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• 1. Not feelings like I need to be in a relationship to be happy 2. Sarah Haskins 3. Financially supporting myself 4. Healthy sexuality, including access to resources and information 5. My job 6. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 7. Voting
  (posted to Thank You Notes to Feminism)
• I find the racist element of this joke just as offensive as the sexist element, yet it seems we are focusing mostly on the the rape joke. Associating black men with sexual violence is a serious issue still today. So,
  (posted to Sandra Bernhard goes from bad to worse)
• This message is all too common. I guess it's a lot easier to tell women and girls to "protect themselves" than to address all of the root causes that perpetuate sexual violence in our culture.
  (posted to Don't forget kids, if you drink you will be raped. )
• Here we go again with the "right kind of victim" and "wrong" kind. If survivors are scarred they should just "get over it" and if they still have joy in their life then obviously it wasn't that bad. Ugh. Anything
  (posted to She couldn't have been assualted, she looks happy on Facebook?)
• The Executive Director of the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault wrote an open letter to Texas sexual assault survivors regarding this issue on our blog. http://taasa.org/blog/?p=1024 The letter talks about the numerous problems with the news story as well as
  (posted to Texas rape survivors charged for rape kits )

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• Gosh, this PSA is so original. And tasteful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irr%C3%A9versible P.S. Why not tell parents not to give their rapist sons alcohol instead? If 67% of teenagers are abused while drunk, I suspect more like 90% of abuse happens at the (posted to Don't forget kids, if you drink you will be raped. )
• "Yeah, Aleks. Complaining about victim-blaming totally misses the point. This is just like with those Blacks. Did you hear about the Black who was drinking at a party and got bashed by a racist? If that Black hadn't been drinking (posted to Don't forget kids, if you drink you will be raped. )
• And somehow, they always find a way to blame rape on women. (posted to Don't forget kids, if you drink you will be raped. )
• So, this really hit home for me. I was 18, and drunk for the very first time. That night I was also raped. I spent a long time blaming myself. "Well I was the one who got drunk, so obviously (posted to Don't forget kids, if you drink you will be raped. )
• I'm actually very pleased with my college, because in our orientation they had split us up based on sex to attend different workshops. For women, it was geared towards empowerment and not feeling at fault for being raped, and for (posted to Don't forget kids, if you drink you will be raped. )

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