"trans women who pass can experience social and cultural misogyny because they're assumed to be female, so feminism can include them when applicable"
to
"if trans women aren't the main focus of your feminism you're misogynistic because they have it worse than anyone else in the entire world since the beginning of time so include them or im leaking your address and sending you murder threats"
I don’t agree with capitol punishment but if someone vents about an abuser of theirs and say they wish they would suffer and you go on a speech about rehabilitate justice you are a horrible person idc. a leftist utopia where rapists get to walk around freely isn’t an actual utopia for anyone except rapists
Iraqi women's rights activist Yanar Mohammed shot dead in Baghdad
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Women's rights activist Yanar Mohammed MADRE
In 2016, she was awarded Norway's Rafto Prize for human rights for her efforts to help minorities and women subjected to sexual abuse in Iraq.
BAGHDAD: Prizewinning Iraqi women's rights activist Yanar Mohammed was shot dead on Monday in Baghdad, her organisation said.
"At 09:00 am (0600 GMT), two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on her outside her residence," the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) announced.
Mohammed was seriously injured, "and despite being taken to the hospital and efforts to save her, she succumbed to her wounds".
OWFI urged the authorities to track down the perpetrators.
Mohammed co-founded OWFI in 2003 to provide protection to women victims of violence.
In 2016, she was awarded Norway's Rafto Prize for human rights for her efforts to help minorities and women subjected to sexual abuse in Iraq.
The Rafto Foundation said it was "deeply shocked by this brutal attack on one of the most courageous human rights defenders of our time".
"The assassination represents not only an attack on Yanar Mohammed as a person, but also on the fundamental values she dedicated her life to defending: women's freedom, democracy, and universal human rights," the foundation added.
Killings, attempted murders and abductions have targeted many activists in Iraq, including prominent academic Hisham al-Hashemi, who was shot near his home in July 2020.
Something that will never cease to amaze me is how greedy and entitled male sexuality is. Even with the copious amounts of various types of p0rn (no matter how depraved) and other similar content that exist to satisfy their repulsive urges, even though nearly form of media has catered to their fantasies for decades, they still: complain when literally any female character or celebrity doesn’t live up to their disgusting jerk off material standards, insult and degrade any random, every day woman completely unprovoked when they don’t live up to their disgusting jerk off material standards (yet also do the same to those that do), and watch p0rn and cheat while their wife/gf is: pregnant, postpartum, sick, grieving, older, depressed, etc. I’m sure that I’m missing many more.
Rebecca Solnit wrote those words as a quiet challenge to a pattern many women know too well.
She noticed how often women are asked to wait, to absorb, to understand, to smooth over situations shaped by decisions they never made.
She saw how patience becomes a requirement rather than a choice, how calmness is praised while discomfort is dismissed.
The quote struck a nerve because it names something rarely spoken aloud. Women are encouraged to be reasonable even when the circumstances are not. They are asked to carry emotional weight, to mediate conflicts, to soften the edges of other people’s actions.
They are told that endurance is strength, even when endurance becomes a burden.
Solnit’s line invites a different kind of clarity. It asks readers to notice the invisible expectations placed on women in families, workplaces, and communities. It suggests that responsibility should belong to the one who creates the problem, not the one who happens to be closest to it.
It reminds us that patience is powerful only when it is chosen, not demanded.
Her words resonate because they open a door to honesty. They allow women to say, “This is not mine to fix,” without guilt. They encourage fairness over silence and self respect over endless understanding.
Rebecca Solnit gives language to a truth many have felt but could not articulate.
She reminds us that recognizing what is not ours to carry is not defiance.
There was about 5000 years of uninterrupted rape, sexual enslavement, trafficking and pimping before the first prostitute ever had the privelege of getting money directly on her nightstand where all of it went to her pockets.
Even in 2026, its a rare and priveleged position for a sex worker to not have a pimp,brothel owner or "boyfriend" taking a portion of her earnings. Even the OF creators bringing in millions are being pimped by "mangers" and content agencies to garnish their earnings.
Andrew Tate's entire fortune was built like this and he sells courses on how to pimp girls and steal their wages.
Instead of taking the women’s own explanations seriously they opted for an interpretation that framed them as emotionally confused and manipulated. It’s always the same shit!!
pointing out that men typically make shitty doctors, especially when treating female patients or that positions of power are dominated by men are proven facts? Calling it misandry doesn’t make it less true?😂
simply the fact that different body types for women go in and out of style throughout the decades should be enough to tell you that women’s bodies are considered consumable goods under capitalism
