Some time there's good stuff too
Sep. 4th, 2009 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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"I saw this on Facebook friend Jen's feed and wanted to share, I thought it was an awesome image - this is Command Sergeant Major James Ervin, the Fort Stewart garrison command sergeant major and Brig. Gen. Patrick Donahue, 3rd ID deputy commanding general for maneuvers, in a Take Back the Night march on Fort Stewart this April.
While we can't ignore the history of sexual assault in the U.S. military, we also can't disregard those who advocate for change with us."
More Here.
This helps antidote my clenched rage over the citizens of my city exhibiting their considerable skills in multi-factor fail in these comments on a local news story about a string of sexual assaults in a fasionable shopping and dining district with a high upscale residential population. (Trigger warnings, including the simple triggering of fury at a cascade of sexist idiocy.)
"why are the women out by themselves between 11pm and 3am?"
Because they are going home from work waiting tables, walking out to their cars or waiting at bus stops, perhaps? And I wasn't aware that there was an established curfew for adult women in the United States, or that it was enforced by open-season on sexual assault rather than police citation. Oh, no, wait, I was aware of that...
It's a good thing only brown-skinned people handle the enforcement of that sort of curfew so that we can all be assured that we are safe in the presence of white-skinned men. Wait, what?
Fuckers.
"I saw this on Facebook friend Jen's feed and wanted to share, I thought it was an awesome image - this is Command Sergeant Major James Ervin, the Fort Stewart garrison command sergeant major and Brig. Gen. Patrick Donahue, 3rd ID deputy commanding general for maneuvers, in a Take Back the Night march on Fort Stewart this April.
While we can't ignore the history of sexual assault in the U.S. military, we also can't disregard those who advocate for change with us."
More Here.
This helps antidote my clenched rage over the citizens of my city exhibiting their considerable skills in multi-factor fail in these comments on a local news story about a string of sexual assaults in a fasionable shopping and dining district with a high upscale residential population. (Trigger warnings, including the simple triggering of fury at a cascade of sexist idiocy.)
"why are the women out by themselves between 11pm and 3am?"
Because they are going home from work waiting tables, walking out to their cars or waiting at bus stops, perhaps? And I wasn't aware that there was an established curfew for adult women in the United States, or that it was enforced by open-season on sexual assault rather than police citation. Oh, no, wait, I was aware of that...
It's a good thing only brown-skinned people handle the enforcement of that sort of curfew so that we can all be assured that we are safe in the presence of white-skinned men. Wait, what?
Fuckers.
