Grit and Glittr

karnythia:

I just, I need someone to explain to me how you grow up, run for office, & repeat this in public. Like I’m 2.

Freshman Rep. Roger Rivard (R-Rice Lake) in December discussed a case with the Chetek Alert newspaper in which a 17-year-old high school senior was charged with sexual assault for having sex with an underage girl in the school’s band room. The newspaper quoted him as saying his father warned him, “Some girls rape easy” - meaning after the fact they can change what they say about whether sex was consensual. On Wednesday, Rivard told the Journal Sentinel the article did not provide full context of his comments and that his father’s exact words had been slightly different from how they appeared in the Chetek Alert.

He told the Journal Sentinel that his father had advised him not to have premarital sex, and he took that seriously. “He also told me one thing, ‘If you do (have premarital sex), just remember, consensual sex can turn into rape in an awful hurry,’ ” Rivard said. “Because all of a sudden a young lady gets pregnant and the parents are madder than a wet hen and she’s not going to say, ‘Oh, yeah, I was part of the program.’ All that she has to say or the parents have to say is it was rape because she’s underage. And he just said, ‘Remember, Roger, if you go down that road, some girls,’ he said, ‘they rape so easy.’

“What the whole genesis of it was, it was advice to me, telling me, ‘If you’re going to go down that road, you may have consensual sex that night and then the next morning it may be rape.’ So the way he said it was, ‘Just remember, Roger, some girls, they rape so easy. It may be rape the next morning.’ “So it’s been kind of taken out of context.”

Of course he back pedaled after the fact, but the context he claims is missing? It’s right there, and it is rooted in rape culture. People keep telling me the Republican Party isn’t just the province of wealthy clueless white men. I don’t believe it.

Jesus. The “context” doesn’t make it better. “You misinterpreted me! Here’s the other awful thing I actually meant!”

convertedinvader:

it-goes-both-ways:

stealingbathsaltsfrombabies:

fluffypandattacksquad:

par-liam-ent:

All heterosexual sex is rape

Explain existence.

Look on the bright side of things: at least idiots like OP won’t reproduce and continue to shit up the…

OP is Shulamith Firestone ryte?

darkjez:

You know what?

I wish someone would have given my white parents less of a “break” when they destroyed my beautiful hair by washing it everyday with bullshit-drying-ass Suave.

I wish someone would have cut my white parents a little less “slack” when they were putting me through…

xekstrin:

brodinsons:

Lance Corporal Nicole McCoy wants soldiers who are found guilty of rape and sexual assault in the military to be discharged and identified on a national sex offender registry.

I joined the military because I wanted to protect my country. It never occurred to…

sinshine:

alastairmalcolm:

awfullyquiet:

I’d been socialised to believe that you just had to put up with men touching you when you didn’t want them to.  The one time I’d seen a woman react furiously to such treatment, everyone laughed at her and said how over the top she was and how unreasonable when he didn’t mean anything by it.  So I’d absorbed the message, that to treat a man who was acting like a rapist as if he were a rapist - the way society tell us to - was to be an hysterical, unreasonable bitch and you lose approval ratings if you’re one of those, don’t you, so like most young women, I’d buckled down to that message.  It’s what women do.  And then society tells us that it’s our fault we were raped, because we didn’t do the thing they call us hysterical bitches for, when we do do it.

This. every fucking word of this. Do go read the whole thing. I’d quote more but I’m not on a real keyboard at the moment.