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You know what I think about a lot? This moment from @jk_rowling’s essay: “We are living through the most misogynistic period I’ve experienced.” It was the first time I’d seen anyone with a huge audience say, hey, regress for women isn’t just possible, but happening right now. 🧵
We are gaslit by society, in a way. There’s this desire to see the status of women as a steady upwards climb towards progress and liberation. But that’s really not the case, as the last few years have shown, across the world.
From Afghanistan, where women have lost every right they gained in the last twenty years, to America, where women have lost their right to abortion, regress for women is real, and it’s happening before our eyes.
But regress is also visible in culture. The hypersexualisation of women in media is constantly reaching new heights. The internet showing that hypersexualised media to kids at younger and younger ages, because for some reason there’s barely any parental locks on the internet.
The pornification of our lives. The normalisation of sex acts that women don’t even want to do but push themselves to so they don’t seem “vanilla” or “prudish.” The rise of *anal tearing* in teens. metro.co.uk
So we are gaslit by the false notion of forever-progress: “once it happens it’s there forever.” And so any regress you see, you deny it, you push it out, you don’t connect the dots.
I think that’s where so many women are right now. Feeling this dissonance between where we’re told women are supposed to be and where women actually are.
We hold our keys like a weapon on dark streets. We message our friends our locations before we go on dates with men, “just in case I die, lolzies.” “Lol! Go get some, queen.”
Now, women going to clubs even have to worry about being *injected* and raped. independent.co.uk
Now, women going to clubs even have to worry about being *injected* and raped. independent.co.uk
Not to mention. We still face horrific acts of violence from men, even members of our families. As the UN puts it, “the home is the most dangerous place for women.”unodc.org
What kind of world do we live in where the home is the most dangerous place for a woman, but society thinks women have “made it” because some women are hypersexualised in media and it’s called empowerment?
This dissonance is how it started, for me, and I think it’s up to us to pull at that thread for other women.
Progress isn’t a straight line despite how much society may think so, and that gaslighting prevents women from connecting the dots about the regress we are facing.
Progress isn’t a straight line despite how much society may think so, and that gaslighting prevents women from connecting the dots about the regress we are facing.
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