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Wishing Well, the Airborne Toxic Event.
I just want to leave.
I need to leave. I think about spending another year or two here, and I just want to run to the nearest car and drive until this place is a distant memory. I’m done with it.
My soul feels crushed
One of my favorite bands, System of a Down, is finally doing an east coast tour after being broken up for years. Naturally, my best friend and I immediately freak out and check for ticket prices. It would be about $125 a ticket to get us in the pit, which I’m willing to pay. I love them, I get that concerts are becoming more expensive because of piracy, I’m fine with that price. But there’s an arbitrary 60 fucking dollar service fee just for ordering the fucking tickets on top of the already $250 dollar price tag. We tested it a little, the more expensive your ticket, the higher the service fee. The cheaper your ticket, the cheaper your service fee. It’s clearly just a ploy to get money, and it fucking disgusts me. This is a band with a lot of songs decrying greed and generally just saying the system is fucked up, and here they are demanding extra money on top of already expensive tickets.. It just hurts. They have an album called Steal This Album!, and I’m fucking glad I did now.
I live in a sea of apathy
But sometimes emotion overcomes me
And I am drowned, stranded, alone
And my feelings eat me to the bone
I don’t know if rape jokes encourage rape culture. I don’t care. You still shouldn’t tell them.
Statistically, if you have told a rape joke to a group of more than five people, one of the people you told it to was a rape survivor, possibly of multiple rapes. They will not necessarily disclose this to you; rape apologism is endemic in society and most rape survivors are cautious about whom they tell. Some may even be too ashamed of their rape to admit it to anyone, or because of rape-minimizing narratives like “men can’t be raped” and “I consented to oral, so I couldn’t have been raped” may not admit it even to themselves. The fact remains: if you’ve told dozens of rape jokes in your life, then you have almost certainly told a joke that minimizes or trivializes rape in front of a survivor.
And if you put as your Facebook status “I totally raped at Halo today” for your two hundred Facebook friends to see, statistically, you have just reminded thirty-three people of one of the worst experiences of their entire lives.
To describe how well you did at a video game.
Good job!
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| — | An Addendum, On Rape Jokes. (via goddesshyperion) |
Why is it, do you think, that children are always too young to hear the truth but never too young to be lied to, systematically, conscientiously, in the name of ‘education’?
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| — | Ward Churchill on Perpetual War and State-Sponsored Terrorism (via mutualaddiction) |
