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Instagram stories are like making announcements on a school loudspeaker while tumblr posts are like passing Chick tracts outside a subway station

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Is it politically incorrect to say that some people genuinely have rocks for brains because “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism” = a justification for DoorDashing McDonald’s for an alarming amount of people.

Leaving the house to get your Temu parcel from the mailbox and wallowing in porn is not actually fighting fascism so jot that down

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Neopronouns are whatever, I don’t care, but why can’t we even entertain the fact that they are a contributing factor in how politics are so divided regarding the trans community? People constantly say, to the effect, that the right is merely lumping neopronoun spacegender stuff within a larger trans umbrella but that hasn’t been the narrative for a while. “They see ALL of us like this!” That probably hasn’t been true since 2021. They do regard an emojiself pronoun user differently than a socially and physically transitioned person. That’s why Arson/Sock/Plant etc is a specific joke that’s not gonna reflect accurately on people like Blaire White per se. like yeah lowkey when ppl advocate for “anyone can say they’re trans emoji pronouns are so valid 🍄🍂” to be the politically correct opinion within the community it’s going to also be the dominant narrative to people looking in.

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Ok this woman falsely accused this man of rape but she was so young, you know? It happened a while ago and people can change. There are real serial liars that we need to watch out for. And plus she has her whole life ahead of her. Why ruin it for some small little thing? Everyone lies when they’re young, and maybe she didn’t know that it was a lie. Besides, some guys are just really easy to lie about. They live their lives never thinking that someone might lie about them or they’re really easy to make up a story about, so who can blame a liar? And how do we know he didn’t like being lied about, and that he said “sure, you can make up a story about me”? Sounds to me like he changed his mind about the story and wanted to get the girl in trouble. You can’t really trust men who cry “lie” these days.

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It’s also the idea that men can’t be misogynists if they also face oppression on a separate axis.

“women who are scared of being raped/ assaulted (often again) are actually classist” is not the take i was expecting to see with 30k notes

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so turns out the entire internet turns into rabid conspiracy theorist whackos when you explain why they need to verify their age to watch porn. keep coping and seething gooners. keep pretending it’s about censorship and not bc you’re embarrassed about your daily rape porn gooning you freaks

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I love when cats age like they’ve performed back breaking labor their entire lives… like no you’ve just meowed in my face at 6am with your stinky tuna breath because I’m not immediately awake to give you breakfast

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If you believe a woman reaching her breaking point and fighting back against her abuser is somehow proof of them 'both being abusive', I wish you the absolute worst.

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. More than 4 out of 5 Indigenous women have experienced violence.

. 48.8% of Indigenous women have faced stalking

. Murder is the third leading cause of death for all Indigenous women

. Compared to white women Indigenous women are 2x more likely to be raped, 1.7x more likely to experience violence and 3x more likely to me murdered.

. 56.1% of Indigenous women experience sexual violence.

MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND GIRLS IS A CRISIS. SILENCE IS COMPLIANCE

SAY THEIR NAMES: Ida Beard (missing), Freda Knowshisgun (missing), Shacaiah Harding (missing), Tyana Whitehawk (missing), Michelle Elbow Shield (murdered), Emily Morgan (murdered), Stacy Hill (murdered), Mona Lisa Two Eagle (murdered), Emily Pike (murdered and dismembered) and many more, I wish I could fit them all here.

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If you refuse to analyse women’s actions for their value and ramifications, under a guise of its ‘empowerment’, you do not treat women like mature adults, humans.

You treat them like children.

Yes, I’m talking about choice feminism.

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And how dommes and dominatrixes portray the “perversion” of that same power disparity eroticization. Sure you’re whipping a handcuffed man but you’re dressed in 8 inch PVC stilettos and a leather corset that inhibits your full range of motion. He gets uncuffed and walks out with his privilege and you walk out a woman.

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

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It’s so annoying to argue with anyone who supports abstinence until marriage because they have already framed it as a moral issue. They’re just gonna bait you into admitting that you’re “weak willed” and that it’s not that hard to “resist temptation”, but first we need to backtrack because why does sexual desire need to be inherently resisted? If we’re goaded into affirming their narrative then they can pass laws to blame those who are “weak”, and they’re gonna take and take until they see us as iron-willed bastions of self-control. And unless they enact a seed spilling ban, it will be women who face consequences for their “deviance”.

they are 100% going to end up going after birth control

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“Things are nuanced” “oh so rape is nuanced” we can’t even be tongue in cheek on this app anymore 💔

But seriously, I do get what you mean. I’ve been trying to formulate a response but I end up contradicting myself. I want to say that I don’t think that drag in its most simplest form is much different than gender nonconformity, but then that would be implying that gender nonconformity is an active performance of a character different than one’s self.

Like, why is someone actively trying to perform something that is detrimental to so many women? Wouldn’t said performance imply they undermine the severity of its impact? And sure, men are pressured into gender conformity but it’s because the alternative is femininity and femininity = bad.

I don’t think every female impersonating drag artist is an overt misogynist but there is at least an implicit level of it if intentionally performed as so.

I’m very neutral about drag as a concept; I know some radfems liken it to blackface, which as a white woman I’m not going to be the one to add another opinion into the mix, but when doing a basic overview I found an op ed that was interesting:

“Blackface is a lie about a minority group, and drag is an exploration of gender.” I think that’s true. The existence of drag is not to imply that “women are like this”; makeup and fashion are not inherent to womanhood; but many aspects of drag culture are misogynistic. Terms like cuntiness, fishiness, snatch, are all specifically sex based misogyny. It’s not universal in drag culture but it was born out of it. Historically, the portrayal of women was done by men through men’s own perspective. Even today, It’s a point of contention for women to participate in drag culture, and though people are increasingly more tolerant to its existence, they’re still treated as a guest in someone else’s home.

But genuinely I think this isn’t inherent to drag in and of itself. A drag persona is individualistic to an extent in which there are personas specifically parodying an existing woman, to the embodiment of a stereotype, to something avant garde enough that the only tie to “womanhood” is through the societal association of femininity to womanhood.

But I do think it’s misogynistic to imply that all women critical of drag culture are conservatives against gender nonconformity, because it downplays the reality that women are a minority group and maintains the idea that certain men are exempt from being misogynistic by virtue of a subculture that women were excluded from until present day.

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I’m very neutral about drag as a concept; I know some radfems liken it to blackface, which as a white woman I’m not going to be the one to add another opinion into the mix, but when doing a basic overview I found an op ed that was interesting:

“Blackface is a lie about a minority group, and drag is an exploration of gender.” I think that’s true. The existence of drag is not to imply that “women are like this”; makeup and fashion are not inherent to womanhood; but many aspects of drag culture are misogynistic. Terms like cuntiness, fishiness, snatch, are all specifically sex based misogyny. It’s not universal in drag culture but it was born out of it. Historically, the portrayal of women was done by men through men’s own perspective. Even today, It’s a point of contention for women to participate in drag culture, and though people are increasingly more tolerant to its existence, they’re still treated as a guest in someone else’s home.

But genuinely I think this isn’t inherent to drag in and of itself. A drag persona is individualistic to an extent in which there are personas specifically parodying an existing woman, to the embodiment of a stereotype, to something avant garde enough that the only tie to “womanhood” is through the societal association of femininity to womanhood.

But I do think it’s misogynistic to imply that all women critical of drag culture are conservatives against gender nonconformity, because it downplays the reality that women are a minority group and maintains the idea that certain men are exempt from being misogynistic by virtue of a subculture that women were excluded from until present day.

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The economy is so fucked that that I can’t even have family with a single parent income in the sims

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Can we stop pretending that intersex people don’t have any agency of their own, and that they’re always required to either be in allegiance with trans rights or gender criticals

For anyone who wants to hear it from people who actually have a DSD condition (or like trans ideologists like call them: 'intersex people'), I recommend following Living With XXY on Twitter.

He is a gay man who has Klinefelter syndrome and debunks a lot of genderist nonsense, including gendies who pretend to be intersex for oppression points. He also constantly receives abuse from trans activists who keep on trying to transplain he is not really a man (coming from people who insist misgendering is violence, this is beyond parody).

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