Why do these men hate us? They hate us because they need us, they fear us, they understand how much control it takes to keep us in line, to keep us good girls with our hymens intact until it’s time for them to fuck us into mothers who raise future generations of misogynists
to forever fuel their patriarchy. They hate us because we are at once their temptation and their salvation from that patriarchy, which they must sooner or later realize hurts them, too.
They hate us because they know that once we rid ourselves of the alliance of State and Street that works in tandem to control us, we will demand a reckoning. feministgiant.com
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“It’s been a horrendous year for victims of abuse,” Nicole Jacobs, the designated 1st domestic abuse commissioner for England & Wales. As England goes into new lockdown, the horrendous will continue. I made this in May 🎥 @rerutledtheguardian.com/society/2021/j…
66%: The increase in the number of calls to the National Domestic Abuse helpline in March-May 2020 reported by Refuge
40%: The increase in the number of calls to the Women’s Aid chat line service in first two weeks of lockdown in March 2020 theguardian.com/society/2021/j…
On Tuesday, the domestic abuse bill, which includes creation of Jacobs’ role, goes to the House of Lords. The bill for 1st time will create a statutory definition of domestic abuse that encompasses emotional, coercive or controlling,and economic abuse as well as physical violence
White U.S. exceptionalism in action. In any country in Africa or Asia or in the Middle East, a hard needle to thread” would just be called what it is: treason, sedition, fascism, etc
This mealy mouthed politeness and tip-toeing around fascism is capitulation.
This is not the time for euphemisms or politeness.
Fascism cannot be tip toed around.
The people who spent the Trump era crying “This isn’t my America” (sidenote: WHAT FUCKING AMERICA HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING IN?) also insisted “it can’t happen here” when those of us who know authoritarianism warned them. Because why?
Lockdown reimposed in England. People can leave home "to escape domestic abuse.”
-What fucking world is this where men still beat & kill us even during pandemic?
-How long must we wait until men stop beating & murdering us,even under lockdown?
🎥 @rerutled
I made the above in May. Earlier during the pandemic, isolation and lockdown conditions exacerbated barriers to escape for victims of domestic violence in the UK and many other countries. google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.…
Where’s the vaccine vs patriarchy? Unsurprising spike in intimate partner terrorism during lockdowns is the other global pandemic many are happy to ignore.
Women, children, queer people are being terrorized at home. Home is where the hurt is.
🎥 @rerutled
His daughter, Mariam Aamer, told local news website Darb that authorities in Cairo’s Tora Prison denied her multiple requests to deliver insulin, eye medication, and prescription glasses to her father, who is a diabetic and has cataracts in both eyes.
“Egyptian journalist Aamer Abdelmonem is already in failing health, and to detain him during a global pandemic blatantly endangers his life,” said CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa program coordinator, @sherifmnsour
In his recent articles on Al-Jazeera’s website, Abdelmonem criticized the Egyptian government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and its crackdown on the Al-Azhar Islamic Institution, a state-affiliated religious institution.
Did you know that in NY and California in 2020 were considering new legislation that would be the first in the United States to ban "virginity testing." usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Across the United States, too, emergency-room physicians, gynecologists, sexual-assault nurses, and family doctors report being asked to perform, or performing, “virginity tests” marieclaire.com/health-fitness…
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the #Jan25 revolution in #Egypt. I will be publishing several new articles soon. For starters: It is a fuck-this-shit moment for Egyptian women.
Exhibit A: three witnesses who came forward to testify in support of the victim of a high-profile gang rape case are in detention as part of the regime’s effort to counter a growing movement against exposing sexual abuse in Egypt reuters.com/article/us-egy…
Exhibit B: An #Egyptian criminal court in December acquitted three Muslim men accused of stripping naked an elderly Coptic Christian woman and parading her through the streets in 2016