Remember those bonobos? That could be us...

Posts like these really exemplify how much society hates women cause you can’t even talk about your oppression too much or else you’ll be compared to violent dangerous demanding men. 12k+ notes and 99% of the reblogs is people agreeing with this shit with tags saying “never thought of it like this.” Yeah because the correlation isn’t fucking there!

this survey is so compelling, and the eighty-eight questions are broken up into their own seperate topics. some of these are:

lesbian erasure

misogynoir

misinformation

personal anecdotes

i strongly recommend looking through this website if you have the time. this is amazing insight into a topic that nobody really gives a fuck about. i can't believe it's been five years and nothing has changed.

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “Equating trans inclusiveness to inclusion of black women in women’s spaces is one of the most racist acts I’ve witnessed in this debate. It underlines the fact that these people do NOT consider black women “woman enough” and they see womanhood as a performance of white femininity rather than a state of existence”.

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “The way they use colonialism and slavery as the reason there is binary view of the human sex in other cultures is plainly offensive, as if they could not have developed an explanation of the world based on facts if the Westerners were not to have ‘impose it’. Do they know that there are countries that were never colonised and have a binary concept of sex too? I guess they don’t care.”

RESPONDENT COMMENT: “I believe it is manipulative & dishonest of TRAs to appropriate others struggles to prop up their ideology.”

Does Erdogan think we just woke up one day and decided it was better to take on Turkish faith and identity, and not our old Slavic and Christian identity?

Our great-grandmothers still bore tattoos that gained popularity amongst Bosnian-Croat woman to protect themselves from conversion and sexual slavery. Young girls were tattooed with crosses and other southern Slavic motifs (likely originating in paganism) because tattooed girls would not be converted to Islam or kidnapped and made slaves in the Empire.

I would imagine death did await some of those women who refused to lose links to their Slavic and Catholic heritage. Since they were "tainted" and useless as Muslims and slaves.

Southern Europeans fought the Ottomans for a reason. They invaded our lands. Croatians, Hungarians, Serbs, etc. Or do those battles not count as any sort of colonialism to this fucking roach, Erdogan?

"oh, that's easy! it's because they're fundamentally Bad people who want to hurt others and choose their beliefs to justify that! :) hope this helps"

or

"they just don't have access to the same information we do. look at this person who was raised in a cult! don't you feel sorry for her?"

and like, yes, fine, some people were in fact raised in cults, but what i wish people would understand is that the bulk of it is just normal human flaws, like:

they want to believe stuff that makes them feel smart and cool and like they've figured everything out (you also do this)

they want to believe stuff that makes them feel like their emotions are justified and grounded in reality, and that the people they want to hurt deserve to be hurt (you also do this)

they form conclusions before they've processed all the relevant information, and cling to that first impression even when new info comes to light (you also do this)

they pick up beliefs from the people around them because they want to be liked and fit in, not because the beliefs are good or true (you also do this)

they come up with reasons that the stuff that benefits them (and the people they like and identify with) is actually overwhelmingly best for everyone and obviously the right thing to do (you also do this)

they pay more attention to stuff that supports what they already believe and avoid looking in places that might show them otherwise (you also do this)

they listen to people who talk like 'one of them' and ignore others (you also do this)

they come up with reasons to dismiss people with conflicting viewpoints as obviously in bad faith or ignorant or a shill or evil (you also do this)

they fail to take their own beliefs seriously sometimes, and take their beliefs way too seriously other times, in a selective way that lets them do the things they already wanted to do (you also do this)

the very ways they construct the ideas of 'knowledge' and 'wisdom' and 'belief' and 'understanding' are biased so that what they don't want to believe comes under lots of scrutiny and what they do want to believe receives less (you also do this)

you, dear reader, are presumably right about everything and were correct to die on every hill you've ever died on, but the difference between you and someone who's wrong about important stuff doesn't look like "well they're inherently evil and i'm not", it probably looks like a combination of:

natural environment (they would have been exposed to different information than you regardless of their choices)

being in the right place at the right time (your particular profile of flaws and virtues happened to be what was needed to lead you to the right conclusions, they had the opposite experience)

random luck (you doubled down on what felt right to believe but wasn't, but it turned out to be inconsequential, or even right for different reasons, while they doubled down on what turned out to be a horrible mistake distorting their entire worldview)

you do less of the things in the previous list, and over time the difference between you and them adds up

and, look, i also do these things. the nicest and most thoughtful people i've ever met do these things. if you meet someone who never does any of these things, i dunno, give them a fucking medal or something.

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PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it.