i've read your article and i have to say, i'm honestly speechless. a lot of what you're arguing about are the same talking points of traditionalists and misogynistic spheres alike, and not to mention incredibly victim-blaming against women who have suffered from male violence and are trying to do all they can to separate themselves from that system.
women are not rehabilitation centers for men. we don't deserve to get beaten by men so that the public world don't have to worry so much about domestic terrorism by the male sex. we are not meant to be shock absorbers of male violence in the home so that he can behave outside of it. you argue that if 5% of american women dropped men altogether tomorrow, that's 5% of men who won't have a female partner, won't have female friends, and will behave violently when left to his own devices.
women CANNOT pacify and temper men's aggressive behaviors. men beat their wives, hit their girlfriends, abuse their daughters, rape their granddaughters, and murder female prostitutes and strip dancers. these men have complete access to women and it still cannot prevent violence from happening.
it ignores the reality of women who go on to marry and have children with men end up suffering from domestic violence anyway. it ignores the news of men who annihilate their entire families because he suddenly found a new woman to get with. it especially ignores both the times in history, as well as current events, that outlines how women who are dependent on men completely still suffer from misogynistic violence anyway.
"Separatism appeals to atypical women. Women who have likely not had positive relationships with men and/or are same-sex attracted, not to mention women who are ambitious." ah yes, because when in doubt, just blame lesbians for men being disgusting towards women and children. lesbians with bad relationships with their fathers are the evil ones who have the audacity to shed light on heteropatriarchy. maybe they shouldn't have rode a bike when they were younger, maybe they shouldn't have been molested by their uncles, maybe then they would grow up to be a normal woman, much like your tumblr heading.
"If it makes some women’s lives better to be a separatist I support them, not everyone wants a large life and no one is under any obligation to interact with people they do not want to."
why do you assume that a woman's life must be empty and small and isolated and sheltered or otherwise meaningless unless she's actively fucking men? do our friendship with other people, namely women, seem pointless unless it's with a man? do our ambitions in going to university, opening up our own businesses, going to political rallies and protests, traveling around the world, learning new things everyday, buying our own land and homes and vehicles and anything else that used to be banned for us to own without male approval, and so much more, all seem pointless to you?
"However I am tired of pretending separatism is a viable and useful political strategy. When one steps out of the feminist sphere where it is normalized, one can see it as it is–which is a childish larp. “Me and my friends are going to create womyn’s land away from moids with cooties!!”"
no, baby girl. just as people have pushed back in retaliation against women wanting to build shelters to care for abused and homeless women, just as certain activists have tried to harm women from creating our own same sex spaces, and just as men come in to destroy our women empowerment organizations have all done before.. your article is like hearing the death rattle of patriarchy as it tries to reel us all back in the home. you are no different than MAGA asswipes who call any woman a damaged, fatherless lesbian when she says she wishes to get away from men.
i'm honestly begging you, and anyone who merely slightly agree with the tenets of radical feminism, to leave us alone already. if you're appalled by what we preach, please please please just go into another space who also believe all women belong to men. might i suggest mormonism?
