When shit like this happens in public?!
Can anyone name a case where a pack of angry, drunken women surrounded a drunk man and assualted him, repeatedly, while eveyone else just looked on, or even cheered?
Ever?
This is what a feminist looks like
Seriously. She's pissed off.
Why?
Because she's sick of people using feminist as a bad word. She's tired of being called out for being too angry. She wants men to stop raping women. She's over the world scapgoating girls. She craves a revolution. She is a human, a whole person, and deserves said rights.
She cares about others. The white men who are in power aren't doing a bang up job. It's time for change.
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May 8, 2008 at 12:11 am
Amelia
Yeah. Disgusting. Today in my feminist class, I told my professor that I was sick of hearing about rape and sexual assault and the like everywhere. It’s in our readings for class, it’s in the news.
She told me, “Sometimes you have to find your core of happiness in order to work on these problems.” Right now, I’m looking for my core of happiness.
May 8, 2008 at 1:49 am
goingtomontreal
I actually had a somewhat similar talk with my therapist: he asked me how I thought dealing with sexual assault and rape and domestic violence cases in law school one day (what I wanna do after I teach) was going to affect my mental health, and I told him I would rather feel like a powerful part of the solution rather than a powerless bystander.
It’s rough, though.
May 8, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Ashley
After working on this issue for about 10 years, I think what I’ve found to be the key to continuing social engagement is trying to keep my motivation focused on helping people and (to be a little cheesy) love. I always think about the people who came before me and the people who will come after, and the obligation I have to them to not give up. And I think about the fact that big shifts toward justice hardly ever happen to hit during your lifetime, but the work of everyone who came before makes them happen. How many anti-lynching activists spent their whole life working on that issue, only to die before the official, media sanctioned civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s?
That helps with the shittiness of the stories I hear every day.