Status Updates From An Introduction to Feminism...

„You know, it is fairly frustrating that it takes studies by men in laboratories to predict that viewing pornography makes men be sexually more violent and makes them believe we are sexual things, before women are believed when we say that this does happen.“

„Until the middle of the nineteenth century, it was considered permissible in the UK and most parts of the US for a husband to use physical ‘discipline’ against his wife“

Great…:)

‘By God, shut up! There is nothing in the world more oppressive than men. You have been fucking us since the beginning of all time, and when we've fucked you one single time you are killing us!’

Why do we need sex to be simple, so badly that we try literally to cut out of existence those who violate a neat binary system? As one intersex activist, Sarah Graham, puts it: ‘We must be given the space to exist.’

We deck ourselves from head to toe with garments and decorations which serve like badges and buttons to announce our sexes…
There are different styles of gait, gesture, posture,
speech, humor, taste and even of perception, interest and attention that we learn as we grow up to be women or to be men and that label and announce us as women or as men. It begins early in life: even infants in arms are color coded

In a survey for Amnesty International, over 1 in 4 respondents thought a women was partially or totally responsible for being raped if she was wearing sexy or revealing clothing, and more than 1 in 5 held the same view if a woman had had many sexual partners.

I actually want to vomit now

„When people say that women and men are equal nowadays, what this means is that they do not think that women and men should be equal in the ways in which they are still not equal“