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Radical feminism is not about a woman’s happiness...

It is about dismantling the social constructs forced upon women. It is not a neatly wrapped gift tied with a bow, presented to every woman so she may open it with joy and satisfaction. We are trapped in a consumerist mindset, where everything is viewed as a product meant for our pleasure and consumption.

Many women have harsh and abrupt encounters with radical feminism because it disrupts their “individualistic choice-making” mindset. It forces accountability and rejects female infantilization. It demands that we question the systems we participate in, rather than simply indulging in personal comfort.

So, of course the average woman wouldn't care about radical feminism... It doesn’t offer instant gratification. It doesn’t promise happiness or comfort. That’s the reality. Unlike neoliberalism which promises that regardless of choice or context, as long as YOU are making the choice, then it is empowering. Radical feminism is about fighting—about refusing to accept the conditions we’ve been given. Yet, under patriarchal social constructs, women have been conditioned to do the opposite: to lay down and take it.

Radical feminism aims to break this cycle, but it isn’t easy, and it isn’t supposed to be. It is a call to action, not a balm to satisfy your individual wounds.

"not all men because is your father amongst them??" Yes, he is, all my male relatives are oppressors, to their wives, to their sisters, to their daughters and to all the women they encounter.

Because they also participate in the same circle of abuse and hate, they are a part of the patriarchy and it wouldn't still exist if they weren't such willing participants, if they cared for us, then why are they not enraged by what happens to us on a daily basis?!

girlypop I have a question about your post with the rancid ass take about what jobs men apparently should no longer take. What the fuck do you actually expect men to do?? Because if we go with your suggestion to kick men out of all professions where they might encounter a woman at some point, the only option left would be to stay at home and do nothing all day while the wife does literally everything, which in my books is the exact opposite of feminism (equality) but okay pop off ig 💀

Terfs: ugh men are so shit and stupid and do nothing all day

Men: do a reputable job that helps people

Terfs: ugh how fucking DARE they

Like make it make sense girl

The common denominator among the professions I listed in that post wasn’t simply that men “might encounter a woman at some point.” The common denominator was men, either in positions of authority or asymmetrical power dynamics, having guaranteed and unsupervised access to highly vulnerable individuals.

Men themselves repeatedly demonstrate that these are not positions which they are worthy of when they commit atrocity after atrocity against the individuals under their supervision.

And you know, I could the take time to really showcase why excluding men from these professions is necessary. I could dole out the usual statistics on male depravity, and how it unequivocally spikes when men have access to women who are either undressed, unconscious, isolated, mentally handicapped, or underage. I could mention the frequency of male morticians raping corpses, or the frequency of male prison guards sexually exploiting female inmates, or the frequency of male therapists molesting or fantasizing about their female patients.

I could mention all the Larry Nassars of the medical world, like the male anesthesiologist who raped countless unconscious women, or the male doctor who carved his initials onto women’s abdomens during C-sections, or all the male gynecologists who have been caught taking pictures of women’s vulvas during exams. I could even bring up the fact that in most of these professions, you already have the option to choose a female provider, because other people besides evil radical feminists like myself recognize how catastrophic it can be to give men of authority unsupervised access to highly vulnerable individuals.

But it would all be futile, because at the end of the day, I’m never going to be convinced that naively giving men the benefit of the doubt is ever worth increasing the risk of female victimization, even by a minuscule amount. In reality, assuming the worst in men is often the safest and most reasonable approach, no matter how hurtful your ego may find it. And if that offends you so much, take it up with the men who created these fucking circumstances.

Why do men who contribute nothing but a paycheck to their families get surprised and mad when they're treated as "just a paycheck" during divorce?

reasons men think women are evil: we don't always tolerate their violent behavior, we criticize them for being sexist, we call them out when they do something wrong, we ignore them sometimes, we joke about them online

meanwhile men: molest children, beat their wives, rape, murder women and each other, support men who kill their entire familes, support rapists, tell us we deserve to be raped for existing, bully little girls for their appearance, call us evil thots, complain about us having rights

”women need to be nicer to men!!! women are so awful to men now and that’s the reason they’re all misogynistic dickheads!” oh? so you agree? you agree that the mistreatment of one sex by another is what causes them to turn mean and cynical towards the other sex? so you agree misandry is men’s fault? that feminists being so mean to men is men’s own fault? you agree that women are justified in their judgement and alienation of males?

saw this on instagram (@xx_revolt) and thought i could share it ❤️‍🩹

it’s the way that women fought for centuries to no longer be seen as second class citizens and to get a month to recognize women’s history and only like 4 years after that men got “men’s mental health month” because they felt like they were being ignored now. men can’t stand not being the centre of attention and the victims, even when they’re the oppressors

“i’d rather be self centered than male centered”

I honestly think that men can't handle the harsh truths of life, they have been protected and pampered for so much time that the mere discovery that women are people too gives them a mental breakdown.

Blackpill for men: women like attractive men, women have eyes, women are human beings that can choose.

Blackpill for women: most men would rape women if they could get away with it.

Guess which blackpill is a matter of discussion and pity on the mainstream

"As long as God is male, the male is God." — Mary Daly.

Men despise that women create life. That's why religions exist, they have a male god and male prophets and women supposedly exist to serve their needs and be property, our fathers, then husbands and later our son's. It's a patriarchal lie, it's not real, there is no punishment after passing for non-believers, just eternal death and possible peace.

my heart breaks thinking about the elderly women who voted for kamala harris thinking they’d finally get to see a female president in their lifetime only for a man who wants to take women’s right away to win.

going to center my human experience around female experience. befriend and build deep relationships with women. enjoy women’s art and writings. listen to female artists, speakers, and role models. read books about women, watch movies about women, and donate to charities for women. work with women, study with women, plan trips and outings with female friends and colleagues. support female creators and buy artworks of women. i am going to enjoy my life so much by caring for and being cared by women.

i hate male entitlement, i hate male violence, i hate male aggression, i hate male weaponised incompetence, i hate male binary thinking, i hate male militarised thinking, i hate male arrogance, i hate male possessiveness, i hate male behaviour, i hate males but above all i hate the fact that i have to interact with males regularly, even when i make every attempt not to.

Did/do any other autistic people "act silly" to unmask? I didn't realise it but I've been doing this my whole life- "as a joke" I'd say silly things and do bad accents/impressions and make my voice high pitched, I'd dance and fake-punch my brother and jump around whilst "joking around" but around other people and mlst of the time I'd be my "sensible", "normal" self

And in retrospect

It's just me unmasking my autism for a little while, because no one would take me seriously if I acted this way all the time so I only do it as a "joke.

Just me??? Ok-

The nature symbolism in The Picture of Dorian Gray makes me go FERAL!!

The way that the nature similes and imagery start to become less and less prevalent as Dorian loses his humanity!! They go from almost multiple a page to barely one a chapter; the way he stops aging goes against the way that nature is supposed to go.

The way that a main character (Basil) who suffers at Dorian’s hand is literally shares a name with an aspect of nature!! Dorian has gone against the will of nature and is paying for it.

The fact that Dorian is offered and eats cherries the night before gaining his undying youth; in some mythologies, the cherry tree contains the elixir to give the gods their eternal life. To add on, cherries in literature usually represent immortality and youth.

The fact that the flowers in Basil’s garden represent romance/love/beauty/courage (roses), purity/innocent/spirituality (lilacs), pain/pleasure (pink-flowering thorn), and PENSIVE/FORSAKEN BEAUTY (laburnum). The way Henry rips apart SEVERAL pink daisies (represents gentleness and love) in the very first chapter. The way Basil keeps a book titled “Forest Scenes” in his house. Basil is a person who nurtures beauty and love and romance in the purest way he can and is hurt horribly by the way Henry poisons Dorian’s brain and rips him apart.

And that just SKIMS the surface. THE NATURE SYMBOLISM IN THIS BOOK!! I’M GOING TO EAT DRYWALL ISTG

I hate to break it to you friends but the excessive hate campaign of white women is, at it’s core, misogynistic.

One facet of female solidarity that needs more discussion is anti consumerism and anti consumption. Our current western mindset is one of obtaining as much as possible, both as a show of wealth and for personal comfort. However, much of what we buy (for example, fast fashion) is produced in a non-transparent supply chain that frequently relies on female and Global South labor to make goods cheap and easily affordable, and thus more tempting for the consumer. These low wages that are paid to workers result in economic desperation and trap women in poorly paid, often abusive positions. Additionally, women and children are the most at risk from the negative effects of climate change, which is exacerbated by industrialization and over production.

By consuming less we reduce support for these predatory supply chains and their deleterious effects on the environment. Ideally if we buy goods, they are from female owned businesses whenever possible. Personally I also avoid spending money on items that enforce the beauty standard (this includes makeup, uncomfortable or impractical clothes or shoes, and cosmetic procedures). Essentially, what ways could you support female solidarity through consumption habits?

male civility is a facade.

I've noticed that men usually only see what things are on a very superficial level, and women are able to see not just what they are but what they 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯. We see the larger picture, the symbolism that men either can't see or choose to ignore.

For example, when a woman tells her fiance 4,897 times that when they feed each other cake at the wedding, to please not smash the cake all over her face. She couldn't be clearer that this is immensely important to her. He says, "Okay" - and when the time comes he smashes the cake all over her face, guffawing.

Or when a marriage is on the rocks because a wife feels consistently disrespected and unappreciated, and she gives her husband one last chance to demonstrate that he loves her - and she comes home to a trail of rose petals that lead to a sink full of his dirty dishes. And he calls it a joke.

Men in the comments of these videos say things like, "Gosh, if she gets that mad over a little frosting/a joke, he's better off without her!" But women can understand in a flash that of COURSE its not about frosting or a poor joke - because what buffoon would think that? Its about the total disregard for her feelings; the way that all these things say, "You can plead with me about something that's important to you a million times, and I'll deliberately disregard it and laugh in your face about it. Why? 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦."

And you can't get men to understand any of this. Try it. They'll just say things like, "you obviously can't take a joke just like the other woman here" and eventually trot out some misogynistic slurs. They're literally just not at a level of evolution to understand these things that are so easily grasped by women. As someone once said, "You can't speak butterfly language to caterpillar people."

I wish all of these men a slow, violently tortuous death.

“Not all men” you cry, as all the rest who aren’t the legislators, soldiers and politicians sit back and watch. Whether it be in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan where women have quite literally lost their right to speak in public, India with a sexual and domestic violence epidemic almost unheard of, Iran where women are murdered by police for removing their veil, the United States where women’s reproductive rights have been lost, South Korea with their spycam epidemic, France where a woman’s husband invited round dozens of men who lived locally to rape her as she lay unconscious, Iraq seeking to decriminalise marrying young girls, or how literally anywhere in the world you can access footage of women being sexually abused on page 1 of the biggest porn sites and google images with the simple click of a mouse.

“Not all men are violent oppressors” the rest sit back and watch. Immediately after telling us that they are our natural protectors, best equipped to defend us against hostile forces, men sit back and watch, or even cheer, as those oppressors roll into town.

Young girls need to be actively taught to not help males regardless of their circumstances or age. Whether it's your boyfriend of 5 years who recently got into a debt or if it's any stranger in a dark alleyway crying for help. Neither of them are gonna end well FOR YOU. You're not gonna get appreciated, you're not get acknowledged for long. Infact, you're gonna be the one who'll be taken advantage of. Other men surrounding these helpless men have far more power than you ever will(most). These men are not approaching you because you're "the one" they could trust. And let me tell you something, the men you'll help build, will resent you for helping them or being there to witness when they were at their worst. They do not want to be reminded of the times when they were a loser or that a woman(someone who's considered below them) helping them.

im not a blackpill fem but i genuinely keep coming across more and more evidence that male sexuality is inherently pedophilic and i dont even think its a question anymore.

like why is it such a deeply engrained idea that “beautiful” women have to be as hairless as children?

why is one of the most popular categories of pornography “teen”?

why has every society on earth engaged in the child marriage of girls whilst boys were married at much older ages?

why was the frontman of one of the worlds most dominant religions a pedophile?

why did france (a modern country that supposedly values womens rights) literally just pass a law a few years ago which set the age of consent at 15 (too low), after a court ruled that an 11 year old girl consented to being raped by an adult man in 2017?

why is the global age of entering prostitution 13 globally and 16 in the US?

Trans women are oppressed as well. As women fighting for women we should be fighting for ALL women. What terfs don't understand is when trans women are free, cis women shall also be free.

Are the “women” in the room with us right now? Why should FEMinism, a movement about FEMale liberation and rights, include males? You know, the very group of people that oppressed us in the first place?

Also this is unrelated to the point but I hate?? when people?? talk like this???

It needed to be made.

You’re right, it’s not all men, Ravi fucking Singh would NEVER

hey, if you’re a speaking person (or partially speaking due to speech loss episodes or what have you) and you hear another speaking person say shit like “going nonverbal” or “i’m semiverbal bc i go nonverbal sometimes”

stop that shit. program a button into your aac or keep a card in your communication cards or prepare a verbal script to inform others.

a bit lost as to what to say? try this one out for size:

“actually, nonverbal is a permanent state of not talking. it means you don’t talk ever, you don’t “go nonverbal”. some words to describe your experience could be, losing speech, speech loss episode, losing words, verbal shutdown…”

the nonverbal community does not need to do this on their own. we owe them that much.

spread the word like butter on toast yall! call out that shit when you see it.

I'm a big supporter of "the gods love you, regardless of how much you're able to do to worship them", but at the same time, it's difficult to forge a relationship with any deity (or even other people) if you don't allow yourself to be known by them. If you don't have moments of vulnerability, moments of silliness, moments of small joy even, then it's difficult to forge relationships or take them to a deeper level. Loving gods (or even other people) can be a scary thing for some people (hell, it was for me), but if you don't allow your heart to be exposed, even just a little, then you're not going to get back as much as you're hoping to.

Anything that's worth anything in life is going to require some level of risk, as terrifying as that feels sometimes, and in my opinion, having a deeper connection with a deity is one of those things that's worth the risk.

My point isn't that we aren't loved by the gods if we don't do a ritual everyday or pray every hour; my point here is that we cannot deepen our bonds if we aren't willing to dip more than just our toes into our deity relationships. Love your gods, and know that you are loved, but they can't really help you if you won't let them in, you know?

being self-directed, being my own muse, my own inspiration, my own mental point of origin, putting my own opinion of myself first, these are what gives me the confidence to happily do as I please and live my life without caring what others feel about my decisions and most importantly, without caring what decisions others are making with their lives. this is being self centered in a healthy way.