#androcentrism

[floof-ghostie]

Post: Wow I love women so much I love loving women.

The notes:

"This but about men"

"What about men? Don't men deserve to be loved?"

"I feel kind of excluded as someone who is only into men"

"I completely agree with this post but it's also okay to like men!"

[moonlightsapphic]

Oh no! WLW are disappearing! Everyone has a boyfriend now!

On the media end, let’s make sure to be very gentle, laid-back and kind as a fandom towards sapphic public figures such as artists. We must demonstrate that we hold a lot of goodwill and positive enthusiasm and are worth marketing to, and we definitely won’t attempt to dogpile and destroy their careers if they make some arbitrarily imperfect move that we don’t like. We’ll have to be sure to avoid getting toxically parasocial towards their personal lives and not police who they date and their identities! This will ensure sapphic artists will feel safe to keep sharing their experiences with us and offering us valuable representation. We should also make sure new artists don’t find sapphic fandom hostile and impossible to please, and aren’t afraid to come out, especially as lesbian.

On the personal end, we should watch out for all sapphics and include them in community events. The sapphics with boyfriends are statistically likely to face high mental illness, substance abuse, identity suppression, and intimate partner violence due to their queer identity. We have to make sure we’re a support system for them to fall back upon if needed. We should avoid exacerbating any bisexual cultural dysphoria or androcentric desire stereotypes (comphet) that fluid queer women might be struggling with. Comphet is bad enough when it comes from straight people! Their continued involvement in sapphic spaces regardless of their current relationship status will likely lead them to meeting women they may date in the future!

If executed correctly, these TWO simple steps will lead to more WLW! We’ve got this! 🩷🌸🩷

[tennantfeltonsmith]

“The representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the truth”

- Simone De Beauvoir (1949)

[haggishlyhagging]

By making the term "man" subsume "woman" and arrogate to itself the representation of all of humanity, men have built a conceptual error of vast proportion into all of their thought. By taking the half for the whole, they have not only missed the essence of whatever they are describing, but they have distorted it in such a fashion that they cannot see it correctly. As long as men believed the earth to be flat, they could not understand its reality, its function, and its actual relationship to other bodies in the universe. As long as men believe their experiences, their viewpoint, and their ideas represent all of human experience and all of human thought, they are not only unable to define correctly in the abstract, but they are unable to describe reality accurately.

The androcentric fallacy, which is built into all the mental constructs of Western civilization, cannot be rectified simply by "adding women." What it demands for rectification is a radical restructuring of thought and analysis which once and for all accepts the fact that humanity consists in equal parts of men and women and that the experiences, thoughts, and insights of both sexes must be represented in every generalization that is made about human beings.

-Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy

[genderatheist]

Androcentrism in literature is something. I'm reading Jack London's "White Fang" and all the male characters have names. The humans and the dogs and the wolfs. There is one female wolf, who's pretty badass seeing how she outsmarts the men and steals meat from traps, and yet she's only referred to as "female wolf" while her mate has a name.

This female wolf has a litter of wolf puppies and again author goes on to explain how all the litter has the same red coat like their mother, yet our main puppy, male of course, has a grey coat like his dad, which makes him special. I guess this puppy is the one that will be named "White Fang".

So, if you're female, you won't get a name, any badassery you may exhibit will be minimized, your children that look like you will be like yeah whatever, while the old male wolf whom you tought the badass tricks will be hailed as hero, and the puppy who looks like his dad will be the most important by the virtue of being like his dad.

It's just wolves! And yet the preference and hailing of the male is so apparent.

[tearductape]

"If enough people think studying the media is a waste of time, then the media themselves can seem less influential than they really are. Then they get off the hook for doing what they do best:

Promoting a white, upper-middle-class, male view of the world that urges the rest of us to sit passively on our sofas and fantasize about consumer goods while they handle the important stuff like the economy, the environment or child care."

– Robinson, Lillian S, 1995

[thesashascarr]

Men's "Rights" Activists Are Actually Terrorists

Feminism was once,very aggressive. Activism in general was. Unfortunately, after years of successful liberal exodontia, Feminism has become unthreatening and somewhat nonsensical. Many self-proclaimed Feminists today attempt to make appeals to non-beneficial social groups like sex-obsessed heterosexuals (who couldn't care less about insurrectionary, revolutionary or separatist politics) and domestic traditionalists who have no desire to explore life outside of gender binaries.

There is no advantage the womin holds over the male in any historic or modern society. There is no place where a man cannot maintain financial independence, based on his sex. There is no place where a man cannot control his ability to reproduce based on his sex. There is no place where a man cannot leave his home without a female chaperone based on his sex. There is no place where a man is not permitted to wear certain garments based on his sex. There is no place where a man cannot operate motor vehicles based on his sex. There is no place where a man will not be hired/will be fired based on his sex.

There are many other things to be mentioned, but these will be books worth of information and tiring to the reader to have to sit through.

In fact, ask them about any point in time where they could not act, behave or practice religion in a particular way, based on maleness. No such time exists, and therefore,  no systems nor institutions have been established to denigrate men or limit male autonomy. Analyze any MRA, and observe their desire for a return to the traditional. Observe their desire to manufacture consequences for womyn who behave in manners which are incompatible with forced male leadership.

A look inside “Men Going Their Own Way”, those men think withdrawal from interactions with womyn is supposedly a punishment to womyn. They believe that their systems and institutions are a requirement for female civility and lifelong sustanence.

Their sycophants often attack any and all womyn who seek full separation from men and dismantling of patriarchy.

They have bombed symbols of any liberation, or separation from patriarchy & the state.