'Cause It's Easier To Make Women Know Their Place Than It Is To Stop Assholes From Raping Women

[filkertom]

Originally posted by valkyrwench at **headdesk**
Originally posted by _samalander at post

TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE & RAPE CULTURE
Lara Logan, the CBS reporter who was separated from her crew while covering the revolution in Egypt and brutally raped by a mob of men is apparently to blame for her abuse because she once had cleavage. Right here, in black and white, Dan

Comments

[bayushisan]

*sigh* I wish I could say that this suprises me, but it really doesn't. Nothing terrible surprises me anymore.

[unclelumpy]

And you thought your boss was a dick.

[cathain]

It's a locked entry and I can't see it.

[filkertom]

You don't need the LJ post -- what I have basically copies it. If you can see this, you can follow the links to both the original post on Broad Street Review and the change.org petition.

[darthparadox]

Yeah, the only problem is that on our flists, the crossposted bit looks like a normal lj-cut link that actually leads to a locked journal entry.

[cathain]

Thanks. I figured it out.

[ashkitty]

It makes me just as angry as when I saw it this morning.

[judifilksign]

Articles like these provide a key service: they warn many of us across the world that blaming the victim is more mainstream than liberals would like to think.

I find it sad that his response to the woman attacked in his own neighborhood was contempt that she wanted to change the world's attitudes, and that her behaviors were why she was attacked.

Yet that very response, coming from this editor, shows that there is a culture out that that seriously just does not "get" it. This tends to come as a surprise to many. Thank you for spreading the awareness, so that we can combat such attitudes with a bit more support for the women, and more condemnation for the "status quo" minimization of rape culture (men are uncontrolled brutes, so it is the victim's responsibility to watch out.)