QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Mar 19 2014, 12:23 AM)

Callidus, welcome to the world of why things need to change.
Thus far it's been restricted to politics for me. And it's people that need to change. That's even harder to accomplish.
QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Mar 19 2014, 12:23 AM)

When I was assaulted by a boy at school, the first thing I was asked was "Did you wear THAT shirt? Well what do you except if your boobs are hanging out?"
That's the first thing rape victims are asked. "What were you doing? Were you drinking? Well maybe if you weren't wearing that skirt/dress/all that makeup, are you sure you didn't flirt?"
And when a kid is bullied, it's "Well what were you doing? Did you wear those shoes/backpack/shirt? Well if you're gonna wear that, you'll get picked on."
We live in a victim-blaming society, and instead of teaching the little sh*tty kids to be more compassionate, the adults are bent on defending their behaviour and not fixing the problem.
And worse still, people think their viewpoints are completely rational when they're defending them. This sort of thinking is so [censored] up it makes me wonder how people can be so mind-numbingly stupid.
QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Mar 19 2014, 12:23 AM)

And I get a lot of [censored] for this, but I'm a feminist. Not a bra-burning, man-hating, non-shaving feminazi. A feminist. I want people to be treated equally, not based on race, gender, sexuality, social status, what have you. But based on that we're human being.
I thought feminists these days were hypocrites who want to be treated equally when it suits them and still get preferential treatment because they're women? The ones that manage to get into the news always seem to be.
What you've described just sounds like common sense to me. Its not like there's any reason that people shouldn't be treated equally, the only justification people seem to have is age-old prejudices that had no legitimacy to begin with, but they still seem to think it's enough.
QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Mar 19 2014, 12:23 AM)

This isn't just the internet. Look at American candidates for president and governors and the like. One said if a woman gets pregnant while raped, it wasn't really rape because "the body has ways of shutting that down."

What the-?
Someone actually said that?
Stupidity has reached pandemic levels.
QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Mar 19 2014, 12:23 AM)

The world is a battlefield, and it's really difficult to survive when you know the enemy can be anyone.
There I disgree. The world isn't a battlefield.
People are just lacking in humanity these days.

The human race is devolving, mentally and socially.
It's equal parts tragic and pathetic.
Tragic because no one seems to be able to do anything to stop it.
And pathetic because some people actually
want it.