Wethany Bu

he made my wife and i (i’m a woman) a giant banner for our one year anniversary 

when i was pregnant, the baby was kicking and when he touched my belly, the baby stopped and he called him a little shit

he once called and left a voicemail asking how to spell styrofoam

he flipped a table bc he saw someone hit a dog

he beat skrim in 4 days

he served in the korean war and when he came home, he learned korean so if he ever ran into a korean vet, he could “give them the same respect he’d give an american vet”

my son has two moms and there was a “special guy in your life” day at his school for father’s day so my grandpa went and showed up in dress pants and a pressed shirt bc he “didn’t want to embarrass him”. also, there was a little boy who didn’t have anyone there and grandpa asked if he could be his “special guy” and the little boy beamed

he knows all of the secrets to the zelda games

Me:

Voila ! 

Manger = Eat btw =)

Some of you asked me if I could learn some french there … on Tumblr, Why not ! 

Birds = Oiseaux 

Foxes = Renards

Worms = Ver de terre 

Kiwis and Pigeons are the same in the two languages, we are linked yaay ! 

You can see the differences between the two languages, being on Tumblr really help me to work my english and I learned some great expressions, so this is one for you in french :

"J’ai trop la dalle" it means that you are really hungry (don’t tell your french teacher about that, it’s quite familiar xD)

These animations will help to survive if you need to eat something and you can add :

"S’il vous plait"  at the end to be more polite, it’s like "please" 

and yeah …. I’m teaching you how to say “I’m hungry” in french in the day of Valentine’s day, so romantic !

Wouldn’t seeing these cards in the restroom alert abusers that there were probably the same cards in the other gender restroom, possibly making them more violent and cutting off their partner even more from resources that could help them?

http://www.kcsdv.org/learn-more/myths.html:

While some people may believe that there is a higher reported incidence of women experiencing violence by their male partners due to men underreporting when they are victims, the reality is the opposite. In 2008, 72 percent of the intimate partner violence against males and 49 percent of the intimate partner violence against females was reported to police.Catalano, Smith, Snyder, & Rand (2009). Bureau of Justice Statistics Selected Findings: Female Victims of Domestic Violence. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, NCJ 228356.

http://www.thecitizen.org.au/features/what-about-men-lies-statistics-and-peddling-myths-about-violence-against-women

Researcher Elspeth McInnes…  recounts some of her research that showed that when men talked about women’s violence against men, some cited abuse as not having a hot meal on the table, not having the children bathed before bed, or women spending money on gambling or shopping. At the more severe end of the spectrum, they nominated verbal and emotional violence as abuse. Then, a tiny minority documented physical abuse, and an even smaller minority named sexual abuse. 

“Women were talking about being run over, being drugged and raped at knifepoint, having their children dangled over high rise balconies till they did as they were told and of course you get verbal and emotional violence,” says McInnes. “When we were talking about physical violence against men, one of the worst examples was that she banged his head with the cupboard door – which isn’t good – but the sheer level of fear, harm and terror that women talked about was simply not present in what the men’s data showed.” 

http://www.feminist.org/other/dv/dvfact.html#notes

The vast majority of domestic assaults are committed by men. Even when men are victimized, 10% are assaulted by another man. In contrast, only 2% of women who are victimized are assaulted by another woman.2

http://womenandpolicing.com/violencefs.asp

Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence, (1, 2) in contrast to 10% of families in the general population.(3) A third study of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24% (4), indicating that domestic violence is 2-4 times more common among police families than American families in general.

in conclusion while domestic abuse hotlines in men’s bathrooms would be great too, women are the majority of victims of violent, life-threatening domestic abuse by a lot more than 40%, and men are still the majority of perpetrators of violent, life threatening domestic abuse, even to other men and boys. this is not a remotely equivalent situation.

One day, in third period, after being rejected several times, he said; “I have a gun in my locker. If you don’t say yes, I am going to shoot you in seventh.”

This is the Rape Joke | d.a.s

After Lora Mathis’s poem “the Rape Joke”

Infused in the white bead is water from Mount Everest, the highest point on earth. In the black bead, mud from the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth. Separating the two beads are clear beads, representative of the story we all have to tell. Life moves through cycles, find your balance.