In all of this what’s actually lost is the segment itself, in which @KafleShristi, a campaigner in Nepal and host of a Nepalese podcast Period Talk, discussed the tragic phenomenon of period huts which led to the death of a 16 year old girl. An extreme case of woman hating.🧵

https://twitter.com/cache_pas/status/1691889482369478840

The huts are usually made of mud and straw. The 16 year old girl died of a snake bite a week ago, while she was sleeping in the hut. Her body was found Wednesday morning. The local authorities confirmed it was because of the practice of chhaupaddi, aka period huts.

To all the GCs in the replies to this tweet, making the tragic death of a 16 year old girl in Nepal, about THEIR single issue: with all my heart, go fuck yourselves.

https://twitter.com/bbcwomanshour/status/1691747211413991659

No, I don’t want to argue with you about “if we don’t have the word woman we have nothing.” Get to fuck. You are selfish if you cannot see how inappropriate this is.

Someone just asked me an amazing question, so I’m turning it into a thread. “What do you think we should do to combat gender ideology if ‘GCism is dead’?”

This is an important question, and if you *actually* care about the issue, this’ll be, hopefully, a thought provoking read. In all this anger about the left’s genderism, it seems to have been forgotten that the left’s genderism is the other side of the coin of the right’s genderism. You can’t have LW gender, aka “a boy wearing clips might be a girl,” WITHOUT RW gender.

GCism is dead, and I’ll tell you why.

It started with this comment.

3,700 likes so far, too many of whom WERE mutuals, for a woman saying a dysphoric person showing mastectomy scars is “pathetic and self absorbed.”

Read the thread before you fling insults at me, btw. GCs claim to care about young women getting double mastectomies and identifying out of misogyny, etc. When it’s convenient, the rhetoric is, they’re poor victims of this ideology. SAVE THE GIRLS!

“Birth certificates should only have the biological mother and father on them” shut up. Genuinely shut up. Actually shut up and learn, read, think.

Read this and then tell me “birth certificates should only have the mum and dad on them.” Fucking Christ, you malicious people. Anyone who is stuck on birth certificates only showing biological parents is, at this point, running interference for RANK AND FUCKING OBVIOUS HOMOPHOBIA.

I live in an authoritarian, patriarchal theocracy. The other day, my sister and I went to the supermarket. It wasn’t long before we realised we were being followed. He—isn’t it always a he?—wandered through the aisles, holding nothing, not shopping, openly staring at us. We finished our shopping while trying to dodge him. He continued to stare at us. When we got to the register, he lined up some ways behind us, with just a canned drink.

In Iran, 16/290 (6%) of parliament seats are women.

In New Zealand, 60/119 (50.4%) of parliament seats are women.

In New Zealand, women OUTNUMBER men in parliament.

Comparing the two in this glib way minimises the situation of the former and the achievements of the latter.

https://twitter.com/therealrukshan/status/1640170562000687105

Iran hasn’t had a female PM. New Zealand was the First Nation to grant women suffrage, ALL women—including indigenous women. And Aotearoa New Zealand’s last PM was a woman.

There’s no way to know if what the porn you are watching is consensual. Consent could have been revoked, it may never have been given, she may have been coerced.

We point this out to raise awareness about the issues with porn.

But…for how many men is that a feature, not a bug? Part of the misogynistic, patriarchal thrill of p*rn IS the violation of women. 88% of p*rn shows violence against women. Women receive *97%* of physically aggressive acts in p*rn.

Women being violated, being aggressed upon, most often by men, is the rule, not the exception.

Things women wouldn’t have without feminism: thread

-Voting rights
-Property rights
-The right to divorce
-Bank accounts
-The right to work
-Recognition of marital rape as a crime
-Access to abortion
-Sexual harassment laws
-Rape crisis centres
-Women’s shelters Things women wouldn’t have without feminism, cont’d:

-The right to hold political office
-The right to equal pay (still working on that ofc)
-The right to drink in a pub (yes, really)
-Contraceptive access
-Plan B access
-MVAWG being considered a violation of human rights

What I learned on this app in 2022: Notes from a house on fire. Male violence against women and girls, rape culture, anti-abortion garbage, toxic female stereotypes, domestic violence, FGM, honour killing, child brides, sex trafficking … these things have existed and have ALWAYS been urgent. This moment by @bindelj puts it perfectly.

A quick smattering of Tucker Carlson’s misogyny and racism, a thread He was on a show where he called women “extremely primitive,” “basic,” and “like dogs.”

When the show host described 14-year-old girls at Mr Carlson's daughter's school sexually experimenting with each other, he says: "If it weren't my daughter I would love that scenario."

No. Feminism is about freeing women from patriarchal oppression. Why do you want to deflect from the people the movement is for? Why do you need to market it to the oppressor class for it to have value? Isn’t that just appealing to the structure we’re trying to change?

https://twitter.com/volker_turk/status/1600564771614507029

To decentre women from feminism by making it about “equality” erases the specific oppression and oppressed group. It would be comical if someone said “racial justice is not only about poc” and they’d be rightly skewered. Like. Come on.

“She said no and stop several times…it was rough, maybe she got some bruises…She kept saying no.”

—Ronaldo, 2009

https://twitter.com/goal/status/1600346864829665280

Ronaldo was sued in Las Vegas by a woman who says he raped her. This quote is from the leaked papers in his attorneys’ questionnaire to him.

Violence against women & girls is the most pervasive human rights violation worldwide.

More than 5 women/girls are killed by family EVERY HOUR.

Tomorrow is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, & is the start of the 16 Days of Activism.

#IDEVAW2022 While women can indeed be agents of patriarchy, and participate in this violence, the vast, vast majority of violence against women is perpetrated by men. This is why many feminists insist on calling it “MVAWG”: male violence against women and girls. macleans.ca/opinion/lets-f…

A misogynist with a quarter of a million followers is back to spread hate. HATE. Not a simple difference of opinion.

He tweeted that he “wouldn’t even r*pe” Jess Phillips. Don’t pretend that falls under “free speech,” most of us would have reported the shit out of that tweet. Too many women who say they are for women’s rights are, in my opinion, not seeing the forest for the trees here, because they are so, so single issue. It isn’t enough to be able to say what a woman is when rank, abject, and PROUD misogynists are regaining huge platforms.

The Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has warned incel rhetoric is getting more violent. We know all too well from recent events that violent rhetoric inspires violent acts. Incel forum posts about mass murder rose by 59%, and there is a r*pe post EVERY HALF HOUR. 🧶 “It's in keeping with a broader escalation in violent rhetoric we've seen from groups on social media, whether linked to conspiracies or far-right ideologies. More specifically, it seems to fit into a wider pattern of increasing anti-women hate online.”

You know what I think about a lot? This moment from @jk_rowling’s essay: “We are living through the most misogynistic period I’ve experienced.” It was the first time I’d seen anyone with a huge audience say, hey, regress for women isn’t just possible, but happening right now. 🧵 We are gaslit by society, in a way. There’s this desire to see the status of women as a steady upwards climb towards progress and liberation. But that’s really not the case, as the last few years have shown, across the world.

Feminism seeks to liberate women as a sex class, and therefore benefits all women—even those who are against it.

Some women will work against feminism, as a part of patriarchy, because that is what patriarchy does—socialise, brainwash, manipulate. Feminism benefits all women. All women are included as the subjects of its struggle.

That however *doesn’t* mean that anti-feminist women are being unfairly excluded if their anti feminist views are criticised or examined.

This thread is incredible. And by incredible, I mean a shocking perversion of feminism and the #MeToo movement. It seems the spike in male violence against women is because…women aren’t having enough sex with them. How DARE we?? 🧵

https://twitter.com/hunt4change/status/1582166917174808577

Apparently these poor, poor men have had NO CHOICE but to become violent, because they’re simply not getting enough sex! The rise in male violence against women has got nothing to do with porn culture, or growing misogyny, or the hyper-sexualisation of women in media, amirite?

Look, it is important and revealing to critique beauty standards and examine one’s own participation in them. It is freeing to challenge them in your own life and model it for other women. But… 🧵 I’ve been noticing a disproportionate emphasis on personal, individual beauty choices, especially as a marker of how “feminist” you are. This is itself a symptom of the very same hyperindividualism that second wave feminism is meant to be *against.*

Language like this has real negative public health implications. Here’s another example. 34% of Tower Hamlets, where this ad campaign was seen, speaks a non-English language as their primary language. And a whole quarter of its residents have low or no proficiency in English.

https://twitter.com/cherylcapstick/status/1547889404999413761

“Amongst those with a cervix”? A woman who struggles with English would have no clue this applied to them. NO CLUE. If you don’t believe me, I’ve just asked my aunts who are sitting around me and 4 out of 5 of them were confused.