...WTF.

Didn't write this, but I just have to send this forwards.

Alkuperäinen tekijä lavenderfrost otsikolla ...WTF.

Well, there goes my good mood for the day.

NYTimes, the bastion of quality reporting, reported on the gang-rape of an 11 year-old girl in Texas  that's led to charges against 18 high-school boys so far - all well and good so far, right?  Shit like this NEEDS publicity to raise awareness. 

Only problem is, they repeated - without refutation or critical commentary - the claims that the girl brought the rape on herself because of the way she was dressed.

Choice Quotes (No cut b/c everyone needs to see this - DEAL.):

“It’s just destroyed our community,” said Sheila Harrison, 48, a hospital worker who says she knows several of the defendants. “These boys have to live with this the rest of their lives.”  As opposed to the victim, who's gonna bounce back lickety-fucking-split, right?

Residents in the neighborhood where the abandoned trailer stands — known as the Quarters — said the victim had been visiting various friends there for months. They said she dressed older than her age, wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s. She would hang out with teenage boys at a playground, some said.  TOTALLY BEGGING FOR IT.

THIS IS RAPE CULTURE, PEOPLE.

Now, what's being said and done in this community is bad enough, but the NY Times should be fucking ashamed of themselves right now.

( Here's how to contact NYT: )

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I want to go to ComicCon so badly that it hurts.

It's just...I really want to see you guys. In RL. Finland is so small country that in my previous fandoms (which were in Finnish language of course, for example Harry Potter, etc)I got to see people who I admired in internet, other fans and everything. Now, when I live at the the opposite side of the planet all the happenings are just...too far. I can't even AIM because of the timezones nor start the same kind of friendships I have with my Finnish fan-friends. And that fucking hurts.

I have dreamt of going to some con in US, but... I would be going alone. And it would be expensive. I mean, my parents would probaböy loan me the money, if I would pay it back immediatly when I can, but not if I would go completely alone and no-one would be meeting me 'at the other side' to help me through all this stuff.

I want to get to know you people. I really do. Face-to-face. Talk to you. Really.


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And going to comic-con wuld be cool too, I won't lie about that. And the first sentence is about that there I could probably meet a very big amount of all of you people, right?

But seriously, I rally would like to start meeting you.