I don't understand why it's part of women's responsibilities to manage men's sexual urges just so we won't be r*ped.
I also don't understand why too many men (Muslim and non-Muslim) LOVE to assume hijabi women wear hijab just so we won't be rap*d. Muslim men in sovereign countries, where the oppressors are their own brethren, are just like any other men; they're cowards. They only have the courage to abuse women and children, anyone they deem weaker than them. Worse, they use Islam to justify their transgressions. There shall only be azab awaiting these men beyond the grave.
Don't hide behind "stop generalising." When structural criticism is dismissed as a mere "sweeping generalisation," it reduces systemic power dynamics to a matter of individual politeness or interpersonal fairness. It's your own fault for ignoring what you allow to happen to women around you, for deluding yourselves that women owe you submission, for focusing on exempting yourselves from collective accountability.
I'm old enough to remember when hijabi women in my country used to be "only" catcalled and mut*lated, without ever being followed to a public restroom to be recorded without consent. @indonesia
Yeah, y'all have hated women for so long.
What enrages me the most about the SA case of that Indonesian hijabi influencer is how men take their time to write a long-ass argument online that basically describes the mental gymnastics of why it's not the assailant's fault; one of the arguments I saw was presented so eloquently, and in it he explained that hijabi women get r*ped because of women who dress inappropriately. Read that again.
His logic, a proud display of his moral bankruptcy, was that women who "dress inappropriately" invite unwanted attention from men and put hijabi women in danger because of that. Then men who are aroused by these "inappropriately dressed women" would target hijabi women who are (presumably) submissive and wouldn't make a scene because of modesty, yada yada.
Men have this propensity to frame being held accountable for their actions as a hate crime, and they also have this unearned certainty about seeing tomorrow.
I will not hesitate to blind you with my hijab pins.
My survival hack for all Indonesian sisters, regardless of your religion, regardless of what you wear, is to always have ball-headed pins / pearl-headed pins (or, as I call them, hijab pins, lol) on your person, placed anywhere you can easily grab them, hold between your fingers, and use to strike your assailant's eyes. They're delicate; they look harmless enough that nobody would think they're dangerous when stuck on your collar, lapel, or hijab.
Men, your eyes don't get stabbed with ball-headed pins when you're outside where everyone can see them, do they? Or do you actually expect tiny ball-headed pins to attack your eyeballs, and that's why you never lowered your gaze to protect them when you're outside? Start worrying about your eyeballs from now on, actually.
Oh, but my wording in this post is the problem, right?
#misogyny #maleviolence #Indonesia #femicide #genderbasedviolence
