“One way, arguably the central way, in which oppressive systems perpetuate themselves is by giving individual members of the oppressed group an apparent stake in toeing the line. At the very least, we ‘go along to get along’ in many situations, and we may find that the more we curry favour with those in power, the more we are rewarded on an individual basis. Because of this dynamic, if a particular role or practice harms women as a group, in that it sustains and reinforces patriarchy, it is utterly predictable that some women will choose to engage in it. Thus, again, the fundamental feminist question is not whether some individual women ‘like’ or ‘choose’ that role or practice but whether the overall effect of the role or practice is to keep women as a group subordinate to men.”

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Not your father’s Playboy, not your mother’s feminist movement: feminism in porn culture, Rebecca Whisnant

As printed in Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism

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it is really astounding to me how much power the phrase "OP is a terf" holds. like the post could be "women are being killed so their bodies can be sold to men" and everyone will ignore it if "OP is a terf." it could be "women are more likely to die in car crashes because car safety is only tested on males, and the same goes for medications, which are only tested on males" and if someone comments "OP is a terf" suddenly all those women don't matter. suddenly all the trafficked, murdered, abused, women don't matter because "OP is a terf." it's so transparent that modern liberal "feminists" don't give a flying fuck about actually addressing women's real issues and that their only form of activism is sending rape threats to women who call Jonathan Yaniv a he.

The outrage among students was immediate. By the next day, another protest camp was established at a different lawn just a few metres away. A day later, another protest camp was set up just over 70 miles (112km) north-east of Columbia, at Yale University in Connecticut, another elite institution. By the middle of this week, demonstrations were taking place at dozens of campuses across the country.

i slept horribly. as always, this meant i had an insane dream. i was at the airport trying to get to florida, but the departure building was miles away from where i bought a ticket (a paper ticket! as if it was the 1970s!). the path was miles long in a blinding snowstorm, crawling through collapsed cabins and across icy rivers. and then there were CROCODILES/ALLIGATORS on top of the icy river and i fucking noped out so fast i ran all the way back to where i started, to lodge a complaint

I'm in awe of how we ran historical revisionism on the civil rights movement so bad that people truly believe it was quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism that forced progress and not — like — the incredible economic pressure of boycotts and outbreaks of illegal civil disobedience

Yapping to the choir but eughhh it burns me up girl effective protests have to be loud and inconvenient for change to happen because silent cries die in the dark that's the entire pointtt

of course the dumbass blocked me after asking to be treated like a helpless child. here was what the response was going to be:

the link

LMAOOOOOOOO. get your head out of your ass. LGB solidarity has ALWAYS been about same sex attraction, and our struggle against homophobia. it shouldn't be diluted/blurred/confused by being bundled together with unrelated groups (for example people with gender identity) because a vague group of "everybody who struggles" would be everyone on earth. it's important to have specificity so that communication can be clear.

I am proud to be the inventor of the world’s first nonalcoholic mix drink capable of giving you a hangover. 

The level of sugar in this thing would probably get you arrested in several countries. You will lose teeth to this. You will lose spiritual purity to this. It will be worth it when you taste this madness for yourself.

It’s origin is that I read a recipe for a virgin tequila sunrise incorrectly, then remembered it incorrectly, this double error caused me to leave out the soda water entirely, and increase the grenadine by a like 400%. This results in an overwhelmingly sweet drink that’s damnably addictive, and has a dead simple recipe of two equally portioned parts.

yeah the "personal gain" stuff was goofy. how am i supposed to get personal gain from being on a jury?!

I'm so curious what radblr's alignments are, I think it would be pretty fun lmao

Lately I’ve been doing this thing where when men give me shit at my job, I choose to instead speak to their wives/girlfriends/female counterpart. I had a dude today try to yell at me and I ignored him and instead spoke in a very level voice to his wife instead. He literally stomped his feet like a fucking toddler and said “stop ignoring me! I’m talking!” And his wife said “George, please use a quieter voice. You’re embarrassing me.”

if woman means sex to men and society, femaleness becomes pornography. it then becomes necessary for the good of the public that little girls be put in dresses, forced to cover their shoulders, heads or knees in a church or mosque. mothers banned from public breastfeeding. female features, like cellulite, periods, body hair, become offensive. affairs for privacy.

the fact that men see women as primarily sex first and not as people shows in every facet of society. that a woman cannot befriend, think, dress, behave or speak without it being interpreted as sexual. how we dress as women and girls is always about our sexual character and never ourselves or our self-expression. are we married, of mature mating age, innocent, feminine and sexually chaste, sluts, lesbians? this is what clothes on women are discussed as. women’s clothes and bodies aren’t allowed to be as neutral as men’s are. there simply isn’t all those politics surrounding maleness or men’s fashion.

our clothes are political because our bodies are political. our femaleness must be masked, regulated, categorized publicly, and unmasked privately. because men think of us pornographically, in their world, the world which we live in, femaleness can only mean porn, never humanity or simple womanhood. it is offensive, must remain private and only allowed to be about men’s sexual excitement.