Victoria Smith Profile picture
Mar 27 4 tweets 1 min read
Women shouldn't use actual statistics on sexual violence to back up their arguments about sexual violence because it's just too risky (to men)
From the man who read that one line in The Second Sex and used it to suggest Simone de Beauvoir meant the complete opposite of what she was arguing about sex and gendered socialisation.
Misreading truly is the gift that keeps on giving. Good practice when you want to own the feminists, a terrible risk we must all avoid when the feminists present you with facts you can't easily misrepresent.
How can you look at a statistic such as "99% of all sexual violence is committed by males" and worry first and foremost about #notallmen? Where is the empathy for women and girls?

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Victoria Smith

Victoria Smith Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @glosswitch

Mar 28
Women, since forever: We're really uncomfortable with this shit <starve, cut, protest, write, organise politically...>
Men: Lucky you, not a care in the world. Now imagine what it's like for people who aren't comfortable ...
Men like Tom only acknowledge discomfort with gender when people try to change how they're individually categorised. When women try to collectively dismantle the whole system of categorisation, he can't imagine *that* coming from a place of just as much pain and torment.
I wrote this 8 years ago - a very personal piece on anorexia yet a lot of the male response was basically "yeah, but your distress was just girly sadfeelz, not the deep, meaningful, existential distress of the gender dysphoric" newstatesman.com/uncategorized/…
Read 5 tweets
Mar 26
"Don't provoke him", when literally anything other than total self-effacement and subservience counts as provocation, is everyday life for many women and girls. Politicians claim to care about ending VAWG, but for many, "don't provoke him" is a natural, go-to response.
Lots of lives drift along on the principle of "don't provoke him" with no one noticing what women lose because these women aren't "difficult". They're not in "volatile" relationships. They might even seem "devoted", if a bit quiet.
I get the sense this is considered the ideal for women as political beings, too. Drift along, don't complain, never trouble us with the suggestion this isn't who you are or what you need. Keep the peace instead of asking questions just to catch us out.
Read 4 tweets
Mar 25
None of the misogynists I grew up with pretend not to know what women are - because you don't need to if you're open about your misogyny. It's only if you want to hide it that you'll refashion the class formerly known as women as front-holed gestational service providers.
The difference isn't between goodies and baddies, with women needing to choose wisely. It's between the wrong-side-of-history misogynists and those who got the new rebrand marketing message.
New misogynists won't say "women are intellectually inferior". They will suggest the category "woman" is rendered infinitely more complex, fascinating and deep by the addition of people who aren't just dumb vagina-havers.
Read 6 tweets
Mar 24
This stuff is just so idiotic. People didn't need to know about chromosomes to identify which class of people gets pregnant.
These ponderous men - who've never seriously read or pondered feminism - keep offering their 'wisdom', which amounts to confusing the retrospective ascribing of features to a category which we already know exists with describing the category itself.
No man ever wandered around thinking "dunno how I know what a woman is, but I sure know they aren't allowed to vote or leave the house without a chaperone". Nor did he have to test fertility to generally know which person, fertile or not, belongs to which reproductive class.
Read 6 tweets
Mar 17
Today, in stating the obvious, I wrote about the harm done to female victims of male violence when we describe perpetrators as female thecritic.co.uk/serial-killer-…
It's not about how authentic or otherwise a perpetrator's self-perception is. It's why we privilege that over the victim's experience of power and privilege, and apply a gender identity-based analysis to violence that is sex class-based.
I do really want to stress this, above all - stop recasting arguments about the importance of validating female subjectivity as attacks on other people's subjectivity. Recognising that even dead women had inner lives, too, doesn't kill anyone.
Read 5 tweets
Mar 16
So many men see reports like this and think women are interested in debating the veracity of the perpetrator's identity, as though wanting women's own experiences - as victims of male violence - validated, is an irrelevance bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
It's such a staggeringly male-centric view of the world, as though there's no reason on earth why you'd think the perspective of a raped or dying woman on what is being done to her is of any importance. As though she has no inner life of her own to be overridden.
Why should any murdered woman have her death discounted from the number of female deaths at the hands of male people just because the perpetrator doesn't agree? Why should her death be robbed of its political significance, the power imbalance erased?
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(