Bastet

[dentatacavities-deactivated2024]

Something I have gathered today from reading: women are whole. We are an entire unit, an entire being. Men are hollow, empty, soulless. They are a spiritual hole, and to women, a spiritual pitfall. They have been designed to entrap the female to her detriment in order to have him to feel complete.

[andsheoverthinks]

personally, i think something the femininity discourse is missing is that some things considered feminine aren't inherently oppressive, they're only sneered at because women do them. for example, teaching and nursing are incredibly important professions crucial to society's basic functioning but because they're associated with women (feminine) people don't respect them. in the early days of computing, many programmers were women (including the very first computer programmer Ada Lovelace and the female programmers who worked on the calculations for the first moon landing).

if men never took over CS, would people be disparaging programming and making fun of 'girly hobbies like making a tic-tac-toe game to play with your friends in Python?'

[a 'feminine' profession]

[girlfictions]

— Fiona Apple

[only-tiktoks]

[emeritusprofessorofnothing]

I'm fucking losing it at the people who don't realize it's satire. Have you never met a man?

[anxietyproblem]

[theresagooseinthemainframe]

Remembering that time I started screaming in the car bc I was reading an article about an interview with Paris Paloma about her song, Labour

Begging her to explain how trans women carry the weight of unpaid physical and emotional labour. Begging

This is why we can’t have nice things.

[w1ckedwoman]

Trans women carrying the emotional labour of hyping themselves as the most beautiful, stunning and brave women 😭

[bravebrowngal]

Women are in a constant, unending emotional cycle of “I deserve more,” vs. “what if this is the best I’ll ever get?” with too many men.

[dykemind]

idk how to tell you this but that desperation to fulfill the patriarchal lie of heterosexual romance is going to help him degrade and exploit you no matter how much dworkin you read

[drachenstochter]

reblogging this again to say that this literally happened to dworkin herself. her deadbeat useless Nigel let her books go out of print the second she died because he’s a faithless piece of shit. I’ve said this in other posts of mine before, but every het-partnered woman before you who was abused/assaulted/bred to death/murdered by her parasitic excuse for a spouse thought she was picking a good/safe/nice one, too. Every. Single. One. what makes you different from her? Do you think you’re smarter than she was? Do you think you’re better than she was? Do you think she was stupid or that she didn’t love him enough? Is your reasoning #NotAllMen? Women do not need scrotes for any reason and it is misogyny to insist that any woman needs a moid. men have proven over and over again that they do not see us as people. They see us as automatons at best, live-in NPCs whose entire lives center around them and their whims. We know that they are willing to lie, cheat, trick, steal, and pull every stunt in the book to entrap women in their lives, whether financially or through reproduction or socially or mentally/emotionally or some combination of all of the above. They’ve told us themselves on every internet forum where they can hide behind a screen. The saying, “Give a man a mask and he will show you who he truly is,” comes to mind. He will tell you whatever you want to hear to get what he wants. They intentionally entrap women with them before they show their true colors. So, let me ask you again:

Why do you think you’re better or smarter than the women who came before you?

[mcdyke-deactivated20171112]

Resources on the Affects of Porn

Why consuming porn is an escalating behavior 

How porn affects sexual taste

How porn changes the brain

Porn is changing for the worst - and fast.

How porn fuels sex trafficking

How porn warps ideas about sex

Porn leads to violence

The “industry” is fucked

True accounts via ex-”performers” of the brutality

Isolation post-porn 

Why women get into porn and how it’s not a free choice

Popular male performers are known to rape/abuse on screen

[rf-times]

Intimacy and love are basic human desires…that men have been pretty happy to mainly go without for millenia. You can’t love someone you oppress or are scared of/intimidate or disgusted by. Men have been content with infatuation, domination and servitude in the place of meaningful love and respect. Even when men want to love women they are almost invariably confronted by their patriarchal disgust and fear of them, especially if they become/are mothers. Many men have realised this but ultimately prefer having control.

Think about why it has mainly been women who push for more meaningful love and respect (i.e. read Loving to Survive); traditionally love is one of the few things promised to us and used as a carrot for us to put up with patriarchy, the promise that if men love us enough, we will survive and be given meaning in our lives. Then from a feminist perspective, women were the ones who realised and pushed for the idea that love cannot exist without respect, that all heterosexuals therefore are missing out on what true love and intimacy can look like. Women keep writing long books dedicated to men telling them that feminism will allow them to love and be set free from loneliness and domination. Men, for the most part, do not care, they still mistake wanting to be mothered by their partners as love (and women in turn mistake being controlled and sacrificing their entire identities for love).

[haggishlyhagging]

I don’t take the men in my life seriously at all anymore. I have learned not to even engage with them about any serious topic. If they bring up something, I brush it off asap.

Their job sucks? “Yup” is my go-to response.

They are in pain? “Sucks bro.”

Their team lost? Blank stare.

I could walk them through the steps involved with improving their education, communication skills, and employment viability, but they won’t listen.

I could offer to obtain pain medication and suggest a doctor visit, but they will only become dependent on my nursing services and will never stir themselves to address the root problem.

I don’t watch male sports, most television, or engage with male-oriented content of any kind if I can help it. Best I can manage is a shrug when they ask me about pop culture.

Once I figured out that every interaction men initiated preceded an attempt to exploit me, I stopped playing their game and they scattered like cockroaches in search of another food source.

All that extra energy that used to go toward men is now invested in me. I have time to read, work out, make myself nutritious food, enjoy nature, do yoga, rest, and listen to music (female artists only).

My life is improving every day.

[femsolid]

When I was in domestic abuse support groups over on Facebook I quickly noticed that there were a lot of abusive men in it. They claimed to be victims of course. In fact they were convinced to be. They had read up on "narcissistic abuse" and truly believed that their partner or ex was one. In the group I'd see a daily flood of women describing the most horrid shit and the trauma inflicted on them. But men's most common complaint was that their wives had been "withholding sex" which really is a form of abuse they said. Another way these men suffered from domestic abuse was through being dumped. They described a woman leaving them as a form of abuse. So two of the most common ways men are abused are... by women exercising their own free will. Obviously when men describe abuse in such a way you know they are abusive. For example, the complaints about "withholding sex" as abusive are admissions of attempted rapes through coercion and guilt tripping.

Another way women abuse men is by letting them do chores of course. One kept spamming about it, taking before and after pictures of the dishes he did while his obviously mentally unstable cruel bitch of a wife was playing with the kids. I screenshoted everything and sent it to her. And yet another fascinating post was this man, obviously another victim, who saw his ex's new boyfriend while driving and decided to follow him, as victims do. He followed him for a long while, as victims do, before the new boyfriend supposedly parked near a motel where he met a woman. Our victim parked too and watched with glee as his ex was being cheated on. When I pointed out that, no, this is not what victims do and that he was telling on himself by describing how he follows people like a creep he cried that I wasn't allowed to question him because it's a safe space for victims and it's against the rules call a moderator please help etc. That's the thing with these groups: men go in there to feel vindicated and they are. Women immediately approve and help men pathologise women based on nothing and certainly not actual descriptions of abuse. The women don't realise that they are helping a man abuse a woman. Hundreds of comments calling a woman a narcissist and the man feeling justified in taking revenge on that woman. And me being told I'm too mean.

But you know what men write the most about in those groups? How we talk too much about women being abused and not enough about men. It upsets them to see women being listened to. And again, women approve by the hundreds, "yes poor men, women can be just as evil" and on and on, ironically disproving what men are claiming: men are not ignored, they are taken way too seriously as a matter of fact.

This guy posted about being abused again, how he "fell for it" once more, how he "should have known better". He had met a woman and she had "used" him you see. Cue to the choral of women offering him support without questions. So I asked one: how did she use you? He responded that, well, she didn't really use him per say, she asked him for help, he helped, she thanked him and that was it. They weren't dating. He had met a random woman and helped her and she hadn't offered him anything in return (like her vagina, you know) she had just thanked him and that's abuse. Imagine that. Traumatised women describing really disturbing and upsetting events and men whining about women not being on their hands and knees. And both sides cohabiting in one group under the pretense that one is not oppressing the other because "domestic abuse has no gender".

[fairy25]

[instantmentalitykitty]

Their depraved testosterone-drenched brains are incapable of not sexualizing and objectifying a female human being who's lost all her limbs.

[fluoresensitive-deactivated2024]

Chile lemme reblog god from the machine

[powerfem]

This just goes to show that even the most priviledged women, white, rich and royals on top of that, are still oppressed because of their female sex.

[ifyougrinyoulose]

if you’re reading this i hope something good happens to you today

[haggishlyhagging]

“. . . [W]hatever sartorial devices men have put on to bolster their body image—codpieces, elevated shoes, padded shoulders, a boxy jacket—these did not constrict or cause pain. The truth is, men have barely tampered with their bodies at all, historically, to make themselves more appealing to women. The development of biceps and pectorals is an honorable byproduct of hard physical labor and an aid to competitive feats of sport and strength. Musclebound body builders, the man in the elevated shoe or the baldy who wears a toupee have been grist for the jokester's mill, under the masculine theory that real men do not trick themselves out to be pleasing. (They have better ways to prove their worth.) A woman, on the other hand, is expected to depend on tricks and suffering to prove her feminine nature, for beauty, as men have defined it for women, is an end in itself.”

-Susan Brownmiller, Femininity