KICK RAPISTS OUT!!!!!

Don't fucking hesitate to do that!!!!

I was trying to write a post about what people can do to help, but like. What is there to say. Kick fucking rapists the fuck out. That's it. What the fuck is wrong with people that they don't fucking do that?

KICK RAPISTS OUT.

#RapeCulture

OK other things I can think of, none of which substitute KICKING RAPISTS OUT:

Stop silencing and blaming victims/survivors.

Go out of your way to support victims/survivors speaking up. This is gonna be invaluable to YOU too. It's ok to be selfish enough that you're gonna actively support your best allies.

Abuse survivors are your best allies because they know how abusers work and how to survive that.

Learn about common abuse and manipulation tactics and their underlying beliefs, attitudes and worldviews. These have striking commonalities between domestic abusers, corrupt fossil fuel companies, oppressive governments, fascists, religious fundamentalists, scammers and police. So it's important to know about that stuff to have an impact as a climate justice movement ANYWAY.

Make rapists afraid.

#AbuseCulture #RapeCuture #feminism #ClimateJustice #antifa #acab #MakeRapistsAfraidAgain

I just wanna be able to go give my all to climate justice movements again, and what's holding me back is the rapists, the way that rapists are safe and protected there, the way that I am sacrificed as easy prey, plus the way that trauma and the extreme poverty and isolation that it causes have wrecked my life.

Even as fucking broken as I currently am, I would be a thousand times more valuable to any group and movement than a rapist.

It's not hard to be better than a rapist. In fact there is nothing worse you could be, not morally and not in terms of costing the movement chances for success.

Please, if you want to, reblog these and any and all rebloggable posts of mine that are about rape and abuse and stuff like that. I understand that people think this is such a personal topic that maybe it's more respectful to me to not spread it around. But please don't ignore and silence me out of "concern" like that. If I don't want it retooted, I can make it non-retootable.

You can retoot them even when I say "us rape victims". I hope that the context makes it clear enough that I speak for myself and in solidarity with other victims/survivors, not for everyone who retoots. Idk if that's something ppl worry about but I do bc I am highly qualified in the art and science of worrying.

Edit: Also please feel free to use star/like features to express support or just let me know that you read it. I promise I won't ever interpret it as "I like that you're in pain".

The way I am going about this, making climate justice movements rape-free spaces, is by empowering victims and increasing their agency.

I had to start by pulling myself up by my own bootstraps with @DionRa as my only support.

Now I'm ready to get serious about supporting others.

Antifa and anti-rape is the same.

Rape is a terror-regime over someone else's body, it's a form of fascism, an expression of fascism.

Rapists NEED authoritarianism, need fascism, to cover up their crimes and get away with them and hold potential victims down with fear and indoctrinate them and bystanders that they are not responsible for their actions, their victims are. If we weren't cowed by the constant atmosphere of oppression and threats of retaliation if we step out of line too much (for example by killing a rapist, something that should be fucking uncontroversial to do ffs), then rape culture could not stick around. Neither could fascism.

Yes, rape culture is older than modern fascism, it grew in the patriarchal, authoritarian societies that eventually gave rise to fascism. And it is part of democracies too, and even alive and kicking within leftist and communist and anarchist spaces. But that just shows how entrenched totalitarian attitudes and behaviours are.

Fascism lurked behind the facade of democracy since the 20th century and was ready to (re-)emerge and it is now emboldened to do so. This general dynamic was not a surprise to those who paid attention, except maybe how fast and far-reaching it is currently.

It won't last. Fascism and rape culture will die. I will kill them personally.

#antifa #fascism #RapeCuture #AbuseCulture #authoritarianism #totalism #oppression #analyse #GesellschaftsAnalyse

Alles was seit 1945 passierte, hat Bertolt Brecht zusammengefasst mit:
"Der Schoß ist fruchtbar noch, aus dem das kroch."

Wiktionary Zitat:
https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/der_Scho%C3%9F_ist_fruchtbar_noch,_aus_dem_das_kroch

Die Schlussworte des Epilogs zu dem Parabelstück »Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui« von Bertolt Brecht. Das im Gangstermilieu von Chicago angesiedelte Stück schildert parabelhaft und durch Übersteigerung verfremdet das Emporkommen und die Karriere Hitlers und seiner Gefolgsleute in der Weimarer Republik bis hin zur Annexion Österreichs. Der Epilog, der am Ende des Stückes als Schrift auf dem sich schließenden Vorhang erscheint, drückt neben der Warnung auch Hoffnung aus. Er endet mit den Worten:
„So was hätt einmal fast die Welt regiert!
Die Völker wurden seiner Herr, jedoch
Dass keiner uns zu früh da triumphiert -
Der Schoß ist fruchtbar noch, aus dem das kroch!“

I used to get caught up in confusion over how to address this issue without making my own movement look bad by calling out the sexism, rape and other oppressions that exist in it. It's hard, especially for victims. There are so many double binds! Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Turns out, silence is not the answer. Every victim has a right to get their trampled dignity back. And collectively we can fight for it. And that includes to decide if and how we want to talk about what happened. About the dynamics and distortions and the ways that violence and threats and victimisation are at once commonplace and seemingly invisible.

We rape victims are not the ones making our groups and movements and polycules and families look bad. The rapists are. And the enablers help.

People, groups, orgs, movements, event planners etc all need to be PROACTIVE about fighting rape and sexual assault and partner abuse. Don't wait around until someone got hurt SO bad, often MANY TIMES that they speak up despite the desperate situation that puts them in, and your signalled lack of care.

I assume you do care. But by not saying anything, you are (unintentionally) signalling to victims that you probably won't have their back.

Abusers work very hard to manipulate us victims into not trusting the people who could help us. They can be very sneaky, convincing, concern trolling. They can even convince us that they just want to prevent us from getting retraumatised and hurt by the process of trying to get support or justice.

Sadly, virtue signalling doesn't work either. Rape enablers are hypocrites like rapists and abusers themselves.

Reaching out is possible though. Do your best, be genuine, stand by your word. It's not rocket science. In fact, standing with our tribe members who got hurt is one of the most fundamental human qualities I can think of. It's in our deep history, it's in our bones.

Don't listen to the patriarchal brainwashing that tries to steal that from you.

Be proactive about letting abuse victims know that you have their backs. There WILL be rape and abuse victims in your group, at your party, on your event, hooked arm in arm with you forming the picket line. We're not a hypothetical, we are real and we got your backs all the time.

One of the insidious things of rape culture is how even genuine allies, subconsciously, see us victims as burdens. We see ourselves that way anyway.

But we're not burdens. We're not a problem you have to deal with when we disclose the rapist's crimes. That's how the rapists see us.

Yes, they are that distorted in their thinking. It stems from their incredible entitlement, not confusion or mental illness. They exploit our emotional and physical labour, rip us off financially, parade us around to dress up THEIR public image (that's part of why abusers tend to be well liked) and whatever else they can think of. They use our bodies.

But we're BURDENS?! We're raw materials to them.

And we're pillars of our communities. We're fucked up and traumatised from what rapists and enablers do to us, but that doesn't mean we're weak or passive or more needy than giving.

Quite the contrary. A lot of us - and this is by no means universal and it SHOULDN'T BE - but a lot of us overcompensate against internal and external feelings/accusations of lazyness, stupidity and burdenhood by being extra helpful and undemanding. We're used to giving without taking.

It's hard to shake that. But on the other side lies a world of mutual aid and compassion and friendships that are built on actual equality and that are therefore even more fruitful than our previous efforts.

As communities and people, we can break the ball and chain that is rape, that is currently holding us back and making every move so much harder than it needs to be.

#RapeCulture #feminism #AbuseSurvivor