you don’t love him like i do but maybe this will make you try xoxo
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you don’t love him like i do but maybe this will make you try xoxo
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the idea that atheists are an oppressed minority group is laughable
Something tells me you’re only focusing on white American atheists if you think that. Blasphemy laws and declaring that one is an atheist can get you fucking killed overseas. Seriously, have you seen the shit Pakistan has put forth? People have been injured, people’s houses have been burned down, for anything they consider “blasphemy.”
Forgive me for being a little tired and not terribly well-worded, but shit like this pisses me off.
Even when it comes to being in the States, calling out violations of separation of church and state can cause fucking witch hunts in schools, can get you death threats from your classmates, can get you thrown out of your home. Oh, but I guess that’s not oppressed enough for you now that our movement’s grown big enough to help some of the people disadvantaged by this. I guess having a cushion of other people surrounding you and picking you up again when others bully you for being an atheist means that oppression doesn’t exist anymore. You hear that, y’all? I can totally tell people on the street that I’m an atheist and people won’t yell slurs at me anymore!
See, I think your problem is, you’re conflating “oppressed group” with “most oppressed group.” You know what? No, we aren’t the most oppressed. Not by a long shot. But neither are white women. Neither are white gays. (And did I mention that as a lot of the mistreatment of them comes from the shitty outdated religious ideals that we try to criticize? Because yeah.) Neither is anyone who can legally live in the United States, especially if they were born here. But you know what? At least we fucking give a shit about their rights movements. At least we actually acknowledge the way social structures are set up against them. Just because a little group of asshole white privileged men is all you see, doesn’t mean that that’s even a fucking fraction of us. It just means you need to open your eyes.
Until we meet again.
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[TW: rape culture]
And when we frame all women as being someone’s wife, mother or daughter, what are we teaching young girls?
We are teaching them that in order to have the law on their side, they need to be loved by men. That they need to make themselves attractive and appealing to men in order to be worthy of protection. That their lives and their bodily integrity are valueless except for how they relate to the men they know.
The truth is that I am someone’s wife. I am also someone’s mother. I am someone’s daughter, and someone’s sister. But those are not the things that define me, or make me valuable in this world. Those are not the reasons that I should be able to live a life free from rape, sexual assault or any kind of violent crime.
I have value because I am a person. Full stop. End of argument. This isn’t even a discussion that we should be having.
So please, let’s start teaching that fact to the young women in our lives. Teach them that you love, honour and value them because of who they are. Teach them that they should expect to be treated with integrity because it’s a basic human right. Teach them that they do not deserve to be raped because no one ever, ever, ever deserves to be raped.
Above all, teach them that they are people, too.
And when we frame all women as being someone’s wife, mother or daughter, what are we teaching young girls?
We are teaching them that in order to have the law on their side, they need to be loved by men. That they need to make themselves attractive and appealing to men in order to be worthy of protection. That their lives and their bodily integrity are valueless except for how they relate to the men they know.
The truth is that I am someone’s wife. I am also someone’s mother. I am someone’s daughter, and someone’s sister. But those are not the things that define me, or make me valuable in this world. Those are not the reasons that I should be able to live a life free from rape, sexual assault or any kind of violent crime.
I have value because I am a person. Full stop. End of argument. This isn’t even a discussion that we should be having.
So please, let’s start teaching that fact to the young women in our lives. Teach them that you love, honour and value them because of who they are. Teach them that they should expect to be treated with integrity because it’s a basic human right. Teach them that they do not deserve to be raped because no one ever, ever, ever deserves to be raped.
Above all, teach them that they are people, too.
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I Am Not Your Wife, Sister, or Daughter. I Am a Person
This post is soooo good at articulating why it’s so harmful to have to relate women to men through their relationships with men
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And they lived happily ever after.
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