That thing is never going to be anything other than Piss Hitler to me.
marianne
I have taken to calling the political position of he and his friends “the Alt Reich”…
LordHaw
Heh! That’s good…and sadly relevant…from my outside looking in point of view.
Killjoy
It’s a movement that’s been overtaken and in some ways fractured by the rise of Team Orange and the Alt Reich, but I’ve been referring to the more militant parts of the Dominionists and Millenialists as “The Christian Reich” for almost 20 years now.
I just checked out that Dominion thing. So, in a nutshell, they want the government to run on their own religion? That’s a slippery fucking slope, and I’m pretty sure that, historically, it leads to a whole lot of overthrown governments.
Zakrael
Less that they want the government to run on the religion, and more that they want the religion to run the government. Exactly like the Islamic State, although the Dominion people would probably go apoplectic about being compared to them.
Historically, full-blown theocracies tend not to get overthrown, as they spend a lot of time and energy keeping their people oppressed and brainwashed. They however are pretty vulnerable to internal collapse or getting the shit kicked out of them by other, less stupid, countries.
Killjoy
And here’s the kicker, the poison pill hiding in any Trump impeachment or… other incident.
Mike Pence is a hardcore, dyed-in-the-wool, Dominionist. One of the most fervent and ardent Dominionists actually holding office in America.
(Ted Cruz is also a Dominionist.)
thejeff
True, but still one less likely to sell us out to Russia or destroy the country by accident with a late-night tweet.
Awful as Pence would be, the fight to take Trump down would split and cripple the Republican party. He’d be able to accomplish less than he could just by getting Trump to sign things.
I genuinely forgot the name of the man who assaulted me. Not important enough to allow it to take up room in my brain. His name, as far as I’m concerned, is FuckFace.
They get off on the power. The power to violate your bodily autonomy and then make you thank them for it.
Also as you note, lets them delude themselves that it’s all okay, because hey, I coerced or intimidated the person into playing nice afterwards so I can pretend I didn’t just give a person years of flashbacks and PTSD symptoms because of some petty ante entitlement.
Gwen
Aww geez Cerb, I’m sorry. If it helps, when I was feeling like I’d betrayed myself with that high-five, a friend of mind asked me “So under your values, a woman (or anyone else) who’s being sexually assaulted has the right to take whatever actions she has to to get out of the situation as safely as possible, right? Because that’s what you were doing.”
Bluewind
I agree with your friend so much
Bluewind
Never feel that way hun. I think we go in shock from it and go on coast for a few while out brains try to rationalize and deny what just happened.
The guy who assaulted me accused me of ruining the mood (so “no stop please” DIDN’T!?!). The rape happened several times with my ex but I didn’t think it was rape because we had been together for years. The last time was after we broke up (so there was no way to think it was sex when he was in the mood and I wasn’t). He drove off and left me in my dad’s rural driveway (who wasn’t there at the time), but still had the nerve to call/text me talking about how he never wanted to be one of those guys who had sex and ran, but it was my fault because I riled him up (by us kissing after we had a long talk?) and he was sorry that who he did might have given me false hope of us getting back together with him… and I comforted HIM! It wasn’t until I talked to my best friend later that I snapped out of denial. I had it in my head that it wasn’t because I never screamed no (even though I told him before that I didn’t want sex for a while until he earned back my trust, tried to get away, and told him don’t). I was so mad at myself for comforting him, for stopping fighting when I knew I couldn’t get away, and for nervously laughing at the start of it, but now I know those aren’t things to feel guilty about because a lot of people in the same situation can do the same thing. It’s how we work.
Random bit because I had no good spot for it, but I told my ex about an accident at the hospital resulting in me being exposed to HIV meaning 6 months of testing. Still didn’t stop him. When a rapist wants something, risk is meaningless.
Ugh, that’s awful. *appropriate gesture of support*
And yeah, thanks. I know it’s just self-blame, but that one in particular is hard to shake. I guess that’s the really frustrating thing about surviving this shit is it’s really easy to get in a self-blaming mentality even if you’d never hold any other survivor to the same bullshit standard.
Plus, that whole evening was surreal as hell cause it happened in public in a big event and no one else seemed to notice (including two people close to me at the time) what was happening so I was second-guessing myself a lot during it and felt under a lot of pressure to not make a big deal out of it since no one else was making a big deal of it.
Which was probably the fucker’s aim. To be so brazen that no one would actually believe that’s what he was doing.
Gwen
Ugh, I’m sorry. I actually study sexual assault in public places, and what you’re talking about isn’t uncommon. Sometimes even when victims cry out, no one helps. I try to focus on the stories where people *did* intervene and how to make that happen more often, but yeah, it’s depressing as hell.
By the way, I have spent all week analyzing transcripts of interviews I did with assault victims, and this little corner of the internet is helping me feel less alone and keep myself more-or-less sane while I do it. So thank you. And thanks to Willis for inspiring it.
Thank you for the work you are doing. That shit is super important and I’m so glad you are doing it. *giant hug*
And yeah, I’ve noticed when folks get talking about their experiences, there tends to be a flood of responses. So yeah, none of us is alone on that.
Bluewind
Cerberus: Yup. We can look at it logically when it’s not us. And in public! He’s not only a rapist but proud of it to let others know so openly. May he get rheumatoid arthritis so bad it pulls his asshole to his nose, he gets the drizzling shits, and live to 100! (old family curse)
I love out community and the response floods. It’s so amazing to know that I’m not the only one that feels a certain way and how others can show me different perspectives even on dark subjects.
Gwen: I agree with Cerb. It is important work. Have you ever read something or talked to a survivor who had the shrug and go on response? That’s what happened to my friend. (Trigger warning) She was drunk. She said no. Her whole body felt weak. He did it anyway so she just laid there. When he was done, she got away and found her boyfriend and left. She had the “it was just sex” response, so some people thought she was lying. She didn’t go to police because no proof and he was very well known in their religious area. What she did do was quietly go around warning every girl she knew so they could be safe. She went to therapy who said she was okay, but people were weird because she didn’t react like they do in movies. She’s had a lot of crap happen over the years and has just learned to roll with the punches that only comes with real world practice.
(Trigger warning. Sexual assault)
I do remember the guy who assaulted me’s name, but the main thing I remember is how he told me that he had such big balls that they sometimes dipped in the toilet water. Third date went south when he turned into an ass. He pinned me down and did stuff, but at least he didn’t get the chance to rape me (he made a mistake letting my hand get near his junk. I refer to him as nasty balls.
Leorale
Are all attempted rapists covered in a thin layer of poopwater, or just that one? The world may never know.
Honestly at this point, I’m more annoyed by my flashbacks than anything. Like, yeah, they’re still debilitating and do fun things to my mental health and sometimes I get sucked back to that time and have to remind myself I’m not back there, but beyond that it’s just like ugh, still with this shit, go away Slimefucker.
Gwen, Bluewind, Cerberus, I…I don’t know how to describe how sorry I am that…that happened to you. That’s horrifying. It’s demented. It’s sick. I just…I can’t express my sympathy and support properly. I think I’m going to go for a while, I think I’m going to be sick and cry for a little bit. I’m so sorry *hugs*. Things like that shouldn’t happen to good people.
I think that’s why this is the activism I circle back to a lot and why I try and model proper consent practices in all things, especially with students (modeling asking and waiting for permission before wiping the board, asking and waiting for permission before helping them with a physical project or troubleshooting a problem, and not letting students get away with touching other student’s without permission or after they’ve been told by the person to stop).
And also why consent and boundaries end up being my biggest hobby-horse a lot of the time. Basically trying to attack this big scary problem at the source.
And yeah, in a just world, in a good world, this would never happen. To anyone.
Bluewind
Rukduk: First off, your reaction although it hurts is a good thing. The feeling of injustice for others makes good advocates. It makes people who won’t laugh at rape jokes. Who don’t support franchises with assault and even rape often played for laughs. Who won’t doubt when a person who acts different from TV and movies says they were assaulted. Who will ask for consent (regardless of gender as anyone can be a victim or abuser) instead of assuming that lack of a no means yes and the presence of uncertainty or even a no means push harder. It’s so underreported in part because of negative self talk and in part because of our society where victims get blamed and proof can be had to come by for assault (or even rape especially for those in a relationship with the person or who had a female rapist). The more people we have like you, the less people we’ll have like us. 🙂
The other thing is that there is a reason we’re call survivors. We survived. This event may be a small definer of who we are, but we don’t let it define us. It’s a patch on our vest showing us picking ourselves back up and not letting this one terrible thing take away all the good in us. We have stuff we need to do, so we walk, claw, or sprint forward however we can. Sometimes we get back to where we use to be; sometimes we don’t and that’s okay too. The more open of us support other survivors at various stages and do what we can to keep it from happening to others and ourselves again. It’s still a tiny part of the complete and complex people we are. I know I’m not a perfect example, but perfect is boring anyway.
Bluewind
Ah the joys of PTSD. Fingers crossed they one day find a cure.
This reminds me of that Oglaf comic where the Appellomancer puts a curse on anyone who offends her by giving them new, repulsive names, like Captain Cockstink or Princess Fatherfucker, and they would be forced to live out their lives around those names that were given to them.
I’ve always been happy with ‘Glassface’. It simultaneously dehumanizes him, is specific to him, is a villain/monster name without being a cool villain/monster name, and references a humiliating moment for him and victorious moment for Joyce.
207 thoughts on “Posted”
Ana Chronistic
*jots*
Fucknugget McAsslord
Shitgibbon Tinycock
Punchbag Scrotumwipe
Al Cuthisfuckinthroat
Jerk
user 18
One of these things is not like the others
Mr. Random
Punchbag Scrotumwipe. Because it’s the only one without a “k”.
a snow ʍousɐ
Much props for noticing that — you win three internets
Doctor_Who
Shitgibbon Tinycock. That one is clearly a Trump nickname.
Woobie
Tinyhands, sure. Brain protects me by not processing anything else.
Cerberus
That thing is never going to be anything other than Piss Hitler to me.
marianne
I have taken to calling the political position of he and his friends “the Alt Reich”…
LordHaw
Heh! That’s good…and sadly relevant…from my outside looking in point of view.
Killjoy
It’s a movement that’s been overtaken and in some ways fractured by the rise of Team Orange and the Alt Reich, but I’ve been referring to the more militant parts of the Dominionists and Millenialists as “The Christian Reich” for almost 20 years now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Theology
Delicious Taffy
I just checked out that Dominion thing. So, in a nutshell, they want the government to run on their own religion? That’s a slippery fucking slope, and I’m pretty sure that, historically, it leads to a whole lot of overthrown governments.
Zakrael
Less that they want the government to run on the religion, and more that they want the religion to run the government. Exactly like the Islamic State, although the Dominion people would probably go apoplectic about being compared to them.
Historically, full-blown theocracies tend not to get overthrown, as they spend a lot of time and energy keeping their people oppressed and brainwashed. They however are pretty vulnerable to internal collapse or getting the shit kicked out of them by other, less stupid, countries.
Killjoy
And here’s the kicker, the poison pill hiding in any Trump impeachment or… other incident.
Mike Pence is a hardcore, dyed-in-the-wool, Dominionist. One of the most fervent and ardent Dominionists actually holding office in America.
(Ted Cruz is also a Dominionist.)
thejeff
True, but still one less likely to sell us out to Russia or destroy the country by accident with a late-night tweet.
Awful as Pence would be, the fight to take Trump down would split and cripple the Republican party. He’d be able to accomplish less than he could just by getting Trump to sign things.
podian
Dorito Mussolini.
Chronos
“*jots*”
Danni
kickball
Nobody
The glassed ass
Leorale
Something tells me this comments section will have ‘cathartic nicknames’ covered.
Gwen
I genuinely forgot the name of the man who assaulted me. Not important enough to allow it to take up room in my brain. His name, as far as I’m concerned, is FuckFace.
Doctor_Who
Malaya’s iguana? Always seemed like an upstanding gent to me.
Gwen
Equally scaly, much more hateable. And made me give him a god-damned high five and say we were still friends before letting me go.
Emperor Norton II
I’d gladly give FuckFace a high-five…
…while wearing a glove with broken glass glued to it.
Disloyal Subject
I’d rather not take the time to construct such a thing. A high-five directly to the filtrum would suffice.
Leorale
Damn. Whatever his original name was, good job on replacing it with one that’s far more accurate.
Cerberus
Mine had me shake his hand afterwards. My greatest shame is that I did just to get out of there faster.
Kinoko
Shit, that’s horrible. 🙁
And it sounds like a dumb tactic to try to make themselves feel like they haven’t done anything wrong. Delusional shitstains.
Cerberus
They get off on the power. The power to violate your bodily autonomy and then make you thank them for it.
Also as you note, lets them delude themselves that it’s all okay, because hey, I coerced or intimidated the person into playing nice afterwards so I can pretend I didn’t just give a person years of flashbacks and PTSD symptoms because of some petty ante entitlement.
Gwen
Aww geez Cerb, I’m sorry. If it helps, when I was feeling like I’d betrayed myself with that high-five, a friend of mind asked me “So under your values, a woman (or anyone else) who’s being sexually assaulted has the right to take whatever actions she has to to get out of the situation as safely as possible, right? Because that’s what you were doing.”
Bluewind
I agree with your friend so much
Bluewind
Never feel that way hun. I think we go in shock from it and go on coast for a few while out brains try to rationalize and deny what just happened.
The guy who assaulted me accused me of ruining the mood (so “no stop please” DIDN’T!?!). The rape happened several times with my ex but I didn’t think it was rape because we had been together for years. The last time was after we broke up (so there was no way to think it was sex when he was in the mood and I wasn’t). He drove off and left me in my dad’s rural driveway (who wasn’t there at the time), but still had the nerve to call/text me talking about how he never wanted to be one of those guys who had sex and ran, but it was my fault because I riled him up (by us kissing after we had a long talk?) and he was sorry that who he did might have given me false hope of us getting back together with him… and I comforted HIM! It wasn’t until I talked to my best friend later that I snapped out of denial. I had it in my head that it wasn’t because I never screamed no (even though I told him before that I didn’t want sex for a while until he earned back my trust, tried to get away, and told him don’t). I was so mad at myself for comforting him, for stopping fighting when I knew I couldn’t get away, and for nervously laughing at the start of it, but now I know those aren’t things to feel guilty about because a lot of people in the same situation can do the same thing. It’s how we work.
Random bit because I had no good spot for it, but I told my ex about an accident at the hospital resulting in me being exposed to HIV meaning 6 months of testing. Still didn’t stop him. When a rapist wants something, risk is meaningless.
Cerberus
Ugh, that’s awful. *appropriate gesture of support*
And yeah, thanks. I know it’s just self-blame, but that one in particular is hard to shake. I guess that’s the really frustrating thing about surviving this shit is it’s really easy to get in a self-blaming mentality even if you’d never hold any other survivor to the same bullshit standard.
Cerberus
Plus, that whole evening was surreal as hell cause it happened in public in a big event and no one else seemed to notice (including two people close to me at the time) what was happening so I was second-guessing myself a lot during it and felt under a lot of pressure to not make a big deal out of it since no one else was making a big deal of it.
Which was probably the fucker’s aim. To be so brazen that no one would actually believe that’s what he was doing.
Gwen
Ugh, I’m sorry. I actually study sexual assault in public places, and what you’re talking about isn’t uncommon. Sometimes even when victims cry out, no one helps. I try to focus on the stories where people *did* intervene and how to make that happen more often, but yeah, it’s depressing as hell.
By the way, I have spent all week analyzing transcripts of interviews I did with assault victims, and this little corner of the internet is helping me feel less alone and keep myself more-or-less sane while I do it. So thank you. And thanks to Willis for inspiring it.
Cerberus
Gwen-
Thank you for the work you are doing. That shit is super important and I’m so glad you are doing it. *giant hug*
And yeah, I’ve noticed when folks get talking about their experiences, there tends to be a flood of responses. So yeah, none of us is alone on that.
Bluewind
Cerberus: Yup. We can look at it logically when it’s not us. And in public! He’s not only a rapist but proud of it to let others know so openly. May he get rheumatoid arthritis so bad it pulls his asshole to his nose, he gets the drizzling shits, and live to 100! (old family curse)
I love out community and the response floods. It’s so amazing to know that I’m not the only one that feels a certain way and how others can show me different perspectives even on dark subjects.
Gwen: I agree with Cerb. It is important work. Have you ever read something or talked to a survivor who had the shrug and go on response? That’s what happened to my friend. (Trigger warning) She was drunk. She said no. Her whole body felt weak. He did it anyway so she just laid there. When he was done, she got away and found her boyfriend and left. She had the “it was just sex” response, so some people thought she was lying. She didn’t go to police because no proof and he was very well known in their religious area. What she did do was quietly go around warning every girl she knew so they could be safe. She went to therapy who said she was okay, but people were weird because she didn’t react like they do in movies. She’s had a lot of crap happen over the years and has just learned to roll with the punches that only comes with real world practice.
Valerie
<3
Bluewind
(Trigger warning. Sexual assault)
I do remember the guy who assaulted me’s name, but the main thing I remember is how he told me that he had such big balls that they sometimes dipped in the toilet water. Third date went south when he turned into an ass. He pinned me down and did stuff, but at least he didn’t get the chance to rape me (he made a mistake letting my hand get near his junk. I refer to him as nasty balls.
Leorale
Are all attempted rapists covered in a thin layer of poopwater, or just that one? The world may never know.
Cerberus
As long as that thin layer includes the inside of their mouths, I’m very okay with this.
Bluewind
I still prefer my family’s go to curse 😉
May he get rheumatoid arthritis so bad that it draws your asshole to your nose, you get the drizzling shits, and live to be 100!
Cerberus
Ditto. Mine’s always either “my rapist” or “Slimefucker”.
Cerberus
Cause my body won’t let me forget… that aspect. So fuck it, might as well turn it into an epithet.
Bluewind
*appropriate gesture of support*
At least you are handling it well and can joke about it a bit, but it sucks that you have to at all. 🙁
Cerberus
Honestly at this point, I’m more annoyed by my flashbacks than anything. Like, yeah, they’re still debilitating and do fun things to my mental health and sometimes I get sucked back to that time and have to remind myself I’m not back there, but beyond that it’s just like ugh, still with this shit, go away Slimefucker.
Rukduk
Gwen, Bluewind, Cerberus, I…I don’t know how to describe how sorry I am that…that happened to you. That’s horrifying. It’s demented. It’s sick. I just…I can’t express my sympathy and support properly. I think I’m going to go for a while, I think I’m going to be sick and cry for a little bit. I’m so sorry *hugs*. Things like that shouldn’t happen to good people.
Cerberus
I think that’s why this is the activism I circle back to a lot and why I try and model proper consent practices in all things, especially with students (modeling asking and waiting for permission before wiping the board, asking and waiting for permission before helping them with a physical project or troubleshooting a problem, and not letting students get away with touching other student’s without permission or after they’ve been told by the person to stop).
And also why consent and boundaries end up being my biggest hobby-horse a lot of the time. Basically trying to attack this big scary problem at the source.
And yeah, in a just world, in a good world, this would never happen. To anyone.
Bluewind
Rukduk: First off, your reaction although it hurts is a good thing. The feeling of injustice for others makes good advocates. It makes people who won’t laugh at rape jokes. Who don’t support franchises with assault and even rape often played for laughs. Who won’t doubt when a person who acts different from TV and movies says they were assaulted. Who will ask for consent (regardless of gender as anyone can be a victim or abuser) instead of assuming that lack of a no means yes and the presence of uncertainty or even a no means push harder. It’s so underreported in part because of negative self talk and in part because of our society where victims get blamed and proof can be had to come by for assault (or even rape especially for those in a relationship with the person or who had a female rapist). The more people we have like you, the less people we’ll have like us. 🙂
The other thing is that there is a reason we’re call survivors. We survived. This event may be a small definer of who we are, but we don’t let it define us. It’s a patch on our vest showing us picking ourselves back up and not letting this one terrible thing take away all the good in us. We have stuff we need to do, so we walk, claw, or sprint forward however we can. Sometimes we get back to where we use to be; sometimes we don’t and that’s okay too. The more open of us support other survivors at various stages and do what we can to keep it from happening to others and ourselves again. It’s still a tiny part of the complete and complex people we are. I know I’m not a perfect example, but perfect is boring anyway.
Bluewind
Ah the joys of PTSD. Fingers crossed they one day find a cure.
Jay Eff
*continues jotting*
Douchebag McGee
Shitlord von Terdmaster
Bicycle Bill
Once you get a last name, you can try doing an anagram. There’s even an on-line tool — http://wordsmith.org/anagram/ — and it’s fun and easy.
For example, I put in “Donald Trump” and got “Lord Dampnut”, as well as “Damn Turd Pol” and “Lord Mudpant”.
KingOfGreyfell
For some reason, and it may well have to do with fatigue, but Lord Mudpant has me giggling more than it should.
Ana Chronistic
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP → DESPONDENT PRIMAL TURD
Fart Captor
:V
..
Actually just look at my avatar because that is the face I just made
Reltzik
“hackysac”.
“Uh…. sack is normally spelled with a k.”
“Different word.”
Furie
Surely Rapey Ryan is on the table. Simple, but it works.
Hiraku
This reminds me of that Oglaf comic where the Appellomancer puts a curse on anyone who offends her by giving them new, repulsive names, like Captain Cockstink or Princess Fatherfucker, and they would be forced to live out their lives around those names that were given to them.
Tan
I’ve always been happy with ‘Glassface’. It simultaneously dehumanizes him, is specific to him, is a villain/monster name without being a cool villain/monster name, and references a humiliating moment for him and victorious moment for Joyce.
Brotato
I like that.
Cattleprod
Idea for a Patreon strip: this scene, from the POV of the people visible down the hall.
Bagge
This won’t make Sal seem any less cool to them.
Ragnarok101
For some reason, I think she’s not just talking about Ryan here.
Opus the Poet
Ryan Paul, he doesn’t need a nickname beyond that.
Chrissy
Are they kinda friends a little?
Gwen
More than either of them will admit to.
Inspector Hound
Heck, if you include “our usual friend,” there are three of them!
But for some reason Sal only gets to appear with one of them at a time.
Vinny
Go for a diuretic nickname, like Piss Boy
Hellespont
Ryan – Dyin’
The rhyme is right there guys…
Stephen Bierce
Reminds me of an Aerosmith song. For the period of theirs that I hate.
BBCC
Awwwwwwww, Sal’s taking some time to hang out with her sidekick. How sweet.
(I am making this joke before someone comes in with the ‘Sal’s her sidekick’ thing, yes, because I despise that joke).
miados
amazigirl does seem more like the robin and not the batman of the two
Doctor_Who
I just got back from the Lego Batman movie, so I totally think Amber’s the Batman, Dorothy’s the Robin, and Sal is Barbara Gordon.
BBCC
The problem with that is Sal is confirmed Batman already (another strike for AG’s sidekick hood).
DaveM
From my perspective (skewed though it may be)
Amber is Superman, Dorothy is Lois Lane, Sal is Batman.