in my ethics class today, the professor brought up the hindu cultural practice of Sutee/Sati, in which widowed women are forced to burn themselves to death on their deceased husband's funeral pyre. the man sitting next to me (who was also a marine) laughed at this. i told him, "you laugh, but if they (the widowed women) don't do it, they are stoned to death instead. many women have died this way". he continued to laugh and smile, like it was all some joke to him. i immediately sent in my seat change request afterward.
men find femicide and the abuse of women at men's hands amusing. it's all a spectacle to them. men are not our protectors.
fuck men (yes, including MOC who treat WOC as subhuman), and fuck the marines.























