Fancy Pants

it has been a long time thus the long rant

Topic of Discussion today: Sexual Assault

Its been a long time since I have been naive about sexual assault, therefore I forget that others can be. With that said, I want to tell you a story. Ok I was with a group of people. A couple of these people were friends with this person who was not only previously convicted of a sexual assault but is in the process of pleading innocent to another at the ripe age of 17. So from the 17 year olds point of view, this is what happened. He went to homecoming with this big slut. After the dance they were making out. He went to finger her when she said no. So like a gentleman he did not touch her there and they preceeded in making out. After a while he tried to go there again, and amazingly enough she said no again. So back to the making out without fingering. This boy apparently thinks that the third time would be a charm so as he meandered back down... she stopped saying no.

Ok. First, Let's remember that there are two sides to every story. Second, why is he making out with a "slut" if he is not one himself? Third, why does her sexual history have to do with this story? Fourth, why is he only 17 fighting another legal battle?

This is how the rest of the discussion went...
girl: poor Matt
boy: he's such a good guy he just has such bad luck.
other: what was the previous charge for?
boy: he was babysitting an 8 year old girl, they were wrestling and his hand ended up somewhere is shouldn't have been on accident. The parents freaked out.
girl: the little girl didn't even care she didn't try to get him in trouble.
boy: plus this girl's (homecoming "slut") story keeps changing.
girl: yeah and they uped the charge to rape.
boy: she claims she had never had sex before that.
girl: and she has herpes
boy: he didn't have sex with her.

ok... what if he did rape her? have you ever been the victim of a sexual assault? would you know how uncomfortable and embarrassing it is to unmask the truth? You know how they say the victim often feels fault for their assault? That's not bull shit. Can you imagine if when this boy did rape her she didn't say no... she would feel so insecure, but try to confess to him doing at least one thing she hadn't wanted.

Lets put a stop to assuming that women cry rape. Maybe it happened in this case, but lets leave the horrible assumptions aside that make us look like compassionless animals.

Issue #2
Working at the Front Room is not really work. It's more like socializing. So any pay is good pay right? Apparently not. The majority of the workers in the front room work a total of 5 hours a week. They are dumb. And they think that for 5.30 they shouldn't have to work. Hi, remember that you have the best job on campus... that is so dumb.

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I got my period on the first rainy day of winter quarter in my favorite new underwear.


How the rain is so appropriate right now.

posted by Sweet T @ 12:12 PM