madnessendsbutwhen:

imawomanwhatsyoursuperpower:

If we want to talk about responsibility we must stop talking about violence against women in a passive way.

Because one thing is to ask “ how many women are killed by men every year “ and another is to ask “ how many men kill women every year “.

Can you see the difference?

The subject of the sentence is important.

Let’s stop putting the woman as a subject because it leads to phrases like: “ yes, but she’d been drinking? How was she dressed? “

Begin to put men as the subject “ How did he act? How did he take advantage of her? How did he kill her? “

Disclaimer: this is not the right post to argue with phrases like NOT ALL MEN or WHAT ABOUT WOMEN WHO BEAT MEN? Not because they don’t have sense in general, but because right now we are not talking about that.

Don’t say “15 people were killed in a terrorist attack” instead say “MUSLIM killed 15 people”.

Because going out of your way to highlight the perpetrators identity as oppossed to prioritizing the victim TOTALLY doesn’t show you are primarily concerned with generalizing an entire group of people and spreading bigotry.