feministwomenofcolor:

klittrafreeze:

ivyaura:

captaincroptop:

queengangrene:

Last September, hit recording artist Kesha filed a lawsuit against her mentor and producer Lukasz Gottwald (better known as Dr. Luke) in an effort to be released from her recording contract with his company. In her suit, the singer says the prolific hitmaker “sexually, physically, verbally and emotionally abused” her over the decade they’d worked together, to a degree that he’d “put her life at risk.”

Kesha’s lawsuit alleges at least two specific accounts of rape. In one, she says the producer forced her to inhale a substance prior to boarding a plane which left her incapacitated and, while in the air, sexually assaulted her. In the second, he gave her what he referred to as “sober pills,” which she says she later learned were GHB, a date rape drug. In that instance, the singer says she woke up the next morning feeling sore and disoriented in Dr. Luke’s bed, with no memory of how she’d wound up there.

The suit itself has hit a technical roadblock. Kesha filed her suit in California, but a “forum clause” in her contract stipulates disputes regarding it must be handled in New York. Given that, the California Judge overseeing the case has put it on hold.

What are we to take from the reality that few people seem to care about Kesha’s case? Her public image is as a crass party girl and Dr. Luke helped her career in many ways—is her case being overlooked because she doesn’t fit into the “perfect victim” mold?

THIS DR.LUKE IS SCUM AND SHE’S NOT THE ONLY WOMAN TO BE ABUSED BY THIS ASSHOLE

i just wanna add that she wore this dress as a big fuck you to him a few months after filing and it honestly was such an inspiration to me as an abuse survivor

I hope he burns

What a sick bastard. – K

celtyradfem:

sugar-baby-angel:

victoriassecretpolice:

jackpowerx:

micdotcom:

Old Dominon fraternity hangs disgusting banner to welcome freshmen girls

Even in the best of situations, dropping off a child at college can be a stressful experience. But some students at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, apparently decided to make “welcome week” a little worse for parents and arriving freshmen (Top image.) 

The signs that appeared at ODU aren’t the only ones popping up on the nation’s campuses. Total Frat Move posted a few other photographs apparently showing similar incidents at other colleges, describing them as “hilarious.”

Old Dominion President John R. Broderick was quick to react to the situation on his campus, relaying an interaction he had with a new female student who thought about going home — and how he promises to take action.

But rape culture doesn’t exist.

wow this was my college

I feel like there is this whole creepiness of ownership from this

Like first she belongs to her father and then she belongs to the man who is fucking her. 

Fuck that – women belong to themselves. 

The ‘daddy‘ banner is beyond disgusting.

passific-rim-job:

kar-kat-dennings:

khaleesi-theunburnt:

thefluffyshrimp:

fangirltothefullest:

cawllin:

they ded

Don’t you EVER do this to a person’s hair. That is a VIOLATION of a person’s body! If you think “she deserved it” then you deserve to be punished for harassment because doing anything to a person’s body without their permission is harassment. And since hair is a part of a person;s body, you have no right to touch, play with, cut, or mess up a person;s hair witout explicit permission. 

Just ASK the girl to move her hair off your desk or to have the desk moved away a little.

“BUT IT’LL GROW BACK” Not always! My mother had long gorgeous hair and her grandmother cut it all off and it NEVER grew back the same length again! She was DEVASTATED. 

This girl is probably FURIOUS and she has every right to be!

Next time someone thinks it’s “funny” to cut a person’s hair without their permission, I hope they get punched in the face. 

“Funny” but True story: Cutting off a chunk of someone’s hair without their consent is actually, legally considered assault and battery with a deadly weapon. A girl in my sister’s class did this exact thing to her once, and she reported it to the police. The girl was legit charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Yep. Hair is considered, legally, to be part of someone’s body, hence the law.

Here is the Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_occasioning_actual_bodily_harm#Cutting_hair 

Also, the mentality of someone who sees no problem literally just reaching out and doing this to someone is sociopathic. Like, I would NEVER even think to reach out and cut off a piece of someone’s clothing even, much less their hair.

But yeah. For future reference: If anyone does this to you in class. You can report it to your local police station.

Someone pretended to do this to me in high school. They had fake hair in their hand and snipped the scissors close to my head and laughed hysterically. They held the hair in front of my face and taunted me while everyone laughed too. Instead of lashing out and hitting them (like high school me always did) or taking the hair, I burst into tears. I just started crying hysterically.

Why? Because someone thought it would be funny to cut my hair without my permission. Because I had spent YEARS growing my hair out after a terrible haircut (that I brought on myself). And because no one thought it was wrong that they did this.

The teacher came over at the sight of me crying and made everyone stop laughing. She asked me what was wrong and I pushed the fake hair toward her (still not knowing it was fake), put my head in my hands and kept crying. I expected her to tell me to just take the joke and it’s nothing to cry about. Instead she held the hair up and asked, “Who did this?” there were a few snickers, “This is not funny, who did this?” I hadn’t seen who did it because they were behind me so I couldn’t tell her either.

Finally someone pointed at a kid and he said, “It was a joke! The hair is fake!” the teacher walked over to him and told him to gather his stuff. He said something like, “She’s being a baby it was a joke!” to which my teacher replied, “You pretended to cut off her hair without her consent, that is not a joke.” she sent him to the office and he wasn’t allowed back in her class for a week. 

Also worth noting that some religions (the one that immediately comes to mind is Sikhism, though it’s not the only one) consider hair sacred or blessed, and forbid cutting or removing it! Not only is cutting someone’s hair without their consent assault, but it could also be violating their religious beliefs/practices!

if u cut off my hair the scissors are going into your neck next