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She has a Marilyn Monroe figure + it's perfect....

Is it just me or do Lana & make a cute couple?
 

She normally seems lovely. Maybe she was having a bad day..

Why is everybody making fun of Emili Sandé?   I'm not a fan of hers, but find it pretty mean how she's made fun of, though.

Ben is really hot 

Sadly, so true. Especially when one has been harrassed, molested or attacked before. I've been assaulted and harrassed before and this fear is all to real for me. I couldnt've said your post better.

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I spent a while yesterday reading several articles on this and seeing other peoples inputs on facebook, twitter etc. This is absolutely disgusting and it makes me feel physically sick. Unfortunately this is something that happens everywhere around the world. I read quite a few articles that referred to the rapists as "poor young boys who had so much ahead of them." When I read that I literally sat gobsmacked with my mouth hanging open utterly confused as to why these horrible men are being referred to as "poor young boys". I really could not give one little shit if they had their "whole lives ahead of them". I hope their lives are ruined. I hope the guilt of what they did to that girl never leaves them. 
On facebook/twitter/etc I saw a few status updates saying things like "she shouldn't have been so drunk then" or "she knew the guys, she didn't forcefully say no, therefore it's not rape". No. There are no excuses for the acts these boys committed against her, and it certainly is rape. She didn't forcefully fight them off because she wasn't in a fit state to, but I'm betting she would have at least mumbled  that she didn't want this. And even if she didn't say anything (probably due to being very drunk) she wouldn't have wanted any of that to happen. Most (do not mistake me for saying that i mean every man) men will not know the fear of walking down a street even in broad daylight by yourself if there is a man walking nearby, or being at a party and getting more drunk than you anticipated. From personal experience I can tell you that the fear that you really could be raped even just walking down your street is a common fear among women, and it's a horrible, horrible feeling. Rape is rape, even if the victim did not forcefully resist, if the victim said no, yet the person went ahead anyway or the victim was far too drunk to consent to sex then it is rape and these boys should not be pityed or shown as "poor young boys with bright futures ahead of them". They should be painted as rapists and carry that around with them for the rest of their lives without pity.

Even if someone has taken away an innocent person's human rights? Where's the justice? 

Karma will eventually get these people, I believe. The death penalty isn't a black or white issue, either. However, I do understand how people can say that as he's devalued the lives of the people's he's killed and the families he's ruined and doesn't care a jot about it.

They're unique and I dig that.

That picture and everything else about this case is so heavily disturbing... as well as the pathetic sentence passed onto them. How is it that tax dodgers are punished more severely than paedophiles or rapists? Ok fine there's a psychological element in there... but who the frak would you rather be locked away? 
 
When are we going to evolve beyond these heinous crimes and these primitive attitudes? I'm sure I'll be reading plenty of 'she shouldn't have done this' or 'worn that' over the next week. They call it 'rape culture' but given the fact it's a staple of human behaviour throughout our entire history I'm starting to think we'll never evolve beyond it

The girl received death threats from people in town when it became evident that she was going to prosecute. That mentality that fights to normalize this kind of thing is very real. Also, that CNN clip that foxgrl linked to really should be seen. Right there is as concrete of an example as you can get--in this case of a major news network--framing the rapists' verdict as the real tragedy (“What’s the lasting effect on two young men being found guilty in juvenile court of...rape, essentially?”) That was the focus of the entire segment. Sign that petition and pass it along. CNN apologizing for the way they covered the story would be huge. It would bring awareness to many Americans who don’t think about this stuff, who don’t even have it on their radar. Sure, if CNN goes through with it there will be a huge backlash. They and those who signed the petition will be criticized and ridiculed by those who want to discredit any movement that challenges the status quo. But any kind of progress begins with that kind of dismissive backlash.

i was a pageant baby til like age 8 when i started getting into my awkward phase   
 
i just liked the frilly dresses and such, wasn't spray tanned like kids on that show.. didn't even wear makeup.  My family needed money and that was one way to try to get it.
 
I would never let my daughter participate in something like that though. it's like telling her the only way she can make $$ or feel self-worth is by being judged on her appearance. men play sports for scholarship while women get pretty? why isn't there a mr. america? same reason why playgirl doesn't sell as well as playboy i guess.

The oversexualization of young girls is highly disturbing. I'm not saying it's just America that does this because it's probably not but when you're telling young girls to dress up like that and put make up on and to be judged by how cute they are, then that says a lot about the society.

Rape culture is all around us and it's scary.  This makes me feel absolutely sick and that some people are [inevitably] defending them. That's rape culture at work. Some people believe that it's the guys right to violate a woman's body when she is inebriated and that "no means yes". Disgusting. We are apparently fair game and a man's property, they can do what they like with us.
 
And smh at people saying they don't have to prove she said/didn't say no. How could she say anything in that state? No means no, if a girl doesn't say yes or CAN'T say yes, then it's still NO. They saw an opportunity to take advantage and they did. Simple as that.
 
 
Absolutely. Makes me feel physically sick.
 
 
True in a way. I think people are more shocked when news incidents like these come up in America as America is supposed to be a civilized country. As we are reporting more and more news articles and incidents all across the world on social networking sites, it's easy to see now how prevelant the problem is. It's sad.
 
Rape culture is a problem everywhere, not just America or the UK or India. It's just all too easy for people to brush the problem off by saying it's "feminist" and people don't like that word so they devalue the problem in itself. Really really sad.

I think this is the first song by Beyoncé that I ever intentionally listened to in my whole life and... Sounds like a fanmade instrumental to which she interpreted some lyrics that were commissioned on her website in a fan contest. 
 
500th post, by the way. Bow down. Or not.

A lot of shit talking from someone who hasn't had a sizeable hit in years. I guess.

[extreme TW rape culture]
 
 
rape culture, in my understanding, is just about as disgusting as it sounds, unfortunately. peoples idea that 'she wanted it', 'she asked for it', 'did you see what she was wearing?' and thoughts like it spin around the head without pity, and create a sort of understanding in the person reading the stories mind. rape culture is how the favorite is picked, and its not victim vs attacker, its female vs male(depending on who is raped), outfit vs alcohol. often, a minority figure who raped will be looked down upon harsher than a white male. rape culture in this situation is that the girls town wanted her to shut up, that it took the video to go nationwide for anything to be done, and that the girls own police force didn't want to look into the case because the town was a football town, and the rapists were the stars, essentially. 
and no, actually. women are taught to keep an eye out, be careful what we wear because it might be deemed revealing and someone might get the wrong idea. instead of them teaching men (and women, but im focusing on men rapists) NOT to rape, they teach the victims not the GET raped. to my knowledge, we don't have any kind of police unit like that. there's no special treatment.

This is so nauseating to read and I just don't get it at all. Rape culture and all its problems just seem so obvious to me. It's really one of those things where I can't understand why anyone can't see it the way I do, and you know for the most part I'm willing to see an issue from both sides. How little empathy do these boys have to have to not stop for a minute and think, "if this was happening to me would I be 100% okay with it?"

Lana really deserves a lot of recognition tbh. she has worked hard to get where she is today. im well proud of her 

going from lizzy grant with 100 views to lana del rey with 100 million views

Your stuff is free from flaws. Fantastic.

It's mentally cold here at the moment, though. She would prob freeze in one of her racing jackets.

It's mentally cold here at the moment, though. She would prob freeze in one of her racing jackets.

I always thought it was "Summer of my life". Thought it tied in nicely with Ride's "Winter of my life".