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excerpts on the 56 year old, cyclical question that remains unaddressed: why are hordes of leftist women sympathizing with radical feminism?

dworkin spoke of this extensively (she was much more charitable than i am), but you’ll randomly see evidence of this from lesser known writers if you read the literature from that time period too. i’ll post some citations soon. but basically, leftists want you to have a radical critique about everything but gender, because anything that causes injury to men must be abolished, but anything that benefits men must be permitted. the entire political spectrum is simply different flavors of a male grievance movement. male victimhood generates sympathy. this is true now and it has been true for thousands of years.

the left’s refusal to contend with male supremacy is largely what gave birth to “second wave” feminism in america. this outpouring is going to keep happening so long as they are committed to this refusal, and they won’t be able to corral these women into a productive direction due to their insufficient politics and the loss of trust. this is a repeat of history, and the problem has not been properly addressed.

the people who claim to oppose capitalism will critique every billion dollar industry on earth except for the ones that give them orgasms at the expense of millions of women and girls. suddenly, for women, consent makes exploitation permissible. you wouldn’t want to be a reactionary. communism is just for men, but the most that women can hope for is libertarianism.

the people who claim to oppose sexual violence will keep their heads down if the sexual violence results in an orgasm for the participants. strangulation is domestic violence unless someone requests it. consent makes abuse impossible, after all. you can’t abuse anyone if you garner consent before you do it. these people will claim to be “materialists.” you wouldn’t want to be a prude.

the people who engage in “media criticism” and care about “representation” fall silent when the representation of women and children in porn is a topic of discussion. suddenly, representation doesn’t matter if the representation is intended to give you an orgasm. they simply want more diversity among the sexual slaves. you wouldn’t want to be exclusionary.

gynecology is a medical field chock full of absolute barbarism. it is well known that the origins of its practices stemmed from using enslaved women as experiments, with no anesthesia. rape and the dismissal of our pain is baked into the practice. women need to be screened for all of these related issues, but gynecology and the wider sphere of medicine in general have done everything in their power to alienate women from necessary care by dismissing our pain. it’s not frivolous. they don’t care. and this lack of care on the part of gynecology is what kills women, not women’s fear and avoidance of rape and pain.

you want women to get pap smears? demand that these evil and sadistic gynecologists offer sedation in all of their offices. they can do it. they won’t do it because they believe our pain is frivolous, and they will tell you as such. they think sedation is a cheat code, they think it’s far too much to ask for, because women asking to bypass pain is always viewed as a sign of immaturity. they will attribute our fear to a matter of psychology instead of a matter of objective self-protection. they are evil.

saw this in the wild and thought it was absolutely hysterical. maybe i’m just old, but i had no idea this was such a widespread, deep-seated hypocrisy among this cohort? ao3 slop mine workers fanfiction writers reject and undermine intellectual property to create derivative works. but, when someone comes along and creates a derivative of their derivative work, these writers will clutch their pearls and re-enforce a cultural commitment to the same intellectual property standards they previously rejected to write their fic in the first place. all with no self awareness.

then, in order to moralize around this hypocritical commitment, they have the gall to call this “a matter of etiquette” and even worse, saying the commenter would automatically be engaging in “theft” lol. pretending as if proper attribution and citation in derivative work is impossible, which is something an ao3 writer obviously can’t actually believe if they’re publishing fanfiction. you and the unauthorized fanfic continuer (based) are doing the same thing, rejecting IP to create a derivative work without permission. how is it a moral crime when someone uses your derivative art in the exact same fashion that you’ve used the art of a copyright holder? wonder what this says about society™️. put in simpler terms,