Fix the System, Not the Women

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Blood and Oil is the explosive untold story of how Mohammed bin Salman and his entourage grabbed power in the Middle East and acquired a network of Western allies - including well-known US bankers, Hollywood figures, and politicians - all eager to help the charming and crafty crown prince. I've felt enraged and exhausted in equal parts while reading this, especially with our current day situation. Ik heb een lijstje gemaakt en ook al zal deze niet zo lang zijn als die van anderen, hij is te lang. She is the recipient of two honorary degrees and was awarded the Internet and Society Award by the Oxford Internet Institute alongside Sir Tim Berners Lee. Continuing what Invisible Women presented, it's full of statistics demonstrating how sexism and racism are embedded not only in everyday life, but especially in the systems that govern our lives.

Combining stories with shocking evidence, Fix the System, Not the Women is a blazing examination of sexual injustice and a rallying cry for reform. To have access to an abortion is and should be a given right to women, but removing that is sickening. We need to stop policing and blaming women for everything - their own safety, their own assault, their own discrimination and essentially most things they ever do - and hold our white male privileged figures of authority to account.

Vooral een inzending voor The Everyday Sexism Project greep me aan, een oudere vrouw die zich verontschuldigde: zij had al die grensoverschrijdende incidenten getolereerd, ze was stil gebleven. Veel weten maar een klein deel van de daadwerkelijke ervaringen die je opdoet te herinneren, de rest vaagt al snel weg want “dat is gewoon hoe het is”. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Por la naturaleza del libro, en un inicio me resultó un poco difícil; tenía que detenerme cada cierto tiempo. I read it with rage and anger at the injustices and inequalities, at how women are shamed and how they internalise this shame, and how they are held responsible for creating change rather than holding the systems and societal structures accountable for their oppression.

This book examines how everyday accounts of sexism have become so ingrained into daily life that not only do we not even notice them half the time, but they've infiltrated and infected every structure of society. Namanya sudah cukup sering aku dengar sbg aktivis kesetaraan gender yg juga rajin menulis esai dan buku. Maybe the lady is from a different generation and those who she collected data from (experiences) but a lot of the things didn't seem to be common in my generation, maybe they were flattened. This distracts us from the real problem: the failings and biases of a society that was not built for women. And it’s sad and infuriating reading all these stories of abuse, harassment, abuse of power, exclusion, and rape.Domestic violence, harassment and rape are for example so common and trivialised that we're essentially conditioned to think they're part of "normal" life - no one bats an eyelid when about 90% of women report experiencing harassment in public, yet when we get a highly mediatised case like that of Sarah Everard the authorities present it as "an exception", "a bad apple", and so on, as if it came as a suprise that a man with overtly misogynistic views and behaviours who had been reported before would end up abusing his position of power to rape and murder a woman. Bates begins her book with a list of times where she knows she was assaulted or a target of blatant sexism. For Laura Bates, it began with a heavy piece of gold jewellery that her mother found on the passenger seat of the family car. So well written, so INTERESTING and I honestly just wanted to keep on reading regardless of how mad it made me! She is the recipient of two honorary degrees, an honorary fellow of St John's College Cambridge and was awarded the Internet and Society Award by the Oxford Internet Institute alongside Sir Tim Berners Lee.