HebrideanHecateAs a brown woman who used to admire SBS greatly I just want to say my feminism includes all women, I don’t care if they are Israeli or Palestinian, rape and violence against women is disgusting whatever the ethnicity or religion of the man that does it and the ethnicity and religion of the woman on the receiving end. I’ve seen the rape denial and it’s abhorrent. No girl or woman should expect less sympathy or anger on her behalf because of her religion or ethnicity. This is where intersectionality has got us, hierarchies of rape. I remember arguing about this with someone on here YEARS ago. I was trying to point out that whilst I completely got where it came from as a brown woman and I’ve experienced some of it I thought it was a blunt tool to understand disadvantage. It felt like there was so much missing from that analysis, it was really useful in terms of understanding prejudice in the workplace and Crenshaw really did useful work, but it expanded to a degree thats made it meaningless as a useful tool for feminists outside of very narrow analysis. I’m even more convinced of that now.
How hard is it to just say rape is wrong and there is never any good reason to rape, ever. They also turn a blind eye to Palestinian women talking about coerced sex to secure aid from Palestinian men. Something that again we know happens in war, but it will be ignored because they don’t want to confront the fact that some men on their “side” are just rapey fuckers and will rape any woman they can. Personally I find it much easier to sleep at night knowing I won’t let any rapist hide behind my skirts. I don’t get this, SBS are fully aware of what kind of man will rape a woman, and they are fully aware of the devastation that rape causes, they are fully aware of the fact that women from conservative communities are less likely to report rape so will be fully fucking aware that a man who raped an Israeli woman is just as likely to be raping a Palestinian woman. It’s complete and utter brain rot. They used to be amazing, helping women who were some of the most vulnerable in society and least likely to go to the police and now they are basically rape apologists.
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