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And when I ask on #Australia TV “How many rapists must we kill before men stop raping us?” - an imaginary scenario of violence - the network censors the show, investigates, a minister issued a statement, and apparently there will be a parliamentary inquiry
Thank you @thesailorsgirl for the h/t ☝🏽And again: “The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men,” Judith Herman. #fuckthepatriarchy
I have been accused of “inciting violence” because I talk about justifiable violence against men’s unjustifiable violence (to quote @ma_franks). “Violence begets violence,” men keep telling me. Well, what does this daily violence that men subject us to beget? What?
This is the start of the chapter on Sin #6: Violence in my latest book. I paint an intentionally disturbing scenario because the actual and daily violence that women and girls are subjected to is disturbing and yet normalized and ignored. #7necessarysins
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