When was the last time you were at a parade this crowded!
We are outraged when an Indian police officer tells a rape victim she should marry her attacker but not when a California judge says a woman wasn’t really raped because she didn’t put up enough of a fight. We are outraged at 24,000 rapes in India but not 188,380 in America.
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Hoopstatic - First World Problems I really recommend reading the entire article. Trigger warning for discussion of rape and rape culture - it’s a tough article but very important. (Thanks to byunbbi for submitting) I think this quote also really captures what is happening when one is reported so much more than the other in American media: “24,000 rapes in one year. That’s an epidemic. Brutal gang rape. Police doing nothing to protect or prosecute. Culture of rape. But something like that would never happen here in America, right? India is dirty and dangerous and overcrowded and backwards and misogynistic and this is just a third world problem, right? A really sad problem, but it would never happen here, right?” It creates another false dichotomy where “we” feel bad for “them” that they have to live in those “conditions.” Definitely both situations are in need of address, but it’s worth examining why media leaps on framing India and its sexual assault issues as if they are a world different from ours- as if “our people” /culture really act better or respect women and victims more (they don’t.) 24,000 in a population of a billion vs 188,000 out of 300 million? (via dotcomslashpost) it’s way easier to dehumanize poc culture and portray it as being primitive and backwards than to analyze the structure of misogyny and rape culture in the so called “developed world”. (via sonidenakhre) I’m not really understanding the point in comparing the statistics of rape between America and India. What is the argument here? I think its subtlety saying “hey wait, its more horrendous that its happening to us civilized people.” Yeah, I think that’s the point implied in this little conversation. (via mediumbrowngirl) The point explicitly stated in this article is that although the Western media - and white feminism - is so quick to denounce India as a barbaric, dangerous place for women and contrast it with us so-called civilized people, when in fact the numbers make it plain to see that the Western world has no right to call itself civilized when it comes to sexual assault either. That is something I got (rightfully) called out for by a Desi blogger just last week. (via stfusexists) |
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Great infographic & write-up from Nerd Wallet:
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5/23/1846 — #wmnhist #law Belle Aurelia Babb (Arabella Mansfield), lawyer, educator, suffragist, b. Burlington, IA. The first US female lawyer, admitted to the Iowa bar (1869). A dean at DePauw University (1893), member National League of Women Lawyers (1893).
5/23/1842 — #wmnhist Maria Wasiłowska Konopnicka, poet, author, translator, publicist, critic, b. Suwałki, Poland. Pseudonyms Jan Sawa, Marko, Jan Waręż. Significant author and Positivist poet in Polish literature, also authored children’s literature. Suffragist and activist for Polish Independence and women’s right to education. Denounced the Catholic Church’s position on women, marriage, and the lower classes.
5/23/1826 — #wmnhist Frances Auretta Fuller Victor, historian, author, b. Rome, NY. Pseudonyms Dorothy D., Florence Fane. Prominent West Coast/Oregon historian, a principal author of Hubert Howe Bancroft’s multi-volume history of California and the west. Also wrote historical novels, fiction, and about women’s rights.
5/23/1810 — #wmnhist Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (Margaret Fuller), author, editor, critic, women’s rights advocate, b. Cambridgeport, MA. Wrote ‘Women in the 19th Century’ (1845), a feminist pamphlet which supported women’s emotional and intellectual fulfillment, considered the first major US feminist work. The first woman allowed to use the Harvard College library, the first full-time US female book reviewer in journalism, the first female foreign correspondent for the ‘New York Tribune’ (1846). Literary Genre: American transcendentalism.
05/22/1943 — #wmnhist Betty Williams, social activist, professor, b. Belfast, Ireland. Nobel laureate, est. Community of Peace People and shared Nobel Peace Prize (1976) with Mairead Corrigan. Co-founder of the Nobel Women’s Initiative (2006).
5/22/1936 — #wmnhist #fem2 Jill Sheila Tweedie, journalist, author, broadcaster, feminist, b. Egypt. Wrote on feminist issues concerning socially accepted horrors toward woman (1970s/1980s), such as rape in marriage, the treatment of women during childbirth, bride burning in India, and the circumcision of women. Columnist for ‘The Guardian’(1969-88), Woman Journalist of the Year (1971), one of the Press Gazette’s 40 most influential British journalists (2005).
