#radical analysis

[moidhaterxxx]

I used to really like the gone girl style of movies but now I'm kinda iffy on them. Especially the thrillers. Why do they always have this notion of the master manipulator woman faking injuries to pin them on the innocent (he's just a jerk, not a criminal uwu) husband.

I know it's like yeah girl boss villains but nowadays I feel bitter seeing that stuff.

Like I went through so much even as a child and none of these male villains EVER get punished nor did I get justice.

And in media it's these master manipulator woman archetype who literally don't exist? And even if so called femme fatales exist I feel like they're still paying for their manipulation via sex anyway like that's not real power.

When it's males writing that bs it's obviously their tendency to victim blame and shift responsibility on women.

When women write that stuff it feels more like an attempt at equality and it sucks that when I view it in the context of reality, it just feels bad.

You know what I mean? Ideally in fiction this wouldn't be a big deal but due to reality and women not getting any justice from abusive men this feels like a slap in the face idk.

I still love gone girl in many ways but hate that it adds on to the propaganda that women are masters at manipulation, fake dv and false accusations against men.

It's usually the men faking it (Johnny Depp perfect example).

Also hate that I can't just enjoy a media in isolation anymore because of shitty moid opinions.

[resourcesforradicals]

Nuance for and against common forms of identity politics 💜💛

[resourcesforradicals]

"Fighting the state is hard enough without navigating a maze of middle class entitlement." Always good to find a piece on "class privilege" that acknowledges class struggle against capitalism as being a structural fight, whilst also targeting the entitlement of unreflective tools.

[resourcesforradicals]

Women of colour activists in anti-austerity and in Black Lives Matter movements are undertaking vital work in analysing intersecting inequalities, demonstrating the ruinous effects of white supremacy in everyday life and organising, often at great personal costs, for social justice. However, women of colour activists must shoulder an ironic double burden of building protest communities and resisting our domination in these protest spaces. Women of colour activists’ experiences demonstrate the fictive quality of solidarity on the left. Too often solidarity is an abstract ideal that is rarely enacted in ways that recognize women of colour as competent, knowing and active agents. Erasure in movements is a burden women of colour will continue to shoulder in our activism and is a violence that undermines the radical democratic posture of the left.

From #BlackLivesMatter to Anti-Austerity: Women of Colour and the Politics of Solidarity

[resourcesforradicals]

To understand intersectionality requires critical thinking. Perhaps this is why I flinch when I hear people refer to themselves as “intersectional feminists” — it’s taking a term designed to complicate our understanding of society and flattening it into a label. Intersectionality is a framework for understanding how a variety of oppressions can intersect, and one that surrounds political activism. But the label is donned more as a mark of belonging than a rally to action.

Intersectionality is not a label, by Latoya Peterson

[resourcesforradicals]

Can we hold that on the days we are most authentic, that we are most ourselves, that we love ourselves the most — are the days that we are most terrified and afraid? Can we hold that not everyone can nor should afford to be “authentic,” because it means that they will be turned away from gender segregated bathrooms, shelters, parties, lovers. Can we challenge the hierarchy that’s drawn between those who are “out” and “authentic” and those who are not — as if these distinctions don’t have everything to do about race, class, security, home, terror, history. Can we be more critical of a culture that tells us that we are brave for being ourselves instead of dismantling the structures that made that so impossible to begin with?

On Lying: Street harassment is too high a price for “being ourselves.”

Gets right to the root of problematic ways of framing “authenticity” in trans people.

[resourcesforradicals]

The dogmatic criticism of popular struggles for autonomy in Chiapas and Rojava reveals a colonial mentality that should be stamped out of our movement.

A good antidote to the oh-so-common proclamations from anarchist platforms/groups about their “position” on whatever situation/conflict they have no real link to.

[resourcesforradicals]

Gentrification, Displacement, Community: What are the different forms of gentrification?  What's the relationship between physical and digital spaces, and what relationship does each have with our social power? How is gentrification resisted? Do the attitudes of new residents in gentrified areas matter?