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The Day of Our Divorce Hearing you treated me to lunch, a spaghetti place. We had never been so kind to each other. When you said I'm still a slob we laughed. After lunch we stood in the parking lot. You said, You have the last word but I said, No, I'm tired of being the one who sums things up. You get the last word. But you couldn't think of one. So off you went to our silver car, I to our red one. It's three years later. And even that's just a story now. Lately I don't feel as if I lived with you. But I remember our kindness that day, when it no longer mattered.

This poem made me stop in my tracks.

the first place. That could be dangerous, so the aggression is reserved for another less threatening or weaker target. For example, unemployment and financial difficulties are extremely frustrating, as they block a person's ability to maintain a certain standard of living and acquire desired possessions. In one study, male unemployment and single parenthood were the two factors most highly correlated to rates of child abuse (Gillham et al., 1998). Unemployment is also one of the factors correlated most highly with the murder of abused women, creating four times the risk of murder for women in abusive relationships (Campbell & Wolf, 2003). Both studies are examples of displaced aggression toward the weaker targets of children and women. Such targets often become scapegoats, or habitual targets of displaced aggression. Scapegoats are often pets, children, spouses, and even minority groups (who are seen as having less power). OONK to Learning

“Women’s reactions are always over-the-top”, meanwhile studies show that men are 4x times likely to murder women in abusive relationships due to displaced aggression i.e take out their frustration of unemployment on women and children who are seen as easy targets because they’re less threatening.

Women have told everyone to just fck off.

Actually we shouldn’t respect all culture !!

Street sign in Avignon, France 🇫🇷: ‘Gisèle (Pelicot), women thank you.’ 🥹💕

A man made his friend rape his wife and filmed the assault. Then he blackmailed his wife, demanding Rs 2 lakh and threatening to release the video online.

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In West Bengal, India, a pregnant woman was forced to deliver her baby in a hospital toilet due to the lack of hospital bed. Following the delivery, a dog, roaming unchecked in the hospital premises, snatched the newborn.

Propaganda posters from campaign against women’s suffrage, 1900-1913

of inherent mental illness but because of their resistance to oppression.

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> Phyllis Chesler, in her groundbreaking work Women and Madness (1972), argues that psychiatry and psychology have been complicit in pathologizing women who resist traditional gender roles. Chesler posits that the diagnosis of “madness” has been disproportionately applied to women, not because-

> The “mad woman,” like Bertha Mason in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, symbolized a woman’s rebellion against patriarchal constraints but was ultimately silenced or destroyed to restore social order.

> The archetype of the “mad woman” is prevalent in literature, as explored in The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. This seminal feminist text examines how 19th-century literature often portrayed women as either angels or monsters.

notion persisted in the witch hunts and through the Middle Ages and the Victorian era, during which women were often institutionalized in asylums for displaying behavior that deviated from rigid gender expectations.

The idea of women as inherently unstable or “mad” can be traced back to ancient civilizations. For instance, in ancient Greece, the term hysteria was derived from the Greek word hystera (uterus), reflecting the belief that women’s mental disturbances stemmed from their reproductive organs. This-

Iran 🇮🇷 is very cleverly utilising what is known as the mad woman trope which has been used since centuries to oppress women. Rooted in patriarchal structures, the “mad woman” label pathologizes women who defy societal norms, such as being outspoken, sexually autonomous, or creatively unconventional

Men: only I can do it, you can’t and if you do, I’ll be violent.

Girl, run 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️

Casteist Indian incel gem

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YouTuber & educator Khan Sir commenting:

“I’m always thankful to god that he didn’t make me a girl. It would’ve been so tough to live without a brain. Y’all have so much struggle in life. You must be feeling weird with an empty head. To balance the empty you girls keep long hair”.

Some Indian men reacting to a woman celebrating her divorce with a party. Slutshaming her, accusing her of claiming huge alimony etc, without even fully knowing her story.