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Guardian:
The gut knows. The gut processes what the eye sees. A woman slammed up against a wall. A man, eyes bulging with rage, his hands on her. He pushes her out of the posh dinner, his hands gripping her neck. She is shocked. The gut twists at the familiarity. Male violence so everyday that many will have experienced it, many will have felt sick watching it – and somehow still ashamed to admit that this had happened to them too. Elsewhere, long ago, somewhere more private. No one saw.
Marilyn French once said “As long as some men use physical force to subjugate females, all men need not. The knowledge that some do suffices to threaten all women.”
These are the players now. The contest of men on stools is coming to its end. Tension is high. Egos are rampant. A woman slammed up against a wall. Should the poor man lose his ministerial car?
But we have seen and we know only too well that move: to silence us, to take our breath away. We have seen the shady brotherhood that will defend this in the name of some “anti-terror” alertness. We know where the terror really comes from. It is from those who sanction male violence." |
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Author: robel
26-11-2019 01:02:41