“… a woman experiences the masochistic pleasure of her own negation which is perversely articulated as the fulfillment of her femininity” - Dworkin
Any (serious) radical feminist would identify Hunter’s words as an apt description of female subjectivity under patriarchy.
Women aren’t hysterical for being vigilant in a violent world. The issue here is that social media & safety gadget companies have tapped into that fear & rerouted it toward less common scenarios (stranger danger) when the person actually most likely to hurt her is that husband.
The amount of consumerism needed to maintain a normative standard of modern femininity is insane… from makeup to skincare to hair and nail appointments to body hair removal to fad diets… so much time, money, and self-scrutiny necessary to be seen as an “acceptable” woman
Imagine having the courage as a trans woman to open up about the most vulnerable parts of yourself, only to have it pathologized by faux feminists & transphobes as proof of “male socialization”. Hunter deleted this post years ago, yet it still is routinely used against her.
Liberal feminism has always been cringe but this new “bimbo” wave is something else. What’s subversive about regurgitating the same feminine stereotypes men have been using against women forever?
Gen Z is growing up in a time where internet porn is so easily accessible it’s unavoidable. Teen girls are observing how this, combined with the abysmal state of sex education, is affecting their relationship with sexuality and peers. But older gens dismiss them as “puritan”.
I feel like it’s very obvious that “bitch” is a gendered slur. It quite literally means *female* dog. Even colloquially, the misogyny is plain as day. Men are called bitches specifically to emasculate them.
@EVAN60698036
idk if you guys have taken gov yet but how are you almost a grown adult and don’t know what the first amendment is lol god help you in college
@LauraLoomer
you know your son is probably more likely to be sexually assaulted than be falsely accused of sexual assault? but you don’t really care about that do you
This type of sentiment among men towards the porn stars that entertain them isn’t contradictory at all once you realize that, for them, the very act of consuming porn is an expression of misogynist hate
I hate when feminists are misconstrued as “infantilizing women” whenever we detail the specifics of gender oppression under patriarchy. I think it has a lot to do with liberal individualism and how it can’t stomach material analysis, so it frames it as an attack on agency.
Not only did the “finna be in the pit” girl get dragged for being embarrassingly out of touch but she also got exposed for inappropriately sexually touching her parrot… Never in a million years could I have seen this development coming…
Commit femicide and not only will you be acquitted but you’ll also live a relatively long life and upon your death everyone will treat the whole situation like a funny little meme
“A woman is not born, she is made” from Beauvoir to Dworkin to Wittig to Butler, 20th century feminism was all about denaturalizing “woman”. The cultural feminist push to ~return to femaleness~ is reactionary and has only led to alliances with male supremacists on transmisogyny.
Fucked how intersectional thinking was developed by black feminists to describe their unique positionality within race/gender relations, and now it’s been reduced to a meaningless buzzword spewed by liberal men whenever they wanna deflect accountability for being misogynists
Not to wade into bi discourse but as a stereotypical “bi woman with a boyfriend” I must say that I have never felt the need to celebrate my straight relationship as if it’s insurrectionary. Honesty the idea that we somehow need “pride” akin to the way lesbians do is ridiculous.
Too many millennials have adopted the post-feminist attitude that the sexual revolution fixed everything. Young girls are telling us that’s not the case, and instead of listening, we’re condemning them as sexually repressed and hysterically mistaken.
“White women” “Kevin McAllister fantasies” … so demeaning and dismissive. Like let’s take a minute to really think about the societal implications of this phenomenon before we write off women as crazy bitches
Can’t believe there are feminists out there who think patriarchy is the inevitable result of men being naturally stronger/more aggressive etc. This is essentially an anti-feminist position as it leaves no path forward for women’s liberation.
Perfect example of how the family functions as an institution of patriarchy. Parents act as a disciplinary force, stamping out any early expression of/desire for gender nonconformity and indoctrinating the child into heterosexualism.
It’s actually kind of amazing how there are so many queer people not only ignorant of feminism but hostile to it… I couldn’t imagine trying to understand LGBTQ oppression without using a feminist lens, it’s like leaving out a huge part of the puzzle
Funny how the growing use of AI technology to generate sexually violent and degrading material of (non-consenting!) women and girls isn’t considered an attack on freedom, but the slightest crackdown against this is
Communist men will make the most detailed analyses of how capital permeates our everyday lives but once it comes to understanding how patriarchy does the same, suddenly all critical thinking goes out the window and things like desire/sexuality are viewed as completely unaffected
Perfect example of how celebrity worship facilitates misogyny. The intense parasocial relationship with the star encourages stans to see her adherence to beauty standards as something they can be personally invested in
There’s this non-insignificant number of queer people who think bi women deserve the violence we face because we had the opportunity to “choose better”. They try to play this off as anti-heteronormativity but it is, of course, just plain old misogyny and victim blaming.
OP is actually tapping into an analysis of the connection between modern female identity and the hyper-consumerism needed to maintain normatives standard of femininity 🧐📝
Gen Z’s concerns with sex(uality) of course need to be elaborated further to reveal nuance, but no one’s even giving the conversation a chance. Instead, millennials would rather keep on the rose tinted glasses and pretend sex under patriarchy is sufficiently liberated.
Yes and all of these men stand in direct solidarity with each other to exercise sexual/reproductive control over women + enjoy the privilege living in hegemonic culture and society built entirely in that interest
“Is my BF cheating by watching porn” is less of an important question to me than “is it OK that my BF is getting off to extremely reactionary media made by an industry that trafficks and rapes to operate”
Ever since I became a feminist I’ve started to divest more and more from femininity and tbh it’s been a huge positive. Not only does it save a considerable amount of money but I feel like my self esteem is much stronger.
This thread is actually a great example as to why heterosexualism as an institution was never about mutual love and respect. Rather it’s a method for men (and women) to establish certain gender roles and power dynamics that afford them social status.
Something I’ve noticed while looking at popular relationship subreddits is just how common it is for women to report sexual assault from their boyfriends/husbands, particularly in their sleep. Like there’s a new post about it every day.
I def think the “I could sleep with a woman but not love her romantically” type of straight woman is a result of their exposure to hypersexualized and objectified images of women in media. They’ve grown accustomed to desiring women as sexual objects, but not as human beings.
Too many people see DV + rape as mere interpersonal conflicts resulting from a simple disagreement between parties. Rather they are some of the most essential expressions of patriarchal power, used to dehumanize and subjugate. They are systemic and institutionally sanctioned.
IMO creators of celeb AI porn have the same mentality as rapists. They want to sexually humiliate and intrude upon women who they think need to be “put in their place”. It’s an expression of misogynistic power through and through.
There was a time when you could criticize the way capitalism and patriarchy overlap to promote the sale of cosmetic procedures to women so they could better fit Eurocentric beauty standards. Now anything but blind acceptance is seen as a personal attack on freedom.
The fact that plastic surgeons and dieticians are now also becoming part time influencers is actually so dangerous. The engagement-driven profit model of social media is going to empower these people to latch onto their audience’s (young girls’) insecurities like never before.
@ProfessWillhelm
If this was really about some righteous endeavor based on morals, you wouldn’t be demanding these girls beg like dogs for you, or threatening to ruin their lives. This is some sort of humiliation kink for you, which, according to your belief system, isn’t very holy either.
Many radfems are proving themselves incapable of grasping the relevance of Palestinian genocide because in order to maintain their transphobic views, they have to flatten the man/woman contradiction into an isolated system completely detached from any context of race/class/nation
I don’t think decentering men is the end-all, be-all of feminist praxis but I do think it’s a good place to start. How can we begin to understand, critique, and dismantle patriarchy if we are still so personally attached to the idea that we need men to be whole?
Others have said this but Palestine truly is the ultimate litmus test for radical politics. People will talk big game about “revolution” & “liberation” until the topic of Palestinian struggle comes up, then the mask is off and they’re indistinguishable from the average liberal
Stan culture is a hinderance to class consciousness IMO it encourages us to ignore the tremendous/abhorrent wealth gaps between us and our fave celebs so that we can maintain our happy little parasocial relationships with them
IME many feminists do not recognize the oppression of children as a legitimate issue, nor do they understand that violence against children is a patriarchal form of violence that women can and do partake it regularly
It’s truly sick how patriarchy conditions women to eroticize and even desire our own subjugation. It’s like a way of manufacturing consent for the regime.
The only psy-op is that which disguises the reality that traditional heterosexual marriage is predicated upon the unpaid reproductive labor of women. I’m so glad to see that young women are starting to see past that.
And with this not only are you completely buying into the idea that women are valid and simple minded but you’re also downplaying the severity of a genocide
The courts are not sources of justice for survivors. What this case shows is that they are rather weapons that can be used by powerful men to further financially and psychologically abuse their victims, and punish them simply for speaking of their experience.
First Amber, then Angelina, now FKA Twigs… these rich abusers must be hiring the same PR firm with the way they’ve all similarly launched smearing/manipulative/misogynist campaigns to save face, silence, and further abuse.
The proletarianization of women was an objective win for feminists. The upsurge in tradwife propaganda on the internet is a reaction to this by supporters of male supremacy, who seek to entrap women in the nuclear family under a regime of unpaid labor and sex right.
Just found out that Amber Heard had her child via surrogate 🫤 I guess I shouldn’t be surprised considering its popularity among women in Hollywood. But is it really so difficult for people to recognize the political implications of renting out the wombs of lower class women?
This all-girls school discourse just tells me that too many feminists on here are preoccupied with arguing over idealist reforms and not interested enough in actually revolutionizing the social relations between men and women that create misogyny in the first place
Feminists that take seriously the realities of imperialism understand how fabricated stories of rape are used to invoke white aggression against colonized men. This works to maintain white male sex right over “our women”, who are seen as property defiled by hypersexual brutes.
Dershowitz: I want to have a list of all the radical feminists who are pushing hard. I understand that, to get all these names revealed. I want to know, how many of them have ever actually condemned hamas for the rapes..
The bar for which men are considered “intellectuals” is so low. Like the fact that P*tersen and T*te and fucking Twitch streamers are thought leaders to so many is absurd to me.
Every incident in which someone made me feel denigrated for having a boyfriend/liking men was solved by hitting “block”. Like this is not a widespread, systemic problem like lesbophobia. It just seems like a way to antagonize lesbians like an enemy.
For every trans woman being essentialist about her womanhood there are thousands of cis women talking about how going to Sephora and Starbucks are they epitome of being a girl
All that radfem poll thread proves is that the online radfem movement offers nothing of true revolutionary substance to women, just a toxic digital space to repackage blackpill doomerism as women’s lib and breed reactionary (patriarchal) sentiments among young girls.
Disgusting how conservatives are using Sydney Sweeney’s body as some sort of battleground against “wokeness”, as if over-sexualization of women was ever met with substantial pushback in the first place. From feminists, sure, but “the left” overall always loved objectifying women.
Patriarchal privilege is pervasive and multi-dimensional. Some men may not have access to institutional or structural power, but they may still enforce dominance over the women in their class/strata through interpersonal violence.
Wait til people find out some CIS men don’t have patriarchal privilege
-poor Black men
-intellectually disabled men
-men with sensory disabilities
-boys
-homeless/impoverished men
-felons
If you are a trans man and any of these other things, you are DEF not experiencing it
@Eriiinfoxx
imo many of the issues people attribute to monogamy have more to do with patriarchal gender roles than how many people you’re involved with. Like the idea of “owning” your partner and having them submit to you
@nine____teen
No but this was being circulated around the transphobic radfem community, and they routinely bring this post up when they feel like attacking trans women
“The personal is political” is one of the hardest feminist pills to swallow. We are so hyper-individualized as a society that it feels like a personal attack when it’s suggested that our lives/decisions do not exist in a vacuum and are indeed shaped by patriarchy.
TikTok is so funny because one week there’s an app-wide discussion with people wondering why there’s a huge influx of tweens in Sephora, and the next week there’s a trend of calling makeup and skincare the essence of girlhood 😭
Part of me fears that when the Barbie movie comes out any criticism by feminists of Barbie™️ and its role in crafting a normative girlhood, etc will be shut down by assertions that it’s “just a toy/film” and that we’re “ruining the fun”
imo “SWERF” refers to feminists who don’t include SWers in their organizing and instead buddy w right wing evangelicals to push a harmful neo-abolitionist agenda
Instead I see people using it as a way to silence feminists who simply recognize the industry as exploitative
There’s so much disdain for libfems when most of them are just young teens who only recently got into feminism. So what if they’re not thinking too critically about makeup or something… be patient and guide them! Calling them “brainwashed handmaidens” does nothing.
Zionists will sensationalize and propagandize around false claims of mass rape but the truth is they 100% approve of it so long as its being used as a political weapon against colonized/nationally oppressed women. Then it’s acceptable and even commendable to them.
The proliferation of AI porn is an expected development for the male supremacist porn industry. It lays bare its most essential ideological tenet - that all women are sex objects that ought to be readied for male consumption at any time, on demand.
Callout creators/influencers are not & will never be activists, & I’d even go so far as to say that they contribute nothing positive to social justice education. The only thing they offer is a temporary feeling of satisfaction thru an individualized form of retributive “justice”.
T3RFs/GCs will call themselves “Marxist” & throw around the term “materialist” to make their beliefs seem like legitimate radical politics. That facade fades very quickly however once they open their mouths & reveal that they have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about lol
Just because something is a social construct (ex gender, race, disability) doesn’t mean it can’t/doesn’t have any real, material affects on people, their experiences, their identities, etc.
Zionist feminists like Barlow are engaging in what’s been termed “femonationalism” - the invocation of
women’s rights to demonize colonized men and obscure the race and class contradictions that lie at the heart of genocidal projects like Israel
Rape culture wouldn’t be what it is without strong male class solidarity. Men defend sex pests to maintain those “gray areas” of consent that ultimately work to establish male sex right over women.
@horiIyts
!!! I’ve seen many young girls talk about how their male partners’ sexual expectations have been primed by their consumption of porn, and how many non-“vanilla” sex acts that are popular in mainstream porn are now being demanded of them
@myonnaslibrary
Popular ideas of what it means to be “hot” are influenced by beauty standards that many women internalize and judge themselves on. The result is that we tend to look at ourselves as if we are our own voyeur
The justice system is a tool of male supremacy. Judges letting rapists off the hook, ex-boyfriends using courts to further abuse their victims, christofascists legally establishing fetal personhood… all these things work to render women second-class citizens
Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction has been overturned by a New York appeals court.
New York’s highest court found the judge in Weinstein’s trial had shown prejudice by allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the case.
Details here:
I’m all for analyzing the ways in which the material affects desire, but once people start talking about “degeneracy” and how kinky women need to be institutionalized, I tap out
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Neopronoun/xenogender discourse has got to be the most useless shit ever… kids are always finding new way to express themselves, especially in online circles… I promise the child using cats/catself pronouns is not an omen of the end times