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Smth that I think even radfems ignore about women identifying with male characters and preferring male narratives is in stories with all men/mostly men, there's very rarely any sexual violence shown on screen. Take a classic movie like The Shawshank Redemption for instance, where the male protagonist is a victim of assault (rare as is). When Andy's experience of sexual violence is mentioned or implied, it's portrayed as horrific. It fades to black. It's shadows. There's no gratuitous scenes of groping, no voyeuristic shots of his face looking pouty and hands running along his hips. When was the last time you saw a story where the female protagonist was given that kind of dignity?

I dont think taylor swift is actually malicious but if she were to come across like, a car accident victim bleeding out in the road i feel like she would kind of watch in a curious, detatched fascination for at least a couple minutes

@ terfs and radfems who are pro-gender abolition but don’t believe in nonbinary people, why?

I wish men were as emotionally repressed and stoic as they think they are. Maybe I'd have some peace and fucking quiet without their 24/7 bitching and whining about meaningless shit

I’m getting sick of male doctors assuming that more women get depressed than men because of hormones and not because of the most obvious cause of all, which is misogyny/living in a patriarchy. There needs to be more discussion about the connection between growing up as a girl and a woman in patriarchy and mental illness.

not to open up a can of worms or beat a topic to death. but i plainly do trust women more and think that they’re more decent than men as a whole, and i’m not planning on abandoning that until i see compelling reason not to act that way. it’s not that i believe women are beings of pure light and goodness, i think that they have basic decency and behave normally (with a range between good + bad behaviors) toward others. whatever you want to describe male behavior as, whatever source you want to put it down to, it’s clearly a deviation from the behavioral norm to me. whatever series of choices are being made there are the wrong ones, and i’m not going to treat that as the baseline for human behavior. Good Night.

This sums up something I’ve been thinking about recently. Saying “women are more trustworthy than men” does not mean “all women are kind, nurturing, selfless and incapable of violence”. It means women as a whole are way better at being human than men are.

it does seem that decorating yourself is a pretty basic human thing, but femininity treats decorating yourself as a design challenge rather than an artistic endeavour. in a matriarchy, you probably would paint your nails despite them restricting how you use your fingers, you might wear jangly jewelery that's impractical and uncomfortable, because the human body was made for more than just pure rigid practicality 24/7. old-timey men used to wear high heels as status symbol. but women are not the oppressor class, and it's the way in which we engage with femininity rituals that will inevitably make them harmful (for one, men wearing high heels don't have to be worried that a woman is going to chase them down and rape them). and then there's the inherent concern of the psychologial impact of viewing yourself as a customisable canvas rather than an animal - if you're already dehumanised in society, you're vulnerable to that type of thinking from the get-go.

what if i don’t want to Express a Gender. what if i’m a woman who’d rather her clothes not be imbued with profound meaning for like, five fucking minutes

honorary terf post

this whole pandemic has been hell for feminist conciousness for some reason like women have lost a million more jobs than men have during covid and many are trapped in their homes pulling double duty of work and nonstop childcare and simultaneously it’s been nonstop soft propaganda about the evils of “girlbossery” starting with this carole baskin shit at the beginning of 2020 and now leading up to nonsensical attacks on a movie/book from 5 years ago. it’s like some kind of psyop to preemptively shut us up about the fact that women are the first to get fucked and the last to get justice in any kind of crisis situation. oh youre sad women are losing jobs? shut up girlboss women shouldnt have jobs in the first place

+ many women reacting to not being constantly surveilled for the first time by being like “wow i actually feel like a human being for once, i must not actually be female” as if being female itself is incompatible with humanity instead of just a neutral fact, with femininity being the artificial construct that is incompatible with humanity

“…as if being female itself is incompatible with humanity instead of just a neutral fact, with femininity being the artificial construct that is incompatible with humanity”

As Mia said-People won't call out Bang Bros who still makes that kind of content with dozens of other girls, won't call out PornHub, and the hundreds of other streaming sites who host and allow the streaming of said content, won't call out your uncles, brothers, husbands and fathers who all watch- but Mia, who publicly said she regrets her porn career and considers it a source of trauma and pain- that's who you choose to hold responsible for sexualizing hijabis? On behalf of a religious practice that in and of itself sexualizes the female body so much that it's presumed that a woman's ankle or strand of hair would arouse a man and therefore must remain hidden so as not to tempt him? Sometimes the hypocrisy and inequality of patriarchal thinking is just too much to bear.