we ignite when we're alone.

thehappiestdoughgirl:

blasphemina:

“Our house was small, and when you grow up with domestic violence in a confined space you learn to gauge, very precisely, the temperature of situations. I knew exactly when the shouting was done and a hand was about to be raised – I also knew exactly when to insert a small body between the fist and her face, a skill no child should ever have to learn. Curiously, I never felt fear for myself and he never struck me, an odd moral imposition that would not allow him to strike a child. The situation was barely tolerable: I witnessed terrible things, which I knew were wrong, but there was nowhere to go for help. Worse, there were those who condoned the abuse. I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, “She must have provoked him,” or, “Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.” They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.”

-Patrick Stewart

I have to take a moment to say, even though our basic human rights are at stake right now, I’m really grateful for the way that Women’s rights has finally come to the forefront as an important issue. It’s scary, what we could be potentially subjected to (by closeted deviants who think they get to set the barometer for morality and live above the law…in my opinion), but I’m thrilled there’s a dialogue happening. People are hearing about it, being asked about it, reading about it, thinking about it…Women are getting more attention. And it seems that the more extreme the individual proposed evocations of our human rights get, the more people are seeing the nonsensical way women have been ignored and trampled over. And it’s not just 75 cents to a man’s dollar and the glass ceiling. It’s “asking for it,” it’s the loss of control over our own organs, it’s domestication…

How is it that we are lesser humans? Have none of them ever loved a woman? How can people that want to hurt women in any way look at their mother, sister, girlfriend, wife? Can they look them in the eye and truly say there is no respect there, that they deserve less because they have inverted sex organs and teats? 

It’s just all so so so stupid and I think people are finally getting a chance to see the rampant stupidity. That’s how I choose to see it. I’m maintaining optimism, because I’m horrified of the alternative. 

Sorry that this was kind of broad. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately in very general strokes. Combine that with the fact that this Patrick Stewart quote is amazing and got me fired up. Also, it’s V-Season. 

if any of that resonated with you, and if you have a heart and soul and are capable of feeling compassion towards your fellow human beings then i hope it did, please go see a V-Day benefit production of The Vagina Monologues, in my community or your own.  or, if you feel moved to action, please donate, or look into bringing V-Day to your own community.  more information on the V-Day movement can be found here.