#Empowering Men

[soup-mother]

I'm sorry people are unfairly mean to you about being from the USA, please take comfort in the fact your country owns the world 👍

[ffcrazy15]

There's this way of doing female-ness in Christianity that I call "pastel flower journal Christianity." I've got nothing against pastel flower journals per se, but for some reason people believe it's the end all and be all of female spirituality, and I think it's a real disservice towards young Christian women.

One of these days I'd like to start a prayer-and-reading group or something for young women, but there would be no floral themes or over-focus on how "God thinks you're beautiful even if the world doesn't" (a true statement, but it's wayyyyy too often the focus in women's spiritual reading). Instead we would be reading:

Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

Sheed's A Map of Life

Portions of Pieper's book on leisure

Kreeft's Three Philosophies of Life

Guardini's The Lord (or something similar)

Therese's Story of a Soul

and some select portions of the Nicomachean Ethics.

(Also they're all getting the porn talk. I don't know why we give the porn talk to young men but not young women. There's this idea that women don't use porn and they only need the talk about "guarding their heart." Bullshit. There's porn on the YA shelves of Barnes and Nobles and before that there were bodice rippers. Young women need the porn talk too.)

Every young woman needs to be getting a basic grounding in virtue ethics, logic, natural law, scholastic philosophy and Biblical hermeneutics if they're going to get by in today's spiritual landscape. Enough faffery and emotionalism in young women's spiritual education! Give them real food to chew on, not pasty sentimentalism!

[blackstarlineage]

[marionmabelle]

i HATE seeing a girl get trampled in conversation by men like LET HER SPEAK

[afriblaq]

thewhitgeorge

Guess who avoided an ass whooping today? (You know!)  @iuicneworleans

[feministfang]

"Educate the men!" Education is a requirement for those who are stupid, unaware or illiterate, and not for those who are evil. Men can receive knowledge about everything and they will still commit all these heinous crimes that they already do. The most successful, richest and powerful men are highly educated from the prestigious universities, and yet the most corrupt and evil people on this planet. When you feed a monster’s brain with knowledge, you unlock his potential to cause more destruction. He becomes more powerful and prosperous but he remains a monster. Education is a blessing that these men do not deserve. Instead, educate the women. Because a lot of women are stupid as a collectivist. It’s women who are unaware. It’s women who lose all their common sense whenever they hang out with men. Therefore, educate women about their rights. Educate women on why they should stop caring about men. Educate women about separatism. Educate women on how to be rich and successful. Educate women about how patriarchy works. Educate women about freedom. Education is empowering. So empower women. Yes, men naturally lack intelligence, they lack wisdom, and they are the most dumbest species on this planet. But you’re forgetting that they are all sadists as well; the trait that you cannot erase by feeding their minds. Knowledge brings out the smartness in a woman, but it brings out the most cunning nature of a man. So don’t waste your energy teaching men about everything. You teach a man how to cook and he will still murder his wife for overcooking his meal. You teach a man about female bodily anatomy and he will jerk off to every single detail he hears about it. You teach a man he’s allowed to cry and he will use his tears as a tool to play victim. You teach a man about technology and he will use his skills to send threats to women. You teach a man why the world is dangerous for women and he will use that information to control women in his family in the name of "protection" just to flex his masculinity. You teach a man about feminism and all he will think about is how he can reap out his own benefits from it. If you seriously think educating men will liberate women then you actually need to educate yourself and continue doing that until you learn and realise that men do not care about women.

[hadesoftheladies]

it's bleak how most of the things people think will assuage and temper men are the things that embolden them. "prostitutes exist so men don't rape us" the human trafficking industry that is prostitution is an ever-growing industry that produces propaganda that enables men in society to rape MORE not less. by objectifying women and children, it puts all our heads on the chopping block. "he just needs to settle down and get married" most femicide, rape and domestic violence are committed by husbands/boyfriends. "if men just had daughters/sisters they'd see women as human" as a daughter and sister, i can confirm that we're extra caretakers of said men, and that our kindness is taken as proof that "good women" are subservient and domestic helpers.

if you want to de-radicalize men, you have to actually just stop tolerating misogyny in any form no matter what woman it's done against. stop trying to dialogue with men and start socioeconomically punishing them. people want to act like "separatism doesn't solve anything" when governments and companies only started paying attention when they saw birth and marriage rates drop. it is not women's job to save men from themselves and some feminists still don't get that. pandering to men always results in LESS rights for us. we have to become radically INTOLERANT.

[yourhighness6]

It's funny to me when people insist that "ATLA was really feminist" as if there wasn't really only one feminist message which was the very generic "girls can fight too" spiel that every 2000s show had going on whenever they briefly tried to jump on the feminism bandwagon or whatever

[blackstarlineage]

Too often, the downfall of a Black man isn't orchestrated solely by outside forces—but by the silent or active participation of his own people. This is the residue of mental colonization: a mindset trained to distrust, diminish, and destroy its own reflections.

Marcus Garvey taught us that a race that can not protect its men, women, and children is already defeated. When we fail to defend our brothers, when we join the chorus of slander, ridicule, or indifference, we are not just harming an individual—we are sabotaging the future of our entire race.

A people who truly understand liberation know that internal accountability must never become public execution. Correct in love, uplift in principle, and always remember: disunity is the weapon of the oppressor.

Black men are not perfect—but they are not disposable. Protect them. Stand with them. Heal them. Rebuild them. Because no one else will.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

in a world of #girlboss Strong Female Leads, there's something wildly profound about Mako Mori letting a man get into a fight on her behalf

[rhymingwithpurple]

People are so fucking stupid about feminism. You point out something a woman does and they swoop in to go "oh but she CHOSE to do that!" and you go "okay cool so she made that choice in a total vacuum? In a completely genderless society free from all patriarchal influence past and present?" And they don't understand. But she CHOSE.

[our-queer-experience]

Hiya! I’m a transmasc who is STILL terrified of men so I just wanna say, as someone who was once perceived as a girl and by most still is, parents please don’t raise us to be afraid of men. Don’t raise us with the idea that men are gonna hurt us, don’t raise us away from dudes because I’m trying really hard to make male friends and to bring down this stigma in my mind but it’s kind of stuck there. I’m still scared men are gonna hurt me. And to the bad men out there, fuck you for ruining lives. That is idiotic and selfish and useless.

thank you for sharing!

[watchmakermori]

every single bit of sabrina carpenter discourse is the dumbest shit ever. I could sort of understand it if she had ever positioned herself as some kind of feminist icon but like. she hasn't, as far as I know. she's just out there making dumb sexy goofy music

when I saw her new album cover I was like literally what is the fuss about. this is what we're up in arms about. Fucking does my head in how every female artist has some duty to be the representative of all women and also Think of the Impressionable Children. just let her be sexy and get her bag. haven't any of you people got real problems

[shadamypositivity]

what tickles me as a personal hc abt shadow reacting to Sabrina's concert is just the idea that he was "born" in the 50's-ish so just seeing sabrina in lingerie and pretending to felate her mic while Amy and a thousand other ppl scream probably would have him clutching his pearls lol

[blackstarlineage]

[colorisbyshe]

i do think it's funny that this website is like WOOO PUPPY PLAY PUPPY MASKS AT PRIDE and then a woman does some puppy play and it's been a fucking week of discourse