I don’t think the twitter #YesAllWomen storm was related to the SC murderer directly. His utube manifesto video was online and the comments section included a bunch douches saying that none of this would have happened if those “dumb b88ches” had just “given him sum”.
If there was a feminist agenda to hijack a cause, there are lots of other mass killings of women to choose from.
This wasn’t a reaction to his crime spree, but to the online sentiment that accompanied it, and the everyday sexist comments and actions that women, Yes All Women, experience.
I believe weapons have been proven to be more often used against the victim – thereby upping the violence. Instead of just being raped, you may be raped and murdered.
We can work on both fronts – women protecting themselves and men holding men and boys accountable for their bad actions, not excusing it or tossing the idea aside as “complete and utter fantasy”. Give yourselves some credit.
Too many times I have heard men commenting on my walking alone at night – these good men who don’t intend to harm me, still seem to feel I don’t have the right to choose to walk alone. They have been brainwashed by the “awareness campaigns” for women – they have heard the same messaging over so many times, that now the fault is going completely on the woman if she chooses to walk alone, and gets attacked – well, she got what she deserved. Who did she think she was, walking alone after dark?
(for the record, I haven’t been attacked…but I’m a single lady with a dog and the dog needs to walk, so we walk. I don’t like being told I have no right to expect to walk safely. Men have threatened me because I’m alone, because I’m pretty, because I should know better, because I should be taught a lesson.)
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Great response. Well written and missing the bitterness of the original list. Kudos!
I don’t think the twitter #YesAllWomen storm was related to the SC murderer directly. His utube manifesto video was online and the comments section included a bunch douches saying that none of this would have happened if those “dumb b88ches” had just “given him sum”.
If there was a feminist agenda to hijack a cause, there are lots of other mass killings of women to choose from.
This wasn’t a reaction to his crime spree, but to the online sentiment that accompanied it, and the everyday sexist comments and actions that women, Yes All Women, experience.
I believe weapons have been proven to be more often used against the victim – thereby upping the violence. Instead of just being raped, you may be raped and murdered.
We can work on both fronts – women protecting themselves and men holding men and boys accountable for their bad actions, not excusing it or tossing the idea aside as “complete and utter fantasy”. Give yourselves some credit.
Too many times I have heard men commenting on my walking alone at night – these good men who don’t intend to harm me, still seem to feel I don’t have the right to choose to walk alone. They have been brainwashed by the “awareness campaigns” for women – they have heard the same messaging over so many times, that now the fault is going completely on the woman if she chooses to walk alone, and gets attacked – well, she got what she deserved. Who did she think she was, walking alone after dark?
(for the record, I haven’t been attacked…but I’m a single lady with a dog and the dog needs to walk, so we walk. I don’t like being told I have no right to expect to walk safely. Men have threatened me because I’m alone, because I’m pretty, because I should know better, because I should be taught a lesson.)