Women's Voices

 

15 August 2020

 

Women's Voices

19 posts today

The pornification of the music industry has not happened overnight. However, we used to be able to criticize it. #WAP promotes objectification as empowerment; objectification of women leads to increased violence against women. On this issue, ...

August 15th @ 9:10 pm |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who ran against dictator Lukashenko, was detained for 7 hours and forced to record a chilling video. Speaking in monotone, she urged people to accept the election results. Her demeanor suggested she was under duress. ...

August 15th @ 8:53 pm |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

Please fact-check. The bill protects LGB youth who engage in sexual activity when they are, for example, 17 and 19, from being forcibly placed on a sex offender registry. https://t.co/9iclzm... https://t.co/bXPmqw...

August 15th @ 8:45 pm |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

Simply pointing out that women are oppressed on the basis of sex, not gender, is enough for TRAs to call a woman "trash." They're trolling posts with #SexNotGender—going out of their way to find feminist tweets about sex-based oppression, and mocking ...

August 15th @ 8:22 pm |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

#JusticeForComfortW... The term "comfort women" itself is an insult that masks the incredible cruelty and brutality of the practice of state-sanctioned sexual slavery and rape. Aug. 14 is the annual commemoration day. May we never forget, so we never ...

August 15th @ 1:12 pm |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

RT @jo_bartosch: I live in hope that one day when I walk into a bookshop there might be a section on ‘women’s liberation’ rather than ‘gender studies’ & that it won’t be a wall of pink https://t.co/ADPPbu...

August 15th @ 1:03 pm |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

"When women are treated as objects, they view their own bodies from the perspective of the person objectifying them. This process of 'self-objectificati... leads to shame and anxiety. If repeated, it can eventually lead to long-term psychological ...

August 15th @ 12:37 pm |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

"Objectification involves reducing someone to a sexual object, rather than seeing them as a full person. This research indicates that objectification can lead to heightened physical aggression toward objectified women." #WAP https://t.co/FUGr9V...

August 15th @ 12:33 pm |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

RT @HiboWardere: #nofgm there Shouldn't be any bloody debate on child marriage or forced marriage. Shame you .you couldn't stand up for innocent children. @M_Farmaajo Mwy all of you burn hell. Horrfic peadaphile men https://t.co/WOsgLG...

August 15th @ 11:42 am |

Women's Voices

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RT @vege_31: @WomenReadWomen ※Video might be disturbing※ This is what was filmed at the time, which was restored and coloured today: National Liberation Day (15th Aug). 'Comfort Women' is no joke. Those TRAs are heartless and sickening. ...

August 15th @ 11:40 am |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

"Japanese are aware that surrogacy is, or can be, a form of exploitation – but if women of colour are involved. White women, whether from Ukraine or the United States, are believed to do it out of Christian altruism." #SexNotGender #StopSurrogacy ...

August 15th @ 9:20 am |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

Prominent women's rights advocate and member of the Afghan team tasked with negotiating with the Taliban, Fawzia Koofi, survived a recent assassination attempt due to her work campaigning for the rights of women and girls. #SexNotGender ...

August 15th @ 8:28 am |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

The negative impacts of surrogacy are hidden from the public to protect profits; the damage to women's health, but also the potential emotional and mental ramifications. #StopSurrogacy #SexNotGender https://t.co/dUFi8l...

August 15th @ 7:02 am |

Women's Voices

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They were divorced for years and he continued to threaten her. Even though she told a court she did not feel safe living in the same state, he was granted custody over their children for the summer months. #SexNotGender #MVAW https://t.co/jb0j2P...

August 15th @ 5:12 am |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

RT @jk_rowling: Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya ...

August 15th @ 4:55 am |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

RT @pebtheagate: @WomenReadWomen I'm form SK and I truly appreciate you. TRAs armed with narcissism and misogyny disgusts me so much. They are proving who they are all the time and it almost make me laugh

August 15th @ 1:43 am |

Women's Voices

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RT @wombyn1bian: @WomenReadWomen I’m a Korean feminist and I truly appreciate what you do. Korean women are being abused, exploited, killed just because we are female. Those narcissistic TRAs attacking you disgust me.

August 15th @ 12:42 am |