April 18th, 2011
There is a country where the leading cause of death of pregnant women is murder by a partner. In this same country, more than a million women were raped in 2008 and women are much more likely to live in poverty than men. Local laws don’t protect their right to bodily freedom and integrity; some rape laws even state that once a woman initially consents to sex, she doesn’t have the right to change her mind.

You may have caught on by now — yes, I’m talking about the United States.
Jessica Valenti, in “Equality begins at home: U.S. lags pathetically behind other nations in some basic rights for women.” (via thedailyfeed)

∞12:10 pm, reblogged  by resaltador ∩4811
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    so this is a thing. go on, try telling me that feminism is irrelevant.
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    and yet people still make excuses
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    A lot of states also still think that it isn’t possible for a man to rape his wife. So if a woman doesn’t want to but...
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