Who gets protected? Who is disposable? Who is allowed to be visible? Who is shamed into hiding? Girls pay in spades for the sexist lessons they are taught about being pure, and for those they are denied about being sexual. Girls pay for the het lessons boys are taught about taking and deserving and scoring, with boys as the winner and girls as the loser slut.
Shaking, I'm so pissed right now, at Maryville and Steubenville and beyond, at the rich and connected being immune from recourse, at youth forbidden from alcohol so it can be sold back to them in ads associated with greater ideas of impunity, rights, and power and with this cocktail being associated with sex, about social-emotional learning curricula individualizing these cultures of violence and of compliance we feed here. So appreciative for Anonymous, for Daisy Coleman's words here, and for others who aren't willing to fall into the cowardice of sexism and brah-ism and silence.
Enough with the rape whistles. They are diversions; people have made clear that they are not willing to listen to what they say, to what girls say. They teach the girl to call, and expect to not be heard.
Being known is a social process. Identity is a social process. It's difficult to be anything but wrong in a culture that, at base, hates females, putting them on pillars in theory while both regulating and shaming their realities. Enough blaming the girl. Enough blaming the girl. Enough blaming the girl. Enough blaming the girl.
http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/daisy-coleman-maryville-rape?utm_medium=facebook
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