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redditreceipts · 3 months
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what an actual policewoman looks like vs what a sexualised adult costume of a policewoman looks like:
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and now take a guess as to which of these two little girl's halloween costumes are modelled after
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they're not making costumes to give girls the chance to see themselves as their idols, they make costumes to groom girls into being sexualised for the rest of their lives
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liberal feminists really go “some women are happy to be complicit in their own dehumanisation” and think they did something
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misespinas · 1 year
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“The most oppressed man finds a being to oppress, his wife: she is the proletarian of the proletarian.”
Flora Tristan, “The Emancipation of Woman, or the Testament of the Pariah” (1843)
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kittycomrad · 4 months
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Daily reminder that women are not evil "aBusErs" for checking their male partner's phones etc. without their consent. Every man you sleep with is a potential predatory who has preyed on minors or has done worse. You're not "crazy" or a " tRuSt violater" for invading a man's privacy. Unlike m*n, you have actual reasons to be distrustful of m*n regardless of their relation to you. A man being in relationship with you or him having "healthy boundaries" with you does not absolve him of any crimes
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femsolid · 11 months
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"Women are still choosing to opt out of work and stay at home to raise children, and women are still taking pole-dancing classes, saying it is good exercise. Women are still painfully removing all of the hair from their bodies and pretending to be morons so as not to threaten their male suitors. They are still giving their money and attention to musicians who tell them they are worthless pieces of ass. Women are still watching blockbuster films and aspiring to be the supportive wife or the sexy girlfriend who needs rescuing, rather than the one (man) saving the world. Women in Hollywood are still producing films where men save the world. They still love and support and marry wife-beaters, rapists, and misogynistic trolls. Women are still voting Republican.
You can, they insist, still be a feminist and shave your legs, fuck men, consume misogynistic culture. Look, we’re doing it, we call ourselves feminists, you can too. The political and sociological understanding of the pressures under which women attempt to live their lives is replaced with personal choice. For example, everything about our culture may be pushing women toward marriage—from romantic narratives in movies and television to health insurance policies and tax benefits granted by the government. And marriage has historically been a way to control women and reduce them to being property—the visuals in marriage ceremonies and the words of wife and husband are still heavy with this symbolic meaning. Yet, if you want to get married and you choose to get married, and you identify as feminist, then your getting married is automatically a feminist act.
So we have books called Sexy Feminism, scientific studies about whether feminists have a more satisfying sex or romantic life, personal essays about how feminism helped me get that promotion/have better orgasms. And while there is a vague notion that there is something called the Patriarchy keeping you down, there are few ideas of how to counteract it, except through individual achievement.
Now that we have removed all meaning from the word feminism, our ranks have swelled. A woman can now take up the feminist label without any true political, personal, or relational adaptations whatsoever. It’s just another button on her jacket, another sticker on her bumper."
- Why I Am Not A Feminist by Jessa Crispin
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paperlunamoth · 1 year
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The other day I mentioned that little girls shouldn't be dressed in bikinis because bikinis are sexualized by men and exist solely to serve the male gaze, and maybe we should not put children in sexualized clothing that exists solely to serve the male gaze.
I was then told by a multitude of "feminist" women that I must think it's a woman's fault if she is raped and that I must want all women and girls to wear burkhas. Because I said that we should not actively feed into the sexualization of young girls through fashion.
One woman told me that the fashion industry was to blame, for making the bikinis and putting them in stores. When I said that, yes, they are to blame, but it is also the responsibility of adult women not to buy bikinis and dress their children in them when other swimwear options exist, and thus, you know, fulfill the end goal of those in the fashion industry for them, I was told I must only think that because I had internalized misogyny.
I genuinely cannot comprehend the kinds of mental gymastics necessary to so thoroughly divorce the choices of women, and the impact of those choices, from the actual goals of feminism. Women's choices are not made in a vacuum. We have the responsibility to be considerate of whether those choices hurt or harm the ultimate goal of eliminating sex based oppression.
Liberal "feminism" is brain rot and it actively aids and abets patriarchy and harms women.
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carbonemissionshater · 10 months
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Libfems love to toss around words like women’s choice and consent… like ok well I do not consent to males in womens spaces, I do not consent to peeing with males, I want the choice to not compete against/being imprisoned with/pee near males, did that occur to you ever? Does my choice/consent not matter?
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queerism1969 · 2 years
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rf-times · 1 year
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The whole “radical feminism isn’t racist because it’s the most common form of feminism in third world countries” is just really intellectually lazy and doesn’t challenge any of us to work on our biases or bring intersectionality into our work. Liberal feminism is such a harmful ideology because it buys into patriarchal, capitalist, racist lies and then promotes that this will save women and it is often used to promote imperialism and racism.
Liberal feminism is far more popular in the first world because it appeals to women privileged on other axies who believe in the capitalist, meritocratic myth. Women who are sold the idea of having it all: full gender conformity, fairytale husband and kids plus capitalist success.
Of course most feminists in third world countries will put anti-racism and anti-imperialism at the forefront of the movement’s goals and will be far less likely to buy into liberal feminism. This doesn’t mean that anyone who disagrees with liberal feminism is now automatically non-racist. As radical feminists we need to do the work to actually align our politics with the interests of third world women, not just be like “see we both hate liberal feminism for one reason or another!”
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feminist-bitches-only · 6 months
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The article was written by a man, which is probably 0% surprising to most of y’all. Love that men feel the need to mansplain what women think about using baseless sexist stereotypes. (Also I highly hypothesize this is an indirect outcome of the cancerous girl dinner, girl math, history and science explained for the girlies tiktok trend…)
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hard--headed--woman · 2 months
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if you sincerely believe that men are oppressed or hated in this society because they're men (no, i'm not saying men of color or gay and bi men aren't oppressed, nice try dick havers fandom) you're delusional, you've spent too much time on tumblr and you've had your brain rotted by MRA and incel rhetoric.
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elfradfem · 1 year
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Y’all are really just calling yourselves lesbians after you admit to being attracted to men
edit: okay I’ve realized from several insightful comments that I probably should have addressed the fact that this girl was led to believe that she was a lesbian by problematic things such as the lesbian masterdoc in the first place, and the ideas about ‘comphet’ being so twisted on the internet that this girl even needs to still be confused about whether she’s a lesbian or not when she has literal crushes on men and desire to date them.
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misespinas · 1 year
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I feel like the thing Mulan (1998) accomplished better than any other Disney ‘princess’ film was how her society valued women based off 1. their attractiveness and 2. their ability to be submissive.
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Other Disney movies (ex. Beauty and the Beast) make references to the misogyny women face for being unable to fulfill traditional female roles, but the disgusting standards aren't explored nearly as much as they are in Mulan. The entire song “You'll Bring Honor to Us All” focuses on all these horrible beauty standards she is expected to uphold:
“With good breeding/ And a tiny waist”
“Like a lotus blossom/ Soft and pale”
“a perfect porcelain doll”
But the song also reflects the social status of women and their roles in society:
“Boys will gladly go to war for you”
“A girl can bring her family/ Great honor in one way/ By striking a good match”
“Men want girls with good taste/ Calm/ Obedient/ Who work fast-paced”
“A man by bearing arms/ A girl by bearing sons”
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Mulan’s reflection of this caricature she is meant to become is so much more powerful and sticks out even compared to other more recent Disney movies (Frozen, The Princess and the Frog, etc.)
I personally feel like Mulan is the only ‘princess’ who does not fall into the society's expectations of feminity in come category. She does not seek to become an object, and she defies the roles her society wants her to uphold. Mulan is the only Disney film that shows the impossible standards women are given. The only film that comes close to this would be Brave.
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kittycomrad · 5 months
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Going for 50/50 relationships in a world which has never treated women as equally important is crazy. Your relationships do not end at home and they certainly do not end in your bed. 50/50 relationships are a scam and the men seeking them out do not think you're important enough to be cherished.
Spending your day as a woman, getting more spoken over, assulted, paid less, made to do more unpaid labour as compared to any m*n only for you to go back to a m*le who wants to gaslight you into thinking that you set into the relationship with an equal footing. Splitting bills 50/50 when the m*le earns more is not a 50/50 relationship, it's a disadvantage to you which can very easily turn into financial abuse. Even if he earns less than you do, he has more job security than a woman ever will. Oh, and he's also a leech so dump him.
Pregnancy already constitutes 50% of the labour so why can he not cook 3 times, do utensils and laundry, clean the floor and the furniture 7 days a week (as crazy as it sounds it's true, you're literally risking your life by giving birth.)
Can you really imagine your bf/husband doing 50% of labour until the day you die? YOUR idea of 50/50. Let's assume that he does do a lot of house work currently, do you think he did that prior to your relationship? Do you think he always did the same chores to help his mother? Cleaned the house and bathrooms for his mother?
Has he always had these morals or is he switching up for a short period of time to get what he wants? Does he whine and feel like announcing every little thing he did expecting some sort of award?
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femsolid · 2 years
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“During the same twenty-five year period that feminist theory and practice have been ongoing, a trend in theory called postmodernism has been working on undoing it. Its main target is, precisely, reality. 
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Part of the problem in coming to grips with postmodernism is that, pretending to be profound while being merely obscure (many are fooled), slathering subjects with words, its selfproclaimed practitioners fairly often don’t say much of anything. A splendid illustration is the parody of postmodern writing that was in fact gibberish that was accepted and published in a leading postmodern journal (see Alan D. Sokal's Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.)
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Postmodernism as practiced often comes across as style— petulant, joyriding, more posture than position.  But it has a method, making metaphysics far from dead. Its approach and its position, its posture toward the world and its view of what is real, is that it’s all mental.  Postmodernism imagines that society happens in your head.
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What [feminists] said was credible because it was real. Few people claimed that women were not violated in the ways we had found or did not occupy a second class status in society. Not many openly disputed that what we had uncovered did, in fact, exist. What was said instead was that, in society, nothing really exists.
Even questioning in the name of “differences” whether “women” exist and can be spoken of. 
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Antiessentialism is one facet of this objection: the view that there is no such thing as “women” because there are always other aspects to women’s identities and bases other than sex for their oppressions. The defense of multiculturalism is another facet of it: there is no such thing as women in the singular, there are only women in the plural, many different particularized, localized, socially constructed, culturally modified women, hence no “women” in what postmodernists imagine is the feminist sense.
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The postmodern critique of feminism seems to assume that the “women” of feminist theory are all the same, homogeneous, a uniform unit. I do not know where they got this idea either. Not from me. They don’t say. This notion that everyone must be the same to have access to the label “women” is not an idea that operates in feminist theory to my knowledge. Women, in feminist theory, are concrete; they are not abstract. In fact, feminism in one sense started the critique of universality as currently practiced by showing how women are left out of the human episteme.
Domination, postmodernists know exists, but they don’t tell us how or where or why. It is something that no one does. What we used to call “what happened to her,” has become, at its most credible, “narrative”. But real harm has ceased to exist. So whole chapters of books with “pornography” in their titles can be written without ever once talking about what the pornography industry concretely does, who they are, or what is done to whom in and with the materials.  
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Abuse has become “agency”—or rather challenges to sexual abuse have been replaced by invocations of “agency,” women’s violation become the sneering wound of a “victim” pinned in arch quotation marks. Instead of facing what was done to women when we were violated, we are told how much freedom we had at the time. Postmodernists ought to have to confront the human pain of the ideas they think are so much fun. 
Postmodern feminists seldom build on or refer to the real lives of real women directly; mostly, they build on the work of French men, if selectively and often not very well. Feminist postmodernism is far, far away from the realities of the subordination of women. All women should be so fortunate. Postmodernists have to portray women actually having power that men largely have in order to confuse people about power. (That they want to avoid being called sexist in the process, we have accomplished.)
What postmodernists want, I have come to think, apart from to live in their heads instead of in the world (that old dodge), is to vault themselves out of power methodologically. They want to beat dominance at its own game, which is usually called dominating. They want to win every argument in advance. 
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The reason that it doesn’t appear to men (especially men of the theory class) that the world exists independently of their minds is because they largely do have the power to do whatever happens in their minds.
Women are in a position to know this to the extent that reality does not respond to us. What we know is that the power to make reality be real is a product of social power to act, not just to imagine. We know that reality is about power because we can imagine change all day long and nothing is any different. The reality of people who don’t have power exists independently of what they think.  The social constructs that control their lives very often are not their constructs. Any woman who doesn’t know this, in my opinion, has not pushed very hard on the walls around her and other women, or has been, so far, very privileged and very lucky.
This is a criticism; it is not an inevitability. We can collectively intervene in social life, but not if we deny that it is there or what makes it be there. 
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What does this suggest about their ability to promote change? What is postmodernism’s project? How linear, how teleological, how serious. To whom and what is it accountable? I say it is accountable to academic hierarchy. Who else can afford this theory? Postmodernism appropriates its methodological pretensions and gestures from feminism, but it doesn’t practice them.  
So it’s forward to the past: to yet another set of abstractions with no accountability to subordinated peoples’ reality and an implicit but total accountability to power, with familiar if fancier reasons for doing nothing—radicalsounding, but with the same origins, a dislocated elite, and the same consequences, a disengaged theory, that corrodes material resistance to power.
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Postmodernism’s analysis of the social construction of reality is stolen from feminism and the left but gutted of substantive content— producing Marxism without the working class, feminism without women. It’s an abstract critique of abstract subjects. The hall of mirrors (that’s plural) that much of postmodernism substitutes for any attempt to grasp a real social world is an ultimate collapse into liberalism’s relativism regresses.
Once postmodernism’s various acts of theft and sell-out are exposed, what is left is a pose, an empty gesture of theatrical anarchism (to which Marx’s critique applies), a Hegelian negation of the status quo (and just as determined by it), liberalism’s terrible child (many liberals look plenty grounded and engaged by comparison), a precious politics of abdication and passivism.
I do know this: we cannot have this postmodernism and still have a meaningful practice of women’s human rights, far less a women’s movement. 
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Postmodernism, empty as much of it is, is taking up a lot of feminist theoretical energy in this one world that we all go to sleep in and wake up in. Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. In the early 1970s, I (for one) had imagined that feminists doing theory would retheorize life in the concrete rather than spend the next three decades on metatheory, talking about theory, rehashing over and over in this disconnected way how theory should be done, leaving women’s lives twisting in the wind.
My feeling is, if the postmodernists took responsibility for changing even one real thing, they would learn more about theory than everything they have written to date put together. Instead, as practiced by postmodernists, the job of theory, as the blood sport of the academic cutting edge, is to observe and pass on and play with these big questions, out of touch with and unaccountable to the lives of the unequal. Their critically-minded students are taught that nothing is real, that disengagement is smart (not to mention careerpromoting), that politics is pantomime and ventriloquism, that reality is a text (reading is safer than acting any day), that creative misreading is resistance (you feel so radical and comfortably marginal), that nothing can be changed (you can only amuse yourself). With power left standing, the feminism of this theory cannot be proven by any living woman. It is time to ask these people: what are you doing?”
Points On Postmodernism by Catharine MacKinnon
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scum-man-of-pesto · 2 months
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I really, really need more women and girls to make punk/punk adjacent feminist music like the Bleeders or S.C.U.M.
I need to see "SCUM Punk"/"Gash Rock" spread as the new dominant political/feminist movement in alt scenes (I think S.C.U.M. are using Gash Rock like the Bleeders instead of SCUM Punk now, but I still figured I should inlude it for those unaware, I know it was SCUM Punk in the zine, but obv it's not possible to retroactively edit a zine). I'm tired of liberal-ass Riot Grrrl music that's just like "I somehow "reclaimed" the status-quo and now I love it!!! I'm mainly going to yell about other women and personal occurances!! I will materially change nothing and only defend things I like without questioning why I even like them!!! Yay western hyper-individualism!!!!" etc. All while claiming to be radicals and leftists. Alt scenes are so filled to the brim with misogyny, and Riot Grrrl does genuinely nothing to challenge that.
It is so frustrating to listen back to a lot of my past Riot Grrrl favs sometimes now, but I do think that they were right about fighting for their beliefs with loud and angry music. It is such a solid avenue to build a movement out of. There's no better way to get people interested than artistic expression that they think is cool.
So, just like the Riot Grrrls of yesterday and the Gash Rockers of today, grab instruments and start yelling. Make a band. It doesn't have to be all women/girls to start. You don't need to know how to play when it comes to punk or music like it, you just need to be angry and have the ability to google basic chords or beats. Start yelling. Start screaming. Make it so that they can't ignore the voices of women and girls suffering in this patriarchal hellscape system anymore. There's already a couple bands literally doing it, so now is the TIME for you too!!
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