//Needless to say, if you dont have a house its pretty difficult to leave two or more lights on after dark, while Spains appalling unemployment rate - over 55 percent among young people - means a lot of folks cant afford to own cars for backseat rapists to hide in. Furthermore, the interior ministrys advice that you should try to change your route if you find yourself “regularly passing through dark and deserted areas” isn’t extraordinarily helpful for women who happen to work at night. But the home evictions and wanton austerity measures implemented post-crisis do a good job of underscoring just how much of a danger the state itself poses to its people - both women and men - as it exuberantly pursues a neoliberal heaven-on-earth in which humans are denied the right to healthcare, education, pensions, and anything else that might ease the burden of existence.// //The mass insecurity on which neoliberalism thrives is repackaged as individual insecurity to be dealt with on an individual basis, with no acknowledgement of structural causes. And, of course, the more money that can be extracted from insecure individuals, the better; in other parts of the neoliberal empire, products like anti-rape nail polish and rape-resistant underwear have surfaced, while Cosmopolitan magazine has reported on the mobile phone apps accompanying the up-and-coming industry//
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 06:21:45 +0000
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