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“If you are interested in the liberation of women, you’ll find that the biggest barrier to this is men: men as a class. I used to think, “I don’t hate all men.” I had therapy and everything. Now, I think that any intelligent woman hates men. There are very few problems in the world that don’t have, at the root of them, male violence and woman-hating.”
— Suzanne Moore (via rad-femmes)
There is never any excuse for rape. NEVER.
something that really stuck with me was when i read a post some made years ago that went like “rape is the only crime that never has any justification, no exceptions. people murder in self defense, people steal to support their families, people drive drunk in medical emergencies when no one else is around to drive—but rape is 100% selfish and 100% antagonistic 100% of the time.”
HOW COME ONLY THE UNBORN HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIFE? Barbara Kruger 1992
The entirety of the case rests on twelve words.
Exhibit 916
“In certain young people today…I notice what I find increasingly troubling: a cold-blooded grasping, a hunger to take and take and take, but never give; a massive sense of entitlement; an inability to show gratitude; an ease with dishonesty and pretension and selfishness that is couched in the language of self-care; an expectation always to be helped and rewarded no matter whether deserving or not; language that is slick and sleek but with little emotional intelligence; an astonishing level of self-absorption; an unrealistic expectation of puritanism from others; an over-inflated sense of ability, or of talent where there is any at all; an inability to apologize, truly and fully, without justifications; a passionate performance of virtue that is well mexecuted in the public space of Twitter but not in the intimate space of friendship. I find it obscene.
People who ask you to ‘educate’ yourself while not having actually read any books themselves, while not being able to intelligently defend their own ideological positions, because by ‘educate,’ they actually mean ‘parrot what I say, flatten all nuance, wish away complexity.’
People who wield the words ‘violence’ and ‘weaponize’ like tarnished pitchforks. People who depend on obfuscation, who have no compassion for anybody genuinely curious or confused. Ask them a question and you are told that the answer is to repeat a mantra. Ask again for clarity and be accused of violence.
And so we have a generation of young people on social media so terrified of having the wrong opinions that they have robbed themselves of the opportunity to think and to learn and to grow.”
-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The United States of America is such a wicked and evil country. May the downfall of that empire come soon.
Watching one of your own get humiliated, tortured, objectified and dehumanized is abuse and a threat. Every woman who’s been exposed to depictions of women being used, brutalized, raped and objectified has felt it on her skin, it was abuse to her, threat to her entire kind, and to her personally. She was being told, in that moment, what the world does to women, what it would do to her. The rest of her life is then just waiting for her to be forced into it, or doing it willingly in hope it wont be so brutal. This is what living on earth is for women. Watching our own being tortured and waiting for our turn.
This is what pornography is doing to us. It’s what media is doing to us. It’s what photoshopped, unnatural and objectified depictions of women are doing to us. It’s what objectifying via makeup is doing to us. Every image and video of women who are presented as something to be used and consumed, is abuse to womankind.
bringing this back for the amber heard trial
If I was a billionaire I wouldn’t buy strippers or hookers. I’d pay normal girls to become strippers and hookers for the night.
Reminder that men understand that money is coercive and will get people to do things they do not want to do.
Reminder that men like making women do things we don’t enjoy.
Reminder that men think women are objects to sample and buy and consume.
“Normal girls”
Everyone in the notes is getting all offended as if they wouldn’t be cheering this on if the dude wanted to hire “real” exploited women sex workers
In these men’s minds, when one woman is available for purchase, we all are. The point is the power over women, not the sexual appeal.
The “strippers and hookers” he wouldn’t “buy” are degraded as less than people (“abnormal”), and the women he sees as potential objects to purchase are degraded as purchasable for the right price (with enough money I can make them less than people, make them abnormal).
This is how the sex industry degrades all women and makes us all subject to the same dehumanization that women involved in the sex industry (by choice or force) are already subject to. When one woman is not free, then none of us are free.
Also note that men fetishize the idea of taking away woman’s “modesty” and “innocence”. Degrading a woman they already see as a worthless object isn’t enough, they want to dehumanize and degrade woman who “haven’t learned their place yet”. That’s why virginity is this important in many cultures- they see it as a trophy, a challenge, something to be taken away from us rather than a social construct that exists to oppress us.
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I’m reading a book about midwifery in New England in the eighteenth century and I’m struck by how pro-woman their treatment of birth was compared to how it’s done today.
Like, it was the norm for labouring women to be surrounded by a midwife and several female friends who all performed some kind of function to aid the woman in delivering her baby safely. Male physicians hated the social tradition and dismissed the gathering of women as facilitating “gossip” and as a hindrance on the rare occasion they attended a birth.
The work of midwives was so valorised that many town maps from this period clearly identify where every midwife was located, and paying the midwife was one of the biggest household expenses alongside taxes.
Midwives developed their own manuscripts full of medicinal remedies for all aspects of reproduction. Birth was managed by women themselves – it was a collective female ritual.
Male obstetricians, motivated in my opinion by a deep-seated envy of women’s reproductive power, began to steal and suppress women’s wisdom around childbirth in the nineteenth century, and by the twentieth century unnecessary medical intervention in childbirth had exploded.
We need to make childbirth woman-centred again.
Hard truth men but since men have nothing but DNA to contribute to our species maybe it's only natural they be the ones held to any kind of beauty standard. Like birds.
not just birds....pretty much all of kingdom animalia. insects gotta release the sexiest pheromones and do dances and shit to impress the females and not get eaten or killed by them instead. male mammals fight each other and the female chooses the strongest. many have features that are considered attractive; antlers, manes, tusks, fur colours and patterns. for fish, males do all sorts of behaviours ranging from swimming dances to flashing colourful fins, to being the biggest, to organising rocks.
humans are basically they only species where FEMALES are expected to preen and present for the males. and it makes zero sense because females are the ones who take all the burden related to pregnancy and birth, that’s why it’s so important to select a mate carefully to get the best genes. i am against the appeal to nature fallacy, but when talk about how “it’s natural to like women looking like ____”, “men are naturally visual”, “women naturally want to look pretty for men” nah bro, nature is the exact opposite. the females are dull and completely plain, zero focus on the looks, and it doesn’t matter, no males care because only a small percentage of them actually get to mate, and so they perform/display desperately to take whatever they can get. females do nothing about their own looks, they just exist, pick the most attractive males around them, and try not to get raped by the worthless and violent ones. huh, maybe these men do have something in common with other male animals, but it’s not what they think.
^^^ in addition, the reason many female animals are comparatively dull is because of camouflage adaptations. This doesn't really apply to humans today, but a major reason for that "dullness" is to hide from predators. The males are not afforded that by natural selection, it is more important that they successfully attract a mate than they live a long life. The lives of females are prioritized in many sexually dimorphic evolutionary adaptations.
That said... unaltered male and female humans are sexually dimorphic but much less so than other species. We really are very similar. Imagine a man and a woman with the same haircut and clothes, no makeup or body paint, posed in the same way with the same expression, afforded the same diet and exercise routine. They look much more similar than, say, peacocks and peahens or lions and lionnesses. Our marking of females with bright colors and preening is entirely cultural. It has no basis in our reproductive biology.
In some species, males aren’t needed at all! Some organisms reproduce through parthenogenesis. Essentially, they can create clones of themselves so mothers and daughters are genetically identical. This results in populations (if not an entire species) that are all female. The lack of genetic variation can come with some fitness disadvantages, but some lizard/salamander species have found a way around these too. Instead of mating with males, they can actually steal segments of DNA from other species and recombine it with their own to create daughters that are genetically different from them but have no father
“power corrupts” does NOT mean “oppression purifies”
they didnt give a fuck when men raped and murdered prostitutes but the moment that very same group of men started to get murdered by a prostitute they executed her and branded her as one of the most evil and deranged killers in american history.. i see. very interesting.
The top two US serial killers, Samuel Little (93 victims) and Gary Ridgeway (90+ victims), exclusively murdered prostituted women.
Aileen killed just 7 men.
"Dead men don't rape."
- Aileen Wuornos
i wish all affluent people who are in college and make nonstop jokes about being poor a very understand that poverty is not a temporary condition
if you are poor for four years and know the exact date at which it will end, you have not experienced poverty.
this is the same reason that "politicians should have to live a month on minimum wage to see what it's like" doesn't work. poverty is a lack of resources beyond monetary ones. it's not having family members you can borrow money from. it's not having a place to stay if you were outdoors for a bit. it's not having the nice kitchen equipement with which you could make food more cheaply. it's having to buy cheaper things which will break sooner because you can't afford the better ones.
the bit about knowing the end date is not a semantic point to make me feel better. if you know you'll be out of this soon, it enables you to make choices you otherwise couldn't. you can splurge on pizza delivery or spend half your paycheck on good shoes because it isn't real. if a crisis comes, the irreality of this situation allows you to deal with it. you can ask your parents for money, you can stay with someone for a while. impoverished people can't.
i think a lot of times otherwise progressive people come out of college more classist because they think they know what it's like to be poor now, and they made the right choices, so why doesn't everyone else? you weren't, and you didn't. poverty is more than that.
College poor itself is super middle class. Because I was college poor, aaaaand it felt amazing. Dead broke $7 in my bank account wasn't even that stressful.
Also, I noticed some poor kids get really classist in college. I watched it happen. It's like an ego thing.
Not to be anti- personal choice or anything but whenever i see a 19 something girl get engaged or married instead of focusing on her education and future it really doesn't sit right with me. And usually the guy is atleast 3-4 years older too.
Men can get married young but will never have to care about independence in a marriage. The worst scenario for woman is to be financially dependent on her husband.
Like really please force to yourself to study even if you don't like it and try to get settled in a good job before even thinking about marriage. Cuz men get a different kind of kick when they know you're completely dependent on them and can't go anywhere.
If it's true love it can wait a few years.
A lot of abuse starts when women become pregnant. Remember that.
And it's not 'scaremongering' to think about what would happen if your spouse turns abusive, becomes incapacitated or dies, it's logical.
Should anything happen, what is your plan? Bearing in my mind you may also have children in this scenario. And they are expensive as fuck.
People always talk about physical or emotional abuse, but financial abuse enables both because it's so much harder to escape when you lack it.
Everything is easier with money. It's not shallow, it's a fact.
Evaluation of death certificates from national database paints grim picture for pregnant women.
The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)
I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help
It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.
The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.
This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.
Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.
This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.
In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.
Then in 2020:
Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the ‘good in all of the bad that is going on’
gen z is the most anti-feminist generation alive today. they talk soooo much shit about older women when we wouldn’t even be able to open a bank account or get a divorce if it wasn’t for the activism of gen x and baby boomer women. and most of gen z is whining about gender feels and calling themselves bimbos on tiktok instead of doing anything tangible or meaningful. they consider themselves to be woke when the only “activism” they perform is dogpiling women they deem privileged.
There's a consistent pattern; after every era of increased women's rights, we see a period of anti-feminist backlash - which we're in the midst of.
Now that women are highly educated, a college education is no longer the guarantee of financial stability that it once was. When women enter lucrative/prestigious fields in large numbers, pay drops and the work is belittled.
They want us to convince us that relying on men financially is empowering (sugaring, prostitution, only fans, marry rich, etc.). They want us to believe that being hyperfeminine and sexually available to men is empowering.
They're rolling back the victories of 2nd wave feminists. For decades, the Right has chipped away at abortion rights across the country (Roe v. Wade is set to be overturned completely - and they've already begun talking about making various forms of birth control illegal). The Left has made it illegal to keep males out of women's shelters, bathrooms, prisons, sports, etc., which feminists had to fight tooth and nail to establish/improve. Now women have no guarantee that they won't be forced to share vulnerable spaces with men. The left has made it taboo to talk about women's rights at all without making a thousand genuflections and concessions. Women have lost friends, family, and careers for talking frankly about feminism.
Gen Z and younger millennials have grown up entrenched in all of this, in internet porn and social media culture, where our entire selves are condensed into consumable snippets. They've grown up in a post Kardashian world where plastic surgery and pornography are hyper normalized - where the most visible, financially successful women in American culture are the ones who have had numerous procedures and put their naked or nearly naked bodies out there on the regular.
The misogyny of gen Z is not accidental.
isn't it extremely unsettling to live in a world where men claim to love women and be their protectors, yet one of the leading causes of death (the top according to some studies) for pregnant women is homicide? men are a leading cause of death for women (and get to have it described as a "crime of passion"), but that's "love."
