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How does one seek justice through the ‘justice system’ when it has been formatted in certain situations not to not produce just results? Case in point: Sexual Assault in our society. Our system of laws surrounding this area are broken and need to be fixed because justice is not being served.
https://suhailauniverse.tumblr.com/post/178376061673
The link to the Neurobiology of Sexual Assault
The people who wish to maintain the patriarchal status quo are not stupid. The ‘blue light campaign’ is evidence of this, as it seeks to normalize the abuse and trauma that are inherent in female prostitution. I offer a handy rule of thumb when it comes to ’empowering ideas’ put forth by some liberal feminists, you need to answer only one question.
Are the males in society using “x” to get ahead? If the answer to the previous question is “no” then the idea (x) is probably not actually empowering at all.
For example, can we observe men getting ahead and being successful in society by engaging in prostitution? Do we venerate male prostitutes and laud them for their bold ventures?
No.
Therefore one can be reasonably sure that prostitution isn’t particularly empowering and engaging in defence of said practice is most likely wittingly or not, a defence of the patriarchal status quo.
https://evil-terf-hands.tumblr.com/post/177009541545/vagina-dialogues-celtyradfem-duoonslaught
It was when I left Miramax in 1998 and tried to pursue justice that the scales really fell from my eyes; in some ways, the real abuse started then. I began working for Harvey when I was only 22 and didn’t really know who he was; partly through my naivety, partly through my upbringing, I happened to have the right set of tools in my personality to deal with him. I simply saw him as an unpleasant, lascivious boss and so treated him as such. I didn’t initially understand his power, or see him as the key to my future, which were the things that made so many others vulnerable to him.
But the challenge turned into a nightmare when a new colleague alleged Harvey had tried to rape her while we were at the Venice film festival. I had employed her to assist me, so she was my responsibility…
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This is the problem, heroic male defenders of rule of law. Your system doesn’t serve and protect half of the damn population. So before the words equality and justice pass in from your lips, take a goddamn reflective moment and see the systemic problems affecting the entire process and realize that ‘due process’ seems only to work reliably when you happen to be white and male.
How many more personal testimonies do we need before we tear down the current current justice system and rebuild it with an artifice that actually serves the cause of Justice? We don’t believe women when they speak and women pay the price for it – often with their lives. Take action folks, as Ms.Williams suggests, it is the only way fix this systemic problem.
“There has been little acknowledgement of the way in which trans politics demands far more of women than it does of men, perhaps because this would require an acknowledgement of the fact that male/female remains as much, if not more, of a dominant axis of oppression as trans/cis. Why aren’t we claiming that “men” needs to become a more inclusive category? If men can get pregnant too, why aren’t men’s rights activists campaigning for abortion rights? Why does pregnancy become a de-politicised “people’s” issue while testicular cancer remains a men’s issue? If sex is irrelevant, why are female people always the ones expected to cede linguistic and physical ground?
Pregnant with my third child, I faced more than one self-righteous male informing me that “biological sex is a construct.” The arrogance of this is staggering. Every single human being on this planet exists because of the reproductive labour of female bodies. Around 830 women die every day due to preventable pregnancy complications. The world is missing an estimated 90 to 100 million women due to the extermination of female – not feminine – infants. In such a situation, to boldly declare that you “see no sex difference” reveals both ignorance and privilege. We’re back to the idea that female people cannot be credible witnesses to their own lives.
If men were genuinely invested in supporting trans women, there’s an obvious thing they could do: stop pretending it is inevitable for “masculine” men to respond with violence to the idea that those who wish to socially transition to womanhood remain biologically male. As feminists have been arguing for decades, maleness and femininity can coexist. If the thought of that makes some men violent, then the problem lies with how men see maleness, not with feminists refusing to treat womanhood as a catch-all category for anything men don’t want to be.
Andrea Dworkin suggested when it comes to justifying misogyny, the right has religion while the left has nature. Trans politics has offered up a suitably postmodern amalgam of both. Are we dealing with scientifically verifiable proof of the “gendered” brain? Or with some mystic, soul-like essence known as “gender identity”? In many ways, it doesn’t matter which, as long as both are reinforcing a male view of how masculinity and femininity work.
I am tired of men posing as more open-minded than feminists, when in fact they’re behaving in the exact same way men have always behaved towards women. If you’re a male person telling a female person to be silent about her experiences of gender and power, you’re not only doing feminism wrong, you’re exemplifying the very values you claim to undermine. “
*slow clap*
Societal norms are mostly patriarchal norms. Being portrayed a certain way, and being expected to act a certain way certainly couldn’t affect one’s prospects in society…
And that is it, right there folks. Unless you take the time to try and understand the situations and particular challenges people face in society from their point of view, your opinions on how they should act, or what they should be doing, just are not that relevant. This should not be a hard concept to understand, but as it seems to be most men cannot, or will not take the time to understand that society *works* differently if you happen to be female.
Like, it would take just a little time to stop and listen to the many female narratives available here on the vast-wideness of the internet, but frack that noise, I’ll just assume that everyone is treated the same as me, and should base all my arguments on that flawed assumption.
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