we-support-johnlockmarriage:

grimfedora:

askthewigglers:

pother:

death-is-a-reprieve:

I know I’m not Tumblr famous and I don’t know how many people are going to actually see this but for those that will see this, I just want them to know that this sort of thing happens all the time at my old school, and I’m getting sick of it. They tried to contact that media and it doesn’t seem to be working. I just want people to know that we need this to stop. If we could do something to help this situation, I don’t know what but something, it would help a lot. Nobody deserves this.

           (803) 283-2001      

 jkeenan@lancasterscschools.org 

http://lhs.lancasterscschools.org/

Joseph C. Keenan is the principal of the school. I don’t know how long ago this thing happened, but I think we should start sending in polite but stern complaints. We need to let these dicks know that this isn’t going to stay quiet, because this isn’t right. Even if you don’t believe in gay marriage, this is just fucking disgusting and we can’t let these people get away with this.  

http://lhs.lancasterscschools.org/user_profile_view.aspx?id=19eb492e-fb44-4ee7-b0f4-e9361fc19292

This is the Head Coaches Home page. 

I didn’t see any contact information, but there is a name. Start sending emails if you have time or if you care to. 

I’m just gonna pop in here and abuse the mighty force of my lovely followers. 

Oh so not only does this asshole think its ok to beat up women, but he thinks its ok to do it because she was gay?

My fucking blood is boiling.

If it was my sister I’d break him in half.

Signal boost the FUCK out of this

THIS IS SICK.

The Michigan Women’s Justice & Clemency Project

We’ve seen this particular claim made a number of times now.  It’s the worst kind of claim because it’s technically true, yet utterly misleading.  In short, it’s bad statistics (much like what happens with the wage gap) where it’s presumed that the actions being taken by each party are equal and that there aren’t gender differentials.

As far as we can tell, the difference is that while both men and women do kill their partners, when they do it’s for notably different reasons and in notably different ways.  When men kill their wives it’s normally what’s termed a “crime of passion” motivated by anger or rage.  This normally leads to a charge of second-degree murder, because the crime lacks the premeditation element that characterizes first-degree murder.  Women who kill their husbands, on the other hand, are more likely to exercise premeditation, which leads to the much more severe charge of first-degree murder.  Even in cases where the charges don’t differ the circumstances often still do in a similar way, just to a lesser degree.

Basically, we as a society acknowledge that there’s a difference between someone who comes home, finds their partner in bed with someone else and clocks them with a lamp and someone who decides to kill their partner, goes out, buys a gun, walks up to them while they’re sleeping and empties a magazine into their head.  Men’s actions are more likely to look like the former, women’s the latter, and we as a society consider the latter to be far more severe.

Ironically, the two cases cited are utterly perfect examples.  Kenneth Peacock was sentenced to 18 months in jail after he came home unexpectedly, found his wife in bed with another man and shot her.  Patricia Ann Hawkins, on the other hand, was sentenced to 36 24 (see below) months in jail, for….soaking her sleeping husband with lighter fluid and then setting him on fire.  Anyone with a brain can see a considerable difference.  

It’s actually worse than that, though.  Peacock was actually sentenced to 36 months himself, 18 of which were suspended.  Of course, the page neglects to mention that part.  Secondly, Hawkins was not sentenced to 36 months, but rather to 24 months, only six months longer than Peacock.  It appears that “The Michigan Women’s Justice & Clemency Project” is not competent enough to do a basic Google search, with which they would have realized that the 36 month figure originated as an editorial error in the Baltimore Sun.  They posted a retraction the next day.

Hawkins was originally charged with (surprise, surprise) first-degree murder (to which she responded with the a plea of “not guilty by reason of insanity”), but the case was resolved with a plea bargain in which she plead guilty to both manslaughter and arson.  In review: Hawkins was charged with a more severe crime as a result of premeditation, and committed two crimes (murder/manslaughter and arson) instead of one.

When we divide things back down into the categories of murder (first-degree, second-degree, sometimes third degree, and manslaughter even though it’s not technically murder), that “gap” disappears.

(via permutationofninjas)

it-goes-both-ways:

nathanialroyale:

abbysucks:

maggiekarp2:

jerkdouglas:

operationinfuriatedpunishment:

mundanematt:

The swinging pendulum of sexism arrives! Ladies, Men can get raped too. Remember that.

yes

(but seriously I don’t know how that’s possible, unless I’m waking up and need to piss)

Catch me around naptime I’ve always got a big boner. Not sure why but girls b nockin on the door “hay leme put it in my mouf!” and im like ‘no haha’ and shut teh dor.

teh.

TEH.

Actually, I’ve heard strangulation can cause an unwilling boner pretty easily.

I’d say it’s easier to remember that men can be raped by other men, but that’s supposed to be pretty kawaii these days.

Just to put some perspective in this for those people who may be confused at how a guy can get a boner but not really be sexually charged, so to speak…

Ladies, you know how your nipples get hard for seemingly no reason (sans stepping into a cold room anyway)? You go to put on a shirt and your nipples are poking out like they haven’t seen daylight in over 40 years? Or you brush them up against something and BAMMO, nipple town? Or someone slaps you in the tits and they’re standing full mister?

You get where I’m going with this? Your sexual organs are built to respond to stimulus, be it one you personally find sexually gratifying or not.  Saying a dude who gets a boner while he’s otherwise not consenting to sex is lying about the fact would be like saying any girl who gets wet while getting raped is actually enjoying it/wants it.

so… you know… dont be stupid about this people. guys can get raped too and girls can most definitely be the fuckin perps.

See the comments at the top of this are the ones that make me so angry >.< It’s hormones, it’s body, it’s physical. Forcing a girl off is molestation, so getting a guy hard against his will is molestation too. 

When I saw this on my dash there were some more horrific comments from people I now no longer follow. Also, adrenaline can cause sudden arousal so if a man is fighting off a woman his body could respond.

feministdisney:

When someone says something like what Frog Naveen did, our first reaction is often to re-assert to them the ways in which we identify with what they accept as normal and “correct”:  “I’m straight, I shave, I’m thin, look at my face, I would be considered attractive by society’s standards.”

Instead of just this knee-jerk reaction, turn the spotlight back on the individual by asking why these things matter in the first place: Would feminism be less “valid” if the movement was completely comprised of queer, hairy, ugly girls?    Why do they encourage us to differentiate ourselves from our feminist sisters?  

Their assumptions that these identities are less worthy feminist voices, and that we would implicitly agree by choosing to distance ourselves from “the unideal feminist,” highlights the work feminism still needs to do.

adailyriot:

this-is-not-native:

ayiman:

juxtapose-me:

littleangrytiger:

adailyriot:

mistress-caitriona:

for me as a european, it’s unbelievable. seriously. 

to watch later.

this is why racism is not a fucking joke, if you dont understand what Natives deal with, why we’re angry, watch this and you will understand

I can’t stop crying.

So much love to Megan Bertasson for her bravery in sharing her stories. 

Canada does not give a shit.

It really doesn’t.  Our dehumanization, especially that of Native women, is total.

and I’m sorry, but to the “as a European” person: if this is unbelievable, your blinders must be something else.  Fuckin believe it, and remember that the vast edifices of Europe were bought and paid for with the blood and suffering of billions.

I have nothing else to say.  I cried.  I’m pissed.  

because no one gives a shit.

ayhay wapi-maskwa iskwew

This is native and you should all watch it.

i’ve posted this once, and i’m posting it again. everyone should watch this. it’s important.

meulinskittysweater:

lumanous:

THIS ISNT MY VIDEO - but its really funny  omg

it was in the brojohn tag but was linking to this really random site so theres the youtube one

THIS IS BOTH THE BEST AND WORST THING I’VE EVER SEEN OH MY GOD