“Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.” IfsMenI CanMatterStatesBornSinUnitedHalfUnited StatesViolenceCrimeRight NowTruth IsFemaleHatredNo Matter WhatCommittedViolentLoudWoundedSolidarityThreateningMen WomenBattlefieldsSlaughterGrimViolent CrimesBattering Author:Lierre Keith
“These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and they still are. I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism. If the martial imagery alienates you, I can rephrase it. I want my lifemy bodyto be the place where the earth is cherished not devoured, where the sadist is granted no quarter, where the violence stops.” IfsWantHeartStillsI CanWarEarthSpiritualPoliticalPassionBornViolenceCryBattleHungerGrantedZoneQuartersPatriarchyImperialismDominationImageryArrowsSadismIndustrializationWar ZonesBattle Cry Book:The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability Source: The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
