#Smash the patriarchy

[liberalsarecool]

Shorter conservatives: me, me, me.

[newbieecosocalistboy]

[wuornosreincarnate]

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.

[bellasophies]

What is happening to women in Afghanistan could happen anywhere in the world. Feminism is a social justice movement with universal truth. To know that this is happening to any women on our planet is the proof of what men are capable of.

Do not look away and say „it couldn’t happen here“. It could happen at anytime.

[raqualswonderfunblog]

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

delayed greatness

[maximumhideoutlover]

Patriarchy is finally back in fashion and I couldn't be happier, girls are not made to lead but to be wives and mothers.

Let your father choose your husband and marry this man without arguing, take care of your husband and the children you are going to give him.

Take care of your appearance too, no man deserves to have a poorly cared for woman by his side.

Always wear clothes that are easy for him to access and when he gets home after work help him rest, either by putting his food on the plate, helping him in the bath or simply giving him your pussy so he can take out his anger and fatigue after working so hard to support you.

That's our duty girls and we know it.

Our duty is to take care of our home, family and especially our husbands, after all, men already do the hardest thing the least we should do is take care of them.

[warmstudie]

[synthral]

From the moment we’re born, we’re brainwashed. Fairy tales, rom-coms, religious institutions, family expectations. They all whisper the same lie, that life culminates in marriage, in a white dress, in a house with a husband and three kids. That this is love. That this is fulfillment. That this is natural. That this is what YOU should want and it is what you need.

But if we are being serious, there’s no inherent reason for a man and a woman to be together. Heterosexuality isn’t some divine truth, it’s a construct, a tool of control, designed to uphold a patriarchal system that thrives on women’s subjugation. It’s the invisible leash that keeps people trapped, convincing them that their desires, their futures, their very selves must conform to a life of servitude, serving a man, birthing more people to serve more men.

Marriage at its core, is coercion. Not just socially, but historically and legally. It was never about love. It was about ownership, about ensuring women remained dependent, about securing lineage and property for men. Even today in its supposedly “evolved” form, it still reeks of that same expectation of monogamy as a duty, of reproduction as a requirement, of sacrificing personal identity for the “sanctity” of a bond that has always served men more than women.

And what about children? The world doesn’t need more of them. Antinatalism exposes the truth that procreation is not a moral duty but an ethical dilemma. We don’t owe the world more people, in fact, with the state of things, climate collapse, economic instability, rising fascism, we owe it to ourselves not to participate in the cycle of suffering. But of course the nuclear family needs its sacrifices. The system needs fresh bodies to keep capitalism alive. So we are pressured, manipulated, gaslit into thinking that having children is an inevitability rather than a choice, one we were never meant to question. If you cannot comprehend the concept of anti natalism you have to rethink your life, even my hardcore Muslim mother can understand it.

What about gay marriage? Same-sex marriage is a hard-fought and deeply meaningful right for many, it still exists within the larger framework of marriage as an institution of control. The fight for marriage equality wasn’t just about the right to marry, it should have also been about questioning why marriage is necessary for basic rights like stability, protection and legal recognition. Homosexuals have always found ways to build love, family and community outside of traditional structures and we deserve systems that honor those connections without forcing us to conform to an outdated institution. Love doesn’t need state validation to be real and the fact that marriage remains the ultimate legitimization of commitment shows just how deeply ingrained this illusion is.

None of this is inevitable. None of this is natural. It’s all a structure, a narrative forced upon us from birth. And if we can be programmed to believe in the heterosexual fairy tale, then we can unlearn it, reject it and build something better. Because we deserve more than the life we were told to settle for.

We must dismantle the patriarchy, tear down the institutions that keep us bound with patriarchy and males, we must build something that was never meant to serve men, but to serve us.

[liberalsarecool]

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[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.

[bellasophies]

You cannot be a feminist and pro-prostitution. You either stand with prostitute safety or with the men who use them.

[raqualswonderfunblog]

[bi-dykes]

And I feel like I am at my freest self🥤🥤

[bckalleycat]

so like outside of the patriarchy and oppression... what exactly is stopping us from just... taking back our power from men?

like there's always gonna be pushback right?

so why play this push and pull game when we can just take it back...

personally, i've been doing this. i don't let men push me around or talk to me any kinda way. i challenge the status quo on the daily. so what's stopping you?

institutionalized misogyny? okay? start your own company or work for a woman owned company or under female management. there's work arounds for everything

like i have seen some movement, some women becoming entrepreneurs or choosing to stay childless or unmarried. other women sticking up to men and dismantling patriarchal values, etc

but there's also a lot of us that talk the talk but don't walk the walk (i'm looking straight at the 4B movement)

y'all preach anti patriarchy but will lie in bed with the perpetrators

lotta discourse online. not enough action irl. you don't have a community? guess what babe. you are community.