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why has no one released a satirical book/movie/song called "male loneliness epidemic"

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“Women invented all the core technologies that made civilization possible. This isn’t some feminist myth; it’s what modern anthropologists believe. Women are thought to have invented pottery, basketmaking, weaving, textiles, horticulture, and agriculture. That’s right: without women’s inventions, we wouldn’t be able to carry things or store things or tie things up or go fishing or hunt with nets or haft a blade or wear clothes or grow our food or live in permanent settlements. Suck on that. Women have continued to be involved in the creation and advancement of civilization throughout history, whether you know it or not. Pick anything—a technology, a science, an art form, a school of thought—and start digging into the background. You’ll find women there, I guarantee, making critical contributions and often inventing the damn shit in the first place. Women have made those contributions in spite of astonishing hurdles. Hurdles like not being allowed to go to school. Hurdles like not being allowed to work in an office with men, or join a professional society, or walk on the street, or own property. Example: look up Lise Meitner some time. When she was born in 1878 it was illegal in Austria for girls to attend school past the age of 13. Once the laws finally eased up and she could go to university, she wasn’t allowed to study with the men. Then she got a research post but wasn’t allowed to use the lab on account of girl cooties. Her whole life was like this, but she still managed to discover nuclear fucking fission. Then the Nobel committee gave the prize to her junior male colleague and ignored her existence completely. Men in all patriarchal civilizations, including ours, have worked to downplay or deny women’s creative contributions. That’s because patriarchy is founded on the belief that women are breeding stock and men are the only people who can think. The easiest way for men to erase women’s contributions is to simply ignore that they happened. Because when you ignore something, it gets forgotten. People in the next generation don’t hear about it, and so they grow up thinking that no women have ever done anything. And then when women in their generation do stuff, they think ‘it’s a fluke, never happened before in the history of the world, ignore it.’ And so they ignore it, and it gets forgotten. And on and on and on. The New York Times article is a perfect illustration of this principle in action. Finally, and this is important: even those women who weren’t inventors and intellectuals, even those women who really did spend all their lives doing stereotypical “women’s work”—they also built this world. The mundane labor of life is what makes everything else possible. Before you can have scientists and engineers and artists, you have to have a whole bunch of people (and it’s usually women) to hold down the basics: to grow and harvest and cook the food, to provide clothes and shelter, to fetch the firewood and the water, to nurture and nurse, to tend and teach. Every single scrap of civilized inventing and dreaming and thinking rides on top of that foundation. Never forget that.”

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Violet Socks, Patriarchy in Action: The New York Times Rewrites History (via o1sv)

Reblogging again for that paragraph because that is the part we forget the most.

(via girlwiki)

Women’s work is the mother of invention

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so enraged still at the MULTIPLE radfem accounts that mocked palestinian genocide while simultaneously mourning the holocaust like the cognitive dissonance was on a scale I've never seen before. and the lying! omg! MULTIPLE accounts were making up statistics and "Hamas" quotes not even reported by the Israeli or American press. i would understand repeating lies told by mainstream media, but why would you SO ANGRILY pull shit out of your ass as if we don't also have access to the internet omg 😭 this is beyond "racism," this is a severe mental illness

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so many issues in radblr but the one really getting under my skin tonight is a particular user who comments on every.single.rad.post without adding any insight whatsoever

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OSA “Libfems” right now: let’s take down men! 4B! Fuck them! They’re dog shit! Your body, my denial!

OSA “Radfems” right now: I’m going to make a post that’s extremely controversial right now: I think men can change. We shouldn’t give up hope on them just yet. Now, let me explain; my husband…

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November 6 / 7, 2024 - Far-right Israeli hooligans of Maccabi Tel Aviv came to Amsterdam for a match against Ajax, and went around singing their fascist songs about killing arabs and destroying palestine, attacking random people's houses, ripping down and burning palestinian flags and attacking random people for looking like palestine supporters, feeling untouchable. After an evening of this, with Amsterdam police just letting it happen, people had had enough and mostly Moroccan dutch people organised to hunt down Maccabi hooligans throughout the city. One of the Maccabi hooligans jumped in the canal to escape a beating. Passports were confiscated showing that several of the hooligans were IDF soldiers.

The Israeli government has responded by calling this a pogrom and sending two planes to Amsterdam, presumably to bomb a hospital or school in retaliation.

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I’m going to be real though unless you’re super young you really should have the perspective of the fact both the trump and biden presidencies were almost identical and this is not the end of the world at the end of the day if you’re an American citizen things will remain almost identical under any sitting president like we all grew up in the age of george bush who is responsible for the deaths of over a million people and it seems the average American doesn’t even remember that

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I don't know how to verbalize this properly because I'm frustrated and I've been frustrated and tired for so long.

I don't have sympathy left for white liberals putting on a song and dance of how these election results are a huge blow to their mental health and everyone checking in with everyone "don't do anything you can't undo! take care of yourself! go to therapy! make sure you talk to someone!"

And I think it's because of just how these same people saying that shit were the ones talking down to Palestinians constantly about our personal decision surrounding the vote. To them, this is the worst case scenario. Power shifting hands from one warmongering egomaniac to another. Ignoring the fact that, to us, the worst case scenario has already happened and has been happening for over a year.

I am keeping up hope because I owe it to the people in Gaza to be hopeful about the future -- their future.

But speaking on myself, I have not been okay for a long time. I am not the same person I was a year ago. I am tired and nothing in my life feels worthwhile. I don't even feel like a person anymore.

And I have to watch white people who are, as we speak, sending harassment to my friends and other Palestinians, cry and whine about how it's the end of the world.

Did you check in with your Palestinian friends (assuming you have any with the way you act) when the world ended for them?? Do you regularly check in with your Palestinian friends who don't feel normal anymore? Who haven't felt normal for a while? Who don't even remember what normal feels like?

Or are we just expected to stay strong and hold your hand when you're sad?

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i mean this in the meanest way possible, if you as a leftist, in an attempt to 'punish' the democrats, either didn't vote or voted for a third party, go fuck yourself. you chose your own self righteousness over actually doing good.

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Screaming.

Me: "You'd think these Palestinian men would stop impregnating these women while they're actively running from bombs."

Him: "It takes two to tango."

Me: "..Sir it's rape. It's marital rape. These women feel like they have to perform. There is actively NO WAY they want to be having a baby lying in dirt and blood."

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I think more people should just be ok with being single

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every day i think i've read the most depraved thing humanly imaginable published in a western media outlet and every day they prove me wrong by publishing something even worse

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Absolutely. I would argue the women are victims of the "glass cliff." When a company or government office is headed toward failure, they put a marginalized person in charge to take the blame.

I feel like Disney has been almost maliciously casting black and brown women in these live action remakes to generate public discourse, and they're leaving these poor actresses to fend for themselves almost? They don't seem to protect them in any meaningful way. The quality of the movies themselves is awful, and these women get the (extremely racist, misogynistic and misplaced) blame like it's somehow their fault that the movie is bad. Disney is pumping out garbage and it feels like they know it, but as long as the reaction is profoundly racist against the lead actresses and not actually thoughtful critiques of the quality of the writing and effects and screenplay the company itself can easily dismiss ALL dissatisfaction as infected racist discourse. Am I making sense

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"if trump is elected me and everyone i love are on the chopping block" you really aren't. you've been through 4 years of trump already and you weren't rounded up and sent to a concentration camp. You know who WAS sent to concentration camps during Trump though? Our fellow latinoamerican migrants. sent to camps set up by Obama. And who are still being sent to camps operated by Biden. And who Harris promises to send even more of us to camps.

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every progressive lib vid analyzing conservative thought nowadays is like "first, The Greatest Generation saved the world from Hitler and Stalin, then created an unspoilt paradise in the form of Suburban 1950's USA, only to be ruined when The Great Satan Regan passed the USA Is A Bad Country Law, turning the USA into a bad country for the first time."

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"On my twenty-fifth birthday, when I had lived one quarter of a century, I was nearly dead, almost catatonic, without the will to live. By my twenty-sixth birthday, I wanted more than anything to live. I was one year old, an infant born out of a corpse, still with the smell of death on her, but hating death.”

Andrea Dworkin