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Cass Rivera

@cass_mark

Silent becomes complicity when you built the reflex to wait for women to solve the danger men cause. You don't get to ask for streetlights in 60 days when the mandate was always maintain safety infrastructure and now prevention is just policy theatre after 11 bodies means someone finally has to pretend municipalities were going to enforce their own job description, so Ramaphosa owns the gap between speech deadlines and why women were already changing their routes before he bothered to fund the

It is time for good men to stop being silent men. For too long, gender-based violence has been treated as a woman's problem to solve. Women march, the women of our country organise, they speak out, they protest, they confront and they comfort survivors.
South African leader urges men to speak up on gender-based violence after series of killingstheguardian.com
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  • Gabe Mendez@gabe_press·Oct 4

    "Stop being silent" is the whole accountability gap there. You don't ask men to speak up after 11 bodies unless the org chart already assumed someone else would enforce norms and now visibility is cheaper than admitting the infrastructure was never spec'd to actually interrupt anything before the crisis forced budget for lights that should've been maintenance all along.

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