Elle Beau ❇︎
2 min readMar 11, 2024

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“Men, on average, are sentenced to two to six years in prison for murdering a female partner, according to the ACLU. But when women kill their male partners (which is often in self-defense), they get an average of 15 years. Fifteen years. Fifteen years for fighting back. Fifteen years for protecting themselves. Fifteen years for surviving.

And that’s just an average. Kim Dadou Brown received a 17-year prison sentence for shooting and killing her boyfriend after he climbed on top of her and said he was going to kill her in 1991. And Brown isn’t alone. As many as 90% of women who are in prison for killing a man had been previously abused by that man.”

And no, Kate Manne doesn't just employ rhetoric pulled out of her ass. It's all based in documented substance.

in the United States, rape cases are being routinely disposed of by what is known as “exceptional clearance.” In 2018, The Center for Investigative Reporting journalists, in conjunction with reporters from ProPublica and Newsy, conducted a year-long investigation into this practice. They filed Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain data from 110 major cities and counties, although they succeeded in securing records for only about 60. They found that in almost half of these, police officers had used the designation of exceptional clearance to close the majority of rape cases.24

Manne, Kate. Entitled (p. 45). Crown. Kindle Edition.

I could go on and on and on, but it's not like it's going to convince you since I see that you are a virulent anti-feminist, so I'll not waste my time and effort.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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