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terfsichore · 6 years
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Heard in a lecture today: “This apllies both to Americans and African-Americans”. WTF. Surely “Americans” should cover U.S. citizens of all races and ethnicities? And if you meant the research was done on black and white Americans you could say just that without implying black Americans are less of Americans AND erasing all the other racial groups (bc I’m pretty sure they weren’t included under the default “American”).
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give cash directly & unconditionally to the homeless
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terfsichore · 7 years
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the assumption that women in prostitution don’t feel uncomfortable bc they are financially compensated shows the extent to which they’re not seen as living feeling human beings. there is no other group so thoroughly dehumanized in our collective consciousness than prostituted women.
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meghan sayin’ it best
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terfsichore · 7 years
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Women feel more guilt than men, not because of some weird chromosomal issue but because they have a history of being blamed for other people’s behaviour. You get hit, you must have annoyed someone; you get raped, you must have excited someone; your kid is a junkie, you must have brought him up wrong
Germaine Greer, Guilt Poisons Women (via uninucleus)
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terfsichore · 7 years
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the op is kinda like this british journalist who ridiculed a woman for wanting sex segregated changing rooms: “what are you scared of? what do you think I’M going to do?”
nobody thinks all or even most gun owners are so unhinged they’re gonna shoot someone bc of an argument. but since it’s easier to kill someone with a gun rather than without it some of us find it prefarable when people around us don’t have guns.
The way some people who don’t own guns talk about what they imagine to be what is is like owning a gun is honestly horrifying. I saw someone say, “You get into an argument with your friend and you’re gonna go for the gun” like bitch speak for yourself???? I assure you that is not a universal condition. I guarantee I have been inches from a loaded shotgun and annoyed not been like, “I’m gonna go fucking shoot my roommate for not throwing away his cereal box.”
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terfsichore · 7 years
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A California father who drugged, sexually assaulted and killed the 14-year-old daughter whose remains were found in 2009 buried in the backyard of the family’s former home faces life in prison without parole after confessing to those and other crimes against female minors, PEOPLE confirms.
The guilty plea announced Tuesday by Mark Edward Mesiti, 49, of Modesto, abruptly cut short his murder trial at which prosecutors were pursuing the death penalty against him, Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager announced in a statement.
Mesiti’s daughter, Alycia, was reported missing in August 2007. Her remains were located on March 25, 2009, buried behind Mesiti’s former rental home in Ceres, California, from which he was evicted a few months after she disappeared, reports The Modesto Bee.
An autopsy found she died of acute drug intoxication with the presence in her body of opiates, morphine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and other drugs.
Mesiti had been awarded custody of his daughter less than a year before her death, even after a judge was made aware that in the seven years prior, the father had been convicted of state and federal charges that included drunk driving and bank fraud, reports The Mercury News.
Mesiti also had been charged with domestic violence and ordered to attend anger-management classes, and jailed for failing to attend drug- and alcohol- treatment programs, the newspaper reports.
Authorities who arrested Mesiti in Los Angeles when his daughter’s remains were found alleged that he was operating a meth lab, and he was convicted in 2011 of manufacturing meth.
Upon his arrest they also recovered several computers, hard drives, DVDs, CDs and other digital media that showed he possessed “hundreds of thousands of images involving child pornography,” according to the prosecutor’s office.
Mesiti was charged with murder with special circumstances in the death of Alycia, along with 48 other felony sexual assault charges.
During the trial that began Oct. 3, Mesiti’s defense attorney Martin Baker argued that Alycia’s diary suggested she was a drug addict, with her writing in one passage that she “wanted to feel nothing,” reports the Turlock Journal.
He said the presumed manner of her death from an overdose “will require a not-guilty verdict.”
But as the trial that was expected to last for months continued, Mesiti’s attorneys offered to have him plead guilty to all counts if the prosecutor would agree not to seek the death penalty, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Annette Rees agreed to the plea — with a sentence of life in prison without parole — if Mesiti he would confess to his crimes in open court.
“Mesiti told the court he committed rape, sodomy, oral copulation, digital penetration and child molestation involving his daughter, Alycia, many times over several different occasions,” the prosecutor’s office says. “He admitted having given Alycia drugs on each occasion to make her unable to resist his attacks. Mesiti also admitted that his administration of those drugs caused Alycia’s death.”
“Finally, Mesiti admitted taking many sexually explicit photographs of his daughter Alycia and two other minors under 18 years old,” the statement said. “He also said he molested the two other minors while he lived in Los Angeles.”
Mesiti’s attorneys declined comment to the media after the guilty verdict.
“It’s over,” Alycia’s maternal great-aunt, Roberta Fitzpatrick, said after Mesiti pleaded guilty, according to the Bee. “I just want to put this all behind me, except for honoring Alycia.”
Formal sentencing is set for Nov. 28.
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terfsichore · 7 years
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The “niqab bans only serve to further punish vulnerable Muslim women” argument relies on a hidden assumption - that the men who push the niqab on women in their families are all religious fanatics who’d rather not let a woman leave the home at all than let her go niqab-less.
And while I’m sure there are some men like that I don’t think they’re the majority. Most people are opportunists - they will exploit a chance to get something they want IF they can get it without facing any negative consequences. And there are many possible negative conseqences niqab loving men could face for locking women up in their homes. Did she have a job before the ban? Now she can’t go to work so he’s the single earner. Did she do the shopping? Now she can’t do that either. Was she in charge of collecting benefits? Taking children out for a walk? No longer an option.
So what I’m trying to say here is not: niqab bans are great and a clear path to liberation!!!! What I’m saying, or rather asking is this: what tools are we giving the women living with these niqab loving men to resist their oppression if we allow it to remain legal?
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terfsichore · 7 years
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Friendly reminder it took until the 70s for TERF mindset to seep into radical feminism, which had been around since the 60s during the 2nd wave.
Radical feminism was inclusive - and still largely was - to trans women. The womyn-for-womyn movement isolated, abused, harrassed, and then forced a large number of trans women to leave the radfem sphere nevertheless.
In other words: TERFs co-opted an inclusive movement, not the other way around.
Learn your history.
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terfsichore · 7 years
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and if a child is precocious in one aspect of development it doesn’t mean she’s actually more likely to be “adult like” in other aspects. she’s not more ready for sex bc she grew breasts earlier than her peers, she’s not more emotionally mature bc she could do 7th grade math at age 8, she’s no more prepared for dealing with responsibility than any other child her age even if she was pushed into it by circumstances.
highly intelligent children are still children, children who look older than they are are still children, children who act older than they are are still children, children who want to be older than they are are still children, children who have been through a lot are still children
and all children should be treated in a respectful way that acknowledges their personhood, but that doesn’t mean treating them as though they are adults.
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A transgender man has revealed his horrific ordeal after he was raped by a serial sex attacker in a hostel after offering to help put away his groceries.
Scott Wilson, 20, was attacked by Shelton Dube at the hostel where they both lived, despite having explained that he identifies as a man and was attracted to women.
Dube, 23, pounced in Mr Wilson’s room after they had been out for groceries, having first told him he was ‘pretty’ and had ‘very kissable lips’.
Mr Wilson said: ‘I thought he was joking on because I had already explained, yes, I’m a trans man.
‘I identify as a man, I’m attracted to women, I didn’t see why he could be serious. That was when he forced himself on me.’
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terfsichore · 7 years
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4chan asshole dude who thinks the concept of “nonbinary” is stupid: LOL these dumb tRigGErT bitches think they’re special snowflakes ha ha this is so funny to mock because I have not matured past the stage of “4th grade class bully”
Me, who thinks the concept of “nonbinary” is stupid: The phenomenon of “nonbinary"identities stems from the female population’s discomfort with the gender roles and expectations forced onto them by a male-dominated society. This only serves to further enforce people’s views on gender, which is an inherently oppressive concept. This is largely a sad thing to observe and I am concerned for these kid’s future wellbeings
Genderists: This is somehow the same thing
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The Russian Orthodox church on King George Island, Antarctica
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Internalized misogyny
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terfsichore · 7 years
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the seven deadly sins but instead of being represented by a busty woman, lust is an incel
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terfsichore · 7 years
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Men don’t act violently because they lost control. They act violently to maintain control.
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I was so inspired by the Russian fairy tale illustrations of Ivan Bilibin! <3
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