Day 9 | 16 ideas to end violence against women | What's yours?
What are daily actions?
From 25 Nov to 10 Dec, Take Back The Tech! invites you to take one action per day to end violence against women. Each daily action explores an issue of violence against women and its interconnection with communication rights, and approaches different communication platforms - online and off - in creative and tactical ways.Take Back The Tech! End violence against women.
What does it take to end violence against women?
Sometimes it takes a large action: ratifying a convention, doing large-scale documentation and research, making a change in law, committing through policy and budgetary allocations, organising a huge protest and rally, supporting more gender-aware decision-makers in the media and more.
Most of the time, it takes small gestures: in everyday actions, everyday words, everyday interactions with the women and men around us, and within ourselves. How are we transforming power relations, changing the words that we use, the gazes that we assume, and the ideas that we transmit?
And sometimes, it might take just that one unlikely, but great and timely idea to start changing things.
Join in the global brainstorm. What's your idea for ending violence against women?
16 ideas to end violence against women
- Come up with a list of ideas to end violence against women in your context and reality. Think of 1, 2, 5, 16 or 160 :)
- It can be small, big, strategic, fantastic, ludicrous, well-argued, spontaneous, irreverent, serious, silly, brilliant or amazing. Any idea is a valuable one.
Share your idea!
- Blog: Dedicate your blog post for today to list down the ideas (don't forget to tag it as takebackthetech)
- Tweet: Post one idea as you think of them on your Twitter today (hashtag: #takebackthetech)
- Comment: Add your ideas to the comment box on this page.
- Status message: Change your status message to an idea for the day
- SMS: Send a short text message to 10 friends about your ideas, and ask them what's theirs. Pass it on.
- Email: Send an email with a list of ideas and ask your friends to forward it. Copy us in the email ideas@takebackthetech.net
- Facebook: If you're on Facebook, start a "Note" on "16 ideas to end violence against women". Start with a few ideas, tag 16 friends and ask them to add to your list. Ask them to tag 16 other friends including you. Keep growing the list, and post it to the Take Back The Tech! Facebook Group and/or Cause to share them with other campaigners. We've added a note there already that you can use. Add the campaign website to your messages.
Here's 6 ideas to get you started:
- Stop judging people by what they wear, especially by women.
- Arm everyone with smart, witty responses that can be used whenever someone makes a sexist remark or joke
- Teach doctors to say something other than "It's a boy/girl!" the moment a baby is born
- Create harassment-free zones in public streets. Give repeated harassers "red cards" and ban them from walking down certain streets for a period of time.
- Make police officers go through gender-awareness tests as part of their qualification
- Get every blogger in the world to post their commitment against violence against women on 25 Nov.
- Have games at school that makes players think critically about violence against women.
- Add your own!
Take Back The Tech! Keep the ideas flowing. Think of ways to end violence against women.
We'll publish all the ideas on the site as we come across or receive them, and turn some of them into real actions for next year's campaign!
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five women over coffee
Matching funds for military and women's shelters.
30,000 troops to end violence.
There is massive abuse of women in the military, what can we do about it?
More take back the night marches
Take back the military marches for women
Build women's groups. We will be stronger with women friends, have allies, than if you are a woman by ourself.
Build intentional women's communities
Denounce ads that promote violence against women, including all the commercials, bilboards of women as victims
Make stickers to put on top of stickers that are offensive.
Make stickers that say stop violence against women (we used to do that, and put them on stop signs, for VAW, and to stop the wars in Central America)
A roll of stickers, that you could stick anywhere, that says “this offends women”
Make all boys have pony tails and pierced ears
massive distribution of nonsexist education books
LGBTQ movement and sexual reproductive rights movements intersections – make connections with groups whose values and concerns intersect - vaw, and violence against lgbt.
make it illegal to alert about the sex of a child, be it the doctor upon birth or thereafter.
Get rid of boys and girls toys sections
Ban blue and pink toys and clothes
Skype me with ideas to end violence against women
I updated my skype status asking to be skyped with ideas to end violence and got this reply :
Creating digital content to provide alternatives to women who have suffered violence (alternatives to change the violent way of life, beyond the witness...)
Ideas that've been shared on Facebook notes
That I'm tagged in :)
9. All politicians to pass gender sensitization course (mc)
10. Teach your children well! (pi)
11. Shoe power! From now on all shoes worn by women (from high heeled slingbacks to Converse sneakers) to be made with small little knives in the toe or heel; and teach girls (from Kindergaarten onwards) how to use them effectively ;-) (maya)
12. Scientific education on sex, sexual health, sexual morality, and sexual politics at all levels. Stop consigning boys and girls, men and women to ignorance and mystical, delusional stupor about sex, love, and sexual relationship. (erik)
13. Ensure reproductive health rights so that sane rational couples can choose to have as many children as they want or to limit their children at a number that they can manage or take care of. Rapists are pathological cases produced by messed up dysfunctional families. (erik)
14. Most women will become either mothers or insane mothers. Rapists have thoroughly fucked up, messed up relationship with their mothers. So to decrease the number of rapists, the number of insane women becoming mothers should be decreased. How? Return to number 12 (erik)
15. Fascist, authoritarian, insane fathers and mothers, who appear to be very common in the Philippines and elsewhere, will likely produce fascist sons and daughters. A mother is role model for her daughter who will become a mother. She's role model for her son on how women should be treated. If the mother is abused or in an abusive relationship, then her son may grow up treating women abusively. Her daughter may grow up seeking out men who will abuse them. So, to reduce the number of rapists, fascism must be defeated culturally and politically. How? Return to number 12. (erik)
16. Authoritarian families tend to become abusive and produce rapists and authoritarian society. Authoritarian families are produced by .... taraaannn, my favorite topic, the fascist Catholic Church (at least in the Philippines) that asks its faithfuls to deny themselves and their children freedom. So this ancient relic of patriarchy and superstition should be defeated, relegated ineffective, or at least transformed if you still like the idea of going to Church (erik).
17. Decriminalize or remove the stigma on women (and men) that choose to become prostitutes. It's just a job. Prostitutes are not immoral, lazy, insane, or evil that should be despised or punished on sight. Probably most prostitutes need saving because they have been forced into prostitution, just like most workers doing dangerous menial jobs need saving too. But there will be those quite at peace at being prostitutes, and in a future more enlightened society, they should be treated with respect just like anyone else.(erik)