I Am Here

What I have noticed is that men are so deeply in the trenches of learned helplessness that they think things just happen by magic.

Men don't think women's shelters/orgs appeared out of nowhere, they just assume The Men in Charge created these institutions in response to women "whining" about our problems, which are actually trivial and insignificant compared to *men's* problems. It's proof the we live in a tyrannical matriarchy.

The implied threat of violence, the shameless disperagement of the female body, the cringe incel-esq derogatory term for women. TIMs really haven't changed in almost 50 years.

This wikipedia entry is kind of insane. It's worth the entire read. This heterosexual dude's activism was literally just against gay and leftist organizations. The writing tries to take a supportive tone but even then this guy was a cringe straight guy who wanted to break down gay and feminist movements. The entry even says the quote above is satire but all of his actions back up this satire. Then he just went full Nazi/alien conspiracy theorist.

Sorry I'm bored and kept going. TAO wasn't even a real organization, but a hangout spot for 10s of crossdressers but claimed to have thousands of members. He lied about trans orgs and even reported a trans org to the irs. Claimed to have participated in Stonewall (NY) while living in LA. Literally everyone from that era had nothing positive to say about him. Also the wikipedia article that says the above quote is satire seems to not include this quote from him:

Lmfaoooooooo. Let’s bring back one of the most notorious forms of oppression against women because I just don’t like their opinions. If radfems are so mentally ill, why on earth would you wish for a procedure that would undoubtably make them worse? They do just fucking hate women.

no one else believes me, but i SWEAR The Giving Tree is misogynistic propaganda. you're telling me a female described tree loves a boy so much she gives him everything. and the little boy asks for everything she has, and she gives it all until she has nothing left. and the boy is never grateful until the very end when the tree is just a stump, and even then the boy sees nothing wrong with what he's done. and this is a message we're supposed to read to children????? that men can take and take and take from women until we have nothing left and it's somehow wholesome?

this post has unearthed a deep forgotten memory of having this book read to me by my mother as a very young child, and crying inconsolably at the end of it. Like you say, I think because the story feels like it's missing a part where the tree receives some mutual care in return, and you wait and wait as the pages turn for this to happen, but it just never does, and the tree essentially dies as it watches the boy (now and old man) teach his grandson to plant a new tree... presumably to exploit in the same way.

i want to bounce off this reblog because it's so great and i also thought of another point i didn't touch totally on in the OG post that relates to this response :)

What you describe is something I have noticed over and over in TV and documentary interviews where adult children are asked to speak about their mothers. Both men and women will mention appreciating how their mothers sacrificed for them, but almost without fail, this will be the only thing the men have to say about who their mothers were. Women will often speak about her sense of humor, her style, her favorite hobbies, her talents unrelated to care-giving, but the men almost never mention a single thing about their mothers aside from what she did for them. To them, their mother's greatest achievement is having given up everything to make them a successful man.

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About 80% of men claim "touch" is their "love language". And less than 20% of women say touch is their love language.

I remember learning this at my (Catholic) high school. My religion teacher made us take an online test to see what love language we like to show and which one we like to receive. I remember feeling so ashamed that my love language was receiving gifts. I don’t even remember which one I got for giving.

does that fundamentalist woman with eight kids have a breeding kink, or does she not have access to birth control and the ability to tell her husband no?

i can't believe women's suffragists back in the 18 and 1900s stole the genderqueer flag from trans people 😢 damn those ebil terves

not gonna make an account to read drivel but i can read the comments…