peach jam

To act like that’s something that wouldn’t happen to women because they are acceptable victims just isn’t a reality. I think people would like it if it were true as that makes it easier to understand sexism at a more black and white level. “Women are stereotypically victims and being a male victim is laughable because that feminizes them” is a neat statement but I think it kinda ignores how abuse culture actually works. Women are laughed at and mocked for abuse all the time. If those women are of color, poor, disabled, not straight and or cis? That mocking and laughing multiples because some women are deemed unrapeable/unable to truly be abused or be victims;going into who is allowed victimhood because the further you get away from straight cis white and able bodied, the less likely it is that you’ll be treated with the respect you deserve as a victim(and all victims of abuse deserve respect regardless of race class ability gender sexuality)

This was the deadliest antisemitic attack in all 364 years of American Jewish history. Jews all over the world are shaken, upset, and scared. We know that this could have been any of us, but beyond that, this attack struck at the heart of our people. We were attacked in a place of safety and sanctity. We were reminded that as Jews, we are not safe in America. And we lost eleven Jewish souls.

Some of us are grieving, some of us are angry, some of us are devastated, some of us are numb, some of us are crying, some of us are terrified, some of us are anxious, and some of us can barely walk up the stairs because this doesn’t make any sense and yet it makes so much sense because we all, on some level, imagined this was coming. Our history has taught us that our safety is never guaranteed, and over the past two years we have watched the sickening rise of Nazism and antisemitism all over the world, including in America, where, despite our history, many of us had been lulled into believing it could never happen here.

We lost a third of the world’s Jewish population within living memory. So many Jewish families, in every country, fled antisemitic violence within the past few generations. The tragedy we just experienced is visceral, it’s terrifying, it’s devastating.