late but had to do it :)
Rurouni Kenshin transformation : part 1
which one do you like better? new or old? :D
anime couples i ship :
part 2 :Aoshi x Misao from rurouni kenshin
he is such a dark serious character and i think Misao is exactly what he needs to lighten up and smile from time to time ;D
anime couples i ship :3
part 1 : Sakuma x Akutabe from the anime yondemasu yo azazel san
i mean how can you not? :/
he will be the perfect sadist with a heart which will make him even sexier in my eyes xD
and sakuma just fits him
I hope they make a new one soon :O i love this franchise because am such a fan of psychological horror :)
P.s: that thing in the second picture will keep chasing you everywhere and hiding in pushes to suddenly jump you -__- DAMN YOU!!
EXPENSIVE SHIPPING :/ (ANK)
Its really not fair that some people get the 8th volume of ai no kusabi earlier than others :( i wanted to order from akadot retail even though I ALREADY pre-ordered from book depository but the shipping is SO DAMN EXPENSIVE!! 50$ for a 10$ book :( INSANE!! guess i will have to wait till August after all to get my copy from book depository. at least they ship FOR FREE!! D:< i wish though those manga publishers would be more international readers friendly and make those early releases exclusive deals with sites like book depository
anyways enough of my rant!!people who will get the early release this month enjoooy :D
What I do want to tell you is that you need to stop using the “wives, sisters, daughters” argument when you are talking to people defending the Steubenville rapists. Or any rapists. Or anyone who commits any kind of crime, violent or otherwise, against a woman.
In case you’re unfamiliar with this line of rhetoric, it’s the one that goes like this:
You should stop defending the rapists and start caring about the victim. Imagine if she was your sister, or your daughter, or your wife. Imagine how badly you would feel if this happened to a woman that you cared about.
Framing the issue this way for rape apologists can seem useful. I totally get that. It feels like you’re humanizing the victim and making the event more relatable, more sympathetic to the person you’re arguing with.
You know what, though? Saying these things is not helpful; in fact, it’s not even helping to humanize the victim. What you are actually doing is perpetuating rape culture by advancing the idea that a woman is only valuable in so much as she is loved or valued by a man.
The Steubenville rape victim was certainly someone’s daughter. She may have been someone’s sister. Someday she might even be someone’s wife. But these are not the reasons why raping her was wrong. This rape, and any rape, was wrong because women are people. Women are people, rape is wrong, and no one should ever be raped. End of story.
The “wives, sisters, daughters” line of argument comes up all the fucking time. President Obama even used it in his State of the Union address this year, saying,
“We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence.”
This device, which Obama has used on more than one occasion, is reductive as hell. It defines women by their relationships to other people, rather than as people themselves. It says that women are only important when they are married to, have given birth to, or have been fathered by other people. It says that women are only important because of who they belong to.
Women are not possessions.
Women are people.
I seriously cannot believe that I have to say this in 2013.
I only posted a small piece of the article but its brilliant. Please go read the rest of it. The “lets protect women because they are our mothers, sisters, and wives” crap needs to go.
