Men Don't Matter

Ninotchka Rosca “If your intersectionality is not women-centered, then it is not feminism.”

Her whole talk is really good!

Feminism was started as a women’s rights movement. If it’s not about women, it’s literally not feminism.

R Kelly getting 30 years. We love to see it

Yeah, it’s time for them to go

This is a blatant act of violent colonialism that undos decades of legal precedent that protected the civil rights of Native Americans. This is an unspeakable and deeply violent tragedy.

Killing someone who raped you or who is attempting to rape you is a completely level-headed response.

That extends to date rape. That extends to rape by deception.

Women are justified in killing their rapists. Men are justified in killing their rapists. No matter who the rapist is, they agree to be killed the minute they decide to rape. If they don't want to be killed, they shouldn't decide to rape.

-Caroline Criado-Perez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Perhaps minimalist design is so prevalent because we no longer have anything to say.

The Cultural Tutor

@legendofthehiddenbbc and her “every renovated house looks the same” tag.

I also see a weirdly patronizing attitude towards decorated architecture and furniture

like. I was actually told by someone on here that preferring Art Nouveau design to modernism is a sign of immaturity. no joke

so there’s this strange idea we seem to have in the back of our collective mind now that detailed/decorated = childish?

(I agree, though, with the take in the notes that it’s less because we have nothing to say and more because a blank and unremarkable slate is easier to put up quickly and wipe clean as needed for Runaway Capitalism Purposes)

Maybe this is too conspiracy theory but I think living in a blank slate world forces people further into individualism/consumerism. If you can't express your preferences in your chosen venue then you have to do it with your person. If you can't be stimulated in public then you must do it in private. Of course, in order to achieve your desired aesthetic, you have to spend your own money on art déco home furnishings and jewelry, rather than take a stroll through a lovingly preserved art déco neighborhood. Style, taste and character is your personal burden and responsibility.

A whistleblower has said orgies in the army are fairly common as she warned the recent incident at Merlville Baracks points to a wider culture of misogyny in the armed forces which views women as “lesser beings”.

Speaking exclusively to The Independent , the woman, who previously worked in recruitment for the British Army, said the institution often felt like a throwback to the 1950s.

It comes after a group of paratroopers were put under military police investigation after footage surfaced of them having an orgy with a civilian woman at Merville Barracks - a military base in Colchester.

This misogynistic culture that’s being perpetuated impacts all troops and partners of troops, but it obviously also impacts women and girls in the areas where our army is deployed.

Misogynists being given weapons and power… it’s bad for everyone.

I’m getting fed up with this whole “feminism as an identity” thing. Time for “feminism as an action.”

So instead of asking “can a feminist do x?” ask “is doing x a feminist action!”

Can a feminist take her husband’s last name? Mu. Null. Question un-valid, please un-ask question.

Is taking your husband’s last name a feminist action? No it isn’t. It doesn’t challenge the patriarchy in anyway, it is the status quo thing to do, it is what is expected of women, and it carries a lot of historical baggage about ownership and shit like that.

But that’s okay, your life choices don’t have to be 100% dictated by your politics unless you want them to. And it’s okay to really want to take his name while recognizing that you also want to do the feminist thing and keep your own, and it’s okay to feel conflicted and have a hard time making the choice. But no more of this enabling “as long as I made the choice myself it is a feminist choice” -bullshit. Own your choices, even the ones that aren’t informed by your feminist politics. You are still a human being and people do shit that contradicts their politics and even interests all the time. Just stop pretending that everything you do is feminist because you are a feminist, that’s not how it works.

^^this is why bell hooks challenges us to say “i support feminist movement” or “i support feminist action” rather than “i am a feminist.” she says that once we say “i am a feminist” and make “feminist” an identity rather than a political movement or a set of beliefs and the actions resulting from those beliefs, we can become complacent and think the battle is over. 

I think a lot of people need to realize how intentionally orchestrated recent events are. The US judges didnt do this when Trump was president. They waited for Biden’s presidency. They waited for a chance to make his supporters blame him. They waited to do it right before the midterm elections, with enough time to drive people apart but not enough time to distribute voting resources and pull them back together.

They could’ve done this a lot sooner. This was planned and intentional in order to drive their opposition apart, and if you spend your time ranting about how this is Democrats’ fault or that voting blue is useless you are falling perfectly into their plan.

In light of recent events, I would like to remind everyone that the correct pro choice talking point that will actually pull people to our side is NOT whether a fetus is human or not because you'll never win. The correct argument is how the state should never have the power to force you to give up physical autonomy for the sake of any other being.

if the state can't force you to be an organ donor after your death, it shouldn't be able to force you to be an organ donor before your death. if you can't be forced to give even a pint of blood for half an hour, you shouldn't be forced to give up your uterus for nine months. if your alcoholic father can't demand you give him half your liver, if the red cross can't just demand your blood, if those wig making companies can't demand your hair, no one should be able to demand your reproductive system.

even if a fertilized egg is exactly as much of a person as a twenty one year old citizen, no one else in the world should have a legal right to make use of your body parts without your express consent.

When you start to argue whether or not the fetus is a person, you're basically giving them the ground that if it is a person, then a woman owes her body and servitude to it.

When you argue that women need abortions for medical reasons or because of rape, you argue that women are resources to be owned unless they have a good enough reason to become exempt.

Het women still mommying their husbands and boyfriends and not wanting to hurt their poor poor feelings post roe v wade rollbacks are holding back women as a class. All the whining about sex strikes is embarrassing. Deeds not words. You choosing to coddle men speaks volumes.

Can you imagine if no woman reproduced with a prolifer ever again? They would die out within a generation. For all the rhetoric on empowerment and choice feminism, most women throw away the one choice in life that gives them the most power- when and with whom they marry, reproduce, and have sex- including the power to say no to all of the above. Patriarchy's whole raison d'être is to wrest that choice from women, and yet even the ones who have gained it back don't appreciate its value or exercise its power. Tragic to see women lose their lives through violence or attrition because they chose a parasitic man and keep choosing him every day.

like god forbid we take effective action for once. it’s not about limiting women’s sexual freedom lmfao y’all have it all wrong. the majority of heterosexual men only value women based on our bodies. not allowing them access to you sexually is a power move. buy a fucking vibrator. none of these men deserve to be touched anyway lmfao.

It's because for decades, women have swallowed the lie that sexual freedom = having more sex, and that sexual activity/availability was empowering. The realization that they've been scammed (and helped men scam other women) is just too painful. Imagine the cognitive bias the "ho tips" crowd and facebook feminists are going through right now. To acknowledge the effectiveness of a PIV sex strike is to admit that sex with men is frequently traumatizing, always risky, and never empowering.

My sister why are you debating the nature of life and humanity with a CREATIONIST?? They are living in lalaland the rules do not apply.

I encourage all women to stop using scientific arguments on folks who believe in father gods and virgin birth.

like you need to stop sleeping with men. every woman needs to stop fucking sleeping with men. its ridiculous

guys why didn’t we think of just putting this on the women? demand that they make sacrifices to end their own oppression?! god that’s brilliant we must be idiots

going to put this quote from @dementeddionne​ here because i think she sums it up really well:

when you have sex with men, as a woman, you’re not only sleeping with your oppressor, you’re opening yourself up to a huge risk that forms the basis of your oppression: pregnancy. in a time of restricted access to abortion, or any time at all, women need to take that risk seriously. heterosexual sex isn’t an apolitical act for women, not when sex-based oppression exists and women are exploited via reproductive ability. it’s not just a “fun” sexy time. even in a world without any kind of female oppression, heterosexual sex still wouldn’t be an equal act; women still bear almost the entirety of the risk. if you don’t want to deal with that fact, if you still just want to have sex with men like its an equal exchange, then no one’s stopping you. definitely not me, making a post on the internet urging women to be cautious.