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wanderfulways:

FOX WOMAN: “WOMEN IN THE MILITARY SHOULD EXPECT TO BE RAPED”

(Source: x)

Watch the video.

- If you have men and woman in close contact, women should expect to be raped. & anyway, these extreme feminists who have been “raped too much” are wasting too much of our American money having “sexual counsellors all over the place.”

—— fucking disgusting.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. HELL TO THE NO. First of all, not only men rape. Secondly, this idiot is implying that men literally cannot control themselves, like wild animals so the literally will pounce on a woman and rape her if she is nearby. WHAT. WHERE DOES YOUR LOGIC COME FROM. Ever so slightly degrading towards men, no?

And the feminists have also directed them, really, to spend a lot of money. They have sexual counselors all over the place, victims’ advocates, sexual response coordinators. … So, you have this whole bureaucracy upon bureaucracy being built up with all kinds of levels of people to support women in the military who are now being raped too much.”

Thirdly (the above paragraph is a quote from Liz Trotta, the contributor in the video who has won three Emmy awards [really])…”to support women in the military who are now being raped too much.” WHO ARE NOW BEING RAPED “TOO MUCH”? Really? Really? I think it goes without saying that one rape is too much rape. Not only does she imply that men cannot control themselves, she’s now implying that there is a certain amount of rape that a woman should deal with by herself and it be totally acceptable, because she’s not been raped “too much” yet so it’s okay. She also states that “feminists want to be warriors and victims at the exact same time”. What. I can’t even fathom the absolute stupidity of some people, and this is coming from a woman as well.

“Lets take a look at how this position on extreme feminism is costing us - ‘The budget for the Defence Department’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office leapt from $5 million in fiscal 2005 to more than $23 million in fiscal 2010. Total Defence Department spending on sexual assault prevention and related efforts now exceeds $113 million annually.’”

(What? Please explain to me how “extreme feminism” is to blame for people getting raped and/or sexual assaulted. It isn’t feminists fault that Congress has to spend $113 million a year, it’s the fact that people continually abuse and rape others. Maybe if they put some money into educating people and rape prevention programs to try and minimise the effects of rape culture/rape culture altogether then they wouldn’t have to spend so much. However, regardless of how much money they have to spend - it isn’t something that should be compromised on. The health, safety and general wellbeing of their citizens should be their priority, and no price should be too high.)

Lastly, she belittles victim support groups, sexual abuse survivors and victims advocates and basically implies that feminists are the cause of/are intending to make Congress spend lots of money on the above services.

…………………………………………..I don’t understand how some people think. Banging my head ferociously against a wall until it smashes into a trillion pieces, brb.

Ho-lee shit. Sometimes I think it’d be more logical if some of these people in positions of power in the States are just the political equivalent of internet trolls, than if they were actually speaking with sincerity.

Fuck.