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trinityvixenI have to give these "trigger warnings." Most of the time I post things and I'm all cool with making people uncomfortable, but these even made me uncomfortable, and I'm not easily provoked.
Just FYI. They're also behind cuts so I can goggle and go WTFWTFWTFWTF'ingF!?!?
A pregnant woman was murdered and her baby was cut out of her body.
I can't even express horror to a sufficient degree over this one. Some mentally unbalanced woman set up a pregnant woman to be murdered and then cut into her body to hack out the near-term baby. Which she then tried to pass off as her own. This is the stuff horror tales are made from. Only it's real. What the fucking fuck. No, really, seriously, someone tell me: WHAT. THE. FUCKING. FUCK.
Eleven year-olds cannot, in just about any country, grant consent. Therefore, a pregnant eleven year-old has been raped. No question.
It's not a matter of "was she asking for it." It's not a matter of "the accused is innocent until proven guilty." The accused doesn't come into this at all. No matter who got this girl pregnant, that person is a rapist. The girl was raped. I make a big deal about language, about the sorts of subtle reminders of how women are held in inferior positions without (necessarily) conscious thought on the parts of the people doing it. This? Is proof of that right here. Whether you think this girl is the sluttiest pre-teen since Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, even if you want to argue that maturity-wise she was, even at eleven, entirely capable of consenting, legally any girl under a certain age who has been penetrated vaginally HAS BEEN RAPED.
Scare quotes are so abused, I could scream, but this makes me want to issue Banshee-like howls until eardrums rupture. Scare quotes. You put scare quotes around something that is undeniable...to what end? To imply doubt? THE GIRL IS PREGNANT. Unless you're nuts or stupid or her name is Mary, you cannot possibly, not if you are a remotely human being, think that she is pregnant by any other means except rape. Because it was rape. RAPE, GODDAMNIT.
I'd like the shit-faced coward who put up the word "rape" in scare quotes to defend him/herself. I'd like their editor to give a reasonable explanation for why that punctuation, which is grammatically and ethically, and legally indefensible, passed muster. They're hiding behind the cover-my-ass, don't-shoot-the-messenger, I'm-only-repeating-what-someone-else-said libel excuse. "'Raped'" was said by someone else, you don't want to take credit for it! However, unless you're putting every incidence of the word "rape," "raped," and "rapist," in quotes, that's the most hollow bullshit excuse ever. Which usage is quoted, which isn't? Why can't we assumed that "raped," as a word, is a word that is fair use when talking about, oh, I dunno, A GODDAMN RAPE, as opposed to its belonging to one person who mentioned a girl being raped? For fuck's sake, I hate people.
Just FYI. They're also behind cuts so I can goggle and go WTFWTFWTFWTF'ingF!?!?
A pregnant woman was murdered and her baby was cut out of her body.
I can't even express horror to a sufficient degree over this one. Some mentally unbalanced woman set up a pregnant woman to be murdered and then cut into her body to hack out the near-term baby. Which she then tried to pass off as her own. This is the stuff horror tales are made from. Only it's real. What the fucking fuck. No, really, seriously, someone tell me: WHAT. THE. FUCKING. FUCK.
Eleven year-olds cannot, in just about any country, grant consent. Therefore, a pregnant eleven year-old has been raped. No question.
It's not a matter of "was she asking for it." It's not a matter of "the accused is innocent until proven guilty." The accused doesn't come into this at all. No matter who got this girl pregnant, that person is a rapist. The girl was raped. I make a big deal about language, about the sorts of subtle reminders of how women are held in inferior positions without (necessarily) conscious thought on the parts of the people doing it. This? Is proof of that right here. Whether you think this girl is the sluttiest pre-teen since Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, even if you want to argue that maturity-wise she was, even at eleven, entirely capable of consenting, legally any girl under a certain age who has been penetrated vaginally HAS BEEN RAPED.
Scare quotes are so abused, I could scream, but this makes me want to issue Banshee-like howls until eardrums rupture. Scare quotes. You put scare quotes around something that is undeniable...to what end? To imply doubt? THE GIRL IS PREGNANT. Unless you're nuts or stupid or her name is Mary, you cannot possibly, not if you are a remotely human being, think that she is pregnant by any other means except rape. Because it was rape. RAPE, GODDAMNIT.
I'd like the shit-faced coward who put up the word "rape" in scare quotes to defend him/herself. I'd like their editor to give a reasonable explanation for why that punctuation, which is grammatically and ethically, and legally indefensible, passed muster. They're hiding behind the cover-my-ass, don't-shoot-the-messenger, I'm-only-repeating-what-someone-else-said libel excuse. "'Raped'" was said by someone else, you don't want to take credit for it! However, unless you're putting every incidence of the word "rape," "raped," and "rapist," in quotes, that's the most hollow bullshit excuse ever. Which usage is quoted, which isn't? Why can't we assumed that "raped," as a word, is a word that is fair use when talking about, oh, I dunno, A GODDAMN RAPE, as opposed to its belonging to one person who mentioned a girl being raped? For fuck's sake, I hate people.
