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bigothteddies · 2 months

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oh my god re: your recent post... the 'girl dinner' shit. omfg. idc if it's 'not that deep' you're still reinforcing terrible shit!!! and also the like 'boys when they see a stick/cool rock' and 'girls when they time travel vs boys when they time travel' wojaks. the gender-fication of barbie vs. oppenheimer. why the fuck is the recent internet zeitgeist hyper stereotypical cisnormativity. like. i thought we had collectively outgrown this.

exactly. And that’s all just some parts of it too. People pretend they’re so on top of things but it’s just because they don’t want to seem out of touch and offensive. It’s wild watching people barf out gender binaries with new terms and new ways to categorize trans people as not their gender and new ways to reinforce the same gender roles on ourselves but in “good” ways now. It’s just….really frustrating and pretty terrifying at the same time

#asked and answered #anon #I don’t know bad example but like.#feminism when I was growing up was gender equality #getting rid of gender roles and stopping gender based discrimination #and it feels like at some point we lost that track #and went straight from that to Girls Rule Boys Drool arguments wrapped in new language and memes #like. when i was a kid #i remember people saying shit about how its okay if a woman asks for a date first or if a woman proposes instead of a man #and yes those arent the most progressive things in the world and those actions are not the most important thing women need to be allowed to #do. but…thats kind of my point. those arent groundbreaking actions.#and if you tried to spoonfeed a BASIC idea about destroying gender roles like that to the online community today #youd get slammed with people saying no woman should ever stoop to beg a man #or that a guy should always propose because dating a woman is a privilege so men should earn it #or how ‘maybe its just me personally but i could never propose to a man like ew thats cringe my man better have enough balls to do it!’#or ‘me personally i could never let my girl propose id feel like i failed her as a man if she had to do that’#or just. on and on and on and on and on #like. we somehow circled all the way back to the ORIGINAL gender roles we were supposed to have broken by now #and its getting worse snd the social media companies are fueling it #have you SEEN instagram and tik tok comment sections lately???#people are just. insanely obsessed over gender and enforcing how they see each group and constantly posting about it online #go outside smell some fucking flowers and recognize your internal biases #like maybe breaking gender roles like thst iis uncomfortable not because you hate men #but because you have gender roles engrained in your BEING from the moment you could walk and you just wrapped them up with a new progressive #bow while not making any changes #anyways.#rant over

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