Short Skirt and Don’t Poke the Bear

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 devastating integration of wife-beater logic with ‘Don’t Poke the Bear.’ The victim-blaming frame is laid bare: you do not even need to ‘wear a short skirt’ to be accused of provoking Russia. The passage also names what the meme feeds — our hunger for passivity, our desire for a happy ending, our dream that the abuser ‘really just wants peace.’ And it connects to international law: Art 51 of the UN Charter, the right to self-defence.

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