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#misogyny

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Every week, a story about a Policeman Rapist.
Never a Trans women. Oh, they'll be victims of Rape, more likely to be victims actually, but never actually the perp.
But it's every fucking week a UK Policeman is caught doing something against Women, and yet Joanne says nothing?!

thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/new

Bradford Telegraph and Argus · Officer based in Kirklees guilty of off-duty sex crimesBy Michael Broomhead

Fucking nightmare. There's this 44-y-o man in my area who lives with his 67-y-o mom, and he's acquired a hobby in the past few months. He goes around with a magic marker and writes "Daisy = slut / whore" on *everything* around Fisksätra. Daisy, whose name is not actually Daisy, got no help from the police so she finally doxxed him on Facebook. And still he keeps on doing it.

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@cemedia

Lest we forget:

“Keir Starmer is without moral rectitude. He is a deceiver, utterly duplicitous, a political confidence trickster, and he surrounds himself with equally iniquitous and unvirtuous carpetbaggers, warmongers, and anti-socialist Machiavellian pantomime characters, such as the weasel Streeting.”

quoting Rachel Swindon in her blogpost of Feb 20, 2022

rachaelswindon.blogspot.com/20

#UK#Starmer#Labour

Cathy Young (whose both-sidesism taints her otherwive valuable commentary, in my view), notes,

"The term ['suicidal empathy'] is becoming a right-wing buzzword. ...

As the sexist attacks on Barrett indicate, the right’s war on empathy often has a distinctly misogynistic subtext. ...

In fact, it’s probably a good rule of thumb that if a political movement spends a lot of energy trashing human kindness, it’s bad."

#Trump #Musk #MAGA #empathy #misogyny

thebulwark.com/p/bizarre-right

The Bulwark · The Bizarre Right-Wing War on…Empathy?By Cathy Young

Misogyny is trauma.

It can be unlearned & healed as much as any trauma can be unlearned & healed.

But it usually isn't.

Most trauma unconsciously guides our lives because of:

1) Shame: We don't want to admit what our trauma has taught us.

2) Inertia: We are comfortable with the structures & beliefs that have worked for us so far.

3) Defensiveness: We have many protection mechanisms in place to keep us from experiencing pain & discomfort.

"A rise in misogyny and racism is flooding UK schools as pupils ape the behaviour of figures such as Donald Trump and Andrew Tate after exposure through social media and online gaming, teachers have warned.

A survey by the NASUWT union found most teachers identified social media as 'the number one cause' of pupil misbehaviour, with female staff bearing the brunt."

~ Richard Adams

#misogyny #racism #boys #UK #Trump #AndrewTate #schools

theguardian.com/education/2025

The Guardian · Barking at female staff and blocking doorways: teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schoolsBy Richard Adams
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@CindyWeinstein

Or as Nemik (played by Alex Lawther) says in “Andor” (Disney+):

“It’s so confusing isn’t it, so much going wrong, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly. The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it – that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.”

#US#Trump#Project2025

One primary teacher said: “I have had boys refuse to speak to me, and speak to a male teaching assistant instead, because I am a woman and they follow Andrew Tate and think he is amazing with all his cars and women and how women should be treated. These were 10-year-olds.”

#Misogyny
#Racism
#Education

theguardian.com/education/2025

The Guardian · Barking at female staff and blocking doorways: teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schoolsBy Richard Adams
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@Geri Its interesting that the government will ban non-adults from receiving appropriate health treatments if they are trans but it won't ban non-adults from being able to receive misogynistic and often criminal communications from human dogshit like the Tates.

It ratifies and actions a whole act against consensual sex in terms described as "online safety" but does nothing to stop actual social evils like this.