Funny how words change. I was thinking about the phrase "gentleman's club," and what I'd IMAGINE that would mean (based on the definition of "gentleman") is a place for well-bred, intelligent, likely educated, civilized men to talk, drink and smoke cigars with other men of the same mindset. I picture Mr. Darcy sitting there with Mr. Bingley. Instead, it's come to mean "The lowest, dumbest, most perverted dirt bags you can imagine throwing filthy dollar bills at women who they're paying to take their clothes off." The men who visit these places are the furthest thing from gentlemen.
The funny thing is, if there were a "Lady's Club" it would probably still resemble exactly what we'd imagine: well-dressed, elegant women having a beautiful luncheon with their female friends, behaving totally appropriately. The most they might do that was "out of character" for ladies (supposedly) is laugh uproariously after a few glasses of wine.
Since I'm on the subject, Tea Rooms (which were very popular in America in the 1910's-20's and were generally owned by women) were very close to what I described as a Lady's Club, and I'd love to see them brought back. Getting dressed up to go to a fancy tea with a lot of female friends sounds like so much fun!
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We need a feminist movement that encourages women to get their carry permit. Like I mean it. So many men thinks it’s okay to say weird things to women and girls, we need to start carrying a gun. Something to scare men.
bitch is a slur cunt is a slur and I think men should face the same level of scrutiny for saying those words as any other slur
men saying "happy womens day" is the most shallow shit ever because that's all they'll ever do to acknowledge that we're even human
International women's day is coming up soon....and I'm so fucking angry about it.
It's a farce of a day.
Men take the day to post photos of their wives/sisters/mothers/daughters before going straight back to watching videos of trafficked women and girls being raped online (pornhub).
Before going back to toxic chat groups and sharing their most normalised and vile thoughts on women with one another, or asking for tips on how to sedate and rape them (telegram).
Before going back to their jobs where women are usually paid less than them for the same work, and talking about how difficult and bossy 'Karen' is for having the backbone to set her own boundaries and not laugh at their unfunny jokes.
Unless you're posting a receipt of money you've donated to a women's organisation, I don't want to fucking hear it.
I don't want to see your pictures of your exhausted wife who does all the house work after coming home from her job, I don't want to see photos of your daughter that you're already talking over and down to in comparison to your sons.
Hold your gross fucking friends accountable for the vitriol they spread or sit down and shut up.
i dream of having a radfem bestie so bad
insanity
men are responsible for everything i hate about the world. don't like war? men are behind it. don't like gangs? men are behind it. don't like billionaires? don't like capitalism? don't like poor medical infrastructure? don't like teen pregnancy? don't like pedophilia? don't like divorce? don't like public insecurity? don't like invasion of privacy? don't like theft? don't like rape? don't like climate change? don't like slavery and human trafficking? don't like fascism? don't like tribalism? don't like colonialism? don't like the systemic violence enacted on homosexual people? don't like hierarchy? don't like inequality? don't like massacres and genocides? don't like economic instability? what? is there anything you hate? feel anger toward? is anything sacred to you? are you bothered by anything?
to say you love men is to say you love the world as it is.
Nobody really talks about how lonely it can be as a radfem, especially how alienated you feel from other women. The continuous betrayal and ridicule you’ll experience from the same people who agree with surface-level feminist analyses is so disheartening.
You’re eager to criticize poor male behavior yet you also vehemently deny real-world oppression that we all suffer from? Acknowledging the wage gap and sexual violence statistics is all fun and games but deconstructing anything beyond that is somehow taking things too far? Do you not see the irony in condemning things like the cosmetic industry while degrading other women who choose not to shave?
I want to know at what point they think the oppression of women starts and stops. Do you genuinely believe that thousands of years of misogyny simply disappears overnight? Is it truly the case that your father, your brother, your boyfriend have miraculously been deprogrammed and it’s all other men that are the problem?
Everyone wants to shit on men until it comes time to reconcile with the fact that the majority of them actively and intentionally contribute to maintaining a patriarchal society. Then it just gets too real
i really really really don't care about trans shit anymore. like it's just not a thought in my mind. I'm terrified. i went on instagram and the first post i saw was "trump said there are only two genders! that's awful" I DONT GIVE A SINGULAR FUCK? I'm terrified. I'm terrified for the earth, there's a nazi in the white house that gets control of a whole department, 4 hours into his presidency there was a sieg heil by musk, he will leave everything to states and i will have no protections. I'm scared that my birth control will be taken and i eventually die alone and bloody from pregnancy complications. im scared for how bold nazis and racists and misogynists are going to be. i don't want more drilling.
i don't give a fuck if he said there's only male and female. he's trying to distract you from all the horrific shit he wants to do