#all about empowering women

[asharaxofstarfall]

i do not like the dany and rhaenyra stans that hate on sansa and alicent for "bowing down to the patriarchy" and "not stopping their oppression". dany goes through a traumatic marriage at thirteen in which she is regularly raped to the point of contemplating suicide. she forces herself to love her husband and make him love her to spare herself more abuse. she then gets pregnant with his child and goes through a horrific birthing and loses her baby at only fourteen. this whole situation is very, very common for women in their society. the only difference is that daenerys gains three dragons at the end. they empower her and help her move forward to claim her 'birthright'. let's looks at sansa in comparison. she is sold off as a child bride at twelve years old. her betrothed arranges for her to be publicly stripped and beaten. she is then married to the son of the man that killed her brother. her new husband sexually assaults her on her wedding night, but does not rape her. pretty much every man that she encounters tries to sexually harass and assault her. she escapes her marriage and is now being groomed by her mothers childhood friend. she knows that his feelings and actions towards her are wrong, but he's all she has. sansa has to use "a womans courtesy and grace" to get herself out of potentially harmful situations. we also see this with dany's 'seduction' of drogo. the only difference is that sansa is never given dragons to protect herself like daenerys is. she still has to rely on herself. people call rhaeneryas dragon moments 'badass' and put alicent down for sticking to the patriarchy. alicent sticks up for herself by calmly telling her husband that he can take her daughter away from her when she is cold and dead in her grave. that is the only thing she can do in that situation, and its a a risky thing to say to her groomer, abuser and husband (who is also the king) but she still does it to protect her daughter. when alicent is feeling lost, she prays to the mother. when rhaenerya is feeling lost, she rides syrax. alicent and sansa (and even cersei) are not afforded with magic and fantasy to escape their abuse, they have to do the best they can with what little power the average noble woman is given in their society.

[yourhighness6]

It's funny to me when people insist that "ATLA was really feminist" as if there wasn't really only one feminist message which was the very generic "girls can fight too" spiel that every 2000s show had going on whenever they briefly tried to jump on the feminism bandwagon or whatever

[hella1975]

it's been pointed out on here before that a lot of terf arguments are actually rooted in sexist idealology that feminists fought and died to unnormalise decades ago and that's its own kettle of fish but one thing i also find very frustrating about this so called 'radical' feminism is that it's so... defeatist? like the moment you categorically label an entire section of society as Bad and Inherently Evil then there's also the implication that nothing can be done about it, and it completely takes all accountability away. saying all men are evil is just another way of saying boys will be boys. he raped her because he's a man. he hit her because he's a man. he didn't listen because he's a man - it's almost offensively oversimplified. there's no point trying to fix this issue in society because men are just Like That, okay! so now what? it's not like they're going anywhere, so you just accept that 50% of the population are evil and will forever treat you terribly and there's nothing to be done about it bc they're biologically predisposed to it? like is that fr the argument here? you're soooo radical for that

[sergle]

this might just be the pessimism talking but there are times when I feel the body positive movement is straight up Over. even stuff from now that’s meant to be body positive, or is packaged in that way, is of a lower caliber. like it feels like it’s gotten worse.

[mamawasatesttube]

does dc have like. any adult butch women? at all? the closest example i can think of is karsta wor-ul but she's not a recurring character and that's like. literally it. surely im forgetting some... onyx maybe counts... but like dc still always draws women so feminine like they Have to have form-fitting clothes and big boobs and full faces of makeup it's hard to actually call any of them butch designs. (not that women with big boobs or form-fitting clothes can't be butch but like in terms of character designs clearly made by straight men you know?)

[crimeronan]

my spotify wrapped being mostly female-fronted bands isn't really a hashtag feminist thing or even about me liking women, i'm not involved in bandom and just listen to whatever music makes my brain go BRRR.

but, like. when what you like is goth rock and symphonic metal......

[please-picturemeintheweeds]

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[folkdances]

“women who choose not to wear the hijab are often vocally supported by western society while their hijabi sisters are ridiculed and harassed because this represents, in the eyes of the west, a distancing from the ‘oppressive’ islamic regime and makes her palatable and more like them - this is a privilege but it is borne of islamophobia and ignorance” and “women who choose not to wear the hijab or don its associated dress code are severely ostracized from many muslim spaces and face misogynist harassment and violence from within their community which often drives them away from those very communities” are statements that can and should exist. actually

[stenclastiel]

Controversial opinion

Yall be complaining about Margot Robbie not being nominated for best actress in the oscars and calling that a loss for feminism when America Ferrera was literally nominated best supporting actress.

[moodboardsbysarah]

Feminists have also been memed by the patriarchy they descended from into believing Femininity is a worthless slave role and Masculinity is superior.

Literally, the only difference between feminism and patriarchy is that feminism says, "women must reject femininity because femininity is an inferior servant role, and become masculine and compete with men to gain self worth" whilst patriarchy says "women must accept the fact that they are feminine and find a man to serve to gain self worth, because femininity is an inferior servant role".

BOTH ideologies are built on the degradation, devaluation and erasure of the Feminine! And guess what, both ideologies' greatest enemy is spiritual "woowoo" women who dare to embrace the power of Femininity and believe that Femininity can be something other than a humiliated slave role. Patriarchy calls such women "demonic" and "subversive" and burns us at the stake whilst feminism calls us "delusional pickmes" (essentially slut shaming us for not hating ourselves) and shames us for not defining our worth by the masculine slave system where its all about money and job opportunities and competing with toxic masculine values.

Any woman who calls herself a "feminist witch" is a fucking LARPer lmao. You can't be a witch whilst hating the essential principle of being a witch (femininity and feminine power). Calling yourself a feminist witch is like calling yourself a masculinity-rejecting warrior.

[khalesci]

I will never forgive the gross mischaracterization of Daenerys as a heartless girlboss when all Dany has ever really wanted for herself is a home and a family of her own. She is driven by love, not power, and she wants to be queen because she wants to be able to protect people the way she herself was never protected.

And she wants to be queen of the seven kingdoms *specifically* because she has been told all her life that the smallfolk were waiting for the Targaryens to return and "save" them, and even if she doesn't wholly believe the grandiosity of those claims, all she's heard of Westeros in the past few years is how it's been riddled with war and famine and other horrible things, and it's her duty as someone with the power to potentially put a stop to all of that to do so.

She doesn't care about power, but she recognizes the power she does have, and she thinks it's wrong for people with that power to sit by and do nothing while there are innocents dying. Her "entitlement" to the throne does not come from any sort of Targaryen pride, it stems from her belief that she MUST take the throne in order to do more good, that if she does, she can fix her "home".

[stephanidftba]

Went to the mall a few weeks ago, barely any actual food, there was an ice cream place and a feminist coffee place. Even Starbucks has left.

[hestiasroom]

i wish women in the “traditional femininity” sphere would understand that the POINT of feminism is not "to make them personally happy" or "to validate their feelings and lifestyle choices (e.g. being a SAHM, having a successful marriage, enjoying fashion and beauty, etc.)". The point of our movement is to make life materially better for as many women and girls as possible. Personal fulfillment and happiness is a personal project, not a political goal.