lotesse: (feminism - Buffy)
throbbing light machine ([personal profile] lotesse) wrote2009-08-06 10:28 am
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like the swallow has learned to fly

The worst thing about the shootings in PA is that I know patriarchy is going to dodge responsibility for it, and because of that we'll learn nothing. It'll all just happen again. They feed men full of resentment against women, inundate them with images of sexypretty violence against women, and then get all shocked and pearl-clutchy when men actually do women harm. But of course they do - rape culture is everywhere.

Ish like this makes me get really bitter. All the fake-o handwringing comes to nothing, because the underlying illness goes purposefully unmentioned.

[identity profile] amelia-petkova.livejournal.com 2009-08-07 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
What happened? I hadn't heard anything. (Granted, I don't watch the news as often as I should.)

[identity profile] amelia-petkova.livejournal.com 2009-08-07 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, hell. Things like this really just make me want to quit the human race some days.