hey i just wanted to say that i aplaud what your doing, but i dont fully agree with your message. fighting against rape and the culture the breeds it is importand and a fully valid reason to protest loudly and proudly but phrases like "kill your rapist & bash back" promote fighting violence with violence, atrocity with atrocity. i dont condone that act of murder any more than i condone rape. and i have always believed that meeting violence with violencewas a ignorent way to deal. -evil one, swm
You know, the only people who’ve been really obviously opposed to it are rape apologists and rapists and abusers (and Segue, make of that what you will)- so I guess if they’re upset I’m doing something really right? Like, I really don’t care about their feelings, unless their feelings are “fear”, in which case that’s basically exactly what I want.
Listen, okay- you saying it promotes “fighting violence with violence” insinuates that we are playing (fighting) on level playing fields here. If that were so, you might have a point. But we’re not playing on level playing fields, because systematic institutional oppression is, you know, a thing, and it’s a thing that skews favour way towards some folks and way away from others. This is a fact! Racism, sexism, cissexism, ableism, heterosexism, and on and on and on mean we’re all not equal, and these are things that contribute to a culture wherein some people rape and abuse and assault and think (know!!) they’re going to get away with it.
I know, as a feminist activist, people are going to call me hysterical and say I’m overreacting and a bitch and whatever else. So I’m going to go the full nine yards, and really be a hysterical bitch and own that shit, which means I… make angry stickers. Like, please, that is literally all I am doing. People are sometimes angrier about my stickers than they are about the fact that rape is an actual thing that happens. Please think about that for five minutes, okay! Reread that sentence!
What do you think my message is, exactly? It’s really great to fantasize about killing abusers, but what do you actually get from this? I make rapists and abusers and their apologists afraid, or angry… and I make some survivors feel not alone, I tell other queer people I’m here too, I take back a little public space. And maybe for a few minutes we imagine killing our abusers, yeah. This doesn’t suddenly mean the scales are tipped and we’re all nice and level.
Get back to me when that happens, then maybe your argument will hold some water. Until then, you do you, and Imma do me.
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