Women's Voices

 

15 June 2021

 

Women's Voices

15 posts today

"People who wield the words 'violence' and 'weaponize' like tarnished pitchforks. Ask them a question and you are told to repeat a mantra. Ask again... you are accused of violence. People who do not recognize that what they call a sophisticated ...

June 15th @ 8:22 pm |

Women's Voices

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"The problem of gender targets women. The problem was not about being human, but specifically, being a female human. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that." — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists ...

June 15th @ 8:19 pm |

Women's Voices

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.@Vaishax says Pornhub perpetuates a message that the torture of women can be considered a "fun sexual experience for men everywhere." "Most of the Indian women used on Pornhub don't even know the videos of their rapes are being sold for profit ...

June 15th @ 7:13 pm |

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"Far too many serious crimes to go unpunished, including thousands of rapes. Yet hundreds of police officers – the very people we are supposed to turn to for protection – have themselves been accused of abusing women." @polblonde ...

June 15th @ 1:28 pm |

Women's Voices

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Women have been excluded from public life and elite institutions for centuries on the basis of sex. The claim that ♂️ who appropriate womanhood are excluded by women who have carved out spaces for themselves is ridiculous to the point of being ...

June 15th @ 12:57 pm |

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.@DrJessTaylor's survey asked respondents if they had ever woken to their male partner having sex with them or performing sex acts on them while they slept. To this question, 51% answered yes. https://t.co/yRrCvH...

June 15th @ 10:37 am |

Women's Voices

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If a refund or lack of payment transforms a service into rape or sexual abuse, then it was never a service to begin with, but paid assault. There is no way to reconcile the sale, commodification, and objectification of ♀️ bodies with ♀️ liberation ...

June 15th @ 9:26 am |

Women's Voices

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"One area I’m clear on is that online hardcore pornography warps boys’ expectations of normal relationships and normalises behaviours that girls are then expected to accept, and it’s just too easy for children to access.” @Rachel_deSouza ...

June 15th @ 2:43 am |

Women's Voices

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Young women in sub-Saharan Africa continue to be the most affected by HIV; 6 out of 7 new infections among adolescents aged 15–19 years in the region are among girls. Aids-related illnesses are the leading cause of death among girls in this age ...

June 15th @ 2:31 am |

Women's Voices

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RT @danielle2u: “A father allegedly drugged and killed his two little girls, put their bodies in duffel bags, and dumped their bodies at sea—all to spite their mother for getting a new boyfriend.” https://t.co/XY9tN4...

June 15th @ 2:00 am |

Women's Voices

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RT @caitlin_roper: “One of the main reasons the gender gap exists is that historically across the world, data has been collected from men and generalised to women.” https://t.co/w3HI1q...

June 15th @ 1:57 am |