My second book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls is now out in paperback!
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The chapter on Violence is one of the reasons this episode of an #Australian TV show was banned. In 2019. Banned.
“How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill?"
How many rapists must we kill before men stop raping women?
And why is the first half of that question more disturbing than the second half? Why is hypothetical violence against men more disturbing than actual daily violence against women?
And when I ask “How many rapists must we kill before men stop raping women?” I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY.
Fuck the State and its monopoly on violence.
I am talking about our power and the power we have to fight patriarchy.
After I beat up a man who groped me in a club, a manager pointed at @rerutled & asked me “Why didn’t you let your husband take care of it?”
Me: “He’s not my husband. This is my body. I take care of it.”
I don’t want to be protected. I want to be free.
I don’t want to be protected. I want patriarchy to stop protecting men who are violent towards women.
Patriarchy protects men who are violent towards women.
Patriarchy allows only men to “protect” women from other men.
Patriarchy punishes women who protect themselves.
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