Sometimes Being A Woman Comes With An Expectation Of Being All Things At One Time, All The Time. Sometimes

A trend I notice with radical feminist writers is how blunt and direct they are, which makes them easy to read. Valerie Solanas, Andrea Dworkin, Gail Dines--all of them cut straight to the point. Meanwhile, "queer theory" authors like Judith Butler and Michel Foucault are famously dense, obscure, and no one can ever agree on what their point is.

I see people talk about how there's an anti-intellectual backlash happening on the Left, but I think it's worse than that--it's not just that people are discrediting academics and research, they're discrediting common sense. It's common sense to say that a man who orgasms to the thought of women in pain is a misogynist. It's common sense to say that sex that is meant to hurt and degrade someone is not good sex. It's common sense to say that a man is not a woman.

And I think that's why radical feminist authors come across as blunt speakers--because they aren't intellectualizing the obvious, they're stating it. Meanwhile, the work of Butler and Foucault obscures reality as much as possible (oh sorry-- "problematizes" reality as much as possible).

I wish the people who accuse radical feminists of having dog whistles would actually read radical feminist literature and see how blunt the writing is--absolutely nothing has a double meaning or an implied meaning. Everything is direct.

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ik u don’t click links or use tiktok but i wish i had a way to show u this specific video bc it rlly made my blood boil. a trans ‘girl’ starts the vid by saying “day 12 of being a girl” which ig he stole from dylan, went into target and bought a box of tampons, then proceeded to do an ‘unboxing’ in his car and then proceeded to act like a 9 year old boy and say “this thing does not go up inside you. like, where does that go? oh my god what the hell” and just acts so immature, annoying, and basically mocks women the whole video and ppl in the comments are like “she’ll got them in case a woman asks her for one she’s so sweet 🥺” like a woman would see someone who looks like a new york city twink in the bathroom and ask them for anything but poppers.

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“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren’t catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you’re unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride (via corpsicles)

137k likes on this vid so far and women in the comments are finally speaking up and pushing back🥲🥲🥲🥲

genderists look at the very few gnc women that girls have to look up to–they look at mulan, joan of arc, arya stark, anne lister, mary ann talbot–women who either pretend to be men for their safety (most of the time so that they can marry women, or go on expeditions, or enter into war or academia) or simply wear pants—and say ‘well actually, they want to be men’–>‘actually, they’re trans’ –> ‘actually, they’re men.’

it does not matter your intention, your reason for saying that, it matters the implication. you teach girls that no, you can’t actually be this, not unless you become a man first. 

and they look at gnc men like marquis de lafayette and marsha p. johnson and say, ‘well, actually, they’re women, see? because they’re wearing women’s clothes’. what do you think that teaches girls about what women are? woman is not a costume. man is not marriage with a woman. you’re just misogynistic and homophobic.

the fact that even just saying you like jkr gets you forever labeled a bigot but all the ppl who openly supported depp get to quietly withdraw back to normalcy. no one sees an issue with that? especially considering one beat a woman & the other has donated millions to women. with the utmost sincerity, if you genuinely think jkr is some sort of dangerous transphobe I think you’ve got to be one of the dumbest fucking people on the planet. you lack the most basic critical thinking skills and follow along with whatever you’re told like a naive child. I mean it’s been years now and it genuinely baffles me. not once has she said anything bigoted. no one can even back their arguments of this claim. it’s just been decided and so the crowd follows.

I am literally so done with coddling beauty-obsessed women’s feelings. I used to be all “oh no I’m not judging you” when my friends would accuse me of such things cause they shave and wear makeup. And it was true but I have officially lost my patience for that shit.

Women who shave and wear makeup have always been the ones who have judged me for not doing such things. All that “you’re judging me” crap is projection so here’s my response:

I am judging the fuck out of you. I roll my eyes when I see you’re in heels. I wanna kick you out of the bathroom when I see you putting on makeup. I think you’re a fool when you’re legs are perfectly smooth. I think you’re pathetic to be at your age 25, 35, 55, and still care about beauty standards for men. If you haven’t figured it out by now, you’re a lost cause.

ok heres my hot take: women can make whatever fictional content they want i trust them to still be normal irl. men are mentally fragile, easily influenced and should not be allowed to read