Fix the System, Not the Women

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Hundreds already exist, “ignored and unused” in reports and campaign materials of feminist and civil rights organisations.

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.Never before have I felt her formidable and brilliant voice more than in this book — and my god has she delivered some sardonic sentences in her previous offerings! Bates also reminds us that if we want to tackle oppression in one sphere, we need to be aware of its overlap with others. It's not an easy read and I did begin to feel a bit depressed reading it because it compounded all my worst fears about the inequalities that still need to be sorted out.

Though perhaps not as hard-hitting as 'Men Who Hate Women' Bates' new book is further proof of the prevailing misogyny of Western society. Fix the System, Not the Women is an attempt to highlight “the interlocking systems of domination that define our reality” – and to pull apart the myth that women are complicit in our own oppression. Too often, decisions about whether or not to proceed to trial for rape rely on whether the woman fits the societal profile of the “perfect victim”: ie, those who are “sweet and pretty and innocent and careful and didn’t stray off the path or talk to the wolf”. I've felt enraged and exhausted in equal parts while reading this, especially with our current day situation.And judges ruling not guilty because the 13 year old “looked old for their age” and “looks sexually aggressive”. EducationPoliticsMediaPolicingCriminal justice Combining stories with shocking evidence, Fix the System, Not the Women is a blazing examination of sexual injustice and a rallying cry for reform. Ze verontschuldigde zich tegenover de jongere generatie, dat ondanks dat het zo leek het toen ook al niet oké was. A story of breath-taking dealings that range from Riyadh to London, Paris to America, this is a thrilling and brutal investigation into extreme wealth, one of the world's most decisive and dangerous new leaders, and the bid for Saudi transformation that is reverberating around the world. Bates’s central message, which she has developed through her Everyday Sexism Project, the online forum that has now received 200,000 stories of sexism and misogyny from all over the world, and books including Girl Up (2016) and Men Who Hate Women (2020), is that there is a spectrum of gender inequality.