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In Nov, an episode of Australian show Q&A was banned from rebroadcast. Among reasons: I asked “how many rapists must we kill before men stop raping women?” Women are terrorized at home during #COVID19 lockdowns. Imaginary violence vs men shocks more than actual violence vs women
“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?"

Remember: a TV episode was BANNED from rebroadcast in Australia in 2019 because,among other reasons, I asked those Qs
Patriarchy is the oldest form of occupation. Liberation movements throughout history have used violence vs colonizers and occupiers. Why can’t women?

From chapter on Violence in my book #7NecessarySins
The only form of “resistance” women are allowed to consider is anger - and even that is considered so beyond the beyond that entire books are written about it. Still.

FUCK THAT SHIT

#COVID19
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The gunman in #Canada’s worst mass shooting was a white man. Most mass shooters are.

Police in white supremacist countries downplay the violence of white men.
Esp when it’s directed against marginalized women such as indigenous women and sex workers 👉🏽 google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.…
(cw: vaw) Robert Pickton, one of the most notorious serial killers in history. He targeted mostly sex workers and Indigenous women, some dealing with addictions or mental health issues, in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He admitted to butchering 49 women and feeding them to pigs.
When mothers, fathers or other relatives would go to Vancouver police to report their loved one missing, they were dismissed.

"And their response invariably would be: 'Well, we don't have time to look for hookers. Your daughter is a drug addict. What do you expect us to do?“
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Before worst mass shooting in #Canada - April 18/19 - one of the worst was Montreal École Polytechnique shooting of 1989, where 15 women were killed.

Responsible for both: misogynist men.

#Femicide
“If we look at the history of mass shootings, we can see that in many cases they begin with an act of gender-based violence, whether it’s femicide or intimate partner violence,”

One of most common predictors of future violent behaviour: domestic violence vs partners/daughters
#Canadian examples of misogynist attacks on women include some of the deadliest killing sprees the country has ever seen:

- Toronto Van attack, 2018. Self-proclaimed incel (someone who blames women for their inability to have sex) ran over dozens of people on Yonge Street.
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“I want patriarchy to fear women”: Mona Eltahawy says the time for being civil, peaceful and polite is over.

In Sept 2019 when my second book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls came out, some men complained after I spoke with @piya on @cbcopen

cbc.ca/radio/outinthe…
“How long must we wait so that men stop raping us? What will it take so that men stop murdering us?”

The men accused me of “inciting violence” because I dared to imagine a scenario of violence vs men. Imaginary violence vs men disturbs more than ACTUAL violence vs women
Some women have said to me, "Oh my god, I am a mother of sons. How can you be talking about this?" And I say, "You are more upset & disturbed at the imaginary scenario of violence vs your sons than the actual violence that is committed every day vs your daughters.”
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