This Is Why We Need Feminism - Blog Posts
So satisfying and yet so incredibly infuriating.
He tells her
remembering last year when my male cousins shit talked about my outfit and how a daughter from our family wouldn't show that much cleavage so I inhaled, opened my mouth to put them in their place and stopped because I was curious what my father would say to them and he never even defended me, didn't open his mouth, just laughed "you could do that on your own, you always have" I KNOW. I could've but I wanted YOU to show solidarity. "they don't actually think that they know you're a hotheaded feminist so they try to rile you up" so the constant judgement of women's clothing is a joke to you and shouldn't be taken seriously?
I refuse to watch the documentary on the woman who slept with 100 men in a day because I cannot stand to watch a woman do that to herself willingly. I cannot stand to see her process what she has just done to herself.
She is a victim. A victim of a world that has told her this is empowering. A victim because how can she give consent if she is disassociating?
Anyone saying that she is entirely at fault is delusional and libfems absolutely have a hand in this because it is the whole "OF/porn is empowering!" rhetoric that got us here in the first place. YOU told her that this line of work was empowering. And don't get me started on the men because we will be here all day.
I dread to think what psychological damage this will do to her.
The clips I see fill me with some deep, gut wrenching feeling that I cannot describe and I know for my own health, I cannot watch this.
there is this girl on Instagram that keeps posting about how she wanted to be a Marine biologist but went to work in the sex industry and as a 18 year old she makes me wanna kill someone... you can see the light leave her eyes as the photos come closer to present
there is this girl on Instagram that keeps posting about how she wanted to be a Marine biologist but went to work in the sex industry and as a 18 year old she makes me wanna kill someone... you can see the light leave her eyes as the photos come closer to present
yesterday a new channel was reporting data about domestic violence scene against women in TV in our country. Average of 9 scene per episode on cable and a average of 7 in Internet series. NINE SCENES. WITH THE SCENE BEING AT LEAST 3 MINUTES. IN A 2 AND A HALF LONG EPISODE. And the winner(!) for most violence act committed against women in one episode went to Kızıl Goncalar(20 scenes), a show about an Islamic cult which was also the show with most views in TV this year... we need radical feminist revolution fast and now.(also the numbers reveal themselves to be more damning when you realize a Middle Eastern critic might not have picked on or categorize some psychological violence scenes) (note:some Internet series are shorter in a western format so 7 scenes in 45 minutes/1 hour is extremely worse than cable's with added advertising of them being "secular" and "modern" )
"There were only the remains of what she left behind in her country.(...) The son she couldn't bring along,the son whom she wasn't sure would forgive her for it. She would have loved to explain her reasons for leaving him. Why she took his sister Sumeya with her but not him. To recall what were they doing to girls in their country, Gine. She remembered vividly the time they took her away from home, and hold her legs down.The splitting pain that forced her to faint, the known agony coming back everytime her husband laid with her and like a repeating torture with every birth she carried to term. The ugly act that were passed down from generation to generation.That offense to womanhood...
She couldn't let them do that to her daughter.Albeit she knew it was inescapable. She once heard 96% women in Gine was "cut". Although she never want to school, she knew that this meant. It meant her mother, her sisters, her neighbours, her cousins, her friends... It also meant Sumeya.(...)One friend of hers told her the way out. "You can only take one child with you. You cannot cross it with two. " So she made her pick. It was the most devastating choice she had to endure but she had made it to The Palace in a exhausting year. Sumeya was saved. "
Laetitia Colombani delivering a woman's memories about vaginal mutilation in her novel Les Victorieuses.