"When you're having an argument with a boy about feminism and realize nothing you say will ever get through to them bc they don't feel empathy for something they've never experienced"
reason #10000 why separatism should be a fundamental part of radical feminism
The medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has confirmed that 18 members of its staff...
The medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has confirmed that 18 members of its staff in eastern Chad have been dismissed for serious misconduct, “and are now barred from working with MSF”, after “serious allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse were reported by Sudanese refugee women”. Responding to questions from Radio Dabanga yesterday, MSF press liaison acknowledged that in late 2024, serious allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse were reported by Sudanese refugee women against MSF staff in eastern Chad.
“In response, MSF immediately sent multiple investigation teams to proactively detect and investigate cases. While some of the 59 allegations were corroborated by the review, others remained unverified, as in some cases neither victims nor perpetrators could be identified,” the statement says.
“Where investigations established serious misconduct, immediate disciplinary action was taken. As a result, 18 staff have been dismissed and are now barred from working with MSF.”
Asked whether any criminal charges have been laid against perpetrators, MSF insists: “Regarding sexual abuse or harassment, MSF respects and supports the wishes of the survivor on whether to bring the matter to the authorities.” MSF declined to provide further details, reiterating that “the protection of survivors is our priority and maintaining their confidentiality is part of that protection.”
These questions were prompted by a report carried by the Associated Press on Saturday, which revealed that according to a confidential internal memo obtained by AP, MSF found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border, in some cases targeting underage girls or trading food or jobs for sex with refugees.
According to the report, MSF investigated several cases in which refugee women were allegedly exploited in exchange for food, water, and milk. Investigators also documented allegations of sex in exchange for work and cases of prostitution involving refugee women, including underage girls.
The report referred to a building within a refugee camp where staff members were reportedly seen seeking out girls. It also stated that community leaders had imposed a curfew to prevent young girls from “visiting” MSF employees.
In one incident detailed in the report, seven refugee girls who were allegedly employed as day labourers were transported in an MSF vehicle. They were reportedly told they were being taken to water distribution and construction sites but were instead driven elsewhere, where they were subjected to sexual assault and pressured to engage in sexual activity.
The investigation also found that some Chadian female employees were threatened with losing their jobs if they refused to have sex with supervisors or colleagues.
The vulnerability to abuse and exploitation add to the challenges of humanitarian workers. Team Zamzam project, a group of women who provide counselling to victims of sexual violence, which began operations in the vast Zamzam cap for displaced people near the North Darfur capital El Fasher, have been instructed by the UNHCR to move to a new refugee camp in Chad, 20+ kilometres to the west of where they had been working so successfully.
The team were forced to flee Zamzam, along with the camp’s 500,000+ other inhabitants, when the camp was all but obliterated during an April 13, RSF ground offensive, which forced ‘tens of thousands’ of the inhabitants of Zamzam and Abou Shouk camps to flee to El Fasher.
Since then, the team has moved its operations to El Tina in Chad, which is now home to close to a million Sudanese refugees who have fled the war in Sudan, 88 per cent of them women and children.
However, their refuge is far from secure, and their vulnerability to exploitation revealed by MSF, comes in addition to real risks to life and limb during frequent attacks. In their most recent update, Team Zamzam say that The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has insisted that they move to a new refugee camp in Chad, 20+ kilometres to the west of where they had been working so successfully near El Tina in Bami Joura camp.
“The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have attacked El Tina area repeatedly, with ground assaults and drone bombings. In any event, for Team members to retain their UN food ration cards—and to stay in compliance with UNHCR organisational imperatives—they must register in Mayba. The Team is already talking about the need for some members traveling back to El Tina area to assist those who remain there, and those who continue to cross the Darfur/Chad border,” the update says.
“It’s going to be an excruciatingly difficult rainy season,” laments prominent Sudan researcher and analyst, Prof Eric Reeves, cochair with Gaffar Mohammud Saeneen of Team Zamzam. Reeves says he has no doubt that the latest revelations of sexual abuse and exploitation among refugees contributed to the UNHCR decision to relocate the team.
“Team Zamzam is one of the only resources for girls and women traumatised by sexual violence and abuse in all of eastern Chad. We still don’t know enough about the decision, or what life in Mayba will be like. But cochair Gaffar Mohammud Saeneen tells me that the morale of the Team remains very high.”
The rainy season, lasts from June to September. The move will mean that team members will likely need to travel either to El Tina market or the market at another established refugee camp. Sanitation and hygiene will be particularly important, as this forced move occurs just at the beginning of the rainy season; heavier rains will create mud that makes travel extremely difficult, if not impossible.
I wish there were studies on the actual damage men's torment does. The constant hyperawareness to prevent assault and the background noise of low-level stress from men "just teasing" or "just messing with" us cannot be healthy for our hearts. It hurts so much that they just LIKE to see us stressed and upset.
The other day I had a man openly admit to me that when I said I would not like a dick pic, it made him want to do it more. When I asked why, he responded "idk, just made me want to pick on you".
I don't care if it's nature or nurture anymore. I want to focus on the damage this constant awareness of danger does to women. I want to focus on how their constant need to fuck with us even in basic conversation leads to long term stress and damages women's confidence.
I hate to refer to a man on this and if anyone has other sources from female psychologists I would love them, but Dr. Gabor Maté, who is a very widely known psychologist believes that the reason why women get some diseases more often is because of the constant stress we're under, and how much we have to repress ourselves just to exist in this society. He's no feminist scholar, but even he can see the toll this takes on our bodies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taYVjQ0_ldA
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12535582/
To add to this: while men and women have similar or comparable rates of PTSD/CPTSD, the way that it is “developed” vary wildly.
Research has shown that men are far more likely to develop PTSD due to a standalone traumatic event compared to women who — as stated — are more likely to develop CPTSD due to prolonged traumatic events.
While different studies or papers will report slightly different numbers, all agree that women are more “tormented” by daily life than men and thus develop worse mental illness due to it. This study in particular even states that “cisgender women are 2 to 3 times more likely to develop PTSD and CPTSD than men, even when exposed to similar trauma types.”
TLDR; being a cis woman in the world is so traumatic we are 2 to 3 times more likely to develop PTSD than a man by simply living in the world with them.
Also why is there not more research done on male cruelty? Why do they do this shit? Why do groups of boys form together to do horrible things to women? Why is my local Target being tormented by a group of teenage boys yelling about sexual assault and rape in the children's section to the point that moms are afraid to go there with their kids? Why do they see innocent people and get glee out of tormenting them? I have never seen the sadistic glee of hurting other random people out of a fellow women like I frequently see in boys and men. Why are they like that?
post modernists think that by erasing the meanings of certain words we erase discrimination against certain marginalized groups. If no one knows what sex is they cannot be sexist against you, if no one knows what sexual orientation is they cannot be homophobic towards you, if no one knows what mental illnesses or neurodevelopmental disorders are they cannot ostracize you, ect
I can see why people might believe this on paper, but we can see how it's going in practice and it's horrible.
Men are calling themselves women while proudly discriminating against the female sex. Heterosexuals are calling themselves gay while calling homosexuals bigots for being exclusively same sex attracted. People who have never been diagnosed as autistic are calling themselves autistic and confidently declaring that being autistic is no excuse for struggling with the symptoms of autism.
The project didn't work. You cannot use linguistic tricks to erase discrimination. All you do is erase the marginalized and facilitate abuse against us under the banner of inclusivity and progress.
"I'm not pro-abortion I just want women to be able to-" no you should be pro abortion, actually. it's an essential medical procedure, an inherently good thing. imagine being like "I'm not pro-heart surgery" or "I'm not pro-dialysis" that's how you sound.
I'm not pro-choice, I'm pro-abortion, because what other essential medical procedure has people like "well I just support the choice of people to access it, in cases of necessity, not the procedure itself". No wishy washy language about abortion in this house 🙌
I love women who are already moms who get abortions, I love women who get abortions because they never want kids or want to be pregnant, I love women who get abortions because they aren't ready to be parents yet, I love women who get abortions to piss other people off, I love women who get abortions because it was medically necessary, I love women who get abortions because they wanted to prevent their child having a disability, I love women who get sex-selective abortions, I love women who get recreational abortions ♥️
The only bad abortion is one that was forced or coerced.
Wasn't there a study that showed people tend to take male baby cries as being more serious (that the baby is in more discomfort) as compared to female baby cries? It makes sense that these people would then consider female babies crying as being "Tantrums" more and think that the BABIES are being dramatic for no reason.
This is so ridiculously prevalent my extended family keeps commenting on how much easier my nephew is compared to me and my sister even though my parents have been very clear that they've never seen a baby as stubborn and prone to tantrums as this one. He's a boy, so he's actually just active. If he was a girl he would be deemed dramatic in a second.
One day, this little girl is going to grow up hating herself for being born female. She will let others walk all over her in hopes that if she is "good and nice enough," people won't see her as a crazy hysterical woman. Every time a man treats her like her feelings don't matter and tells her that she is overreacting at being mistreated, she will believe it.
Girls like that won't be allowed to show their emotions at home without being treated as hysterical growing up. someone who can easily be ridiculed, the butt of the joke. The family clowns. Don't get me started on puberty. Her brothers will be punching holes in walls, but God forbid a female child shows any mood swings.
Meanwhile, her brothers are going to grow up not worried about that. Every time they throw a tantrum as children, they won't be told it's because they are males and males are crazy hysterical burdens to others. They are just kids having tantrums.
Little boys are kids first and boys second, Little girls are just women to be, potential burdens for the "poor men who will have to deal with them."
it pertains to everything, to so much messaging sent out to young women and girls today
“hot girls read”, “hot girls go on walks”, “hot girls work out”
as if the most aspirational thing a woman can be is hot
as if the enjoyment and benefits from reading, from walking, from working out comes from the “hotness” it attributes the woman, and not from the intrinsic act itself
I love how there’s literally not a religion on this earth that doesn’t ban women in some way, shape, or form from participating in basic rites or accessing holy ground just because they’re women.
Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.
Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).
“How can you think that trans women are trying to force lesbians into sex?” -> “excluding trans women from your dating pool is transphobic” and around and around we go. Stop trying to coerce people into dating you then outright denying that that is what’s happening
I’ve never hated someone so much that I want to inflict sexual violence on them. It’s a bit terrifying how a substantial part of the population doesn’t feel the same . I won’t pretend to be some saint with no disturbing or vengeful thoughts on those I despise but it still baffles me just how common it is for males to get turned on by the prospect of SA explicitly being used as a weapon .
queers lowkey ate with the “being gay and queer is not the same thing”. thank you for saying this bc i am attracted to women and i don’t see the same sex attraction as some sort of culture or aesthetic. well said.
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