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Women are not accountable to society for their personal safety. It's the reverse.
The investigations may never clarify this, but crimes like the motorway attack are a means to keep women in their place. Which is no place, the place of invisibility
The investigations may never clarify this, but crimes like the motorway attack are a means to keep women in their place. Which is no place, the place of invisibility
The CCPO and others are making sure we draw the correct lesson from this: women's place is nowhere.
The worst: a lesson that women might do anything for their children but ultimately cannot even protect them. Mothers are useless & helpless unless they follow men's rules
The worst: a lesson that women might do anything for their children but ultimately cannot even protect them. Mothers are useless & helpless unless they follow men's rules
These lessons are not trivial or arbitrary. Masculinity is learnt and practised everywhere, home or outside, by demonstrating to women that they are wrong. That they are responsible for the worst that happens to themselves and others, incapable of seeing/judging rightly
They will necessarily make the wrong call and bring trouble on themselves and others. Listen to the voices of all kinds of men reminding women that anything from an argument to a violent attack is their fault or will be their fault because
they are not saying/doing/understanding/accepting something. Again and again. These are not isolated incidents. These incidents and voices are everywhere. On the tv. In our own heads too.
The lockdown has made women take even more personal responsibility
The lockdown has made women take even more personal responsibility
Responsibility for their own and everyone's safety. It has intensified the moral obligation on women to make themselves invisible, accountable for the harm they bring upon themselves and others, apologetic for their inability to see and think for themselves, to take risks
No more. We can follow no rules and make no choices as a women that will guarantee our safety. We should take no moral responsibility to do so. We can just tirelessly assert our right to be anywhere without explanation and hold everyone accountable for our safety
