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To be quite honest. I made this blog years and years ago because I needed a pick-me-up. Somewhere I could go to just reblog all the funny things I came across. Mainly because I was always so sad and depressed with how my life was going. Three years later, I own a house and my girlfriend is moving in with me in six short days. Now this place that has felt so empty is going to finally feel like a home. I really don't find myself needed this blog as an escape anymore. I'm finally happy, and I'm glad my life is where it's at.

Just one more month until she is with me. Just one month until everything I've worked so hard for comes together. Everyday I'm going to see her beautiful face when I wake up, and she will be the last thing I see as I head off to work every morning. Everything I've done has been for her, and everything I continue to do will be because of her. Love doesn't even begin to describe the incredible feelings I have towards this woman. If I live long enough, I'm going to have the next 70 years of my life with the most amazing woman on the planet. Everything is finally coming together... I'll never fully understand how we managed to make everything work, but it only shows how absolutely wonderful she is.

I want to address a simple way to help fight victim blaming in rape and abuse culture with just a simple English lesson. Julia Penelope brilliantly dissects this issue with 5 sentences. 1. John beat Mary. 2. Mary was beaten by John. 3. Mary was beaten. 4. Mary was battered. 5. Mary is a battered woman. Let me explain why this is effective. In any basic english composition class, you're told to say what you mean, be direct, even get to the point. Now, the first sentence is good, but it starts with one noun, and ends with the next. Typically, you end with the noun that's the least important, Mary is not the least important. By the second sentence, you see John is now at the end, which means he's soon to be forgotten. By the third sentence, John is gone, but it still lacks the point that's being asserted. In the final sentence, Mary is the topic, and her being a battered women is the message being brought out. Yes, it's good to address the abuser, but never in the sentence of the victim. Let the attention be focused on the abused, and never lose track of that mindset.

Brandon Acker's review on Julia Penelope's placement of nouns for sexual and domestic abuse.