The Public Censure Of Women As If We Are Rabid Because We Speak Without Apology About The World In Which

The public censure of women as if we are rabid because we speak without apology about the world in which we live is a strategy of threat that usually works. Men often react to women’s words—speaking and writing—as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women’s words with violence. So we lower our voices. Women whisper. Women apologize. Women shut up. Women trivialize what we know. Women shrink. Women pull back. Most women have experienced enough dominance from men—control, violence, insult, contempt—that no threat seems empty.

—Andrea Dworkin, "Intercourse."

If y'all think muslims in the west are sexist you are yet to meet an Indian muslim, I am not allowed to wear shorts at home meanwhile my brother's get to walk around half naked, I wear anything slightly tight that shows I have breasts I am absolutely disgusting in my mother's eyes.

If eyeliner grants women more power, why does it not grant men more power? Who is granting women power when they wear eyeliner? Why? What kind of power is it?

If eyeliner is worn almost entirely by women and wearing eyeliner "sharp enough to kill a man" is feminist, which specific feminist issue does eyeliner tackle (menstrual health, sexual harassment, medical misogyny, domestic violence shelters)?

How does eyeliner liberate you from the patriarchy (not make you feel good, liberate you ― there's a difference)?

part 34000505 of why I hate men

breast ironing is not talked about as much as is should be and is as much a pressing feminist issue as fgm. There are 3.8 million woman around the world, largely in Africa, affected by this, but it remains to be one of the most underreported gender-based crimes.

the female form is consistently mutilated and beaten and bastardized and violated because it IS the female form.

there are women who do this to their children or their sisters or people that they know to prepubescent children in order to preserve their youthfulness, to prevent dishonor, to prevent rape, and to prevent male attention; all of these reasons once again “medicalizing,” misogyny and placing the burden it is to be oppressed by men upon women. It has been stated that families will pursue breast ironing to ensure that their female child can have an education as if it’s a dichotomy. To have breasts or to be educated.

https://aho.org/fact-sheets/breast-ironing-fact-sheet/