*this is turning into an Arya Stark blog because I'm an evil Arya stan and I'll defend her to the last minute* *btw noorhelm is never forgotten*
Women in STEM. I study Biomedical engineering. Asian. From Taiwan (#not china) with love.
“One of [the police officers] put his hand up my skirt and ripped my underwear off. He slammed me down on the car, he injured me. Um, left me with some broken fingertips, broken toes, fractured cheekbone… I was bleeding, I had my skirt ripped… people were just mortified because they’d seen a teenage girl get assaulted by a police officer..”.— study respondent
Baltimore
“Prior to the DOJ investigation, an internal investigation by the BCPD found an officer receiving sex from a sex worker in exchange for money and immunity from arrest. The case was closed without any attempt to gather more evidence, interview the police officer, or prosecute the officer. Cases were opened for the same officer a second and third time for the same offense. The witness for the third case died before she could be interviewed, and only then did the BCPD review the officer’s phone records and discover that he had sent sexually explicit messages to a number of female sex workers. The officer was allowed to retire. The DOJ found similar cases involving other officers.”
Chicago
“I was solicited by a police officer who said that if I had sex with him he wouldn’t arrest me. So I did. Then afterwards he cuffed me and pressed charges anyway.“
“I was going to meet a new john, it turned out to be a sting set up by the cops. He got violent with me, handcuffed me and then raped me. He cleaned me up for the police station and I got sentenced to four months in jail for prostitution.”
“I keep being arrested in Rogers Park just for standing still. They keep taking me in for prostitution even though I’m not doing anything at all. It’s the same white cop doing it too.”
“When being held in protective custody [because they said I was a victim of human trafficking] they started withholding my sheets, then towels, then pillows, then food because they said I wasn’t telling them everything I could—when in fact I was.”
(Claiming non trafficking victims are actually trafficking victims as justification for abusing them - Hey, radfems, the police are stealing your tactics!)
“Twenty four percent of street-based sex workers had been raped by a police officer. Twenty percent had experienced other sexual assault from police officers. Women doing survival sex and women in drug houses experienced a lot of violence from police. Thirty percent of exotic dancers who had been raped were raped by police, and twenty percent of the sexual violence they experienced was committed by police. Twenty five percent of escorts had been robbed by a police officer. Eighteen percent of escorts had been forced to masturbate a police officer.”
Las Vegas
“One respondent was given the choice between arrest and doing something “disgusting”. She wouldn’t tell the researcher what she was asked to do, but she told the other police officers at the station about it and they laughed at her.
A respondent was asked by an officer to show her breasts in order to avoid arrest. Another respondent had charges dropped because of police misconduct; the officer who arrested her had her perform oral sex on him.”
Miami
“One respondent was arrested because she refused to have sex with the officers who arrested her. Another was asked by an officer for sex, but she was afraid it was a set up and said no.”
New Orleans
“Survey respondents said that police profiled transgender people as sex workers and subjected them to verbal abuse and sexual misconduct, including demands for sex in exchange for leniency. Police were arresting people for solicitation if they carried condoms. Even trans sex workers who weren’t arrested for carrying condoms saw it happen to others and where afraid to carry condoms. Some police officers used possession of condoms to coerce trans sex workers into providing free sexual services.
People who tested positive for HIV while in jail were visited by an HIV task force that scheduled appointments at a clinic. However, many people were rearrested before their scheduled appointment. One woman was arrested ten times in three years, preventing her from going to any scheduled appointments to receive care for her HIV infection during that period. Jail interrupts taking medication on a regular basis.”
(I know radfems don’t care about trans people though. Y’all are definitely celebrating the New Orleans situation as a success.)
New York City
“Examples of police language: bitch ho slut you’re not dead yet? we gotta go clean up the trash why should we help you?”
(Again, I know radfems approve of this. This is how they talk to me.)
Police raped me a couple of times in Queens. The last time that happened was a couple of months ago. But you don’t tell anybody. You just deal wit it.— nineteen year old female
“Police officers propositioned underage youth and made lewd comments. Most female youth in the study reported trading sex to avoid arrest. Pimps were not arrested or received less jail time than the youth that worked with them, even when one of the youths was identified as fourteen years old.”
Thirty percent of the respondents reported threats of violence from the police, and twenty seven percent reported experiencing violence. One respondent said “I’ve seen cops get out of a car and beat a girl, and then get back in the car and leave.” Another said that her greatest fear during arrest was “not coming home at all.” The white woman from the Bronx said “… they throw you on the floor and they step on you…”
Another respondent reported seeing officers injure a women in the pelvic area to prevent her from working. “… it was like he was squeezing a handball or something, but really really hard… it was two guys in a car and they drove up on the sidewalk. He pushed her against the wall and then he pushed her against the wall after he finished that and then he said “now get off the street”…-respondent
“One likes to beat me now and then, or he wants me to suck his dick. I mean, it’s crazy. He hits me with his gun and gives me these marks on my legs and my back. I don’t know what to do…I can’t call the other cops. I did that once and they asked this guy to stop beating me. But he got so mad that he came around and beat me up even worse. So I really have to get out of here. Now he wants me to give him 25% of what I make…I had to go to the hospital because I got beat so bad. — respondent
San Francisco
“4% of respondents described being threatened with arrest unless they had sex with a police officer. 8% said they were arrested after having sex with a police officer. 5% said they were arrested after refusing to have sex with a police officer. 40% of interactions with police officers during the previous three months were bad or very bad.”
Washington DC
38.5% of survey respondents reported being humiliated or verbally abused by police during relatively minor interactions such as checking ID. One respondent said the officer called her a whore, prostitute, and trick. During 8.6% of these interactions, officers confiscated or destroyed safe sex supplies, including condoms. 17.3% of respondents said that police-initiated interactions involved the officer asking for sexual services, or demanding sexual services to avoid arrest. 9.1% of respondents reported being assaulted by police officers. 3 respondents reported strip searches.
Seventy eight respondents were profiled as sex workers and ordered to “move along.” The most common result of this was that they ended up in an area where they felt less safe.
75% of trans people and 82.4% of Latinos said they were treated worse than others when they were in lock up.
When the survey respondents initiated contact with the police, usually to report a crime, in a number of cases the police tried to have sex with them. This seemed to be particularly true of trans Latinas.
Studies not limited to certain areas
“Police abuse of sex workers includes verbal insults, coerced sex, brutal beatings, and rape. When police know that a woman is a sex worker, they may harass her when she is not working.The most common abuses are verbal abuse and threats to arrest sex workers if the police don’t receive sexual services. Police often assume that sex workers don’t care who they will have sex with and will do anything to avoid arrest. But experienced street-based sex workers often refuse to provide free services. They are resigned to frequent arrests, including arrests for questionable charges. What they want to avoid are fear and indignity forced on them by bad officers.“
“During arrest or taking someone into custody, police often degrade or humiliate sex workers, including removing wigs or clothing, confiscating or destroying property, making homophobic, anti-transgender, and racists slurs, and engaging on sexual harassment. Organizations working with sex workers have documented a pattern of police practice that includes assault, sexual harassment, public strip searches for the purpose of viewing genitalia, and rape. This pattern of practice is supported by the difficulty or impossibility of obtaining justice in these cases.”
“When sex workers try to report crimes against them, officers don’t take their complaints seriously, refuse to file a report, and may arrest them, physically assault them, or pressure them for sex. When a sex worker tried to bring charges against a security guard who handcuffed and raped her, the police referred to the guard as “a big teddy bear”, and added exculpatory statements to her report that she didn’t make. This refusal to deal with crimes against sex workers leads serial killers to target sex workers and people profiled as sex workers.”
“Six of the twelve women who had been trafficking victims left their trafficking situation without help from law enforcement, through the help of a coworker or an attorney they met through a coworker or friend. Nationwide, it appears that the majority of trafficking victims escape without the involvement of law enforcement. One supervisor in a national organization said that 90% of their cases were not produced by raids or identified by law enforcement.”
Of the six trafficking victims picked up in law enforcement raids, one would have left her situation in a few days if she had not been picked up in a raid and arrested. As a result of the raid, she was pistol-whipped by a police officer and incarcerated.
Her conclusion: “A better way to help leave my situation would be anything that didn’t involve the police.”
You clearly know nothing of radical feminism if you think we all want the women arrested.
Radfems wanted prostitution and porn illegal but in a way where the pimps and johns get arrested. You showing more male violence isn’t a “gotcha” as you think it is. Think about, none of these people assaulting women are radical feminists. These are power hungry male cops which proves male violence is an issue.
The current police system is fucked up, radfems are aware of this. We can worry about multiple issues at once and try to dismantle many things at one. Saying prostituted women left on their own without help from law enforcement PROVES law enforcement is lacking.
If anything you didn’t change our minds one BIT about how we feel about prostitution and porn. Stop using women’s abuse and say to say that prostitution and porn is a good thing. If anything you’re proving more that male violence is an issue EVERYWHERE and that prostituted women and porn actresses are still the victims of male violence
I hate to break it to self-identified “radical feminists” but saying “men are inherently violent and predatory, women are inherently innocent and good, and which category you fall into is determined solely by your crotch” is not, in fact, a radical countercultural idea, that’s just patriarchy. Thats like a third of the Republican platform. You just added pure self interest (maybe I and people who look and act like me shouldnt be oppressed) and decided that you’re some kind of dangerous rebel. You’re not. You’re just regurgitating shitty old conservative ideology that you internalized.
It’s so painfully obvious none of you have ever spoken to a radical feminist or made a genuine attempt to understand our ideas. Men are not born violent, but because of their sex they are socialized differently in society and are raised to be more aggressive and violent and less compassionate. They aren’t that way by default; the patriarchy makes them that way. The patriarchy doesn’t care about gender identity. It forces these norms and behaviors onto male children because of their sex. And it forces politeness and kindness and nurturing on girls because of their sex. The patriarchy was created by men to empower men and disempower women. Only by dismantling the patriarchy and abolishing gender and the roles that are forced upon us at its hand can men and women be equal.
I recommend reading ALL of Tchaikovsky’s critiques on other composer’s works, such as Chopin, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, etc. I find it really heartwarming to read his appreciation towards a few composers. He really liked Beethoven. Also it’s hilarious how he bluntly states that Bach is boring, as well as calling Wagner a copy paste product of music school, and a writer of nonsensical music.
PS- as someone that despises Wagner both musically and in a historical context, I agree with Tchaikovsky. Wagner was a foul person.
Dany hungered and thirsted with the rest of them. The milk in her breasts dried up, her nipples cracked and bled, and the flesh fell away from her day by day until she was lean and hard as a stick, yet it was her dragons she feared for. Her father had been slain before she was born, and her splendid brother Rhaegar as well. Her mother had died bringing her into the world while the storm screamed outside. Gentle Ser Willem Darry, who must have loved her after a fashion, had been taken by a wasting sickness when she was very young. Her brother Viserys, Khal Drogo who was her sun-and-stars, even her unborn son, the gods had claimed them all. They will not have my dragons, Dany vowed. They will not.
