Humanism: An Uprising

One Being

Watch two women living in suburban New England blog (or rather, rant) about politics and human rights.

We are:
ALISSE: History major & Social Work minor. Unapologetic, opinionated feminist. Cat lady in the making. Preferred pronouns: "she" and "her."
KARI: Artistic. Passionate about unity & love. Loves ice cream and long walks on the beach. Preferred pronouns: "she" and "her."

Feel free to submit screencaps Facebook statuses, tweets, or whatever else absurd commentary you come across on the internet.

Rape is bad. No one’s denying that, but that doesn’t mean you should be allowed to punish a child by aborting it. When it comes to having your body used against your will, wouldn’t you rather it be a baby than some brown person in a ski mask?

Michele Bachmann, 2009 speech at a battered women’s shelter in Winterport, ME. (via actualmichelebachmannquotes)

Some brown person.

(via brittanibotulism)

The first thing I thought of after reading the first sentence was Mr. Mackey from South Park saying “Uh, rape is bad, mkay?” And to be honest, when I read it, I thought it was a South Park quote from an idiot towns-person like Randy or someone. And that’s complete honesty; I didn’t see who it was credited to until the end and I was shocked and not shocked all at once. 

(via thoseboringpolitics)

“Only brown people rape.”

(Source: , via thoseboringpolitics)

STFU Fauxminists!: **Possible trigger for mention of rape/rape culture** The people you meet when you write about rape

stfuconservatives:

iamabutchsolo:

lawsonry:

**Trigger Warning** Rape apologists, rape naysayers, rape deniers

Mr. What About The Men
“The real problem here is all these false rape accusations that are destroying our society! 90 million men are falsely accused of rape every second! A woman just has to sort of mumble a word starting with ‘r’ and a man instantly gets a life sentence! There are no instances on record of a woman actually being raped!”

Ms. Tough Girl
“If women would learn martial arts—70-year-olds and women with disabilities can do this if they put their minds to it, darnit—and carry weapons everywhere, no one would ever get raped! All you have to do is be ready to threaten your own friends and lovers with lethal force at any moment, any anyone who can’t do that must be weak or something.”

Mr. Model Victims Only Please
“The victim was no angel herself. If you look at her record, she’s been arrested several times, she’s a single mother, and she’s living on welfare. So it’s not like she was some innocent little virgin beforehand. None of this makes it right, but I’m just saying, let’s not overreact like a good woman got ruined.”

Ms. Fashion Police
“Did you hear what she was wearing? I’m sorry but that’s just not common sense. If you go out looking like a piece of meat, you have to expect you’ll get treated like a piece of meat.”

Mr. I’m Not Blaming Her But It’s Her Fault
“Rape is never the victim’s fault, of course. But I just want people to admit that she has some responsibility. That she maybe played a part in it. That in an alternate universe where she’d done things differently and she lived in a steel Battlemech wearing a chastity belt, she wouldn’t have gotten raped, and she did make the choice to not use a Battlemech. I just need people to acknowledge that.”

Ms. Couples Therapy
“I dunno, seems to me like they both made mistakes. Maybe he just wasn’t reading her signals, or maybe she wasn’t communicating clearly to him. A lot can get caught up in an emotional moment like that and I bet they both feel really bad right now.”

Mr. Offensive And/Or Baffling Metaphor
“Look, if you walk down a dark alley with a wallet stuffed full of money, sure it’s still a crime when you get mugged, but what if the mugger is just trying to feed his family because he was laid off by an evil solicitor and the ghost showed him a lone crutch leaning in the corner?”

Ms. CSI
“If you put the pieces together, her story just doesn’t wash. She claims that he ripped her pants off, but her pants have a button fly. Ha! And she waited a whole forty minutes after the supposed rape to call the police—who would do that?”

Mr. Troll
“lol bitch deserved it loooollll”

Ms. You Don’t Just Get To Decide Whether You Consent
“She was seen earlier in the night drinking with this guy, talking to him, and even making out with him! And then she went up to his apartment! What did she think would happen? No one ever goes to a guy’s apartment unless they’re consenting to every sex act he could possibly want.”

Mr. How Do I Not Rape Someone It Is So Difficult
“I just don’t understand how to tell if someone is ‘consenting’ or not. What if she secretly decides she doesn’t like it—am I a rapist then? What if she changes her mind midway through? Or afterwards? It’s impossible to know what women want, so how am I supposed to know if they want to have sex with me or not?”

Ms. Traditional Values
“You know, back when women dressed modestly and simply didn’t go out drinking with strangers or going home with people they’d just met, this sort of thing didn’t happen.”

Mr. This Wouldn’t Happen If Women Would Just Fuck Me Already
“This sort of thing is inevitable when women constantly act as gatekeepers and doom beta males to a life of frustration and loneliness. Of course rape is horrible, but the pent-up rage felt by men cast aside just because they weren’t billionaire underwear models has to express itself somehow.”

Ms. Avoid The R-Word
“Wow, that is just not cool. Having sex under those circumstances—I mean, treating a girl like that—you know, being inappropriate with her—is a totally insensitive and downright mean thing to do.”

(Source: the Pervocracy)

Aw man, this is a seriously comprehensive list of apologist rhetoric!

Not the first time we’ve posted it but yeah that’s basically every one of em.

(via stfuconservatives)

thedailywhat:

RIP: Former First Lady Betty Ford, wife of the late former president Gerald Ford, has passed away this afternoon in her Rancho Mirage home. She was 93.
Ford, whose personal struggles with alcoholism led her to co-found the Betty Ford Center, a California-based chemical dependency recovery hospital, dedicated her life to public service and social activism. For her work, Ford received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and, later, the Congressional Gold Medal.
[abcnews / photo: wikimedia.]

RIP Betty Ford.

thedailywhat:

RIP: Former First Lady Betty Ford, wife of the late former president Gerald Ford, has passed away this afternoon in her Rancho Mirage home. She was 93.

Ford, whose personal struggles with alcoholism led her to co-found the Betty Ford Center, a California-based chemical dependency recovery hospital, dedicated her life to public service and social activism. For her work, Ford received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and, later, the Congressional Gold Medal.

[abcnews / photo: wikimedia.]

RIP Betty Ford.

How about a quick overview?

This is a blog about human rights. Duh. We are two working women from suburban New England. Human rights are something we are both very passionate about, and we felt the need to try to reach a broader audience than our friends list on Facebook. We will be writing original blog posts, but we will also be reblogging other Tumblrs and posting links to other blogs.

We do accept user submissions. This can be anything from your own personal story of oppression, to a screen cap of your aunt ranting about the Mexy-kans on Facebook. We will probably accept your submission and add it to the queue;however, we reserve the right to deny your submission. While we will try to remember to contact you and let you know why your submission was denied and what you can do to fix it, but we can’t guarantee that we will. Feel free to drop a message into our ask box, though! We don’t bite!

The top two reasons submissions will be denied:

  • You did not make the offender anonymous. 
  • It doesn’t fit in with what our tumblr is about.

If you don’t know how to make the offender anonymous, email the submission to us instead at humanismuprising@ymail.com and we can do it for you!

Now, in this Tumblr, we will be making it our top priority to be politically correct. We respect all human beings. If something we say offends you, please, let us know either in our ask box (you can ask us to answer privately, if you’d prefer that) or through email (again, that’s humanismuprising@ymail.com).

I can’t think of anything else to include off the top of my head, but I will leave an answer box below in case anyone would like us to touch on another topic. So, welcome to our little Tumblr and thank you SO MUCH for reading!

-Alisse

(Source: humanism-uprising)