obviously it is brilliant and scathing and still relevant to our world today, and it is also hilarious. valerie was not only a gifted thinker but her turn of phrase is decisive and wry and utterly distinct. like i love the contents of the manifesto but i also love her Voice as an entity unto itself

libfems, gendies, internet leftists:

After ten days, she found a boat moored near a shelter, and found the boat's fuel tank still partly full. Koepcke poured the gasoline on her wounds, an action which succeeded in removing the maggots from her arm. Out of 93 passengers and crew, Juliane was the only survivor of the LANSA flight 508 crash that took place December 24th, 1971.

This was the first thing that stuck out to me, in her book:

If Juliane was a 17-year-old boy, her judgment calls & survival skills probably wouldn’t be passed off as a mere mistake/fluke. If she was a guy, people would lap that shit up and call her a Fine Boy Scout™.

Next is this passage:

“Now Father has lost his wife...” this thought never crossed Juliane’s mind, because she had no way of knowing if her mother was alive or dead. Juliane couldn’t find her mom after the crash. But notice how the media somehow managed to center the plight of a man in a story about *checks notes* a girl who braved the wilderness alone for 10 days after losing her mother in a plane crash.

Some media outlets floated the idea that, in addition to witnessing her mother’s death, Juliane had seen other struggling survivors as well & neglected to help them. This is false. It just goes to show that girls are villainized for taking care of themselves instead of taking care of everyone else—even when they’re all alone in the middle of the jungle, fighting for their own survival.

Juliane also came under scrutiny for her emotional state, after her rescue. Because she was traumatized and in shock, she didn’t react “appropriately” to her situation or grieve for her mother the way people expected her to.

As seen above, some voices in the media pathologized her understandable trauma response, treating her like a deranged sociopath.

^^^ This shit speaks for itself. Reminder that Juliane was just a child, a teenager.

Lastly, there actually is a 1974 movie about Juliane directed by Giuseppe Maria Scotese, starring Susan Penhaligon. The movie is called Miracles Still Happen. This is how the movie marketed her story:

And here’s how the media covered it:

So yeah. In conclusion, men are trash. And to wrap things up, I’ll leave you with this extremely tasteful comic strip by a (male) artist.

@xxcaptainfantasticxx

1. 50 years is not that long ago

2. The dynamics of sexism/misogyny, sexual exploitation and anti indigenous racism (seen in using indigenous people as the scary simple abductors in that loser man’s trashy novel ripping off her experiences) are still with us today and still need to be dismantled

i made a post on my old blog about how women should not cape for random men on the internet because those men wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire and the notes were so embarrassing

like men in general do not have solidarity with women. i have seen maybe a handful of believably genuine posts or comments or whatever from men about how great women are—strong, intelligent, funny, capable of amazing things, deserving of respect and dignity—as opposed to like 10 new posts every other day about how men are so sweet and have soft bellies uwu and how it's akin to murder to make small dick jokes