Watch: Amy Schumer flawlessly skewered rape culture with this spot-on ‘Friday Night Lights’ parody — and it only gets more brilliant from here
We need more things like this
its a fucking shame that this needs to be taught, but i’m glad its being taught
“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.
Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.
See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.
Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.
To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died.
You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.
reblogging for commentary
But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too.
First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation.
And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.
Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.
If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other.
When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.
When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.”
And that is gross.
This has been added to since I last saw it, so reblogging again.
Busted wide open.
Mic dropped.
Lawyer: Did he rape her?
Witness: Yes, but she was drunk and passed out.
Lawyer: That’s not what I asked. Did he rape her?
Witness: Yes, but she was wearin-
Lawyer: I didn’t ask what she was wearing. Did he rape her?
Witness: Yes, but-
Lawyer: I didn’t ask anything else. It’s just a simple yes or no answer. Did he rape her?
Witness: Yes.
Laywer: Yes, he raped her.
Rape is rape is rape, no matter the context.
Well, it’s pretty simple to understand “how”. The term “premeditated murder” functions on the acceptance of a few premises. Here’s two that are important in this conversation:
1. It requires that a person is killed
2. It requires that the killing is wrongful
Many pro-choicers would disagree that abortion is premeditated murder because they don’t think either of these clauses applies to a (generally nonviable) fetus.
Not everyone defines life (or perhaps sentient and therefore considerable life) at the same stage of fetal development. Therefore, some pro-choicers would disagree with your labeling because they don’t agree that abortion is the killing of a person. Instead they understand it as the killing of the biological precursors to a person.
And it’s definitely not as simple a situation as a mother who um “premeditates the murder” of her fetus because she has some evil (‘wrongful’ if we’re looking back to the two premises I outlined earlier) ulterior motive. Reasons mothers have for opting for abortion that are arguably better than bringing the baby to term:
1. The baby was a result of rape.
2. Mom knows she won’t be able to provide adequate emotional/financial support for baby. She knows she won’t be able to give baby an even relatively good or healthy life.
3. Mom knows she won’t be able to provide and she doesn’t want to inflict a life of foster homes/homelessness on a child because of the pretty much infinite list of shitty things that are known to happen in the foster system.
4. It is unsafe for the mother to carry the baby to term because of health reasons and doing so would most likely kill her in the process.
5. The baby is anencephalic or otherwise in almost complete certainty of being unable to function or remain alive outside the womb for any period of time.
Regardless of whether you think these motivations and understandings of abortion are valid or not, you have to accept that if you choose to define abortion as “premeditated murder” and leave no room for any other view, you’re implying that even for the cases in which the child would be unloved/unsupported/brought into poverty/abuse/incapacitating sickness/abandonment/etc… or potentially kill the mother if brought to term, the mother who makes the decision to opt for a more humane/safe option of aborting the fetus should be considered not only a murderer, but one that is thought to have wicked motivations. I feel that this conclusion is fundamentally wrong.
“There is a fundamental concern that the content of such magazines normalizes the treatment of women as sexual objects. We are not killjoys or prudes who think that there should be no sexual information and media for young people. But are teenage boys and young men best prepared for fulfilling love and sex when they normalize views about women that are disturbingly close to those mirrored in the language of sexual offenders?” – Dr. Peter Hegarty
Could you tell the difference?
- Rapist
- Rapist
- Lad Mag
- Lad Mag
- Rapist
- Lad Mag
- Rapist
- Lad Mag
- Rapist
- Lad Mag
- Rapist
- Lad Mag
- Rapist
- Rapist
- Lad Mag
- Lad Mag
But rape culture doesn’t exist, right?
I am legit scared because I was sure every single one was from a rapist
There’s also been studies suggesting porn has the same effect, as well as increasing the violence of men in bed.
And even if you think you’re not one of them, if you buy into lad mags and porn culture, you’re keeping the industry alive and still probably misogynistic.
But women can never be careful enough, can we? If we take naked pictures of ourselves, we’re asking for it. If someone can manage to hack into our accounts, we’re asking for it. If we’re not wearing anti-rape nail polish, we’re asking for it. If we don’t take defense classes, we’re asking for it. If we get drunk, we’re asking for it. If our skirts are too short, we’re asking for it. If we pass out at a party, we’re asking for it. If we are not hyper-vigilant every single fucking second of every single fucking day, we are asking for it. Even when we are hyper-vigilant, we’re still asking for it. The fact that we exist is asking for it.
This is what rape culture looks like.
This is what misogyny looks like.
The Dutch band Gulaggh (formerly Stalaggh) have four albums and one EP made up of nothing but the screams of mental patients, rape victims, ex-prostitutes, and children also suffering from mental illnesses. The band says that using real people means real pain and suffering.
During one recording session, they filled a room with 30 children and three supervisors who asked the children to scream as loud as they could. Many of the children became too emotional and scared, except for one girl who sat, clawing on the floor until she bled, all while screaming. During another session, the band learned the story of one of their vocalists, a 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing his mother 30 times after being molested by his uncle nearly all his life.The recordings are bone-chilling tracks filled with real suffering and despair. The band, who remains completely anonymous, says that they will “cease to exist” when their project is finished.
Links to listen to Gulaggh’s albums:
Vorkuta
Projekt Misanthropia
Projekt Nihil
Projekt Terror[x]
Okay, I am going to assume, based on the fact that John is tied down and you didn’t specifically say dead body, that you mean to infer that John is still alive, but by calling him a body you mean to imply that he is not actively participating. I would categorize that under non-con, and as such, am not comfortable in writing your prompt. I apologize, nonnie! But I must remain firm in my original stipulations of not writing non-consensual sex or self harm.
However, Wren may be able to help you if you would really like this fic written out. Drop by her blog and ask!
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