I took some pictures while in London for Radfem2013. No, not of the Eye or the Shard or Westminster. Of disgusting things, of blatant misogyny being peddled in the street. Because I am a fun person like that. There are also some pictures from locations that aren’t London towards the bottom of the post.
They say you can tell a lot about someone’s personality from their shoes.
This is not subtle.
Women=consumable body parts. These shirts are no doubt popular with rapists.
Females are things and they must be cute. Males are people and own females.
This concludes my little trip around Camden Market (where I was also subjected to some horrible dancehall-like music about ‘tight pussy’). Now check out these disgusting magazines they try to sell you at Sainsbury’s:
Hey-hey! Women being tortured, mutilated, raped and slaughtered…it’s fun for the whole family!
Then, on my further travels through this world, I encountered these disgusting things.
These paintings filled an entire storefront in a city center. Asian fetish porn paintings.
These are pen holders, I think. Quite suggestive of prostitution. At least they scream power imbalance, and the cigar-smoking man is shown basically consuming an unwilling/passive woman.
There is misogyny and pornification wherever you turn, and men tell women to just look away, to turn the page, to ignore, block, rise above it and laugh.
Fuck that. That’s what we have been doing and it’s not working. At least I don’t see how ignoring these things will make me happy or safe. If you too are sick of these things, take a first step by showing your disgust as openly as possible. Being opposed to pornification and indeed porn itself needs to become normal for girls and women.
Pass the Flaming Sword 
It IS everywhere – every nook – even in ‘family friendly’ areas now – grooming – conditioning a generation of sex-obsessed zombies.
That ‘McDonald’s’ T-shirt is filth.
FFS!!!
It’s doubly inescapable: first we ourselves are inundated in these images from cradle to grave, and secondly we are forced to interact with a world of men raised to see us through dehumanizing porn goggles and who physically, mentally and economically hurt us as a result. Cleaning the public space of these images would be a big step toward a world that is not quite as punishing to its daughters.
Shit you can write, girl. So succinct. Can I post it on my FB page?
I just reblogged the Eight Rapists’ post.
I simply don’t understand what the delay is…I mean WTF? Where exactly is the crossing of ‘The Line’ before everyone wakes the fuck up?
Thank you, Paula! Of course, post away. And yes, I think that question of yours is why I have a thing for zombie apocalypse scenarios…it just seems like the best metaphor for the world we live in. People shuffling along in pursuit of things to consume, oblivious to the brutality and emptiness of it all.
A zombie freak too! 😀
Walking Dead?
Of course =)
Yes.
Most excellent.
Those magazines are like that every single issue, I’ve tweeted about it at various points. The cheaper (ie, most accessible and widely read) the magazine, the more woman-torture features on its front page. Key words like rape and torture are usually bolded and in a larger font; next to a smiling woman and the title “That’s Life!” or “Love it!”. They piss me off like nothing else.
Yeah, I was endlessly enraged and disgusted. All I wanted was some gum and now look at my psyche. Thanks, Sainsbury’s. “Take a Break” my ass.
Better stay indoors forever then, you’ll be safer that way.
Hello, Matthew. You’re an asshole. Goodbye, Matthew.
Because this is not our world too? Because this is a man’s world (where women are just bodies to be exposed and used)? Well we know that and this is why we feminists are working on changing that because guess what; it is indeed our world too! Goodbye asshole.