The Roots That Clutch

Statistically, if you have told a rape joke to a group of more than five people, one of the people you told it to was a rape survivor, possibly of multiple rapes. They will not necessarily disclose this to you; rape apologism is endemic in society and most rape survivors are cautious about whom they tell. Some may even be too ashamed of their rape to admit it to anyone, or because of rape-minimizing narratives like “men can’t be raped” and “I consented to oral, so I couldn’t have been raped” may not admit it even to themselves. The fact remains: if you’ve told dozens of rape jokes in your life, then you have almost certainly told a joke that minimizes or trivializes rape in front of a survivor.

And if you put as your Facebook status “I totally raped at Halo today” for your two hundred Facebook friends to see, statistically, you have just reminded thirty-three people of one of the worst experiences of their entire lives.

To describe how well you did at a video game.

Good job!

- An Addendum, On Rape Jokes. (via transformfeminism)

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imwithkanye:

57 Varieties. Not to be outdone by Heinz, Samuel L Jackson has tweeted 57 different spellings of the word motherf— since joining Twitter in October 2011. Entertainment Weekly dutifully compiled the list:

Amughphuqqinvengers
Maaadaaahfaaahkaaaahz
Mahfahkka
Mahfakka
Mahpfauccauhs
Mahphakka
MAVENGERFUQQAS
MAVENGERPFUQQAHS
Mawphakkas
Moneyfondler
Motherfucker
Moughoucccah
Moughpfucca
Moughuqqas
Moupfacca
Moupfouqa
Moupfuccuh
Muffpfukah
Muffughccin
Muffukaness
Mufuggas
Mughfughquahs
Mughpfakkuh
Mughpfukkas
Mughpfukkuh
Mughphughkughzz
Mughuqqa
Muh fukka
Muhfucka
Muhfugga
Muhfuggahhhh
Muhfuggin
Muhfuka
Muhfukka
Muhfukkah
Muhfukkin
Muhfuqas
Muhfuqin
Muhpfakkah
Mupfuhqeuhs
Motherfucking
Mutha fuqeu
Muthafucka
Muhphuggas
Muthafuga
Muthafukka
Muthafukkin’
Muthaphucca
Muthavenger
Muthughpfuccahz
Muthughphoukka
Muthupfuqas
Muttuhfukkuh
Mutuphukas
Muughuuqa
Muuphuuccahs
Myfollowfukkas

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goldenalbatross:

when we have molted off these mortal feathers,

must give us pause. there’s the respect

that makes calamity of so long meals.

for who would bear the winters and famines of time?

th’poacher’s wrong, the large bird’s contumely,

the pangs of despised love, the daylight’s delay,

the insolence of prey, and the spurns that

patient merit of th’unworthy take,

when he himself might his quietus make

with a bare bird claw? who would fardels bear

to squawk and caw under a weary life,

but that the dread of something after food,

the unrelenting hunger, from whose clutches

no hunter returns, puzzles the will.

and makes us rather bear those ills we have

than fly to others we know not of?

thus hunger does make fools of us all.

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