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Found this on my dash.
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Finally, because we lack an intersectional analysis of how heteropatriarchy structures white supremacy and colonialism, we end up developing organizing strategies that are problematic to say the least. To name but a few examples: We have anti-violence groups supporting the bombing of Afghanistan in order save women from the Taliban, and we have these same groups supporting the buildup of the prison industrial complex by relying on criminalization as the primary strategy for ending domestic and sexual violence.
These groups fail to see how the state itself is the primary perpetrator of violence against women, particularly women of color, and that state violence in the form of either the military or prison industrial complex is not going to liberate anyone.
We have racial and antiwar groups meanwhile organizing against state violence in Iraq and elsewhere, but cannot seem to do anything about ending violence against women in their own organizations. These groups fail to see that it is primarily through sexual violence that colonialism and white supremacy work.And then we have mainstream reproductive rights and environmental groups supporting population control policies in order to save the world from poverty and environmental destruction, thus blaming women of color for the policies wrought by corporate and government elites, thus letting these elites off the hook.
In all these cases and many more, activists fail to recognize that if we do not address heteropatriarchy, we do not just undermine the status of women, but we fundamentally undermine our struggles for social justice for everyone.
Thus, if we are not serious about dismantling heteropatriarchy, then we are not serious about ending colonialism or white supremacy. We might as well go home and tell all Christian Right activists to retire because we will be doing their job for them.
Heteropatriarchy, A Building Block of Empire — Andrea Smith (via whitedenial-ontrial)(via coatlicuesserpentskirt)
Posted on May 20, 2013 via Can Dialectics Break Bricks? with 119 notes
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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.”MORE(via knorthedinosaur)
Posted on May 19, 2013 via Searching for Knowledge with 8,403 notes
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He is trying to explain that not getting laid (incel means involuntary celibate) is a violation of his civil rights and a grossly overlooked injustice. He is completely serious. This is his blog.
what a fucking creepy fucker
Oh my fucking GOD. What an entitled little douche.
“BEING WITHOUT A RELATIONSHIP AND SEX AGAINST YOUR WILL FOR OVER 6 MONTHS” cry me a river
what is that civil rights analogy even
Dear guys who don’t understand why women are often cagey around you:
These men walk among you and are indistinguishable from you until it’s too late.
From his About Me: “I want to share the idea that governments have to help people get partners.”
Suddenly, in a totally unrelated coincident, I have a brilliant and terrifying idea for a new dystopian fiction setting.
OH MY GOD. I cannot with Nice Guys™ like this. FUCK.
I’ll try to contain my rage with a nice numbered list of why he is SO fucking wrong. Ahem.
- Women are often single too, even when they don’t want to be. Nobody is entitled to a relationship with anyone. Period.
- Comparing women to restaurants is disgusting and objectifying. Stop.
- Comparing the civil rights movement to you not getting laid is also disgusting. Stop that too.
- You may not like being single, but that is not, in any way shape or form, oppression.
- You are probably single “against your will” because you view women as restaurants that have an obligation to service you.
- If we really wanted to help people who felt depressed because they were single, a big step would be teaching them that they don’t need a relationship to be validated and happy, NOT trying to match people up with tax money (honestly, I read it twice, and I still don’t know exactly what it is that you’re proposing).
- You clearly have a warped view of women, the civil rights movement, and oppression and you are awful. STAHP.
As was mentioned before, things like this are a big reason women have trouble trusting men. The predators, the Nice Guys™, the creeps, the guys who feel entitled to women, they’re all out there, masquerading as decent dudes.
reblogging because the “easily imaginable state of being without a relationship and sex against your will for over 6 months” is not oppression, and it’s really telling that there are dudes out there who assume this is oppression for them and other dudes (clearly women, non-binary folk, and gay men are not allowed to have this issue), and further more, oppression on a level akin to that of civil rights, apparently.
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Some links for men who'd like to find out more about feminism
(via gtfothinspo)
Posted on May 18, 2013 via Zeeblebum with 530 notes
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It’s a form of violence in the way that we look at women and the way we expect them to look and be for what sake? Not for health, survival, not for enjoyment of life, but just so you could look pretty,
Rosario Dawson (via sexualityandfeminismandgender)(via honeymanifesto)
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Yes, false rape accusations happen. Run the protocol anyway. I’ve heard that perhaps the military has the highest number of ‘em. True or not, RUN THE PROTOCOL ANYWAY. Because in 15 years of investigating rape accusations, I can count those that panned out as false on one hand. Meanwhile, the one time I almost skipped the protocol, the one time I almost didn’t believe a petty officer, because I was naive as an investigator and a young woman, because her commanding officer described her as “a party girl, always late, always out drinking, don’t bother with this one”, she turned out to be the victim of one of the most brutal assaults I’ve ever investigated. She shouldn’t have still been -alive-, let alone up and making the accusation. So let me repeat: five false accounts in fifteen years. And one time I almost failed a woman ‘cause of the bullshit way it’s normal to talk about us. Take your shipmates’ word, and then run the protocol. Every. Single. Time.
- JAG lawyer, speaking to my husband’s plant during Sexual Assault Prevention Month. (via circusbones)(via thatfeministdyke)
Posted on May 18, 2013 via The Unbearable Awkwardness Of Being with 8,371 notes
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A 15-year-old girl hoes cotton in Texas. Unauthorized migrant farmworker women and girls are exceptionally vulnerable to sexual abuse. Geographic isolation, language barriers, fear of deportation, and the desperate need for work make it very difficult for them to report abuse, much less get help.
© 2009 Robert Romano(via mothsfly)
Posted on May 18, 2013 via with 330 notes
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conservativegirlonrape: “i’m being a complete piece of trash because FREEDOM, which is quite possibly the most stereotypically conservative response i could’ve come up with. i also seem to be under the impression that my freedom to ‘so agree’ with something as vile as this means i’m exempt from criticism, but…that’s not true. see, the problem is that i’m not just useless rape apologist garbage; i’m also a complete fucking idiot. which is unfortunate.”
Problem is, honey, you think you’re such a high and mighty bitch. Go to hell. And stay there.
conservativegirlrape: “i have no defense for my indefensible behavior, so…time to break out the gendered slurs! i’m a really smart journalist and stuff, okay? i can’t handle being called out for my terrible actions though, because i’m an insufferable little brat. murrica.”
Dear God. Just stop. You look like a fool.
conservativegirlonrape: “um so yeah i really have nothing to say. i wish this person would stop exposing me for being the absolute scum of the earth, because i can dish out bullshit but i sure as shit can’t take it, wahhhh.” :(
The only person who sounds like a fool is the rape supporting assholes like the girl in the picture and the-one-you-will-hate
If you don’t want to be called out as a rape apologist, rape supporting, victim blaming asshole, then don’t be a rape apologist, rape supporting, victim blaming asshole. It’s easy. Don’t get mad at us.
Posted on May 18, 2013 via STFU Hatemongers with 285 notes
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The sexualization of women is only appealing if it’s nonconsensual. Otherwise it’s “sluttiness,”….
Lindy West, “Female ‘Purity’ Is Bullshit” (via jatigi)(via pewpewlasernipples)
Posted on May 18, 2013 via The Golden Phoenix Girl with 1,959 notes
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Rape culture is a concept institutionalized in the world (particularly the West) that makes sexual violence both invisible and inevitable. Common themes are slut-shaming and victim-blaming; rape trivialization; and sexual objectification.
Need an example? I've got plenty.
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