Month: February 2015

she-minions:

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

ffs ok this is obviously well-intention but this is INCREDIBLY BAD ADVICE

MANY women do NOT want the police involved when they’re being abused and for VERY GOOD REASONS such as

– legal problems; for example there’s a problem in Aus where Indigenous women have called the police in a DV emergency and been arrested THEMSELVES for having outstanding bench warrants (generally for minor stuff like missed court dates and traffic offences, stuff that white women are never arrested for btw)

– they’re sex workers and at a huge risk of violence and abuse by the state including loss of their children to the foster system or to their abusive partners

– they are undocumented 

– they rely on their partner for housing and basic necessities and CANNOT SURVIVE of their abuser is arrested

– they are TERRIFIED of their abuser and they KNOW they will be blamed if the cops show up and are likely to be abused FAR WORSE after the cops leave

DO NOT DO THIS

If you think someone is being hurt, go see yourself, grab a friend and knock on the door or wait it out and try to speak to the victim when the abuser is not there

DO NOT SPRING THE POLICE ON PEOPLE WITH ZERO CONSIDERATION OF THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES fucking hell