#fuck patriarchy

[srue-on-fire]

i'm sorry what???

you cannot blame eddie for getting shannon pregnant. you just cannot. "it takes two to tango" is not just cheeky line. it is the truth. they were two consenting adults (in love, or so he said). honey, please get some help if you think eddie is at fault for everything that happened to shannon.

because patriarchy doesn't just fuck with women, it fucks with men too. it makes them repressed, puts them in a box and throws the key away, and pastes a label on it saying 'do not touch'.

patriarchy boxed eddie in, demanding that he be a "perfect" father, a soldier, and a stoic provider, all while leaving no space for the vulnerabilities and complexities that make him human. yeah, maybe he learned to start unraveling these internalized beliefs, but that doesn’t erase the years of conditioning. it’s a reminder of the restrictive and harmful roles society imposes on men, limiting who they can be and the freedom they should have to be open and honest about their experiences.

and when the time comes, eddie diaz will be a survivor—not just of war or the traumas he’s faced but of a system that tried to crush his individuality under the weight of its expectations.

repeat after me,

eddie diaz is a victim of patriarchy.

[memeboud]

Hope your days going well. Remember, vote HARRIS to save America

[aux-squiggle]

This is possibly an unpopular take but Neil Gaiman is a rapist by default.

An employee cannot freely nor retractably consent to their employer.

A young/new adult cannot freely consent to a middle aged man.

He has previously accepted these sex acts occurred.

So even if the young women "agreed" to have sex with him, he's a rapist. The allegation that they didn't agree at all isn't far-fetched.

[cruel-kaya]

Kab Tak ?

How long are we going to endure it ?

[waywardpandagalaxy]

Homophobia was born out of patriarchy. I said what I said.

[moonbean117]

[uhhh-i-couldnt-possibly]

I don't know if this is a super obvious realisation but anyway here goes

Basically why I think these characters are so relatable is because they constantly struggle with their self-worth which is really quite hard NOT to in today's times, especially for queer, neurodivergent, disabled folks. And to see these eternal, literally magical and powerful beings exist and struggle with their existence is just reassuring because if they find their way out of these struggles - well, then we can too.

And it's really very beautiful because it's so delicately done, with Crowley and Aziraphale respectively. Crowley is not necessarily struggling with their appearance, behaviour or attitude - that they are actually pretty confident about. It's more about the inner conflict that's being caused by being LIKED and appreciated by Hell. Because if hell approves of you - what kind of person are you? And even though Crowley obviously couldn't care less about what Hell thinks, they still feel they can't align themselves with Satan's side - they rather choose their own side. On the one hand it's because Crowley has once disappointed Her and knows the feeling of not being good enough. So now they refuse to have someone have that kinda power over them again. And on the other hand it's because Crowley knows there's good inside him - and he likes that part of himself.

What he struggles with however is aligning what is right and good and what is deemed acceptable by Hell. It's a fine line she treads - she never ever wants to overstep because where would she belong then? Too evil for Heaven, too good for Hell? No, better pretend to walk the line. And that vulnerability is very hard to admit for Crowley, she only ever comes to terms with it when she's afraid to lose Aziraphale - so she speaks up about what she truly wants.

For Aziraphale, it's obviously different. He hasn't fallen from Her grace, he is safe in knowing that he is "good". But he struggles to live up to Heaven's expectations of him. He only ever sees Heaven as the only true Good and is insecure about his own place in the puzzle. He doesn't fit, because he too questions like Crowley but also because he never wants Heaven to disapprove of him while simultanously constantly disapproving of Heaven (secretly). His self-worth struggles are more obvious in a way because Heaven is constantly reminding him. And obviously his love for Crowley overcomplicates things because of the rules he has set out for himself - a truly good being could never love a demon. Even though he knows that Crowley is every bit as good as he is - not all good. Never all good (just like a human being).

I just think this is very relatable for people not fitting in patriarchal, ableist, neurotypical norms that we were never meant to fit in. Putting Heaven and Hell on a pedestral of purely Good or entirely Evil is what leads to their struggles - if Heaven disapproves of you, how good can you be? If Hell approves of you, how good are you?

If you need help, how helpless are you? If you struggle, how insecure are you?

The point is, they can escape their insecurities by acknowledging their own side. And that they were never meant to fit anywhere but their own side. And that's what we could really learn from these characters 🤍

Take up space and demand your self-worth to be acknowledged and celebrated 💫

[walkawayinsin]

I'm neither Team Green nor Black

I am Team "Otto and Larys are the worst two-faced d*ckheads and the reason behind everything bad and everytime they suffer I enjoy it"

[ziggy-solarecreator]

[xxruletheworld]

OMG it angers me how feminsim is such a not talked topic irl, n if u actually get ppl to talk abt it, when they r feminist or support it, they r always LIBERALS and will behead u js for wanting to destroy patriarchy from the roots n for not just saying “its their choice!!!! its empowering!!!! ur a bigot!!!! let people live!!! etc 🤗” No its not, their “CHOICE” was bc of the patriarchy, but yall js want to embrace it n add glitter to it n then when real feminists point it out yall get mad.

[lost-my-sanity1]

i don't know if some (i mean most) women will ever realise how misogynistic and patriarchal they are. and it really pains me to see my friends, family members, neighbours defend men like their life depends on it.

[aux-squiggle]

Understand that men and women are fundamentally the same. They were treated as such in our pre-civilization hunter-gatherer societies. The issue rests in the rise of imperialism, around 12,000 years ago or earlier. As many civilizations have pillaged and colonized other tribes seeking to hold ownership over them and have executive control, men seek to have executive control over the resource women possess.

As a class, we (women) generally have the ability to give birth, and can be widely expected to have this ability at some point in our lives. Childbirth is a fundamental resource, necessary for the multigenerational survival of a group. Like imperialists, men imperialize upon women, the owners of the childbirth resource, in order to control it.

In fact, for an imperial force to go out and oppress other tribes and societies, they must imperialize themselves, wherein the men imperialize upon women. They must wake up and go to sleep in imperialism. They must etch it into the folds of their brains, and convince themselves this is the natural order of humanity.

This imperialism is a patriarchy. Where women are subdued and silenced in totality, their names barely kept in the records, all treated like a resource. To further the subjugation and harden the chains, they use rape, beating, economic exclusion, verbal violence, and many other forms to keep women below them.

As such, for the past 12,000 years, men's very identities have moulded themselves around the oppression of women. Men implicitly and explicitly know they do not have the childbearing, baby-feeding, resource; they can only activate the former. This creates an envy.

Though men would seldom like to be impregnated and carry a child for themselves, the fact that the childbearing resource is in the body of an animate human, a woman, rather than belonging to men, or available in an inanimate harvest, is where the envy lies. The day when a man felt he wished for birth to be harvestable, rather than blessed upon him (likely the day he wished for food to be harvestable, rather than for nature to bless it upon him), is the day the envy became (perceivedly) insurmountable.

Envy causes insecurity, and insecurity causes vapidity. Vapidity harms the ego, ego of which instilled into us long ago as single-celled organisms, as ego is hand-in-hand with self preservation. The ego is the end result of the identity, and a harmed ego is a harmed identity.

Instead of to backtrack along the source of this harm, the men chose to overcompensate for their harmed identity. Instead of exist with a piece missing, and to realize the root of their bruised ego is the viewing of birth as a commodity to be harvested, they solidified birth's commodity status by lording themselves over women.

Men live in a fake identity. Their concept of self is centered around women, however instead of looking up to women, they look down upon us. They look upon women with disdain, apply pain, suffering, and create religions saying the creator of the universe intended this suffering to be so.

They created a code of conduct for themselves; masculinity, to compensate for lack of identity, and created it to be in opposition to whatever woman was. They created a code of conduct for women; femininity, and created it to embody subjugation and enslavement. They brainwashed us and themselves to believe femininity is inherent to womanhood, and to believe masculinity is inherent to manhood.

Open your eyes to the men who cry "misandry," as you will see what they consider misandry is an attack on their identity, and their identity is misogyny. As such, it can only be reasonable to be misandristic, insofar as one's misandry is an attack on misogyny, and every branch of same.

[twoyara]

Women be going on podcasts saying that feminism is the cause of destruction of society and that women are biOLogIcaLly wired to be nurturers. Like babe, isn’t feminism the reason why you weren’t married off to a 60 year old man when you were a child? Isn’t feminism the reason why you can be on a podcast in the first place?

Female misogyny is the hardest and saddest part of feminism.

I don't give a shit about males, the world doesn't revolve around those useless creatures. I don't give a shit about troons, they don't have long to live anyway. But it's just hard for me to listen to what brainwashed women say.

Like we should be sisters, standing up for our rights and lives, but it turns out that we fight with each other, not for each other.

Patriarchy has done a very good job of raising women to hate themselves and everything feminine from birth. And this internal misogyny is so strong that almost every woman has had a period in her life of "I'm not like other girls. I'm better." Whereas men NEVER have that kind of fucked up shit. They always stand up for each other, to the point of defending rapists and pedophiles.

If you want to defeat someone, leave them without allies and support. A divided enemy, is not a strong enemy.

[daughter-of-lethe]

Aesthetic: Emerie of Illyria

[waywardpandagalaxy]

Sex as empowerment? Not fucking surprised because how is sex equivalent to empowering? Unless you want the male gaze. 🤨

I find relationships quite boring nowadays because it's all love-and-sex-until-they-breakup. That one pick me is in a relationship and seeing them flirt together makes me feel like I wanna throw her boyfriend to the cliff.

Not only that, I met two pick-me's and they're the worst.

Another pick-me on discord says that I don't deserve to be in a relationship after I said that relationships are exhausting. Yeah, I don't because I'm not a dick sucker like you.

Relationships are nothing but patriarchal at the end.

[haley-harrison]

just had a cishet white dude complain to me that the business world doesn't take him as seriously if he doesn't grow a beard.

mf, image being a woman in this patriarchal society. no beard cheat-code. you just gotta deal with it and let your work speak for itself. 🙃