#not safe for smash

[theantichristpluviophile]

Growing up with a gender non conforming mother literally saved me. She never wore makeup, she rarely shaved, she had short hair, she always put comfort first when choosing clothes, she never cared for skincare or anti-aging products in fact she’s proud of her wrinkles, she was a ‘these are signs of a fulfilling life’ mother not a retinol at 15 mother, she was a ‘eat whatever you want’ mother not a ‘are you gonna eat all that?’ mother, she was openly against plastic surgery, she stood up for her beliefs, she never let men talk down to her or belittle her, she was always down for a debate etc.

It didn't dawn on me until I got older that this wasn't 'normal'. That not everyone’s mother was like that. I rarely felt pressure to conform to patriarchal gender stereotypes because I didn’t grow up with one as a role model. In fact the only times I started to feel as though I should conform to ‘femininity’ was when I started integrating more into wider society and less in the comfort of my home. (Social media, friendships etc)

When I was a kid, I took it for granted, but now I see how blessed I was to be raised by a mother like that, and I see how much my friends and women online are struggling to accept themselves in totality, in their natural and unapologetic form. Since I was born, I thought it was totally normal for women to be like that … because it should be.

[thefamiliarstrangers100]

When a man says he prefers a woman who is strongly opinionated and independent, don’t take his words literally. Because what he truly means by that is he is looking for a woman he can ‘tame’, someone he can bend to his needs because men are insecure and wanna prove their ‘manhood’ to themselves through ‘dominance’. He wishes to acquire a woman he’d otherwise not stand because it feeds his male ego. They view strong women as a conquest to be won, exotic birds they can collect, only to imprison them and dehumanize them, as it gives them a sense of ‘accomplishment.’ They perceive the challenge of ‘taming’ such women as a test of their own prowess. Men love to test their limits on women. He views naive women as boring because he sees no ‘thrill’ in pursuing them. Women have never been humans to men. Don’t take men’s words literally.

[hard--headed--woman]

I just had this conversation with my friend and I thought I'd share it here : believing that feminism has to educate men in order to destroy the patriarchy because we cannot do it without them (this is what she believes) is believing that men oppress us because they are ignorant. It is saying that they oppress us because they don't know what they're doing and don't realize they are doing something wrong, and that somehow this ignorance has been going on for centuries. It is being overly naive. Men aren't babies. Men aren't innocent little beings who would never hurt us if they knew their actions were hurtful. They have been oppressing us for thousands of years, we have been figthing against it for thousands of years ; how could it be possible for them not to understand what they do ? How could they possibly take away our rights without understanding what they do ? How could they hit us, rape us, traffick us without understanding what they do ? And it's not like feminism is new. We have been fighting for centuries and they have been fighting back for centuries to prevent us to free ourselves. They don't read feminist books, they don't take listen to our sperches, they ignore us when we talk about our rights, they mock us, they don't take us seriously. And listen to them speaking. Listen to them giving each other relationship advices, teaching each other to manipulate us. Listen to them talking about us. Read their comments on the internet. Read their damn books and essays about feminism and women's rights. They know what they're doing. They don't care about us. They hate us, they don't see us as humans.

[redditreceipts]

[bellasophies]

In patriarchy, wether you like it or not, when you are pregnant, you are giving a man a child. We are still using phrases like “She is pregnant with his baby” and so on. That’s because women are walking wombs, her DNA in the baby is irrelevant. His is all that matters.

Not to mention that in capitalism, women are just the birthing stock for the next generation of workers.

It is irrelevant if you as a woman WANT to have a baby or not. This is what it means in patriarchy. Having a baby is expected in patriarchy, while choosing not to have one is not, it’s disruptive to the system.

[baerryjj]

Romina saint of the bud and Malenia blade of Miquella would hate one another. One embraces the rot fully and flourishes in its embrace, and the other one despises it all and leaves it to stagnate and fester. And yet

could they come to learn from one another? I sure think so. Let them explore each others bodies and realize the rot just simply is

[conflictedbird]

on why FtM transitioning and being nonbinary are antithetical to feminist progress

****This was originally a quote repost (which is still on my blog a few scrolls down so you can see the OP that inspired me to write this), but i’ve decided to make it its own post too****

Recently I’ve been thinking about how gender roles are essentially a social hierarchy, with man/maleness at the top, and woman/femaleness at the bottom.

If you transition to pursue that maleness or start to identify as nonbinary, perhaps in order to escape the rampant sexualization of the body you was born with (which I understand can be suffocating), you have ultimately only helped yourself individually by attempting to ascend that social hierarchy.

You have done nothing feminist, despite the modern liberal view that “real feminism includes all gender identities” in the name of inclusivity and intersectionality. Nothing has been accomplished for the liberation of females as a class from the shackles of patriarchy, misogyny, and restrictive gender roles. At the end of the day your individual symptom has been addressed, but not the systemic cause. Sex-based oppression still stunts the progress of the rest of the female/woman population, and the original social ladder is still in place— you alone have simply climbed it. No rebellion has occurred— in fact, it is a surrender.

To be clear, this isn’t an attack on anybody— it is simply my analysis of the deeper consequences of what I can only think of as a current social contagion. I can certainly understand the drive behind transitioning, especially for young girls influenced by genderist internet culture. It will be alluring, after all, to want to identify as a man when society sees man as human, and woman as object.

But gender ideology is not the solution. Like I said, it only addresses the symptom, but the poisonous cause itself is still deeply rooted into the fabric of our society: the cause being the sex-based stereotypes that have been the social foundation upon which rests women’s discrimination, oppression, and limitation of freedom & expression. We must never stop the fight to uproot this poison.

The solution is not women transitioning into manhood or adopting some genderless nonbinary identity to be afforded respect and dignity and freedom and a non-objectified life. The solution is demanding that as a female, as a woman, you ALREADY deserve the respect, dignity, freedom, and non-objectified life that are all in fact your birthrights.

Because being female IS being fully human. It IS full, multifaceted, unique personhood. It IS the ability to wear anything, enjoy any hobby, embody any personality, pursue any field, accomplish any feat, and house brilliant intellect. Make them see it, no matter how long it takes. Because we deserve it, while still remaining in the body we have. Without changing.

TLDR;

don’t affirm the ladder’s existence by trying to climb it.

Destroy the ladder.

[narcpocalypse]

Being a Narcissist means you've most likely faced people assuming the worst of you 24/7. Unintentionally or intentionally. I have done fucked up shit and it's okay to wonder about me repeating past cycles bc I'm not excempt HOWEVER. It's like EVERYTHING I do makes people question my morality now. It's like I'm expected to fuck up eventually. It feels so suffocating and like a ticking time bomb. It genuinely makes me believe it to be true. Like my destiny is failure :(

[dekusleftsock]

I thought everyone was exaggerating when people kept bringing up the whole “bakugou says he’s Kacchan bc of kaminari” thing, but they actually believe that… what?

WHAT

Literally how do you guys function

AND THEY CALL ME DELULU???????

It’s such a stretch too. Like “oh yeah he said Kacchan no Bakugou in this movie” ITS NOT EVEN IN THE MANGA HELLO???

The whole reason Kaminari calls Katsuki Kacchan is because he’s making fun of him. It’s poking fun at the fact that Katsuki can’t say anything or get mad at Kaminari because then it would raise the question, “Well why can Midoriya say it?”

He literally side eyes him every time he does it but ultimately doesn’t react because he can’t. He can’t if he wants to keep up the act that he is uninterested in what Izuku represents, who he is.

SO WHY, IN THE EVER LOVING FUCK, WOULD IT BE KAMINARI?

WHO is present in this battle?

WHO is the person that made eye contact with him the second he woke up?

WHO is the one that grabbed his hand immediately upon Katsuki flinging himself towards them??

I don’t think THEY even believe it either, I think it’s just some way to cope and explain away the fact that this moment is inherently romantic.

Because I don’t think he’s making fun of the name Kacchan, I think he’s wearing it proudly. I don’t think it’s a joke at all. It’s a joke in the disbelieving way—the way you act when you’ve made an enormous accomplishment or won some prize, and you just can’t help but act absolutely insane at the fact. Because it’s funny that you’re here, in this situation. It’s hilarious in that disbelieving way.

Because he’s laughing at the truth, he’s been laughing at nothing this ENTIRE CHAPTER.

“Ouch! Haha! I’m so fast!”

“I can’t even stop! Ha! Ouch!”

Note: (I’m not using the official translations because for some reason they lack the maniacal crazed laughter and I’m confused as to why?? I even checked with pikahlua and they specified that there was laughing so…. I’m confused.)

What’s even weirder about this is the fact that afo also says (in pikahlua’s translations) “just who is this brat?!” Instead of “what is wrong with him” which implies less crazed bakugou ness imo. Confused as to why, again.

Because this can’t be happening.

Now, I know it could very well be him teasing afo and calling him dumb, saying basically “you’re too young/old to even know how to pronounce my name, use Kacchan instead like the child you are.” Especially since in the context of names like Katsuki’s, he has that tsu sound that can be hard for children to pronounce. (I’m not 100% on this but I’m pretty sure that the u sound is also meant to be silent since it’s a double consonant. So Katsuki’s name is technically pronounced “Ka-ts-ki”)

BUT IDK I THINK HES JUST FUCKED AND A LITTLE CRAZY RN!

That maniacal laughter at the fact that he’s in pain, the disbelief that he may even surpass Izuku, to me it’s holding a double meaning. The meaning that afo is dumb and needs to be treated like the child he is, and the meaning behind the fact that it’s a name Izuku owns for him. That’s his.

It can be both.

It’s not fucking Kaminari. It was never Kaminari. Even if you don’t read it as the second definition it’s still not about Kaminari.

But it’s also undeniable that it has to do with Izuku some way some how.

I also believe that the western side of the fandom is making an extra big deal out of this because, to us, we don’t really have a proper understanding of what a nickname like Kacchan means in its cultural context.

We can TRY to understand, comparing it to endings with ie or y given to children, and then sometimes going with that nickname into adulthood, but it still has its own distinct cultural context. Because a name like “Gracie” over “Grace” does to an extent sound childish, but I have a feeling that -chan has its own childish feeling. There’s a reason none of Katsuki’s other friends in middle school call him Kacchan, and there’s a reason Kaminari decides to make fun of him for the name in the first place.

I just think it’s important to use our thinking brains before we start yapping about things we don’t quite understand yet :)

Like it’s so unbelievably important to understand that horikoshi won’t tell you what’s happening in his story and why, he’ll show you instead BECAUSE HES A GOOD FUCKING WRITER

If it was about Kaminari, he would have specified, but he didn’t. He showed you that Kacchan is Izuku’s nickname for Katsuki, and he showed you that Katsuki cared more about Izuku than he let on for a long time. Just like he showed you that Izuku pushes down his emotions, showed you that Izuku struggles with projection and anger, showed you that Ochako was the one with this crush and not Izuku, and showed you that the feelings he had about Katsuki were deeper than anyone had realized.

He showed you parallels, he specified the important parallels that you absolutely had to see as a viewer (ex toga and ochako), just as he showed you the ones that were more subtle but still there (ex toga and deku). He showed you the pieces, and that doesn’t make his character’s underdeveloped or unspecified, that’s just how writing fucking works. “Good writing” DOESNT MEAN that you have to be pulled along through your baby steps with your hand held, the fact that you don’t get it is on you. Reading comprehension is a learned skill that has to be practiced over and over again, and that is not the writers job. The writer is only supposed to deliver you their story, and however you decide to misconstrue that story is, and hear me out friends, on you.

So I’m sorry if I’m tired of hearing arguments like “toga is a predator and Horikoshi wrote her to be horny”… she’s supposed to represent love. I’m sorry if the representation he made of love was uncomfortable for you, but maybe that’s the point? Because she’s an outcast? Because she’s supposed to be hard to empathize with, but that we have to empathize in the first place?

Arguments like “Katsuki was referencing a joke about Kaminari bc Kaminari said this in this movie” is just about the largest fucking reach I’ve ever seen. And I know, I know that when bkdk eventually get their implied or canonical ending that people are going to be mad. They’ll blame shippers for pressuring him, or they’ll say he’s a bad writer, or they’ll send him homophobic slurs because “how dare the character I see myself in be gay”. And I’m done with the stupidity and lack of common god damn sense.

So if you are going to be upset by the fact that you’re going to be proven wrong, then I again say, it’s on you.

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

TF One D-16

[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.

[trolltitan]

If you’re fighting the patriarchy but live in a country with free speech, property rights, and zero forced marriages… congrats, you’re not oppressed, you’re bored.

[festering-bacteria]

SOME STUFF IVE DRAWN :))))

guys hear me out on the Confucius Harriet Jfk polycule they drive me so insane

[shitty-proendo-blackout-posts]

honestly i find it helpful when people say shit like "endogenic systems and their supporters dont reblog from me" because like yeah i wont lmao and im gonna block you

hit like and sub

[lorynna]

Just wanted to share these chats. Liberal, marxist and radical feminism was just a few examples to see if he had something to say about one of it and yeah fuck "eliminating the patriarchy is good for women AND IT ALSO BENEFITS MEN" no, thanks!

[buntress]

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