Thread by @WomensLibFront

Men, as a class, leverage greater physical force against women in ways that create a persistent climate of threat and coercion, which constrains women’s physical freedom and opportunities.

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https://twitter.com/conceptualjames/status/1324578183308562435

In India, “Women choose lower quality colleges, travel for a longer time, and spend more money on commuting, relative to men, to feel safer.”

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Women all over the world face a level of routine threat and harassment that men don’t, on the basis of sex. It affects us in public, and in private and workplace social circles, the level of tolerance for it between men affects our participation.

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This is why radical feminist analysis centers male violence as the key issue to freeing women from oppression. Men don’t live under a persistent, common threat of sexual torture or coercion in the way women do, and it’s critical to understanding women’s situation.

“That is what theory about male supremacy means. It means you can rape. It means you can hit. It means you can hurt. It means you can buy and sell women. It means that there is a class of people there to provide you with what you need.”
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Men’s power over women has nothing to do with how women feel about it, or how feminists of a particular type do or don’t analyze it. It’s not formless and immaterial.

Men’s power over women comes through force and intimidation which they support each other in using against us.

Proper feminism isn’t some inane, Butlerian argument about competing discourses and performance. It’s about ending torture.

“Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it.”

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