msandrogynous:

I am over rape.

I am over rape culture, rape mentality, rape pages on Facebook.

I am over the thousands of people who signed those pages with their real names without shame.

I am over people demanding their right to rape pages, and calling it freedom of speech or justifying it as a joke.

I am over people not understanding that rape is not a joke and I am over being told I don’t have a sense of humor, and women don’t have a sense of humor, when most women I know (and I know a lot) are really fucking funny. We just don’t think that uninvited penises up our anus, or our vagina is a laugh riot.

I am over how long it seems to take anyone to ever respond to rape.

I am over Facebook taking weeks to take down rape pages.

I am over the hundreds of thousands of women in Congo still waiting for the rapes to end and the rapists to be held accountable.

I am over the thousands of women in Bosnia, Burma, Pakistan, South Africa, Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Afghanistan, Libya, you name a place, still waiting for justice.

I am over rape happening in broad daylight.

I am over the 207 clinics in Ecuador supported by the government that are capturing, raping, and torturing lesbians to make them straight.

I am over one in three women in the U.S military (Happy Veterans Day!) getting raped by their so-called “comrades.”

I am over the forces that deny women who have been raped the right to have an abortion.

I am over the fact that after four women came forward with allegations that Herman Cain groped them and grabbed them and humiliated them, he is still running for the President of the United States.

And I’m over CNBC debate host Maria Bartiromo getting booed when she asked him about it. She was booed, not Herman Cain.

Which reminds me, I am so over the students at Penn State who protested the justice system instead of the alleged rapist pedophile of at least 8 boys, or his boss Joe Paterno, who did nothing to protect those children after knowing what was happening to them.

I am over rape victims becoming re-raped when they go public.

I am over starving Somalian women being raped at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, and I am over women getting raped at Occupy Wall Street and being quiet about it because they were protecting a movement which is fighting to end the pillaging and raping of the economy and the earth, as if the rape of their bodies was something separate.

I am over women still being silent about rape, because they are made to believe it’s their fault or they did something to make it happen.

I am over violence against women not being a #1 international priority when one out of three women will be raped or beaten in her lifetime — the destruction and muting and undermining of women is the destruction of life itself.

No women, no future, duh.

I am over this rape culture where the privileged with political and physical and economic might, take what and who they want, when they want it, as much as they want, any time they want it.

I am over the endless resurrection of the careers of rapists and sexual exploiters — film directors, world leaders, corporate executives, movie stars, athletes — while the lives of the women they violated are permanently destroyed, often forcing them to live in social and emotional exile.

I am over the passivity of good men. Where the hell are you?

You live with us, make love with us, father us, befriend us, brother us, get nurtured and mothered and eternally supported by us, so why aren’t you standing with us? Why aren’t you driven to the point of madness and action by the rape and humiliation of us?

I am over years and years of being over rape.

And thinking about rape every day of my life since I was 5-years-old.

And getting sick from rape, and depressed from rape, and enraged by rape.

And reading my insanely crowded inbox of rape horror stories every hour of every single day.

I am over being polite about rape. It’s been too long now, we have been too understanding.

We need to OCCUPYRAPE in every school, park, radio, TV station, household, office, factory, refugee camp, military base, back room, night club, alleyway, courtroom, UN office. We need people to truly try and imagine — once and for all — what it feels like to have your body invaded, your mind splintered, your soul shattered. We need to let our rage and our compassion connect us so we can change the paradigm of global rape.

There are approximately one billion women on the planet who have been violated.

ONE BILLION WOMEN.

The time is now. Prepare for the escalation.

Today it begins, moving toward February 14, 2013, when one billion women will rise to end rape.

Because we are over it.

Article Source

I think the biggest part (for me, at least) out of this, is the part about good men. I’m so lucky to have a partner who is sensitive and loving and really responsive to issues that feminism rallies against. But I have not met many men like this in my lifetime. it really saddens me…beyond belief, really, when I think about all the ways in which men refuse to stand up for women, and not even women they don’t know, but women they love, and instead stand for their subjugation, their debasement, their marginalization, and the perpetration of violence towards them. Every time I hear a man respond to ‘men against violence against women’ with ‘what the hell is that’ or ‘those guys are so gay’, I feel hollow. When I hear men, men that I know, talk about date rape not being ‘real rape’ or how ‘she deserved it’, a little bit of my will gets chipped away. When I watch men roll their eyes at women’s issues, it makes me sad and it makes me unbelievably angry. Women’s issues are human issues. We occupy this planet. We occupy your lives, your homes, your beds, your schools, your workplaces. When I talk about rape, I’m not just talking about women, I’m talking about men. These issues - they’re women’s issues but they’re men’s issues too because they are a problem caused overwhelmingly by men.  Rape, sexual abuse, forced pregnancy, violence, sexism, sexual objectification. These aren’t just my problems because I’m a woman. They are our problems. They are your problems. When I wake up in the morning wondering if, when I walk down the street later tonight, I’m going to get raped, it’s because a man woke up this morning not thinking about consent, not thinking about human dignity, not thinking about my right to a sexual partner, not thinking about women. When I get leered at from a car or on my way to work or patted by an old man on the subway, it’s because they don’t think of women’s issues as their problem. It is your problem. I’m tired. I’m tired of associating with men who aren’t willing to be an active part of our resistance, and I’m tired of pretending that it’s okay for me to not say anything out of politeness to men about their prejudices and their ignorance. There is no two way street about rape, about sexual assault, about sexism, about objectification, about violence, about double standards. There is a right and there is a wrong, and if you’re not with me on these issues, you’re against me.