Microblog Memes

I mean yes this is bad, but America is not going to end itself just because women have rights. A lot more to it than that reductive take

Honestly, if women, as well as persons of color and the LGBTQIA+ community, having rights and freedoms is such a threat to America - both as a country and a “way of life” - and they cannot coexist, then as an American I would happily say goodbye to America.

~What that means, and how that would work, scares the ever loving shit out of me, but no one deserves the shit America does to them.~

[O]n one occasion during 1989, Mr. Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our marriage. As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent. I referred to this as a "rape", but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.[34]

Oh, America is not alone here. Plenty of places without even that one generation

Honestly, I have to suspect a giant coordinated effort against women and feminine aspect of life spanning damn hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Otherwise I cannot fathom and explanation of how things have gone so ugly for so long

And a couple generations earlier (1920), women finally got the right to vote.

Hard-fought victories eroded one at a time, and then all at once.

Fuck.

The post isn’t wrong, but there’s some nuance to it. With the credit thing, it’s true that women couldn’t reliably get their own credit until 1974. That’s when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed, which finally made it illegal for banks to require a husband or male co-signer. Before that, a lot of women could be and were turned away outright, even if they had the income to qualify. So the way it’s phrased is a bit simplified, but the gist is accurate.

The marital rape part is more complicated. Nebraska was actually the first state to outlaw it in 1976, and then other states slowly followed. By 1993, every state had removed the explicit marital exemption from their rape laws. That said, a lot of states still had narrower definitions, weaker penalties, or loopholes, so saying it became “illegal nationwide in 1994” smooths over a messy process. What really happened is that by the early ’90s, no state could outright say “marital rape doesn’t exist” anymore, but enforcement and protections still varied a lot.

So, while the tweet compresses the details, the broader point stands: these changes are incredibly recent. We’re only a generation or two removed from a time when women couldn’t open a line of credit on their own and had virtually no legal protection if their husbands assaulted them.

Gays: yeah, we know.

Homosexuality was removed from the DSM (classification of mental disorders, for which people were institutionalized against their will) also in 1974. Big year for civil rights I guess.

This quote was so, so upsetting as a survivor.

Is the title a quote from something?

Sooooooo depresssssssinggggggg

Republican America is just English speaking Russia.

Russia decriminalized spousal abuse in the 2010s and it directley led to a wave of women losing their lives because the police didnt even bother showing up when their partners were beating the brakes off them.

Legally, Russia changed domestic violence from a criminal offense (under Article 116 of the Criminal Code) into an administrative infraction with only fines or short detentions for "first-time, non-serious cases."

and if you can believe it, the champion of this "conservative, traditional values" policy, was a woman.

Quote aside, Catherynne is a great writer and all around human being. If you like fantasy, look her up.