[TW: rape, victim-blaming, ableism] Back in 2009, a 7th grade special education student was raped not once but twice by a fellow student. The staff, including the principal and a counselor, not only did not believe the girl, they made her write a letter of apology to the boy she accused and hand deliver it to him.
The girl, whose file indicates she’s extremely averse to confrontation and would forgo even her own needs to please others, was questioned again and again by officials, who told her she was a liar until she finally recanted the story. She was then expelled for a whole year. And when she came back, she was raped again. Doctors examined her and, indeed, there was evidence she had been assaulted, including DNA evidence that makes it pretty unlikely to be a made-up story, so the school suspended her for disrespectful conduct and engaging in public displays of affection, which is the cool new way shitheads refer to rape, apparently. This being a 12-year-old girl in special ed classes known to do whatever other people want to make them happy. Feeling queasy yet?
The girl’s family sued the school and almost a year later the case was settled. The school is reported to have paid the girl and her family about $185,000, which is just about the exact amount of money a scumbag will pay someone for being a scumbag if they can get a court to agree they don’t have to legally admit they’re a scumbag. Worth noting is that, in the school’s response to the lawsuit, they claimed the charges were baseless and the girl herself was at fault for failing to take reasonable means to protect herself. That feeling you had when you read that of being slapped in the face was just the metaphysical weight of the balls some lawyer must have had to write that down in legal papers crushing your psyche.

The 5 Most Ridiculous Reasons Students Have Been Expelled (via fuckingrapeculture)

oh my god in middle school a girl in my class was suspended because a guy groped her and pulled down her shirt, exposing her chest. she was suspended for breaking the dress code and for PDA. even though it was nonconsensual. in high school one of my friends was assaulted in a hallway and she was given in school suspension, while the two guys who assaulted her had nothing happen.

how the fuck does this shit happen in schools? it’s fucking disgusting

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I don’t hate men. But I sometimes wonder why not.

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I am going to vomit.

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I’m about to cry. This is injustice, and partly a result of a patriarchal society: defense of the boy and putting the blame on the girl that did not even do anything to provoke such behaviour.

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when people try to speak on the behalf of entire fandoms

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So I’m doing ART GIVEAWAY to thank everyone who’s been supporting me (◡‿◡✿)

Few rules:

• It’s a thank-you giveaway so obviously, only for followers (but please, don’t follow just for the sake of giveaway;;)
• To enter either reblog (once) or like this post, don’t do both, we want equal chances for everyone, right?
  
• There’ll be 2 ‘winners’ (or more, depending on the amount of free time and access to the computer), I’ll choose them by random number generator.
• The prize is one A4 drawing done in style you get to choose (cell-shaded characters with background or soft coloured waist-up character without background or soft coloured portrait with background; examples above). I’m not going to put any limitations on the number of characters or complexity of bg/characters or whatnot but please, be reasonable;;;
  

Ends on 6th of July

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AHAHAHAHAHA.

This is great.

Couple problems though:

1: How does one “flirt”?

2: The most I’ve ever served was about a $5000 dollar win, which is great and everything, but it’s not rich. 

3: Having to flirt with hundreds of people in a day is just tiring!

(SIDE NOTE: I’d only ever flirt with someone cute buying a syndicate; they have much more chance of winning. Also, have you seen how long some of those syndicates can get. No joke, I’ve sold one which was at least as tall as me. I could get engaged to someone by the time the syndicate prints out.)

As another side note, this one time I asked this guy buying scratchies for ID and he was like 30 and married and it was really quite hilarious but at least he took it as a compliment.

This guy came in the other day and he bought ciggies and he knew the shelving thing we had better than I did. I couldn’t find a brand on the shelf and he helped me find it.

You would not believe the number of times I’ve had to reexplain myself to people buying Go Cards. Are they dumb?! 

Once this guy came in and I was on the floor tidying (not literally on the floor, but around the shop) and he asked if we had “DNA” and I got super confused because doesn’t everyone have DNA. He literally asked “Do you have DNA?” I was so confused because I didn’t know what it was at the time (we sell thousands on mags, do you expect me to know ALL of them). I was later telling this story to my sister and she revealed to me that it’s actually a magazine about gay stuff. And it dawned on me that guy was gay and now I just can’t ever forget it because IDEK. Because I had no idea and I think that was the moment I realised that gay people are just people and now I’m getting really deep. 

Someone stop me.

I have a billion stories I could go on about though. 

The time I served my grade 4 teacher and had to teach her how to use lotto. She didn’t recognise me (she hasn’t seen me for years mind you) but boy was is awkward on my end. 

I’ve recently started to work by myself on level 2, which is the smallest store, learning how to close all by myself. So I had to learn how to commit my lotto machine to a group syndicate. That was great. 

Once the computer crashed. I was working by myself. And about a dozen people decided, in that moment, to buy things. I couldn’t even open the till and I was terrified. 

You would not believe how many times Golden Casket (the lotto people) have ran out of a particular type of scratchie. It was Set for Life a month ago. Live the Life last week. 

This guy had shown up IN HIS SCHOOL UNIFORM and tried to buy cigarettes and he didn’t have an ID on him. Wow. Thought you could maybe get away with that one did you?

Once I felt like a bitch and didn’t sell someone the roll-your-own-using-tobacco papers because they didn’t have ID on them. Just because I can (they also looked 15, sooo).

I eavesdrop on costumers.

I make up stories of costumers. Especially small groups.

I hate vacuuming. I once worked two sifts in one week and had to vacuum like 2 floors on shift and 3 the next shift.

Do not ask me to vacuum. 

ANYTHING BUT THE VACUUM.

I mentioned dumb people earlier right? So this chick came in and she tried to cash in a scratchie. She looked young so I asked for ID. She pull out an school student ID. *sigh* So I ask for a drivers licence ID and, so yeah, she has one of those. She was only 17 so I was all ‘nope’. THEN she tried to buy a new student Go Card. Her school ID (the same one she tried to cash a scratchie in with) had expired (her go card along with it). She hadn’t gotten her uni ID yet and I was explaining how they had an amnesty thing for that, but it would have started only next month. I had to explain it to her 2-3 times. Then my supervisor had to explain again at least twice. She was ridiculously thick.

During the week before christmas, we close a couple hours later than normal and it was so quite and I literally dusted the whole store and I even dusted these high up glass display bench things. They were so dusty. I found a dead fly on one of them.

I will stop soon.

I should put this under a read more.

Or not.

I have been oddly absent from Tumblr of late. 

So absent my full queue has been entirely used up.

Sorry. I am still around, I promise. I’ve just been … reading fanfictions busy.

You won't be a prisoner after today, you'll be my wife.

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Disney Characters as College Students by Ruben

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Behind the Scenes - Doctor Who

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Because I finished my exams and my university first exam to get in :D. There a quick drawing n_n

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Khaleesi fanboy trio.

k h a l e e s i   f a n b o y    t r i o

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