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.
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.
Patriarchy protects men who are violent towards women.
Patriarchy allows only men to “protect” women from other men.
Patriarchy punishes women who protect themselves.
Patriarchy allows only men to both hurt and protect women because patriarchy socializes men in the belief that they own our bodies, are entitled to them.
I own my body.
I own my body.
In my latest book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls, the chapter on the “sin” of violence is the most controversial. In it, I write about beating up the man who sexually assaulted me 
I wanted that man who assaulted me to remember that this average height woman, whose ass be believed he could just reach out and grope without fear of retaliation, beat the fuck out of him. And I started #IBeatMyAssaulter
Remember:
- not everyone can call the police.
- not everyone wants to call the police.
- the police do not protect everyone: ask Indigenous women, Black women, women of colour, marginalized women, sex workers, etc
- I do not want to be protected. I want to be free of violence
- not everyone can call the police.
- not everyone wants to call the police.
- the police do not protect everyone: ask Indigenous women, Black women, women of colour, marginalized women, sex workers, etc
- I do not want to be protected. I want to be free of violence
In this interview, I tell @laignee that I started #MosqueMeToo to talk about being sexually assaulted at Hajj when I was 15, and why I started #IBeatMyAssaulter after I beat up a man who sexually assaulted me at a club when I was 50
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And here’s what I wrote after I beat up that asshole and as I launched #IBeatMyAssaulter
And here’s @rerutled’s account
The first video in this thread is the latest FEMINIST GIANT Dispatch.
This is the first ever FEMINIST GIANT Dispatch: about why I launched #MosqueMeToo and #IBeatMyAssaulter
🎥 @rerutled
This is the first ever FEMINIST GIANT Dispatch: about why I launched #MosqueMeToo and #IBeatMyAssaulter
🎥 @rerutled
