Mona Eltahawy Instagram – Every time I hear of a cisgender heterosexual man who murdered women because he couldn’t find a romantic or sexual partner, I think of my youth and the number of men my unpartnered self could’ve killed.
And every time we hear the excuses that patriarchy and its enforcers make for the violence on behalf of those murderous men’s dicks, it tells us everything we need to know about the difference between the kind of violence we are told to take seriously, and the kind we are told to consider as no more than the unavoidable cost of admission to living in a patriarchal world.
The police in Australia have ruled out terrorism as the motive for a rampage by a man who stabbed six people to death at a crowded shopping mall in Sydney on Saturday.
The police are wrong. The motive was terrorism.
Patriarchy is the ideology. Misogyny is its political expression that is used to recruit and incite violence against women. Cisgender men are the terrorists.
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https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-femicide-the-approved-terrorism | Posted on 18/Apr/2024 00:39:02
