#itsamoidsworld

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This is female s3lf-h@rm

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Why does gEoRgE CLooNey get to write for the New York Times? Is he educated? A journalist? A political analyst? I mean I know he's married to a human rights lawyer, but he's not one. What the fuck. Why do rich celebrities get to insert themselves where they aren't qualified? I have opinions too. Can I be in the Times? Fuck.

(I even agree with his point in the op-ed, but make a damn social media post or something. You shouldn't be able to buy your way into a serious organization. Damn journalistic capture.)

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/12/29/india-rape-victim-dies-sexual-violence-proble/

OH LOOK. ONE OF THE REASONS RAPE IS SO COMMON IN INDIA IS BECAUSE OF LACK OF PUBLIC FEMALE SPACES, INCLUDING BATHROOMS. WHO KNEW?

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For me, prostitution is a human rights violation against women and girls. Not everyone shares this understanding. We are now at a crossroads, with a number of countries around the world under pressure to either remove all laws pertaining to the sex trade (including those governing pimping and brothel owning), or to criminalize the purchase of sex (known as the Nordic model). However, the polarized debate on the sex trade, being played out within academia, media, feminist circles and human rights organizations has reached a critical point. No other human rights violation towards women and girls is so grossly misunderstood. While domestic violence has often been, and sometimes still is, assumed to be the fault of the victim (‘She was nagging him’, ‘She failed to understand his moods’), there has been a significant improvement in the way that those experiencing it are supported and the perpetrators called to task thanks to feminist campaigning and interventions. Rapists are often seen as men who ‘couldn’t help themselves’, or who were coerced into committing such crimes by the behavior and dress sense of the victims. But increasingly, again as a result of feminism, rape is viewed as an expression of misogyny rather than one of uncontrollable sexual desire. Not so prostitution. In recent years, despite the increasing numbers of women with direct experience of being prostituted coming out as ‘survivors’ of the sex trade, the dominant discourse is one of prostitution being about ‘choice’ and ‘agency’ for the women involved. The human rights abuse involved in the sex trade, according to the liberals, libertarians and many of those who profit from selling sex, is when men are deterred from purchasing sex, and not when they rent the orifices of a woman for sexual release. The women selling sex, according to this logic, are the victims of pearl-clutching moralists who wish to take away their right to earn a living. Indeed, supporting women to exit prostitution has been described as ‘an affront to human dignity’ in one academic paper, authored by four academics, three of whom have been campaigning for total decriminalization of the sex trade for a number of years. The war that rages between feminists such as myself who seek to abolish the sex trade, and those who see prostitution as a valid choice, is fueled by the widely held belief that feminist abolitionists wish to ‘rescue’ ‘fallen women’ and ‘demonize’ the men who pay for sex. The redoubtable feminist writer Andrea Dworkin once described herself as a ‘radical feminist: not the fun kind’. I use this phrase to distinguish myself from those neoliberal ‘choice’ feminists who have absorbed the argument about ‘sex work’ being empowering. These fun feminists ensure that they never upset men, and appear to be happier tearing down tried and tested theories of patriarchy and male power being the driver for the sex trade than they are asking how prostitution can be sexual liberation for the prostituted. I and other abolitionists are accused by the fun feminists of being ‘whorephobic’, since they claim we hate the women in the sex trade instead of the pimps, buyers and brothel keepers. I became an active feminist partly in response to the police investigation and media coverage of a serial killer who operated in the North of England during the 1970s. Peter Sutcliffe, named ‘the Yorkshire Ripper’ by the tabloid press, turned out to be an ordinary, married man living in a suburb of Bradford. The Sutcliffe case brought attitudes about women in general, and prostituted women in particular, out into the open, which in turn led me to join forces with some of the most passionate and committed antimale violence activists in the country. The public was led to believe, thanks to the police leading the case and the media reporting of the murders, that Sutcliffe hated prostitutes, when in fact only a minority of his victims were involved in the sex trade. The mythology that built up around the killer meant that police excluded a number of cases of women found murdered in England because they did not fit the profile. It also served to perpetuate the notion that women in prostitution somehow deserved their fate, and that rape and murder were merely occupational hazards. During the 1970s and into 1980, Sutcliffe killed at least 13 women and left seven others for dead. The body of his first murder victim—28-year-old Wilma McCann—was discovered in 1975 and, from the beginning, the West Yorkshire Police were guilty of dragging their feet and bungling the investigation. Complacent police officers overlooked vital clues, and inadequate technology was used to collate the thousands of interviews and intelligence reports they gathered. Amid all this, Sutcliffe just kept killing— with hammers, screwdrivers and knives—and police were no further forward by the time the body of his fifth murder victim, Jayne MacDonald, was discovered in June 1977. MacDonald’s killing was described by police and press as a ‘tragic mistake’. The previous victims had all been labelled as prostitutes and therefore, in the eyes of many, complicit in their own demise. But MacDonald was 16 and described by police as ‘respectable and innocent’. Victims were duly divided into deserving and undeserving women. Officers made a plea to the women of West Yorkshire to look out for strange behavior in their sons and husbands. But they failed to listen to one of Sutcliffe’s surviving victims: a 14-year-old girl who had had a good look at the man who chatted to her about the weather before striking her about the head several times with a hammer. When the girl reported the attack, she saw the photo-fits compiled by other survivors and told police it was the same man. They dismissed her because she was not in prostitution, and it was assumed the Ripper was only interested in prostituted women.

Julie Bindel, The Pimping of Prostitution

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One debilitating consequence of the way in which the Native Caribbean has been locked into an ‘ethnographic present’ of 1492, divorced from 500 years of turbulent history, has been that the present Native population has usually been ignored: some seemingly authoritative accounts of the region even appear written in ignorance of the very existence of such a population. -Peter Hulme, 1993

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Sociopath.

Like this woman legitimately looked at Aunt Lydia and thought: Career Goals.

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The Elder Pedestal in Native culture* is so damn toxic.

*I'm thinking from Canada down, though I'm not sure the levels and prevalence of it south of Brazil

These motherfuckers think they have the authority to speak on EVERY damn thing, even shit they don't know, but I would be wrong if I were to have a direct and honest discussion with them.

They could be saying some of the dumbest and most insulting shit and I'd have to be all "Yes, I understand. From my perspective, it's like this....blah blah blah" in a meek voice just because it's The Culture.

I understand respect for Elders. Truly, I do. But they're people. And they can be wrong. And they can be worse than wrong. But if I were to speak to them like any other adult on the street or in the room, it would be "disrespectful" even if it's not. Even if I know more.

A lot of these Elders aren't even fucking old. They're like in their 50s. And they're speaking out of their lanes. Speaking on stuff that would affect someone personally from a different walk of life that they don't understand or haven't studied, and don't have experience with, but because they say it, it's Law.

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Males kidnap women and girls for literally looking for food.  Not bothering anyone.  Who’s the logical sex?

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As much as I kind of like this Pope (particularly in comparison to all the others), and as popular as he is, the fact that this is news in 2023 must serve as a reminder of how backward Catholicism and all other male religions are.

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With No Immediate Cause

Every 3 minutes a woman is beaten

Every 5 minutes a woman is raped

Every 10 minutes a li’l girl is molested

Yet I rode the subway today

I sat next to an old man

Who may have beaten his old wife

3 minutes ago

Or 3 days ago

Or 30 years ago

He might have sodomized his daughter

But I sat there

Cuz the young men on the train

Might beat some young women

Later in the day or tomorrow

I might not shut my door fast

Every 3 minutes it happens

Some woman’s innocence

Rushes to her cheeks

Pours from her mouth

Like the Betsy Wetsy dolls

Have been torn apart

Their mouths menses red and split

Every 3 minutes a shoulder is jammed through plaster and the oven door

Chairs pushed through the ribcage

Hot water or boiling sperm decorate her body

I rode the subway today

And bought a paper from a man

Who might have held his old lady onto a hot pressing iron

I don’t know

Maybe he catches li’l girls in the park

And rips open their behinds with steel rods

I can’t decide what he might have done

I only know

Every 3 minutes

Every 5 minutes

Every 10 minutes

So I bought the paper

Looking for the announcement

The discovery

Of the dismembered woman’s body

The victims have not all been identified

Today they are naked and dead

Refuse to testify

One girl out of 10’s not coherent

I took the coffee and spit it up

I found an announcement

Not the woman’s bloated body in the river

Floating

Not the child bleeding in the 59th Street corridor

Not the baby broken on the floor

There is some concern

That alleged battered women

Might start to murder

Their husbands and lovers

“With no immediate cause”

I spit up

I vomit

I am screaming

We all have immediate cause

Every 3 minutes

Every 5 minutes

Every 10 minutes

Every day

Women’s bodies

Are found in alleys and bedrooms

At the top of the stairs

Before I ride the subway

Buy a paper

Drink a coffee

I must know:

Have you hurt a woman today?

Did you beat a woman today?

Throw a child across the room?

Are the li’l girl’s panties

In your pocket?

Did you hurt a woman today?

I have to ask these obscene questions

The authorities require me to establish

Immediate cause

Every 3 minutes

Every 5 minutes

Every 10 minutes

Every day

-Ntozake Shange

Written out in a way that is easiest for me to read

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Op got me blocked for some damn reason but this is important so I’m putting it on my blog for me.

I'm actually quite disgusted by the current Disk

Horse that feminists cause the "no drag shows"

bill in Tennessee.

In the US in the last few years, women have lost

the right to an abortion, the Supreme Court

decreed birth control isn't real health care that

government can force insurance companies to

cover, every girl and her sister is joking about

starting an OnlyFans when they turn 18, women

faced massive losses in the workforce with

Covid 19 school and daycare closures, every

misogynist with a microphone is making money

telling men how to be better at negging women,

and a woman who was abused during her

marriage was made a public laughingstock for

months and now everytime a rape victim

comes forward the conversation turns to "she's

a fucking liar and deserves to be in prison for

ruining a beautiful man's life."

And you think feminists caused drag shows to

be banned. In a conservative state.

Ok.

Point me to even One Single Radical Feminist

on the Tennessee legislature. Point me to a

single radical feminist who's on a board of

education in the entire state. Show me a radical

feminist Governor, or Judge. Point me to a

single radical feminist in the entirety of US

congress, maybe you'll find one there, but I

doubt it.

I'm sorry but a tweet is not power. Having an

Instagram account is not legislative power.

Having a small tumblr circle of mutuals is not

power. Show me a radical feminist in power,

who has the ability to influence a bill in the

United States. I want to see her. I want you to

show me this radical feminist woman in the

United States who's drafting and passing these

bills.

I stand firm on this post. Radical feminists do

not have the power you ascribe to them. This is

the work of conservatives.

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Men gonna men.

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It’s so gross that all these children’s books about Hiawatha and the Haudenosaunee don’t mention Jigonhsasee

I just finished reading Hiawatha and the Peacemaker, and like most other children's books on the subject, Jigonhsasee, Mother of Nations, was not even mentioned.  Bruh she’s the one who co-founded the Nation.  Even in the author’s note, he mentions two men going journeying around the land to make peace between the 5 tribes.  He does mention “a clan mother” who plays a very small part, but that’s it.  She was the most important part of the founding of the confederation.  Men Stop Erasing Women and Taking Credit From Them Challenge.

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"Women, wake up!" called [Olympe] de Gouges.  "Recognize your rights!"  Scornfully, she exposed the blatant new oppressions brought in by the self-seeking revolutionary males: "Man, the slave, has multiplied his strength...Once free, he became unjust to his companion...What advantages have you (women) got from the [French] Revolution?  A more open contempt!"  With sarcastic reflections upon "our wise legislators," de Gouges urged women to "oppose the force of reason to man's empty pretense of superiority."

Rosalind Miles quoting Olympe de Gouges in Who Cooked the Last Supper