When female journalists have interviewed me about my book, the chapter on Violence often leads them to say “But Mona! I’m a mother of sons! How can you ask me to imagine that?”
I reply “What I ask you to imagine, is the *reality* for mothers of daughters” feministgiant.substack.com/p/how-many-rap…
I knew this chapter would be the hardest for many to read.
My questions are especially pertinent now as rates of violence against women during the pandemic lockdown have spiked around the world. #COVID__19
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Intimate partner terrorism and domestic abuse kills and hurts millions. Where is the vaccine against THAT global epidemic?
That is the reality. Yet my questions about violence against men - hypothetical violence - disturb and offend more.
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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?
What fucking world is this, where men still beat & kill us even during a pandemic?
When I ask those disturbing questions, why am I immediately told in response “But Mona, violence begets violence!”
No shit! What do centuries of patriarchal violence beget?
Women socialized into submission and told not to be violent even as a form of self-defense but to wait until men can stop being violent toward us.When that would happen exactly is unclear & quite unrealistic, seeing as patriarchy has been using violence to keep us in line forever
How many rapists must be killed before a man thinks twice before raping or sexually assaulting women and girls? I’m not talking of state-imposed death penalties. I’m talking about the end of rape because men are sufficiently scared of women that they’d never dare to rape or try.
I don't want the state to protect me, because as I have stated several times already, protection from the patriarchy is conditional. I want to be free of patriarchy, not at its mercy. feministgiant.substack.com/p/how-many-rap…
The questions I ask above were among the reasons an episode of a TV show in #Australia was banned. Banned.
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