Yesterday I was listening to other women and a few men talk about GBV and reflecting on my own findings from people elsewhere: women don’t feel pain, those people say. They are Other, not human. They don’t suffer.
I am not so sure that judges and our system of justice in the global North are any more “advanced” than those people who scratch a bare living from soil and cattle, who instrumentalise their daughters and their wives, and say that a boy’s life should not be ruined just because he rapes a girl.
A terrifying and very sad read
Yesterday I was listening to other women and a few men talk about GBV and reflecting on my own findings from people elsewhere: women don’t feel pain, those people say. They are Other, not human. They don’t suffer.
I am not so sure that judges and our system of justice in the global North are any more “advanced” than those people who scratch a bare living from soil and cattle, who instrumentalise their daughters and their wives, and say that a boy’s life should not be ruined just because he rapes a girl.