s not for FASHION, have you even BOTHERED to READ about it? it’s SYMBOLISM” like it’s soooo much better, let me tell you why that’s wrong

the notion that a wheelchair = limitation is ableist and harmful

for me and so many other disabled people a wheelchair = freedom 

my wheelchair stops me from sitting at home when everyone does fun things that i can’t do, it means i can go out and do things i could do when i was abled

So the porn industry has reached a new level of fucked up as Pornhub is producing a mini series depicting Border patrol officers raping immigrant women on the US/Mexican border. THIS IS LITERALLY PROMOTING SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, PARTICULARLY LATINO WOMEN AND IT HAS TO FUCKING STOP! The blatant misogyny and racism here is unimaginably dangerous for women, especially those of ethnic minorities, this site has to be taken down immediately and the creators need their fucking heads on a stick. The link to the article above: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/border-patrol-porn-sexual-assault/?tw=pl