Today in Cis Privilege: In Algeria & Tunisia, rapists walk free if they marry their victim if she is under age 18

Amina Filali committed suicide by swallowing rat poison in March 2012. She was 16 years old. Amina was raped in her small Moroccan town by a man she was then forced to marry. Moroccan law allowed rapists to escape prosecution by marrying victims under age 18. In Morocco and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa, such acts are often seen to restore the ‘honour’ of the victim and her family. But Amina could not live with her restored ‘honour.’

Amina’s death caused an outcry in Morocco and throughout the region, challenging the misplaced idea that rape can bring a family into disrepute and that the value of a young woman lies in her virginity.

In the wake of Amina’s death, Morocco changed its laws in January 2014. Rapists can no longer escape prosecution by marrying their victim. However, rapists will be punished differently depending on whether or not their victim was a virgin at the time of the attack.

In neighbouring Algeria and Tunisia, the law allows rapists to walk free if they marry their victim—if she is under age 18.

http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1770&ea.campaign.id=29309

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Today in Cis Privilege: Liberia’s victims of sexual violence turn to being purchased for rape to survive in peacetime

‘Everything is broken, spoiled. They killed my ma and my pa and impregnated me, three men during the war. I live by myself and my two children are sitting at home, not going to school. There’s no one to help me.’

Carmen was ten when she was gang raped during the brutal civil war in Liberia that lasted from 1999 to 2003. The conflict left a generation of children orphaned and traumatised, without education or skills to make a living, and thousands of teenage girls were left pregnant from rape, with no means to support their children.

Now Carmen has no choice but to work as a hopojo, or sex worker, to support her son, now 10, and her daughter, seven.

‘When I don’t go on the street, I can’t eat and nor can my children,’ she adds.

http://www.trust.org/item/20140609105720-me5ov/?source=fiTheWire

Today in Cis Privilege: Players of Popular Video Game Can Pick Up, Rape, and Then Kill Women

Grand Theft Auto V makes it cool to pick up – even kill – prostitutes. My students play GTA V instead of studying. It teaches them to kill prostitutes and demean women in the game – and beyond.

Prostitutes walk certain locations at night. There’s a line of them in the industrial area. In something backless with thigh-high stockings. You can beep your horn to pick one up. “Get in gorgeous! Let’s party,” you’ll shout. “Let’s find someplace quiet, baby,” she’ll say.

Drive her to a secluded place, on a beach, next to the surf and palm trees.

“Go ahead, sugar. Tell me what you crave.”

Select your service from a drop down menu on the screen – $50 for a blow job, $70 for a half-and-half or $100 for everything. Use your joystick to move the camera on the game, to get a good angle.

“Oh my god, fuck yeah, give it to me,” she’ll say. She’ll keep talking for 20 seconds.

When you’re done you leave her there, run the car forward next to her, then reverse, backing over her. You can get out of the car and beat her. She’ll let you. Once she’s dead, you can grab your money back from the ground.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/27/grand-theft-auto-v-prostitutes-killed

Today in Cis Privilege: Male Pastors Charged With Sex Crimes

This is just a small list of some of the crimes (that were actually reported to authorities AND the media) in the MONTH OF MAY ALONE.

•    rape, sodomy, and incest of a nine year old
•    forcing “morning after” pill after raping teens
•    sexual abuse of mentally handicapped in custody
•    producing and distributing child pornography
•    installing hidden cameras in church bathrooms
•    father/son pastors tag-teaming member of youth group
•    drugs, sex, and yes – a dead body

http://www.awkwardmomentsbible.com/shocking-pastors-on-the-prowl/

Today in Cis Privilege: Billionaire who confessed to sexually assaulting teen stepdaughter gets four-month sentence

The billionaire heir to the SC Johnson company’s fortune — who confessed to repeatedly sexually assaulting his teenage stepdaughter — received a four-month jail sentence on Friday from a Racine, WI judge who cited the Johnson family’s importance in the community.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/johnson07-b99285933z1-262145461.html

Today in Cis Privilege: Lessons From a Day Spent With the UCSB Shooter’s Awful Friends

Pick Up Artistry [is] a sham waste of money not because women are more than “targets” and “prey,” but because women are fucking hopeless cunts who can’t be convinced to give nice guys a chance.

http://jezebel.com/lessons-from-a-day-spent-with-the-ucsb-shooters-awful-f-1582884301?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Today in Cis Privilege: Female College Student Completes Suicide Following Cyberbullying Over Porn

Alyssa Funke, a straight-A student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, committed suicide last month after being bullied and harassed online over her choice to appear in pornography. Local police have said they don’t plan to press charges against anyone who taunted Funke.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/22/alyssa-funke-suicide-porn_n_5373138.html