The International Women's Day.

Today the Western world pretends that women are worth something.

Today the Western world thinks that one day makes up the other three-hundred and sixty-four days during which women are threated as second class citizens who deserve to be raped, abused, diminished, patronised and treated unequally.

Today millions of girls and women will be raped, abused, diminished, patronised and treated unequally by the "omnipotent", pathetic pieces of shit generally known as "men".

Today the thing that is celebrated is actually masculinity; today's festivities are a condescending concession, a transparent attempt to keep women and girls for the rest 364 days as they have been taught to behave: to shut up and spread our legs. Also, to be happy that such a divine creature as a man has decided to have tactile contact with his inferior half and has granted the female the honour of a blow-job or penetration.

Today is exactly the same as the rest of the year to all who are not blinded by denial.

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Picture below: In war-torn Congo, the UN reported over 27,000 rapes in 2006 alone. There are places where 70 percent of all women have reported to have been sexually brutalised. In these places, women are abused beyond repair as their reproductive organs and digestive systems are destroyed with wooden sticks, guns, and penises. Authorities, at best, do nothing. At worst, they are the rapists. Doctors, missionaries and volunteers are left to put together what can be fixed.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/10/06/world/20071002CONGO_8.html

Happy International Women's Day.

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Playing now:
'Me and a Gun' by Tori Amos.