The chapter on Violence is one of the reasons this episode of an #Australian TV show was banned. In 2019. Banned.
“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?"
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?
So! Sign up and this Friday read from the chapter that so upset Australians that one of their TV networks pulled an episode of a show. In fucking 2019, for fucks sake
And when I ask “How many rapists must we kill before men stop raping women?” I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY.
Fuck the State and its monopoly on violence.
I am talking about our power and the power we have to fight patriarchy.
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.
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 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.
In The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls, 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
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 time.com/5170236/mona-e…
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.
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White & Christian are considered norm and not dangerous in the U.S. 👇🏽
"GOP Sen Anthony Kern & his prayer team of anti-abortion extremists praying in tongues (that’s not an audio issue) that an 1864 law banning nearly all abortion becomes law again."
It's easy to see the fascists and theocrats when they don't look like you. When they're white and Christian, their danger has not registered enough:
So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia:Iran, that so many white women didn’t pay enough attention to theocracy that white supremacy was building at home theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…
It was being built by white men who look like their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, not the scary brown men with beards, right?
The same arrogance and naiveté that made so many white Americans think Trump would never become president is same arrogance & naiveté that made so many think "it would never happen here” whether it was destruction of abortion rights:anti-divorce laws feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
Two months into its genocide in Gaza, the more Israel displays its savagery against Palestinians, the more obvious its moral and philosophical defeat.
Militarily, Israel is armed to the teeth and propped up by the U.S., the world’s most powerful country.
And Israel is losing
The unconscionable vote against ceasefire at the UN yesterday by U.S. & abstention by the UK are reminders that while some western political powers might still be propping up Israel’s crimes,around the world more & more people vehemently oppose the genocide.
Israel is losing
Israel’s crimes are repeatedly being equated w/some of worst genocidal crimes: from ethnic cleansing and genocide in Srebrenica to the cultural genocide of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
It has come at a staggeringly high Palestinian death toll—at least 20,000.
When the NYT is reporting it like this, something is changing
"People are being killed in Gaza more quickly, they say, than in even the deadliest moments of U.S.-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were themselves widely criticized by human rights groups."
"It is not just the scale of the strikes...Israel’s liberal use of very large weapons in dense urban areas, including U.S.-made 2,000-pound bombs that can flatten an apartment tower, is surprising, some experts say."
Some of you will remember that at in Sept. 2012, I was arrested in NYC for spray painting over an Islamophobic and racist pro-Israel ad.
Notice the language of the ad and how it continues to echo today. 📷 Kristy Leibowitz
Anytime you see the words “civilized” and “savage” being used, understand that the purpose is dehumanization.
I refused to allow that dehumanization to exist without challenge on the walls of the subway that I and millions of New Yorkers use.
We who oppose Israel are not savages and there are more options than Israel/Jihad. And if it makes me a savage to oppose that option, if it makes me a savage to support Palestinian freedom from apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleansing and genocide, then I am a proud savage.