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fuckyeahfeminists:

tw: rape, rape denialism
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Help spread the truth:

source for the stats in the image:

http://communityvoices.post-gazette.com/opinion/the-radical-middle/27667—one-in-one-thousand-eight-hundred-seventy-seven

Department of Justice criminal victimization survey:
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv11.pdf

World Health Organization’s data on violence and causes of death

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate
http://www.who.int/whr/2004/annex/topic/en/annex_2_en.pdf

Three cowardly and ideological fascists advocate sex-selective censorship : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/an-open-letter-to-faceboo_1_b_3307394.html

Yes, because taking three universities (which is different from a college) and averaging them together is accurate. /sarcasm Think a little. -Brianna

Someone challenged Brianna’s world outlook, so being snarky is totally the best response instead of some simple investigation.

Here is the one out of four study:
http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/pdf/e03021472.pdf

Keep in mind that rape is HIGHLY underreported especially on a college campus. Even more so for male victims.

If there is so much rape on campuses then why aren’t women reporting it? Seriously? Why?

And I only reblogged this mainly because I thought the persons response was pretty cheap and shitty.

• embarrassment and shame,
• fear of publicity,
• fear of reprisal from assailant,
• fear of social isolation from the assailant’s friends,
• fear that the police will not believe them,
• fear that the prosecutor will not believe them or will
not bring charges,
• self-blame for drinking or using drugs before the rape,
• self-blame for being alone with the assailant, perhaps in
one’s own or the assailant’s residence,
• mistrust of the campus judicial system, and
• fear that their family will find out.

I was raped while I was a student. It really fucking sucked, but reporting it and the aftermath sucked MORE. I honestly was traumatized more by the admin response, rather than felt better about what happened to me. Administrators don’t know how to handle it. Knowing what I know now from my experience and from working with other campus survivors, this is why people hesitate to report campus rape.

• Many administrators are not trained on rape culture and trauma
• A lot of schools would rather protect the schools reputation than punish a rapist
• Reporting someone you know as your rapist (and/or someone popular on campus) will open you to retaliation/gossip on campus
• A lot of people don’t want to “ruin” the lives of their rapist(s)
• A lot of people struggle with identifying their experience as rape because we’re not educated about it - a lot of the time we only think about the “Stranger in the alleyway”phenomenon
• We don’t trust the police (esp as a woman of colour, I can say that)
• We know how shitty the court system is when it comes to rape cases anyway
• Going through the process of reporting will trigger a long process of interviews, judicial cases
• A lot of people have “less than perfect” histories and don’t want their past being revealed and their name dragged through the mud
• While juggling a difficult semester, the last thing you want to do is to add another thing on your place (going through the judicial process)
• People talk: you hear how shitty the school is at addressing rape, so then you dont want to go through a futile process.
• Nothing ever fucking happens to the rapist.*
  

*clearly this isn’t always the case, but this happens an overwhemingly majority of the time 

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