The Short Skirt Variant

Don’t fall for trolls, however disguised. Ruschia’s Disinfolklore troll “Don’t Poke the Bear” is the most successful means of deterring us from exercising our UN Charter Art 51 right to self-defence EVER. It feeds our hunger for passivity. Our desire for a happy ending. Our dream that Ruschia really just wants peace even though you don’t even need to wear a short skirt to provoke it into turning your body politic and your land into a crime scene.

Source: Pensees 106

The “short skirt” metaphor crystallises the domestic abuse logic: just as a victim of sexual assault is blamed for what they wore, Ukraine is blamed for “provoking” Russia by existing as a sovereign state. You don’t even need to wear a short skirt — the provocation logic makes the victim guilty by default.

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