Don't let the bastards get you down

There is nothing enlightened or progressive about ancient cultures being inclusive of eunuchs/effeminate men or allowing certain men to be grouped with women. Femininity was never about womanhood, it was always non-masculinity. A man can be degraded to femininity, but a woman, seen as naturally inferior scum, can never rectify her status.

As someone with an anthropology degree, it frustrates me how few people understand this. The concept of a "third gender" in other cultures is almost exclusively used as a place to "downgrade" a gay or otherwise non-traditional man into some lower but semi-useful (and often extremely objectified and "othered,") space in society. Women who are lesbians or non-traditional don't get to move into a "third gender" category. The rare instances where this has been seen, it's always strictly symbolic and very much to the woman's detriment. This cultural practice, where present, is entirely a result of homophobia and misogyny.

we're getting closer to midterms. I am sensing online bullshit on the horizon.

I see so many people saying shit like "the way fandoms behave makes me really nervous to write the story I want to write, what if my fandom sucks" and I just want to sit down with all of them and be like it's ok, you don't have to worry, you're not going to be famous

when you're a woman and you say the pattern will happen again at the precipice of the pattern happening again: "You are crazy and hysterical." when the pattern has happened again: "Who could have predicted this."

I wonder if this is why some authors, whose work I genuinely enjoy, have gone very downhill in quality the last couple of years.

Ma'am, we're sorry to have to tell you this, but your husband had an accident at the Pianos, Anvils, and Comically Large Panes of Glass Incorporated factory...

he was hit by a car in the parking lot

many people clearly believe that for the benefit of the community, women must simply absorb male violence. that it's their role in the community. that men are the community, and his violence needs to go somewhere acceptable. and the acceptable place is at her.

they should make a website that is basically like a diary except your vent writings are read by thousands of people who scrutinize you for not accounting for their own personal experiences

It is imperative that all women (including lesbians, as any gender critical lesbian can tell you) understand that these men’s sense of entitlement to our bodies is directly connected to their societal, if not straight up legal, entitlement to the bodies of prostituted women and girls. (This is something Dworkin mentioned in Right Wing Women!) Libfems keep throwing prostituted women under the bus and saying “go hire a prostitute” and even if that were an even remotely ethical thing to say, it is straight up feeding the very same sense of entitlement he feels toward other women. Sorry

Remember that the most important thing you can do as a feminist is watch other women like a hawk for any mistakes or missteps and then hold those against her in perpetuity and allow no room for growth or understanding.

A sense of smug superiority over the dummies who don't know as much as you is more important than solidarity. Never forget that. Women who make mistakes are idiots.