Women's Voices

 

14 December 2020

 

Women's Voices

13 posts today

Why are women constantly asked to prove that men are violent and dangerous to women and girls; called all sorts of slurs for doing so, when men themselves know what other men are capable of. Men know, but will support other men's sexual entitlement ...

December 14th @ 3:16 pm |

Women's Voices

13 posts today

Any definition of woman based on performativity reduces our humanity. This definition ignores women's struggles, thoughts, lives, in the service of a society that flattens our existence to sexual aesthetics, and aims to redirect women back to ...

December 14th @ 2:02 pm |

Women's Voices

13 posts today

For all women who feel no political party represents you, I understand. There is no mainstream political movement that prioritizes women's rights. We women are constantly pitted against each other in a game governed by men. The rules are against us; ...

December 14th @ 1:38 pm |

Women's Voices

13 posts today

"Men believe the pornography, in which the women always want it, in which women resist and say no only so that men will force them and use more and more force and brutality. Men believe the pornography and do not believe the women who say no." — ...

December 14th @ 1:31 pm |

Women's Voices

13 posts today

The sex industry depends on inequality by design. There's a reason why organized crime is largely funded by the sale of female flesh and is a recession-proof industry. Women are systematically denied, then told their survival choices are freely made. ...

December 14th @ 11:58 am |

Women's Voices

13 posts today

The push to legitimize the sex industry is mostly a Western phenomenon, hugely at odds with the struggles of women around the world trapped in the rape industry; in the West, many women interact digitally for cash, a form of privilege and safety ...

December 14th @ 11:46 am |

Women's Voices

13 posts today

Defending women and girls should not be a political wedge issue; women are human. The right needs to support women's reproductive health and autonomy. The left needs to stop supporting the appropriation of women and the sale of ♀️ bodies through sex ...

December 14th @ 11:20 am |

Women's Voices

13 posts today

While women around the world fight digital sexual abuse, a Paris gallery is featuring photos by a fetishist. @Independent calls him "an unsung genius toiling in obscurity, dedicated to his art and beloved mother, upon whose death he took his own ...

December 14th @ 11:03 am |

Women's Voices

13 posts today

Trans-identifying male Alanna Nicole Partin, née Nicholas Jon, was charged with first-degree sodomy, two counts of rape and three counts of sex abuse. The victims include a girl younger than 8 and a girl younger than 5. #NotOurCrimes #SexNotGender ...

December 14th @ 10:28 am |

Women's Voices

13 posts today

This is a pattern that was also seen in a US study in 2009. However, many US prisons no longer keep such data, presumably because the subject has become taboo in the last decade. By denying women these stats, we are being forced to accept ...

December 14th @ 9:49 am |

Women's Voices

13 posts today

"One of these women is Evi Pottieray, who went to study in the Netherlands in the late 1930s and ended up joining the anti-Nazi resistance movement, and ultimately became an activist of the revolution, fighting for Indonesia’s independence from the ...

December 14th @ 8:44 am |

Women's Voices

13 posts today

The makers of Leuprolide, the most commonly prescribed "puberty blocker," have been aware of its deleterious impact on bone health for at least two decades. But it was largely happening to women, so it was ignored by most. https://t.co/XweZyq...

December 14th @ 12:27 am |