A friend of mine posted this image on facebook today:
I try really hard not to respond to these things, however I
had such a visceral response to this, that I feel the only way to calm down is
to express my thoughts. These thoughts include the following arguments:
1. It
is not my job to stop a stop myself from being raped. It is my job to ensure
that I do not rape. Conversely it is EVERYONE ELSE’S JOB (both men and women)
to ensure they also do not rape.
2. We
live in a rape culture where it is used to amuse and entertain – it is an
adjective to the point where the word almost becomes meaningless when a person
uses it to describe a supreme and total violation of self. Post like this one
only continues to perpetuate this issue. Studies have shone that our culture’s
propensity for making light of rape actually allows rapists to think, “everyone
else is doing it, and it’s normal.”
(for example a study done in 1999 found that “These individuals’ propensity to rape was
significantly related not only to their acceptance of rape myths and of
traditional ideas about male and female sexuality, but also to their belief
that male sexual aggression is normal.”)
3. I
find it reprehensible that people are using rape, a horrendous torture of a
person with life long effects, in an attempt to block new gun regulations.
REGULATIONS that don’t actually take away your guns. They close loopholes in
background checks to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have
them. It makes extended magazines for civilians illegal, which frankly you
don’t need in order to defend yourself from an intruder or to hunt. In most
mass shootings since extended magazines became legal for citizens the shooter
is only taken down when they have to stop to reload. So logic dictates that if
they had fewer bullets there would be less people injured or killed before they
had to reload (see the Gabriel Gifford shooting). Finally it takes military
style automatic weapons out of the hands of civilians. Military weapons belong
in warzones. You do not need an AK47 to defend your home and frankly they are
counter-productive when hunting.
Finally women are so unprotected in every other way by
Conservatives (god they don’t even know how to describe our bodies) that they do NOT get to play the “I’m for your protection “ card at this point. It’s waaaay too late for that.
That is all I have to say for now. I have so much more things I could say, but I'm attempting to control myself.
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