#fighting patriarchy

[xtrablak674]

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Back in the day I would have already ripped Monkey55Boy four assholes, but I don't argue on the internets anymore, you never actually accomplish anything, and more important minds aren't ever really changed in web-based arguments.

Attention broad statement follows, queer whyte mens take little to no thought about the things they say on others post. #FullStop They have been indoctrinated like the rest of us to believe whiteness is the norm, and all the rest of us are aberrations, albeit science and history make it very clear the first humans on the Earth were very melanated and located in the part of the world that is now known as Africa.

Whyte men will other you in less than a nanosecond of seeing you. I wanted to give this dude the benefit of the doubt, so I took a look through his profile, where there was no clear evidence of how he actually looked or his ethnic origins. But there was something telling in his favourites, they spoke to his clear affection for white skin, notwithstanding I did find a couple of brown men and one Black man amongst the favs, but predominantly his favs were other whyte mens.

There is one other consideration I can give Monkey55Boy this particular platform has moderated most people of colour right off of it. With out overt knowledge the creators and moderators of the platform have placed a higher value on European aesthetics and on heteromantic norms, anything that deviates from that baseline is more or less written off as pornographic no matter how high the artistic value. I had left for about ten years or so for this same issue because it made it very hard to present any kind of intimate work that was scrutinized through a different lens then like-work that center whyte-female beauty and aesthetics.

But I was black on the platform, and generally speaking my position on comments is non-response and disregard. I don't generally block anyone or engage at all, allowing them to baste in their own ignorance. Why should it be my roll to enlighten folks who have drank the white supremacy Kool-Aid and never questioned the hierarchy and value system of our very Puritanical Christian society? America has a clear caste system whether we choose to acknowledge it or not, and those of us who do not fit into the "in-group" are automatically delegated to the "other" category, which is essence means they are less than.

This is why we can’t have nice things. The experiment called the internet has failed because the people who created it infused all their very human values and biases into its development. Even after so much time has passed, they have never considered the existence of other perspectives and stories that are told from a different understanding of the world. As long as these issues are at the core of the internet, things will not change, women will not be safe, Black and people of color will be exoticized and othered, and any people who are neuroatypical to differently-abled, or perform gender in a non-traditional way, will not be giving their full personhood just treated like ornaments in a bowl of vanilla ice cream.

[Photo by Brown Estate]

[isawthismeme]

[lilithism1848]

[icarus-phaethon]

Men can't stand female only spaces but will complain about the 'sanctity' of theirs. All female only spaces are labelled discriminatory. Female uber drivers are called discrimination against men. They exist without context. They're so delusionally shallow that their understanding of things is shallow too. They will never understand how things work against women as a whole. They want to rant and rage about being discriminated cause theyve convinced themselves that writing men and women are equal on paper has deleted the societal factors and individual differences in experiencing the world.

[caitlinjohns77]

Liberal feminism is a disease

[trans-girl-azzi]

Be punk.

Help an old lady carry her groceries.

Donate to local charities.

Help out at a soup kitchen.

Be nice to animals.



[trans-androgyne]

“Me hating men isn’t radfem behavior! TERFs don’t even actually hate men, they just hate trans women.” Radfems would beg to fucking differ!! They most certainly hate men, and they will tell you so with pride. Have you ever actually heard from a radfem? They think all men are inherently predatory and dangerous and should be kept as far away from women as humanly possible if not outright be killed. Yes, they hate trans women the most—because they conceptualize them as men mocking and harming “real” women. That doesn’t mean they aren’t also misogynistic towards trans women; they are. That also doesn’t mean they don’t team up with cis men against trans people sometimes; they do. But if you look into it literally at all you will immediately see that radical feminist ideology hinges on blaming not just the structure of patriarchy but individual men for the oppression of women. If coming to terms with that makes you uncomfortable, sit with that for a while and figure out just how comfortable you are with bio- and gender-essentialism.

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

emotional

[xxruletheworld]

“B-but feminism is about choice!” WRONG!

[liberaljane]

Riots! Not Diets!

Digital illustration using black, white, pink and blue. Text reads ‘riots not diet’ and depicts two fems. On the left is an Asian person wearing a white sweater with a speech bubble that reads ‘I don’t want to hear about your diet.’ On the right is a Black woman wearing a T-shirt that reads, ‘don’t fight yourself fight the patriarchy instead’

[isawthismeme]

[theangryfeministwriter]

Growing up, you learn that in 1919 women could vote and wear short dresses and then they could get jobs and everything was fine.

As an adult, you realize that your grandmother became a teacher because she couldn’t afford to be a nurse and those were her only two career options. Or that my grandmother’s grandmother actually died in a mental asylum for women before they were identifying psychiatric conditions in women- she had depression. Or that my grandmother married my grandfather because she wanted to be able to buy a house, which she couldn’t legally do alone.

You learn that our grandmothers were the quiet victims of the patriarchy- the ones who may have been beaten by their husbands, or had to perform a back alley abortion, or were coerced into a marriage in order to have any property or economic rights.

Women’s rights as we know them today are a lot younger than we realize

[buff-muffin]

A gender swapped ASL would be basically the same except Sabo having even more mannerisms drilled into her that have been progressively broken down by Ace (Anne technically?) over their friendship. But Ace and Luffy are exactly the same. Expect Luffy is doing cartwheels in a dress cause she can. That girl can not fathom the concept of being mindful about dresses and skirts she would probably be forced to wear shorts. Then the discovery of Luffy’s one true love forms:

Jorts.

[icarus-phaethon]

And yet the patriarchy labelled women as "whores" neatly repackaging rape as women wanting sex w men. No wonder rape myths exist. It's all the same. Blame women for their own rape.

[caitlinjohns77]

[sadderbutwisergirrl]

I cried then I got mad. Let’s go.