The focus of #16DaysofActivism2021 to End Gender-Based Violence is femicide: the killing of a woman or a girl by a man because of her gender, sometimes also used to refer to the epidemic of women killed by men in intimate settings 16dayscampaign.org/wp-content/upl… feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te…
If terrorism means politically-motivated violence intended to scare us into changing the way we behave, then surely femicide is terrorism. Patriarchy is the ideology; cis men are the terrorists.
#16Days
#16Days
Unless we impose on societal consciousness just how quotidian violence against women is and how it is ordinary men who commit it, it will continue to benefit ordinary men. It does.
Say it. Violence against women is everyday; ordinary men commit it.
Say it. Violence against women is everyday; ordinary men commit it.
All men benefit from some men’s violence against women.
They are beneficiaries of that violence because that violence upholds patriarchy. It is foundational to patriarchy. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te… #16DaysofActivism2021
They are beneficiaries of that violence because that violence upholds patriarchy. It is foundational to patriarchy. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te… #16DaysofActivism2021
Whether any individual man has ever beaten up or raped a woman is besides the point at this stage because such violence--enabled and protected by patriarchy--helps maintain a social construct (women’s fear of men, and subservience to them) that privileges all men. #16Days
And so if we stand a chance of ending femicide, the very destruction of that patriarchy must be acknowledged as the way to end the terrorism of cis men against women. #16DaysofActivism2021
Read more about #16DaysofActivism here 16dayscampaign.org
I do not want to be protected from the violence of cis men. I want patriarchy to stop protecting violent cis men.
From April 2020. #16Days
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From April 2020. #16Days
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