Fifteen rape victims have formed martial arts movement and are prepared to confront abusers if no one listens to their complaints…A GROUP of women are fighting back against the sickening culture of rape which they say infects India. Fifteen determined females – all victims themselves – have trained in martial arts and are prepared to hand out rough justice if no one listens to their complaints. And the movement, called the Red Brigade, is growing rapidly following the gang rape and murder of medical student Jyoti Singh Pandey that horrified the world.In a nation where a woman is reportedly raped every 20 minutes, the group’s leader Usha Vishwakarma said: “We are fighting back – and the boot is now on the other foot.” Member Sufia Hashmi, 17, said: “We’ve caught a lot of men recently. I joined because men always used to pass comments on me and touch my body but now we beat them and they run.”Like the other members in the northern city of Lucknow, 25-year-old Usha has first-hand experience of the daily dangers women face in the huge nation – a teacher tried to rape her when she was 18. She said: “He grabbed me and tried to open my trousers. I kicked him in the crotch and ran.” Usha complained to staff but they told her to forget it and allowed her attacker to carry on teaching. She said: “Many parents tell girls to quit school so there will be no sexual violence. But we said no – this has to stop. We decided to form a group to fight for ourselves, not just complain.” MOREThe Red Brigade is up there with badass all female groups like the Ukrainian Asgarda and India’s Gulabi Gang.
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this will never not be hilarious to me
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#i feel like this is the perfect counterpart to aotd #because everyone always assumed that rory loved amy more than she loved him #but she loved him so much as well #and people always assume that river loves the doctor more than he loves her #because she’s better at showing it #but here he is admitting how deeply his feelings for her affect him #he loves her so much (via a-bitey-mad-lady)
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[AGGRESSIVELY THROWS OSCARS AT THE ENTIRE SPN CAST]
I’m so sorry.
quick, Leo, catch one
its getting better with time
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Tangled comparisons - concept art to the final film.
This is the problem I have with the 2D studios shutting down in Disney… Look at those hand drawn portraits, they’re so beautiful, and in my opinion, the hand drawn is so much more captivating than the 3D, like I understand 3D is also art, and for some films it’s a sutible medium. However, 2D is also art and I tend to prefer 2D to 3D drawings. And let’s face it Snow White would have been really different if it ended up being in 3D. But if Disney’s going to expand and then shut down parts of its studios to expand more, I don’t think the 2D studios should be the part to shut down, I think that they should shut down other areas, like how many stupid TV shows they’re putting up nowadays, I mean they’re all the same stupid show with just a different cast, right?
Shutting down the 2D department was just a rumor because they laid off a few people who worked in that area. They just don’t have any 2D films planned right now.
And those portraits are paintings. It would be almost impossible to animate them. The concept art is always just for inspiration.
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Look who showed up in last Saturday’s new Fairly OddParents!
In which I learn FOP is still on TV
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