I didn’t even know April 3rd was blog against sexual violence day.

I found out from reading this post by Witchy Woo.
It’s terrible stuff.

A woman was raped in front of her children by a pair of teenagers. A video was made of her rape and put on youtube. She reported the crime late, after a friend of hers came across it. She has now been arrested and could be charged for having sex with a minor, and that good old “perverting the course of justice.”
Like that woman who was arrested for “perverting the course of justice” after she reported a rape for the second time in her life and so was clearly a ‘wicked liar’ as though there’s a limit of one time and one time only that a woman could report rape.
‘Cause you know. It’s not like there are women and girls who have been raped by over 200 men (With only one of them being arrested.)

Perverting the course of justice. Women who report their rapes can be fucking arrested if they can’t prove it. And you know, it’s a hard thing to prove.
There was a video made, put on the world for all to see, but still the police have arrested that poor woman. Oh, and her poor children have been put through this abuse too. It’s terrible and it’s terrible that she’s been a-fucking-rested.

On another terrible note:
On the morning of international womens day this year in Brisbane city a woman was raped by 10 men. Detailed here by Maggie Hays.

So I don’t know what to say about sexual violence. Just… just stop it! I wan’t to scream “STOOOOOP” to all the rapists and molestors, but of course they’d never listen.

Give us that 24 hour truce in which there is no rape. Just 24 hours without a woman raped. That’d be fantastic.

I hate people.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23077028-3102,00.html

On the Queensland Gold Coast in October 2004 the parents of a 12 year old girl were arrested for prostututing their daughter out to 200 different men.
200. Jesus Christ.
In October 2004 I was graduating Highschool on a mountain on the Gold Coast which had a child sex ring at one point while I was growing up. I don’t know how long that ring went for, but I think its not there anymore.

I hate everyone.

A little girl prostituted to over 200 men, and they could only arrest one of the fuckers, ’cause he was the only one who admitted to knowing she was underage. She was fucking 12 years old. More then one of those fucks knew she was underage, oh yes. She apparently was sometimes pulled out of school to be raped by these men. They knew alright.
That 12 year old girl was raped, and raped and raped. Over and over and fucking over.

I’m sad. I’m sad, I’m angry and I’m bitter. I want that one day truce in which there is no rape and it hurts because that day isn’t going to come. 200 men can rape a 12 year old girl, and only one of them gets arrested. Only one?

How far away was she from me? Was she out in the hinterland where I used to live? Was she in the denser areas where I live now? Maybe she lived by the beach. She was someone near me. Raped and raped and raped.

How will we eliminate rape in a world where 199 men can get away with what was clearly the rape of a 12 year old girl?

Bored on the internet I decided I wanted to check an old forum I used to go to.

There’s a girl I met on that forum, who I’d talked to in a section about art. I was trying to design a strong non-feminine warrior woman in armour. I wanted her to not be too curvy. I wanted say her breasts not to be exaggerated the way they usually are in fantasy art. She helped me get a design down, we talked. She seemed really nice.

They have a debating section. I occasionally used to talk in the debate areas, though I don’t think I was any good at it really.
In there was a thread about sex trafficking and human trafficking.
I entered it and the nice girl who helped me design this non-sexualized fantasy warrior she was in that thread. N’she said this:

“It would sound very unkind of me to say this but in reality most of these women who get into the sex trafficking business more often than not have been tricked into it with lures of good jobs and opportunity abroad.

Although I know the trend is poor them… Woe are these women and how awful their plot is…

Have we ever thought first place that this is partly their fault?

Had they carefully LOOKED at their agencies -verified with the authorities and went through their legalities: I know it may seem impractical in some countries as their governments move slower than snails BUT BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY- if they’re actually legal than to just immediately trust and allow themselves to be taken away from their home ground to some unknown beyond for the sake of money.”

- woo for victim blaming ey? Way to blame impoverished women who are kidnapped and subsequently raped for it all. I mean honestly. Oh. How sad…
N… I liked the girl saying it too.

*sigh*

A conversation with my sister

Alright. I’ve got a favour to ask y’all.

If anyone has anything in the way of academic papers and especially science based papers rebutting the whole biological deterministic - ‘Mens brains shut down when they’re aroused so it’s no their fault that they rape attractive girls” argument - please forward them on to me.

I’m looking for anything official really saying that men aren’t biologically wired to rape women they find attractive. Please send me anything you can think of! <3

If you want to know why I’m looking for it, this is a conversation I just had with my sister:

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Holidays! yeah! says:
hey can I ask you something?
Cellycel says:
Sure thing.
Holidays! yeah! says:
youve done research on rapes right?
Cellycel says:
Some yeah.
Holidays! yeah! says:
’cause I was having the “girls who dress provocitavely deserve to be raped” arguement again and I still think I did a bad job defending my position
Holidays! yeah! says:
I was wondering if you had any essays or papers that could nullify the “when a guy sees a hot girl their brains shut down and thus arent ressponsible for their actions” line
Cellycel says:
It should just be answered with “No-one has the right to force themselves on others no matter what. The end.”
Cellycel says:
Oh,. they “they aren’t responsible for their actions” bilogical imperitive stuff.
Holidays! yeah! says:
yeah something like that
Cellycel says:
I can’t remember where all of the things I’ve read are, but I’ll look for them and get back to you.
Holidays! yeah! says:
apparently their arguement comes from sorta scientific study that shows that a mans higer functions shut down when their aroused
Cellycel says:
He doesn’t need higher functions not to rape someone.
Cellycel says:
It’s not physics.
Holidays! yeah! says:
and that any girl found arousing a guy (knowingly or unknowingly) is still partially responsible for the guys actions
Cellycel says:
If “I shouldn’t rape people” is a function of the brain which takes that much energy and thought well then….
Holidays! yeah! says:
since they aroused them to the state that reduced them to slavering moronic beasts
Cellycel says:
I can’t say it must have been a celver or sound man to begin with.
Cellycel says:
Guys can be aroused by anything. Some guys might think that the idea of arousal from children is sick and disgusting and other guys don’t.
Cellycel says:
“dressing provocatively” might arouse some men. Covering up might arouse others.
Cellycel says:
Since you can (to my knowledge) train what arouses you to degrees, I can’t see how that’s any individual womans fault.
Holidays! yeah! says:
I tried that arguement in referance to myself
Holidays! yeah! says:
you know me, I am in no way deliberatly provocative
Cellycel says:
*nods*
Holidays! yeah! says:
and when I told them about how julios attacked me they had the gall to say it was MY fault ’cause I wasnt in a locked room
Holidays! yeah! says:
ignoring the fact that untill he attacked me he had given me no reason not to trust him
Holidays! yeah! says:
apparently the fact that he was male was reason enough not to tust him
Cellycel says:
Oh. Julius did that shit to you too ey?
Holidays! yeah! says:
which I dont agree with ‘cus not only does that say that men are exprected to rape
Holidays! yeah! says:
but that it is the girls responisbility to make sure that rape doent happen not matter what
Cellycel says:
Yeah. Their whole line of argument is not only bullshit, but _worrying_ especially if it was a guy saying it.
Holidays! yeah! says:
which totally takes away the guy responsiblililty in the act
Holidays! yeah! says:
no
Holidays! yeah! says:
they were both girls
Holidays! yeah! says:
that. I think was the aggrivating thing
Cellycel says:
Well, that makes it less scary.
Cellycel says:
If a guy is talking to me about how men just can’t help raing. Well, that’s not a guy I want to find myself alone in a room with, you know?
Holidays! yeah! says:
an unde3rstandable feeling
Holidays! yeah! says:
but I dunno… it makes me sad that these girls believe it
Holidays! yeah! says:
they’re both REALLY smart
Holidays! yeah! says:
but they both think guys are less than human and completaly untrustworthy
Holidays! yeah! says:
which I dont adhere to
Cellycel says:
*nods* Hear hear.
Celria says:
I think the argument should have ended at “The decision not to rape someone doesn’t need higher cognitive powers”
Cellycel says:
It might be true that men have a hard time I don’t know. Doing equations while aroused….
Cellycel says:
But so what?
Holidays! yeah! says:
apparently higher cognitive powers means any ability to reason whatsoever
Holidays! yeah! says:
not entirely sure on that point but they mad it seem that guys brains stopped working whenever they got horny
Cellycel says:
That doesn’t seem right at all. Not at all.
Holidays! yeah! says:
or at the most the only thing they COULD think about was how attractive the girl was
Cellycel says:
Bullshit I asy.
Cellycel says:
*say
Holidays! yeah! says:
and they were reduced to a “Want Take Have” mindset
Holidays! yeah! says:
so did I
Holidays! yeah! says:
but I couldnt get them to see my side of it
Holidays! yeah! says:
we had to “agree do disagree”

Something that has been annoying me

I’ve heard people say a few times that feminists show no heart or compassion towards men, and there’s an example of it thats been bugging the hell out of me.
It’s the “why spend so much time and energy talking about women who are raped in wars, when clearly the main victims of war are men” argument.

The reason I’ll spend my time and energy thinking about and/or talking about women who are raped in wars is that perhaps no-one but the feminists do it. On anzc day we think of the soliders who have fallen. We think of the mates, who saw other mates die. We consider the tragedy that so many of the young men who went off to war have been conscripts, or children. We have slews of war songs talking about the fallen men, and perhaps the women and children left behind who didn’t have husband, or fathers anymore.

But - on days where we remember war, who does remember the women who are raped, beaten and brutalized by soldiers? Every year we have time set aside to talk about the fallen men and you know, what happened to them was tragic. I’m not saying we shouldn’t remember them.
But I’m going to think about, and remember the women who have suffered too.

’cause they matter. They were people too.

Rape is not funny.

Today I’m going to be a lazy blogger, like I have been lately. I want to talk about how making jokes about rape isn’t funny. Just going to cheat by copy pasting this little quote from my piece on jokes and joking. (Really, rape jokes are just something under the original jokes and joking thing. Just, more specific. For full understanding, reading that piece could be good.)

“What we laugh at is bound tightly to particular cultures so that there are not many jokes which travel well and in fact many jokes don’t work outside the social word from which they arose. Many jokes depend for their effect on a shared sense of ridicule for particular individuals and groups and if the values underpinning the joke are not shared then it is more likely to be a source of offense then humor.
We have all heard jokes that were not funny because they touched our values in an offensive way rather then amused us. Racial jokes, ethnic jokes, sexist jokes, political jokes all depend on the joke teller and the joke listener sharing stereotypes and values. It isn’t such a long shot to argue that by telling jokes we invite others to share, and perhaps reinforce those stereotypes and values.
Telling and listening to jokes is not just an amusing way to pass the time: it is an important way by which groups can maintain a shared sense of values.
Marie Emmitt & John Pollock, Language and Learning, Oxford University Press, 1991

What you laugh at tells a lot about who you are, and what values you hold. People tend not to laugh at things that are touchy subjects to them. People tend to laugh at other people who hold values the joker doesn’t share.
If you’re a conservative who hates the democrats perhaps you’d joke about dems but wouldn’t take a joke about your own party so well, and vice versa. Laughing tells people what you value, or what you don’t value.

What values does a rape joke hold? I’d say someone telling rape joke doesn’t value the victims of rape quite as much as they might think they do.
I’ll hear folk telling rape jokes but say they detest real rape. I’m not saying that people who tell rape jokes are rapists, or that they think rape is cool or acceptable, but I am saying that joking about rape makes rape a light subject. It takes the seriousness of rape away, if only for awhile. And thats bad.
I’m not really sympathetic to the “lightening it makes it a less scary thing, and it takes the fear of rape away” There are a few reasons for that and I don’t really want to go into them, but I can especially say that I’m not sympathetic to those sorts of arguments coming from people who have never been raped. I’m especially unsympathetic to those arguments if they’re coming from men who have never been raped, and have never been afraid while walking down the street at night that someone might take them into a back alley and then kill and rape them.
If you’re a man and you haven’t experienced the sort of fear that comes from rape. Then I especially don’t like it when you say “it just makes the situation lighter.”

Never having felt the weight of the situation, how would you know what affect jokes have on lightening the situation? Perhaps jokes could be painful reminders to people around you who have actually been there.

Think again to that big-ass-quote up there. What we laugh as is tied to our culture. How do you suppose laughing at rape effects our culture? What happens in a culture that thinks rape is funny?

Just some questions for you is all.

Rape in the movies. *warning may trigger*

This entry may be triggering. I describe in detail something that triggered me, and go on to explain how I felt when I was triggered. if that’ll make you feel bad then please don’t read this entry.

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I heard a statistic on the radio the other day that made me blanch. Apparently one in five movies depict rape. Now, I’m curious as to whether this includes independent films, and whether films from countries other then America are taken into account or not what year this study was from and how many years worth of movies did it look at. There was a podcast of the interview where this statistic was dropped, I’ll see if I can find it and link it here some time.

Now, I don’t know exactly what that statistic includes, but my god isn’t that scary? One in five movies depicting rape. That doesn’t make the movie theaters seem like a safe space for women in any way whatsoever. I mean, I thought the Mo Movie Measure was bad enough but this really puts things into perspective for me.

The other night to drum up interest in John Travolta’s new film Hairspray (which I know that Grace enjoyed. Though the idea of Travolta in a woman suit makes me feel uneasy) Grease and Saturday Night Fever were on. I enjoy Grease like a lot so I sat down and had a gay old time singing the songs and being pretty merry. I’m a sucker for musicals. I was in a good mood.
Saurday Night Fever started, and I was excited because I’d never seen it before and it’d been talked up to me a lot. So before the movie comes on we get the usual screens including the rating. The movie was rated MA15+ for sex scenes. No big deal, I don’t care about sex scenes in a movie. It opened with John Travolta strutting, and if there’s one thing I enjoy watching it’s John Travolta strut.
He did and said some jerkish things to women, which I didn’t like, but for that strut and the fun dancing it was worth it.
Then comes the scene when he’s in the car with his friend and that girl. One of his friends is having sex with her, and she seems to be into it, but when he stops a different guy crawls on her, she starts protesting and then he proceeds to MERCILESSLY RAPE HER while she’s crying loudly and no-one in the car does anything to stop it. We see John’s character grimacing, like he doesn’t like what’s going on. They stop the car and everyone gets out except for John’s character and the crying woman. He says something like “Is that what you wanted? You’re a piece of cunt now!” like he was angry at her for having sex in the back of a car full of guys and not angry at his FUCKING PIECE OF RAPIST SHIT friend of his.
She proceeds to run out of the car crying, and John goes out to comfort her. (WHAT THE FUCK!)
Not more then a few minutes her REAL TRAUMA AND PAIN is ignored, because one of the guys while being stupid falls off a bridge to his death. Yeah, I guess someone tragically dying in front of you would occupy your attention, but the writers didn’t have to write it that way did they?

I don’t know what happened in the rest of the film because I went to my bedroom and started crying. I wanted to know why nobody had told me. Why so many people I knew recommended the film to me and didn’t tell me about the on screen rape. I wanted to know why the rating screen said “Sex scenes” instead of “On screen rape sequence” as though sex and rape are the same thing. I wanted to not feel like shit. I wished I had enough control over my thoughts and feelings so I could just stop comparing the rape scene in the movie to my own (different) rape, or that I could stop caring about it.
My boyfriend came in the room. He knows about my rape, and when he saw me crying he knew why I was doing it. I asked him if he thought it was possible for me to learn to control myself so I wouldn’t feel like this again and he said that it seemed unlikely for someone in my position with my history.

I’m tryin’ to control myself not to start crying again now. Doing reasonably well I guess. N I’m thinkin’ how can one in five movies depict rape? If one in three women have experienced sexual assault, how can women even go to the movies?
How can they not provide a warning at the start? If one in three women have experienced sexual assault, how can they provide so much triggering, painful and hurtful material without even warning anyone about it?

Sex and rape are not the same thing. A classification warning for “sex scenes” should be different from a classification warning for “rape scenes.”

I don’t know? Part of me wants to say “At least they didn’t glorify rape by making her enjoy it by the end” and the other half says “that’s not fucking good enough.”

!!!

End the killings of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, México.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=engusa20070130001

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA
ISSUE BRIEF

January 2007

Mexico and Guatemala: Stop the Killings of Women

“What language do I have to speak in for you to take notice of what I’m saying, a girl is being beaten and raped …” was what a witness reported to the emergency services in February 2001 in the case of Lilia Alejandra García Andrade, after the police failed to respond to an earlier call. Three days later Lilia Alejandra was found dead in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

In Mexico and Guatemala women are being killed at alarming rates but the perpetrators are overwhelmingly never brought to justice. This scandal has led family members of the victims to refer to the problem as a “femicide,” the most extreme expression of gender based violence accepted culturally and by the State when its laws don’t criminalize violence against women and whereby negligence or the lack of political will results in almost total impunity for the perpetrators of such brutality.

According to comprehensive analysis by Amnesty International, approximately 400 young women have been murdered or abducted in the cities of Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico since 1993. In Guatemala, over 2,500 women and girls have been murdered since 2001. In Mexico, the brutality with which the assailants abduct and murder the women goes further than the act of killing in a significant number of cases. Many of the women are held captive for several days and subjected to humiliation, torture and the most horrific sexual violence before being killed. In Guatemala some of the victims had their throats cut, were beaten, shot or stabbed to death. Many of their bodies showed signs of rape, torture, mutilation or dismemberment. A range of motives are reflected and both state and non-state actors are involved, but in all cases the victim’s gender is a significant factor, in both the kind of violence perpetrated and in the level of response by authorities.

While Amnesty International recognizes that some positive steps have been taken to prevent violence against women in Mexico and Guatemala, those advances are often undermined. Under the administration of Mexican President Vicente Fox a special federal prosecutor reviewed 205 cases in Ciudad Juárez and confirmed Amnesty International?s findings that there was evidence of negligence on the part of local officials. She recommended that the Chihuahua state prosecutor consider administrative or criminal proceedings against 177 state officials who were negligent in the handling of these cases. Amnesty International is aware of arrest warrants being issued for only two officials. They were later dropped.

In early 2006 the Guatemalan “Rape Law” (Article 200) whereby a rapist could escape charges by offering to marry his victim, was deemed unconstitutional. However, legislation addressing violence against women in Guatemala remains severely deficient. For example, Guatemalan law prohibits domestic abuse, but does not provide prison sentences for cases of domestic abuse and prevents abusers from being charged with assault if bruises do not remain visible for at least 10 days. The Guatemalan Special Prosecutor for Crimes Against Women reported that her office receives approximately 800 reports of domestic violence per month, with some of those cases ending in murder and that those murders could be prevented if Guatemalan law provided for prison sentences in cases of domestic violence. As of June 2006, of the over six hundred cases of women reported murdered in 2005, to Amnesty International’s knowledge, only two convictions had taken place.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA RECOMMENDATIONS:

* Cosponsor House Resolution 100 expressing sympathy to the family members of the women and girls killed in Guatemala and urging the Department of State to take specific steps in helping to address this problem with the Guatemalan government.
* Press the Secretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico to implement specific recommendations of the Concurrent Congressional Resolution on Juarez, which passed unanimously in May 2006, including steps to ensure that addressing these horrendous murders becomes a part of the U.S.-Mexico bilateral agenda.

Here’s a link that Amnesty International provides with actions:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/Bordertown/Take_Action_for_the_Women_of_Juarez/page.do?id=1101544&n1=2&n2=22&n3=795

Here’s another link based on actions you can take:
http://www.lourdesportillo.com/senoritaextraviada/links.html

Just a note: The vast majority of victims would have been WOC and the people who treated the cases negligently are meant to be white folks. Entwined sexism and racism leading to the murders of thousands of women. THOUSANDS of women murdered. Fuck, fuck, fuck.

Like stupids, only different.

Alright. I’d like to my post “stupids” but it’s 3:33am, I just got home from D&D, I feel tired and a fair bit unhappy, and fuck it. I just don’t want to. Perhaps I’ll edit this later.

Had another big conversation about “the things that matter”TM only this time it was about sexism and not racism. Snce I don’t have meself some male privelege, it’s harder for me to ignore the issues from this conversation and I’m feeling unhappy.

Long story short, after the D&D session we had a big conversation like we always do. Rape was brought up, sexual assault et. The guys talk about how men get raped too. I told them that I’m not saying they don’t get raped, and I’m not saying it’s not tragic when they do, but does he honestly think men get raped in even numbers to women.
He brushed that off saying that more men are assaulted (fair call) and that when they’re assaulted the physical damage often ends up being a lot more serious, guys in hospital in coma’s and shit. My friend got a bit pissy and said “So, when a guy gets attacked there’s like a %50 chance that it’s serious, and a %50 chance that he’ll be okay. Well a girl can’t be half raped, she either is or she isn’t you know? That shit fucks you up, and there’s no “chance she’ll come out okay”
Powerful words she said there.
Part of me can’t help but wonder if that’s really true, I mean, don’t male assault victims get fucked up issues too? I don’t know. I appreciated her for saying it though. Fuck I love that girl. <333
(Seriously. I love that girl. I mean, I care about her a fucking fuckload. When she’s sad I’m sad. I fucking love her.)

Anyway… conversation keeps going. Talk about prostitution, talk about porn actresses. I think that sex work often times equals exploitation, he thinks they’re there by choice and it’s dandy. At one point he says something about sex work being normal labour, I asked him if he’d consider children working in factories “normal labour” or “exploited” (Reakky I don’t know if it’s an either/or isue. You can be a labourer and be exploited at the same time right?) at that point the guy completely changed the subject, talking about how e buy a lot of shit from the companies that exploit those children. (Fuck, I know that.) and we never got back to the talk about prostitutes and sex workers.
I felt like I’d been dismissed.

Later with my boyfriend in the car i couldn’t get over it. I’d mentally go over different parts of the conversation again. Then I’d go over them physically mentioning it with my boyfriend. I’d get off the topic, then awhile later I’d do it again. I did it for the two hur trip home. (We go a long way to play D&D, ’cause fuck. These people are cool. I’m not painting a good picture based on this conversation, but this is the best group I’ve ever played with.)

Another part of the conversation. One of the girls there said quietly that she knew 8 women who had been raped. I said “Well you know eight women who have brought it up anyway” and she says that they never brought it up. She heard about it through the grapevine.
Got me thinking, because I know my sister was raped because I heard it through the grapevine.
I wonder if she knows that I have been?
I wonder if we’ll ever talk about it, or bring it up? I don’t know…

Anyway… the other girl says she knows about six people who have been raped. RAPED she said, not molestation. She said you didn’t want to go into how many girls she knew who had been molested. (The DM, the one I was arguing with before… at this point he mentioned that boy children have it as bad as girl children in the molestation dept. I don’t know. It’s like… was he listening to us?)
I said I knew of about five people I could think of. (Two of them being women in that goddamn room, and for all I know the third woman in the room might have been raped too, and I’d never know it. She left the room after she brought up the eight girls she knew who were raped. I don’t know what was going on in her head, I hope she was okay and was just sleepy and went to bed. I feel fucked.)

To top this off: There had been a rape theme in the D&D game. (Actually, technically we were playing RIFTS, but what does it matter. It’s our fortnightly “D&D” game. Just because it doesn’t happen reguarly on the fortnight and we rarely play D&D Pish Posh.)

The guy we were working for was a powerful, powerful dragon who wanted us to steal some mysterious cargo for him. We weren’t allowed to ask what was in the cargo. After hours of recon we stole it and got it to him. We freed some dogboy slaves on the way. -Actually, I don’t think we freed them well enough. We just shot their captives and let them keep riding the train. Like new captives wouldn’t have picked them up at the next stop? I wanted to take the dogboys with us, but I wasn’t there when this was all happening.
We get the cargo to the boss,and we find out that in the large box was a baby female dragon. In front of us he collared her. When we got angry he said “Look, everyone needs an heir, she’ll make the perfect bride” me, and the girl I love got upset. (The other girl didn’t get so upset. She’d been playing her “unprincipled” alignment the whole time)
This got worse when one of our party members said “Look, slaves exist here, she’s a slave. That’s just the way it is” where my friend (Who happened to be playing a baby female dragon, by the way) got really pissed off at him.

I don’t know. I appreiciate that our DM is trying to build the bad guy to be a really, really, big, bad evil character, but we could have done without this. I…

Fack, in the book of vile darkness they mention how there’s a fine line between creating a really evil character and building mood, and creating a really evil character who makes players feel unhappy/uncomfortable and the line got crossed tonight.

I um… still love my D&D group of course. They’re still the best group I’ve ever played with.
But I don’t feel good tonight.

Virulent Filth

I was on a forum I go to pretty often, there was a thread called “I was raped” I entered and found a hilarious comic about a girl telling the internet about her rape.

This story is meant as a joke. This is meant to be funny.

It inspired a new blog by me called “Virulent Filth” really I only have it as a separate blog, because I wanted to write a post about this, but needed a screen so I could warn you guys it’s triggering. I’m sitting here shaking, feeling terrible. I think I’m going to go have a nap, or something. *feeling shaky*

Remember, this is triggering stuff:

http://virulentfilth.blogspot.com/2007/06/this-is-not-funny-this-is-not-cool.html