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The Safest Way to Live as a Woman Is to Be Dead

We live in a world designed to erase the existence of women.

Shafiqah Othman
3 min readDec 19, 2020

First, they will tell you that you’re too “revealing”. That the sight of your skin brings their “innate nature” alive. You are now responsible for their bad intentions. They say the only way is to cover up.

Now you go out without revealing any skin. You try your best to cover what you can. They won’t know how you look like underneath, right? Suddenly you’re “mysterious”. They become curious of you. You are now responsible for their bad intentions. They say the only way is to stay at home.

You’ve decided that the world out there is dangerous, so you will only stay in the comfort of your own home. You’re definitely safe here, right? News of domestic violence, intrusion and rape… the list goes on. Even the people you trusted are abusing you.

Translation: Dear women, be careful when uploading your photos online. In this tweet, I will attach some pages that steal and upload photos of women onto their porn pages.

I had the misfortune of reading someone write a tweet warning women about men who use…

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Shafiqah Othman
Shafiqah Othman

Written by Shafiqah Othman

Alchemical writer. I write about mental health, politics, religion, psychospirituality, and philosophy.

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