Listener Stories: How Somali Women Are Surviving Organized, Targeted, Patriarchal Crime

The Female Dating Strategy

Sexuality, Society & Culture, Society & Culture:relationships, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Comedy

4.3 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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[*TRIGGER WARNING*] - Graphic descriptions of FGM, rape, and domestic violence. The Queens welcome Maya, a Somali woman, to describe how the men of her country have systemically disenfranchised women at every turn to maintain control and what the women are doing to take back their power. Join our newsletter: https://www.thefemaledatingstrategy.com FDS War Room on the Queen Patreon Tier: https://www.patreon.com/TheFemaleDatingStrategy Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/femdatstrat Follow us! Weekly Bonus Content/Merch/Discord on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheFemaleDatingStrategy Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/femdatstrat Website:https://www.thefemaledatingstrategy.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/femdatstrat @femdatstrat Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_thefemaledatingstrategy/ @_thefemaledatingstrategy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Female-Dating-Strategy-109118567480771

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0:00.0	What's up, Queens?
0:08.5	Welcome to the female dating strategy podcast, the meanest female-ling podcast on the internet.
0:13.3	I'm Rope.
0:14.2	And I'm Savannah.
0:15.8	And today we are continuing our listener slice of life stories with a special guest from Somalia.
0:22.9	Her name is Maya.
0:24.2	And she's going to discuss her background, some of the cultural pressures and expectations
0:28.5	put on Somali women and her FDS journey within that context.
0:33.7	So welcome, Maya.
0:35.5	Welcome, Maya.
0:36.6	Thank you for joining us today. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be Maya. Thank you for joining us today.
0:38.3	Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.
0:41.3	So let's just jump right in. Talk about your upbringing and how it relates to your FDS journey.
0:47.3	Because we love a good origin story.
0:49.3	We love a good origin story. Of course. Like what's your villain origin story?
0:53.3	Because everyone acts
0:55.2	like FDS is just something that comes out of thin air because we're all like bitter.
0:58.7	But I'm like, no, we looked around and realized the system wasn't set up for us to be successful.
1:03.6	Somalia is a very conservative, very Muslim country. And it is basically very, very much, there's just a lot of oppression going on here
1:13.2	and it is the country that has the highest FGM rates in the entire world with a 97% of, you know,
1:20.6	FGM happening here.
1:22.5	And for people, sorry, let's intro it for people who don't know what this is.
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