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
Sad news: you grew up at a very, very lucky time. You would have been mercilessly mocked for saying this when I was growing up. There was a brief window when things were getting better. It's going away.
Keep saying it.
Yeah it was real weird growing up in that brief window. Cause we were lucky, but it is also making the backslide so truly and completely baffling. Like we genuinely had made progress and then overnight we got zapped back to the mid 1900s...
The wisdom of my middle age has taught me that this is, in fact, very common. You have progress, and then you have backlash. Because not everybody is going to be happy with the progress, and you do not need to give those people very much room to start shouting loudly and dominating things again.
It is, unfortunately, part of their ideology to shout over others, and part of the ideology of progressivism to think other people's views are worth listening to.
Also, let us be blunt, it's because of financial deregulation - going back to Thatcher and Reagan, and getting worse because we didn't sufficiently regulate again after the 2008 crash, which should have been a fucking wake-up call.
Because when you don't regulate, the kind of unscrupulous shitbags who want to control everything and everyone accumulate money and power and don't do the ethical thing of redistributing it again. These insecure shitbags extend their wish for control to other people and their bodies. It's fairly common for them to be men because of historical bias, and controlling women's bodies (as well as any deviation from strict gender roles and binary sex) is part and parcel of shoring up their dominance.
Whenever any individual is about to accumulate too much money and power, their biases and petty bigotries are amplified at unimaginable scale. And if at any point their nonsense gets reined in, they will resent this and do everything in their power to enact vengeance when we inevitably start to relax because things are starting to seem OK.
It's a bummer.































