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Early last year I was invited to do a presentation to a class of 15-year-old girls in a North London comprehensive school. It was International Women’s Day, and I chose to focus my talk on the prevalence of and fightback against male violence.
As soon as we got to the Q&A session, the stories immediately began: girls telling me about being flashed at, boys masturbating under the desk at school while staring at them, the tsunami of dick pics flooding into the girls’ iPhones, and rape and sexual assault. I asked what they think was at the root of the escalation of such behaviour, and there was an almost unanimous shout of “porn”.
I am not in the slightest bit surprised, therefore at the Ofsted report released today about the horrific levels of sexual harassment and online sexual abuse that girls (and some boys) experience on a daily basis. The most upsetting thing for me, as a feminist who has campaigned for decades to expose the porn industry, is that so many victims consider such harassment as a routine part of their daily lives and therefore see little point in challenging or reporting it.
As the report highlights, girls suffer sexist name-calling, online abuse, upskirting, unwanted touching in school corridors and rape jokes. Boys share nude pictures on WhatsApp and Snapchat “like a collection game”.
Feminists have been warning about the effects of pornography for some time. Despite the fact that we have long been accused of anti-sex moralism, prudishness, and man-hating, we have the evidence to show that the availability of what used to be called ‘hard-core porn’, and is now just ‘porn’ (none of it fits into the so-called soft-core category these days), can shape the way boys view women.
When I have interviewed boys about their pornography consumption, they have told me that they seek more and more violent forms as they get bored with the more mainstream stuff. Porn is now the new ‘sex education’ in schools, and a number of young men have spoken out about being unable to sexually respond to women because their brains are so full of images of women being choked, urinated on, and damaged in ways probably too graphic for this publication.
In 2010 I interviewed the anti-porn activist and academic Gail Dines, author of ‘Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality’, who told me that:
“We are now bringing up a generation of boys on cruel, violent porn, and given what we know about how images affect people, this is going to have a profound influence on their sexuality, behaviour and attitudes towards women.”
Three years later, an academic journal entitled Porn Studies was launched. This has been heavily criticised by Dines and other experts on sexual exploitation and violence against women for its pro-porn bias. The Porn Studies board appears to be comprised of entirely pro-porn individuals, including Tristan Taormino, who describes herself as a ‘feminist pornographer’ (vegan butcher, anyone?) but who has worked alongside some of the most hard-core porn directors in the industry.
Unless we admit the truth about porn — that it is misogynistic propaganda that teaches boys to hate women — I fear that things will only get worse for girls, and our schools will become training grounds for sexual assault.
Horrifying example of regular male violence, and yet gets called a “male Karen” rather than there be a dumb nickname for men who are menaces. Even when men are awful human beings, we still gotta frame it around the “Karen” meme 🙄🙄🙄
Yeah, this is appalling, women are now being framed as the ‘gold standard’ for abusive behaviour, and a man pulling his dick out in public is ‘behaving like a woman’.
MALE KAREN 💀
notice how when a woman does something exceptional she’s the “female michael phelps,” “female david bowie,” “female da vinci” etc.
but when a male does something detestable and frankly acting like a whole ass male,,,,,
Another sister lost to senseless male violence in South Africa. If I posted all the women and children who fall victim to South African male violence, I would never rest.
Rest in peace 🕊
On the killings of the girls in the screenshot 2nd from the bottom (left row), their father Yassir, was pretty much hiding in plain sight. He was hiding in Texas and he was accused when the girls were about 6 and 4 of sexually abusing them. Their aunt said the girls were forced to recant their allegations but that she believes he abused them. When he found his elder daughter had a boyfriend he decided to send her to his home country to be married off (she wrote in an email he wanted to marry her off to a 40 year old man) she was later brought back to Texas. He also dated and married their mother, Patricia, when she was 14. Now, Patricia, while being a victim herself, also deserves to be charged for aiding Yassir and neglect or something. I say this because the girls managed to successfully run away to one of their boyfriend's house with their mother Patricia and she ended up bringing them back to their father where he ended up killing them soon after. She also was interrogated at their funeral for information on Yassir's whereabouts because she had made calls to him that day. She has always denied any involvement after the fact.
Sigh, when will this end.
The male inmate had a history of sexual violence, and threatened to harm the victim’s children if she spoke out about what happened to her.
The assault occurred in July of 2022 after the trans-identified male inmate was transferred into the victim’s quarters. Despite having a history of violent sexual crimes and misconduct, the perpetrator was allowed to move into the women’s area where there was minimal security, with some sections being separated only by fabric curtains.
While the victim had initially been threatened into silence as the trans-identified male had promised to harm her family using contacts he had on the outside, she eventually reported the assault to prison authorities.
CODHEM, the Human Rights Commission of the State of Mexico, launched an investigation and determined that “one of the [incarcerated women] was sexually assaulted by her roommate, who was a trans woman with previous complaints of misconduct and probable sexual harassment.”
CODHEM further revealed that “the aggression was not prevented by the prison authorities,” with the facility administrators having conducted an insufficient assessment of the inmate without follow-up and with no consideration for the possible risks the trans-identified male inmate posed to the women.
But disturbingly, despite affirming that the sexual assault had taken place and that the transgender inmate had been a risk to the women, CODHEM ordered prison staff to attend a “gender perspective” course.
As reported by El Gráfico, members of the Interdisciplinary University Seminar on Citizen Security at the National Autonomous University of Mexico were in charge of giving the course on human rights and “gender perspective” to eighty prison officials.
The same University was recently embroiled in scandal after trans activists staged a “coup” and took control over one of the largest women’s washrooms on the campus in protest of a lesbian mural being painted nearby. Trans activists vandalized the washroom, painting graffiti that threatened women critical of gender ideology with “rape and death.”
Despite Mexico’s political constitution outlining that prisons must be sex-segregated, the National Human Rights Commission of Mexico has declared that there is no “strict difference between men and women.”
Since news of the assault broke, Mexican media have almost uniformly referred to the assailant as a “woman,” or “trans woman,” using feminine pronouns to refer to the rapist.
Speaking to Reduxx on the disturbing case, Laura Lecuona, the head of WDI Mexico and author of Gender Identity: Lies and Dangers, slammed CODHEM for perpetuating gender self-identification policy in light of the obvious risks it posed.
“A man with a history of sexual violence is serving his sentence in a women’s prison, where he raped and threatened a cellmate, and the state human rights commission thinks that the solution is to give prison employees a little course on ‘gender,'” Lecuona says, questioning: “What will they teach them in this course? Likely that ‘trans women are women.’ The only solution is to recognize that self-declaration of sex involves several dangers for women.”
Lecuona also says gender self-identification policies must be “abandoned” completely in order to protect women.
“Feminists have been warning about this for years. There is still time [for authorities] to rectify and fulfill their obligation to guarantee women a life free of violence.”
The employment of “gender” counselors in cases where women have been involuntarily housed in close quarters with men who declare a transgender identity is an international phenomenon. In July, Reduxx revealed that a man who identifies as transgender presented a speech for a Women’s Empowerment event held at New Jersey’s only correctional facility for women, where he lectured female inmates on the importance of “inclusivity.”
La’Nae Grant reportedly told the women that he believed “cisgender women” may hesitate to accept trans-identifying men as female due to jealousy or “competition” between the groups for male sexual partners. The Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women has been plagued by violent male convicts being transferred into the prison, including a sadistic trans-identified male inmate who was handed a 50-year sentence in 2003 for the brutal rape and murder of a sex-trafficked woman from Ecuador.
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Placing males' feelings and delusions before women and compromising their security in the process... Absolutely terrible. I took my time to read about Perry Cerf (the man mentioned at the end of the article) and I was this close to vomiting. The description of his crime and what he did to the woman (who was referred as a 'hooker' by other media outlet... Nice) is gut-wrenching so be careful.
And the immediate solution to a sexual assault committed by a trans-identified male in a women's prison is taking courses on gender perspective, suggested by the National Human Rights Commission out of all people... Noted.
female-only-deactivated20180801
India’s first helpline for lesbians was created by the Indian Community Welfare Organization.
The helpline was started because same-sex attraction is largely taboo in a country where male-female marriages are often arranged.
The helpline is manned by lesbian volunteers, but most of the callers have been men asking for phone numbers of lesbians, noted the Daily Mail
babybornwomyn
if anyone asks why I hate men, this is it
radically-lesbian
Emma Watson immediately jumped on the Rowling hate train, and proceeded to make it her personality in the years since. Even declining to talk about her in interviews, saying “we’re not going to talk about that woman”.
But did she ever speak up about Iran? Did she ever even put out one of her “solidarity” posts for the women of Iran?
And what did Rowling say about Iran? 🤔
And how did TRAs respond?
Y’all will make any women’s issue about trans people instead.
Just say you’re a western performative activist and move on.
auntiewanda
Watson is the most liberal ""feminist"" and it's so frustrating.
I always think back to this interview with Paris Lees (the TiM Vice writer who wrote this article about how he enjoys being "sexually objectified and treated like a piece of meat") where her entire demeanor changes when asked about trans stuff. It's so performative, she immediately goes into her shitty acting voice and she can't even look him in the eye.
Well of course it was. Because she was performing how a male wanted her to.
radically-lesbian
“I was catcalled, sexually objectified and treated like a piece of meat by men the entire week. And it was absolutely awesome.”
“I love catcalls. I love car toots. I love random men smiling “Hello beautiful!” like my mere presence just made their day. I like being called "princess" and ignoring them as I giggle inside. I like being eye-fucked on the escalator and wondering if I’ve just made him spring a boner.”
Y’all please click on that article and read it.
If you find misogyny sexy, you are not a feminist. And if you think it’s okay to uplift people who think that way, you’re just as bad as them. This is just fucking disgusting.
JK Rowling photographed at London King’s Cross Railway Station, England, 1999
auntiewanda
(Archived version to circumvent paywall)
The article is very even handed on this, which is nice to see. Rowling took her millions to create female-only spaces in the wake of Scotland passing laws that allow men to declare themselves women at any time and impose themselves on whatever female-oriented services and spaces they like.
Should we ignore the fact that she's still one of the biggest assholes of our current time? She actively told her fans to fuck off because she's living well off royalties. And it's not like her fans were harassing her, she just decided to be an asshole right off the bat like the bigoted ass she is.
auntiewanda
Rowling is. Really? The woman who was downgraded from a billionaire to a millionaire because she gave so much to charity. The woman who just opened a free shelter for women to combat the insane laws of her home country. She's one of the biggest assholes in the world right now?
it wasn't fans she gave that smug response to, unless that's an admission the gendies that come after her for daring to assert the female sex should be culturally and legally recognized still secretly buy Harry Potter merch. Which of course we already all knew they do.
gncenjoyer-moved-deactivated202
“I’m non-binary cuz i don’t like the expectations put on women” Damn that’s crazy why you still got a full face of makeup then 😐
I'm terrified of men who like sex dolls, a body without personality, feelings, doubts or complaints. Men don't like women. They hate us deeply.
Yikesarony
mohgwyn-dynasty-deactivated2023
Good for her for challenging black and white thinking.