We're All Fucked: tw r*pe
Okay, look.
Consent means verbally saying “yes”. If someone didn’t verbally say yes, then don’t touch them or put anything inside of them. If you do, that’s rape. It doesn’t have to be a verbal “no” to be rape. The absence of a verbal “yes” is rape.
And sometimes it’s still rape…
I should’ve been a 1960s gogo dancer.
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Those victims who were slaughtered are people that I knew well. These children I knew well, personally. I ate with their families. I had social ties with them. The regime cannot lie about these people, who they were and what they did to them. It was a brutal act by the regime against people who were with the revolution.
- Senior Syrian military officer Major Jihad Raslan, who has defected from Assad’s forces after witnessing the Houla massacre. He spoke to the Guardian. The full article is here. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
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