A 16-year-old girl in Cornwall was repeatedly called a “slapper” because she had a large bust; she eventually had a breast reduction in the hope that the bullying would stop. A 14-year-old girl in Essex endured months of being called a “slag” and a “skank” and contemplated suicide; one day about 30 teenagers set on her, pulling her top down and exposing her breasts. She was beaten up so badly she was in hospital for three days. A 16-year-old schoolboy was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, and another was charged for filming the attack and distributing the pictures on his mobile phone.
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Sarah, 17, was bullied by a group of boys as soon as she started secondary school. “I was called names like ’slut’ and ‘whore’ - those were terms most boys used against girls,” she says. “I was shy and I wore clothes that covered me up, and a group of boys would always ask me to take off my jumper, open up my shirt a bit, or tell me I should be wearing skirts so they could see my legs. A group of boys would grab me in corridors - it was embarrassing and I felt disgusting, but I couldn’t do anything back. I just froze until they left. There were other girls they would touch too.”
Behind this car in traffic today, thought i’d take a shot so I could AAAAAAARGH here amongst good company.
Then before this idiot had even got out of view, there was this bus. You can see the other caron the right of this shot.
Believe it or not, there was actually ANOTHER bus with a similar ad on the back of it, but I wasn’t fast enough to get a photo of that one. It was a picture of a youngish blonde woman, from the waist up, naked and covering her nipples with her hands. I didnt catch what she was advertising, presumably the same sort of thing.
It’s like there is no escape. My kid looks at these pictures and I think, how do I explain this to her? How do I tell her some people will never see her as anything but flesh to be bought and used?
This video includes Sarah McCormick reading from her article “Hoovers & Shakers” about housework as exercise, gender roles, and depression; and Julia Serano reading an excerpt from her article “Skirt Chasers” which is about media representations of transwomen.
I read this article at Veracity, regarding the recent hacking of radical feminist sites and harassment of radical feminists, and I agreed with much of it, and would like to pass it on. Excerpt:
But let’s suppose that Anon’s actions are motivated, as Anon seems to say, by a sort of juvenile nihilist philosophy; not by politics, and not by any desire to support big government, big corporations, and the status quo. Because Anon is a rebel kind of guy. An anarchist, perhaps. He’d never carry water for, well, anybody.
Interestingly, however, Anon never seems to take down the big sites. Walmart.com and the Pentagon are safe from his attentions. It’s not that Anon is a big fan of Walmart or the government. It’s just so much easier to attack the vulnerable. Big business and big government aren’t vulnerable on the Internet. They can afford not to be.
Small discussion boards and blogs, particularly ones that advocate unpopular points of view, are often run by individuals who put up their own funds, if they can scrape them together, and who must be their own IT departments. They can’t afford the type of security that requires the big bucks. And since they have jobs (unlike Anon, apparently), they have to put their desire to maintain an Internet presence in the balance with supporting themselves and their families. When the crunch comes and time pressures set in, it’s not the Internet presence that wins out.
So the actions of these “apolitical” hackers do have a political end: they remove unpopular, radical, fringe viewpoints from the web. Big government doesn’t have to eliminate the subversive websites; Anon will do it.
Sorry, Anon, it looks like you do carry water for the dominators.
You are being invaded by our most ridiculous exports.
Two British Fathers 4 Justice activists were arrested as they protested at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC yesterday.
The men, wearing Captain America and Batman costumes, had scaled the memorial and unfurled a banner which read: “For the Fathers of the Nation: Fathers 4 Justice has arrived.”
