The definition of "Violence Against Women" expands yet again! Now includes... wall street!

surfnsound · 2011-11-29T15:34:43+00:00

Its like during the industrial revolution when women campaigned to be at home instead of the factories and mines.

They want to save women from cheap labour overseas, just the women.

TheRadBaron · 2011-11-29T16:42:15+00:00

More than 15 million of our children live in poverty in the U.S., the richest nation in the world.…

There's my favourite bit. Leaving aside all the incredibly questionable statistics, it's just really funny that they have the gall to say that children living in poverty is violence against women.

Alanna · 2011-11-29T20:06:25+00:00

Seems like there's a lot of people using the occupy movement for things that don't really relate to it.

Malkor · 2011-11-29T16:09:34+00:00

Corporations get nearly 70% of their profit from women workers who earn $2 a day.

Multinational corporations derive 68% of their global profits from women workers who are paid the equivalent of $2 a day while creating products sold for hundreds of dollars in the US and European markets: electronics, garments, toys.

One is from the Feministing article and the other is from the Violence Against Women website. I'd be more inclined to believe the second, because of the context it's put in. The first statement makes it seem like bros sit around drinking brewskies at the office all day.

I've heard a lot of random things from OWS people over the past months, but that's one I can agree with the most. Some of the conditions workers are subjected to in order to save a few $$ at Wal-Mart are deplorable. But people want to save that money and the easiest/cheapest/quickest way to get to the bottom line is cheap labor overseas. You can rail against that as much as you want, but until the market finds a palatable alternative it's what will be. If there was some way to get cheap products from awesome factories with perfect conditions you can bet they'd switch rightquick.

2011-11-29T19:50:24+00:00

So... women's choices is violence against women?

Excuse me while I vomit. I just can't swallow the bullshit.

Let's break it down:

“Wall Street is violence against women. Corporations get nearly 70% of their profit from women workers who earn $2 a day.

I'd have to go to a third-world or developing country & do a survey, but even if the majority of the workers are women, I'd bet it wouldn't be a large majority. All the articles about the Apple workers talk to both genders and don't list the numbers of workers or their gender.

In the U.S., women make as low as $0.52 for every dollar a man makes.

Yeah, because they CHOOSE low-paying areas to work in, like retail, the care sector and so on. Might be that's all they can get, but that's not very likely to be because of sexism, more likely to do with qualifications and experience. If it could be proven to be because of nothing but sexism, then these hard-done-by women (and the government) would have a solid case against the companies in court.

Women of color are 70% of the global poor.

And how many of them live in, oh, I dunno.... Africa? A continent riddled with issues, particularly conflict, and can't seem to get their shit together? Places where men are also raped, or kidnapped to become part of child armies? Places where men are killed in large numbers?

More than 15 million of our children live in poverty in the U.S., the richest nation in the world.…

And how much of that is because of sexist custody laws? How many of those kids would be better off if they just were allowed to spend time with their fathers?

2011-11-29T17:26:01+00:00

"another group of brave people were pushing forward for a slightly different cause. ... Friday saw an exciting and important action "

Sometimes blatant propaganda just has a certain.. stench..

imbecile · 2011-11-29T15:59:30+00:00

Radical feminism has always been closely aligned with Marxism, and most of the concepts of radical feminism were taken from Marxism. So there has always been an element of feminism opposed to capitalism.

The only thing slightly new is categorizing this as 'violence', which seems to have become the new catch-all for things feminists don't like. I guess they're getting tired of 'oppression'.

rockidol · 2011-11-30T10:16:02+00:00

Getting a shitty salary is not violence. It never will be violence, and just because you think Wall Street is evil does not mean you get to lie about them.

2011-11-29T14:57:41+00:00

how many occupy members are nonwhite?

ajleece · 2011-11-29T19:36:05+00:00

SO, this tells me that women want to prove that they are more important, buy stopping money from being put into the economy?

Ma99ie · 2011-11-29T16:55:20+00:00

When are we going to insist that sanity enter these equations? When are we going to stand up and say "fuck off" to the crazy ideologues and non-profit whores who make a living slandering men?

BinaryShadow · 2011-11-30T05:34:46+00:00

God I really hope the OWS movement doesn't allow itself to be co-opted by these idiots.

rockidol · 2011-11-30T10:23:17+00:00

I read their thread and their logic seems to be

"Wall Street makes people poor." "Poor people have a higher chance of being victims of domestic violence" "Wall Street is responsible for domestic violence".

Being poor does not cause someone to be a victim of domestic violence. Having an abusive partner does.

To shift the blame from the abuser is just wrong.

2011-11-29T14:12:35+00:00

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fiveisafemme · 2011-11-29T18:43:20+00:00

What does this have to do with men's rights?

loose-dendrite · 2011-11-29T17:07:50+00:00

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BinaryShadow · 2011-11-29T23:51:58+00:00

How exactly is campaigning against violence towards women a bad thing? Oh sorry I forgot, it should be a man's right to punch a woman whenever they desire!

Title	The definition of "Violence Against Women" expands yet again! Now includes... wall street!
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Date	November 29, 2011 2:05 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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