.#BeKind is drenched in the blood of all the women who weren't. It is as much of a threat as punching the wall beside someone's head, an indicator of what might happen. It never just means, "be kind". It means do as I say, don't make me angry, it's your fault you make me do this.
The usually unsaid, but sometimes vocalised, "or else" - be if from your mum telling you, "just you wait until your father comes home", or from the doctor telling you that if you can't relax then OF COURSE it will hurt more, you silly girl - is always, always there.
Sep 15, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
I cannot describe the rage I feel that washing and cleaning have been referenced with regards to rape shelters. They make you sit there without being allowed to brush your teeth, even though the inside of your mouth is bruised from his penis.
#ThisWontWash #MridulMustGo
You can smell your body, his body, seeping through your worn clothes. The FME examines every inch of you, your underarms which have sweated as you were transported from station to station, your bruised groin that they swab for his fluids, your blood.
I told them Scottish women have been redefined in law (but men have not);
that rape victims had to beg to be allowed the dignity of specifying the preferred sex of their FME, and were still accused of bigotry;
That women are blocked by politicians for requesting policies be based on #SexNotGender;
that carers are accused of transphobia for wanting their loved ones to receive single sex care;
that there are rapists in women's prisons right now, today, and assaults have already occurred;
