“The violence which governed the ordering of the colonial world, which tirelessly punctuated the destruction of the indigenous social fabric, and demolished unchecked the systems of reference of the country’s economy, lifestyles, and modes of dress, this same violence will be vindicated and appropriated when, taking history into their own hands, the colonized swarm into the forbidden cities. To blow the colonial world to smithereens is henceforth a clear image within the grasp and imagination of every colonized subject. To dislocate the colonial world does not mean that once the borders have been eliminated there will be a right of way between the two sectors. To destroy the colonial world means nothing less than demolishing the colonist’s sector, burying it deep within the earth or banishing it from the territory. Challenging the colonial world is not a rational confrontation of viewpoints. It is not a discourse on the universal, but the impassioned claim by the colonized that their world is fundamentally different.”
~ Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth
“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”
A Rape A Minute, A Thousand Corpses A Year, by Rebecca Solnit, in which it pays to remember that horrific violent crime against women are not isolated incidents. (Is Delhi So Different From Steubenville, from NYT.)
Gendering Sex and Sexual Violence from Inequality by (Interior) Design:
About 2.8% of men stated that they have sexually forced a woman, but a whopping 21.6% of women state that they have been forced by a man.
Yet figures from the same chart show that men who have been forced into sex by a woman basically match up with the numbers of women who say they have forced a man into sex. Why the discrepancy?
Mass Murder and Men from GMP is a video from Chris Menning
Erika Christakis on The Overwhelming Maleness of Mass Homicide from The Good Men Project
The Cognitive Dissonance Of Game Violence from The Good Men Project
Sir Patrick Stewart: Violence Against Women Is Learned from Jezebel
EXPLICIT VIOLENCE from The Rumpus
The Complexity Of Violence In The Media from GMP
Fashion victims: why do glossy magazines keep glamorising violence? from New Statesman
The very best indicator and predictor of a state’s peacefulness is not wealth, military expenditures or religion; the best predictor is how well its girls and women are treated.
I watched an episode of Insight early 2013 sometime about girls and violence. According to a career policeman from Sydney, he’s definitely seen an upswing in violence from young women. This is a trend he can’t explain. He was sure to point out that violence from young women is nowhere near the levels of young men.
I’m pretty sure that wasn’t what equality was supposed to look like.
Victims suffer all over again in a world where sexual violence sells from The Age
