you want to normalize prostitution. I want public hangings for sex buyers. we are not the same.
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So what you're saying is
You don't actually want feminist book recommendations
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In discussions and media about feminism, we really need to stop portraying it as, "You can't be fat, you can't be ugly, you can't be weird! Women always exist within double standards!" and more as, "We are sold into sex slavery worldwide, either as prostitutes or wives. Our biggest predator is men, especially the ones closest to us, as they are more likely to molest, rape, beat, and murder us than anyone else. We do not have complete freedom and power over how we use our reproductive organs - in fact, the female body is so understudied and stigmatized that we often live our lives in pain and die from related issues such as ovarian cancer and childbirth. Men own and control the majority of the world's resources, land, and money, but women do more than half of worldwide labor alongside the care of their own homes and family members, remaining destitute. Even if women do not participate in wars as soldiers, we are still trafficked, raped, and killed by men on all sides during it. Our political power is extremely limited, and is still taken as a threat, even though we are the majority. The hate of women is practiced in these ways every single day."
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Just found out that women have to borrow more to pay for college, and then take longer to pay back their loans. Parents save more money for their sons, because of the breadwinner gender role. Colleges avoid taking too many girls into their classes and give boys' applications a second look. Once in college, girls are more likely to send money back to their parents to help support them (the same parents who saved less for their college education, because sons are the breadwinners...). Lots of female dominated professions like nursing require degrees, but any field with 'too many women' pays less. Once they're in the field, even if it is male-dominated, women are again paid less than their male counterparts (women are more likely to be penalized for asking for raises etc, and more likely to be overlooked for promotions). If they become mothers, that sets them back even further.
But men still complain that there are special scholarships for women. Lol.
Sources:
Colleges avoid taking too many women:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/magazine/men-college-enrollment.html
All other statistics:
https://www.stlouisfed.org/-/media/project/frbstl/stlouisfed/files/pdfs/iee/eei/wocstl-stlfed-03-nov-2022.pdf?sc_lang=en&hash=67A421B90B88E88EA3DF5FCBBFDCD4AE
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If you are a pro-Palestinian feminist of any kind, liberal or radical, and you are ignoring or somehow rationalizing/downplaying Hamas raping women and spitting on their bodies, please walk backwards off of a cliff.
Rape isn't resistance, fuck off. You don't care about "human rights". You want vengeance and bloodlust.
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Feminism was supposed to create empathy towards prostitutes to help them out of the situation, not to validate it.
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Many radical feminists were liberal feminists for years, so are able to debunk libfem arguments. However, many liberal feminists are encouraged through peer pressure and extensive "blocklists" to not even listen to what radfems have to say. The most extreme example I've seen was something along the lines of "if you sit down and let yourself consider radical feminist views for even a second, then you've failed as a trans ally". But if you introduce your opinions to them without telling them it's radical feminist ideology, they often agree! I'm sure it's oppressive men who manufactured the blind hatred for radical feminists.
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“The most oppressed man finds a being to oppress, his wife: she is the proletarian of the proletarian.”
Flora Tristan, “The Emancipation of Woman, or the Testament of the Pariah” (1843)
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WTF
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Was I the only person who felt uncomfortable while watching Poor Things? The movie about a child who is new to the world and is being exploited by men the whole time?
Am I the only one who thinks a man shouldn’t be directing this sort of film? It very much seemed like a man’s idea of women’s sexuality and liberation because it was so far removed from the realities that women experience (e.g. periods, birth control and issues around consent).
As Angelica Bastian said, “there’s a corroded spirit to the story, like it’s intermittently possessed by an edgelord who’s unaware most women menstruate, and an early-wave white feminist who believes having sex is the most empowering thing a woman can do. (For all the fucking, there is no menstrual blood!) In many ways, the film demonstrates the limits of the modern cis-male auteur’s vision for and about women — particularly their sexual selves.”
Please, to the critics of poor things, tell me I’m not alone in my discomfort.
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