cw: violence

"A man has been found not guilty of murdering his wife, just days into the first national Covid lockdown. Anthony Williams, 70, said he "just flipped" and strangled his wife Ruth at their home."

How long must we wait until men stop beating and murdering us, even under #COVID19? And being found “not guilty?”

I made this in April
🎥 @rerutled

“The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men,” U.S. feminist psychiatrist Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery, The Aftermath of Violence-From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
"The national US av prison sentence of men who kill their female partners is 2-6 yrs, while women who kill their partners are sentenced on av to 15yrs, despite the fact that most women who kill their partners do so to protect themselves from violence initiated by their partners"
Prisons around the world are full of women who fight back and the streets are full of the men who assaulted them.

And there are dead women. Many many dead women.

https://t.co/SqzluTtJKb
Are women punished more harshly for killing an intimate partner? The data shows there is a wide gender gap in the US when it comes to prison sentences for killing a partner https://t.co/7zuyt0xyvk
I got a lot of shit for the chapter on Violence in The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls because I asked frightening questions about what it would take to end patriarchy and the male violence it enables. Here's an excerpt. https://t.co/7hpPYDHMq7
I ask frightening questions and continue to vow to destroy patriarchy every day on FEMINIST GIANT.

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How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill?

My questions got this episode of an Australian TV show banned. I was accused of “inciting violence.”

What do centuries of male violence - enabled and protected by patriarchy - beget?
Where do you go during a pandemic when the terrorist is your partner? When home is where the hurt is?

Where is the vaccine against patriarchy and its family structures that teach men they own the bodies of women, children, and queer people?

🎥 @rerutled

We are not socialized to fight back. We are not taught to fight back. We are punished for fighting back.

Men are not socialized to expect us to fight back. I think of that often when I hear of the spike in intimate partner terrorism during the pandemic. https://t.co/SqzluTtJKb

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The first ever world map was sketched thousands of years ago by Indian saint
“Ramanujacharya” who simply translated the following verse from Mahabharat and gave the world its real face

In Mahabharat,it is described how 'Maharishi Ved Vyasa' gave away his divine vision to Sanjay


Dhritarashtra's charioteer so that he could describe him the events of the upcoming war.

But, even before questions of war could begin, Dhritarashtra asked him to describe how the world looks like from space.

This is how he described the face of the world:

सुदर्शनं प्रवक्ष्यामि द्वीपं तु कुरुनन्दन। परिमण्डलो महाराज द्वीपोऽसौ चक्रसंस्थितः॥
यथा हि पुरुषः पश्येदादर्शे मुखमात्मनः। एवं सुदर्शनद्वीपो दृश्यते चन्द्रमण्डले॥ द्विरंशे पिप्पलस्तत्र द्विरंशे च शशो महान्।

—वेद व्यास, भीष्म पर्व, महाभारत


Meaning:-

हे कुरुनन्दन ! सुदर्शन नामक यह द्वीप चक्र की भाँति गोलाकार स्थित है, जैसे पुरुष दर्पण में अपना मुख देखता है, उसी प्रकार यह द्वीप चन्द्रमण्डल में दिखायी देता है। इसके दो अंशो मे पीपल और दो अंशो मे विशाल शश (खरगोश) दिखायी देता है।


Meaning: "Just like a man sees his face in the mirror, so does the Earth appears in the Universe. In the first part you see leaves of the Peepal Tree, and in the next part you see a Rabbit."

Based on this shloka, Saint Ramanujacharya sketched out the map, but the world laughed