1. Can someone tell me WTF is wrong with Kinja that I can’t upload a photo?? The menu is gone and I can only copy and paste videos.

Also, they don’t have friends who are Jewish; they have an attorney who is Jewish (because they are racists who think “Jews” make good attorneys). The attorney probably hates their guts.

“My accountant while we’re at it is one of them. I ate a bagel once. That Schindler’s List sure was a sad story, glad it was only a movie.”

The people of Alabama deserve better.

Not just that I think it goes even deeper. With any minority you’re typically not seen as an individual but a member and representative of that minority. White people are given the luxury of not always being a representative of the larger group.

I know. The fucking smug look on that fascist’s face. Ugh. It’s nauseating. They knoooooow they’re anti semetic and they’re laughing. I can’t with all this shit.

“I”m not racist— I have minorities who work for me.”

MAN: How could I be sexist? I’m married to a woman.

Where do you see me saying these women told their stories for money? I said they told them so that the world would hear about them and hopefully put an end to the abuses they were subjected to.UN peacekeepers should have been deployed when we first started to hear about this instead of waiting for this to be another…

I’m still here, though. Go ahead, tell me how what I said was asinine, because I definitely was inviting personal insults when I posted here.

Kristy, that’s pretty fucked up. I’m sorry that you needed to hear about women being gang-raped in order to overcome your Islamophobia. But I’m glad you’re going to try and be a better person (?) now.

You may get a lot of negative responses for your post, but I agree with you. Publishing these stories is not about the women nor does it foreground their choice to tell and who gets told what. It’s a historical tradition of colonialism, as you point out.

But the #metoo movement is about those women choosing to tell their stories. This is the western world telling other women’s stories in a way that specifically others them. As the OP mentioned, it’s a very colonialist thing to do, and post-colonial scholars call out this very thing to this day because it is…

*deep breath* Okay, so, I’ll revise that to:

I didn’t decide anything. I only hope that the women telling these stories did so freely and that they feel a measure of relief as a result. But I don’t feel that I help by reading them.

i know it was the right thing to do, but i’m completely sickened by all the work we did with amnesty international to get her released.

Yes, but does having their stories disseminated all over the world help them recover? You can tell your story and feel heard in a closed room with one other person. Whereas some survivors of sexual violence talk about encountering unwanted accounts/coverage of their own assaults, and how exposed those attentions made…

... but I believe them. I don’t need a woman to tell me the details of her sexual assault; it’s enough for me that she says she was sexually assaulted. Moreover, I question whether these women should have to retraumatize themselves just to catch the attention of Westerners who may not have believed that an ongoing…

I... feel a way about reading these narratives. Even if the women telling these stories told them of their own volition, and wanted them to be shared, what good does it do for us to read them? Once one accepts and understands the horror of what is being done to the Rohingya (and the fact that gang rapes were part of…

This bit seems a little irresponsible: “Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s civilian leader and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, lacks the authority to fully address the situation—though a Human Rights Watch spokesman asserted that she has allowed herself to be misled about what’s really going on”