#dismantle the patriarchy

[thebookishmoon]

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

#are you going to tell me I’m wrong???? #fuck the patriarchy #dismantle the patriarchy #why do men #I know Collin’s is fictional BUT HOLY SHIT DOES HE ENRAGE ME #the feminine rage this emits from a BOOK #Jane Austen #Pride and prejudice #elizabeth bennet #Mr Collin’s #Mr Darcy #books #book blog #reading #bookblr #can I castrate this man.

[enbycrip]

I’ve realised what bothers me about the “cis kids won’t be harmed by learning about appropriate words to describe one’s experiences with gender but trans kids will be harmed by not learning them” discourse I’m seeing out there.

It’s correct, absolutely, but it’s also casting the entire thing in the wrong way.

It’s not just “won’t be harmed by”; cis kids literally *benefit* from learning about the appropriate words to express and describe their experiences with gender. In the same way trans kids do, even if the benefit might not be so big or so obvious.

Look how many of the sanctioned cis ways to affirm one’s gender and describe gender euphoria are all tied up with patriarchy, misogyny and body-shaming.

I want to live in a world where kids of any gender can understand about gender euphoria and dysphoria and make good choices about healthy ways to feel them and deal with them that don’t involve catastrophic dieting, dangerous amounts of working out, or following Andrew Tate or other fascist misogynists.

I’m nonbinary. I thought I was a woman for decades though, and a lot of the ways I was encouraged to be feminine were really shitty, and would have been pretty unhealthy even if they hadn’t been mixed up with dysphoria and queerphobia from others.

We want a world where we dismantle gendered power structures, right? And just leave gender as a way of self-expression; of being one’s self? I don’t think we can do that without cis kids learning this as well as trans kids, and I think all the steps of learning this will benefit everyone as well as the end result.

The thing is that there is no way of turning a cis kid trans. Gender exploration won’t harm *anyone*. If a kid is cis, they will affirm their gender to themselves. If a kid is trans, they will learn stuff about themselves that could literally save their life.

The only people who want the system the way it still mainly is are people who want to keep gendered power structures in place.

#gender #gender identity #protect trans kids #protect trans youth #gender exploration #gender exploration benefits literally everyone #trans #trans nonbinary #nonbinary #dismantle gendered power structures #dismantle the patriarchy

[steampoweredstarsketch]

I need it to be known that the reason I joined girlscouts was because I watched the scene in Vin Diesel's The Pacifier, where the firefly scouts kept getting stomped on by the boyscouts, and then got tactically trained by a navy seal and grew more powerful than anyone could have possibly imagined and absolutely DEMOLISHED the boyscouts next time they came steppin to their cookie sales. What can I say, I was a girl who thrived on vengeance.

Like me as a child: sports? No...

Dismantling the patriarchy board by board until a pile of bullies lay beaten at my feet with a squad of highly trained orgainised girl best friends with business experience at my side??

HELL YES.

#funny #malicious girlscouts #tactical girlscouts #dismantle the patriarchy #vengeful little girls

[stephyytheseeker]

The Fall of Woman

Dear Eve,

I warned you,

But you didn’t listen.

You followed him blindly into hell

And enslaved every woman in the process.

If only you knew

What freedom tastes like.

It’s sweet

And it’s sour;

It’s bitter,

But it’s savoury.

Accepting the truth is hard,

But it frees both your mind and soul.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.

NEVER let a man take that away from you.

Not even God.

Sincerely,

Lilith

#women writers #writers on tumblr #poetry #feminism #original poem #original writing #patriarchy #prose #queer writers #writers of tumblr #religious trauma #religion #matriarchy #hail lilith #adam and eve #yahweh #god #spirituality #freedom #dismantle the patriarchy

[illuminopseudonymous]

#had to share #lgbtq #dismantle the patriarchy #shitpost

[rome-theeempire]

I'm seeing a lot of Cis women starting to believe Trans Women are threatening their Womanhood when the clear threat might actually be... idk- THE SOCIETY THAT'S A PATRIARCHY THAT UPHOLDS RACISM, SEXISM, QUEERPHOBIA, AND PEDOPHILIA!!!

#lgbtq #queer pride #black queerness #genderqueer #nonbinary #transgender #black lgbtq #trans pride #transmasc #trans boy #trans women positivity #trans women are women #trans women are beautiful #trans rights are human rights #gender expression #gender equality #dismantle white supremacy #dismantle the patriarchy #lgbtq community #trans community #queer community

[chiekodivine]

thoughts i saw on twitter about the meg and tory case. i wouldn’t even say it’s just men on the internet though either. the same men on the internet exist in real life and have these exact same sentiments, regardless of whether they make it known. but it’s disgusting to see black women constantly treated like this, it’s dehumanizing.

#girlblogging #coquette community #coquette #girlblogger #girlblog #girly tumblr #feminist take #feminine energy #dismantle the patriarchy #divine feminine #women’s spaces #womensupportingwomen #tumblr girl #tumblrina #2014 tumblr

[taylors-a-goblin]

A part of dismantling the patriarchy is dismantling internalised misogynistic thought patterns that were constructed for us by society and popular culture. So many female main characters that we looked up to growing up were written to be "not like other girls", as if being like other girls is a negative thing.

Throw that way of thinking out, and embrace the things you want to enjoy without feeling ashamed or embarrassed just because they are "stereotypically girly". Regardless of your gender.

I am just like other girls, and just like other boys, and just like other theys, and I'm still my own person. And so are you, no matter how many things you have in common with other people.

#just girly things #brittany broski #dismantle the patriarchy #start from within #personal rant #feminism

[trashpandafeminism]

[Image Description: Image is of the distinguished Pooh bear meme. Regular Pooh says, “Equality between the sexes.” Distinguished Pooh Bear says, “Freedom from the Patriarchy”.]

Mona Eltahawy is an Egyptian-American feminist writer and activist who has been a vocal advocate for women's rights and the dismantling of patriarchal systems. In her book "The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls," Eltahawy discusses the importance of breaking free from the constraints of patriarchal structures and reclaiming our power. She reminds us that we are not here to merely survive in a world that is often hostile to us, but to thrive and demand our right to live on our own terms. As intersectional feminists, it is vital that we support and amplify the voices of women like Eltahawy who challenge the status quo and push us to imagine a more just and equitable world for all. 

#mona eltahawy #feminism #intersectional feminism #breaking free #empowerment #womens rights #dismantle the patriarchy #dismantle oppression

[novascotiaducktoller]

i think we need to stop looking at patriarchy/white supremacy as a hierarchy of oppression, with one type of person always at the top and one type of person always at the bottom, and more a system of reward and punishment for how closely you conform to the white supremacist patriarchal ideal.

a white, able bodied, cishet, neurotypical, upper class man is the ideal. however - other types of people are rewarded for how well they play their part in the patriarchal worldview. a white woman can achieve some level of status by being the perfect homemaker, able bodied and neurotypical and cishet and producing white children for the patriarchy. look at the white supremacist memes that regard white women who fall into place as some jewel to be coveted! there’s a reason some white women enthusiastically participate in the patriarchy - because there are rewards for doing so. the white neurotypical cishet abled bodied nuclear family is sacred in white supremacy, and anyone falling outside of it is a threat.

everyone who is not white, jewish, trans, disabled in any way, queer, an immigrant, or working class can’t ever perform patriarchy and white supremacy in this way. they can try - look at Candace Owens and Caitlyn Jenner. they’re both trying their hardest to perform the roles rewarded by white supremacy - but they’ll still be kicked to the curb the instant they aren’t a useful strawman anymore. before then, though, they still benefit from patriarchy because they are performing the ‘right’ roles, saying the ‘right’ things, attacking the ‘right’ people. they can’t do it forever, but theyll try.

this is also why being a right-wing pundit is so often a grift - because there are numerous rewards for doing so. they don’t genuinely believe half of what they say, but because the patriarchy rewards them for saying it theyll happily go along with it rather than doing what we should all be doing - dismantling white supremacy and patriarchy and removing this fucked up system that rewards some and punishes others based on how well you perform your role.

#if anyone has any additions feel free to add! #dismantle white supremacy #dismantle the patriarchy #feminism #trans rights #black lives matter #charlie.txt

[slithymomerath]

“It was not the first time I’d been assaulted, but that’s the one that broke me, because I had done everything right, I played by their rules — and it didn’t matter. All of that smiling while I swallowed down my anger, all of that pathetic ass-kissing, got me nothing. It just set me up for greater humiliation.

And the whole time, I’d been advising young women in my field to play like I did. That this might not be right, but it was the only way. That is a shame that runs way deeper than humiliation.

I started to understand what bell hooks meant about the master’s tools, that it is not actually possible to dismantle the system from the inside. You may think you’re playing along and looking for opportunities to subvert and sabotage, but just by putting on the costume and reciting the lines you’re perpetuating the whole stupid ugly farce.

You become complicit, so whatever super-secret double agent move you think you’re gonna pull, it had better be profound, world-changing, to make up for all the necks you stomped on while playing along.”

- Redditor atroposofnothing

#activism #feminism #social justice #resist #bell hooks #dismantle the patriarchy #patriarchy #c

[timeisancestral]

repost from @/radicalgraffiti on instagram // brussels, belgium

#radical graffiti #graffiti #dismantle the patriarchy #chaotic academia aesthetic

[disneydatass]

California laws are the wet dream of gun control advocates. Shootings there and in other places like Chicago prove the myth “that gun control works” is a lie. The person shot those people because he knew no one was armed and would shoot back. Gun free zones are literally killing people and you’re begging for more of it.

“Gun free zones are killing people” tell that to all the countries overseas with no guns who have zero mass shooting problems. I’m so sick of hearing ppl say “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” because again, if you have seen many of the other mass shootings in America there have been people who have subdued a shooter with a firearm and guess what? The shooter still killed people. Your success method still has many casualties.

As far as the good old Chicago argument, do you realize how easily accessible and affordable it is to buy guns in this country?? Yes some states have stricter gun laws then others but again nothing is preventing the people from literally walking up to a bass pro shop or Walmart in many areas and just buying a gun only to then travel to another state. Hell, there is literally a “gun barn” 5 minutes from my house in SoCal! (It literally used to be a childrens book store the cruel irony you can’t make this shit up)

What would happen if all guns and fire arms were banned? They would be extremely expensive and harder to get on the black market. Most mass shootings are committed by white teenage/young adult males. If guns were banned do you know how long it would take someone to save up money to buy said weapons? Most boys reach for the gun that’s ‘safely kept’ in their own home.

The majority of people who own guns are statistically more likely to use it on themselves or misfire than actually preventing a mass shooter or ‘protecting their land/themselves from a militia’ and the whole “bad guys will still find ways to get guns so banning guns is useless” at that point WHY HAVE ANY LAWS AT ALL?! Why do you stop at a red light or wear a seatbelt when you know not everyone does and some asshole breaks the law and runs it anyway? It’s to prevent chaos and casualties!

I don’t understand what the harm IN TRYING to make shit harder to buy firearms is. Ban all guns, see how it works; that’s the point of an AMENDMENT IS TO AMEND. If it doesn’t work we can try something else; but what we have been doing clearly isn’t working! When it comes to this issue their needs to be a ‘radical/drastic’ change because people keep dying!!

#tw: gun violence #tw: gun mention #anonymous #this is my ask tag now #gun control now #dismantle the patriarchy #defund the police

[matchamamii]

I’m still trying to figure out why “you’ll be alone with cats” is suppose to be an insult to women? Lol is it because cats are more independent and actually have boundaries? Then the other caveat is we know that men benefit from marriages more than women do. So turning to “insults” is just a low grade retaliation because THEY don’t want to be alone. Boo hoo, save the crocodile tears.

And yes, I’ll take being alone in my lovely abode, successful career, and a peace of mind with my cats over dealing with anyone’s dusty son, thanks.

#thoughts #personal #dismantle the patriarchy

[wicked-witch-ofthe-east]

Will Barbie be the catalyst to matriarchy in America?

#barbie #my boyfriend is seeing Barbie without me #life #love #matriarchy #dismantle the patriarchy #dismantle capitalism

[sassyalpacawhispers]

#friendzone #friend zone #feminism #we need to talk about this #dismantle the patriarchy