this unironically actually

And I mean this with my chest

banning books is bad unless i hate the author

They really are this stupid

“Why would they ban a book I like??? I mean, I understand why they’re banning a book I don’t like, but why ban a book I do like??”

Do they not remember when the Christian masses protested JKR’s Harry Potter in the 90s because it contained witchcraft? Like, do they not remember the religious pushback? And they say it’s banned because of JKR going on Twitter and saying the radical “women are female”, rather than the extreme religious protesting and BURNING books that promoted concepts against their conventions.

pfft most these ppl weren’t alive in 90s & don’t know anything twitter didn’t spoon feed them

under patriarchy, the woman is always a liar by default unless a man backs her claims up. doesn't matter what the topic is, her experience, politics, science, whatever. to men we're these deceitful creatures that are always trying to spread lies.

look at the depp vs heard trial. look at how little to no men believed her from the start, but the moment depp said "no i didn't do this" without any actual proof they believed him. all he had to do is combine a pr team to spread bullshit. he didn't have to actually prove a single thing.

deppies were asking to release court documents and the court actually did. but they didn't look through. not even once. because then they'd see his messages about how he was the one to come up with the poop idea, or how he wanted to rape her dead body. they were so hyped to hate on a woman they didn't even listen to his own words about how he cut his own finger off in another one of his alcohol rages.

but the moment someone made up some stupid shit about how amber did cocaine in a court room, or how she rented a child, or some other actually insane trump-style bs, they believed. because a man said so. just some random words were more than enough to completely dehumanise her. to laugh at her crying. to use her rape story as a tiktok sound effect.

it didn't matter that everything depp ever did was harming people around him, pissing all over bathroom walls and supporting other abusers. what mattered was to have a way of expressing hate towards a woman.

Anna Page

It’s okay, you can say Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed etc. etc. etc.

And Thoreau. And Emerson. And the weird neo-hippie guy we all went to college with that went on a 2 week meditation retreat.

Do you ever notice that men almost never tone police each other, and women rarely tone police men, but every time you turn around there's a woman telling another woman to rephrase what she just said in a way that's softer or more palatable?

Yeah, me too.

Maybe just, I don't know...let women express their genuine thoughts among other women 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 instead telling them what to say and how to say it?

I'm up to the "I dunno maybe children working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform people that haven't read it yet that capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about employing children to squeeze out profits, they were hiring "experts" to write newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a business! It's science, you see. Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor kids.

These moids so desperately want to take away the ability of women to describe our oppression. It's pathetic. And they act like women accurately describing our oppression is violence against them. They're like... children calling timeout right before they're about to lose a game or something.

trans-id activism obscures misogyny, especially male violence against women and girls.

The self-assured tone gets me as much as everything else. He really is that convinced that he gets to be the arbiter of how women talk about our own oppression, and what our oppression is. That in itself is male socialisation, Timothy.

women please take self defence classes and do not listen to men that tell you it’s futile to fight against a man. learning to defend yourself from men is not the same as when men fight each other, you are not trying to beat the shit out of him, you are trying to hurt him just enough so that you can get away. you can learn techniques to prevent a man from grabbing or choking you or how to escape a grip on you. men can knock you out or kill you if they land a proper punch but you can reduce the chances of that happening. even if you’re very small, it really doesn’t hurt to be able to dodge a punch from a man but it’s something you have to practice. it doesn’t matter how strong he is if he misses.

"I can't wait to be sexually harassed"?????

men constantly make women feel unsafe, invade our space, yet we are expected to just tolerate it and be nice??

We are actually expected to love being treated like this. 🫠

Heartbreaking: a lesbian doesn’t like penises. More at 11.

Will once again remind people that the same people who mock radfems for talking about "sex based oppression" think there is a special form of oppression called "transmisogyny" that only affects people of the male sex.

"Look I don't care if you want to date women I just don't want to hear about it or see it" - my homophobic dad circa 2007

"I don't care if you have a genital preference but please have some empathy and keep it to yourself" - homophobic Trans-identified-male circa 2024

Fun fact: If it upsets you to hear about it? You care deeply. If it upsets you to see it? You care deeply. If you want people to hide their homosexuality for you? You're a homophobe. End of discussion.

nothing to say except point and laugh

I can’t get over this video and how this absolute tsunami of bullshit is presented with so much confidence

I knew this would be a trainwreck before it started but the FGM comments hit me like a train

also - one thing i will say - the point about all the woowoo "divine feminine" "divine masculine" bullshit is very true. we dont need to further mystify or "other" women and aim to uphold gender roles through mysticism and pseudoscience

“you are the ones who prey, you are the ones who lurk”