YALLLLLL please join the 4b movement this is SOO useful to keep woman’s rights in place. 4b stands for the 4 no’s and is a feminist movement thats basically where you refuse to date men, get married, have sex with men, or have children. I know to some of yall it might sound miserable but its either this or your rights.

4b isn’t a protest that’s supposed to make men give you your rights back. It’s not a sex strike. It’s a way of living to protect yourself when you already don’t have rights.

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I literally love early law and order SVU because they’re so judgmental of freaky men. They find out that a guy watches porn and they’re like.. this fellow is sus. Perhaps a killer. And they’re right

yeah it takes place in a fictional world where porn is disgusting and makes you a bad person! Unlike the real world! Oh wait

whenever a man tells me he would be feminist, but he can't because modern feminists are too radicial I have to remind him that feminism has always been radicial. the concept of women having rights was considered extremist a hundred years ago, and it always will be. it doesn't matter how nice feminists say it, men have always been against feminism.

also modern feminists aren’t radical at all?? They’re literally the most milquetoast uwu #mensmentalhealthawareness saps, and they’re STILL too much for men to handle.

what really amuses me whenever I see the “pregnant people” not “pregnant women” debate is that there was a case in 1979 where the Supreme Court of Canada found that denying pregnancy benefits was not discrimination against women but against pregnant people. that it just affected women? 🤷🏽‍♀️ too bad, so sad. 🤷🏽‍♀️

the case was overruled but lol. obscuring sex based oppression isn’t nearly as new and trendy as you think it is, tumblr kids. old white men have been on it for some time!

Actual footage of me when i hear the term “pregnant people”

Literally everything women do or enjoy is mocked endlessly and turned into its own jig. When the VSCO girls enjoyed comfortable clothing, reusable water bottles, and stickers they were mocked. When the Christian Girl Autumn girls enjoyed modest clothing, scarves / fall attire, and balayage hair, they were mocked. When the E-Girls enjoyed heavy eyeliner, short hair, and stockings they were mocked.

Like it doesn't take a rocket scientist to recognize that whenever women form trends amongst ourselves, we get mocked and turned into jokes. Meanwhile men can have broad ranges of hobbies and interests and have that be respected and treated with dignity, even if these include degeneracy like porn or hentai.

the resurgence of rape in media

for a brief moment, while game of thrones was airing, there was an international conversation about depictions of rape in media. this was a critical discourse, fueled by actresses coming out and sharing that they felt uncomfortable with the gratuitous nudity and many rape scenes in the show. people began to actually discuss the issue of the male gaze, and how rape and sexual assault can be shot in such a way that titillates rather than horrifies. this culminated, in my mind, with the release of jennifer kent's the nightingale, a 2018 film that reimagined the rape-revenge story.

for a while, perhaps due to the very brief popularity of #metoo, it seemed that rape-as-titillation was on the outs in popular culture. however, with the advent of the 2020s, this particularly virulent strain of misogyny and rape culture is back in full-force. this time it has a new coat of paint: the acceptable rape fantasy. these stories feature the same old tropes, but the trappings are designed to make the rape fantasy more palatable to modern leftist/"feminist" audiences. two prominent examples from this year and last illustrate the point well: sam levinson and the weeknd's the idol and gretchen felker-martin's manhunt.

the former is an HBO show which depicts, in great detail, the systemic rape and humiliation of a very young woman by her boss. the creators, sam levinson and the weeknd, were influenced by the pornography they both enjoy watching and writing about (remember the weeknd's song about correctively raping lesbians?), and by their own gender politics, which align rather more with andrew tate than mainstream feminism. how can a show like this be aired in 2023, the age of stifling wokeism™️ where cancellation™️ is social media's favorite hobby? it's simple--the boss in this series, the rapist, is a black man, and his victim is a white woman. this is something both black men who are fixated on white women, and white men who are fixated on watching black men fuck white women, enjoy. further, his victim herself "enjoys" being raped because she is a "sex-positive" feminist. bases? covered. too stupid to write about seriously, in my opinion, but a real bellwether due to its prominence on a prestige television network known for manufacturing cultural moments.

next, felker-martin's hugely successful novel manhunt, which is still being promoted by queer press and bookstores this june in celebration of pride month. it's a post-apocalyptic fantasy that features the corrective rape of cis lesbian "terfs" who refuse to have sex with pre-op transwomen. felker-martin defends the abundance of rape in the novel by saying all stories need to have rape, because 1. rape is interesting (?) and, 2. whether people will admit it or not, they are aroused by rape. i have written about this book before, in the context of "revolutionary rape", a particularly horrific form of "praxis" promoted by black panther eldridge cleaver. both the idol and manhunt hinge on their audiences believing that rape can be revolutionary praxis: that sometimes women deserve it. either because they're white and "slutty", as in the idol, or because they are lesbians who don't want to have sex with anyone who has a penis, as in manhunt. defending white women and terfs is social poison, so these projects receive some limited, light criticism, but no one wants to stake out the deeply unpopular position that rape is always bad, actually, lest they themselves be labeled a racist or a terf.

as someone who studies culture, as a black woman, and as a survivor of CSA and rape, i am not surprised at the resurgence of this trend. we are in the midst of a backlash against feminism that has yet to reach its peak, so things will only devolve from here.

This headline is so weird because it implies that the reason the book was taken out of the curriculum is because it’s about race, but the reason is that it has graphic descriptions of slaves being raped. Call me crazy but I don’t think that middle school girls should be reading brutal accounts of racially motivated rape. We had to do that in my middle school and it was funny to the boys and horribly traumatizing to the girls. We were twelve.

my boss is a woman who gets minor botox, who has her hair dyed blonde on the regular and curled with an iron, who wears open-toed shoes to work and paints her nails and wears bangles and clothes within the bounds of what's fashionable. she's married to a man and lives in a nice house. and recently we were out to dinner and I was showing her radiation-mutated flowers. they had doubled centers and too many petals and were growing at weird angles. and she said "sometimes I feel just like one of those flowers." And I said "me too"

Girl. If you, as a white woman, are not an intersectional feminist, you're not a feminist at all. You are a white supremacist misandrist.

The problem with intersectional feminism is that women’s interests will be the first to be thrown out or ignored once it’s noticed that being a woman can intersect with an “oppressor” class. This is why when a white woman uses assaulted by a non-white man, intersectional feminists defend the man, and then claim to be promoting a superior form of feminism.

So here is my problem with the "by virtue of being a man, you have to make your peace with the fact that some people will be uncomfortable with you, and thus you have to make yourself a safe person"

I've heard the same thing about being black. A lot of people have taken my very presence as hostility. I have had people escalate situations just because I am present as a black person in front of them. Before, and after transition.

You know what the problem with bending over backwards to make other people comfortable with your presence even though you haven't actually done anything to them besides breathe the same air?

It's never enough. You can be One Of The Good Ones for ages and at some point you will fail your Good One inspection and people will turn on you at the drop of a hat. People who you thought you had a good rapport with. People you thought were your friends.

I have *experienced* this, both online and in person.

The onus is on everyone to be safe people to be around. Singling someone out and blaming them for daring to share a demographic with someone else who has caused harm isn't cute when people do it to me because I'm black, and it's also not cute when they do it because I'm a man.

People are uncomfortable about my blackness all the time. I didn't magically stop experiencing racism when I started taking testosterone. So it's absolutely wild to me that people think "well, you know, with what you look like, some people won't want you around" is going to fly when I was explicitly taught *not* to tolerate that shit by every single one of my black relatives.

Someone doesn't like that I'm occupying a space? Well I'm not hurting them, so that's a them problem and not a me problem. That's how I've learned how to exist as black in white-majority spaces. Why do you think you can change the demographic and get me to agree with you?

Being a man is different than being black because men commit over 90% of violent crimes and an even higher percentage of sexual crimes. Being a man means you are both more equipped to sexually assault a woman and more likely to. And the fact that this isn’t apparent to you is worrying in itself.

Also, you’re insinuating that the reason why women want to have single-sex spaces is so they can discriminate against men, while the opposite is true. Men have more power than women. The power dynamics are reversed in the case of race.