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I have the same 24 hours as Beyoncé but I spend most of them advocating for my own mental health against ableist, racist workplaces who make me cry and give me panic attacks. We are not the same.
She rejected a boy and he killed her for it. Young men are being radicalised online and little girls are bearing the brunt of the resulting violence. Misogyny is killing women and girls and it's only going to get worse as these Andrew Tate fans get older.
This is why we say “sorry I’ve got a boyfriend”. This is why we don’t swear at the people who catcall us on the street. This is why we keep our heads down. Because we’re terrified you’ll kill us.
Until we start understanding that women understanding male violence isn’t hatred we are not going to get anywhere.
Until we start understanding that it’s part of the problem that men react with fury, or defensiveness, or sexualisation, to women discussing male violence we are not going to get anywhere.
Until we start understanding that male suicide is a consequence of the invulnerable machismo gender role that also contributes to violence against women we are not going to get anywhere.
We’re not angry because we hate you or because we want to hate you. We’re angry because it is not true that 99% of men see us as human and treat us as human.
The level of violence against us is not acceptable.
It’s you that have the power the change it.
And raging about it and reducing our value to fuck objects ain’t it.
Today a teenage girl in Croydon was murdered, seemingly for rejecting a man’s advances. I’ve been saying for quite some time that extreme misogyny and incel ideology is the fastest growing terrorist threat. Why aren’t we taking it more seriously - because it’s targeted at women?
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I’m a former SAG Board Member and former SAG Negotiating Committee member.
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