Women Only

while male soldiers that were coming back were praised, women used to hide their medals and kept their own victories as secrets. they were not only seen as lesser beings, women that fought in the military were called "frontline dolls". post-war society considered them used. families estranged them.

women that fought for their country, risked their lives, came back disabled were not important to the society anymore. they were raped, they had things thrown at them, they were laughed at. no man wanted to marry them, and nothing was as dehumanasing towards women as not being considered "marriage material" -- they basically lost all of their worth to male society.

look at the depp vs heard trial. look at how little to no men believed her from the start, but the moment depp said "no i didn't do this" without any actual proof they believed him. all he had to do is combine a pr team to spread bullshit. he didn't have to actually prove a single thing.

deppies were asking to release court documents and the court actually did. but they didn't look through. not even once. because then they'd see his messages about how he was the one to come up with the poop idea, or how he wanted to rape her dead body. they were so hyped to hate on a woman they didn't even listen to his own words about how he cut his own finger off in another one of his alcohol rages.

but the moment someone made up some stupid shit about how amber did cocaine in a court room, or how she rented a child, or some other actually insane trump-style bs, they believed. because a man said so. just some random words were more than enough to completely dehumanise her. to laugh at her crying. to use her rape story as a tiktok sound effect.

"The mental geography of Amerika is a landscape of forgetfulness, useful in a country saturated with sexual abuse; a flat nothingness— no history, no yesterday with facts and details; a desert lit up by the blinding glare of a relentless, empty optimism. The past is obliterated, because the past is burdened by bad news.

Slavery is a rumor, except that some black folk seem extremely pissed off about it. Rape is a lie, useful once for persecuting black men haunted by the rumor of slavery but now taken up with malignant intent by fanatic, angry women, traitors to forgetting. Free speech is bigger than a right; it is a theme park in which pimps and esteemed writers alternate “Discourse” with Spin-the-Bottle: one-handed art, one-handed sex—the sound of one hand typing. Its like a utopian summer camp for spoiled brats: once you enter Free Speech Park you can go on all the rides you want and nobody can stop you; so there.

My colleagues— writers and feminists— proudly call themselves First Amendment fundamentalists or absolutists, in self-proclaimed philosophical and pragmatic accord with those who learn rules by rote, recite dogma without deviation, and will not think. History moves and society changes but forgetfulness is both blissful and patriotic. In Amerika, optimism and amnesia are forms of nationalism; and so is First Amendment fundamentalism—a happy loyalty to the status quo; we live in the best of all possible worlds. A country devoted to the eternal present is, of course, a perpetrators dream come true; and Amerika does spawn perpetrators. Memory means accusation, recognition, discontent. In the Free Speech playground, one might rebel against being the pimps ride, or even the esteemed writers: dont fuck with me, one might say, spoiling the fun. The players, certain of their right to bang at will, might feel really bad: like, “censored.”

the queer understanding of sex and gender is that your personality and preferences determine what gender you are. so likes pink = girl

in a post-gender world:

sex will still be medically relevant.

sex education should have the vocabulary to explain how reproduction works & how to have sex safely

girls and boys should understand the changes in their body during puberty

men and women should understand the difference in their symptoms for things like heart attacks

sex will still be… sexually relevant.

sex education, again, is vital

people should be able to describe their sexual orientation in clear terms (e.g. “homosexual”, “heterosexual”) if they’d like

sex will still be politically relevant

when sexism is a thing of the past, we should still be educated on its history

historians should be able to make statements like: “the 1832 reform act explicitly banned women from voting”