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It feels taboo as a childfree person to admit this but I actually do have concerns about who is going to take care of me when I'm old. The elder care system in our nation relies A LOT on the unpaid care labor of adult children. I just don't think that's a good reason to have kids.
"But you'll have more money!" does not completely put this to rest for me. Neither does "Buy care insurance!" Even if I can afford direct personal care, who is going to advocate for me to get it? Who is going to navigate bureaucracy for me when I'm 80?
"You could have kids and they might still not take care of you when you're old!" That's true, but doesn't solve my problem.
I think childfree people get very defensive about this question because its used as a kind of "gotcha!" against us, but I actually do not feel we can afford to be in denial about this reality. Based on current trends of more people in their 30s stating they intend to be permanently childfree, we are going to see a huge wave of childfree adults hitting the eldercare system at once in a few decades. Childfree people in their 30s should be advocating around eldercare NOW.
Here are some things that will happen if sex is NOT a mandatory category on the census
Within only a few years, we will stop knowing what the rate of sex-selective abortion of female fetuses is, or in what regions those rates are highest.
Within a few years, places that usually show a skewed sex ratio of adults due to highly gendered workplaces (for example, cities with oilfields and many temporary male workers, or capital cities with many women in low-level government jobs) will not be able to plan or budget according to known factors—for example, planning for female or male-specific healthcare, or prisons.
Within 10 or so years, we will lack any verifiable data on the oppression of women and girls. We will not know if they are underrepresented or overrepresented in certain jobs, we will not know what the wage gap is (or if it exists), and we will not be able to make data-based arguments for programs that support women and girls.
Within 20+ years, we will no longer even have verified proof that the sex ratio of human beings, is, on average, roughly 52:50 females to males, with male infants slightly outpopulating female infants, and female elderly people being much more populous than male elderly people.
This means that MRAs will finally achieve their dream—being able to make the spurious argument that, for example, women are not underrepresented in the highest levels of corporate and governmental power. Maybe women really are just 10% of the overall population, so it makes sense that they are 10% of XYZ’s board of directors, or cabinet ministers. Maybe women are actually dramatically, rather than slightly, overrepresented in certain fields (like law school), so we need to do affirmative action for males.
Prison planning will now be very difficult for all cities, not just the ones with highly dynamic sex ratios and temporary workforces. Likely, planners will just save money by building very few female prisons, and overcrowding them if necessary. This is assuming that male and female prisons are still segregated at all, though. If, in the MOGAI hell world, we decide to do mixed-sex prisons, female prisoners will likely commit suicide before or after being subjected to multiple sexual assaults a day, and constant harassment.
Data on male violence against women will become nonexistent. We will only have statistics about human violence against humans, which makes it difficult to know which humans need a special shelter with a secret address and a detailed plan to escape another human.
Obviously, the problems with health care planning will be tremendous. Even assuming that individuals still have proof of their sex, but that sex is not recorded on mandatory census forms, accuracy in allocating funds to sex-specific healthcare needs will be drastically reduced by lack of accurate data.
Census companies will take advantage of the growing corporate demand for census data. However, their data will be fractured, market-based, and targeted only at specific consumer populations. (For example, what percentage of people in income bracket $25-50,000 and neighbourhood LMN are male and female?) Some companies will deliberately engage in biased data-collection processes in order to skew data in the way their commissioning company wants.
Companies competing for government contracts will use skewed and dishonest private data sets to make it look like their particular services are absolutely necessary and urgent.
One thing will not change in this new world, however. Pimps and porn directors will still know who exactly their clients are, and what sex of performers they want to see. Prostitutes will still know where the men live. Strippers will know who yells verbal abuse at them, and tries to touch them. Johns will know that biologically female women are the people they want to abuse.
go OFF queen
Horrifying.
I hope him and all those assholes that didn't help and are SHAMING her for going to the hospital get what's coming to them.
Instead of debating men online, find a women’s project that interests you. The men aren’t looking for a debate, but wanting to drain you of your energy. Finding a project instead could inspire you to help or start your own.
Bonus: being ignored by women is the number one thing that angers men, AND the second thing that angers men is women supporting each other and succeeding; two birds with one stone
something that is very convenient about advocating for trans women instead of cis women is how easily people can be moved in and out of the “real trans woman” category. if someone calling themselves a trans woman commits a violent or sexual crime against cis women then they weren’t a real trans woman in the first place and therefore don’t actually serve to discredit the category of trans women. but if a cis woman does anything slightly unsavory we aren’t going to claim that she is not a real woman or that she’s undeserving of the fruits of feminism because she transgressed, therefore allowing non radical feminists to discredit radfems entirely. it is so foreign to liberal feminists that we should defend women on the basis of them being women with no other qualifiers. mras and tras have eroded the status of women as a necessarily protected class so deeply that there’s only a tiny contingent of people who actually think women are oppressed on the basis of sex anymore. it’s actually disgusting and exhausting - especially when you consider how many people will defend sexual violence committed by men of color because they understand the concept of race as an oppressive force. exhausting. women are collateral and always have been.
Radblr: Who is your favourite feminist author?
Andrea Dworkin (Right Wing Women, Intercourse, Etc)
Valerie Solans (SCUM Manifesto)
Lee Graham (Loving to Survive)
Rosalind Miles (Who Cooked the Last Supper)
Caroline Criado Pérez (Invisible Women)
Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth)
Jessica Taylor (Why Women are Blamed for Everything)
Mary Daly (Gyn-Ecology)
Mary Wollenscraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman)
She's not listed! (add her in the comments please)
Favourite feminist author is Andrea Dworkin!
Altho I am guilty of not including some feminist authors you were all very passionate about, I noticed nobody chose 'Loving to Survive' author, which is perfectly fine, if you've read it and it wasn't your favourite one, but, it makes me feel like very few people read it, and for me it was so significant I put it third in the poll.
I don't mean to tell anyone what they should read, but I do think that reading 'Loving to Survive' would immediately resolve 90% of in-arguing in feminist circles. Because it explains, in detail, the motivation behind all of women's actions under patriarchy. If you've ever wondered 'Why do women do this? It enables patriarchy and helps out the oppressors and there's no benefit for the woman herself', Loving to Survive has detailed, well argumented and extensive answers for you. And no, the answer is not love.
If we want to change some of the women's actions that encourage and support the patriarchy, we need to understand where they come from. If we don't challenge the root of the problem, we will resolve nothing.
Here's a link to download the book.
incels are just the first generation of men who have been brought up addicted to porn. every single incel talking point about women is from porn. incels think women are having sex from the time they hit puberty onward bc they watch porn with pedophilic undertones or actual cp/loli, incels think women can have sex at a moments notice w any man they want bc that’s what happens to women in porn, incels think women regularly have extreme sex like anal or gangbangs bc that’s what porn shows them, incels think women like men who are abusive or violent bc that’s what women in porn like. u know that weird meme that’s being going around abt white women fucking dogs? yeah that’s been an incel thing for years. why is that when men are overwhelmingly the perpetrators of beastiality? bc most men will have come across animal abuse porn by the time they’re graduated high school and incels, who watch porn even more than normal men, see women having sex with animals regularly. incels are just men who’s only contact with women has been through porn, men who accept that porns depiction of women is accurate, and they hate women because they totally believe what they see in porn. when they try to roleplay what they see with real women, and the women have boundaries and personalities and lives outside of sex, it infuriates them not because they’re mad women have been abused and misrepresented, but because they’re upset they are not getting the ultimate male fantasy they were promised from childhood.
I watched an interview with an Incel. He claims that women in their 20s have had sex with “hundreds” of guys. The reporter was a woman and she said that she doesn’t know of any woman that has slept with that many men. The Incel just insisted that she needed to interview more women and that she just wasn’t aware enough.
Even the most sexual active women I know haven’t had sex with one hundred men, let alone hundreds. They really do believe that porn is accurate.
“incels hate women because they totally believe what they see in porn“
this right here is what feminists mean when we say, porn is hate speech against women. men who invest in the narratives told by porn end up hating women.
I need to find @desaturated7 so I can marry them.
I only hate men who have no empathy for women and it’s absolutely not my fault it’s all of them
“…What is it with liberals and accusations of “moralizing?” Right before reading Bazelon’s piece, I was scrolling through the comments on a subreddit where someone had shared my last post on prostitution. There too, the most common response by far was a curt dismissal on the grounds that I just have a “moral problem” with prostitution.
Well, here’s my confession: They’re right! I do have a moral problem with prostitution. I think buying sex is wrong. It’s bad. It’s not okay. It’s unacceptable, reprehensible, indefensible, shameful, disgraceful, appalling, and every other word the Left has banned for fear of “moralizing.” But buying sex should be moralized, because buying sex is immoral. It’s something a person ought not do.
That’s not all, though. I don’t just want to call it immoral — I want the government to enforce that morality! I want the police and courts to punish men who purchase sex. I want them fined, or even thrown in jail, and I want that done solely because what they are doing is immoral.
I have no idea why anyone would think I pretend otherwise.
On the subject, I have moral problems with some other things: Police brutality, domestic violence, religion, capitalism, and the entire global system of industrial civilization, to name a few. I think it’s objectively immoral to assault your partner or appropriate the means of production for private profit. A white cop murdering an African civilian is impermissible to me. And destroying the entire planet in an orgy of white supremacist, patriarchal settler colonialism for the profit of shareholders and CEOs is certainly something I think a person ought not do. These things are wrong, like buying sex is wrong, and that is reason enough to abolish them…
Left-wing men have cordoned off sex from ethics because ethics is, at its heart, a search for rules that transcend desire. Most of them don’t desire to run a Fortune 500 company, or dig an oil well, or invade another country, so they don’t mind prescriptions on behavior that restrict those things. But many, many men on the Left want to fuck female strangers, or want the power that comes from knowing those fucks are an option. No wonder, then, so many oppose “moralizing” around sex.
But of course they don’t actually escape a moral system — they just construct a remarkably shitty one. Don’t tell women what they can and can’t do with their own bodies. If it’s consensual, you have no right to judge. Don’t be a prude. What are all of these things except universal prescriptions on behavior, which is all that morality ever was? Someone needs to remind these men that Thou Shall Not Slut Shame and Thou Shall Not Lie With Mankind as With Womankind are equally commandments.”
Left-wing men have cordoned off sex from ethics because ethics is, at its heart, a search for rules that transcend desire. Most of them don’t desire to run a Fortune 500 company, or dig an oil well, or invade another country, so they don’t mind prescriptions on behavior that restrict those things. But many, many men on the Left want to fuck female strangers, or want the power that comes from knowing those fucks are an option. No wonder, then, so many oppose “moralizing” around sex.
More people need to read this.
“I can’t even begin to unpack the depths to which Leftists have sunk, where the very idea of morality is looked at with suspicion. Leftism is, at its heart, a profoundly moral venture. It’s a belief that what the powerful are doing is wrong. Not icky. Not mean. Not a real bummer. Wrong. And that’s exactly the word for what men do when they treat the bodies of female strangers like objects to be purchased and tossed out.
Men who intentionally strip their sex lives of any political, social, and ethical implications haven’t transcended morality. They’ve just sunk beneath it.”
people will be like i don't have anything against vegans but don't those morons know that there are zero alternatives between plastic and animal products? of course i, Leathers Georg, dont own any products containing plastic, and have done no research into other options. I just really have a strong feeling that vegans are stupid idiots who have never considered that plastic is perhaps bad. and there is clearly no overlap between vegans and people who care about plastic waste in the environment. i am very smart
“male depression rates are high 🥺” yeah most horrible people are deeply miserable what’s new
this is really interesting!
Deadass tho, as a woman who was inpatient twice, the amount of girls I met who were there for attempting to kill themselves versus men was wild. Also most of the dudes in there were in bc of anger issues and addiction and rarely attempted suicide.
Also there was a paper going around radblr about how men successfully suiciding actually has little to do with mental illness if at all.
+ murder suicides (men killing their kids, partners etc and then themselves) count into most male suicide statistics
my brother had a brilliant idea that i wanted to share with other people who have four-legged family members: he trained our two cats to go directly to the door when they hear the fire alarm.
obviously at first the fire alarm sent them scrambling for cover, but he started slowly by giving them treats whenever it went off, when someone burned food or forgot to open the fireplace flu. he then progressed to calling them to the door to offer treats immediately after the alarm went off. and it actually wasn't too long before the cats voluntarily started going to the door upon hearing the alarm.
i think this was genius because in the event of a real emergency we know exactly where the cats will be and we will not have to waste precious time trying to find them to rescue them. i think this method would work equally well with dogs and probably other free-roaming pets such as rabbits, ferrets, etc. and i certainly encourage others to give it a shot!
I trained Neelix to alert me to Sounds. So in the even of A Sound he'd find me to let me know about it. Oven timers, knocking at the door, weird creature stuck in the yard, etc. This has the added effect of being able to scoop him up and bring him to safety in the event said sound is a fire alarm or a tornado siren.
The downside is, when I had a baby, every time it cried he'd barrel into the room to let me know. Even if I was already in the room. And if I couldn't make The Sound stop (because an infant works differently than an oven timer), he'd start biting me urgently. 😅
Confused, but doing his best:
Oh, context is that I'm deaf not that I wanted to create a beast that'd harass me over sounds.
y’all really weren’t listening when taylor said so i wander through these nights, i prefer hiding in plain sight, my fourth drink in my hand these desperate prayers of a cursed man, spilling out to you for free, but darling, darling, please, you wouldn't take my word for it if you knew who was talking, if you knew where i was walking, to a house, not a home, all alone 'cause nobody's there, where i pace in my pen and my friends found friends who care, no one sees when you lose when you're playing solitaire.
‘Just 1 per cent of the world’s land is used for buildings and infrastructure. Crops occupy 12 per cent, while grazing, the most extensive kind of farming, uses 28 per cent. Only 15 per cent of the world’s land, by contrast, is protected for nature. The rest of the world’s land surface is either uninhabitable (glaciers, ice caps, deserts, rocks, mountaintops, salt flats) or covered by unprotected forests. Yet the meat and milk from animals fed entirely by grazing provides just 1 per cent of the world’s protein.’
-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet