"All people in Gaza are being bombed indiscriminately, including men and children. Stop trying to make this a gendered issue"
"Are women in Gaza being killed and starved because they are women? No"
Whoa! Since when did radfems start believing that all people including men are harmed or killed indiscriminately while women's deaths have nothing to do with their sex? Does it matter whether these atrocities or killings are specifically gendered for them to be deemed worthy of a discussion from a feminist lens? And are women only being killed? Do we not know what's more scarier for women than death when they are displaced from their homes?
I agree with the last points and I've myself always been saying the same thing that it's not every woman's responsibility to speak on every issue. I'm well aware that anti feminists and even some feminists often use women's sufferings in Gaza to discredit feminism or to silence women in Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere. How they insert every issue in feminism only to talk about it from a gender neutral or male default lens, treating sex based violence as secondary. But assuming women being k!lled has nothing to do with them being women, just to shut down the people discrediting feminism, only denies that women face specific vulnerabilities and oppressions during such crises.
While not every issue is inherently feminist, when women are affected, they are always affected disportionately. They face sex based and sexual violence both within their homes/communities and from external men which is why their experiences must be understood through a feminist lens. So No! Not all people in Gaza are bombed indiscriminately. Their suffering is indeed tied to them being women.
Wars and bombings in fact are extreme expressions of maleness, resulting in sexual violence perpetrated by men from all sides
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