#Smash the patriarchy

[tealleaves4]

Exactly. We're trained from birth to cater to men 24 fucking 7, and personally take on all their emotional baggage while they repeatedly REFUSE to get fucking therapy or learn to even take care of themselves, and then these dumbasses wonder why we finally get fed up and leave. 🙄🤦‍♀️ The cognitive dissonance is ASTOUNDING. Throw the whole man in the trash and go be happy ladies.

[bellasophies]

If you believe “sex work is work” you are a misogynistic bigot. Grouping women like that means you believe they are innately an underclass of people who deserve to be sexually exploited by men.

[mannyblacque]

I posted this back in 2016, when Hillary lost the election. Unfortunately, history repeats itself.

[isawthismeme]

[tealleaves4]

EXACTLY. These assholes don't even see women as HUMAN BEINGS. We're literally just breeding receptacles and maids to them. If you think these dudes need kindness to even listen to you, or deserve your emotional support and labor, just consider the fact that they have ZERO respect for women in the first place.

i don’t buy the “men need a woman who is nice to them to be deradicalized” bc all of these men have mothers and many have sisters, cousins, and female friends. they don’t want a woman who is nice to them and they won’t listen to a woman who is nice to them, because they don’t see women as human. they want someone to fuck, that’s it. if you think women owe them that you are literally falling for rape culture.

[lilithism1848]

[theantichristpluviophile]

Growing up with a gender non conforming mother literally saved me. She never wore makeup, she rarely shaved, she had short hair, she always put comfort first when choosing clothes, she never cared for skincare or anti-aging products in fact she’s proud of her wrinkles, she was a ‘these are signs of a fulfilling life’ mother not a retinol at 15 mother, she was a ‘eat whatever you want’ mother not a ‘are you gonna eat all that?’ mother, she was openly against plastic surgery, she stood up for her beliefs, she never let men talk down to her or belittle her, she was always down for a debate etc.

It didn't dawn on me until I got older that this wasn't 'normal'. That not everyone’s mother was like that. I rarely felt pressure to conform to patriarchal gender stereotypes because I didn’t grow up with one as a role model. In fact the only times I started to feel as though I should conform to ‘femininity’ was when I started integrating more into wider society and less in the comfort of my home. (Social media, friendships etc)

When I was a kid, I took it for granted, but now I see how blessed I was to be raised by a mother like that, and I see how much my friends and women online are struggling to accept themselves in totality, in their natural and unapologetic form. Since I was born, I thought it was totally normal for women to be like that … because it should be.

[tealleaves4]

Lmao exactly. The mental gymnastics these people do needs to be an Olympic event because they are winning the GOLD, every time. 😂🤦‍♀️

so a lot of ideological tradwives pursue the line of argument that feminism denigrates traditionally womens work (i.e. housekeeping, childrearing) by suggesting that feminists want to push all women to do "men's work" and dismiss the value of mothers and homemakers.

setting aside the obvious untruth of this- feminists have always been the strongest fighters for recognising the worth of womens work- its interesting when juxtaposed with the tradwife line that retiring from paid employment and settling into domestic life is relaxing, natural, and suitable for womens more delicate selves. they suggest that feminism pushes women to run themselves ragged rather than living a relaxed existence at home, cared for by their husbands.

but this itself is rooted in the devaluing of domestic labour, because it understands it as easy, simple, and fundamentally Not Real Work. its an important part of the tradwife project to glorify homemaking while also denying its difficulty, to promise women they will be valued in their domestic role while stripping away recognition of that value. its not an original observation that tradwife influencers often live in massive sparkling homes clearly cared for by domestic servants while they show off their hobbies, but its important to note this is not only a way to attract viewers to an idealised vision but also a systematic tactic to devalue the real worth of domestic labour

[raqualswonderfunblog]

[tealleaves4]

For real, leave these dudes behind in the dust. They're USELESS. If they can't keep up or even be bothered to feed themselves or care for their own children, they can go fuck themselves. Let them ROT in their own misery. ✌🤣

[liberalsarecool]

Shorter conservatives: me, me, me.

[warmstudie]

[bellasophies]

“Honor Killing” needs to leave our lexicon, it’s the same as “revenge porn”. It should be called what it is: religiously motivated femicide.

[tealleaves4]

Accurate.

Patriarchal constructs need fiction to retain male power/control.

[thefamiliarstrangers100]

When a man says he prefers a woman who is strongly opinionated and independent, don’t take his words literally. Because what he truly means by that is he is looking for a woman he can ‘tame’, someone he can bend to his needs because men are insecure and wanna prove their ‘manhood’ to themselves through ‘dominance’. He wishes to acquire a woman he’d otherwise not stand because it feeds his male ego. They view strong women as a conquest to be won, exotic birds they can collect, only to imprison them and dehumanize them, as it gives them a sense of ‘accomplishment.’ They perceive the challenge of ‘taming’ such women as a test of their own prowess. Men love to test their limits on women. He views naive women as boring because he sees no ‘thrill’ in pursuing them. Women have never been humans to men. Don’t take men’s words literally.