Do You Know Why Serial Killers Target Sex Workers

Not because our existence fuels misogyny but because to polite society, we might as well be animals.

We do not matter, so we’re easy targets for any man who gets off on hurting women.

Voting Is Not Consenting To Be Ruled

If a guy has you cornered, gun to your head, which the state does have essentially and asks you whether you want to be punched in the gut AND in the nose or just punched in the gut, you are not agreeing to either. Making the choice that hurts less doesn’t mean you can’t still fight back

I mean like spending time you could be spending organizing resistance to the whole “punched in the gut/punched in the gut AND in the nose” choice, trying to get people to vote for “just punched in the gut” is a fucking waste

You’ll also note that the only time we get real concessions is when we get together to demand massive “unrealistic” change.

It’s a very basic bargaining tactic as well, asking for more than you think is possible for you to get, because they expect negotiation, and sometimes you do get the big change you want.

Is There Good Stuff On Like The Masculinization Of Violence

Like by denying women recourse to violence you’re committing a strategic act of oppression, and by positioning women as non-violent even if you’re praising them for that it’s a way of preventing women from fighting back against patriarchy.

Me Watching Faceoff:

If I see one more darker and edgier version of a classic children’s book or one more steampunk version of LITERALLY ANYTHING I am going to fucking punch someone.

Why Is a Cruel and Medieval Form of Child Punishment Making a Comeback?

I feel like the forcible cutting of someone’s hair, particularly the hair of women, gender non-conforming men, and femme non-binary people is a particularly symbolically pregnant form of violence.

I mean think of what Romney did in school to a gay class mate, think of the shaving of the heads of French sex workers (often innocent victims of rape or starvation) by people who were often trying to take attention away from their own nazi collaboration, think of the shocking scene of Cersei Lannister, the cutting of the hair of French aristocrats before the guillotine, the hair of viking thralls, the cutting off of Rastafarians’ sacred dreadlocks by racist police forces, the cutting off of the hair of black women and girls in racially charged incidents like these, the cutting of Native American student’s hair in residential schools

There is some particular symbolic importance to hair, in our society long hair is feminine, but also a symbol of a kind of rebellion or freedom. Hair is sensual and yet in some ways perceived as a statement of aggression.

I don’t know.

Why Is a Cruel and Medieval Form of Child Punishment Making a Comeback?