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sonicbloom11:

This just happened.

via @BreakingNews, @jon_wertheim, @DailyCollegian

*Trigger warning for my graphic commentary on this absurdity*

So let me get this straight…a colleague is caught anally raping a 10 year old and turning a blind eye is totally copacetic. But if the Board of Trustees removes an accessory to rape from the payroll, that’s worth rioting over?

It’s funny how we never see these spirited defenses of people who are actually raped, only those who wish to ignore rape and keep their jobs. Unbelievable. Every Penn State student rioting tonight should be goddamn ashamed of themselves. You assholes have made it that much harder for every abuse victim on your campus to ever seek help. 

(via gordon-crisp)

While we’re at it, can we stop trivializing decency in discourse by labeling it ‘political correctness’? Avoiding discriminatory and hurtful language isn’t some partisan posture. It’s just a basic step in not being a dickhead. Characterizing black men as rapists of white women isn’t a daring rebellion against oppressive thought police, it’s just racist.

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Evolution, rape, ovulation, and how to get your opinions labeled “Science.” | Holly, The Pervocracy

THANK YOU for so perfectly articulating why the current use of the phrase “politically correct” drives my ass up the fucking wall! 

(via feministlibrarian)

(via dailymurf)

sore-thumbelina: tagavaka noun • a boat that has purposely sailed away, for love, adventure, or suicide. (tagavaka is a word from the tokelauan lanugauge. this article from gentlemen’s quarterly magazine explains: Some-times boats are blown off course; there’s even a Tokelauan word for this: lelea. It’s theorized that the very existence of people on the island—it has been inhabited for a thousand years—is because a Polynesian canoe drifted off course. But there is also another, more complicated Tokelauan word: tagavaka. This applies to boats that have purposely sailed away—for love, adventure, or suicide. These days, Tokelauans commit suicide by driving into the open ocean until the gas runs out.)

sore-thumbelina:

tagavaka

noun • a boat that has purposely sailed away, for love, adventure, or suicide.

(tagavaka is a word from the tokelauan lanugauge. this article from gentlemen’s quarterly magazine explains:

Some-times boats are blown off course; there’s even a Tokelauan word for this: lelea. It’s theorized that the very existence of people on the island—it has been inhabited for a thousand years—is because a Polynesian canoe drifted off course. But there is also another, more complicated Tokelauan word: tagavaka. This applies to boats that have purposely sailed away—for love, adventure, or suicide. These days, Tokelauans commit suicide by driving into the open ocean until the gas runs out.)