SHES THE ONE WHO SAID THAT?????? queen i never knew it was her

never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"

men will go "facts over feelings!" and then go through 7 stages of grief when you bring up statistics they don't like

The 7 stages are all anger at women

I think in retrospect one thing that will be historically notable about the 2020s is the use of online smear campaigns against powerful women. Like it’s extremely frightening. So many of them also were quite literally funded by men who were angry about “getting MeTooed” and wanted to ruin a woman’s life the same way.

This is gaining traction now and the thing is that I used Amber Heard as an obvious example but I actually have a multiple other women in my head who I was specifically thinking about and I can’t use because even on this little corner of the internet I know that people will try to get into it with me about them and I’m just not in the mood

male directors will make torture porn of girls and women for shock value and call it "showing the harsh realities of sex work". they'll show women getting forced into sex work, abused, assaulted, and trafficked over & over again with no further commentary and i am supposed to believe that it is necessary for the narrative, if not empowering. right right

I pawned your chastity key for drug money sorry

the detached brutality of all these “women need to have more babies” thinkpieces man

split your body wide open for the stock market

"splitting your body wide open" is honestly the least of it. Give up your free time, your dreams, your identity, your friendships, your freedom to come and go as you please, your ability to cleanly end a relationship, your ability to do things for yourself... It's not a one-off torture for the stock market, it's sacrificing your life for the stock market.

i actually do think it’s anti-feminist to be fatphobic and yes i do mean that

a deeply beloved professor of mine in college was a fat woman who had built her body of academic work on the intersection of misogyny and weight bias as a variable in women's mental health treatment outcomes. she had found some truly harrowing shit in her research that leaves me in no doubt that men's treatment of fat women is largely if not entirely driven by misogyny, and the general societal treatment of fatness emboldens them, as fat women feel like an "acceptable" target of that violence in the public sphere. this professor also shared with me and other students how, even when presenting her work to a group of supposedly enlightened colleagues at conferences, she had been the subject of misogynistic jokes based on her weight. (ie, "you know why she picked this to research, just look at her," "anything but going to the gym, huh," "no surprise she's single like this," etc.)

There is no sexual politics on the left beyond unrestricted access to porn, prostitution, and erasing female oppression.

I genuinely wish people would stop engaging in algospeak when it comes to topics where discussion can legitimately be diluted by it. I don't know how to drill it into your head that censoring "rape" and "sexual assault" is extremely counterproductive no matter how much discomfort reading the words brings you.

What's crazy is now incels will make rape jokes but replace "rape" with the grape emoji like we are in a hellscape where everything is censored yet everything is reactionary

tiktoddler speak

The hatred a lot of people on here have for medical professionals is really like. Not that different from how antivaxx unschooling maga moms talk about medical professionals

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old