Out of Denial and into the Streets
International Women's Day 2012
Saturday March 10 at 12 noon
Join Us-Protest- Speak Out!
Bring your Outrage!
Our voices must be heard
12 noon - Gather and rally at the Marilyn Monroe statue
Pioneer Plaza 401 N. Michigan Ave
12:30 - March to Holy Name Cathedral N. State and Superior
- End Pornography and Patriarchy:The Enslavement and Degradation of Women!
- Abortion On Demand and Without Apology!
The Marilyn Monroe statue concentrates how women are personified as sex
objects. The degradation of women is mainstream and in the public
square. The statue has become a place for men to snap pictures of her
crotch, leering at her underpants and exposed backside. It is sexual
voyeurism and is part of the enslavement of women.
"At
the same time (the Catholic Church) and Christian fundamentalist-driven
assault is imperiling abortion, birth control, real sex education and
women's lives. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people
who do not conform to traditional patriarchal gender and sexual norms
are demonized and threatened. Abortion doctors are killed. Women who
seek abortions-or even birth control-are stigmatized. 2011 saw the
largest spate of legal restrictions on abortion since Roe v. Wade in
1973."
We are told that "equality for women has been won" and that "there are no limits to what girls can achieve." BULLSHIT!
Every
15 seconds a woman is beaten. Every day three to four women are killed
by their partners. One out of four female college students will be raped
or sexually assaulted while in college.
In recent years, pornography has
become increasingly violent, cruel, degrading towards women; women are
referred to as "cumdumpsters" and "fuckbuckets"; the "money shot"
(ejaculation in a woman's face) is standard; humiliating cruelty-like
violent "ass-to-mouth" penetration-is normalized, and racist bigotry is
sexualized. Meanwhile, the broader culture has been pornified: pole
dancing is taught at gyms, "sexting" is a national phenomenon among
teens and the strip club is the accepted backdrop to "male bonding." All
this is tied in with, and reinforces, the trafficking of millions of
women and girls as literal chattel in the international sex industry.
This is NOT society becoming more
comfortable with sex. This is society becoming saturated with the
sexualized degradation of women. If you can't imagine sex without porn,
you're fucked.(read more)
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