One-Third

[Content Note: Violent misogyny.]

A World Health Organization report has found that "more than a third of all women worldwide are victims of physical or sexual violence, posing a global health problem of epidemic proportions. ... The report, co-authored by [Charlotte Watts, a health policy expert at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine] and Claudia Garcia-Moreno of the WHO, found that almost two-fifths (38 percent) of all women murder victims were murdered by intimate partners, and 42 percent of women who have been victims of physical or sexual violence by a partner have injuries as a result."

These numbers reflect only the violence done to women's bodies. They don't include incidents of emotional abuse, rape and death threats, reproductive coercion, street harassment, sexual harassment, workplace discrimination, intersectional misogyny, or microaggressions.

This is not the work of a "small but vocal group" of aggressive misogynists. This is a pervasive culture of abuse.

Merely not being a perpetrator isn't enough. There's no neutral in a world where more than a third of women are victimized by gendered abuse.

All the fuck in.