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Murdered Women - When Will It Change

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ALittleBitConfused1 · 02/10/2021 01:41

Just watched an old 'Live at the Apollo' with Rob Rydon and I've always liked him but fuck me did it make me angry.
Sick to see women laughing at his completely mysiginoyatic jokes.
Don't know if it's just the recent events but I'm so sick of the general attitude towards women. Anyone else feeling this. Completely supportive of BLM movement but am thinking that we need similar attention for women's rights too. As a women and a woman that's been a victim of violence at the hands of a man and the justice system as a result, I'm struggling to not feel complete anger at how this is still happening.

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Namenic · 02/10/2021 01:58

Um - I would prefer focusing on concrete action like tougher sentencing on violent and Sex offenders. Consider chemical castration as a condition for earlier release. Ban violent pornography - ie treat it like child pornography. Thinking of more ways of gathering evidence to secure more convictions.

QueenBee52 · 02/10/2021 02:13

@Namenic

Um - I would prefer focusing on concrete action like tougher sentencing on violent and Sex offenders. Consider chemical castration as a condition for earlier release. Ban violent pornography - ie treat it like child pornography. Thinking of more ways of gathering evidence to secure more convictions.

this would be a bloody good start

MrsTerryPratchett · 02/10/2021 02:19

Completely supportive of BLM movement but am thinking that we need similar attention for women's rights too.

We had #MeToo. It did fuck all. Except let us know that we're all in the same shitty boat.

StartupRepair · 02/10/2021 02:24

It is hard to know what to do with the anger.

WhoIsPepeSilva · 02/10/2021 06:17

@Namenic

Um - I would prefer focusing on concrete action like tougher sentencing on violent and Sex offenders. Consider chemical castration as a condition for earlier release. Ban violent pornography - ie treat it like child pornography. Thinking of more ways of gathering evidence to secure more convictions.
I think (correct me if I'm wrong), that chemical castration has been proven not to work?

I honestly don't think it'll ever end and it just depresses me. I think we'll be lucky to get out of this decade with all the rights we had in the last.

I really wish there was something effective we could do, a Feminist party I could vote for, more prominent people - men particularly - standing up as allies and actually doing something.

More men being held to account and being prosecuted with harsher punishments, tougher sentencing, zero tolerance for "low level" sexual crimes that we know escalate.

Definitely agree that violent porn should be restricted and that society needs to lean away from the current OnlyFans and sex work is empowering work to be aspired to cultural shift that's going on.

Women's spaces being returned to them (obviously Trans rights separately enshrined to ensure they are equally safe) and our ability to talk about our sex etc returned to us without shouts of exclusion and bigotry.

So many things but we need men to actually take steps to do something which truly galls me in a way, but without the actions of men we are shouting into the wind which is even more galling.

WhoIsPepeSilva · 02/10/2021 06:18

@MrsTerryPratchett

Completely supportive of BLM movement but am thinking that we need similar attention for women's rights too.

We had #MeToo. It did fuck all. Except let us know that we're all in the same shitty boat.

It had the piss ripped out of it too with some of the men jumping on the bandwagon to support the movement being pretty problematic themselves.

Gave me rage.

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