Men control the courts as well.. Less than 1% of rape actually ends in a conviction. Pedophiles (those who physically harm a child and watch CSAM) are punished so lightly, it’s hardly considered a crime at all. And the amount of vitriol a woman faces when coming out with a claim of being raped, is a conscious act by men to keep women scared of talking.
Pornography is another help to men. Female pain has been eroticized, of course women naturally like to be brutalized- and the rough sex defence is created for them. The idea that women exist in a state of masochism is porn created, and serves to destroy the credibility of women who have been victimized.
The abuse faced in the court systems, by judges and lawyers to rape victims is a systematic attempt to demoralize women. The widespread notion of ‘false accusations’ men have created that each woman makes, is their universally created defence.
The idea of one woman lying, destroys all women’s credibility, but 100’s of men raping doesn’t destroy a man’s. Even their ideology is inconsistent, when women speak of rape and sexual violence faced by men, ‘it’s not all men’ but when they slander women as liars, false accusers, promiscuous, whores, they don’t once care about not generalizing.
This is how patriarchy is systematic, and all men are it’s foot soldiers. The regular men, who spread tales of women as manipulative liars plotting to ruin a man’s life, to the pornographer and male porn actor who sell the lie that the porn actress is enjoying her suffering, to the male court system that exists to protect men’s interests.
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one of the main principles of radical feminism is being anti-organized religion. i see radfem woc talking about how racism affects misogyny more then i see anywhere else (as they should), and not affirming and agreeing with the ethics of someones identity isnt the same as 'really hating them'.
Radical feminism sounds so cool and great an amazing but then you look deeper and are like "do you think critically about how race and gender intersect to create unique discrimiantion for women of color?" and they're like "no?" and your like "oh so you must think critically about how religion is often a tool of sexism?" and they're like, "no?" and so you're getting kind of confused, because what is radical about it, so you ask just that and they're like "we really hate trans women and think trans men are confused and just trying to escape the patriarchy" and you're like ohhh. so you're a fucking freak (derogatory).
I hope you don't mind, I'd like to recommend you some authors for your journey as a young Feminist.
Audre Lorde and bell hooks are two of the most prominent Black, Visionary, Feminists to have ever written. They are foundational staples in Visionary Feminism.
Lorde's short speeches "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" and "There Is No Hierarchy Of Oppressions" are staples of Feminist literature and if you have access to your local library they can be found in The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, curated by Roxane Gay. "Sister Outsider" is also a staple book of hers.
I specifically recommend "Feminism is for Everybody" by hooks as well as looking into some of the many talks she was a part of before she passed that are all uploaded on YouTube.
Judith Butler is a highly academic read, but very easy to listen to if you look up interviews with them. If you're interested in higher academia Feminist thought, "Gender Trouble" is a great place to start and "Who's Afraid of Gender" really gets into current events and modern politics.
Leslie Feinberg is also a staple lesbian author. You can find a free PDF copy of "Stone Butch Blues" on Feinberg's website - lesliefeinberg.net.
I also recommend Kimberlé Crenshaw, Mikki Kendall, and María Lugones. Crenshaw is a key voice regarding Critical Race Theory and she has many speeches and talks that you can find on YouTube. Mikki Kendall is the author of "Hood Feminism" - which is a staple on my own shelf. Lugones was an Argentine feminist philosopher and similar to Butler, she was deeply academic. Her work is in dialogue with another Peruvian humanist thinker, Aníbal Quijano, regarding colonialism and power.
Most of those books should be available at your local library and almost of these thinkers have talks and speeches freely available on YouTube as well. I truly wish you well in your growth as a young Feminist voice.
i really appreciate this!! ill definitely look into these the next time i go to the library :)
I was having an argument with a TIM regarding radical feminism and he kept strawmanning what radical feminism even is by saying "terfs are upholding gender as a social construct and are against gender abolition", whenever I tell him that's not true he keeps calling me ableist insults. He also believes that actual lesbians attracted to actual women are "pussysexual"
Everytime I feel like maybe there's some good individuals among these people I keep getting proven wrong, males are truly the worst and I hope the male loneliness epidemic turns into a pandemic
Anyway sorry for the rant I just felt like doing it
a fellow radfem minor?? this is crazyyy
also i love your blog, apologies for all the sudden reblogs and likes lmao
HII i feel like theres only a few of us on tumblr 💔 i barely see anyone under 20
why do you use the term womyn? why not just woman?
to avoid seeming like an adaptation of the word men or man. the spelling actually dates back to the 1970s :)
do you want any book recs? feminist or otherwise?
i was too scared to ask lol, yes id love that! :-)
stop waiting for not upholding the pedophillic and unrealistic beauty standards to be "normalized".
the men you attract while looking like a child arent the men you should want to date.
PEOPLE’S MARCH???? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?? THIS IS WHY THE LEFT STAYS LOSING BYE
blooood on my hands because womyn is defined properly..
"I don't like JRK but I still love Harry Potter"
You have blood on your hands
Burn your fucking Harry Potter merch or be burned with it.
I'm fucking livid.