I am so enraged reading a forum about what happened to my friend, and finding this: That it’s because she’s wearing something sexy. GAD. Shorts are shorts. 99.9% of the people in LB wear frigging shorts.

I still think that we are responsible for our own safety, but please. That’s being too insensitive. It’s like you’re blaming the victim, not the friggin’ rapist.

I read this a month ago from mollay.tumblr.com

gas-masks replied to your post: What led you to be so passionate about rape culture? I just love how you stand up for what you believe in.

i still love the saying “society teaches ‘don’t get raped’ instead of ‘don’t rape’”

That is really the one that got to me the most.  Complete eye opening experience when I finally was able to wrap my brain around that.  

All the years of my mother and father being hesitant to let me go out at night.  Hell, I wasn’t allowed to go to Slutwalk Philly over the summer because Mother didn’t think it would be safe for me to take the train in alone.   You know what? I deserve to feel safe.  What kind of society just sits back and says “Well, this is just how it is!  Only thing you can do is cover up your ta-tas!” and turns a blind eye to the fact that rape doesn’t even have anything to do with clothing?!  And you know, I read an article, I should really find it, about how the fact that we keep blaming rape on the clothes that a girl wears, it suddenly IS making these girls easy targets.  Not because their clothing is enticing, but because we as a society have begun to accept the notion that raping girls “dressed like sluts” is OK!    If that’s not fucked up, i don’t know what is.