your silence will not protect you

[furiosity]

It's Pride week in Toronto. There's a metric fuckton of activities throughout the gay village and the city proper. Thousands are going to turn out for Saturday's Dyke March and Sunday's Pride Parade: homosexual, heterosexual, bi, trans folk -- all kinds. In 2005, Canada became the fourth country to legalise same-sex marriage. Earlier this year, the

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[sophia101]

Hi

[licoricegirl]

Major publications aren't talking about a lot of things in this country right now. It's a sad and really rather frightening state of affairs when anything that can be viewed as harmful to the country's current administration can only be found through the BBC and other non-American news channels. I am wondering just how much better appraised of things the international community is, to be honest.

Dan Rather made a few remarks on the state of news in America and took a lot of heated and high profile flack for it. I'd like to know, too, why Paris Hilton rates higher on fucking CNN than, oh, I don't know, the current wars (how many people forget it's plural?) we're currently involved in? It's really kind of gross.

I'm so totally planning a quick getaway to Canada in case of emergencies.

[coffeejunkii]

thanks for making this post and compiling all the links. i heard about this recently...i think it was on npr. i wasn't completely paying attention, though. i'll need to have a closer look now.

[psyfic]

Criminals and their lawyers have tried to shift responsibility for their actions onto their victims for-freaking-*ever*. It started with the "she was asking for it" you hear from rapists and this is just a variation. It's disgusting that anyone could actually be persuaded into buying that line of bull.

[delaria]

I can see why they'd argue that, with that set of laws, but I don't like it. I dislike it more because it discredits a similar, more legitimate offense. At least, in my opinion it is more legitimate. If I think I'm about to be raped, I can defend myself with deadly force. Self-defense with threat of rape is still legitimate. In my opinion, twisting that legitimate offense into "I killed him because he hit on me, and I'm not gay" delegitimizes women (or men, who have a harder time with that defense) who have had to defend themselves.