Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readSep 2, 2023

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This gobbelty gook doesn't actually say or mean anything. It's performative blather so that you once again don't have to actually engage with the substance of the issues.

Put your individuality in service of dismantling harmful norms (rather than in attacking the people who are pointing out that those norms are harmful) or admit that you don't actually care about any of this stuff.

We try to show them that violence by men against one another—from simple assaults to gay bashing—is linked to the same structures and beliefs about gender and power that produce so much of men’s violence against women.

We also make it clear that these issues are not just personal, to be dealt with as private family matters. They are also political, with repercussions that reverberate throughout our lives and communities in all sorts of meaningful and disturbing ways. For example, according to a 2012 report by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, domestic violence was a leading cause of homelessness in twenty-five cities surveyed.4 It is also directly linked to the ongoing carnage of mass shootings. A study of those atrocities from 2015 to 2017 by Everytown for Gun Safety found that in 59 percent of cases, the shooter killed an intimate partner or family member or had a history of domestic violence.5

Katz, Jackson. The Macho Paradox (p. 7). Sourcebooks. Kindle Edition.

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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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