I WANNA SEE THE WOMEN SAY "FUCK THAT"

"Stop commenting then don't you sound slow"

Those are your options tho babe? Either shave or don't lmao

Turkish public prosecutors have sparked outrage among feminists by demanding the closure of the country’s largest women’s rights group accusing it of being “against morality”.

We Will Stop Femicide (WWSF) has been issued with a letter demanding the group is dissolved on public security grounds and organisers now face a lengthy court battle to stay open. The prosecutors claim the group broke the law and acted with immorality by “disintegrating the family structure by ignoring the concept of the family under the guise of defending women’s rights”.

Fidan Ataselim, general secretary of WWSF, said: “We don’t see this as just an attack on us. For us, this is an attack on all women in Turkey, on all social movements, on the entire democratic public opinion.”

It was a grotesque action, said Emma Sinclair-Webb, Turkey director of Human Rights Watch. “It’s very provocative,” she said. “The authorities know perfectly well that this is a highly successful and very visible campaign.

“It’s grotesque to go after this group, it’s completely disproportionate – and what are you going after? Everyone knows it’s ridiculous.”

It is the latest salvo against civil society, already riled by president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decision to withdraw Turkey from the Istanbul conventionon violence against 

women last year. The move sparked large protests, many organised by WWSF, which brought a harsh police response.

Erdoğan and his Justice and Development party (AKP) have defended the decision, saying existing laws are enough to protect women. The move to shutter WWSF is regarded as an effort to marginalise feminist campaigners and divide them from more conservative women seen as more sympathetic to the government. A general election is expected this year, and Erdoğan faces growing opposition at the polls.

“They withdrew from the Istanbul convention, and society reacted very strongly. Now they are trying to polarise society. They are trying to marginalise our movement but they won’t be able to do it, because we are an organisation that draws its power from society,” said Ataselim.

“Ultimately, this is a divisive act intended to pit women against each other,” said Webb. “It’s sowing further social division going forth as a way to go into an election cycle as well – Erdoğan is pitting women against women in an attempt to shore up support of religious, pious, conservative women against these women who they can say are immoral,” she said. “They’re trying to make a culture war out of this.”

WWSF, with 750 active members, was founded in 2010 in response to the murder of a 17-year-old student by her partner. It has a nationwide network providing legal support to survivors of domestic violence, as well as collecting data on femicide, monitoring trials and organising rallies.

It comes amid a rise in femicides in Turkey. WWSF estimates that 416 women were killed because of their gender last year, and a further 72 murdered from January to March 2022.

Şükran Eroğlu, from the Istanbul Bar Association’s women’s rights centre, said she had anticipated the authorities’ attack on WWSF after changes to the law earlier this yearlimiting freedom of association. “We knew 

that this would have consequences,” she said. “So this would definitely start with women’s associations, because the women’s movement is on the rise in Turkey.”

Gülsüm Kav, who founded WWSF, vowed to fight the closure.

“This is an attack on women’s right to life. So we will never give up our rights, our struggle. We will fight together with the public so that this unlawful step can be reversed,” she said.

"look, i know the stereotype is that men don't use mascara, but it just so happens that i also separately think that me stopping mascara use is a way for me to signify everyone else that i am a man, just, you know, personally, outside of the vacuum, and it has nothing to do with anyone else's decisions, although of course i know that this is how they also recognize the significance, because they are also raised in the same culture and are affected by the stereotype, but anyway, to each their own and this is just about me"

This isn’t the article I recalled, but an example anyway:

Morningstar was hired but given a 90-day probationary period; for men it was 30. Then the gear theft and tampering started. Her gloves, hoods, and radio vanished (2007); her mask was sabotaged (two weeks after 9/11). She found what appeared to be semen on her bed (2012). Clothes continued to be stolen and destroyed. Word of the harassment rose all the way to Mayor Don McIlroy, and the department issued a warning against equipment tampering, but nothing substantively changed. 

Another:

Her concerns included having her firefighting gear tampered with several times

And another:

Ever since Judy Brewer became America’s first female firefighter 45 years ago, women have been hazed in the fire service, including sabotaged oxygen tanks and glass in their boots.

More:

You're living twenty-four hours a day in a firehouse and nobody will talk to you. Shit in your boots. Women at the front end of a fire hose and a fire scene and the water gets cut off from her.

Here’s a hint from the far back year of 2018

David Sedaris’s opinion on the word queer, and a few dumbass fucking idiot comments.

one and only smart comment:

Radfems want to create a world where appearances don't matter and where women can dress in any way they want and be as gender non-conforming as they please without harassment or accusations - accusations like "if you don't wear makeup you're giving up on yourself", or "masculinity in a woman is a sign of depression", or "being butch means you're a lesbian". These are the sort of accusations made by Conservatives who want women to conform... Conservatives and lesbians.

As the above exchange demonstrates, lesbians would ideally like to divide the world between feminine-looking straight women (who signal their heterosexuality by dressing in a gender-conforming way), and butch-looking lesbians who dress like men, in order to express their homosexuality.

So in a world where the lesbian perspective won straight women wouldn't be allowed to dress themselves in a gender non-conforming way, no matter how much they'd like to, no matter how much this was true to their authentic self - which btw they can! In our society women can in fact dress in any way they like. But in the ideal lesbian world straight women wouldn't be allowed to do that because lesbians would want the monopoly on butchness.