Women's Voices

 

7 July 2021

 

Women's Voices

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In areas they control, the Taliban have already brought in restrictions on women’s education, their freedom of movement and their clothing, activists and residents of those areas say. In one area, flyers were circulating demanding that women put on ...

July 7th @ 9:42 pm |

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Less than a week after the UK declared that ♂️ rapists can be housed in ♀️ prisons — in a rejection to a legal challenge brought by a woman who claims to have been assaulted by a trans-identified inmate — soap opera @Hollyoaks aired a story about ♀️ ...

July 7th @ 9:36 pm |

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Laurelai Bailey, née Wesley, trans-identified, created the Shinigami Eyes extension to collate a database of social media users deemed to be "transphobic". In addition to threatening violence against women, Bailey has been accused of sexual abuse by ...

July 7th @ 2:51 pm |

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.@LATimes editorial responds to the #WiSpa incident involving the exposure of women and children to male genitalia: "no one has a right to feel comfortable all the time". By that logic, ♂️ do not have a right to enter women's spaces just because it ...

July 7th @ 1:20 pm |

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A bill aiming to protect women and children from domestic abuse — which includes physical violence, verbal and psychological abuse — in Pakistan has faced opposition from critics who believe that "the bill contravenes the Islamic way of life". ...

July 7th @ 12:08 pm |

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"Among shocking statistics in the report for the Crime Survey for England and Wales: 1.6 million women experienced domestic abuse in the 12 months to March 2020, as well as 153,136 rape and other sexual offences recorded by police." ...

July 7th @ 12:03 pm |

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RT @Slatzism: My latest @4WPub: I interviewed the mother (now suspended from Twitter) who came forward about her experience at Wi Spa in 2020. "The male, completely nude, sat on the edge of the tub with his legs spread where her [6-year-old] daughter ...

July 7th @ 11:24 am |

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"Another male has taken a women’s slot at the Olympics. Stephanie Barrett took up archery at 37. Within two years Barrett won gold at the 2018 Canadian Field and Target Championships, & this year equaled the Canadian women’s record at the World ...

July 7th @ 6:50 am |

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Trans-identified "Jenna" films pornography at a high school, including in the girls' restroom, and uploads the content to PornHub. Other videos include sex acts performed in women's changing rooms at the mall, and on high school grounds at night. ...

July 7th @ 4:56 am |

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Women are systematically underpaid for their labor and are the majority of human trafficking victims; 90% of sweatshop workers globally are ♀️; most free labor globally is done by ♀️; then they are told the escape from a system designed to exploit ...

July 7th @ 4:19 am |

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RT @SatuRuna: Breast binding is the new anorexia. For any girl who was a pre-teen/teen in the ‘90s, we recognize the behavior, the need for control, and the reason why. Nothing but compassion for the girls and women who use them. It is self-harm, and ...

July 7th @ 4:12 am |

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Surrogacy is human trafficking: it exploits impoverished women & turns children into products. Women die in childbirth, and all surrogacy pregnancies are high-risk. Shameful, @TIME, to frame the exploitation of marginalized women as liberating. ...

July 7th @ 4:02 am |

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MPs have blocked an attempt to introduce a minimum sentence for rape, while voting through highly controversial new laws restricting protests. Labour proposed a statutory minimum sentence for rape of seven years, but the move was blocked by ...

July 7th @ 2:47 am |

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Under existing legislation, a perpetrator must have used physical violence or intimidation for an assault to be classified as rape. Stalking and street harassment, considered misdemeanours under current legislation, will become crimes, as will FGM. ...

July 7th @ 2:32 am |

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RT @DonovanCleckley: “Man-Made Femininity and Female Self-Hatred” - - - - - In Gangnam, Seoul, in South Korea, prior to being fined over it, a cosmetic surgeon had decorated his office with jars of jawbones, two glass towers full of fragments, from ...

July 7th @ 1:34 am |