They’ll send you the most graphic violent threat for saying “only women get periods” but the lengths they go to defend this man, who raped his own elderly disabled MOTHER.
So doing decades of depraved shit, including raping his own mother, is a just response to being “bullied.” TRAs excusing the actions of a sick man and pretend they aren’t just MRAs.
i wish conventionally unattractive women were able to be successful in the performing arts the same way conventionally unattractive men are. men just get to be talented. women have to be talented and fuckable
everybody ganster until i say that my feminism includes only females because females are the only of the two sexes being historically oppressed. men in dresses are not and never will experience real sexism.
everybody gangster until i say that once we start letting transgender identified males into female spaces (ie: rape shelters, bathrooms, changing rooms, saunas) then soon all males will be welcome, whether they have good intentions or not.
everybody ganster until i have the most lukewarm feminist take on transgenderism that was widely accepted before men found out they could get away with hate crimes against women by pretending to be one of us.
I can't put into words how terrifying this new MRA rhetoric is that "rape is not really that bad" "it only lasts for a few minutes" which they will then use to justify less punishment for rapists, less help for women, as if rapists even get any punishment currently! And women who are raped are already told to move on or are ignored, or even accused I being an antagonist. They are always coming up with a new thing to silence us and they won't stop no matter how many women will say how traumatising it was for them they will just selectively pick the information that suits their agenda.
And their agenda is to rape women.
There is no point trying to explain to them how horrible it was for you because they are well aware. This is weaponised ignorance when men pretend they dont understand that their actions hurt women to get away with it. The only thing we can do is highlight that this is clearly a tactic in their war on women.
Thinking about when I was a freshwoman in college and a formerly incarcerated woman came to talk to my feminist theory class about how she believed in abolition but only for women's prisons. She spoke about how rare violent female criminals are, especially when you exclude abuse victims/self defense etc. She spoke about how many of her peers were broken and abused and needed help. She spoke about how isolating mixed-sex spaces for formerly incarcerated people were because so many of the men were openly threatening or misogynistic. She spoke about how complete abolition is unrealistic and impractical because of the epidemic of male violence. She had so many amazing hot takes that she would say without shame or hesitation. It really opened my eyes because I didn't think I was even allowed to think things like that. Anyway I hope she is doing well and I fully agree.
it actually scares me when people like "THE SCIENCE!!!! THE SCIENCE!!!!!" and then the "science" in question is one study conducted in 2013 with a sample size of 22, a dropout rate of 30%, and it has never been replicated. like oh my god research literacy needs to be part of our general education so bad because what the fuck is going on guys
yeah we do. very few of us genuinely feel 100% comfortable and safe around you. maybe if you werent misogynist pieces of shit it would be different. hope this helps!
Just love it when I’m reading my IT textbooks and they use male pronouns when referring to a hypothetical person. Really gives a giant “fuck you!” to all female readers. Male centric language is ingrained in academia and it excludes women as a whole.