broken-skies-and-angel-wings:

This guy I was talking to was saying how women play sports just as well as men, and he said, “One time I was reffing a womens softball game, on the full moon, and -“ 

And I was like, ” Why does it matter that it was on the full moon?“ 

and he was like “Well, you know, the full moon… women on the full moon" 

and i was like ‘I don’t get it' 

and he was like “Periods" 

and he thought all women just get their periods on the full moon and i just thought it was really funny that he confused women with werewolves. 

mentalgrunge:

ablackwomansurvivingrape:

by Britni Danielle

“As a woman, you should be able to say no,” 23-year-old Paris Sashaytold a reporter after she was brutally beaten by a group of men.

The young comic and her friends had just left a party at a nightclub in Washington D.C. when they were followed by the men, who began harassing them. When Sashay and her friends declined their advances, the comic says the men got violent.

Sashay blacked out during the attack, and woke up in the hospital. The damage was extensive; she suffered a broken nose, chipped teeth, and her face was covered in bruises.

“Guys make it where you don’t have a right to say no anymore,” Sashay told D.C.’s NBC affiliate. “But as a woman, you should be able to say no. Just say no. You’re just not interested.”

Though horrific, Sashay’s ordeal isn’t unique. Last October, 27-year-oldMary Spears was shot and killed at a party in Detroit after refusing to give her phone number to a man, and that December, a woman riding the train in Chicago was viciously beaten for rejecting a man. These events are so common users created a website called “When Women Refuse” to keep track of them.

Despite the assault, Sashay said she’s going to keep living her life and doing what she loves.

“No matter how much it takes, I’ll just go out, perform and do whatever it takes to make the people laugh,” she said of an upcoming performance. “I won’t let the people down.”

But Rape Culture doesn’t exist.