If we're expecting jobs to get done, then when people spend 40 hours a week doing them (even if it's just warming up fast food burgers), they should be able to afford to care for themselves. If people aren't doing enough to account for that, then they should get fired. Maybe they stay because they like where they work, or because they can't get a job somewhere else. There are lots of reasons people have to stay at a job, and those jobs still need people working there. No, we shouldn't encourage people to think that it's their employer's job to take care of them, but it IS our country's job to take care of its citizens.

Did you... watch the video? I think it made it pretty clear what they're fighting for.

I think, What, that she meant they should be taught how to make effective points and to stand up for what they believe in properly, rather than just being yelly and rude, but I agree, it was effective.

Just my two sense, and this bit may be completely wrong, but I think the largest reason people can't agree on how to make it happen is because a large number of people don't really think about it. I think that the majority of people, victims or not, don't realize how often it happens (and that might just be my state because we're all sexually sheltered and uneducated). And then, when people try to point it out, it is usually in context like this, where because they don't know how to word it or because they themselves aren't sure about some things, or because that's how they mean it, it comes across as "we need to fix this for only women", and so everybody disregards it as a feminazi rather than realizing that there might actually be a problem. There /are/ more women abused, at least as far as we can tell, but due to the fact that men never seem to talk about it, or because of the seemingly popular belief that men "can't" be abused by women, we don't actually know how often that occurs.

to know that, hey, these guys are cool, they aren't going to try anything just because I'm alone, would be nice. And maybe the answer is to change women's perspectives rather than how men act, maybe it's vice versa, or maybe it's a combination. However it happens, though, something needs to change. And you know? There needs to be more safety for sexual assault victims, no matter the gender. Yes, it's called feminism, but that doesn't always mean "hey, we want girls to have all the rights, because men already have everything". That's rarely what it means. It means, hey, something is fucking wrong here, and no matter who the fuck it's for, we need to improve the human rights here. We need to make sure that no one feels ashamed about confessing how they were abused, that anyone can come forward and say "hey, this isn't right, and I don't feel safe", men or women or somewhere in between.

On related posts, it seems fair to post our opinions, even if they aren't all rainbows an butterflies, don't you think? I am very grateful that I can vote and run for office (eventually, still a little too young for that), that I can get a job to support my cat and it can be anything I choose, so long as I put in the effort. I grew up with those things and I don't have any idea what it would be like to not have them. I'm extremely grateful that I can live by myself, or get married as I choose and that it's my choice. However, I'm not okay with walking down the street feeling afraid because of my gender, and maybe that's partly my fault and partly because of my own experiences, but if I'm alone, men who show interest honestly scare me. (Unless of course they're being respectful and actually talking about common interests and seem like guys who want to date me and not just fuck me.) And of course no amount of protesting will ever get rapists to stop doing their thing, but just being able

Just a thought: maybe the reason feminists use the same points is because no one else really listens and responds to them well? No one worth listening to says that men don't have problems, and no one here is saying that, but there is an inequality.

No, I don't. I probably will eventually, but as of yet I've only ever read Death Note and Vampire Knight.

No, that's not what I'm saying, I'm saying that it doesn't effect the crime. I'm saying that it shouldn't be questioned in the first place, in any crimes.

I know what you mean, it's the same for me.

I have to go to work in two hours :'(

And a good number of people who get sexually assaulted never say anything about it :(

I started the protector's series after reading the third book, and I just ended up not getting far and I haven't read any of the books since :/

The majority of the things people complain about aren't bad, that doesn't mean the majority don't have problems. A recent study showed that 3 of 5 women living in college dorms are sexually assaulted during their time there.

Unless the someone she slept with was equally drunk, it's still rape. Sleeping with someone who isn't able to make decisions properly is still rape (like with kids?)
And I'm sorry for what happened to you, *hugs* You just never know, and you'd be surprised how many people say that.

... You really question the fact that the Bible is on there? Even people who don't believe in the bible read it.

Well, even fiction can teach important lessons ;)

Idk I feel like that series kind of went downhill? I really liked the first book, but the third just made me go "wtf"

I agree with most of the video, though. It's stupid that people say that women should do something that most women don't just because most women don't. Do what makes you happy, even if that's being a full-time mother.