Women's Voices

 

22 November 2020

 

Women's Voices

19 posts today

"In March alone, 120,000 women in their 20s lost their jobs. Overwhelmingly. Yet people were quiet. Though this silent massacre is repeating itself, the way South Korean society has responded to the crisis has been extremely patriarchal." ...

November 22nd @ 9:12 pm |

Women's Voices

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Patriarchal society systematically denies women a fair income in order to force their dependency on men, and to create a marginalized class of women so in need that they may be raped for cash — ensuring men have access to women's bodies for their ...

November 22nd @ 9:07 pm |

Women's Voices

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"Sexism, discrimination and obstacles compound; 60% of older single women rely on the full age pension and half live in permanent poverty. The reward for a lifetime of putting other people’s needs ahead of your own is very likely an old age of ...

November 22nd @ 8:38 pm |

Women's Voices

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The following five child sex offenders have all avoided jail despite being convicted of their crimes. At least the newspaper is trying to warn local parents. What an incredible miscarriage of justice. Strong stomach needed. https://t.co/kgUDrP...

November 22nd @ 8:25 pm |

Women's Voices

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"[Illegal armed] groups control the territory...They threaten women's integrity, often with the goal of sex trafficking or forced labor. Covid-19 has made the border context more oppressive, more violent." #SexNotGender https://t.co/vHVDMv...

November 22nd @ 6:24 pm |

Women's Voices

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Hey, Germany, if you believe that "mixed teams can be more successful" and that "sex work is work," will you also create mandatory quotas for the number of men to be sold, alongside women, in your famous brothels? Or is this just for show? #NotAJob ...

November 22nd @ 5:49 pm |

Women's Voices

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Three men were arrested in Japan on charges of defamation for generating and selling deepfake porn using the faces of actresses and singers. Treating a human rights violation as a copyright violation sets a dangerous precedent for women. ...

November 22nd @ 5:37 pm |

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The appeal comes amid a startling rise in sexual harassment complaints, which have increased over 1000% during the coronavirus pandemic, as more women work from home. #SexNotGender #DSA https://t.co/rsMaop...

November 22nd @ 10:44 am |

Women's Voices

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Serrece Winter, a Canadian domestic abuse victim, was jailed when she was too frightened to testify at the trial of her abuser. She was yelled at, grabbed from the cell, strapped into a restraint chair, and charged with assaulting a booking officer. ...

November 22nd @ 10:26 am |

Women's Voices

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"A man who uses the ‘yorkshireripper’ moniker in reference to serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, regularly boasts about his preference for teenage girls and how he likes bad weather as it is easier to lure women into his car." #SexNotGender #NotAJob ...

November 22nd @ 8:56 am |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

Shocking how an equalities commissioner says, "Working-class girls have been deprived of jobs that they love such as Page 3 girls," acknowledging the sex industry preys on marginalized women, while presenting it as an empowering choice #MeToo ...

November 22nd @ 8:28 am |

Women's Voices

19 posts today

"When @AbigailShrier published a book warning of a 'trans epidemic plaguing teenage girls', she was expecting some controversy. It is now at the centre of a furious debate over free speech, with one critic suggesting it should be burnt on a pyre." ...

November 22nd @ 8:20 am |

Women's Voices

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“Men from communities that support #FGM are hunting for [mistresses] who have not been mutilated. Some men say the cut helps to distort our (women’s) ‘network’. Some dump their wives and marry women from other communities who are not circumcised." ...

November 22nd @ 8:04 am |

Women's Voices

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Even as books questioning the transitioning of children are being censored, more and more content like this is available without age restrictions. Is this what a woman is, @Walmart? Defining women by sexual submissiveness is pure misogyny. ...

November 22nd @ 7:29 am |

Women's Voices

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RT @radicailin: "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 ...

November 22nd @ 5:49 am |

Women's Voices

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RT @WomenReadWomen: "I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it." — JK Rowling #IStandWithJKRowlin...

November 22nd @ 3:45 am |

Women's Voices

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Jogini is a practice where girls as young as 12 are married off to the village deity as part of a religious belief. Joginis were obligated to cater to sexual needs of temple patrons; women were forced to cater to every man in the village. ...

November 22nd @ 2:18 am |