The Audacity of Men

it seems like things are getting worse because they are, but that is not a reason to lose hope. this has happened before, and feminism did not die then, nor will it die today, tomorrow, or twenty years from now. this miserable time period we find ourselves in is patriarchy in crisis. they want you to believe there is no hope. but patriarchs are paper tigers. beneath all of these renewed, aggressive moves to reestablish power and control lies fear, because we have demonstrated before, and will demonstrate again, that our resistance cannot be stamped out, and that feminist progress will march on with or without their permission. don't be discouraged by patriarchal revanchism. take courage in the knowledge we have survived this. we will survive it again. the oppressor fears nothing more than the indomitable spirit of the oppressed.

Important to note that this is on us to actively do, don’t fall for the fallacy of progress as a linear passive system always trending upwards. We are all responsible for keeping the movement alive and pushing forward even during times of repression and backlash. This is on us.

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This seems to be what I've learned.

I feel this Virginia Woolf quote every time during literature or history class when it's yet again about a freedom loving freedom fighting heroic man who truly didn't consider women being apart of said freedom

"oh my god I didn't know this person was straight they dress/act/speak sooo gay" i'm going to kill you i'm gonna do it "or maybe their egg is about to crack" i swear to fucking god the only thing cracking here will be your skull

My community used to allow female to female marriages but all those women were still circumcised. My language does not have "she" or "he" but that did not save any of us from misogyny. My friend's community doesn't even have gendered slurs and she still had to run away when she was 11 so that she wouldn't be circumcised. There is no solution other than uprooting the whole system. Creating more categories does nothing.

I wish I got paid every time you guys make a Freudian slip of accidentally admitting you know trans women are men.

A bottomless curse, a bottomless sea...