Tonight at work I saw a women who I have known for a couple of years and dispize. She is the kind of women who says things like “all rapists should be locked up with their hands cut off” “women should only be in the work place and men should be stuck at home. It’s their turn to raise the children” “your not a ally to black people until you fuck one of them” “your a bad feminist becuase you don’t have the same views as me”. To be clear here are my views in that order “people who engage in pedophilic or predatory sexual acts are a result of a broken social system that gives no space for men to face the trauma caused by people (mostly men) in their life who have hurt them and sexually taken advantage of them, and that violence is not the correct response to violence. Instead the men who take advantage of and sexually abuse others should be given treatment and should be watched closely. Young men should have the ability and safety to speak out against the ways in which they were abused sexually. As a victim of rape, I do not wish my attacker was harmed, jailed, or even prosecuted, instead I wish he had the community support and emotional guidence to work through his trauma so he never feels like he has to take someone’s power away ever again” “it is important to the development of children that both parents take an active role in raising their children. The division of labor should be based around the child’s needs not the parents. How ever this outcome works, ultimately the child should be the main focus, and the needs of the parents should align with the economic guidelines in which it manifests. While this is the case, there are cultural and finacial restrictions that may cause an inibility within either partners life to devote all energy to parenting, simiply switching the power structure on its head so men are in the same potion that women where does not address the structural, cultural, or political reasons that women have been subjected in this way” “just becuase you have a shirt that says black lives matter, and you make a playlist called lady babes of color does not mean that you are an ally. If you do not actively seek out the opinion and voice of minorities you are doing them no justice. You gain social clout from saying these things but I’m no way are you an activist unless you engage in the conversations THEY are having, and find ways to elevate their voice. You do nothing for African Americans or other minorities by finding convient ways to make yourself seem “woke” and not dealing with any of the consequences that are a fraction of what they experience. And people should by any means possible not fetishize, steal from, or pick and choose what they deem palatable black culture.” “I’m not even sure at this point that I would call myself a feminist. I’m not a humanist. I’m not a believer in menism. But I do believe that all humans should be treated with fairness and decency. Simply saying GRL PWR does very little and most likely will drown out the voices of other genders who deserve to speak. I foolheartedly decided to tattoo those very words on my body when I was young and still figuring out my moral alignment in the world. I now know that this was nieave and potentially really stupid to tattoo on my body, but it serves as a reminder every day that even then I did not know that I don’t align with being female, and that it was harmful for me to experience modern feminism becuase it left little space for me to explore my gender.” Alright now that I have said these things (mostly to help me organize my thoughts) I saw this women walking past with a black man, holding his hand, and all I could think was “Jesus fucking Christ she found her trophy black man” and that in short is why I think white women who say they are ally’s. Who say they are woke, who say that they care about the state of the world want to write their own rules and not have to worry about the consequences of their deeply institutionalized racism, while reaping the benifits of being a “social activist”
