Friday, May 9, 2014



As a rape victim myself, I could not help myself on this one. Here we have a man, a preacher named Dean, who is telling women that rape is God's way of punishing them for being "whores." He wears a T-shirt with a pointing finger that reads "you whore" and states he expects this kind of shirt to make people change their ways. He believes rapists should be forgiven, that women are always asking for it, and that feminism is evil. He also thinks, of course, that women should not be allowed to attend college. Go fucking figure. Dean honestly believes that being devout and dressing "appropriately" will save you from rape and if you don't do these things, you did something yourself to deserve the

"Give up your immodest clothing" he shouts into a bullhorn without ever pausing to think that if women wore burkas we would still be and are raped. If women wore sacks, we would be raped. If we never left our homes, there is still a chance that we would be raped. Rape is not the responsibility of women. It's not what we do or say or how we act that is the problem. The problem comes from men who cannot accept that a woman might not want their hot beef injection. It comes when we normalize bullshit like Blurred Lines that tells people "no" might really mean "yes." The problem is that assholes like this who cannot get laid think it's a good idea to go out and lay the blame where it doesn't belong. It comes from a normalized script of violence against women in the media, from the privileged position of men, and from no one, including this guy, realizing that RAPE HAPPENS BECAUSE OF RAPISTS and that is where the blame belongs.

Instead of telling women to cover up, tell people not to rape. If you want to take the godly approach, tell rapists they'll burn in hell and forever be raped by a fire-dicked demon.

Yoga pants are a sin, he says. Fuck that. Being a douche is the sin.

2 comments:

  1. Amen! Preach!

    What a sad man to condemn the victim & condone the rapist.

    Rape is 100% preventable, if people WOULD STOP RAPING & accepting &.perpetuating rape culture.

    Nothing invites rape.

    Nothing provokes a rapist except their want to exert dominance and sadly they have the security that many women won't report it, and those that have the courage to do so will be doubted, interrogated, ignored, or picked at having every facet of their life examined to see if they "provoked" the attack.

    Screw men like him.

    I'd say ignore him, but we need to be painfully aware of men (&women) like this who blame the victims.

    It helps us be true to our conscience, to our morals, another push to stand for those who society does not stand with.

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    1. Exactly! You can't ignore people like this because ignoring him allows it to continue and allows our society to continue on with this culture that is very accepting of violence against women. i'm sick and tired of it!

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