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[elyseesarchive]

THE PATRIARCHY WANTS YOU TO BE SKINNY BECAUSE IF YOU’RE SO HUNGRY YOU CAN’T THINK ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS BEING TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU !!!!

[melancholyangel333]

bc my post on my speech kinda blew up here is the speech itself !! it kinda sucks sorryyyy

Men hurt women. Not just with their fists, but also with the hatred they angrily spew behind their phones and computers. These influencers have raised a new generation of boys and young men with new, radical beliefs, and misogyny is at the core of these ideologies. These opinions have caused detrimental impacts towards women and feminism as a whole, yet we play to dumb in fear of offending these men. Today I’ll explore how these figures in the media have encouraged gender based violence, the dismissal of sexual assault victims, the normalisation of misogyny and why social media platforms need to take action on these types of content creators. 

Social media has significantly impacted gender violence, both on and offline. Threats of harassment against women have been normalised over the years - from Donald Trump telling journalists about how he gropes women to Elliot Rodger declaring “All of those beautiful girls I’ve desired so much…I will destroy” in his manifesto. Rodgers, and men like him have committed murder all because of the sexist radicalisation they experienced on social media. Influencers will convince their supporters to threaten, harass and dox women online, and many of these threats have offline impact. According to the ABC, 1 in 5 women had experienced offline violence due to an online incident. While a specific influencer may not be responsible for all offline violence, the sexism they spread to men is to blame. 

Extremist influencers on social media have majorly encouraged the dismissal of sexual assault victims online. When a woman who has suffered sexual violence decides to speak up about it on the internet, she isn’t met with the support and grace she deserves. Instead, she’s faced with suspicion and “Are we sure she isn’t lying?”. (Angry, insecure men will storm Twitter, YouTube and Reddit swearing that all women who speak up about their assault asked for it and they just want men to get in trouble.) Paul Elam, a truck driver turned “male activist” has created YouTube videos with titles like “Domestic Violence: Women are Half the Problem” or “Defeating Feminism, Part 3”. These videos regularly garner over thousands of views, and the comments echo the same belief - that when a woman speaks out, she’s automatically lying. These types of videos evidently have a large audience, and these numbers won’t go down unless these platforms take measures to stop this from spreading.

The normalization of misogyny can be attributed to social media and their algorithms. Young men and boys may not be actively searching for sexist content, yet research has found that apps such as TikTok are very likely to push extremist content within a week of joining. Social media subtly pushes this content to men, to the point when they’re fully immersed in the realm of sexism. Men then absorb and believe this to the point where their online actions influence their offline beliefs. According to statistics published by Kings College in London, only 32% of Gen Z men identify as a feminist, and almost 60% of Gen Z men believe that we are promoting women's equality to the point where we are “discriminating against men”. Today’s men, despite wanting to be viewed as the protectors, can’t even do women the simple favor of calling themselves feminists.  

This so-called "epiphany" Rogers and others experienced can be easily dismantled if social media platforms were to create stricter regulations regarding hate speech. These right-wing men thrive on social media platforms, such as YouTube, Reddit and 4chan, where susceptible young men often congregate. These men often flood these sites looking for advice or support regarding low self-esteem or loneliness, but are met with vicious men who tell them it’s all because of women. However, outright banning these content creators won’t erase the problem - it’ll exacerbate the issue, and men will still consume and believe these messages. Instead, social media companies need to tighten their regulations regarding hate speech. By regulating what these men say, it’ll make it harder for these messages to spread. While free speech is something everybody is entitled to, there needs to be a clear boundary around speech when it’s causing significant mental or physical harm. Having these platforms actively monitoring creators who are known for controversial content, taking down offensive posts, and reporting users and posts are all ways social media platforms can easily manage this epidemic of “mens-rights” activists. 

When social media companies decide to confront the horrifying abuse and beliefs that women online are subjected to by these online creators and their supporters by regulating hate speech, then, maybe our society can finally progress, only 100 years too late. Thank you.

[theangryman]

US government is trying to make it legal to discriminate against women/minorities in lending

50 year ago, women couldn’t get credit cards or home loans in their name. this is an absolutely fucking code red thing

*all* feminists trans inclusive or not should be be freaking the fuck out about this

here’s a comment box if you want to say something

https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/CFPB-2025-0039-0001

This is REALLY REALLY NOT GOOD

[turbomitzvah]

new marketing angle: Gaza scam tumblr posts aren't getting the play they used to, so maybe they should pivot to claiming to help Palestinian women leave their abusive husbands.

[solianapaeris]

All about love — bell hooks

Return of the goddess—Edward whitmont

Men who hate women and the women who love them—Susan forward

The crone—Barbara Walker

Female chauvinist pigs—Ariel levy

Bad feminist—Roxanne gay

When god was a woman—Merlin stone

The beauty myth—Naomi wolf

Cinderella complex—collete dowling

Reasonable creatures—katha pollitt

Born female—Caroline Bird

Femininity—Susan brown miller

Second sex—Simone de Beauvoir

The feminine mystique—Betty Friedman

The work of being watched—mark andrejevic

We are your sisters—Dorothy sterling

Gyn/Ecology—mary Daly

Toward a new psychology of women—Jean baker miller

Fasting girls—Joan Jacob’s brumberg

The prostitution of sexuality—kathleen barry

Women’s health, politics, and power: essays on sex/gender, medicine, and public health —Elizabeth fee

The seven daughters of Eve—Bryan Sykes

The baby business—deborah spar

Living dolls the return of sexism—Natasha Walter

Women’s spirituality—Charlene Spretnak

[billyengland]

Okay, we tried women's suffrage and found out their primary political concern is being allowed to kill their own babies. Can we finally just call this experiment a failure and move on?

[la-chacha-gris]

Society demands that women behave conservatively and adhere to harshly imposed roles. But on the other hand, the media and advertising exploit women's bodies, always in the service of male desire. It's an age-old double standard. Sasha also believes it's a huge conflict.

La sociedad exige a las mujeres comportarse de maneras conservadoras y bajo roles impuestos bastante duros. Pero por otra parte, los medios y la publicidad explotan el cuerpo de las mujeres, eso sí, siempre al servicio del deseo masculino. Es un doble estándar antiquísimo. Sasha también cree que es un conflicto muy grande.

“I think it's contradictory, and it's something I've liked to talk about a lot, ever since I was acting in adult films. […] I have no problem with using sex as a form of advertising. The problem is that we don't encourage young women to be comfortable with who they are. We don't encourage them to be strong, to say no when it means no, to say yes when it means yes. That's the fundamental problem. We don't communicate, and without that communication, we're not only creating a society of men who think they can take whatever they want and passive women who don't know how to say no, we're also creating a sexless society, in a way, because I think women, especially now, the younger generations, feel an unhealthy pressure, and no one has told them how to grow up and be a free woman.”

“Creo que es contradictorio y es algo que me gusta hablar mucho, desde que actuaba en películas para adultos. […] no tengo ningún conflicto con utilizar el sexo como publicidad. El problema es que no alentamos a las mujeres jóvenes a estar cómodas con quiénes son. No las alentamos a ser fuertes, a decir que no cuando es no, a decir que sí cuando es sí. Ese es el problema fundamental. No nos comunicamos y sin esa comunicación no estamos sólo creando una sociedad de hombres que piensan que pueden tomar lo que ellos quieran y mujeres pasivas que no saben decir que no, además estamos formando una sociedad asexuada, de cierta forma, porque creo que las mujeres, especialmente ahora, las generaciones más jóvenes sienten una presión insana y nadie les ha dicho cómo crecer y ser una mujer libre”.

Sasha Grey in Chile (link)

[jordzyellis]

Adelaide joining country-wide protests, organised by Indigenous-led not-for-profit What Were You Wearing, against Australia’s horrific rates of domestic, family, and sexual violence by men, with at least 20 women already killed this year.

The nationwide rallies are calling for funding for frontline services, education, free counselling and trauma informed training for first responders.

* 1 in 2 women have experienced sexual harassment in their lifetime.

* 1 in 3 women have experienced violence by a partner, other known person or a stranger since the age of 15.

* 1 in 4 Australian women has experienced intimate partner violence since the age of 15.

* 1 in 6 women have experienced physical and/or sexual abuse before the age of 15

* 1 in 3 single mothers in Australia live in poverty.

* Indigenous women are up to seven times more likely to be victims of homicide.

* Transgender people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to be victims of violent crime.

* Disabled women are twice as likely to have experienced sexual violence than non-disabled women.

* 31% of GenZ men believe that a wife should “obey her husband”.

* 59% of GenZ men say that men are now expected to do too much to support equality.

* More than 17% of all Australians agree feminism should be resisted with violence.

* Roughly 40% of Australian boys aged 13 to 17 agreed that women lie about domestic and sexual violence.

1800RESPECT and Lifeline are 24/7 services available to assist anyone struggling with the impacts of domestic, family and sexual violence.

This protest took place on stolen Kaurna land.