Why are we still here?

had a very sudden idea yesterday, that was just “reduce intensity, reduce frequency, reduce duration”. this kind of thing is close to the style i used to have when i first found gender critical radical feminism as a teenager. i was very focused on trying to convince women to reduce harmful practices like wearing heels, even if they weren’t going to stop entirely.

i’m still against heels, but of course there are bigger things to worry about, and the type of towering high-heels i saw everywhere have gone mostly out of style.

rape being used as a weapon of war is so heart wrenching. it was used during the partition of india, the french used it in algeria, serbians used it against bosnian women, it’s being used right now in syria and what’s so heart breaking is the fact that women choose to commit suicide because of the possibility of being raped. humanity never learns, we really have failed.

i read a case study of a french soldier raping an algerian woman, he said [to his victim] “we can tell your filthy husband what we got up to when we find him”. she asked to be killed before they found her husband. in bosnia, serbian men raped women systematically so that the child would have “serbian blood”, ‘to weaken bosnian men’. during the partition women were raped in revenge attacks or deliberately raped because they [both hindus and muslims] knew how important ‘honour’ was to the other party, hence if their daughter was raped by ‘the other’ they would end up abandoning her or killing her. so this is why it’s so hard to see it happening again in syria because of the pain it has caused in the past for women.

always in war ravaged areas the amount of STI’s and pregnancies sky rockets because there is so much rape and womens bodies are used against them, and yeah many women in syria are committing suicide to avoid rape, very sad

Don’t forget about the Nanking Massacre. I’ve never been the same since reading up on it for an assignment.

I read about the Nanking massacre when I was still a kid, 9 or 10 years old, too young to handle it. It legitimately left marks for life: that’s how I learned the full extent of men’s violence against women, although I couldn’t articulate it then.

Now I’m reading Svetlana Alexievich’s “The unwomanly face of war”, and so far none of the women she talked to –women who served in the Soviet army during WWII– says anything about rape, though they tell other horrible, unimaginable things. But one man tells this: “We advance… The first German villages… We’re young. Strong. Four years without women. There’s wine in the cellars. Food. We’d catch German girls and… Ten men violated one girl… There weren’t enough women, the population fled before the Soviet army, we found very young ones. Twelve or thirteen years old… If she cried, we’d beat her, stuff something into her mouth. It was painful for her, but funny for us. Now I don’t understand how I could… A boy from a cultivated family… But I did it… The only thing we were afraid of was that our own girls would find out about it. Our nurses. We were ashamed before them…”

A female soldier tells her this: “The Germans didn’t take women soldiers prisoner… They shot them at once. Or led them before their lined-up soldiers and showed them off: look, they’re not women, they’re monsters. We always kept two bullets for ourselves, two –in case one misfired. One of our nurses was captured… A day later we took back that village. There were dead horses lying about, motorcycles, armored vehicles. We found her: eyes put out, breasts cut off. They had impaled her on a stake… It was freezing cold, and she was white as could be, and her hair was all grey… She was nineteen years old. In her knapsack we found letters from home and a green rubber bird. A child’s toy…”

I don’t know if in WWII rape was used deliberately as a weapon of war, or was just a consequence of misogyny and desensitisation to violence combined. Still, this illustrates what women are subjected to in war. Men’s hatred of women has no limits.

Women are the true victims of war

I hate that women don’t even play any active part in war yet when it happens, the worst things are inflicted on them.

MEN. FUCKING. DIE. IN WAR.

You don’t become more of a victim than that.

@juxtapoesition Shame. Shame on you.

In war, men are murdered by other men using bullets and bombs.

In war, women are murdered by men, who rape them with weapons like bayonets, or just rape them so many times with so many implements that their uteruses fall out of them, and then they’re either murdered with bullets, strangled, stabbed, beaten or simply left to die of septic shock.

Men die with their dignity and get posthumous medals for service.

When was the last time anyone even acknowledged the victims — let alone the survivors — of rape as a war crime?

Oh, right. The 12th of Never.

“Violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994 took a gender-specific form when, over the course of 100 days, up to half a million women and children were raped, sexually mutilated, or murdered. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) handed down the first conviction for the use of rape as a weapon of war during the civil conflict, and, because the intent of the mass violence against Rwandan women and children was to destroy, in whole or in part, a particular ethnic group, it was the first time that mass rape during wartime was found to be an act of genocidal rape.”

We should establish that it’s incredibly sick that men still want sex when they’re aware it would make a woman feel uncomfortable, forced, violated and exploited. What the fuck is up with that, I would rather be swallowed by the earth than make any woman go thru that.

The study determined that women’s sexist views increased the longer they were in relationships with benevolently sexist men. While it was certainly possible that the female participants had sexist leanings to begin with and simply sought partners who reinforced their views, the researchers noted that the fact that the women’s views changed over time indicated that they might have been under the influence of their partners.

@that1betch

Definitely something more to consider if you’re OSA.

Tbh it’s not just dating if you ask me. Spend lots of time with misogynistic men even as “just friends” and it can happen.

Based Mom in 1981:

Klaus Grabowski molested and murdered a 7 year old girl.

He confessed to the crime after his fiancé reported him to police.

Marianne Bachmeier, the girls mother, smuggled a handgun into the courtroom and shot Grabowski 5 times.

She served 3 years.

No mercy for child molestors

The only response

This IS the way. Be the change you want to see in the world.

I know this is like an epic scene from a revenge movie but maybe the based mothers are the ones who are attentive enough to not let their 7 year old get molested and killed in the first place.

You know what you're so right! Mothers should never let their children around men and should kill any who come within 20 feet of their kid, just as a precaution

South African TRAs bullied a black woman, Ntsiki Mazwai, into deleting her tweet about trans women being men.

They’ll do anything to silence women.

TRAs are still coming for her.

I’m glad this has opened the conversation about the dangers of gender ideology in South Africa.

More people are speaking up about how ridiculous and regressive this ideology is.

Still blows my mind that any of these clowns expect us to call men in dresses 'women' simply because they want to be them 💀💀💀

self portrait

other people also do a self portrait in paint i think that would be fun. they don't have to be good (obviously, you've seen mine)

hehe

“It’s misogynistic to say women shouldn’t be stay at home moms!”

The return of “trad wife” trends and stay at home moms is leading to an increase in domestic violence and abuse. The men know this. They know what they are getting when they get a SAHM. He said it: “You don’t even have money to wipe your own ass. You can’t even buy toilet paper.” Then she confirmed it: “I was a SAHM, so I have absolutely no income to support myself and my children.”

It’s not misogyny or misandry to point this out. These are simple facts.

Interview with Zhang Xiu-Hong. A Survivor's Testimony of the Nanking Massacre.

(via @ Irenesolosxx on Tiktok)

This testimony was recorded at the 2008 Peace & Reconciliation Study Tour.

The Nanjing Massacre began in late December of 1937 and lasted until January of 1938. After obtaining control of the city, Japanese General Matsui Iwane ordered Japanese soldiers to destroy the city, leading to a massacre that lasted approximately six weeks. Acts of looting and the burning of buildings around the city accompanied the murders and rapes committed by the Japanese troops. Men, women, children, and the elderly were brutally murdered in merciless ways. The death toll of the massacre ranges from 200,000 to 300,000 people, along with the 20,000 to 80,000 rapes committed during this time.

A large number of rapes were done systematically by the Japanese soldiers as they went from door to door, searching for girls, with many women being captured and gang-raped.The women were often killed immediately after being raped, often through explicit mutilation such as by penetrating vaginas with bayonets, long sticks of bamboo, or other objects.

Iris Chang, author of the Rape of Nanjing, estimated that the number of Chinese women raped by Japanese soldiers ranged from 20,000 to 80,000. Chang also states that not all rape victims were women. Chinese men were sodomized and forced to perform "repulsive sex acts". There are also accounts of Japanese troops coercing families to commit incestuous acts.

Instead of punishing the Japanese troops who were responsible for wholesale rape, "'The Japanese expeditionary Force in Central China issued an order to set up “comfort houses” during this period of time, Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a prominent history professor at Chuo University, observes, “'because Japan was afraid of criticism from China, the United States of America and Europe following the case of massive rapes between battles in Shanghai and Nanjing.'

Watch the interview here.

i dont know what happened where people got so stupid and confused about the point of wearing fetish stuff in public. If youre looking at someone wearing fetish gear, you are almost certainly part of the fetish. The point of acting a fetish out in public is sexual gratification from the presence of onlookers, no matter whether they are horrified, angry, paralyzed or obediently polite. “Youre being homophobic when you say there shouldnt be fetish gear at pride” it’s far more homophobic to say that exhibitionist fetishism has anything to do with being gay. I literally dont get what the deal is with you people. Youre getting smacked in the face and responding by cowering and apologizing

I'm so glad I've never been around people who say this kind of thing. If you're not willing to help your friends with shitty stuff like moving, you're not much of a friend. And who doesn't like sharing food with people you love?