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AGAINST DEFENSIVE FEMINISM

Learn self-defense.

 

Here we have a female soldier getting raped and locked in a casket and stripped naked and recorded.

 

Have your own money, be popular, decenter men.

 

Here we have Tiwa Savage still being recorded in a most vulnerable moment and for months, I watched her trying every means to get over the pain.

 

Be educated! 

 

Well well well, here we have female LAW students getting sexually assaulted by their lecturers.

 

Yet feminists don’t stop preaching all these things when these means don’t seem to work in isolation.

 

We need to understand that patriarchy cannot be won by being defensive, by facing only the victims to do better, to protect themselves better. If nothing is done outside of this, there will always be more victims being produced everyday.

 

And believe me, it’s not just women that are victims. 

 

Those adorable little boys who are trained and conditioned to become monsters that women are asked to protect themselves from are also victims. 

 

We can’t ignore that patriarchy is a systemic issue and expect for any tangible change. 

 

When we’re done asking women to be defensive in every way possible that it’s difficult to live and breathe, we must attack the ideas that make it necessary for women to do all these things in the first place. 

 

We must attack the ideas that turn little boys into grown-up monsters.

 

These ideas are found everywhere.

 

It’s in religion.

 

It’s inside the marriage structure.

 

In politics.

 

In the family system.

 

On the media.

 

But you ignore these structures because you’d like to eat your cake and have it, and just ask women to continue to shrink, and that is “feminism”  to you. 

 

How has that worked so far?

 

Written by Sisí Afrika.

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