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wish these people calling mastercard would mobilize on abortion

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Thanks for the post rec, hater!

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fyi, when I say "intercourse is a politicized act of aggression and dominance practiced on women by men to reaffirm patriarchy in the private and interpersonal," I'm not saying intercourse is 'inherently' or 'naturally' violent... I am saying intercourse is politicized to be an act of aggression. Similarly, many characteristics have been politicized to be feminine that are not inherently female.

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“Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel when the alienated worker is a female piece of meat; corporate bloodsucking is not wicked or cruel when the corporations in question, sell cunt; racism is not wicked or cruel when the black cunt or yellow cunt or red cunt or Hispanic cunt or Jewish cunt has her legs splayed for any man's pleasure; poverty is not wicked or cruel when it is the poverty of dispossessed women who have only themselves to sell; violence by the powerful against the powerless is not wicked or cruel when it is called sex; slavery is not wicked or cruel when it is sexual slavery; torture is not wicked or cruel when the tormented are women, whores, cunts. The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.”

Dworkin, A. (1989). Pornography: Men possessing women. New York: Plume; https://archive.org/details/PornographyMenPossessingWomenAndreaDworkinPdf/page/n235/mode/1up?view=theater

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What the Taliban is doing to Afghan women is not “restrictions.” It’s gender apartheid- a total war on half the population.

• No school beyond grade 6 for girls.

• No university, no jobs, not even nursing or working for the UN.

• No public spaces :parks, gyms, beauty salons, even restaurants are forbidden.

• No freedom of movement without a male guardian.

• No voice in public, sometimes not even at home if men can hear.

• No bodily autonomy, contraceptives banned, justice system weaponized, women flogged and stoned.

This isn’t “culture.” It’s the deliberate destruction of female existence in public and private life.

And yet… the world shrugs.

Why? Because women’s rights are always treated as negotiable. It’s not complex. It’s patriarchy with guns.

We don’t need “awareness.” We need rage that doesn’t fade and solidarity that doesn’t stop when the headlines do. Afghan women are resisting every single day, often at the risk of prison, torture, or death. The least we can do is refuse to normalize their oppression.

Silence is complicity.

Patriarchy everywhere is patriarchy we must destroy.

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"Some secretary is trying to ward off her boss's advances, some housewife is picking up her husband's dirty underwear or herself off the floor where he knocked her again, some woman is training a new male recruit who will soon be her boss. These women will find one another and talk it over; together they will figure out the biggest scam ever pulled off, and they'll never be the same.

One of the basic tenets of radical feminism is that any woman in the world has more in common with any other woman (regardless of class, race, age, ethnic group, nationality) than any woman has with any man. To be female is reason in itself to be in servitude, to be hated, wounded, and killed in every country, every culture of the world.

Though I was anesthetized by patriarchy at the time, the years I was in Samoa, Nigeria, Malawi, Korea, and Malaysia proved more than ample time for me to identify, often to the point of physical pain, with the women of those countries. It did not take knowing their language or their culture well to make the connections between the Malawian women carrying burdens on their heads that make them moan and weep as they walk, and the desperate lives of the tens of thousands of prostitutes in Seoul. I may have bought the canard that these were simply "cultural" idiosyncrasies, but I saw that it was always women who were crushed by them, and something as yet unexamined and unnamed responded in me, as if I, too, were somehow being crushed. I saw that women in all these countries existed for the use of men and were essentially barred from any existence with a purpose other than this. It did not require a doctorate in anthropology for me to recognize that women and girl children ate last and starved first in every country."

- Going Out of Our Minds by Sonia Johnson

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male civility is a facade.

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unfortunately, a lot of strangling advocates do talk like it's given them brain damage. I just got a video on my feed about the harms it causes, and there was a woman in the comments going, "but it's healthy if you both consent" you think you can just tell your own brain not to get hypoxic injuries?

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And it also shows how desirability is not true power, as it didn’t save them from being forced to go into the hunger games again during the quarter quell. It didn’t fix the material conditions of any of the districts. At the end of the day, all the victors were still controllable and disempowered, even though they had won the games and done what the capitol wanted.

Katniss doing what Snow wanted in acting as the capitol darling, was still powerless, though she had more luxury than the rest of her district. The rest of the districts did not want to see her doing that as they could see how vapid it was. (Sadly our society, especially women, have fallen for the media’s messaging and do enjoy seeing this.) It’s what the media pushes for women and especially through female popstars (Sabrina Carpenter.)

How have women been empowered by selling the male sexual ideal? How have the material conditions of women improved as a result? They haven’t. We’re losing rights each day. Acquiescing to being a male fantasy, willingly or not, still empowers men and degrades women.

“Here’s the twist that emerged. Some young women wanted sexual equity with men: that’s a claim for equal power. They didn’t want to be mere sex objects, they wanted to be active sexual agents. But while true and total sexual equality between men and women is still too threatening, it has nonetheless proved lucrative to flatter women that they have it. So the media began to highlight this message: it’s through sex and sexual display that women really have the power to get what they want. And because the true path to power comes from being an object of desire, girls and women should now actively choose—even celebrate and embrace—being sex objects. That’s the mark of a truly confident, can-do girl: one whose objectification isn’t imposed from without, but comes from within. You have to admit, this is a very slick contortion. The best way to gain this kind of power is to cater to what men want. And you’re not acquiescing to men or to patriarchal sexual requirements: by submitting, you’re in the driver’s seat!”

Douglas, Susan J. The Rise of Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild. St. Martin's Press, 2010.

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“Here’s the twist that emerged. Some young women wanted sexual equity with men: that’s a claim for equal power. They didn’t want to be mere sex objects, they wanted to be active sexual agents. But while true and total sexual equality between men and women is still too threatening, it has nonetheless proved lucrative to flatter women that they have it. So the media began to highlight this message: it’s through sex and sexual display that women really have the power to get what they want. And because the true path to power comes from being an object of desire, girls and women should now actively choose—even celebrate and embrace—being sex objects. That’s the mark of a truly confident, can-do girl: one whose objectification isn’t imposed from without, but comes from within. You have to admit, this is a very slick contortion. The best way to gain this kind of power is to cater to what men want. And you’re not acquiescing to men or to patriarchal sexual requirements: by submitting, you’re in the driver’s seat!”

Douglas, Susan J. The Rise of Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild. St. Martin's Press, 2010.

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Women are pushed to eroticize their powerlessness in comparison to men as well. “Height difference” “Size difference” “Turning off my brain with my boyfriend” “Submissiveness” “Age gap” Heterosexuality is deeply rooted in pedophilia.

Women are made to act like the male ideal, which are little girls. As well as little girls are made to eroticize their own youth, and see themselves through the gaze of an older man. I remember in 8th grade (13) when a former friend was dating a guy in college, and called herself jailbait. I still cringe at our naivety.

everything snaps into place when you realize (male) sexuality under patriarchy is based on the eroticization of power disparity

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100% they’re not worth fighting for or trying to build relationships with. Just seeing the way men treat every woman in my life, friends, aunties, casual acquaintances, my mother, I knew I never wanted to deal with their nonsense.

There’s no man friendlier than one who hasn’t slept with you yet.

This is how they feel. Don’t let them deceive you. There are millions of women who would be alive right now if they had never fallen into the hands of a man. Women are most often killed, abused, or raped by the man lying in bed next to them, than a stranger.

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TW: Sexual Violence

Women in Tigray are facing Sexual Violence, they are having foreign objects forced inside of them so that they cannot give birth. please help & speak up more about this.

Justice for Tigray Women♥️

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Kinda funny how a woman’s place is in the kitchen until they’re a chef, a woman’s role is to care for others until they’ve a doctor, and a woman is expected to effortlessly manage households but not businesses or corporations. It seems that a woman can do anything except be in a position of power.

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“but being a sex worker is the same thing as working as a waitress”

does a waitress have to worry about getting stds from men everyday?

does a waitress have to worry about getting pregnant?

is a waitress expected to have sex with multiple strangers everyday?

is a waitress expected to have sex with men who can and will cause her physical harm?

this is such an americanized and privileged take and view on prostitution. no your shitty retail job with a boss who’s slightly mean to you will never be on the same level as what prostituted women have to go through everyday

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Source: @/horriblemeanbadwoman on Instagram