Why Cant A Womens March Turn Into A Riot? Why Cant We Force Them To Listen To Us By Burning Their Cities

Why can’t a women’s march turn into a riot? Why can’t we force them to listen to us by burning their cities to the ground? The suffragettes did it, why can’t we?

Sometimes it blows my mind that there are people that don’t wear glasses/contacts. Like they can literally see with no aid. Like they wake up and just be out here seeing. What a wild concept.

“Most of the world’s exploited labor comes from women. Women work in the sweatshops and the giant factories. Women sow and tend and harvest the world’s crops. Women carry and birth and raise children. Women wash and clean and shop and cook. Women care for the sick and the elderly. All of this - layer upon layer of labor - is what makes human society possible. Ripping it off is what makes capitalism possible.”

— Exodus and Reconstruction: Working-Class Women at the Heart of Globalization (via amodernmanifesto)

and this is why effective feminism has to be anti capitalist

(via genderheretic)

Radfems focus less on owning TIMs online and focus more on real world grassroots organizing with other radfems for the specific purpose of forming class solidarity amongst women challenge

With all this Laurel Hubbard shit, it's worth mentioning that Hubbard's daddy is a millionaire ex-mayor and Kunini 'Nini' Manumua who lost a spot at the Olympics to Hubbard, used to fund her chaperone's travel to competitions via GoFundMe. As a minor she needed an adult to come with her but her working-class immigrant family couldn't afford it. Competing in the Olympics could have brought about needed sponsorships, media deals, and attention to Nini but a rich misogynist took that away

yep. so far, three known transwomen are entering the tokyo olympics, that's three women's spots taken away. add in world championships and literally dozens, if not over a hundred girls and women have lost competitions, prize money, scholarships, sponsorship, medals, and ranking due to biological males.

Chicago Sun-Times

More than 500 women ask to join sex harassment suit against Cook County Jail, Sheriff Tom Dart

"I’m blown away by their courage," said Marni Willenson, a civil rights lawyer, of the female correctional officers who signed their names a

Hundreds of women are trying to join a sexual harassment lawsuit against Cook County and Sheriff Tom Dart that alleges officials didn’t do enough to stop inmates from masturbating in front of the women, who worked at the jail.

Current and former Cook County correctional officers and other workers filed suit in 2017 in U.S. District Court. At a news conference Thursday, attorneys touted their success in getting 529 women to individually join in the suit after a petition to declare the suit a class action was rejected by a federal judge.

The women are identified in the lawsuit and shared some of their stories with the court — and at the news conference.

“I’m blown away by their courage,” said Marni Willenson, a civil rights lawyer.

In the four years since the suit was filed, both the women who were harassed said that neither Dart nor Cook County made the necessary changes to protect female workers at Cook County Jail.

“These women have provided critical services, medical care, security, counseling, have endured the worst forms of harassment, only to have the sheriff’s office and county turn their backs on them,” said Caryn Lederer, a lawyer representing the women.

Lederer said that many women had male supervisors and colleagues brush off female workers’ complaints.

“They’re laughed at, told it’s their fault, that they must get used to it or, ‘What do you expect, you work in a jail,’” Lederer said.

In one incident, five inmates ejaculated in front of Bonnie Parker, a retired Sheriff’s employee. Two of those inmates ejaculated on Parker’s uniform.

“Men showing their penises, ejaculating and cat-calling took me to a dark place at one time in my career,” said Parker, who worked at Cook County Jail for 28 years. “They should be stopped and disciplined so that it can become a deterrent for the next set of guys that want to do it.”

Like many others at the news conference, Parker spoke directly to Dart.

“If his wife, daughter or any female that he knew worked at that jail for 30 days endured this type of behavior, would he be more considerate in providing a safe work environment for them?” Parker said. “We are his employees, and he should be more concerned for our safety.”

A spokesman for Dart reiterated the office’s earlier statements about the suit Thursday, saying officials have taken multiple steps to prevent and deter detainees from harassing workers at the jail, including utilizing specialized jumpsuits for detainees, increasing disciplinary consequences, filing new criminal charges against offenders.

“The Sheriff’s Office works every day to prevent and deter those ordered into its custody from engaging in acts of violence or sexual misconduct toward staff and others and has done so long before this lawsuit was filed nearly four years ago,” the spokesman said. “The safety of all persons who enter the Jail is the highest priority for the Sheriff’s Office, and we will continue to defend our record on supporting our staff and aggressively addressing incidents of sexual misconduct by detained individuals.”

Cook County Judge Matthew Kennelly will decide Friday if these additional women will be added to the case. Then, Willenson anticipates Kennelly will hold “bellwether cases” — sample trials that provide a sense of what the future trials hold.

“If other facilities can control the behavior of their detainees, inmates or convicted prisoners, then the sheriff of Cook County can do the same thing,” said Willenson.

She anticipates five to 10 trials will be held this year.

Barbara Unseld, who has worked for 30 years at the jail, became emotional while recounting being masturbated in front of on one of many occasions.

“It’s hard to relive that moment,” said Unseld. “The conditions for the women in jail are unsafe. And unless this problem is rectified by the sheriff, we have women that are walking away from this job, walking away from their careers because they can’t take it.”

A separate lawsuit that made similar allegations filed by 534 public defenders and law clerks was settled for $14 million last year.