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Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood (1976)

#radfem safe #radfem #andrea dworkin #epistemology #objectivity #*#‘it is not true there are two sexes’ is not about gender ideology bs #please read the full sentence or better yet the whole book

Do any of these boys in this article study? Read? Do things to advance themselves intellectually as people or develop skills?

If this is what they do to their peers who are other boys, imagine what they do to girls.

These boys are on the path to becoming or already are manosphere, rightist, violent men.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/magazine/bullying-teenagers-gilbert-goons-gang.html

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/opinion/trump-boat-strikes.html

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/opinion/children-health-defense-kennedy.html

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When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

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z0ruas

It can be fun to feel exceptional—to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man. But if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven’t made any progress.

Ariel Levy, "Female Chauvinist Pigs"

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Andrea Dworkin, Right Wing Women

haggishlyhagging

Nearly every terrible thing about our sexual politics comes down to the fact that, in patriarchy, patriarchs understand themselves to be inessential. Conservatives defend “family” and fatherhood as if they're under violent attack. That's because, as long as women are self-determined and possessed of options, they are. The twenty-first-century war to maintain patriarchy includes not just legislative attacks on the right to abortion, but on birth control, and sex education, which allows people to successfully avoid pregnancy in the first place. The fear here, despite generations of rhetoric to the contrary, is not about “killing babies”; men have always reserved the right to kill or at least abandon babies that displease them, usually after they leave the womb. The fear is that women will be the ones making the decisions; it is not death, but life, that we want to keep out of women's hands.

-Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

Some very half formed ideas

On Charlie Kirk’s comments on hypothetically making his ten year daughter carry a rape baby.

I think for men, sexual violence, rape and what male violence is and what it does is this weird abstract thing that they see on game on thrones or that crazy feminists wield against them in “debates.”

Mind you, they see sexual violence on the news, in pornography, etc but basically those women actually wanted it and it’s not violence, and even if it is, it’s sexy and it’s a fantasy and she brought it on herself.

What happens to women and girls in the real world is not real to them. Rape is some kind of intellectual exercise to them. A raped ten year girl is in the realm of ideas for them. That’s why they attack you when you ask about it. They cannot really understand male violence, or reproduction or abortion, or prostitution, or what it’s like for your body to not be your own. I don’t know what exactly I’m trying to say lol

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moonshineshrew

"We have to face the fact that pieces have been cut out of us to make us fit into this society. We have to try to imagine what we could have been if we hadn't been taught from birth that we are stupid, unable to analyze anything, 'intuitive', passive, physically weak, hysterical, overemotional, dependent by nature, incapable of defending ourselves against any attack, fit only to be the housekeeper, sex object, and emotional service centre for some man, or men, or children."

Meredith Tax, 'Woman and Her Mind: The Story of Everyday Life'

“I don’t think there’s a way out.”

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It involves complex mental engagement; a wide range of deep, intense emotions; and diverse, novel and interesting experiences

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Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society. Another is that it is in the most literal sense not news – there are tides of hatred and violence against other groups that ebb and flow, but violence against women is global and enduring, a constant rather than an event. Another is that law enforcement and the legal system have often been more interested in protecting perpetrators and society has often normalized and even celebrated violence against women.

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sichorean

So tell me more about how women "manipulate the police and courts" and how "women lie about being abused and get believed and men get put in prison for 20 years over false accusations"

He set her on fire after she begged several police stations for help and nobody took her fears seriously

(Despite him having a history of violence, a history of mental health issues, and a court order telling him to stay away from her and her children, which he ignored, which are all warning signs that SHOULD have been listened to)

Tell me more about how totally innocent men get punished by this "unfair system"

greenwire

Andrea Dworkin once wrote, "You won’t ever know the worst that happened to Nicole Brown Simpson in her marriage, because she is dead and cannot tell you. And if she were alive, remember, you wouldn’t believe her." And that last sentence is true of every woman who died at the hands of her husband.

If you're a woman, the police are not set up to favor you. The courts are not set up to favor you. Men are not your protectors and they are not your providers. If you believe men's lies about these things, those men will laugh in your face and behind your back about what a fool you are to believe them.

fem-scum

“Here’s the twist that emerged. Some young women wanted sexual equity with men: that’s a claim for equal power. They didn’t want to be mere sex objects, they wanted to be active sexual agents. But while true and total sexual equality between men and women is still too threatening, it has nonetheless proved lucrative to flatter women that they have it. So the media began to highlight this message: it’s through sex and sexual display that women really have the power to get what they want. And because the true path to power comes from being an object of desire, girls and women should now actively choose—even celebrate and embrace—being sex objects. That’s the mark of a truly confident, can-do girl: one whose objectification isn’t imposed from without, but comes from within. You have to admit, this is a very slick contortion. The best way to gain this kind of power is to cater to what men want. And you’re not acquiescing to men or to patriarchal sexual requirements: by submitting, you’re in the driver’s seat!”

Douglas, Susan J. The Rise of Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild. St. Martin's Press, 2010.

William Brassfield, a former Army master sergeant who had spent the past 17 years in retirement, will spend time behind bars for raping thre

The youngest victim reported the abuse during a call to a suicide hotline. That prompted the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division to open a case, which brought the additional crimes to light, the statement said.

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