Woman who waxed philosophical about the virtues of statutory rape

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

doesn't like rape-rape.

niyad (21,489 posts)

this global violence against women will no longer be tolerated

This Global Violence Against Women Will No Longer Be Tolerated
The Delhi Rape, Savile, Ohio – Extreme acts of sexual violence seem to be everywhere. In response, a worldwide day of action has been called
 by Eve Ensler

There seems to be two types of risings on the planet right now. One is a sexual violence typhoon that is impacting most countries in the world. It's been happening forever but, like climate change, it's suddenly impossible to ignore. I first noticed more ominous waves during the US elections, the extreme and ignorant anti-women policies perpetrated by the Republicans. Then, like climate storms, floods and fires, specific extreme manifestations began to gain attention. A group of boys allegedly raping a girl in Steubenville, Ohio; a 14-year-old girl shot in the head for insisting girls have the right to learn in Pakistan; the gang rape and murder of a girl on a bus in Delhi; and in Britain the revelations that Jimmy Savile was able to abuse hundreds of girls over six decades, while British institutions from the BBC to Broadmoor turned a blind eye.
 
And, like the response to climate change, first there was an attempt at denial, then there is the blaming of the victim: a woman raped in Dubai fined after telling police she had been drinking; a priest in Italy telling women they are beaten because they don't clean the house well and wear tight clothes; women in the US military raped by their comrades who then use that as proof that they never belonged there in the first place; raped girls in Rochdale being ignored by police and social workers because they were seen as damaged goods who were "making their own choices". It goes on and on.
 
Like climate change, only the patriarchs with power seem to be blind to the magnitude of the horrors. As a matter of fact they are engineering it. There is a rape culture – a mindset that seems to have infected every aspect of our lives: the raping of the Earth through ecological destruction by the corporate powerful, pillaging resources for their own coffers with no concern for the Earth, or the indigenous peoples, or the notion of reciprocity; the rape of the poor through exploitation, land grabs, neglect; the rape of women's bodies through physical violence and commodification, where a girl can be purchased for less than the cost of a mobile phone. The modelling and licensing of this rape culture is done by those protected by power and privilege – presidents, celebrities, sports stars, police officers, television executives, priests – with impunity.
 
But there is another rising. In the last year I have travelled the world for One Billion Rising, the global campaign that is a call for the one billion women who have been beaten or raped and the men who love them to strike, rise and dance on 14 February to end violence against women and girls. This movement is moving through the planet with a force and urgency unlike anything we have experienced – it is what the Indian activist Kamla Bhasin calls a "feminist tsunami". Across 182 countries entire communities are planning to rise and voice their outrage and dreams. Nurses, teachers, domestic workers, indigenous leaders, fisherwomen, peasants, scholars, union organisers, all have come together.
 
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/13-1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022184853

Just remember: a woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking gun in her hand and a dead rapist at her feet.

No word yet on who her choice for Father-of-the-Year might be.

[Big Dog]

niyad

the global campaign that is a call for the one billion women who have been beaten or raped and the men who love them to strike, rise and dance on 14 February to end violence against women and girls.

She's kidding, right?

What does she think striking (work stoppages), rising (like bread dough???) and dancing (dancing???) will do to stop violence against women and girls?

Low cost firearms and shooting lessons would work a lot better.

[Chris_]

Hippies.

[Celtic Rose]

How about offering free self-defense lessons instead of dancing together in harmony    How about admitting that some cultures need to change, and that we have a moral right to say so.  Most American women have no idea how good we have it here, and every time a whiny feminist starts complaining about the patriarchy in the US, they should donate $100 to organization that work to change societies where women are actually suffering. 

There are still cultures where a widow is expected to commit suicide when her husband dies.  There are cultures where young girls are forced to marry, and then when they are damaged by giving birth before their bodies are ready for it, they are ostracized.  There are cultures where rape victims are stoned for "adultery."  And women in the US have the audacity to complain that our government isn't 50% female, or that birth control isn't free. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

But there is another rising. In the last year I have travelled the world for One Billion Rising, the global campaign that is a call for the one billion women who have been beaten or raped and the men who love them to strike, rise and dance on 14 February to end violence against women and girls.

Sure it will, Pookie, sure it will.  Just like all those general strikes, not-a-dime days, occupoop, etc., etc., etc....

[MOKOFACE]

The typhoon of sexual assaults in Europe is being attributed to the spike in rug hauling immigrants and their medieval attitudes towards women and everything in general .

 And it really is "the perfect storm " that politically correct cultural marxists forbid any mention of .

[Rebel]

niyad

the global campaign that is a call for the one billion women who have been beaten or raped and the men who love them to strike, rise and dance on 14 February to end violence against women and girls.

Add healing white light and that'll do it!!!! By a show of hands, who's with us?






F'n naive idiots. Dancing, or any other type of sillyass symbolic gestures, don't do shit. 160 grain rounds at 1000' per second do.

[Chris_]

[BlueStateSaint]

That's so wrong!

H5!

[Wineslob]

Needs boobies.

[USA4ME]

Any particular reason they picked Valentine's Day?

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[thundley4]

Any particular reason they picked Valentine's Day?

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Surprised they didn't pick Steak&BJ day.

[Freeper]

Any particular reason they picked Valentine's Day?

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Yes none of them had dates.

[USA4ME]

Both good answers.

Still just to be safe, I'm buying my wife a nice card and taking her out to dinner.

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[wasp69]

niyad (21,489 posts)

this global violence against women will no longer be tolerated

This Global Violence Against Women Will No Longer Be Tolerated
The Delhi Rape, Savile, Ohio – Extreme acts of sexual violence seem to be everywhere. In response, a worldwide day of action has been called
 by Eve Ensler

Oh, goody, another "day of action" has been called to "raise awareness" of something that could be solved with a good pistol, proper training, and hollow point bullets.  I'm sure that a day of vagina monologues will do wonders for ending violence against women.

 

****in' idiots...

[wasp69]

Both good answers.

Still just to be safe, I'm buying my wife a nice card and taking her out to dinner.

Mine will get a nice dinner, a card, flowers, and a new Bersa Thunder .45 Ultra Compact Pro to properly accessorize her brand new CCW license.  You better hope your little lady doesn't read this post, bubba.