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Shout out to you if you were following me on @z0ruas when I released Edition 1 "Women Becoming" in 2022 when I was going through the one of worst times of my life

Edition 2 has a few new stories and I'm pretty sure Case's Law wasn't in it

I'm so proud of myself

Instagram is full of first-person videos of men harassing women in public. They follow a similar script: A man walks up to a woman or group of women in a store, sitting outside a cafe, or walking home from a bar, and delivers a pickup line. The women almost always nervously laugh, react with barely-veiled disgust, or say "fuck off" while he stalks her or refuses to walk away. The men recording these videos capture them with Meta's smart glasses, which are designed to discreetly capture interactions like these and upload the videos to Meta's platforms where the women in the videos are turned into content for "pickup artist" accounts.

New research reveals this ecosystem works, and how pickup artists (PUA) influencers are using Meta's products, including its smart glasses and social media platforms, to perpetuate a culture of harassment against women.

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You can spend years in a philosophy class debating about the metaphysics of a chair, but if your boss tells you to purchase 100 chairs and you purchase 100 couches, you’ll both know you’ve done something wrong. 

But how do you argue something as basic as a definition with someone determined to ignore reality? If you hold up a pear and insist it’s an apple, insist the dictionary definition of ‘apple’ is incorrect, how do we advance in our discussion? If I relent and agree to pretend a pear is an apple, how do we discuss the differences between the two? If I hold fast, then you’ve stymied the discussion; we cannot make decisions or share opinions if we each believe the same word has two different meanings. You’ve created a language barrier within a single language! Defeated words’ very purpose! Blocked communication before it began!

The news I watched interviewed one woman saying almost all the survivors of these massacres are women and girls and on its head that may look something like "men and boys have it worse" because they get insta death but we all know why war criminals actually "spare" females. I can't imagine the torture inflicted to the point that these women and girls are killing themselves to prevent being kept around as potential rape spoils.

The Sudanese crisis has displaced and killed at least double the amount of people in Gaza in 2 years but it doesn't directly involve a colonizer like Isreal so these poor survivors are being forgotten.

Women are not free until Afghan women are free.

The city of Goma is occupied and is suffocating: Water, electricity, and food are incredibly scarce, and the humanitarian crisis is only getting worse.

Linked below is a GoFundMe managed by Friends of the Congo that is raising funds to address these urgent needs and more. Please share!

If you live in the United States, send a message to Congress and urge them to cease tax dollar funding of the violence and exploitation of Congo:

I recommend also checking out Friends of the Congo’s website:

and when you realize rapists aren't just some creepy-looking guys walking at night, that phrase helps you understand a rapist can be a man close to you, a man you know, a man you trust, a man you think would never do that, any seemingly well-adjusted man.

and given how hard latinamerican feminists are fighting to bring justice for women murdered by intimate partners like boyfriends and husbands and fight for abortion rights for little girls abused by male family members, we can't dismiss rape as a crime only committed by terrible men who can't adapt to society or say "real men don't do that".