Pornography, Lad Mags, Video Games and Boys:
Reviving the Canary in the Cultural Coalmine
Matthew B. Ezzell (via iwillnotshavemyvagina)

I always walk with my keys out after dark. I will gouge your eyes out.

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See, my mom taught me to gauge out an attacker’s eyes with my thumbs. The keys (or optional metal nail file, if you carry those) are out because they can be jabbed violently and directly into either the stomach or interior thigh and then pulled up as hard as possible.

I was maybe 12 years old when she thought it was necessary to teach me these defense tactics. THIS is rape culture.

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My dad taught me how to break a nose in both a fatal and nonfatal fashion, how to blind an attacker, how to hit the kidneys forcefully enough to momentarily debilitate, at what angle to knee or elbow the groin from several different positions to best debilitate, and told me to scream “fire” instead of “rape.” He taught me these things when I was eleven years old, and he taught me because my mother couldn’t talk about sexual assault due to post-traumatic stress. This is rape culture.

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Reblogged for the incredible quote, and the equally incredible commentary. Thanks brad-t for submitting the link to me.

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