#FEMINIST

[layla99999999]

and there is no peaceful way of stopping them

they know what they're doing and they won't care about you trying to convince them that you're worthy of respect or whatever, they always know exactly what they're doing

you can't fight any oppresor peacefully

feminists trying to be nice to men and be like "please see me as a human, i'm so nice to you :))" trying to explain to them why patriarchy is wrong - men know that it's wrong, they know that you're human, they simply don't care because sexist views benefit them and you being kind to them will only make the situation worse

you know, and another thing. bigotry isn’t all about feelings, there is material benefit to oppressing people. women are oppressed because there is material benefit to having a domestic sex servant who will do your laundry for you, chattel slavery existed (and continues to exist) because there is material benefit to having a labor force you don’t have to pay. native peoples all over the world have been and continue to be murdered and brutally oppressed because colonial powers wanted to steal their shit! some people are really in it for the money, and you can’t reason with those people. you can only stop them

[unavailableapple]

Like…DOES patriarchy hurt men though? There certain ways that it does but I feel like a lot of people insist it hurts men MORE. And uh…does it though?

-They have to be the breadwinner. Except they don’t…most households in the United States are two-income. It’s very difficult to have a one-income household in the modern climate of the economy. And women who still work as much as their husbands also have to come home and cook, clean, care for children, do laundry, etc.

-They aren’t allowed to dress fun. Except they are? Harry Styles gets on the cover of magazines for wearing an ugly dress. Movies like Wicked repeatedly show men in skirts. Social media is full of men wearing makeup and cute outfits and heels. I feel it’s become pretty normalized now for men to dress how they like. It’s just also normalized for them to dress comfortably, whereas I get a ridiculous amount of pushback for wearing pants, no makeup, not shaving my legs, and having short hair.

-They aren’t allowed to show emotions. Except they are? How many times has a video gone viral of a man crying because he loves his kids. All television, movies, books, etc are ever about is men’s feelings. Philosophy pretty much boils down to “men are sad”. The male loneliness epidemic is all I ever hear about…

-Men aren’t allowed to be gay. Neither are women???? I keep seeing this idea that women have an easier time being gay because they’re fetishized so much, whereas gay men are just treated as gross and weird. Sorry but like…no. Being treated like a porn search is not acceptance.

When men do experience hatred for being gay, wearing pink, or crying it’s literally because those things are womanly. Having sex with men is associated with women (that’s why “it’s not gay if you top”), pink is the “girl” color, crying is “feminine” aka WEAK. It all just reinforces the same thing: ‘woman’ is the worst thing to be.

But men are the victims here?

[crazycatsiren]

"But what is your purpose as a woman if not to be a mother and raise children?"

To be a complete royal headache for people like you, dum-dum.

[my-vanishing-rad]

This man feels “alienated” in his women’s support group, so he wants to force the actual women to restrict all discussion of their “afab body issues” to one day a week.

First they invade, then they demand to be in control. This is narcissism, and it’s gone mad with power.

[scum-man-of-pesto]

Idk if it's entirely fair to say they're just "playing into the male gaze for views" in all cases. There's been plenty of incidences of women in pop talking about being forced to wear things that they didn't want to in the past by management, because a lot of these deals are completely predatory. Stars like Gaga, Kesha, and Britney have famously spoken about the occurrence of this in the past. I think we also need to acknowledge that in cases like Sabrina, who was a child celebrity first. That's not to say that these women aren't responsible to some degree, but it's also most likely not as simple as them being aware of the harm, but carelessly harmful anyway

Not gonna lie every time I’ve seen this woman she seems to have a motive to make herself the biggest object of the male gaze possible. The thing is, young girls are following and listening to her. Shameful.

[clit-licker420]

how much of the strength divide between males n female is truly biological and how much is the result of epigenetic trauma from the worldwide comparative starvation of female children for thousands of years?

[hyacinthsgrimoire]

[lilithism1848]

Women who cheat are hated more than men who rape

[unavailableapple]

When you find an amazing feminist author who writes work that speaks to your soul and you finally feel seen and then you find an interview online where she says “I’m not a feminist I’m a humanist” :(

[feministdragon]

contrary to popular understanding, women’s freedoms have been continually restricted over the course of the last 700 years, with the nadir being the Victorian era

we have now clawed back some individual freedoms for some women in some countries, but *gestures around at current political developments *

[gaydinosaurbananamilkcarton]

Then they get upset when you call their lifestyle a kink. Clearly, they have a breeding and power imbalance kink. Mix that with their cottagecore lifestyles and you have a trad wife.

the white trad wife girlies piss me off because they say things like "i really miss when women could be stay-at-home moms and get married and have babies and be fEmiNinE instead of having to go to college and work a job" like... you can still do that? you can literally still live your 1950s dream life? go find that man sis! but leave the rest of us the fuck out of it.

[jasondamien93]

Disgusting but true 😡

[my-vanishing-rad]

[bi-dykes]

A very important message ♀ ⋆˙⟡♡

[scum-man-of-pesto]

She didn't say that "all intercourse is rape", you misunderstood her. That is 100% a you problem, not a Dworkin problem. Also being against the sex trade, which relies on victims of trafficking, or porn, which also relies on trafficking victims and is proven to instill and/or deepen misogynistic attitides, or being critical of how heterosexual sex is don, in which often the woman ends up either unsatisfied or actually hurt, is not the same as being anti-sex. That's actually being incredibly pro-sex, but against sexual exploitation and misogyny. You ought to give her another read (or maybe a first read, because there's a good chance you haven't actually read through her material yourself at all) and look a little closer this time.

Saw an Andrea Dworkin quote posted on Tumblr.

I'm a lifelong feminist.

Dworkin's anti-sex "feminism" was deranged. In many ways, she was an ally to the far right in her efforts to censor and control the sexuality of others. She asserted, among other ridiculous things, that all intercourse was rape.

Please, leave Dworkin forgotten in her grave and read better feminist writers.