alfred hitchcock

Ronald Davis - I'm Not A Bum, I'm A Human Being

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I know plenty of bums who don't live on the street. And I know plenty of people who live on the street and work their asses off just to eat. Don't judge someone just because you've never been in their position. Just because you have never been that far down. In my past, me and my family have had times in our lives when we literally lived on the streets. The only way we made it out was by pounding pavement and receiving generosity from kind strangers. Some people are terribly stuck and can't seem to dig their way out. Some people literally have no family, or no family to claim them. The least you can do is treat homeless people with respect. No one is saying you have to give them anything more than common decency. They are still human, first and foremost, after all. As long as the respect is returned, it is earned.

Olivia 'n' Polka Dot

Rape Jokes

“In the U.S. every year, 207,754 people are raped, so there are also a whole bunch of people committing those rapes. What that means is that any comic who regularly performs in front of an audience is likely to spend at least some time telling jokes to someone who’s raped someone. And when he hears a joke like Tosh’s, that starts with “How can a rape joke not be funny?!” and goes on to say that a woman who interrupts him deserves to be raped –- or a joke like Morril’s (“My ex-girlfriend never made me wear a condom… She was on the pill: Ambien!”) –- he’s probably going to feel pretty comfortable in that room.

When he hears the laughs in response to Morril’s joke, he’s not liable to feel shame about the night the girl from the bar passed out when he got her upstairs; he’s probably going to feel like he’s surrounded by a bunch of people who agree that what he did wasn’t really a big deal. He’s going to be reassured that he’s not in a society that takes it seriously.”

—	What Do Rapists Think About Rape Jokes? | xoJane

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