I'd do anything for you

feminism should be insanely popular because we are talking about the interests of literally one half of the human population, being oppressed by the other half, in EVERY country, EVERY context, EVERY community, EVERY sphere of life, which is unparalleled; the oppressor being ubiquitous and unescapable THROUGHOUT human history, irregardless of political, economical, cultural, international factors, shifts, movements, events, by the sheer virtue of the reproductive model of our species; and EVERY woman will be constantly interacting with her oppressor, and constantly feeling the effect her oppression has on her life, mind, body, soul, well-being. women everywhere should be STARVING for feminism. but also feminism decidedly CANNOT be allowed to be insanely popular because it would inevitably have a profoundly destabilizing effect on the way our very society is organized, down to something as simple and constant as the relationships we all build with one another. i would say that's why pop-feminism is ubiquitous and toothless but actually that's not even true because pop-feminism doesn't even try to address the very basic emotional physical psychological political intellectual needs women have that should be leaving them starving, and it doesn't promise to. women don't engage with pop feminism bc they expect it to give them a genuine break from men. it's not some kind of synthesis or underwhelming middleground we just got psyopped something severe

I’ll never forget when I was arguing with a person in favor of total prison abolition and I asked them “what about violent offenders?” And they said “Well, in a world where prisons have been abolished, we’ll have leveled the playing field and everyone will have their basic needs met, and crime won’t be as much of an issue.” And then I was like “okay. But…no. Because rich people also rape and murder, so it isn’t just a poor person thing. So what will we do about that?” And I don’t think they answered me after that. I’m ashamed to say I continued to think that the problem was that I simply didn’t understand prison abolitionists enough and that their point was right in front of me, and it would click once I finally let myself understand it. It took me a long time to realize that if something is going to make sense, it needs to make sense. If you want to turn theory into Praxis (I’m using that word right don’t correct me I’ll vomit) everyone needs to be on board, which mean it all needs to click and it needs to click fast and fucking clear. You need to turn a complex idea into something both digestible and flexible enough to be expanded upon. Every time I ask a prison abolitionist what they actually intend to do about violent crime, I get directed to a summer reading list and a BreadTuber. It’s like a sleight-of-hand trick. Where’s the answer to my question. There it is. No wait, there it is. It’s under this cup. No it isn’t. “There’s theory that can explain this better than I can.” As if most theory isn’t just a collection of essays meant to be absorbed and discussed by academics, not the average skeptic. “Read this book.” And the book won’t even answer the question. The book tells you to go ask someone else. “Oh, watch this so-and-so, she totally explains it better than me.” Why can’t you explain it at all? Why did you even bring it up if you were going to point me to someone else to give me the basics that you should probably already know? Maybe I’m just one of those crazy people who thinks that some people need to be kept away from the public for everyone’s good. Maybe that just makes me insane. Maybe not believing that pervasive systemic misogyny could be solved with a UBI and a prayer circle makes me a bad guy. But it’s not like women’s safety is a priority anyway. It’s not like there is an objective claim to be made that re-releasing violent offenders or simply not locking them up is deadly.

My favourite trope in the world is overpowered main characters who think they aren't that great at whatever they're doing and they're just scraping by, meanwhile they're the devil incarnate from everyone else's pov

this is gonna get me put on a list somewhere but if Rhaenyra and Daenerys could have met they would not end that interaction as friends Rhaenyra would be putting Daenerys in the SJW cringe compilation