#vawe

[fuzzymaro]

FuzzyMaro.art Played around with VHS effects and made this portrait as a gift for my friend. Do not copy or use, the char has its owner!

[lacangri21]

Reposting for myself because I’m blocked

[cuntess-carmilla]

Alright, let's try a thought exercise!

This thought exercise requires us to start by agreeing that women are an oppressed class (cis women, trans women, non-binary people who at least partially id as women or woman-adjacent).

If you can't concede that as a basis, then keep scrolling, this post isn't for you. I'm not here to convince MRAs that systemic misogyny – aka the patriarchy – is real. Alright? Alright.

I think we can all agree that, besides the institutional oppression faced by oppressed groups, they all also face acts of individualized concrete violence (which are then vindicated by institutions and/or sociocultural disinterest or even active acceptance).

You know, that thing we call hate crimes? Acts of violence committed against an individual by mere reason of an aspect of who they are which makes them oppressed and/or marginalized.

We discuss women as an oppressed class as well, but, save for specific feminist factions (largely, non-liberal feminists from the global south), no one really talks about misogynistic hate crimes.

Even though misogynistic men murder women and girls for no reason other than their own misogyny every day. There are exceptions, of course, but most of the time, when a man kills a woman it's not to steal from us, not as revenge for something shitty we did to them, not because we were in an altercation and it simply happened. No.

It's because "if I can't have her, then nobody can have her" (women as property), "she rejected me" (woman denied sex or romance to a man who wanted it), "she was trying to leave" (culmination of domestic violence), "she made me feel emasculated" (reaffirming masculinity through violence).

We're raped and otherwise sexually abused ALL the time as well, and our perpetrators are by far mostly cis men. I hope I don't have to go into detail on how that's related to misogyny.

Chile has pretty progressive femicide legislation as of somewhat recently. The legal definition of femicide went from being "male partner or ex-partner who murders his female partner or ex-partner" to "any killing of a woman for reason of her gender", which explicitly includes:

Women killed by men they were never involved with but who acted out of jealousy/possessivenes or as revenge because they were rejected.

Women being killed by men for being gender non-conforming.

Women being killed for being trans, lesbian or bisexual.

Women killed by men because they were sex workers.

(So, no, before the MRAs who kept reading get their panties in a twist, femicides in Chile are not defined as every single time a man kills any random woman. The motive for the murder has to be patriarchal bigotry in some form and that has to stand to scrutiny in court.)

If we accept that, like in the Chilean legislation of femicide, any act of violence committed by a man against a woman due to patriarchal bigotry is a misogynistic hate crime, shouldn't we be more alarmed with how astoundingly common and NORMALIZED hate crimes against women are?

How many women and girls do you know who have been sexually abused by a man or boy? How many which have been beaten? How many women do you know who have controlling and violent boyfriends or husbands or fathers or older brothers? How often do you hear about a woman who made it out alive by the skin of her teeth from the hands of a man who was absolutely going to kill her? And the ones that didn't make it? How about when misogyny intersects with race, disability, transness, gayness, socioeconomic class, religious minorities, and so on?

I firmly believe that the only reason we don't talk about these things as misogynistic hate crimes is because, despite being oppressed, women aren't a numerical minority. But, rather than that giving visibility to the violence we face, it invisibilizes it even more. It became society's normal to have approximately half of its population constantly subjected to hate crimes, to the point that there's whole TikTok trends dedicated to turning it into a joke (the "joke" where men pretend they're trying to suffocate their girlfriends with a pillow for being annoying) and until very recently it was perfectly ok for standup comedians to joke about it too. Precisely, because women are an oppressed class and violence against us is both socially sanctioned and encouraged, when it's hyper-visible, it becomes at best a fact of life that deserves no one's attention, and at worst it becomes a recurrent joke.

I, personally, believe that femicides and the largest portion of rapes suffered by women are misogynistic hate crimes, as are many other instances of violence women are used to now and that we deal with as a natural(ized) aspect of living as a woman. Which I know will get me called all sorts of names and slurs, but I can't see where my logic is failing.

[rigby7997]

Moreee..mORE VAMPS AND WOLVES

Jjjokes jokes

THOMAS

Sorry not sorry

Shipping-ish

GUH TYPO ON THE LAST ONE "I'll take my chances." 😭😭

Benskips stuff :] (explodes)

[woman-for-women]

Lesbian Stats & Facts (Health, IPV, and Hate Crimes)

[usaac-official]

An F2H-3 and three F2H-4s of Airborne Early Warning Squadron 11 off USS Hornet (CVS-12) in flight, 1959

[radicalfacts]

radical facts - short feminist facts

#anti sex industry

Sex Trafficking Worldwide

Globally, 4.8 million victims get trafficked for the sex industry every year.

This category includes any adults who involuntarily participate in the sex industry and children experiencing commercial sexual exploitation. 3.8 million victims were adults, and 1 million were children. Globally, 99% of victims were women and girls.

(Data sourced via traffickinginstitute.org)

[90363462]

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safe_advocates

When someone says you’re “mature for your age,” they’re not being nice. They are grooming you.

This is how predators try to break down your defenses and gain your trust. It’s not about you being special. It’s about them trying to manipulate you.

#grooming

#VAW

#manipulation

#believesurvivors

#endviolenceagainstwomen

#halton

#intimatepartnerviolence

#IPV

#endsexualviolence

#survivors

#blacklivesmatter

#safe

#supportsurvivors

#trauma

#ptsd

#addiction

#womenempowerment

#consent

#narcissisticabuse

#sexualabuse

#peel

#physicalabuse

#metoo

#domesticviolence

#domesticviolencesurvivor

#sexualassault

#livedexperience

#communitysupport

#reflecting

#healingjourney

[usafphantom2]

Vietnam war by Linh Yoshimura Via Flickr: 1965 - Aerial photograph showing a profile view of a United States Navy Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye, from Early Warning Squadron 11 (VAW-11), nicknamed the "Early Elevens", with a large radar dish (radom) mounted above the main cabin and the numbers "740" on its nose, while in flight.

[loulovingho]

how did the lady want you to pronounce nevada?

An annoying way 🙏🏻

[cyarskaren52]

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safehalton “If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have... escaped."

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#domesticviolenceawareness #vaw #HALTON #SAFE #unwomen #orangetheworld #16daysofactivism #selflove #leavenoonebehind

[f-oighear]

Did Solid appreciated the boots Vanessa got him for the VAW? And did the gift made him more accepting of his brother choosing a witch?

Hhahaha yes! It's not like he hadn't been expecting this to happen eventually. This isn't the first time Vanessa remarks on how unpractical sandals are. He saw it coming.

But this is Solid so of course he starts with IMNEVERWEARINGTHOSE and then slowly. starts wearing them. once. twice. a few more times. until they grow on him and he reluctantly admits those are fine boots. 😁

Oh he's had time to get used to the fact that he can fall on a witch at every corner of his home by now. Vanessa made herself at home at the palace and Solid's literal House Head is not batting an eye at it so Solid has no choice but to accept the situation, really.

[rigby7997]

I'm cooking up something

OOOO I'M REALLY COOKING UP SOMETHINGB...

More designs will come soon I swear

I'm dying

[woman-for-women]

[haggishlyhagging]

A much more striking connection between the 2017 attacks, as far as I was concerned, wasn't listed in the report. Four of the five attackers had a history of domestic abuse, amounting to a catalogue of verbal and physical attacks on female relatives and, in the case of the Manchester bomber, Salman Abedi, a brutal assault on a young woman who was in his class at college; the figure rises to five out of six if we include Osborne, the right-wing extremist who drove a hired van into worshippers leaving a mosque in north London. Less information has emerged about the family relationships of the remaining attacker, Khuram Butt, but we know that he displayed a somewhat detached view of fatherhood; Butt led the suicide attacks on London Bridge and Borough Market a matter of weeks after his wife had given birth to their second child. Another of the men in Butt's cell, Rachid Redouane, had a daughter aged seventeen months at the time he was shot dead by armed police, demonstrating a readiness to abandon infants which will figure in the biographies of a number of the perpetrators who appear in this book.

The patriarchal assumptions common among such men, who seek to control every aspect of the lives of their wives and children, extend neither to considering their long-term welfare nor to protecting them from the consequences of horrific public acts of violence. It is a chilling view of family relationships in which becoming a husband and father appears to have more to do with confirming a man's status - and acquiring residency rights, in some cases - than forming close attachments. The widows and children of terrorists have to live not just with grief and loss but with the notoriety of their male relatives, even in cases where they themselves were the first victims of an escalating species of male violence.

The wider pattern of terrorists with a history of domestic abuse certainly isn't limited to the UK: in the couple of years before the 2017 attacks, I kept noticing that the perpetrators of some of the most notorious terrorist attacks in Europe and the US had first been violent towards wives and girlfriends. Domestic violence turned up in the background of the security guard who attacked the Pulse nightclub in Florida (forty-nine dead, fifty-three injured), the lorry driver who drove into crowds in Nice on Bastille day (eighty-six dead, 458 injured), the elder of the two brothers responsible for the Boston marathon bombing (three dead, several hundred injured) and a fraudster who took hostages in a café in Sydney in December 2014 (two dead, three injured).

Critics will say that is to be expected, given that we are talking about a cohort of violent men, but that is my point: male violence doesn't stay in neat categories. Persistent offenders tend to have convictions for a whole range of violent offences, as I show in chapter two, and I'm suggesting that men who are used to beating, kicking, choking and stabbing women at home are considerably further along the road towards committing public acts of violence. Police and paramedics who have attended incidents of extreme domestic violence, coming upon a scene of injured women and children, pools of blood and overturned furniture, will recognise similarities with the aftermath of a marauding terrorist attack; these are men who have practised behind closed doors, relishing the sensation of holding the power of life or death over family members and becoming desensitised to the horrible effects of violence.

-Joan Smith, Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists