does anyone ever do the opposite of dissociate?? where youre just suddenly and uncomfortably aware of your situation and reality
more to the point why do i get that feeling when im sitting on top of my kitchen table watching a velveeta mac and cheese pack spin in the microwave for three and a half minutes and im just like I Exist I Am Here And Theres Nothing I Can Do About It
okay this one wins, everyone can stop reblogging this now
I’m devastated to report that writer-director George A. Romero has passed away. He was 77.
Romero’s longtime producing partner, Peter Grunwald, released a statement that he passed away today in his sleep following a “brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer.” He was listening to the score of one of his favorite films, The Quiet Man, with his wife and daughter by his side.
Romero single-handedly created the modern zombie genre with his landmark 1968 independent film, Night of the Living Dead. The Godfather of Zombies, as he affectionately came to be called, followed it up with Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, and Survival of the Dead.
The master of horror’s non-zombie efforts included Creepshow, Martin, The Crazies, Monkey Shines, Two Evil Eyes, The Dark Half, Bruiser, Season of the Witch, and Knightriders.
It was recently announced that Romero had co-written a new zombie film, Road of the Dead, which he was to produce with director Matt Birman. No word on if it will go forward, but we can only hope.
I had the pleasure of meeting Romero at a few public appearances over the years. I was always struck by the fact that, despite his age and long line, he always shared a little anecdote with everyone who came through his line, complete with a huge smile on his face.
I spent many hours working on the blog this week, and I don’t want to cut down this particular week summary (as I usually do). I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
and for those interested, you can find the report HERE
Just in case any dudebros are unclear on what this means: it means that your buddy who totally just had some bitch trying to ruin his life by accusing him of rape…almost certainly actually did rape her.
Just keep that in mind.
Yeah man, imagine that, bitches don’t be lying.
Can we put this into context? It means that 99.4% of rape allegations are true.
It means that 99.4% of rape allegations are true.
When you read through and learn about those 0.6% who did make false allegations, there are some seriously important things to note. Firstly :
“Furthermore, the report shows that a significant number of these cases involved young, often vulnerable people. About half of the cases involved people aged 21 years old and under, and some involved people with mental health difficulties. In some cases, the person alleged to have made the false report had undoubtedly been the victim of some kind of offence (sic), even if not the one which he or she had reported.”
And then, when you get into the case studies you find things like a 14 year old girl sleeping with an 18 year old. When discovered, she claimed the sex was non-consensual in fear of her father’s disapproval, but investigation of texts and emails found that to be untrue. THAT SAID, the 18 year old was found to have a history of pursuing and seducing many very young girls, and once he was counseled he expressed not only regret over his actions, but the knowledge that he was
purposefully picking vulnerable girls who could be easily manipulated into consent.
Another case was a married couple, where the wife claimed rape and domestic violence, so the husband was arrested and held. After some contact between the two while he was incarcerated, she went back to him and wanted the charges dropped. It’s okay because she still loves him. When the DA decided to keep going, she suddenly said that she made it up and he never raped her at all. Further counseling revealed that the allegations were true, but she didn’t want to be without him so she lied about the allegations being false. I don’t know about you, but this kind of sounds like classic domestic violence, and the kind of patterns you get into after living with an abuser.
The point I’m trying to make is that even though there are 0.6% false claims… when you break them down you find that there’s generally a lot of skeevy shit going on, and like the above quote, many of the alleged rape victims are actual victims of other abuses. For some of them, I’m guessing that an allegation of rape was the only way to bring enough attention to their abuse to finally get protection by law enforcement, or enough care from family to be freed from their abusive situations and moved somewhere safe. Some are mentally ill and have been taken advantage of, or are victims of statutory rape because they are not even remotely mature enough to truly consent to a sexual relationship with an adult. These cases aren’t just as simple as, “some bitch regretted sex and cried rape”.
I read another report a while back that mentioned that in some cases where the report was false were incidents where a sexual assault did occur but the victim misidentified the rapist, meaning they got the wrong guy. Because *shock* *awe* it’s sort of difficult to remember facial features when you’re unconscious.
Yo if you’ll reblog the boob campaign, you can damn well reblog Deadpool discussing bollocks.
Excellent.
And testicular cancer has an EXCELLENT healing rate if caught reasonably early. Maybe we should mention that! So IF you feel a lump, it might still be nothing, but if it’s something, it might be very very treatable.
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