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I had vowed to stay offline for a month, but I couldn't help but to take a peak. Just 15 minutes, I promised myself. It was enough to leave me enraged, with tears in my eyes and trembling hands. Here's why:👇🏾
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A young South African woman was raped and killed by a post office employee, and @GovernmentZA's only answer was to call for women to not "allow themselves to become victims by keeping quiet".
Stop blaming women for sexual violence.
#UyineneMrwetyana
#ThursdayThoughts
Stop blaming women for sexual violence.
#UyineneMrwetyana
#ThursdayThoughts
A Moroccan journalist was arrested for "illegal sexual intercourse" after police mysteriously showed up at her ob-gyn's clinic and accused her of having had an illegal abortion.
Stop weaponizing women's sexual lives for political gain.
#FreeHajar
Stop weaponizing women's sexual lives for political gain.
#FreeHajar
For many South Africans, and pretty much every South African woman, yesterday was harrowing. The terrible rape and murder of #UyineneMrwetyana and the abduction of 6 year old Amy-Lee de Jager brought into the spotlight the terrible fear that all South African women face daily.
And women took to social media to express their fear, mainly using the hashtag #MenAreTrash…
But perhaps the worst part (if it could get any worse) was the number of men who took umbrage to women speaking out.
But perhaps the worst part (if it could get any worse) was the number of men who took umbrage to women speaking out.
It was despicable that in the midst of women expressing their worst fears and experiences, some men decided that, rather than listen and understand, they would take offence and respond with #NotAllMen.
When you tell women and girls to learn self-defense, or carry weapons against rapists, you're not reducing rape. You're just saying "let him rape someone more vulnerable."
Stop calling for dystopias. Start working to end patriarchy. Make a world BEYOND RAPE.
#Uyinene
Stop calling for dystopias. Start working to end patriarchy. Make a world BEYOND RAPE.
#Uyinene
Patriarchy wants us to believe that rape has always existed and always will. That rape is intrinsic to masculinity. This myth serves patriarchy by transferring all consequences of rape, including shame and blame, onto victims. Patriarchy stays unaccountable.
#UyineneMrwetyana
#UyineneMrwetyana
Rape culture is how patriarchy sustains the hegemonic myth that rape is a given, an unchangeable condition, of all human societies. So men never have to hold themselves or other men accountable. Rape is a women's issue.
#Uyinene
#Uyinene
