RE: https://mastodon.social/@WTL/116663075858632225
Women are not safe around men.
This essay is well worth reading. Here are a couple of excerpts to help convince you to read the whole thing. If you reply, do let us know how much of this you read.
To not-all-men:
“The men who rush to announce their personal non-violence the moment this conversation begins are doing exactly what this culture trained them to do—center themselves rather than confront the problem.”
To women:
“Until men get the help, the accountability, and the fundamental transformation in values that this crisis demands—protect yourself, protect each other, and know that the fight for your safety is also the fight for the soul of our society.”
To black women in particular:
“Any honest conversation about gender-based violence must reckon with the ways race compounds vulnerability and the ways our systems have historically failed Black women most catastrophically of all.”
To my transwomen sisters:
Well, Rashid didn’t talk to us directly, so I guess it is up to me. Nothing in this essay is going to surprise you. We have experienced this ongoing violence both when society looked at us as inadequate or unacceptable boys and men, and since claiming our birthright as women. Please read this for a glimmer of hope, a vision for building a safer world for women.
And to my transmen brothers:
I cannot speak to your experience; neither does Rashid. But I know you have our backs. I can see how you struggle to find a healthy place as a man in a sick culture. I do not envy you, and it seems unfair that you too have spent your early lives being victimized by male violence only to transition and be tarred by the same brush as cisgender men. I see you.
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#TransWomenAreWomen
#NotAllMen




