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yeetntve · 5 days ago

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One time my Mum drove over a kerb and got her car stuck at a hardware store, and three different men just came over to help unprompted. The only thing they said about it was directly related to solving the problem, and in the end all three of them just seamlessly worked together to physically lift the front of the car so my Mum could reverse out. They succeeded, saving us tow truck fees and ensuring the nice afternoon we had planned was able to go on. They asked for nothing and we never saw them again. All it took was my Mum calling them her heroes, and those men were walking on air all the way into the hardware store.

I just think that maybe, just maybe, blaming the pain and suffering caused by our patriarchal system on men's individual nature is uhhhh, some bullshit.

I see the radfems out there saying that every man who's ever been born is a psychopath who's constantly looking for an opportunity to commit a felony and then I remember this one time I was really struggling to get a shopping cart out of another shopping cart and a dude came over to help me, but he couldn't do it, and then another dude came over to help him, and then another came over because it was a challenge he wanted in on, and then I had 3 guys all tearing at a stuck shopping cart, and literally none of them even needed a cart.

And when they got it out, they fist pumped and I said thanks so much and one of them said "easy." And then they left.

And it's like.

I don't think radfems go outside.

#Shoutout to the mitre 10 dads who saved us that day #if you're going to get into car distress he hardware store is exactly where you wanna do it #easiest place to summon The Dads #Also re: the patriarchy I have some been having some Thoughts about that lately #Funnily enough it was a comment on an ex mormon woman's youtube short of all things that blew my thinking wide open #and it said “the patriarchy is not man vs woman. It's man vs man and women are the prize”#and like shit I think that's right #As women we live in a system that dehumanises us and turns us into babymaking chattel #but just because there is no way for a woman to win under the patriarchy does not mean there is no way for a man to lose #All I'm saying is that young men are rarely the ones making the decisions that get themselves killed in wars #Young men are very seldom the ones calling the shots that get them worked to the bone and disabled by the time they're middle aged #When this happens it is the older men in positions of power that are left with the access to money and women #Which is exemplified in the mormon church where young men are given disabling physical work by the church elders #who are then able to amass multiple wives #I've never been mormon so I can't speak on this subject and am just repeating what I remember as best I can #But I think that mormonism is a fascinating microcosm of the patriarchy and worth studying if you're serious about feminism #check out Alyssa Grenfell on youtube she's fascinating #and there's often a lot of interesting things happening in her comments section

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