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EXACTLY!!

Guys I just found @autisticradfem22 video on this topic. This is what I'm talking about!!!

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“Those who find such delight in the subversion will fight to uphold the backdrop in which their actions and identity remain subversive.”

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Hi, I was wondering what convinced you to believe in Radical Feminism?

This answer took way too long for me to write, and for that I��m sorry. I struggled a lot with writing this response, because I simply had too much to say. I started with trying to explain as much theory as I could and then I realized that I was basically writing a book which you didn’t ask for.

You asked not why radical feminism is correct or why it makes sense, but why I believe in it. I believe it can do for women what liberal feminism and queer theory are incapable of. Free us.

I do believe that many individual queer activists are genuine in their desire for human rights and freedoms. So why do I think the movement continues the patriarchy?

Modern liberals and their activists have become infatuated with subversion for its own sake. It’s fun to go against the grain. It’s sexy to be different and unexpected, to “queer the boundaries”. However queerness cannot stand on its own; it must be queer in relation to something. The word “queer” means strange, after all.

Subversion itself depends on the context in which it is preformed. And the context is patriarchy. Those who find such delight in the subversion will fight to uphold the backdrop in which their actions and identity remain subversive. In order to continue giving the finger to the establishment, the establishment must remain. In this way queer activism has a vested interest in upholding the patriarchy.

This kind of activism will always be futile, because subversion for its own sake has no end except for its own continuation.

When I say “this kind of activism” I mean activism that is focused on making aesthetic changes and statements instead of fighting for structural changes. This activism comes in the form of an intense focus on changing language, making art, and individual development and identity-making. None of these things are necessarily bad, and can even serve useful, but they are not sufficient for structural change.

While activists are operating solely on this aesthetic level, oppression continues in material ways. A female human being can change her pronouns or the clothes she wears and find a million different micro labels for herself and draw her own pride flag, but she will still be oppressed because of the body she has. Abortion bans will still exist. Rape still happens. Medical misogyny, period poverty, child marriage, and pornography still exist. Queer activists do all of the aesthetic and preformative activism and then pat themselves on the back as if they have changed anything outside of their own head.

Radical feminism focuses on the material world, and the real issues that physically affect billions of women everyday. We recognize that changing words does not change reality and we are willing and able to meet oppression where it finds us: in the physical world. We do not think “how can I be subversive within patriarchy”, but “how can we dismantle the patriarchy”. We don’t search to find a gender that makes sense for our personal experience because we recognize that gender itself only makes sense in the context of female subservience. We disavow cultural relativism. We have clear goals that don’t move and that we will know when they are achieved. We know what we want, and our goals still make sense outside of the context of patriarchy, because they are based on material outcomes for real women.

Queerness doesn’t exist if patriarchy doesn’t exist. But radical feminism stands apart from any cultural context. And that is why I believe in it.

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Fuck all the adults that stood by and let this shit happen, and all the brainwashed idiots supporting it now. What has the world come to?

i just got the most horrific notification ever

apparently to tras, “protect ‘trans’ kids” means supporting them injecting their own diy synthetic hormones without a doctor’s supervision or help.

and god forbid you think a child harming their body and being cheered on by adults on the internet is bad, then YOU’RE the disgusting bigot that will lead to that child’s death. definitely not the groomers on reddit telling a young female that being uncomfortable during puberty (like every other female) means you have to transition into a boy or else you’ll always be miserable and wanna kill yourself.

this poor girl will likely suffer from conditions such as osteoporosis in the near future from the god awful chemicals she’s putting into her body without even consulting a doctor. it’s illegal to give to children for a reason. but yay another win for the trans community !!

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professions older than prostitution because i’m so tired of hearing that misogynistic talking point created by a british imperialist witnessing impoverished women in india

1. hunter

2. forager

3. midwife

4. babysitter

5. weaver

6 doctor/healer

7. shaman

8. fisher

9. stonemason

10. navigator

11. sentry

12. butcher

13. cook

14. storyteller

15. woodcarver

16. food tester

17. builder

18. tanner/leatherworker

19. scout

20. fire tender

there is no evidence of prostitution’s existence until the neolithic agricultural revolution, stemming from an unequal resource distribution and the rise of female oppression. for reference, the start of agriculture until now comprises less than 5% of homo sapien history. do not let men tell you misogyny is a natural part of life. it’s not.

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me when i’m in a DELUSIONAL competition and my opponent is stargazersasha

soooo fucking tired of hearing the “gay guys arent into tits” “lesbians arent into dick” bullshit. during pride month. you bitches never rest.

EVERYONE has tits. EVERYONE has a dick. EVERYONE has a cunt. i know this is hard for yall because a lot of you are terminally cisgender but i really dont care, i’m done letting other people’s politics that they were served by heteropatriarchy stop me from telling the truth. sex and sexuality are both social constructs. sex is also EXTRAORDINARILY malleable. people can do whatever the fuck they want. lesbians and gay men are grown fucking adults, we are complicated human beings, we do and think and want a great many things. TONS of lesbians love sucking dick, and tons of lesbians like having their dick sucked. it doesnt fucking matter if that dick is a strap, it doesnt fucking matter if that dick used to be a clit, it doesnt fucking matter what anyone else thinks about that dick or about those lesbians. same goes for gayguys and tits. gender words are small things. body words are small things. fix your heart and grow the fuck up

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"what if the roles were reversed" is and has always been a tactic to force women to stop talking about perverse male teachers and other caretakers who prey on young girls. In actuality they don't give a fuck about male victims, because they don't believe they are victims. They just want girls to shut up and bear it. One of the biggest mistakes of liberal feminism was validating their nonsense in order to look fair and unbiased. Next time a male asks if the roles were reversed, show them these screenshots and pay them dust instead of wasting your energy.

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Sharp analysis that I knew subsconiosuly but never saw it verbalised. Sex industry expansionists have been branding prostitution practice as a stable identity. That's the real reason why criticisms of the industry are framed as attacks on individual prostitutes.

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Sharp analysis that I knew subsconiosuly but never saw it verbalised. Sex industry expansionists have been branding prostitution practice as a stable identity. That's the real reason why criticisms of the industry are framed as attacks on individual prostitutes.

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the idea that jerking off every day makes you a depraved sex addict is so nuts the current obsession with declaring anything a sex/porn addiction is so fucking stupid why am i seeing other queer people and people on the left capitulating to this regressive shamey bullshit. experiencing pleasure is not sinful or overindulgent. we cannot be going around telling people they're not allowed to be horny and not allowed to have whatever amount of sex they want to have.

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The most inconvenient truth is that men do misogyny because they get something from it. They get labor from intimate partners, they get social capital in their public circles, they get the benefit of the doubt, they get default respect and promotions and people listening to them and people afraid of them.

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Really makes you think

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Fuck men, fuck Christianity and fuck the United States. Men and Christianity are the reason this country is a shithole.

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the misogyny from TIMs just keeps getting worse

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straight up, the rules of misogyny graphic changed my life. it's such a simple and practical tool for identifying patterns of patriarchy