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    February 13, 2012

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    I’m tired of being told everything I wear is “slutty”, tight fitting, or just looking for attention etc etc when that is bull. I just have big breasts, which are impossible to hide on account of they stick out from my body.  Of course, it doesn’t matter what you wear “sexy” or not. No one ever “asks for it”. Unless that “it” is respect. Creepers: My boobs are not a trap. You CAN “help yourselves” you just choose not too. Stop it and fuck off.

    I’m tired of being told everything I wear is “slutty”, tight fitting, or just looking for attention etc etc when that is bull. I just have big breasts, which are impossible to hide on account of they stick out from my body.  Of course, it doesn’t matter what you wear “sexy” or not. No one ever “asks for it”. Unless that “it” is respect.

    Creepers: My boobs are not a trap. You CAN “help yourselves” you just choose not too. Stop it and fuck off.

    2. August 9, 2011

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    Jeremy Irons thinks you should ‘get over’ sexual harassment if you’re ‘worth a grain of salt’- because ‘its fun and friendly’

    Actor Jeremy Irons has ‘hit out at political correctness’, suggesting that a woman does not need to use the law to “deal with it” if a man sexually harasses her.

    The Oscar-winner told Britain’s Radio Times that a mountain of legislation regarding sexual harassment and abuse had been created by politicians with an excess of time on their hands.

    Irons, 62, a self-confessed “addict”, said:

    “If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It’s communication. Can’t we be friendly?”

     ”It’s gone too far. There are too many people in power with too little to do, so they churn out laws to justify their jobs. I hope it’s a rash that will wear itself out.”

    Here is his IMDB. I know what new releases I shall be boycotting.  

    3. July 3, 2011

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    badethnography: Mexican Town Launches Women-Only “Pink Taxis” to Undercut Super-Creepy Cabbies It turns out that some of the male taxi drivers in Puebla, Mexico are pigs. It might even be the case that most have boundary issues when it comes to their female passengers, indulging in constant leering, harassing, and propositioning. So the city invested some money and, following the lead of other municipalities all over the world, created a fleet of women-only Pink Taxis. Naturally this has engendered vociferous objections from some quarters: “Some of the woman who have been on board tell us how male taxi drivers cross the line and try to flirt with them and make inappropriate propositions,” said taxi driver Aida Santos… “In the Pink Taxi they won’t have that feeling of insecurity, and they feel more relaxed.”… Women’s rights activists are aghast at the cars’ sugary presentation and said the service does not address the root of the harassment problem. “We are in the 21st century, and they are saying women have continued worrying about beauty and nothing more,” said Vianeth Rojas, of the Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Puebla. “They are absolutely not helping eradicate violence against women.” ^ BS. They’ve already got Pink Taxis in Bangkok. In Moscow – where the problems go way beyond harassment, up to and including semi-regular rapes and murders – a private entrepreneur launched a Pink Taxi all the way back in late 2006. The critics who attacked that initiative were a lot more vulgar, throwing around exactly the kind of “you’re all a bunch of lesbians” nonsense you’d expect. Back in the Mexican context, we find ourselves deeply unsympathetic to the critics. The new Pink Taxi fleet might not be doing much to “eradicate violence against women.” It’s also not doing anything to, say, resolve the EU3′s concerns about how Iran’s undeclared nuclear facilities undercut the efficacy of Tehran’s agreement with the P5+1. That’s not what it’s supposed to do. What it’s supposed to do – and what it has the potential of doing – is lift a nagging, grinding worry from the lives of Mexican women who dread having to get into a cab to go about their daily affairs. It removes an implicit sexist blackmail: “withdraw yourself from public life or volunteer yourself to suffer harassment.” That’s a fine start. Let’s not hold the good hostage to the perfect. ^ This.

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    Mexican Town Launches Women-Only “Pink Taxis” to Undercut Super-Creepy Cabbies

    It turns out that some of the male taxi drivers in Puebla, Mexico are pigs. It might even be the case that most have boundary issues when it comes to their female passengers, indulging in constant leering, harassing, and propositioning. So the city invested some money and, following the lead of other municipalities all over the world, created a fleet of women-only Pink Taxis. Naturally this has engendered vociferous objections from some quarters:

    “Some of the woman who have been on board tell us how male taxi drivers cross the line and try to flirt with them and make inappropriate propositions,” said taxi driver Aida Santos… “In the Pink Taxi they won’t have that feeling of insecurity, and they feel more relaxed.”… Women’s rights activists are aghast at the cars’ sugary presentation and said the service does not address the root of the harassment problem. “We are in the 21st century, and they are saying women have continued worrying about beauty and nothing more,” said Vianeth Rojas, of the Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Puebla. “They are absolutely not helping eradicate violence against women.”

    ^ BS.

    They’ve already got Pink Taxis in Bangkok. In Moscow – where the problems go way beyond harassment, up to and including semi-regular rapes and murders – a private entrepreneur launched a Pink Taxi all the way back in late 2006. The critics who attacked that initiative were a lot more vulgar, throwing around exactly the kind of “you’re all a bunch of lesbians” nonsense you’d expect.

    Back in the Mexican context, we find ourselves deeply unsympathetic to the critics. The new Pink Taxi fleet might not be doing much to “eradicate violence against women.” It’s also not doing anything to, say, resolve the EU3′s concerns about how Iran’s undeclared nuclear facilities undercut the efficacy of Tehran’s agreement with the P5+1. That’s not what it’s supposed to do.

    What it’s supposed to do – and what it has the potential of doing – is lift a nagging, grinding worry from the lives of Mexican women who dread having to get into a cab to go about their daily affairs. It removes an implicit sexist blackmail: “withdraw yourself from public life or volunteer yourself to suffer harassment.” That’s a fine start. Let’s not hold the good hostage to the perfect.

    ^ This.

    4. June 14, 2011

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    95 Reasons You Want to Be Sexually Harassed

    We all have our guilty pleasures. Chocolate, working out, video games, hot baths, reading, walking. One of mine happens to be reading Xanga’s top posts. I mean, Xanga was the shit when I was in high school, so I have fond memories of it.

    Today, however, my visit was not pleasant.

    I stumbled across a post entitled “95 Reasons You Want to Be Sexually Harassed.” As a survivor of sexual assault, along with the usual sexual harassment that comes with being a walking breathing female in the western world, I wanted to know what on earth this post would be about - and more specifically, what other people would have to say. I came away…disturbed, to say the least.

    You can read more at the link if you desire, but the gist of the post was summed up in its final call to action: “If you were given $95 million, would you be willing to be sexually harassed for one day at work?”

    Surely, I thought, surely no one is going to say yes and act like this is a joke or normal. Let’s just say I’ve lost even more hope for mankind.

    Just a few comments said things like, “yes!…depends on my mood, looool,” or “Just sexually harrased? Fuck yes. I wouldn’t have sex with anyone, but I’d totally let them groupe whatever they want to,” or my favourite, “Honestly… probably. That’s a lot of money, and I’d have a lot of emotional issues to put into my art.”

    What?! Just sexually harassed? And gaining emotional issues to put into your art? I can’t even fathom - and I’m an artist. My assault didn’t help me with my art - it left me physically bruised, emotionally scarred, and living in fear that I’m just now starting to work through 6 years later after so many people just like the commenters of this piece told me that what happened to me wasn’t a big deal.

    If someone is taken advantage of sexually, man or woman, it is a big deal. And all the money in the world is not worth going through that.

    My mind is just blown away.

    5. May 17, 2011

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    The Brocial Network proves just why we need Slutwalk

    http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/18/the-brocial-network-proves-just-why-we-need-sl-twalk/

    “This morning, La Trobe University journalism student Kara Irving broke a story in The Age (awesome scoop, Kara!) about a private, men’s only Facebook group calling itself the “Brocial Network”.

    Irving writes that the group, which had more than 8000 members at the time of writing (including several AFL players, trumpeted the Herald Sun in its lame catch-up story), contains “hundreds of images of women in bikinis and lingerie, obtained from the personal Facebook photo albums of the members’ female friends.””

    “This might be tough for the slut-shaming brigade to believe, but when women post scantily clad pictures of themselves on Facebook, they do not consent to being sexually objectified or harassed. Rather, the blame and responsibility should fall on the shoulders of the person doing the objectification or harassment.”