This is nice, but I can't stop thinking of all the women and girls in Afghanistan, that were just recently stripped of ALL rights, including the right to speak when they want. Availability of arteries on men doesn't do anything for them.
Arguably, current-day Afghanistan is what happens when you (i.e. Afghan women as a whole) don't fight back early and decisively enough.
It's sorta unfair to blame all of them for what happened today. Because first thing first, US invade them and for the next 20 years, took control of their country. They've been living in an ok time("ok" just not to generalise that nothing happened these years) because NATO forces is holding back the Taliban. And then Trump withdraw the force in such short time, basically gave Taliban the country, and Taliban swept across the country and gain control. I've read news of women's armed resistance force fighting back but as we all can see today, they've lost.
Second, for them to fight back, they have to fight back Islam as a whole. They've been indoctrinated for generations to act how the man who wrote the book want them to, to rebel against it they have to rebel against their whole society, alienation is very common result of that, and worst, punished. It's easy for privileged western people who isn't religious to say that, but to them, they have to move a mountain to achieve a small victory.
Those brave women is currently rebel against the taliban rule, your statement is just so flipping unfair to them.
Eventually it will present a problem. An example of this happened not long ago when Iranian woman Mahsa Amini was harassed to death by the Iranian morality police, and the people decided that was one Iranian woman too many. The humiliation campaign followed, leading to hangings which lead to revolutionaries firebombing official buildings. A lot of people shot each other. A curious development was when the fundamentalists were bombing women's schools with poisonous gas.
There eventually was an armistice and a negotiation, but the morality police still kills women by overpolicing, so it goes on.
Here in the states, we already have minorities and undesirables getting overpoliced to death by officers eager to use their guns or show them who is boss. When Trump opens the slips again, shit is going to get interesting. (As in that Chinese curse interesting. )
I also assure you in the meantime, Afghani men get a lot of food served with extra ingredients. Spite and resentment do not sit idly by.
Femoral artery: dramatic effect AND subtext!
Send them to the Femur Breaker
Yep, Old Man Larry would love to meet them!
I keep having thoughts. Dangerous, untoward MCU Supervillain thoughts.
For instance, the reason we stopped doing outlawry ( wikipedia ) as a thing is because when you unperson someone, their only defense is to fight back and hide, and if that means a wondering child happens upon your camp, well, dead kids tell no tales.
So at the point that a given group is treated is stripped of rights enough that it threatens their life (say putting someone at risk for morbid pregnancy complications, or a homeless person needing to sleep) they are required by necessity ( wikipedia ) to defend themselves violently, since defending themselves procedurally is useless.
Which means it is right and proper for those people to stab anyone whose awareness of them and their predicament is a threat. And it's right and proper to stab the monarchists who would strip us of our rights. Looking at you SCOTUS.
The same folks that want to unperson women (and non-whites, and LGBT+) are the same folks who are poisoning our air until 500-year hurricanes become the norm, and we run out water and can't feed everyone.
So we're at a point that killing them for their transgressions is literally fighting for our lives and for humanity.
I think we're one step away from suicide bombers. After all, if we're going to be executed anyhow...
My mom works with mentally ill children in a school. I had to warn her about this so she knows it's something that needs corrected.
You are pretty bold for a man with such cuttable arteries
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I think I don't get it. What does
Your body - your choicerefer to?
Is this likeblablabla i don't care about queer people, do what you want but don't come near meor what am I missing here?It says
Your body our choice, a play on the line "my body, my choice" trotted out by fascist yanks to celebrate stripping women of their autonomy.Just the fact that this whole women aren't people argument is even around still is such a joke to me.
I'm lucky enough to live somewhere where that isn't questioned ever, but damn
"Your body - your choice" refers to the basic human right that you're your own master and no one else can own/control you.
It's especially used in the discussion about whether abortion should be legal or not, where it refers to the fact that the fetus in a pregnant person is indeed part of that person, and they are allowed to do what they want with their own body (e.g. abortion).
The post mentions the opposite, "your body, our choice" which refers to the anti-abortion movement where people, often due to religious reasons, think they should have control over a pregnant person's body, rather than the pregnant person themself.
Pretty sure it has nothing to do with a “pregnant person” and is just a straight-up open rape threat.
I hate american christian fundamentalist like any sane person, but you have to admit that the fetus is not entirely part of woman's body - it's on its way to become its own "thing"... And the longer it grows, more "own" it is. With different DNA etc. While I vehemently refuse anyone dictating these kind of things to anyone else - thaťs just forcing their will upon someone, in one of the most important questions - I found this "my body" view the weakest part of the defense.
You know my body, my choice?
Yeah. This is a crowing threat in the face of a second trump presidency
lmao this guy thinks respectability politics is a thing in current year
No abortions = no arteries
As if their brain doesn’t have a weak spot just at the base of the neck
How about we stop focusing on reacting in kind to things the biggest nazi assholes say (possibly to evoke this sort of reaction and get more attention for themselves) and maybe just ignore them instead so they don't bring down the conversation to some bullshit fascist online troll level.
Well too late, now they are the government.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
