- Since 2006, more than 95,000 service members have been sexually assaulted in the U.S. military
- More than 86% of service members do not report their assault
- Less than five percent of all sexual assaults are put forward for prosecution, and less than a third of those cases result in imprisonment
I hate that I can attest to accuracy of this post. I never reported my assailants. I had a friend who did. She got looked down upon, name called, moved to a crappy shift and generally treated like trash from a good number of people in our command, including some superiors. The male who molested her got a “talking” to, a slap on his wrist and then essentially promoted. And that was on shore. I can’t even begin to tell you what happened while we were on the ship. It’s just unbelievably horrifying.
Can I fucking tell you how true this is???? Even though I did report the shit dick that did this to me; OSI treated me like I was lying, saying things like “you’re not acting like a victim”, and “this is impossible” when they made me draw out a diagram of what ‘position’ we were in when it happened. My sergeants basically called me out publicly calling me a slut, other airmen called me easy, and the bastard is still enlisted to this day. The most I got was a medical discharge with PTSD and a monthly check that isn’t even half of what I was making a month when I was enlisted. They cover their tracks and slap the assholes on the nose like they’re simply misbehaving pet dogs who pissed on your carpet.
God fucking bless the USA.
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alloftimeandspaceimstartingonyou:
Laws of BBC: if you’re a male lead in a show run by Steven Moffat, your female co-star will (sooner or later) hit you.
(And you will ask for more)
Hot as hell!!
Laura Pulver is an amazing human being.
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tumblr is so comforting
the same people on your dash every day
posting nice things
no pressure of conversation
they’re just there
with their little icons and stuff
i love the internet.
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- *cellphone rings*
- best friend: who is calling you, i am literally the only person who calls you
- me: i have people
- best friend: ...
- me: it's my mom
- best friend: aw, tell her i say hey
From the petition:
The United States is the only developed country in the world without paid maternity leave. Forcing families to choose between going without a salary and having a baby is unethical. Forcing mothers to give up caring for their newborns because they are going broke is not acceptable.
Yeah guys some of you might remember that infographic that went around tumblr a while ago that listed countries according to their paid maternity leave, well here’s your chance to help remove that big ‘0 weeks paid maternity leave’ from the United States.
This petition’s goal is 100,000 you can do that tumblr!
It depresses me too much to think about how different my life would be if paid maternity were a thing here.
We should get it retroactively. ;)
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“And the point of great writers like [Oscar] Wilde is that they make that invitation to you; they welcome you”. - Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry is a hero
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“You’ll regret those tattoos when you’re old.”
They seem pretty proud of them.
My favorite will always be the woman with the short blond hair showing off her arms.
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