Women's Voices

 

10 November 2020

 

Women's Voices

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RT @AlessandraAster: If you support 'gender neutral' spaces knowing that women are at a higher risk of sexual assault, you are the kind of person who cares more about men's demands than women's rights. https://t.co/ayAkJx...

November 10th @ 11:19 pm |

Women's Voices

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A man who raped and impregnated his 15 year-old daughter had his sentence reduced after he "proved to the court that he was in love with his stepdaughter and the two were actually having consensual sex." Children cannot consent. This is appalling. ...

November 10th @ 11:11 pm |

Women's Voices

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Police opened fire on protesters during a demonstration against the country’s femicide crisis. The demonstration was called after the dismembered body of 20-year-old Bianca “Alexis” Lorenzana, was found, days after she disappeared. #NiUnaMas ...

November 10th @ 11:00 pm |

Women's Voices

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Turns out women missed the point of the #Wollstonecraft statue and that she had to be naked because she identified as non-binary. "She has to be naked... clothes define people. Clothes are limiting and she is everywoman." #MaryWollstonecraft ...

November 10th @ 10:57 pm |

Women's Voices

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Prof Elizabeth Yardley, a criminologist at Birmingham City University, found that the normalisation of bondage, domination and sado-masochism (BDSM) across media generated a “culturally approved script” for men who kill women. #SexNotGender ...

November 10th @ 2:26 pm |

Women's Voices

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The global exploitation of women and girls being reduced to "sex work" is horrific in scope and in normalization, and evidence to the fact of women's sex-based oppression. Men rape women, and will pay to rape. Fact. Women never created a system to ...

November 10th @ 1:19 pm |

Women's Voices

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Sex work is sex slavery. Choice is coercion. Pornography is propaganda. Beautification is obedience. Fashion is control. Dissent is hate speech. Critical thought is a personal attack. But women's liberation is in fact, everyone's liberation, and not ...

November 10th @ 12:56 pm |

Women's Voices

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To be born female is to have violence against you so normalized that it's called a tradition, a custom, and a culture. Worse still, it's called empowering, it's called 'gender.' Because men can opt in or choose it and it makes them feel alive, what ...

November 10th @ 12:44 pm |

Women's Voices

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Across the world, our rapists are doctors, teachers, police, presidents. Rapists are fathers, brothers, friends, lovers. Violence against us is so common, when men experience a trace, they claim to be the most oppressed women, and us speaking of it ...

November 10th @ 12:38 pm |

Women's Voices

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Men are in power, everywhere we look. They say, when a woman chooses sexual slavery, she does so freely. They say so because they predicate our freedom on their domination. They assume their power is natural and god-given. The carrot or the stick is ...

November 10th @ 12:24 pm |

Women's Voices

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When a man wears makeup or feminine clothing, he is not doing a favor to women, but only proclaiming himself to be, in theory, open-minded. Meanwhile, women go on, scrubbing toilets, low, damned if we do, damned if we don't. Participation or refusal, ...

November 10th @ 12:13 pm |

Women's Voices

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Supposedly, there are more good men than men who delight in tormenting women. Supposedly, men care about women. How to reconcile this idea with the reality? that most men seem cowardly in the face of our pain and erasure? That genderism is as ...

November 10th @ 12:06 pm |

Women's Voices

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Foot binding in China was not for aesthetics, as Western sources report. The systematic breaking of young girl's feet was valued because men believed it made their pussy tighter. Gender is never about fashion alone. Fashion is the visible surface of ...

November 10th @ 11:35 am |

Women's Voices

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"Three months ago, I started collecting the clothes of women subjected to violence by their husbands and families," Tara Abdallah, said. She asked survivors to donate a scrap of clothing and sewed them together to create a giant patchwork. ...

November 10th @ 3:00 am |

Women's Voices

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A sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft has been made by artist Maggi Hamblin. Wollstonecraft is best known for "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," published in 1792. More than 90% of public sculptures in London commemorate men. #SexNotGender ...

November 10th @ 12:05 am |