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The primary enemy of women is capitalism and the state. Capitalism depicts women as compliant and then tells the men "be subservient like women, but dont beat them up for it."
Capitalism essentially directs men to make women their punching bags, then says men are not "coping."
Capitalism essentially directs men to make women their punching bags, then says men are not "coping."
And when the men try to resist the state, or even when they dont, they are shot dead by police, thrown at tear gas in the streets, drugged and put on a plane to Canada.
If the men cannot overthrow the state, they will direct the aggression of the state at us.
If the men cannot overthrow the state, they will direct the aggression of the state at us.
That is why the ouster of Muigai from the presidency is a feminist issue. I am tired of women absorbing the punches for the state which uses police to defend the enemies who violate men. I would rather we burned Parliament to the ground than another woman beaten or killed.
And it's not like the state hasnt already done so much harm to women. Poverty affects women the most. Botched education and poor healthcare affect women the most. When we go to the streets, women are arrested. When we are killed, women are maligned and their memory crushed.
So to seperate our pain and agony from capitalism and the state, to say that our issues are separate from politics and are about culture, is a capitalist, racist and disingenous agenda that emboldens a Jubilee stooge to basically tell men "tulieni kama wanawake."
Women are also citizens. Our issues are not just domestic. They are also political. We also fight the state. And we have foremothers who fought in politics and on the military battlefield: Queen Nzinga, Mama Winnie Mandela, Field Marshal Muthoni.
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