MIDNIGHTS

Women can wear pants and play sports and that’s equality. Women don’t just belong inside the house. This woman has a career

This woman can be a mechanic just like a man could. She’s probably still a lesbian, though, which is basically the closest to a man a woman can *be*, and explains everything. But she’s still a person!

If a woman superhero CHOOSES to wear stilettos to fight crime, that’s girl power! This comic character written and designed by men wears a bikini and has a waist size of 12 inches because it makes her FEEL POWERFUL! Girls don’t HAVE to dress boyish to be strong! She can make you a sandwich AND be a feminist! Girl power!

What, are you saying women HAVE to do boy things to be taken seriously? Who are you to tell a woman what to do? Maybe some women NEED to get their hair and nails done twice a month to feel powerful! Maybe a lot of women WANT to be stay-at-home moms!

What I don’t think you understand is that women have an inherent feminine spirituality which guides them towards maternal and nurturing paths. Women need to honour their divine female aura to keep their. Their fuckin. Their chakras together or some shit. You should put quartz up your hooha and huff wheatgrass. Leaving manual labour and science and technology to men is natural and good for you spiritually

• No school beyond grade 6 for girls.

• No university, no jobs, not even nursing or working for the UN.

• No public spaces :parks, gyms, beauty salons, even restaurants are forbidden.

• No freedom of movement without a male guardian.

• No voice in public, sometimes not even at home if men can hear.

• No bodily autonomy, contraceptives banned, justice system weaponized, women flogged and stoned.

This isn’t “culture.” It’s the deliberate destruction of female existence in public and private life.

And yet… the world shrugs.

Why? Because women’s rights are always treated as negotiable. It’s not complex. It’s patriarchy with guns.

We don’t need “awareness.” We need rage that doesn’t fade and solidarity that doesn’t stop when the headlines do. Afghan women are resisting every single day, often at the risk of prison, torture, or death. The least we can do is refuse to normalize their oppression.

Silence is complicity.

On Thursday evening, independent journalist Ken Klippenstein reported that the FBI is developing tools to identify transgender suspects and classify them as “nihilistic violent extremists.” Within hours, the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation—the same outfit driving Project 2025’s blueprint now being implemented inside the federal government—released a four-page memo urging the bureau to go even further. Its proposal: formally designate all transgender activism as “Trans Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism,” a new category of domestic terror threat. It’s important to note that the Heritage Foundation is not itself the federal government, and to our knowledge, its proposals are not yet in place. But the group’s influence is vast, especially in the wake of a Trump administration openly committed to implementing Project 2025. That makes its latest push far more than just a think-tank memo—it’s a roadmap for policy. Here’s what you need to know about the proposal.

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Keep telling me where the hate speech is coming from.

imagine there was a man in the story who went around giving speeches about the importance of the lottery as a tradition. He said the casualties were unfortunate, but also an inevitable price of freedom. Imagine he treated those who sought to end the senseless cycle of violence with condescension and derision, calling them idiotic, naïve, and diseased.

yet when that man was selected for the lottery and stoned to death, everyone mourned him and said how unfair it was that a bright young family man should die so soon. And when people pointed out that this man was killed by a system he adamantly defended and worked to perpetuate, they lost their jobs and were shunned from the community as insensitive and monstrous.

Misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, or any other forms of bigotry are not ‘political beliefs.’ They are not policy positions, they are expressions of hatred, discrimination, and prejudice. They directly violate the principles of human rights and equality.

The difference is political beliefs can be debated and compromised upon, but hate speech and bigotry target people’s very existence and deny them safety, dignity, and equal treatment. Labeling discrimination as a ‘political opinion’ minimizes the harm it causes and is a way to excuse abuse.

And as a friend pointed out, she also caused an international incident that has many nations reconsidering future plans for American investment. South Korea has said they refuse to do future business with us, with their government questioning how "any sane nation" could consider such projects in the US now.

The economic impact of this bigoted jackass's publicity play could reach tens - perhaps hundreds - of billions of dollars, ravage the economies of manufacturing states, and handicap international business relations for decades to come.