My mum at the World’s Fair, 1964.
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Haha, exactly. I grew up in the 70's/80's in a small town made up almost entirely of 1st generation Italian immigrants. Do you know how many of my friends parents/grandparents barely spoke English even after they had been here for like 40-50 years? Like ALL of them. And they hung Italian flags from their house, had…
I gotta agree with you, sister. When will there be publicity about the way women’s rights are denied women are killed for just being women, a we don’t feel safe just walking down the street? It’s unfortunate that these kinds of things happen to transgender people, too, but there are a grunt load of women suffering…
I didn’t say women were forced to account for men’s feelings. That’s not what I said at all. I’m saying that men view conversations and encounters with women through their perspective as men, which often has an undertone of being entitled to the woman’s attention. This woman was not talking to men or having an…
Of course we are. That's what I meant by talking past each other. But you are admitting exactly what I'm talking about. It comes down to being about how a woman's actions affect a man's feelings EVERY TIME. It's just particularly ironic since this was a post in which a woman is talking about how men's actions…
I’m aware of what happened in this thread, I don’t know why you are reviewing it. I meant the original post that you and I are discussing. It seems you are being really nit-picky here.
Also you STILL don’t get the point. She is talking about her emotional response to emotional situations in her own life. She is not…
Being killed is rare. Being harassed when you go out and being harassed on a date is extremely common. Even in a place where it is rare, it’s absolutely terrifying when it happens and it makes an impression. I go out in my town at night alone all the time. I’ve been here for five years. In all that time, I’ve only…
This sounds like my father to a T. Hang in there ok? When my mom and I finally got out it was really hard at first too. People like that are very good at making you second guess or even blame yourself so don’t fall for it. I got through it by reminding myself of that awful sinking feeling id get when he came home from…
Dude, I have no earthly idea what an MGTOW is, and I googled it and see it is some acronym that has something to do with a male response to feminism and I just really don’t care. My point is that the OP is talking about how constant exposure to male violence in her own life has made her decide to avoid men. It has…
Yes, and it’s enforced by a system that continues to control women outside the home- shutting down abortion clinics, sending women to prison who fight their domestic abusers or in the Florida case simply shoot at the ceiling to scare off domestic abusers, and having backwards laws about oral sex not being rape or that…
No. They handle their anger very well, because somehow they manage to never have these so-called uncontrollable outbursts in front of anyone with power over them.
It’s terrifying. There’s currently a case going on here in Hawaii because of this shit. A woman’s estranged husband followed her into a grocery store and slit her throat on the middle of the store just last week. And that’s not what even pisses me off the most. She previously tried getting a TRO against the bastard…
It infuriates me how right-wing MRA types try to suddenly pretend they really really care about women and protecting them. After Cologne, so many of the men I know in Europe suddenly cared very deeply about rape and posted endlessly about the incidents of that night and how it demonstrated how Muslim immigrants have…
When I was 15, I was raped and beaten and nearly strangled to death in my living room by my ex-boyfriend. He was a lot older than I was, extremely jealous, and just...mean. He’d been out to sea (he was in the Navy) and returned to discover that I’d had a new boyfriend.
When I tried to report it, the questions I…
The GOP in my state are now starting to make noises about bathroom legislation and it makes me so angry because they don’t really care about women or our safety. They’re trying to use us to make a dumb asshole point, when if they really gave a fuck about us they’d stop attacking women’s health organizations and they…
Recently I sat in a small county court courtroom in the middle of NOWHERE, Mississippi. (I was there for an extremely pedestrian hearing on a civil case). Ahead of me was this small woman and her parents (no legal representation) asking the judge for a restraining order on the woman’s ex-boyfriend, who was about to…
A warning. If you notallmen me I’ll dismiss you so don’t even bother.
The article. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/nyr…
There was an article in the New York Times a few weeks ago (also on a Saturday) about a young woman in the Bronx killed by her ex-husband with a knife with their two kids in the apartment. In the article they mentioned that the Bronx has a high incidence of domestic violence homicides. THIS is the danger American…
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