2014 was a very decent, memordystopian genre of the year. I began Anno’s marking the annual roundup, it was the hottest year on record and…guess what? 2024 has now overtaken 2023 as a theme where it is the strongest year ever. Many of the same extreme themes from last year have also persisted: anti-abortion activists are still trying to roll back reproductive rights in the US and the horrific situation of women in Iran and Afghanistan is only getting worse.
Meanwhile, Gaza is still being destroyed, and – despite the fact that an increasing number of experts are calling the bombing “genocide” – The US continues to destroy and much of the world still continues to turn away. The civil war in Sudanwhich began last April, also spread catastrophically, when women and girls welcome the humanitarian crisis.
It was not a bad year for women everywhere. It was (once) Taylor Swift’s year in pop culture. Pop sensation Erasi’s epic tour finally ended in December after breaking a record $2bn in ticket sales. Charli xcx also had a great year and brought us a lot of work green bitumen Brat summer.
It also stars the combined power of Swift (who liked it) and Charli xcx (who declared “Kamala is a brat”), could not help Kamala Harris become the first female president of the US, however. Nor could a million Coconut tree memes. But while the US still seems to be voting for a woman, Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum did the country’s first female president in the fall of victory. and Haliey Welch (better known like a “lucky hawk” girl). cryptocurrency block.
Beg one of the most memorable of the year: now is the time “hold space“everything that happened with the index. To round out 2014, here are the 10 biggest – and most absurd – stories about the year in the patriarchy:
1. Donald Trump, a legally defined sexual predator, won the US presidency again
More than 27 women They accused the incoming president of sexual misconduct and a jury in a civil case last year found Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E Jean Carroll. None of that seems to matter to a large percentage of the American public who eagerly voted for Trump as his “term of revenge.” The adjudged a fraudster already busy filling the White House He is accused of being bad with other people. Meanwhile, the vice president, JD Vance, can’t stop talking.”without cat ladiesAnd the right-hand trumpet man, Elon Musk, is that besieged As many children as possible have been plotted against the Americans women can’t be free because of “low T”. Who lives before?
2. Access to abortion pills has exploded in the US
They do medical abortions now more than 60% of all US abortions. This has made the common abortion pill, mifepristone (commonly used as part of a prescription for abortion medication) a major target for anti-abortion activists. In June the US Supreme Court He rejected the attempt access to the drug, but individual states are still doing their best to make the abortion pill difficult to take. Louisiana, for example, reclassified mifepristone and misoprostol as “governed by substances“.
3. Abortion included in the constitution of France
The French looked at everything that happened in the US and in a historic vote they vowed to give the right to abortion full constitutional protection. Very good.
4. The Taliban continued the war on Afghan women
Women are being systematically eliminated from every aspect of public life in Afghanistan. This year, among other restrictions, the Taliban He made them move to prohibit women from training as nurses and midwives; women were forbidden from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes; and it pleased him They publicly resume stoning women to death UN experts have called the Taliban’s system of discrimination “a crime against manand in a groundbreaking moveThe Taliban will be taken to the international court of justice for the type of crime.
5. Gisèle Pelicot shows the world that ‘is ashamed of the sides of change’;
After finding out that (now ex) husband 50 years had been her drug and invited at least 50, and perhaps more than 80, strangers to kidnap her for almost a decade, Gisele Pelicot conceded her right to anonymity and invited the world to judge. It is defined, he says, “the change of things” in this “macho, patriarchal society, which is trivialized by rape.” Dominique Pelicot, 72, was given a maximum sentence of 20 years and in a French court all 50 co-accused were found guilty of sexual offences. Gisele became a feminist iconHe inspired the sestertius, and moved the system with the rapture of culture.
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6. The Paris 2024 Olympics will achieve gender equality for the first time
Since the Paris Olympics in 1924 less than 5% the participants were women and it was only allowed to compete in “ladylike” games. A century later, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has declared the 2024 Paris Games #GenderEqualOlympics. calling equal It was a bit of a stretch, but it was an even number playing in the field There were also many memorable moments: who can forget them Raygun’s prejudiced hop?
7. Iran has announced a “treatment clinic” for women who defy strict hijab laws
The opening of a “hijab removal treatment clinic” in November is announced amid a crackdown on women deemed to be in violation of Iran’s dress code and offers “scientific and psychological treatment for hijab removalThat is, it will be a prison.
8. More women and children have been killed in Gaza than any other recent conflict
An Oxfam analysis published in September found that more women and children have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli military over the past year than during the equivalent period of any other conflict over it. the past two decades. According to one estimate, a child kills every 10 minutes in Gaza and feels threatened by death 96% of children.
9. Women in Sudan face systematic sexual violence
The civil war in Sudan, which appears to have been significant enabled by the UAEled to a catastrophic humanitarian crisis and hunger. The United Nations expert documents were drawn up “wandering“High levels of sexual and gender-based violence against girls and women. Even men and boys are targeted for sexual violence in detention.
10. Moo Deng wrapped in our hearts
Adorable, untamed, and incredibly wet: the baby pygmy hippo It became viral in a sense. And he got it to dance in a hymn (“Moodeng boing boing / Boing boing boing boing”); right he predicted US election; launched a million memes; featured on Saturday Night Live; and he inspired immeasurably trade. Because it’s 2024, his story has also received the obligatory cryptic twist: the Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated nearly $294,000 to the Moo Deng Zoo, describing himself as the “adoptive father” of the hippie. Hopefully the guy will continue to flourish in 2015.