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TW: Sexual Assault
A friend of mine was sexually assaulted out to dinner with a professor. When she told her story to her adviser, a dear friend of ours, she told him she wore a turtleneck and long pants and described her outfit. He cut her off and told her, “I don’t care if you were wearing a fucking bikini—nobody has the right to touch you.”
I think that was the first time in the whole process of talking to cops and administrators about what happened where someone actually told her it wasn’t her fault.
They make it about the clothes, the situation—“Why did you agree to dinner? Why didn’t you take your own car? Did you lead him on? For once, someone made it about her and her rights. I think this helped her most of all in the process. Everyone needs to respond like this to survivors, in my opinion.

And might I just add she is fucking gorgeous, I would totally tap that after I got her express consent and I’d stopped if she asked me too.

submissivefeminist:

TW: Sexual Assault

A friend of mine was sexually assaulted out to dinner with a professor. When she told her story to her adviser, a dear friend of ours, she told him she wore a turtleneck and long pants and described her outfit. He cut her off and told her, “I don’t care if you were wearing a fucking bikini—nobody has the right to touch you.”

I think that was the first time in the whole process of talking to cops and administrators about what happened where someone actually told her it wasn’t her fault.

They make it about the clothes, the situation—“Why did you agree to dinner? Why didn’t you take your own car? Did you lead him on? For once, someone made it about her and her rights. I think this helped her most of all in the process. Everyone needs to respond like this to survivors, in my opinion.

And might I just add she is fucking gorgeous, I would totally tap that after I got her express consent and I’d stopped if she asked me too.

At the end of the song there are two girls kissing. And if two girls kissing offends you then you need to grow up.

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—	Graham Norton’s Eurovision commentary (via beautifulhigh)

Two other women, also breast cancer survivors, said their husbands left them after they were diagnosed. Both had to have mastectomies (in case anyone doesn’t know, this is the surgical operation to remove one or both breasts).

The first woman said her husband told her that he would rather see her dead than see her lose her breasts. The second woman had her operation and waited all day to be picked up by her husband, who never arrived. By nightfall, one of the nurses offered to give her a ride, and she came home to find the house empty.

Obviously, these are extreme cases of a man’s reaction to his wife’s breast cancer, but this is what I see when I see the “I ♥ Boobies” bracelets. I see love of the body parts, not the person being treated—not the patient, not the victim, not the survivor.

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—	My Beef with the “I Love Boobies” Bracelets (via quoilecanard)

One failed attempt at a shoe bomb and we all have to take off our shoes at the airport. Thirty one school shootings since Columbine and no change in the regulation of guns.

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—	John Oliver (via azspot)

Explosions Reported at Boston Marathon

itstactical:

Our thoughts and prayers go out to those in Boston.

Here are some resources we’ve gathered so far.

Looking for a runner? Use this form.

If you’re trying to call someone in Boston, phone lines are jammed. SMS, Twitter, and Facebook might work better. [Lifehacker]

Live news updates on The Verge

Reconnect with loved ones in Boston on Red Cross Safe and Well

Donate blood at the Boston American Red Cross

monchele:

the jfk library fire is unrelated to the explosions

nothing quite like a blizzard in the middle of April

Still, the enthusiasm of the participants, aided by generous consumption of frequently refilled pitchers of Martini at each table, sabotaged the commission’s intent to keep the affair “scientific and academic”. Luis Alvarez, a Berkeley physicist who was 16 years away from his Nobel prize, set his tablecloth on fire. Another party-goer shouted words of encouragement to the final speaker before passing out on the table.

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—	Sounds like the dedication of Brookhaven’s Cosmotron (back in 1952) was a real party. (via chels)

Sometimes withdrawing can go on a little too long

a-thought-in-this-world:

Don’t ever stop reblogging , spread the word throughout the entire world and support on APRIL 3rd , either RED or BLACK c:
I’ll be wearing a black ribbon , what’ll you wear?