Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. While a great deal of violence against women is perpetuated in the most decentralized interpersonal relationships, the date was chosen to commemorate the victims of an act of state violence against women. On this day in 1960, the Mirabal sisters were executed by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. Stand against both state and private violence against women, today and everyday.
What does working to eliminate violence against women look like? It can look like a lot of different things. To learn how to work in your personal life to prevent gender violence, I would recommend this article from Scarleteen and Jackson Katz’s list “10 Things Men Can Do to Prevent Gender Violence.” To learn how to organize against gender violence as it impacts women of color and as it intersects with state violence in the US, I would suggest this article from INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. To consider how we can counter interpersonal violence against women without the state’s justice system, I recommend this video.
Haha, usually I ignore this kind of crap when it relates to private violence, but STATE VIOLENCE? Are you serious? You want to talk about state violence? How about the fact that most of the people locked up in mental institutions are men? How about the fact that masses of MEN were conscripted into the Vietnam War against our will?
Why the focus on women? If you're not an evil sexist pig, you're just against violence, no matter the victim.
Well you could say, women get beaten more than men. Yeah, and black on white crime is higher than white on black crime. Would you publish a story titled End Violence against Whites?
C4SS is attracting MRA trolls. We've finally hit the big time!
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In other words, a Bizarro Roderick Long?
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Everyone deserves respect and right to live happy life. This means that women are not inferior to man and should not endure the violent treatment of any kind. It is time for this nonsense to stop,