Abuse must be redefined such that it includes these features too: psychological tactics, idealization, devaluation; grooming with love bombing, gaslighting, manipulation, intimidation and isolation, sexual abuse, financial and legal abuse.”
[W]e are all stuck in a web. Everyone one of us is conditioned and caught in a system that we cannot see – but its effects are suffocating and deadening....
Who said that being strong and silent is better than being vulnerable and communicative? … It’s the theme song of patriarchy: ‘Strength is the backbone of power; silence keeps ’em...
Men do not wound women only when they act violently and abusively. They wound us when they fail to protect our freedom in every aspect of our daily lives.”
Anger communicates not only that we judge something to be wrong, but also that we judge those who have been wronged (including ourselves) to be valuable. Our anger expresses that...
The relevant forms of corruption here include not only the system itself as discriminatory but also that no matter what one does, there will be no accountability and no remedy...
[R]adical feminism is central to challenging the larger problem of hierarchy and the domination/subordination dynamics…While not sufficient by itself, the end of patriarchy is a necessary condition for liberation more...
