when people say that women in the entertainment industry who are sexualised are expressing their own sexuality, i often think of these youtube videos that came out when i was a teenager from the buzzfeed try guys of all people
in the first one, they get styled and photoshopped the way male celebrities do, and in the second they are styled, posed and photoshopped like female celebrities
their comments are surprisingly insightful
"there was nothing human about that, i was just an object"
"in an effort to photoshop you more to female standards, your look has gone from 'i will either murder or fuck you' to 'wont you please come fuck me?'"
when women are styled this way, they aren't expressing their own desire, they're embodying cultural stereotypes that say women don't have their own sexuality, they are objects for men to project their own sexuality onto. and when male sexuality is caught up in ideas of dominance and conquest, performing for the male gaze becomes consistently degrading
crazy how some women think they’re hated for being …feminine and not because they’re ummm women….
People be like, “Oh, you’re reducing womanhood to just having a vagina.”
And I’m like... yeah....
The fact I was born with a vulva was the entire baseline of the sexism I faced growing up and still face every day.
It’s not some abstract identity or feeling. It’s the brutal, physical reality that shaped how the world treated me from day one.
So don’t tell me womanhood isn’t tied to the body when that body has been the frontline of every fight I’ve had to survive.
I love my body, if I’m being honest: Like, thank you for carrying me through all this kind of love.
But it’s also just a body. It’s weird. It leaks. It gets sore. It’s lopsided and unpredictable at times, my back hurts a lot.
Because it’s human, my vessel, not my whole story.
But unfortunately, outside factors have tried to disrupt that and tried to make me distrust this body.
Tried to convince me it was too much, too little, too wrong, too dangerous, too female.
They taught me to flinch at my reflection and to see my body as something to fix, cover, offer, or hide.
All because I have a vulva.
A vagina.
Labia.
Ovaries.
A uterus.
Tubes.
Mammary glands.
That’s all it took.
Not my words. Not my thoughts. Not my heart or how I treat people.
Just the fact that I was born in this body with these parts and suddenly the world decided what I deserved.
Pain. Shame. Control. Violation. Comparison. Dismissal.
They built entire systems to punish me for being born with organs I didn’t choose.
And then had the audacity to tell me I was reducing womanhood by naming the body they’ve spent centuries trying to control.
So yeah I’m a woman because I have a vagina.
Deal with it 💋
“women used to marry young and have a lot of children” VS “men used to marry women when they were still little girls and force them to be pregnant and give birth their whole life”.
“in the past women didn’t get education” VS “in the past, men stopped women from getting education and excluded them from all cultural spheres”.
“muslim women must wear hijab” VS “muslim men force muslim women wear hijab”.
“in this country, abortion is illegal” VS “men in this country made women getting abortion illegal”.
women’s oppression doesn’t happen by itself. women’s oppression isn’t passive. there is an oppressor class that actively chooses to oppress women, and the oppressor class is MEN.
I’m not interested in a world where men really want to watch porn but resist because they’ve been shamed; I’m interested in a world where men are raised from birth with such an unshakable understanding of women as living human beings that they are incapable of being aroused by their exploitation.
no amount of women hating men on the internet will compare to the acts of misogynistic violence men commit. you can control the media you want to consume, you can not control the acts of others out in the real world. stop comparing women posting “i hate men” to men killing women out there. misandry isn’t real.
We should bring back lobotomies. Just for you.
“feminism has taken away true love !1!!!” THIS IS WHAT FEMINISM SAVED US FROM.
every woman thinks she's evil and irredeemable for making a few avoidable mistakes while every man goes about his day thinking he's normal after having emotionally tortured at least 5 different women
“i wish i could go out braless but-“ “i wish i didn’t have to shave but-“ “i wish i didn’t have to wear makeup but-“ STAND UPPPP FUCKING STAND UP JUST DO WHAT YOU WANT. NOBODY IS GOING TO SHOOT YOU OR ARREST YOU FOR BEING A LITTLE “UGLY” UOU WILL LIVE AND REALIZE THAT YOUVE BEEN IN A prison largely of your own making THIS WHOLE TIME
The rates of abuse that trans identified males face are irrelevant to the discussion. It’s not an issue that will be solved by allowing anyone who simply identifies as a woman into female exclusive facilities. I’m sorry, but women’s spaces do not exist to protect men from male violence.
Trans identified males cannot experience misogyny. Misogyny is sex based discrimination, hatred, subjugation, and oppression. Women don’t experience misogyny because we dress or present a certain way. We experience misogyny because we have female reproductive organs, and our bodies and unpaid labor are valuable resources to men that they seek to control for their own gain. If a passing TIM (exception, not the rule) is the butt of a misogynistic joke, or has misogynistic slurs thrown at him, that is not the same as centuries of women and little girls being forced into domestic servitude, raped, repeatedly forced to birth children, denied the right to vote, attend school, divorce, own a home, work to earn a living, murdered by their fathers, brothers, and husbands, lobotomized, hidden away by religious extremists, sold like cattle, used as wombs by the elite, prostituted, and every other inconceivable abuse women and girls have endured for nearly all of human history, all over the world. If someone calls me the f slur, it doesn’t mean I’m the victim of homophobia (they’re still a homophobe).
Men choosing to undergo extensive cosmetic surgery and hormonal therapy (or simply socially transitioning) are not entitled access to spaces that are meant exclusively for women and girls.
I agree, build more trans spaces. Unisex, single occupancy, lockable bathrooms and changing areas, open categories in sports, shelters that are intended for transgender people, making shelters that have a primarily male population safer, sections in men’s prisons that are safe for homosexual and transgender males. Really, the issue isn’t solely that trans people are lacking a safe space, it’s that males make every space they occupy UNSAFE. Which is exactly why women want our single sex spaces left single sex.
It also needs to be acknowledged that trans identified males retain male patterns of offending. Women (who are labeled TERF bigots and disregarded) have tried to call attention to the issue of men and boys who were granted access to our spaces by lawmakers and activists committing sexual and violent assaults against women and girls.
I’m so tired of seeing women defending men. Not angry, not frustrated (okay maybe a little) but tired.
Cuz I used to be the “not all men” type, then I realised, how many men do the same for us? Sexism is ingrained in meme culture: girls like titantic, boys like cool thing; women ☕️ amiright?; I-hate-my-wife culture; FEMINIST KAREN DESTROYED 🔥🔥BY SIGMA LOGIC; Uhh actually 🤓 being kicked in the balls hurts more than child birth.
THE EXISTENCE OF ANDREW TATE.
But as soon as women go “yeah I’d pick the bear 🐻” they lose their minds. How dare they prefer to be torn apart by a bear than encounter a man! Should we use this as a way to reflect on our behaviour as a sex and WHY they think this way? Nah, let’s describe the brutal ways in which we’d like them to be killed by said bear and joke about how we’d sit and watch.
People misunderstand: men like *sex* but they do not like women hence why they’re advocating for sexbots and ai companions. Unlike women, men would not defend you in an argument out of the purity of his heart.