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23 Jul, 9 tweets, 3 min read
How many rapists must we kill before men stop raping us?

TW: sexual assault, rape
“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 do you think must be killed before patriarchy begins to be disbanded? One thousand? Ten thousand? One million?

feministgiant.com/p/how-many-rap…
Fuck the patriarchy and its protection and enabling of cis men and their violence. I made this in April 2020 and it’s a question I ask every day since then: What fucking world is this?
🎥 @rerutled

My questions are awful?

Rape and sexual assault are worse than hypothetical questions.

Violence begets violence?

What do centuries of cis men’s violence against us beget?
“The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men,” Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The aftermath of violence - from domestic abuse to political terror
Hospitals, prisons, and cemeteries are full of women who fought back. The cis men who put them there are walking around free.

So when you can fight back, fight back.

feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…
Australia—which banned this TV episode because I asked “How many rapists must we kill” clearly is more comfortable with white male sexual predators than with a woman of colour saying we have a right to fight back.
Fuck the patriarchy in every time zone and in every universe.

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