Spring Break Personal Safety
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
This has nothing to do with publishing but lots to do with awesome. The entire article is here. Thanks for the link, Subcomandante Emiko! Maybe someone will send this to Terry Richardson. We're not joking.
Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work!
1. Don’t put drugs in people’s drinks in order to control their behavior.
2. When you see someone walking by themselves, leave them alone!
3. If you pull over to help someone with car problems, remember not to assault them!
4. NEVER open an unlocked door or window uninvited.
5. If you are in an elevator and someone else gets in, DON’T ASSAULT THEM!
6. Remember, people go to laundromats to do their laundry, do not attempt to molest someone who is alone in a laundry room.
7. USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! If you are not able to stop yourself from assaulting people, ask a friend to stay with you while you are in public.
8. Always be honest with people! Don’t pretend to be a caring friend in order to gain the trust of someone you want to assault. Consider telling them you plan to assault them. If you don’t communicate your intentions, the other person may take that as a sign that you do not plan to rape them.
9. Don’t forget: you can’t have sex with someone unless they are awake!
10. Carry a whistle! If you are worried you might assault someone “on accident” you can hand it to the person you are with, so they can blow it if you do.
And, ALWAYS REMEMBER: if you didn’t ask permission and then respect the answer the first time, you are committing a crime- no matter how “into it” others appear to be.
ALSO! Delightful Author-friend Tahereh (dear young lady! We cannot be your fiancée, we are practically old enough to BE YOUR MOTHER! HA! HA!) is having a very splendid rhyming-query contest, already the entries are very funny, maybe you ought to enter!
I read this about a year ago on Jezebel and i loved it then as much as i love it now.
Thanks for passing it around
Yes! I, too, saw on Jezebel, but I'm happy it's getting larger circulation. With all the victim blaming in the world (you know, because of the whores who are guilty of EWV (Existing With Vagina)), it's nice to see assault prevention's onus being put on, oh, I don't know, the rapists!
/feminist rant
Great list for all the little scumbags writhing around during Spring Break to hear! I love number ten... I have this mental image of some bro walking around, wearing an Ed Hardy t-shirt, and an upside down Titelest visor, pushing his blue rape whistle at his friend, telling him "Yo, bro, you better hold onto this. I might accidently trip and rip off the clothes of that unsuspecting blonde."
OH MY GOD.
LE R. ADDRESSED ME *BY NAME* IN PUBLIC.
AND LINKED TO MY BLOG.
!!!!!!!!
*dies*
A+ awesome.
...but.... but Tahereh is MY fiancee! :\ I guess I can't blame her for trying. Le R would be quite a catch.
(BTW, my word verification is "vicerism," which somehow seems appropriate.)
(Kate: DON'T READ THIS PART)
Le R.: AGE IS JUST A NUMBER!! WE CAN WORK IT OUT!!!
Call us when you're old enough to GO TO A BAR, kiddo. In the meantime, as CKHB says, YOU KIDS GET OFF OUR LAWN HA HA HA HA HA HA
EWV...
Lucy, will you be *my* fiancee? :)
I'm too old to be anybody's fiancee, but spring breaks have been the same since Noah stopped doing his couples-only vacation cruises. I did NOT see this on Jezebel, so this is all new to me and now somebody owes me a new keyboard. This is the funniest, truest thing I've read in ages. Thanks.
Kimberly, since I EWV and therefore = slut, yes! Of course. Pile on me, lovies!
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