#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]

[icarus-phaethon]

Radfems I am trying to conduct a research on personality traits that impact our (radfems) mental health and vise versa. It'll be a series of tests I will post to find out personality traits in rf groups... that'll help understand the mental health and psychological impact of radical feminism on us.

Today's trait is neuroticism. It'll only take 3 minutes. Theres 20 questions in total. You just have to mark your answer on strongly agree to strongly disagree range. Please try answer as best as you can. PLEASE COMMENT YOUR RESULTS.

[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.



[dreamyintersexouppy]

it is kinda crazy that what we think happens is "trans women get viewed as predatory men" meanwhile we live in the "predatory men rule the world there is a rapist that's president of the most powerful and evil country on the planet" universe like wtf, if i was a predatory man id get a medal, im seen as a predatory trans woman Thats what people view as the most horrible thing

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

emotional

[xxruletheworld]

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

[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.

[isawthismeme]

[survinging-the-next-4-years]

How to survive the next 4 years!

Hey there! You may not know me and I definitely don't know everything and will not be pretending to know everything, but I'm trying to document and preserve data so we all can survive President Musk, Vice President Vance, First Lady Donald Trump, and the entirety of the Republican Party's attempts at destroying the United States of America.

It is evident that we live in an Oligarchy, and we are going to need everything we can to survive.

If you go to my blog you will find the tabs that have everything you need, for those of you on mobile here are the links:

-- Things to Stockpile

-- Preserving Your Food

-- Books to Buy

I will be updating these things as often as possible, along with adding more tabs so I will be reblogging this post with updates and more!

I will also be trying to keep everyone updated on news when I can to fight back against the Republican Party's misinformation campaigns.

I am not rich and I work full time so please understand that I will not be consistently posting as much as I wish I could.

Be safe. Stay healthy. Do not surrender.

[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]

[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.

[sadderbutwisergirrl]

I cried then I got mad. Let’s go.