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[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

On a personal level, being misogynist, ableist, homophobic, etc. is not just about feeling hatred for marginalised groups. Hatred is a symptom, and not everyone has that symptom. Sometimes it’s pity. Or creepy dehumanising fascination. Or indifference. Or ignorance and a self-absorbed refusal to learn to be better.

But it’s not about your feelings at all - it’s about actions and whether your actions support an oppressive system.

That’s why you can’t say, “I’m not misogynist! I love women!” and have people go, “well, you know your feelings best!” It’s not about your feelings. It’s about what you’re doing and if it’s harmful. And you do not get to decide if you’re harming others.

[thetownwitches]

How Come I’m Body Positive But Only When It Comes to Others? An Autobiography by Me, a Girl Who’s Internalized Western Beauty Standards and Misogyny So Much So That She’s Been Conditioned to Perpetually Hate Herself Even Though She Has Unlearned This Hatred In Terms of Other Women’s Bodies and Choices

[micdotcom]

Here are the women who’ve gone public about Bill Cosby:

1. Kristina Ruehli said Cosby raped her at 22 in 1965, when she was a secretary at a talent agency.

2. Carla Ferrigno said Cosby tried to rape her in 1967 and she had to fight him off.

3. Joan Tarsis said Cosby raped her in 1969.

4. Cindra Ladd said Cosby also raped her in 1969. She wrote about it for the Huffington Post.

5. Victoria Valentino said Cosby raped her in 1970. She later spoke about the incident with the Washington Post.

6. Autumn Burns said Cosby raped her in 1970 too.

7. Louisa Mortiz said Cosby raped her in the dressing room of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show in 1971.

8. Donna Motsinger said Cosby raped her in 1971. She later sued.

9. Katherine McKee said Cosby raped her in the early 1970s while she was on tour with Sammy Davis Jr.

10. Helen Hayes said Cosby stalked her and her friends in 1973 before groping her.

11. Judy Huth said Cosby took her to the Playboy Mansion in 1974, when she was 15, and raped her. She later sued.

12. Tamara Green said Cosby drugged her and tried to rape her in the early 1970s. She went public on the Today Show in February.

13. Marcella Tate said Cosby took her to the Playboy Mansion in 1975, gave her a drink that made her pass out, and then woke up the next morning naked with him in a strange bed.

14. Therese Serignese said Cosby drugged and raped her in 1976. She later sued.

15. Shawn Brown said Cosby drugged and raped her in 1973, while the two were in a relationship. Brown later gave birth to Cosby’s daughter, Autumn Jackson.

16. Joyce Emmons said Cosby drugged her in the late 1970s, and that she later woke up in bed with one of Cosby’s friends.

17. P.J. Masten said Cosby drugged and raped her when she worked as a Playboy Bunny in Chicago in 1979.

18. Linda Kirkpatrick said Cosby drugged and raped her in a dressing room at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1981.

19. Lynn Neal (an assumed name) said Cosby drugged and raped her in 1981.

20. Janice Baker Kinney said she was drugged and raped by Cosby in 1982.

21. Janice Dickinson said she was drugged and raped by Cosby in 1982.

22. Renita Chaney Hill said she was repeatedly drugged and raped by Cosby while she was in a relationship with him between 1982 and 1986. The relationship began when she was 15.

24. Heidi Thomas said she was drugged and raped by Cosby in 1984.

23. Beth Ferrier said she was drugged and raped by Cosby after ending an affair with him in the mid-1980s.

25. Beverly Johnson said she was drugged and almost raped by Cosby in the mid-1980s.

26. Sammie Mays said she was drugged and raped by Cosby in the mid-1980s.

27. Barbara Bowman said she was drugged and raped by Cosby in 1986. She later sued and wrote a Washington Post op-ed titled “Bill Cosby Raped Me. Why Did It Take 30 Years for People to Believe My Story?”

28. Lisa Jones said Cosby tried to rape her in 1986. She was 17.

29. Chelan, whose last name hasn’t been made public, said Cosby drugged and raped her in 1986.

30. Jena T. (shown above) says that Cosby began to groom her when she was 17, and forced her to give him a handjob in 1988.

31. Lisa, whose last name has not been released, said Cosby drugged and raped her in 1988. She was 21.

32. Jewel Allison said she was drugged and raped by Cosby at his home in the late 1980s. She later called him a “very sick sociopath.”

33. Kacey, whose last name hasn’t been released, said Cosby drugged and raped her in the early 1990s.

34. Angela Leslie said Cosby tried and failed to drug her in 1992 before making her give him a handjob.

35. Lili Bernard said Cosby raped her in The Cosby Show studio in 1992.

36. Michelle Hurd said Cosby would make her do “weird acting exercises were he would move his hands up and down my body” in 1995. She turned down his advances to go to his house.

37. Lachele Covington filed a police report in 2000 saying Cosby tried to make her grope him.

38. Andrea Constand said Cosby drugged and raped her in 2004. She later sued and settled out of court.

39. Chloe Goins said Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 2008. She’s since lawyered up, but Cosby has yet to be charged.

But it took a confession for people to believe them? Sometimes it’s hard to see patriarchy. And sometimes it isn’t.

[npr]

Coping While Black: A Season Of Traumatic News Takes A Psychological Toll

Research on the psychological effects of racism, especially on people of color, is still in the early stages. But psychologists warn that events like the Charleston shooting can cause serious stress.

“We hear in the news about African-Americans being shot in a church, and this brings up all sorts of other things and experiences,” says Monnica Williams, director of the Center for Mental Health Disparities at the University of Louisville. “Maybe that specific thing has never happened to us. But maybe we’ve had uncle or aunts who have experienced things like this, or we know people in our community [who have], and their stories have been passed down. So we have this whole cultural knowledge of these sorts of events happening, which then sort of primes us for this type of traumatization.”

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[thatwhichdoesnotsuffer]

I believe that I have cosmic religious feelings. I never could grasp how one could satisfy these feelings by praying to limited objects. The tree outside is life, a statue is dead. The whole of nature is life, and life, as I observe it, rejects a God resembling man. I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don’t speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now.

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[internetr0yalty]

As a feminist

As a feminist I think women should also be drafted if necessary.

As a feminist I think women should not be given a lighter sentence compared to a man who did the same crime.

As a feminist I think female abusers should be held at the same level as male abusers

As a feminist I think male rape victims are just as equal as female rape victims and deserve the same attention.

As a feminist I believe in complete equality between genders even if that equality isn’t always “beneficial” to me

[thegirlthewolfate]

As a feminist, I believe very strongly that NO ONE should be drafted, and that the military is a horrible waste of our time and of people’s lives at the gross expense of other people’s sovereignty and dignity. The wars that this countries wages are inherently capitalistic, imperialist, and violent as hell. 

As a feminist, I know mass incarceration is a deeply racialized issue that disproportionately affects communities of color and poor folk. So the solution “Just incarcerate women more too!” is fucking terrifying and gross to me, especially when we look at rates and reasons for incarceration and how unjust and unfair they are, and how, thanks to the school to prision pipeline, some people don’t ever have a chance outside of it.. End the prison industrial complex!

As a feminist, I am willing and able to check my privilege and mindfully talk about rape culture, sexual assault, and abuse as a patriarchy/power/at times gendered phenomena without being gender essentialist, transphobic, or erasing victims of any gender. I understand that male rape victims being affected by rape culture is STILL a product of patriarchy.

As a feminist, I don’t think gaining equality in inherently violent social constructs and institutions is the solution. How could a Black queer female CEO make the position of CEOS less violent just because it has been made “diverse”? Rather, I wish for emancipation from those systems for all people, justice for all people, and a destruction of any systems of abuse, not just a restructuring of them. 

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[fullpraxisnow]

One pillar of white supremacy is the logic of slavery. As Sora Han, Jared Sexton, and Angela P. Harris note, this logic renders Black people as inherently slaveable – as nothing more than property.’ That is, in this logic of white supremacy, Blackness becomes equated with slaveability. The forms of slavery may change, whether it is through the formal system of slavery, sharecropping, or through the current prison-industrial complex – but the logic itself has remained consistent.  […] A second pillar of white supremacy is the logic of genocide. This logic holds that indigenous peoples must disappear. In fact, they must always be disappearing, in order to allow non-indigenous peoples rightful claim over this land. Through this logic of genocide, non-Native peoples then become the rightful inheritors of all that was indigenous-land, resources, indigenous spirituality, or culture. As Kate Shanley notes, Native peoples are a permanent “present absence” in the US colonial imagination, an “absence” that reinforces, at every turn, the conviction that Native peoples are indeed vanishing and that the conquest of Native lands is justified. Ella Shoat and Robert Stam describe this absence as “an ambivalently repressive mechanism [which] dispels the anxiety in the face of the Indian, whose very presence is a reminder of the initially precarious grounding of the American nation-state itself… In a temporal paradox, living Indians were induced to ‘play dead,’ as it were, in order to perform a narrative of manifest destiny in which their role, ultimately, was to disappear.“  […] A third pillar of white supremacy is the logic of Orientalism. Orientalism was defined by Edward Said as the process of the West defining itself as a superior civilization by constructing itself in opposition to an “exotic” but inferior “Orient.“ (Here I am using the term “Orientalism” more broadly than to solely signify what has been historically named as the Orient or Asia.) The logic of Orientalism marks certain peoples or nations as inferior and as posing a constant threat to the well-being of empire. These peoples are still seen as “civilizations” – they are not property or “disappeared” – however, they will always be imaged as permanent foreign threats to empire. This logic is evident in the anti-immigration movements within the United States that target immigrants of color. It does not matter how long immigrants of color reside in the United States, they generally become targeted as foreign threats, particularly during war time. Consequently, Orientalism also serves as the anchor for war, because it allows the United States to justify being in a constant state of war to protect itself from its enemies.

Andrea Smith | Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy  (via america-wakiewakie)