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running for president as a member of the American Fujoshi Party with a foolproof plan to address male loneliness

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I aspire

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These women who pine after the trad life act like getting married and pregnant at 21 is illegal. Like you could literally do that if you want. They just refuse to make the same choices traditional women made.

"Choices" traditional wives make:

1.Marry the first guy that comes along (long courtship where you agonize over compatability and attraction is a modern luxury). Trad wives didn't date around endlessly, they married Todd from church because Todd from church asked first. That's it.

2.Live whatever lifestyle he can afford to give you and do what your husband says (as a woman, specific desires and ideals for how you want your life to turn out is modern luxury). If your husband's salary always runs out two weeks into the month- that's just what you have to live with.

That's it. That's tradition.

"Im forced to work becsuse of the economy"

No, you CHOOSE to work because you're unwilling to do the above. You could be married, barefoot, and pregnant in some man's house by January if you really wanted but you aren't choosing that. Because the above scenarios never actually represented choice but the absence of it.

If you have ideals for what kind of man you want and strong opinions on how you want your life to turn out- you are not trad. You are a modern women with modern sensibilities pining after a delusional fantasy aeshetic. Just shut up

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I feel really angry at female music stars who sexualize themselves extremely much. Like actual rage at those fucking videos of Sabrina Carpenter bending over to show her thong or the fuckass outfits Megan Thee Stallion keeps wearing. And I know it's not their fault and it has to do with the general culture and their stylists and managers and whatnot but I want women to protest this fucking bullshit. I want women to stop. I notice myself getting angry at women irl who can't talk about anything other than their ugly goddamn nails, makeup, ~beauty~ just stop!!!!!! For fuck's sake just stop!!

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Essential Feminist Texts Booklist

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

A Vindication of The Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks

Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by Bell Hooks

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution by  Shulamith Firestone 

Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner 

Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape by Jessica Valenti

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez 

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit

The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women by Alicia Malone

Girlhood by Melissa Febos

The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel

Is This Normal?: Judgment-Free Straight Talk about Your Body by  Dr. Jolene Brighten

Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D

The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Dr. Jennifer Gunter

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain 

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn 

The Turnaway Study: The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion by Diana Greene Foster, Ph.D

Regretting Motherhood: A Study by Orna Donath

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twitter/reddit/tumblr will be like

worst man on earth: hitler, pol pot, joseph stalin

worst woman on earth: kim kardashian, taylor swift, jk rowling

completely straight faced mind you

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this level of coping is astronomical lmaooo actually my favorite book doesn't have any women in it because of respect towards women yeah that's it

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A queen!

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the overuse of validity wording and caveats by intelligent, well-spoken women has got to stop. to make that happen, we need to build up these women's confidence and challenge the culture of bad faith interpretations and kneejerk reactions.

one of my favorite youtubers for example, she'll get on a topic where she's concisely and bluntly giving her analyses on complex subjects. she's obviously done her reading and thought it through, and then she trips at the end to tack on a string of caveats "...if that makes any sense! but that might just be me, if you disagree and that works for you, that's fine too!" it destroys her flow and lessens the impact of her analysis, and every single time you can see her struggle to regain her footing afterwards.

it makes me want to grab her by the shoulders and beg her to grow a spine. if there are men with podcasts claiming as fact that disproven wolf hierarchy theory applies to human society, then you can speak with confidence on your topic that you actually have a degree on. but i understand why she does this because i've seen people jump all over her analyses and even her character with the stupidest, most poorly constructed, bad faith attacks possible.

informed intelligent women should not need mandatory pre-emptive disclaimers to cater to the uninformed, unintelligent, and angry.

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There really is no female Jeremy Allen White. He is an objectively weird looking man who is now considered a heartthrob and is playing Springsteen in a new biopic--that's a romantic hero role if ever there was one. I'm not saying that's bad or wrong but I am saying no woman who naturally looks as wonky as he does would have success like him. Like he is actually UGLIER than young Bruce was.

They UGLIFIED Bruce Springsteen by casting him.

Meanwhile, women in human reality like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gilda Radner, who HAD strong, distinct features like his, are being played by these people in fictionalized versions of their lives:

The fact that this is how history is choosing to remember these women is insane and bizarre. Truly, you cannot exist as a woman in public eye or public memory unless you are ornamental. Worse than ornamental, you must be generically ornamental, made on an assembly line, as female beauty often is now via plastic surgery.

I feel that this kind of commentary is not being made because it's politically suspect to talk about women's looks--and don't get me wrong, I understand what's at stake in terms of not just human emotion, but falling into misogynist traps. But we MUST recognize that this is a problem. It's one thing for fictional women with no basis in reality to be cookie cutter--not a good thing, but certainly a different thing. But for real women who actually existed to have their simple, natural, human characteristics erased and replaced with flavor of the month plastic surgeried generic Hollywood Female nonsense is disrespectful in the extreme. (Especially because Gilda Radner and RBG were Jewish and their Jewish features would have deeply impacted their lives.)

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I feel like many adult women are making themselves functionally illiterate by refusing to read anything but YA and very simple, straightforward romance. Basically for books what McDonald's is for food. Already digested and regurgitated to make it as unchallenging as possible. And it IS women, it's almost only women both writing and reading this shit! It's women making a whole social media persona about being a "reader" but skipping whole paragraphs because they don't contain spoken lines and it's too boring and too long. The market is fucking flooded with absolute garbage. To me this looks like female anti-intellectualism.