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"boys perform worse in school because there is a lack of male teachers!"
I don't care. If boys are too misogynistic to listen to and take female teachers seriously I really couldn't care less if they underperform.
If it actually impacted them in any material way, then maybe there would be some natural selection toward men who were less misogynistic. Wouldn't that be nice?
You ever think about many peices of media have zero women and thats just perfectly normal but if a peice of media has an all female cast people get... like that? Women should be allowed to kill over this btw
same but it's black people
That's right
I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?
Don't become a housewife.
And if you do become a housewife, take steps to protect yourself. Make sure you’re legally married, for starters; stay-at-home girlfriends have very little legal recourse to claim their partner’s assets in a breakup. Make sure your name is on the house deed/rental agreement, and have your car in your name, even if your spouse is paying for it. Have your spouse transfer money every month into an account solely in your name, so you can buy yourself things without needing permission, but also so you can save up to leave if needed.
If your spouse fights you on any of this, then don’t quit your job. The tradwife to poverty pipeline is real, and so is financial abuse.
also, many women/people experience controlling behaviour and domestic violence from their partner for the first time during pregnancy. don’t risk thinking “he’s just stressed, it’ll get better when the baby comes” because it won’t. neither you and your child will ever be safe with that man. get out as early and safely as you can
never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"
"Adults can change their circumstances; children cannot. Children are powerless, and in difficult situations they are the victims of every sorrow and mischance and rage around them, for children feel all of these things but without any of the ability that adults have to change them. Whatever can take a child beyond such circumstances, therefore, is an alleviation and a blessing."
I find this passage from the Mary Oliver essay "Staying Alive" very poignant and true.
I know this is obvious and probably not worth repeating but it’s so fucked up how many men jerkoff to the idea of sexually assaulting women they politically disagree with. This is common regardless of where on the political spectrum they claim to be on. Males really do view rape as something used to degrade and ‘break’ women who step out of line.
Had to share
when i was a kid i was so mad all the time bc i thought someday i'd have to be somebody's wife i didn't know it was optional. is everybody reminding the young girls in their lives that it's optional.
AND SO IS BEING SOMEBODY'S MOTHER‼️
it is about being a woman. hope that helps!
reading comprehension questions for the notes:
is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?
why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?
are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?
are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?
core concept: what is gender essentialism?
is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?
look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?
what trait are you perpetuating when you assume that women who do not want to be wives and mothers must be aroace or trans? is it gender essentialism?
"There are only two kinds of men, the dead and the deadly."
Helen Rowland, quoted in Handbook of 20th Century Quotations
i had an eye-opening moment when i realised that 90% of the mainstream portrayals of women were written, designed and promoted by... men.
as always, we were sold a lie about what it means to be a woman. femininity is a lie, this archetype of tender, forgiving and fawning nurturer has its origins in male minds. it has never existed, yet was imposed on us by those who clearly profit from it.
high school mean girls, mysterious seductresses, self-sacrificing mothers, forever hovering above stovetops and diapers, innocent yet coquettish virgins in white, flowing robes - none of them is an organic image, none of them is real.
they are always clean shaven, full of grace and perfect make-up, long hair, dark lashes to bat at distinguished gentlemen, soft voices and limp wrists. they were made to serve as a self fulfilling prophecies, they were made to be perfect, yet they don't exist.
we were made to believe that our body hair, skin tones, loud voices are unnatural, disgusting. our humanity portrayed as savagery, alien like sickness to be hidden forever in shame. i'm sick of this.
I feel that the idea of being penetrated is so married to having a vagina, perhaps even more so than femininity and femaleness are. people cannot conceive of a woman who just doesn’t want to be entered by anything (toys, fingers and tongue included) without it making her sexually dysfunctional in some way.
no one bats an eye if a man says he doesn’t want to be penetrated or have his nipples touched or something. of course, that’s natural, he’s a man. but when a woman says it, it’s weird and wrong, because she’s a woman, of course she must desire sex in that way.
I feel it’s just another layer of biological essentialism/determinism in the same way that “women must be naturally feminine and any deviation therefrom is dysfunctional” is.
chien-shiung wu disproved a fundamental law of physics and the nobel committee pretended she didn't exist
let me tell you about the most disrespected physicist you've never heard of.
chien-shiung wu was born in china in 1912. her father was radical for his time — he believed girls deserved education and founded a school for them. wu thrived. she moved to the US in 1936 to pursue graduate studies in physics at berkeley. she never saw her parents again. they died during the turmoil in china while she was building a career on the other side of the world.
she became one of the foremost experts on nuclear physics. during the manhattan project — yes THAT manhattan project — she was recruited to help solve a critical problem with nuclear reactors. she fixed it. she was one of the few women involved and her contributions were quietly filed away while the men around her became famous.
but the real betrayal came later.
in 1956 two theoretical physicists — tsung-dao lee and chen-ning yang — proposed something wild. they suggested that parity — a fundamental symmetry law in physics that had been assumed true for decades — might not hold in certain nuclear reactions. basically they were saying the universe might not be symmetrical in the way everyone believed. it was a bold claim. but it was just theory. someone needed to prove it.
they went to wu. because she was the best experimentalist alive. they knew it. everyone knew it.
wu designed and conducted one of the most elegant and difficult experiments in the history of physics. she cooled cobalt-60 atoms to near absolute zero and observed their radioactive decay. the results were clear. parity was violated. a law of physics that had been treated as sacred was wrong. she proved it.
the physics world was shaken. this was a massive deal. one of those moments that reshapes how we understand the universe.
in 1957 lee and yang won the nobel prize in physics. the fastest nobel award in history at the time. they proposed the theory. wu proved it. guess who the committee left out.
chien-shiung wu.
the two men who said "hey what if this law is wrong" got the highest honor in science. the woman who actually demonstrated that it WAS wrong got nothing. not even a shared prize. not even a mention.
let that sit for a second. in physics, theory without experimental proof is just a guess. lee and yang's idea would have remained a hypothesis without wu's experiment. she didn't assist. she didn't support. she DID the work that made the discovery real.
and it's not like she was unknown. she was called "the first lady of physics." her colleagues respected her enormously. lee and yang themselves acknowledged her work was essential. but the nobel committee looked at three chinese-american physicists, picked the two men, and moved on.
she spent the rest of her career continuing to do extraordinary work. she became the first woman president of the american physical society. she received other awards eventually. but the nobel — the one that would have put her in textbooks forever — never came.
she once said "i wonder whether the tiny atoms and nuclei, or the mathematical symbols, or the DNA molecules have any preference for either masculine or feminine treatment." she knew exactly what was happening. she just kept working anyway.
wu died in 1997. her gravestone reads "she was one of the giants of physics." and she was. but the world made her fight for every inch of recognition while handing glory to the men standing next to her.
the next time someone tells you science is a meritocracy remember chien-shiung wu. remember that she broke the universe's symmetry and the system still couldn't see past hers.
The ppl saying pap smears "are just mild discomfort" have never gotten a pap smear as virgin, as a lesbian who has never been penentrated, as a woman with vaginismus, as a woman with pelvic floor dysfunction, as a woman with complex sexual trauma or sexual vaginal injury or injury from childbirth. We're trying to tell you huge groups of women are excluded/ not considered by the typical pap smear technique and its a real and significant barrier to health care access.
Despite these situations and conditions being very common, for some reason a lot health care providers that offer routine pap smears are totally inconpetent and unprepared to handle these conditions/situations. And many act like you have 3 heads or youre just being difficult when you bring it up and try to get your needs met.
So a lot of women with specific needs have to shop around and spend significant time and money just try to get their needs met by a competent health care provider.
This should not be the case and its just another huge barrier to getting, what should be, routine care.
So people are not being babies, they're describing an unaddressed barrier to care.
Yes women need to advocate for themselves,speak up, be persistent, shop around, shell out extra cash- but all these things are just more barriers and no matter what you do- some women are gonna get left behind if something isn't done to revolutionize standard pap smears.
Tired of the fucking good girl submissive shit tbh.
In light of the no.1 trending topic on this site, I'd like to inform youse that Kitty Kendall, one of the survivors who bravely spoke out against Neil Gaiman and accused him of rape in 2025, has said here and here that if you are looking to support her and other survivors, you can make a donation to OurVOICE (the counselling service Kendall herself used) or your local rape crisis centre. If you can't make a donation, you can help to ensure people do not forget what Kendall and other survivors have gone through and continue to go through as they pursue legal action, and that Gaiman has already spent a lot of money in the attempt to sue these women for speaking out.
Here is the first article with the paywall removed
the people who claim to oppose “bioessentialism” will tell you that the usage of porn and the prostituting of women is normal, permissible and natural. it’s all just sexuality, after all. their sex therapist said it’s fine. their psychologist said eroticizing rape and sexual exploitation is just human nature. you wouldn’t want to be a conservative. sexual slavery is bad if it’s private, but good if it’s public, accessible to all, and socialized among the masses. 😉
the people who claim to oppose capitalism will critique every billion dollar industry on earth except for the ones that give them orgasms at the expense of millions of women and girls. suddenly, for women, consent makes exploitation permissible. you wouldn’t want to be a reactionary. communism is just for men, but the most that women can hope for is libertarianism.
the people who claim to oppose sexual violence will keep their heads down if the sexual violence results in an orgasm for the participants. strangulation is domestic violence unless someone requests it. consent makes abuse impossible, after all. you can’t abuse anyone if you garner consent before you do it. these people will claim to be “materialists.” you wouldn’t want to be a prude.
the people who engage in “media criticism” and care about “representation” fall silent when the representation of women and children in porn is a topic of discussion. suddenly, representation doesn’t matter if the representation is intended to give you an orgasm. they simply want more diversity among the sexual slaves. you wouldn’t want to be exclusionary.
i could go on lol but bottom line is it is of utmost political importance for feminists to oppose the right-wing while disentangling our political project out of the clutches of liberals and leftists. they have nothing to offer us but a prettier set of chains. they want to neutralize our attacks on male supremacy just as much as their right-wing political rivals. we cannot subsume our goals to either of them. this is not an appeal to centrism. it is an appeal for a revolutionary movement that views us as human beings. this “political spectrum” is where our movement goes to die.
stephenie meyer, greatest mind of our generation, talked about this
