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Rape victims say military labels them ‘crazy’ - CNN.com
Stephanie Schroeder joined the U.S. Marine Corps not long after 9/11. She was a 21-year-old with an associate’s degree when she reported for boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina. “I felt like it was the right thing to do,” Schroeder recalls. A year and a half later, the Marines diagnosed her with a personality disorder and deemed her psychologically unfit for the Corps.
Anna Moore enlisted in the Army after 9/11 and planned to make a career of it. Moore was a Patriot missile battery operator in Germany when she was diagnosed with a personality disorder and dismissed from the Army.
Jenny McClendon was serving as a sonar operator on a Navy destroyer when she received her personality disorder diagnosis.
These women joined different branches of the military but they share a common experience: Each received the psychiatric diagnosis and military discharge after reporting a sexual assault.
Military records show the personality disorder diagnosis is being used disproportionately on women, according to military records obtained by Yale Law School’s Veterans Legal Services Clinic under a Freedom of Information Act request.
- In the Army, 16% of all soldiers are women, but females constitute 24% of all personality disorder discharges.
- Air Force: women make up 21% of the ranks and 35% of personality disorder discharges.
- Navy: 17% of sailors are women and 26% of personality disorder discharges
- Marines: 7% of the Corps and 14% of personality disorder discharges
The records don’t reflect how many of those women had reported sexual assault.
Anonymous asked: How do you feel about utilizing violence to end oppression?
Who am I to tell an oppressed group how to or how not to gain their freedom? I think it’s fair to say that just being nice and waiting for the rest of the world to catch up on equality isn’t working, and honestly I can’t think of very many oppressed groups that doesn’t have the constant threat of violence looming over their head.
I’d love nothing more than peaceful resolutions all day erry day, but what I want above all is for everyone to be treated equally and RIGHT.
Sorry if that doesn’t fall into line with how I should think, but I’m afraid that’s how it is.
[I need inclusive, intersectional feminism because I had to scroll through five pages to see the face of another woman of color.]
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“We are the women of Ireland who refuse to allow a minority of left-wing ideologues to misrepresent our views. We are the women who say, when a crisis pregnancy arises, eliminate the crisis and not the child. We will never accept abortion in Ireland, not now, not ever, not in our country and not in our name.” —
Niamh Uí Bhriain (via musical-overdose-14)
In some cases, people who get abortions really wish they had the means to continue the pregnancy. You’re right and they should be helped to fulfill that.
However, for some people the pregnancy is EXACTLY the crisis.
If they don’t want to be pregnant, pregnancy is the crisis. If they can’t afford prenatal care, pregnancy is the crisis. If they are black and the adoption agencies won’t work with them, pregnancy IS THE CRISIS. There are so many reasons pregnancy can be the crisis and not a single reason against getting an abortion if that’s what you need or want to do.
I’m sure this speaks through in every post I make, but if you don’t agree with abortion, if you don’t want an abortion DON’T GET ONE. But don’t you fucking dare force people who genuinely need them to death or bodily harm because you’re too stubborn to take a second to THINK about it. To TRY to empathize.
I absolutely detest that you pretend to do this out of love, on a moral highground, when really you’re leaving children parentless. When abortion isn’t legal or accessible people DIE. Not fetuses, PEOPLE. They’re forced to seek dangerous alternatives and as we know many people who get abortions are already parents. If they were to die or be disabled as a result, that would affect everyone they love as well.
Almost everyone knows someone who has had an abortion. You, they probably wouldn’t be able to tell, but you probably do know someone who has. Could have been a parent. Could have been a sibling, a friend, a relative, a teacher.
I just can’t believe there are people who think like that.
Anonymous asked: I cannot believe that person quoted /Hitler/ to validate their point. I think that is the ultimate "your argument is invalid" that I have ever seen. Anyways, I've been meaning to drop by your ask and thank you for speaking up for the right to choose. I myself am pro-choice, but I find that I can never argue my point eloquently enough to be taken seriously. So thank you for running this blog, it's restored a little bit of my faith in humanity. :]
Thanks so much to everyone who’s been staying with me all this time. :)
We’ve had to actually move (once again) due to some unresolved neighborly harassment problems. So, I couldn’t really have internet for a while. Along with parenting and trying to make money wherever I can, I haven’t had much time to blog!
I hope to be on a bit more, at least a post or two every once in a while. Love you all, thanks again. :)
How can someone stand behind abortion, when you have a life inside of you that God created for you? How can you say that this life isn’t worth it? If you can’t take care of the baby for whatever circumstances than there is always adoption available to couples who can’t conceive, but still want the joy of being parents. OPEN YOUR EYES! God has bigger plans for us all that we don’t even realize the picture.
As your picture proudly touts, the fetus is literally all you give a shit about. It doesn’t even show the face of the pregnant person.
Not to mention it’s completely ridiculous to pretend that this is the stage in a pregnancy where someone starts considering abortion. Hey, maybe they do need it this late and that’s absolutely fine but the overwhelming majority of abortions happen wayyyy before this point.
So whether or not you want to believe it, it’s not just a fetus floating harmlessly out of anyone’s life. It’s inside someone and it’s not as easy to deal with as you’re pretending.
Why can’t God have a plan for the pregnant person? It’s so insulting to say that people who can give birth are meant only to live through their offspring.
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”.
- Adolf Hitler
No matter how many times you claim that a fetus is not a baby, it will still be a baby. Goodnight everyone, God bless!
My arguments stand no matter what you want to call it…and no matter what Hitler said. (Like, really?)
A baby or a fetus, only the person carrying it gets a say in what it is to them- if it’s a miracle or if it’s hell.
Fuck whatever fantasy world you are living in.
“Saying a stripper deserves to have people make sexual advances at her is like saying a mailman is asking to be attacked by a rottweiler; it makes no sense.” — Anonymous (via dyke-recovery)
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If someone changes their minds that late in a pregnancy, they have a reason. What’s the difference between not being able to afford a child at ten weeks or 25? Some people’s bodies don’t show signs of pregnancy. What if they didn’t know they were pregnant?
Do you know how insulting and ridiculous it sounds when you pretend people will wait until they’re going into labor to decide to have an abortion? And I’m sure you’re aware that ‘after the child is born’ is no longer abortion. The abortion debate is really a debate about controlling your own body, once a child is born it is no longer in your body.
A really important reason why we can’t draw these arbitrary lines is the same reason we can’t have anti choicers drawing them. If you say abortion should be illegal when a fetus is viable, they’ll say it can be viable at 24 weeks. Then they’ll tell you you can freeze eggs, so from conception a zygote is viable. If you make abortion illegal after a certain point, it’s going to be a line drawn that doesn’t really mean anything and it’s going to limit someone’s control of their body.
A late term abortion is not ‘bad’ or ‘worse’ compared to an early one. It’s more expensive, their are more risks associated with it, and of someone doesn’t want to be pregnant they’ll get an abortion as soon as they know they’re sure about wanting an abortion. Not as soon as you tell them is ‘moral’.
My intent is to see the stigma about abortion fade. I want more factual information about abortion to be available so people will really feel free to choose.
This is one of the worst arguments made by anti-choicers; assuming there are thousands of people who just sit around waiting until the 39th week of pregnancy so they can abort for shits and giggles. Considering the unpleasant bodily changes that occur during pregnancy, it’s safe to say that most people who don’t want to be pregant will abort as soon as they can.
Hypothetically, though, if there was someone waiting until the 39th week to have an abortion for fun - that’s their right. The foetus isn’t sentient and it’s still residing in their body. It’s no one else’s fucking business. That foetus doesn’t have rights until it’s born and becomes a baby.
I also get bothered by this “where do you draw the line” bullshit. The line is drawn at birth, both in terms of bodily autonomy (i.e. it is no longer reliant on the parent for placental sustenance) and personhood (i.e. born people possess human rights; foetuses don’t). It’s the same fallacious reasoning that leads to the “if we allow gay marriage, people will start marrying their pets” catastrophising. When we gave women the vote, did we suddenly start letting trees vote? NO. When we abolished slavery, did we decide to do away with any ownership of property? NO. When we legalised sodomy, did people start legally molesting children? NO. When we decriminalised sex work, did pimps start recruiting young children in the school yard? NO. None of these outrageously catastrophised situations occurred because law changes do not cause people to lose all grip on common sense or reality. It’s just a tactic used by the “anti” brigade to try and discredit an otherwise strong argument.
/end rant
Reblogging because I really like the commentary.
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Anonymous asked: I have mixed feelings about my abortion. I don't regret it, but I wish I could've been in the right place to have a child. For the two weeks I knew I was pregnant, it felt like mine.
I really wish we lived in a world where it really was a question of if you wanted a child or not. And not all these other factors where you end up having to choose what is best or what you think is best and not what you would have liked.
I’m sorry that happened to you, but I’m glad you’re safe and well.
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