redbrunja: (A Heart Will Always Go One Step Too Far)
redbrunja ([personal profile] redbrunja) wrote2009-06-05 12:21 am

I Felt Fire I Felt Cold - Like The Devil & The Lord Wanted My Soul

These last two days have given me emotional whip-lash. I feel like I need a nice long crying jag to feel okay again.

Some links from my flist and surfing the web:

Obama's speech in Cairo


Describing characters of color

Except from 'Men On Rape'
(warning: there is an interview with a man at the end of this that is incredibly triggering.)

Also, I want to point out, because I don't think that this statistic is not talked about as often as it should be, 60 percent of women who fight back against attempted rapists are successful.

Also, flist? *hugs*

[identity profile] cynchick.livejournal.com 2009-06-05 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Man. That interview just personified the truth that men are terrified of the power of women and femininity. Extremely disturbing.

If I were going to rape a girl, I wouldn't hurt her. I might restrain her, but I wouldn't hurt her....

That. Right there. Just...Wow. Its sickening that someones thinking could be so backward.

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2009-06-05 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Man. That interview just personified the truth that men are terrified of the power of women and femininity. Extremely disturbing.

I know. It's sad and really fucked up.

That. Right there. Just...Wow. Its sickening that someones thinking could be so backward.

I know. I wanted to yell at him, 'do you honestly think holding some poor woman down and forcing bits of yourself inside her wouldn't hurt her?

[identity profile] cynchick.livejournal.com 2009-06-05 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
not to mention that while bruises and cuts and tearing will heal...the emotional/psychological scarring will never go away.

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2009-06-06 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. I just - I shudder to think about how much that man DOES NOT understand what rape does to women. At all.