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The “wives, sisters, daughters” line of argument comes up all the fucking time. President Obama even used it in his State of the Union address this year, saying,
“We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence.”
This device, which Obama has used on more than one occasion, is reductive as hell. It defines women by their relationships to other people, rather than as people themselves. It says that women are only important when they are married to, have given birth to, or have been fathered by other people. It says that women are only important because of who they belong to.
Women are not possessions.
Women are people.
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The Believer Logger: I am not your wife, sister or daughter (via loveyourchaos)
Also, domestic violence doesn’t just happen to women. By implying it does, this statement perpetuates the stigma that surrounds abused men.
(Source: believermag, via iamtheearthmother)
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