the worst person you've ever met: the most revolutionary thing you can do is hang out with your friends. if you can't hang out with me you're denying me the sense of community i need to survive and yes i know went on a pseudo-political rant about how you're a terrible person last time i saw you because i felt rejected by you not wanting to take responsibility for my basic needs (which you don't want to do because you've been brainwashed by capitalism) but sometimes human relationships are messy and if you can't stand by me through good and bad you're literally an oppressor with an avoidant attachment style who doesn't understand that you being needed by me is a profound gift borne out of my gracious superhuman vulnerability. i took accountability. now you ๐ซต
Women are just as responsible for their roles in upholding the patriarchy as men are. They should not be given a pass by talking about how they were just "brainwashed" or conditioned into their beliefs.
Men and women have both been handed a belief system about EVERYTHING, including our roles in society and the ways we ought to treat each other, and once you're an adult you're 100% responsible for unpacking and unlearning all harmful programming and making good decisions. If you're not responsible, you're not a grown-up. To hold men accountable for this and to give women a pass is to say that men are sovereign, intelligent beings with free will, capable of reason and making a choice between good and evil, and women are not. It reduces women to status of robots with no free will, who are slaves to their programming, or to the status of mental children. It puts women on a level BENEATH men. We hold adults responsible for their actions. It's children who we point to and say, "They don't know any better, they're just doing what they've been told. Give them a break."
You know all these harmful patriarchal attitudes we waffle on about all day, like the idea that women should wear makeup and shave or that females are inferior to males? When you see a post with a thousand comments by women telling a girl she's ugly and needs to begin "looksmaxxing," you're seeing that self-hatred abusively being instilled into another young woman in real time...by women. It's happening right in front of you. It OFTEN comes from other women; THIS is how it's perpetuated!
Or when you hear about boy moms who abuse their daughters while favoring their sons, setting that girl up with a sense of low-self worth that she'll be looking to balance her whole life (probably with manipulative men or self-harming behaviors), you're seeing the message that "๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ" inflicted on one of your sisters - BY A WOMAN! Quite aggressively too, I might add!
If you saw a person abusing a child or beating a dog with a stick, you wouldn't tell yourself, "Well, they've probably just been taught to do that" or "Well, this OTHER group hurts kids and beats dogs far more often so, I guess I'll let this one slide," would you?
Hold abusers and agents of the patriarchy accountable wherever and whenever you see them. Shut it down. If you're against all this shit, act on it when you see it. No matter what individual you're standing against in any given moment, when you push back against these messages you're standing FOR women and against the patriarchy.
Some people have love for humanity, but no compassion for it, no real empathy for human beings that goes beyond the surface level and superficial. Being a misanthropist with compassion is better than being a philanthropist who thinks that there is ultimately nothing fundamentally wrong with the world, who thinks it's okay if all the horrors that humans are subjected to continue to persist, because they think "everything balances out in the end" or because "everything happens for a reason" or some shit. Like I'm sorry, but we definitely tolerate toxic positivity and allow it to masquerade as healthy optimism out of a fear of ever validating anything that seems "too edgy" way, way too much. At some point a desire to only think normal thoughts that aren't cringe turns into intellectual cowardice and moral laziness, and you've definitely reached that point if your attitude towards the abundance of heinous suffering in this world is just, "oh gee well that sure is unfortunate, but you know, ultimately life is beautiful and everything is okay, and none of that stuff really matters in the grand scheme of things, life is still inherently good, etc. etc."
If there is no form of suffering so heinous to you that you would rather vaporize the planet than allow it to continue for one more day, then I'm sorry but you are someone with a hollow and performative affection for your species. Valuing the mere absence or presence of human minds over the actual experiential quality of the lived realities of real humans will always be oonga boonga brain shit to me, I'm sorry. Like your primal drive to support the species' survival is dampening your higher moral functioning. I would rather live in a world where there's just three clones named Sally who are immortal and always happy, than live in a world where millions of people are enduring unspeakable horrors every single day, sorry. "The beauty of life" and "the wonderful tenacity of the human spirit" mean nothing to me when there are people living their entire lives in slavery and little girls are getting gangraped to death. The fact that people regularly take their own lives because their pain is so unbearable that they'd prefer to just cease existing should tell us all we need to know about the value of quantity vs. quality on this issue. Life itself is not inherently good any more than anything else is, and more life does not automatically equal more value and goodness. If you see nothing wrong with throwing new people into this world despite knowing what it could have in store for them, what potential fates they, or their children, could endure, then you only love humanity in the way you love coffee or a good book. You love the idea of humanity. The ideal of humanity. What humanity represents to you. You love humanity as a concept, not as a collection of individual human beings with thoughts and feelings.
nah nevermind i take everything back.
procreation is the ultimate evil, worse than rape and murder combined (that's not even touching all women's other evils), and so women are indeed the ultimate evil. there is no greater violation of bodily integrity or consent. women view the consent of their child to be born the same way men view women's right to, well, anything: opt-out by varying degreed of violence up to suicide. "that's what god/nature intended, for a man to have a woman, and for a woman to have a child." no crime committed against them is unjust. i will never speak ill of a man again. after all, their maleness was forced upon them against their will by their mother's act of procreation. men do not choose to be born male any more than i or any other woman chose to be born female, or born at all.
feminism is a joke. if you, you poor son of a bitch, had the great misfortune to have you mother not kill herself before giving birth to you, and other women have only ever seen you as another women in a rhetorical bid to coerce you but have otherwise known as stark as blood of white cotton that you are not them are what you are is repulsive and exists only to be mocked in-between being shunned, this is the guide you need to go by: hwstm. yes, like wwjd but not psychotic. "how would she treat me?" whenever you hear anything about a woman, ask yourself that question. a woman was burned alive on a train? how would she have treated me if we met before then? and, better yet, how do the masses of women around me respond to her murder: "people are so awful!" "not people! men!" "he was an illegal with a criminal history" "racist!!! all men are equally dangerous!!! ๐ " so the answer is most women would treat me like shit, and if a man killed me, they'd raise a cunting farm about it in public to raise their goodie social points while laughing about me in private and break their necks to enable the same shit that got me killed.
yeah. nah. women are all whores and every shred of compassion on wsdted on them will eat me still when i'm rotting in my grave.
it's just wild..all this down dirty advice for navigating relationships with men and for "normal" women, it all tracks...but for women like me, we just have to stop and remark how much of it applies to you, and you will never know.
"men can be misogynists while having gfs so why can't women do the same" and "sexualizing men is getting back at them" are such insidious false equivalents lol misogyny is a default for any male and they use sexualization as a tool of oppression because the system is built to oppress women. it's in their interests to keep women under the boot and their hatred for women isn't a source of cognitive dissonance in their relationships with women because they have the power in this dynamic. you claiming to be a misandrist while having a bf just proves you're a willing participant in your own subjugation and that you're all bark and no bite though
genuinely one of the most annoying things is when you criticize religion and someone has to come in like umm ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ but the text has been altered over time through faulty translation ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ if you look at this one rare version of the text from several hundred years ago as practiced in one town maybe from a certain angle while hanging upside down you can see that my god didnโt MEAN for all of this misogyny and rape and slavery and conquering and cruelty to happen in his name ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ or maybe even her name or their name ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ if we all returned to the TRUE version of the faith youโd see that it was good all along ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ like girl ! i do not believe in your god. he cannot be misinterpreted because he is not real and has not spoken. the church is an institution which is made up of people! it preaches certain values and arranges certain orders and has an obscene level of influence in our supposedly secular government, and all of these things are carried out by people with agendas who have the arrogance to believe they are imbued with divine authority. a religion is precisely what it is in practice and nothing more or less!
These women want to be hand-held and coddled as they willingly walk into the fire. It's just not gonna happen. Sorry. You're going to get criticism and pushback. You cannot navigate relationships with men safely. There will always be risks regardless of how many legal or cultural boundaries you attempt to put in place to protect women.
At this point you have already been told the risks of rape and violence; you have already been told the truth about male nature that you choose to ignore in favor of adopting the socialization cope; you already have abortifacients and contraception, as well as resources available for women in DV situations and these are not perfect solutions. So what is the last bastion of defense against males other than to avoid them altogether which the bulk of you refuse to do or act like if you do it Gilead will descend upon us as if it isn't already while women are still willingly giving men what they want?
It is illogical for OSA women to sit up here saying that men are evil predators, pedos, and rapists and then turn around and defend dick to the death, continuing to serve them and birth their sons.
You should be saying this to the MEN who deprive you women of safe, fulfilling relationships by being the way they are.
All WE are doing is pointing out that you are the ones choosing to date your oppressor, gamble with your lives, and choosing to pursue the same men that you KNOW are dangerous and deceptive. And then when you inevitably get burnt you throw tantrums towards the women who don't participate in your trauma-bonding circle-jerk and pat you on the back for what the big bad man did.