What Does This Sentence Mean? Being Against Coercive Rape Is Now Conservative-minded Morality?

𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔟𝔞𝔠𝔨, 𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩𝔶 𝔰𝔭𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤

I think this deserves its own post without my personal ramblings mixed in:

Whenever anyone panics or whines or scaremongers about the higher rate of women attending university, it's important to examine why more women are motivated to attend university in the first place, because I guarantee you it's no female privilege of any sort that's driving more women to obtain university degrees.

Specifically you need to look at the job opportunities that are available to men without a university degree vs. the job opportunities available to women without university degrees.

A lot of the jobs / sources of income that are stable and pay well despite not needing university degrees, trade jobs like a mechanic or a plumber or a welder, are heavily male dominated industries. And male dominated industry is pretty synonymous with hostile towards women. I cannot blame women who resist entering a field they're likely to face a lot of harassment, bullying, and even assault for daring to be a woman who enters a male dominated job.

And when you look at the types of jobs that are available to women who don't attend university often most of their opportunities are going to be food service or retail, jobs that pay less than a living wage for you to be on your feet all day facing constant verbal abuse from customers and managers alike.

So if a woman wants to be paid her own living wage and lower her chances of having to deal with abuse and harassment in the workplace, then she's more likely to be pushed to having to go to university.

There are of course exceptions to this (after all nothing is black and white and everything has nuance) such as many technician jobs in the medical field don't require a university degree, and are female dominated, and fetch a decent salary above what a service industry employee might make.

But overall it's interesting when you compare a lot of "pink collar" jobs like nurse or primary school teacher vs blue collar jobs like mechanic or plumber, the wages are comparable, but the "pink collar" jobs like nurse or primary school teacher will require a university degree whereas the blue collar jobs with a similar salary don't.

So when someone tries to worry and panic over the poor boys not going to university as much as their female counterparts and site the higher rates of women attending university as some sort of female privilege, to be perfectly honest I hardly consider it a privilege to need a university degree just to have a living wage without having to face harassment for entering a male dominated industry, to have more schooling than a man just so you can earn the same wages as his or even lower.

So why exactly can't patriarchy end though? (other than "that's just how it's always been")

lowkey getting tired of self defeatist blackpill attitudes "the patriarchy will never end" Why not? We went from using boats to rockets in like 200 years but you think men will forever have privilege in society? Why do you think that?

What? No. Women get more economic power when they: aren't expected to stop working to have a child or if they get enough maternity leave and affordable pre-k education, when female-dominated fields aren't devalued, when women aren't told they must prioritize men and children over financial independence, etc. You know, all things we have made significant gains in over the past 50 years, but we're still not there yet. These are still the stats and a pretty common situation:

2. Yes? and it provides more bodily autonomy for women.

3. And... what does a group of individuals make up?

4. I would say that almost every political or social movement would beg to differ.

5. Women's shelters for one.

6. Just completely missed the point I guess. Maybe perpetuating the idea that people who look female act one way, and people who look male act another way (in a way that advantages males), isn't great for women or feminism?

7. Pretty simple. A patriarchy is a system that doesn't advantage males over females as a whole. A policy that I didn't mention already is abolishing porn and the sex industry by criminalizing sex buyers, and not the sex workers. Also, requiring women to be included in medical trials. And also, boycott things like makeup, which is functionally useless and just feeds off the idea that women are just meant to be pretty yet women are also not pretty already.

Patriarchy is also often perpetuated through how people are raised, aka male vs female socialization, so working to combat that would help. It's not "just vibes". It's also "don't teach your daughter that math is for men".

We used to make fun of people for saying "not all men" it was beautiful

When did I ever say they will just "give it up"? We didn't get whatever rights we have now because they just gave it up. Don't discredit 20th century feminists like that. They rioted for our rights and were often successful in various ways.

Patriarchy isn't some natural state of the world either.

I think that patriarchy will end for the simple reason that men are not superior to women.

lowkey getting tired of self defeatist blackpill attitudes "the patriarchy will never end" Why not? We went from using boats to rockets in like 200 years but you think men will forever have privilege in society? Why do you think that?

Apparently an unpopular opinion but this is good actually especially if you are scared about opening up to real people or can't afford therapy.

I really don't get how this is worse than answering journaling prompts and reading articles. It's just an interactive combo of those and gives perspectives based on whatever sources it uses. It is also useful for OCD reassurance.

All the notes encouraging suicide over something that is cringe *at worst*, are so much more concerning.

add this to the dsm

A lot of people do and have used that as a scientific proof. Again, how else can be considered innate? Regardless, perpetuating those societal roles is still problematic though, even if some people don't have a bioessentialist take.

"Women are already more drawn to feminism" yeah I mean that's kinda the point in why trying to encourage women to be feminist activists is more likely to be successful. Men don't really have a big reason to be feminist. Trying to change feminism to cater to men is also often counterintuitive.

Male socialization also doesn't just end by going and telling men not to be misogynists. I am not sure the exact ways to end that at this moment since it's pretty complex, I would guess it would be gradual as social standards are changing and if children are raised differently.

And, well I mean feminism activism has existed for like 200 years and made strides, so we do indeed have action plans. I also laid out specific policies and reasons as well, which many feminist groups are working towards. But sure I guess feminists don't have any action plan because some tumblr users aren't personally ending patriarchy with their blogs.

I'm guessing you're male and want to discredit all of this because you think feminism is useless or bad, but that's demonstrably false.

We used to make fun of people for saying "not all men" it was beautiful

In America, poverty is a death sentence and Donald Trump and the Republican Party are slowly repealing The Affordable Care Act, making healthcare unaffordable once again. We need Medicare For All, and we need it now. No one should die because they can’t afford overpriced, profitized healthcare.

These are some of the people who needlessly died, just because they couldn’t afford healthcare. Unfortunately, as long as conservative politicians control congress, they won’t be the last.

This thread goes hard: https://twitter.com/eshalegal/status/962051340485537792?s=21

I do my readings on the history of labour in the early industrial period. I see that the majority of factory workers were women, because they could do the same work as men but for less money, while being less valuable to families and therefore easier to buy. I see that there were also women working in mines, and women who remained in farming communities were doing the physical labour of farm work as well as the production of a family's market goods -- the breadwinning. I see that women started industrial action and strikes, that in places like Japan they were significantly responsible for the national economy, since exports like textiles were produced by an 80%+ female workforce. I see that these women worked over 12 hour days, every single day, while in many cases being legally imprisoned on the factory premises.

And then I have a break and I look on social media and I see someone saying that men are the ones who do ~all the hard physical work~ that women are implicitly unable to do, and this is why those jobs are called "blue jobs".

There is so much fucking information in the world about how everything actually works, and it's so accessible. Immediately accepting as true any random gender essentialist phrase you hear on Tiktok is a completely, very easily avoidable way of making yourself look like an utter fucking moron.

I’ll shit on anyone’s religion and I’ll shame anyone’s kink and you may quote me on that