#I keep being reminded of the Iraqi women saying western feminists don't care if middle-eastern women are bombed | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

blackswallowtailbutterfly · 1 year ago

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If you think women and girls being bombed is compatible with your feminist beliefs, you are wrong.

If you think women and girls being acceptable collateral damage to the things men have done is compatible with your feminist beliefs, you are wrong.

If you think retaliating by harming women and girls of one group for the harm done to women and girls of another group is compatible with your feminist beliefs, you are wrong.

If you think women and girls dying may be necessary to "liberate" the people, you are wrong.

#no this isn't solely about the Israeli attack on Gaza or the hostages Hamas took #but rather an attitude I've seen by so-called feminists regarding this and other conflicts and wars and massacres etc.#over the years #well decades now I guess I'm 36 lol #but anyway #I keep being reminded of the Iraqi women saying western feminists don't care if middle-eastern women are bombed #as long as they die with their genitals intact #your concern for non-western women cannot stop at the actions of non-western men #imperialism #it always weirded me out #how people would point to this or that atrocity committed by x group of people #to justify thinking of them as non-human #but their victims were...women and children of their own group #and it was like...but if they're monsters and it's down to something inherent aren't their victims also monsters?#and if they aren't then it can't be inherent to that group #so why would we support something that would further victimize those women and children?#as if western peoples don't have their own sordid histories #and not even all that long ago #both against other peoples #and against women and children of their own #not to mention the things they still do #and a lot of those things are done by men who are the loudest in saying x group of people are basically animals and should be put down #put yourself down first #but anyway if you're a woman and consider yourself a feminist #you can't be of the position that it's acceptable for some women to die in war or massacre or retaliation or whatever #no matter what justifications you have in your head for it

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