#Misogyny and violence

[hussyknee]

Vajra Chandrasekera is a Locus and Nebula award-winner and has been short-listed for a Hugo Award this year. You can find his Tumblr here: @adamantine and his twitter here: @_vajra

[radykalny-feminizm]

I love to see the general public finally waking tf up

Guess what group has been talking about all these things for years and was demonized, shamed and threatend for it 🤔

[redditreceipts]

how liberal men think they can help women's rights:

how men can actually help women's rights:

source

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

The fact that Neil Gaiman, after raping and sexually assaulting six highly vulnerable women, isn't getting a hundredth of the hate Amber Heard got for supposedly abusing one man who was twice her size (and actually, no, she was just reacting to his abuse of her) tells you all you need to know about how our culture views women.

You can say "No, you see, I usually support women, it's just that *this* woman actually is evil and deserves to be hated", but I don't believe you. You can say, "I definitely support his victims! I'm just sad and processing this information. I just need to grieve for a little while. I'm definitely not giving him a pass!" And I don't believe you. You can say, "We need more information to see if he really did it" but then ignore all of the overwhelming evidence in favour of a demonized woman, so I don't believe you.

[worstdykeever]

not enough people are talking about the fact that a bunch of homophobic TRA 'activists' released thousands of LIVE CRICKETS at the LGB alliance meeting. these people were part of the 'trans kids deserve better' group that was lead by a trans identified man. however, the man decided to only have trans identified women release the crickets because he didn't want to get his hands dirty. the 'activists' were sent home and no charges were pressed. how is this not considered a homophobic hate crime ?

[newsfromstolenland]

In one private chat group conversation, a Mountie was accused of saying a new female employee "was overweight and insinuating that the shape of her vagina was visible through her clothing."

In another, a second RCMP officer allegedly bragged about "Tasering unarmed Black people" and called a sexual assault investigation "stupid" — drawing comments from other members of the online group who "made fun of the victim" and said, "she's a dumb Mexican c--t."

An investigator with the RCMP's professional standards unit detailed those allegations and many more in a search warrant sworn to obtain evidence now being used to call for the firing of three Coquitlam Mounties for violating the force's code of conduct.

The CBC has obtained a copy of the search warrant — which recounts behaviour which led the officer who sparked the investigation to complain to RCMP brass about what he saw as "atrocious" and "racist and horrible" activity in a private group operating on the Signal messaging app.

Full article

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

More from this article below the cut, because I think it's important to understand just how much fucked up shit they were saying:

(tw misogyny, domestic violence, racial profiling, anti-Indigenous racism, racism)

The documents reveal that investigators also reviewed 600,000 messages posted to the RCMP's internal mobile data chat logs — finding evidence of "frequently offensive" usage by the three officers facing termination of "homophobic and racist slurs."

"The reviewers had identified a variety of comments that were 'chauvinist in nature, with a strong air of superiority, and include flippant or insulting remarks about clients (including objectifying women), supervisors, colleagues, policy and the RCMP as a whole,'" the warrant says.

Code of conduct hearings against Const. Philip Dick, Const. Ian Solven and Const. Mersad Mesbah had been slated to begin in Surrey this week but have been adjourned until March of next year. All three officers have been suspended since June 2021.

Although Dick, Solven and Mesbah appear to be the only Mounties currently facing code-of-conduct hearings, the court documents say seven other officers were also part of the private chat group — including two supervisors.

Among the details contained in the search warrant are allegations one of the officers facing discipline joked about a domestic violence victim, calling the victim "a dumb f--king bitch, should've worn a mouth guard."

The whistleblower — Const. Sam Sodhi — claimed that outside of the private chat group, members of the group also "belittled Indigenous people, talking about how they were 'stupid' or 'drunk' and saying they have 'unfortunate bodies' and all have fetal alcohol syndrome."

"They would say, 'We're not going to the reserve,'" the search warrant claims Sodhi told investigators.

"We're not going there because we're not going to help those people."

According to the court documents, Sodhi was posted to Coquitlam in 2019.

"As part of that process, he wrote a letter about wanting to work in an urban centre and help at-risk youth that didn't have role models," the warrant claims.

But Sodhi claimed that on his second day at work, Dick — his trainer — asked him: "Are you a cool brown guy, or are you a Surrey brown guy? Because in that letter, you're whiny, like, 'Ooh, I want to help brown people.'"

Sodhi claimed there were two chat groups for members of the Coquitlam detachment assigned to Port Coquitlam — one for all members of the watch and a second private group that began on WhatsApp but then moved to Signal. He said he was told once he was "worthy" of the private chat group, "we'll add you to it."

The officer claimed he was admitted to the private chat group in March 2021 but left after a few days because of the "constant negativity." He said he was then accused of "not being a team member" and encouraged to return.

According to the search warrant, Sodhi complained to his superiors in May 2021, and a chief superintendent mandated an investigation into five Mounties — including a corporal who was accused of failing to take measures to prevent misconduct.

The probe initially focused on text communications between the RCMP's own laptops — known as Mobile Data Terminals. Investigators reviewed messages between the five men from January 2019 until May 2021.

"When members of the [Signal] chat group realized there was an investigation, they opined that the investigation was probably about 'MDT chats' ... since the private chat group was kept 'amongst the trusted' and 'there's no way this got out,'" the warrant says.

Examples cited from the RCMP computers include statements like, "Why do brown guys have unusually high pitched voices." "As an idiot woman would say ... 'toxic,'" and, "I just racially profile pulled over a car."

A review of the chat logs also allegedly found the three officers facing termination "appeared to use 'goldfish' as a slur for Asian people."

"For example, they talked about how 'goldfish' have 'bulging eyes' that 'can't see anything,' how a Korean church in the detachment was a 'goldfish church' and how 'goldfish' were bad drivers (a common Asian stereotype)," the warrant says.

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[womenaremypriority]

Right wing men: Women who disagree with me deserve violence

Left wing men: Women who disagree with me deserve violence

[femanthropy]

ah yes, historical accuracy

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[ghostmourner]

You can't say and believe that trans people can be indistinguishable from cis people and then get mad when you transition and women suddenly start to treat you like a cis man. Women can't magically tell that you're one of the good one a trans man, they have no way of knowing if you're a safe person to be around until they talk to you. And being a trans man doesn't annul you from being a perpetrator of misogyny, just as being a woman doesn't annul someone from being a perpetrator, so a woman might still decide you are not a safe person to be around after getting to know you. If you're a man, especially if you're a masculine one, you need to make a constant effort to make yourself a safe person for women to be around, and being trans doesn't exempt you from this.

[she-is-ovarit]

1978 article describing 13-year-old Brooke Shields as a "sultry mix of all-American virgin and wh*re"

This was less than 50 years ago. This is how normalized pedophilia was and how strongly rooted in our culture it was.

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Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, the Home Office has said.

Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has ordered a review of the UK's counter-extremism strategy to determine how best to tackle threats posed by harmful ideologies.

The analysis will look at hatred of women as one of the ideological trends that the government says is gaining traction.

Ms Cooper said there has been a rise in extremism "both online and on our streets" that "frays the very fabric of our communities and our democracy".

The review will look at the rise of Islamist and far-right extremism in the UK, as well as wider ideological trends, including extreme misogyny or beliefs which fit into broader categories, such as violence.

It will also look at the causes and conduct of the radicalisation of young people.

Ms Cooper said the strategy will "map and monitor extremist trends" to work out how to disrupt and divert people away from them.

It will also "identify any gaps in existing policy which need to be addressed to crack down on those pushing harmful and hateful beliefs and violence", she said.

Ms Cooper said that action against extremism has been "badly hollowed out" in recent years.

The work will inform a new counter-extremism strategy, which was promised in Labour's manifesto and which the Home Office says will "respond to growing and changing patterns" of extremism across the UK.

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[vouam]

(I believe this happened a few months ago, absolutely heartbreaking. Rest in peace.)

This tweet is currently going viral with (of course) a lot of men claiming ‘this is because of culture, not religion!’

They clearly lack critical thinking skills because while yes, the religion does not state women should be killed for showing their hair, she is still ordered to wear it by the Quran and threatened with Jahannam (hellfire). A woman revealing her hair is seen as a dishonour to the family - the exact motive for this case. Misogynistic culture obviously is a factor too. The entitlement to women’s bodies, control over their life or death, normalised violence. This case is clearly a result of both religion and culture.

Religion and misogynistic culture thrive because of one another. They use religion to justify their misogynistic cultural views and then claim ‘it’s culture!’ when something bad happens as a result.

In response to these comments from men, maybe do something about the mistreatment of women rather than play mental gymnastics because its culture not religion. Have some accountability. It’s still your culture and your religion, women are dying and you don’t care.

[luminalunii97]

TW: graphic violence

Today in my sister's university, the university morality guard that checks students' clothes to see if they're modest enough to enter, attacked one of the students for not cooperating and damaged her clothing. In protest, she took off all of her clothes and walked around campus in her underwear until they called for backup force. After attacking her again using more violence and force, they pushed her into a car and took her god knows where.

A few months ago, two 14 year old girls were attacked by morality police in the streets of Tehran for not wearing headscarfs. One of them was severely beaten and was released with a broken nose. The police guard who broke her nose had the audacity to press charges against her family because of a broken finger!

These are two heartbreaking examples of what is happening to women in Iran. This is the physical and mental violence iranian women have to endure every day. This is why you should not support Iran's regime under any circumstance. This is why you shouldn't assume women can have a decent life in Iran as long as this violent misogynistic regime is in charge. Mandatory hijab is just one of the fronts the regime uses violence on women.