When I lived in Paris I dated a man who was scrawny, ugly, shorter than me, broke, an alcoholic, lived in a shitty apartment, etc etc. Why did I do this? Because he was good at arguing
Do these people think the patriarchy is like an evil ghost that is possessing society and that we need to exorcise by being nice to men? What's with this complete inability to understand the oppression of women as a relation of power
It's so cool how leftists absorbed the idea the Patriarchy Is A Bad Thing but didn't quite absorb the idea women are people, so they start to explicitly deny the Patriarchy has anything to do with the exploitation of women, actually, and use it as just a term for class society
I had a friend who was so angry that whenever she told her boyfriend a problem, he tried to fix it. She thought “society” forced him to be that way.
I had to tell her, you either tell a man upfront that you simply want to vent or you vent to your girlfriends. Men are wired to
I feel like "being kicked out of home by your homophobic family" and "leaving a shared apartment by your own volition because your roommate doesn't care very deeply about your non-binary identity " are remarkably different experiences
Very good demonstration of how "dressing like a man" is wearing no makeup and plain comfortable clothing, and "dressing like a woman" is putting on a full face of makeup and wearing impractical tighter and skimpier clothes 👍
A female population needing to sexually subject itself to a male population in order to get resources indispensable for their survival is seen as atrocious if the victims are female penguins, but normal and just another job if the victims are female women
A lot of queer people on this platform act like liking men is the worst thing ever (after being a man of course). If a queer person celebrates being a man and/or liking men to any degree it's seen as regressive. Being a woman and/or liking women is seen as progressive.
If you said "it's okay to be white", "young white people are tired of being called privileged or racist", everyone would recognise you as a Nazi. But if you say the same things for men, then you are just a Leftist
Sex trade expansionist industry propagandist who writes for The Independent and OpenDemocracy wants to tell you ending the sex industry is impossible and you should stop trying
A message to young, radical feminists who have some strong negative feelings on prostitution: my name is Lydia. I’m a hooker in a brothel in the UK. I want my work to be decriminalised, and I think we agree on a lot more than you would think.
According to her bio, she's top .01% of OF that's thousands of dollars per month, beyond what the vast majority of prostitues will ever see in their lifetimes
i always wonder how these puritan feminists that want to control what people negotiate and consensually do in their own bedrooms would respond to gay or non-binary people who also have these sorts of kinks
It's so cool how people who take the term non-binary seriously want us to believe "A Guy With a Beard Who Wears Eyeliner Sometimes" and "Person Who Could Be Denied an Abortion" have comparable gendered experiences
Trans person: I'm trans
Society: ok
Celia the Period Blood Bathroom Lady: blood is a biohazard don’t wash your period underwear in the sink of a public restroom, it's unsanitary and shameful it exposes people to your biohazards against the consent also I love the taste of pe
No other demographic hates and fears their own natural anatomical traits so deeply as women do.
Your uterus (natural organ women have) can't ruin your life, it is men can, will, and do ruin your life because you have a uterus.
I hate the libfem rhetorical cope of "rape isn't sex", that's the emptiest platitude imaginable. Men not only rape for their sexual satisfaction, they often explicitly prefer it over consensual sex.
Not only is rape sex, it is most of heterosexual sex
Gee I wonder if the reason why having a bodily function that is (for probably no reason at all) associated with women decreases your quality of life is because of how much male-dominated society is deliberately unequipped to deal with it
Studies show that people have better quality of life when they don’t have periods. This is well-established and just because a bunch of transphobes have decided periods are the holy grail of womanhood, it does not change the fact that people are generally happier without them 🧵
Like seriously y’all can just fucking MUTE or block me, you get that, right? I also know context is really hard for y’all but maybe perhaps *i’m* not the one bringing this shit up repeatedly?
Like y’all are very obsessed with me…saying sometimes I give my husband a blow job?
@TheepicFrancis
Go tell millions of women and girls who get sick and die because of period poverty and lack of access to abortion, who were refused education as children and teens because of their birth sex, forced into domestic servitude, that the atrocities against them are niche and specific
It's very myopic and ironically anti-intersectional to try to argue the subjugation of men of colour as gendered oppression. They're the losing side of an inter-patriarchal conflict, hegemonic patriarchy feels threatened by other men, not by the women it sees as just property
Getting into discussions of when patriarchy started and being reminded of how funny (bad) it is to read anthropologists talk about how a hunter-gatherer culture has gender equality and then proceed to describe the most aggressively misogynistic rituals known to man
Yeah, it's completely redundant, it's not like being born female puts us under any specific form of social disadvantage and exploitation, it'd be fucked up if it did
Saying "we experienced the same amount of youth gendered violence" is the greatest confirmation that (1) we did not; and (2) you're completely detached from what a girl's upbringing is like, it couldn't be further from your reality
fraud? get over it
assault? get over it
non-serial rape? get over it
non-serial murder? get over it
vandalism? get over it
read the 2nd essay of the Genealogy and stop being a neurotic bitch.
This is the most melodramatic piece of art I’ve ever seen of my fucking god
This is about her male friend making a sexist remark
Not raping someone, not sexually assaulting her
A sexist remark, the thing literally everyone has made at some point
@DrWallkick
@glitteryfem
Aren't you a literal rape fetishist who writes rape fetish erotica to externalise your desire to "punish" women in a "healthy" way? It isn't going very well is it?
@LBlairMatt1
Definitely, but also she's a huge outlier and makes an obscene amount of money off peddling sex trade expansionism, that affects class allegiance
One of the most interesting phenomenons of liberal sex-trade expansionism is people who can't handle their manager being mean talking about prostitution as if it were a comparatively easier job
@eirianqueer
For example, white women can leverage patriarchy to exert power over Black men. This was famously done to Emmet Till, and is still a common phenomenon. Yes, race is obviously involved, but the women in these cases are still reifying patriarchal constructs to their own ends.
Gender Criticals love to go on Twitter and post things like "I'd lose access to abortion AGAIN if it meant my feminist ally husband never had to see Dylan Mulvaney in the Budweiser commercials again 💜🤍💚"
Big problem with that sort of thing is that it doesn't recognise femininity as a violent system forced on and unnatural to ALL women.
It's individualistic, about how Billie Eilish personally doesn't like being objectified, unlike all other women who "naturally do"
Billie Eilish on not caring about being sexualized:
“I’ve never felt like a woman, to be honest with you. I’ve never felt desirable. I’ve never felt feminine. I have to convince myself that I’m, like, a pretty girl. I identify as ‘she/her’ and things like that, but I’ve never
@TheepicFrancis
Boys aren't denied education by their families for being boys, they don't need menstrual products or abortion, they aren't expected to serve their male family members or to get pregnant.
If you want to be a Leftist today you gotta say you're anti-Patriarchy, but since they don't think the exploitation of women is real and/or a bad thing, they innovated in ways to posture anti-Patriarchy while not giving a shit about women
I mean it would be weird if we considered them neutral observers and not supremacists who see their tyranny as normal, natural and warranted and any suggestion of retribution as an unthinkable atrocity
It takes a fundamentally rotten mind to argue women should be concerned with men's sexual "needs" in a world of rape, marital rape, prostitution and pornography
It's actually incredible how men will come online here, call themselves Marxists, blurt out the "infantilization" liberal buzzword and then invoke imaginary "3rd world sex workers" that would agree with them, that's the full soup of liberalism
@lea_labryssal
i dont think the sex trade should exist actually, im a marxist. but i also dont flap my gums and infantilize sex workers online. if 3rd world sex workers were here to speak (which conveniently they are not) they would prob tell you you are privileged and you should shut up
In a discussion on prison abolition, of which I am advocate of, I was asked what people should *do* about rape. I answered that I trust people to be able to resolve interpersonal violence among themselves and their communities without weaponizing carceral rape
happy lesbian visibility week! if anyone wants to lend me hand as the person who designed the lesbian pride flag, i am broke, unemployed, mentally ill, and could really use a hand paying my bills!
That's of course on top of the malicious intent of fully erasing the women's struggle, which is the real driving force behind those guys who claim Patriarchy is actually just capitalism and made to oppress working men, or just white supremacy and made to oppress men of color
The discourse about this topic is so incredibly shallow. Sexual assault in public transport is a massive problem, but no, “women only” trains are not the solution, specially when by necessity they require policing gender and will exclude many trans ppl
Instead focus on
@TheepicFrancis
Don't be ridiculous, there are distinct "AFAB-specific misogyny" transwomen by definition don't face, notably menstrual health and access to abortion. If we're in the same box I'm gonna need you to stop whining at every mention of birth sex as a part of our social experiences
@TheepicFrancis
"Denied education", bullshit, you have no idea what you're talking about, there's a reason 2/3 of illiterate people on Earth are "AFAB". Same complete ignorance of domestic servitude. Fucking otakus get bullied in school, that's not comparable to be denied education
@lea_labryssal
Are there some areas of misogyny unique to AFAB bodies? Yeah. But it's so niche and specific that trying to claim you face more misogyny than us is stupid.
If nothing else, attempting to respond to "what about the rapists" with a condescending thread with zero answers and a Teen Vogue article and then having to lock the comments when someone pointed out you cited book written by a pedophile-rapist rights activist is Pretty Funny
all the abolitionists i know are rape victims so i don't believe this.
anyway, there's decades of feminist media dedicated to this. It's not hard to find.
We have to come to terms with the fact there is no LGBT Community, the entire concept is Patriarchal reformism.
You can't conflate female-centered women, lesbian and bisexual, most vilified by patriarchy, and people who are still invested in male power
When does this end? Like when is enough enough. When will women’s safety be prioritized over the feelings of men. Straight men don’t need to be in queer spaces idc idc idc
@StarMoonBoi
I had a huge shift in my community when I came out as a man. I would even say it’s a typical and expected part of the ftm experience, and a huge contributing factor to why we are smaller in number and/or invisible.
Again the terfian homophobia on full display, hears of a trans woman in a nice loving relationship, and thinks of two gay men who are somehow into heterosexual porn.
@GASLIGHTER_
It's not really about who can use the term misogyny and more about recognising misogyny as an oppression historically rooted in reproductive exploitation and that is violently enforced since birth on people born female