#sorry to add my little grievance about people being maliciously ignorant about feminism right after your lovely addition of bellhooks

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as someone who has been shouting about feminism since middle school, it is absolutely perplexing why people want to separate the people who are standing for a cause and the people with the power for change. like; it doesnt make sense to tell people men arent needed in feminism because feminism is for womens rights- but WHO has the power? certainly not the women who are mistreated and ignored and degraded as being lesser.

if you separate the oppressed from people who have power to influence and support them: you are doing harm by making it easier to disregard them. the cishet men who disregard womens voices need other cishet men to tell them what they are doing is wrong and how to change that. feminism is for the EQUALITY OF THE SEXES it is not for the separation and annexation of the sexes.

i am a disabled queer who gets things done in my workplace and community and has changes arranged by knowing just whos ear to bend about just what- and often times i know what situation can be changed by reaching out to women, or if i need to ask a man who to speak on my behalf because the person above me has a person above them who could either disregard the request as a “useless womens thing as comparable to them complaining the ac is turned on too high” or as a “this is a change that would benefit everyone in this department, as told by someone not as flaky” if feminism was seen as a neutral human right rather than a divided “club” there would be more people with the power to change things on our side who would be willing to listen to all our voices and really make a marked change in the world as we know it

You don’t belong in feminist spaces because you’re a man I hope this helps <3

this might blow ur mind but i think even cishet men belong in feminist spaces bc they’re the target audience.