The largely successful rebranding of male violence towards women
Content warning: Grace Lavery
The cover of an “academic” journal. I kid you not. Someone probably thought this was “edgy”. It’s not edgy, but it is revealing. This is what #nodebate looks like.
This is just the latest in a process of dehumanisation that has been ongoing for a number of years now.
There are perhaps a thousand similar examples here.
Apparently, Grace Lavery is involved in The Transgender Studies Quarterly, the same Grace Lavery who proudly posted photos of his girlfriend with teeth marks on her cheek/ a fist in her mouth. And if you come at me for ‘misgendering’, your moral compass is well and truly fucked.
We are so used to make threats and violence. What is mind boggling is how captured some women are ( friends of mine) who’s answer to shit like this is: it’s not violence when they defend themselves.
This is what drives me the most mad: that up is down and down is up. There is this meme of TRA being vulnerable and their violence towards TERF (or Karen’s - Imagined to be white bourgeois women - being legit.
My own daughter has bought it. Suck my girl dick made her laugh.
I am so lost
Only last week after seeing aggressive imagery and words, I thought to myself, at some point these extreme activists will be seen as a terrorist group. Then, only to confirm my intuition, this image pops up on my feed yesterday.
In Ireland in the 70's and 80's men with balaclavas and guns were called terrorists.