I believe the myth that anger turns you into the people/person that abused you was created to keep women placated and in a position where we are never fully able to take ownership of their own rage because, according to that myth, that makes you just as bad as your abusers. Please be a hater and angry till the day you die. WHAT THEY DID WAS NEVER OKAY AND IT NEVER WILL BE.
Is having a son really worth the risk? I don’t think so. Go 4B, don’t contribute to the cycle of suffering, be unwilling to birth an oppressor or a victim. We don’t need any more babies in this world, whether they be boys or girls.
This is the DREAM.
-Anaïs Nin, 1939
I just can't get behind this mindset that adult women, some of whom are ultra-rich and educated, are victims of their own choices - such as walking around naked in public, or choosing to do some other degrading thing they weren't forced into (and were paid very well to do, hence why they did it.) Women are not pieces of hay floating helplessly hither and thither by whatever new "breeze" of influence comes upon them. Sometimes a woman making a bad choice is just a woman making a bad choice without any coersion, and she knows exactly what she's doing and why.
I don't care if you want to refrain from judging them for their decisions, but you should seriously question why you think they're not capable of consciously choosing them, or why you think those decisions can't be criticized for the standard they're upholding for other women. Because if you think women have no real agency, then feminism is pointless and you may as well let the men (the people you DO think can make decisions and who you hold responsible for them) do your thinking for you.
Shout-out to the homeless woman who chose to commit armed robberies instead of cock-gobbling. I see you, I hear you and I love you.
TRAs be like: Are you gay as in bisexual or gay as in transphobic
Women are not victims are patriarchy. They're co-authors.
The facade of helpless victim needs to end. As if a woman never set another woman up to get assaulted by a man, as if a mother never harmed her own damn kids, as if women don't don't possess a fucking lick of evil within themselves.
Refusing to coddle grown women isn't misogyny, by the way. Grow up.
These feel-good feminist and their drivel are just as harmful as any other religious figurehead.
Preaching about mother yoniverse and her fertile womb raining down abundance on women is the same as the pastor telling his followers how god will reward them for doing nothing.
Same mind fuck, different language and audience.
If it's not actually changing the conditions of your life you need to throw the shit away. It's useless. You'll end up impoverished with a big ego, what good is that?
"Female empowerment" is useless if it isn't actually giving you the tools to gain economic success and power. You're lying if you think that shit isn't important.
Leftism is a rotten ideology thats been spoiling ever since Marx and Engels started writing books, leftism is nothing more than the idolization of old white men and the worshipping of long dead totalitarian regimes. There will be no international proletarian revolution, reading theory is not praxis, your leftcom book club will not make any new ground breaking theories, and your marxist newspaper will not spark revolution. We fight here and now with no end goal of some communist utopia. We live in the moment and our communes are not planned nor are they preparing for the future. They simply are, they are autonomous unions of mutual association and work towards no goal other than their own self interest. Communization or anarcho nihilism or insurrectionary egoism or whatever you want to call it is far more practical and realistic than leftism. Break Bones and Love Freely.
Let me just say people who want to be smart, people who want to think critically, people who want to be knowledgeable will always find a way. someone using chat gpt to write an essay they didn't care about in the first place, isn't eroding their critical thinking because that's not a skill they were ever interested in improving.
Everytime a new form of media or tool gets presented, everyone has this idea that we've "fallen" from the previous intellectually "pure" era, I had teachers that would complain about our access to Google because we should all go to the library. The culprit always shifts tv made people dumb, google,video games, YouTube, tiktok, chat gpt etc. Every few years someone is like *this* is the moment intellect died and *this* is the tool/media to blame.
You guys give people too much credit. A lot of this discourse assumes there are tons of people who engaged critically with every task, and then chatgpt ate their brain 😔 The truth is most people are just trying to get the task out of the way and move on to watching tiktok or a livestream for 5 hours. BE FUCKING FOR REAL for just a millisecond.
My dad was the only one who on his street that went to the library when he was growing up, his mates would listen to the radio enjoying the shade under a mango tree. Did the shade and radio give them a lobotomy that stopped them from wanting to read books? I'm confused.
Here's something that's true always no matter what : The average human will choose McDonald's for the mind over putting in real effort. People choose ease, people choose comfort. Do couches destroy muscle, do cushions destroy physical fitness. Should I blame memory foam for the fact that you haven't jogged since highschool PE or are those just your personal choices....
Blaming tools and "ease" for the lack of people's interest in learning is tired as fuck like. The doors have never been more open JSTOR is right there, we are drowning in free pdfs, there are documentaries everywhere. You can get free courses and resources from the top universities in the world, there are full university level courses on youtube for free.
There's no crisis of intellect here, I think a lot of you are just shocked at how many people never gave a fuck. I saw a grown man with a beard reading the hunger games in public, it's been hell out here for a long time.