The unholy trinity of White feminism: choice feminism, girlboss feminism and imperialist feminism

This took a long time (and the quiz itself is long), but after so many years of observing toxic femininity on Hellsite, I'm finally able to give a name to this type of woman.

And yes, many of these questions were based on real posts on this site plus real life experience.

People who are like, "it's feminist when I'm allowed to bully other girls" really are Something. Like all you're doing is creating more traumatized victims in this patriarchal hellscape when you could be making allies to help you fight the patriarchy.

I think one of the most annoying things to come from bimbo feminism is the "explaining _________ for the girls" videos (looking at you @nikitadumptruck). You know the videos on politics that are targeted towards women by explaining a political crisis by comparing it to when you broke up with your bf or explain a financial crisis as like the time you spent too much on makeup.

They imply that women are incapable of understanding real world issues like men. They imply that women can't just read the NYT like everyone else and can only understand information when it is cut down into bite size, misogynistic chunks.

As someone who is about to get their third political science degree these vides infuriate me because I know that every woman in politics has to fight so hard to be recognized. These videos remind me of the time a male classmate said I only got a good final grade in my comparative politics class because I was attractive, despite seeing me walk into the final with a 7-page review sheet and an entire notebook of lecture notes and old tests. These videos remind me of the time we had a class discussion about feminism, except none of the women in the class got to speak on it because the men spoke over everyone. These videos remind me of the time a male classmate said I should do a presentation over the department of education, instead of doing a critique on the military budget, because it was a "feminine" topic.

There is not a single woman that watches these types of videos that can't understand the topic at hand normally. Most of my political science classes have been mostly smart, capable women. These videos are especially harmful because they aren't "reclaiming" anything and only serve to reaffirm the sexist belief that women don't belong in politics and shouldn't have any say on important issues.

the way my opinion of poor things did a 180 after starting the book

tldr: Poor Things is a good film, but when you look at the book and you see what has been taken away from it, you kind of want to cry. It's the same feeling i got when watching Dune.

Like originally. i did think the sex was excessive but i also thought it was necessary ( it was important but not the way they showed it)

I thought the sex work scene was important because we all knew the owner of the brothel was horrible so we knew what she said was wrong but reading the book, the argument Bella makes about wanting to not be exploited by the brothel owner (who was taking a big proportion of her money) was much more important to have.

I didn't think a lot about the Alexandria sequence, but after reading the books i actually found others who talked about it and how weirdly racist it was (and like i didn't even clock why the yellow made me uncomfortable). Also just making her get scammed sending the ultimate message of 'there's nothing we can do about poverty and being kind will get you hurt' was something, especially when the original was that she didn't just get scammed out of her money (Duncan gambled it away) and she gave all she could to an actual person, it being stolen did not give the same message.

The ending being her ultimately upholding the status quo by going into a position of power where she too can commit scientific atrocities, rather than have her challenge the status quo by becoming a doctor who helps poor women get the care they need? disgusting

Then there's the misreading of the entire book by ignoring how BELLA IS SCOTLAND. She's a metaphor for Scotland, the baby head was to represent how her body and her mind (Scottish people and the UK parliament) were not connected and in sync + the infanitlisation of Scots by the English. Even removing her father who only complains that he didn't get a better deal out of marrying her off to an ENGLISH man (referencing the politicians crying about not getting a better deal in the Union)

Removing the socialist story, removing the fact the story had unreliable narrators (Mccandles telling the story in the book was not bad no matter what you say Screenrant because it was a message surrounding, guess what, the debate in SCOTLAND about whether the depiction of Scotland should stay true to it's beauty or change to satisfy the international community, because guess what Bella writes her own story literally after that)

Like i could go on and on and on about how the changes were ultimately girlbossifying the story. It was white feminism + girlboss feminism to the extreme.

Bella Baxter more like Taylor Swift

what's wrong with sorority girls ?

They're institutionalized white supremacy and tribalism. Campus Greek life is a racism machine.

This is the kind of Jordan Peele movie shit that makes non-melanin deficient people reach for the holy water.

General good rule of thumb is, anything people wanna call a sisterhood/brotherhood is a fucking cult and you should run in the other direction.

“The Left Has Failed Men”…I guess

“What The Left needs to do to help men is to continue to fight against the capitalist structures that hurt everyone, including men.”

“We need to promote social political organizing and work to seize the levers of power and reverse the damage of these policies that have been in place my entire life.”

“If you really care about men, we’d be fighting to give them access to the tools they need to live meaningful lives, not give them leftist pickup lines or ways to be a feminist, but also trick girls into having sex with [them].”

“…elevate your analysis. Get off twitter if you know all you’ll do is angry tweet, stop sharing content that pisses you off and amplify the creators that you think are helpful and useful to men.”

If you came of age in the 90's, you know that people used to watch The Wizard of Oz while simultaneously listening to Dark Side of the Moon starting both on I believe it was the second or third Roar of the MGM lion that opens the film.

That's cute and all but come talk to me when you've done it with the Barbie movie and any Taylor Swift album of your choosing to conjure the deepest layers and secrets from the most subversive and provacative film of our time to the surface and fully reveal themselves.

#AllAboutThatBased #NoMids

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Sick of the girlbossification of Marie Antoinette. Sick 👏🏼 of 👏🏼 it 👏🏼 Wheres the media about the Haitian slaves who led the uprising against the French.

Tbh I came to a conclusion that as as a feminist, I cannot fully relate to any of the main branches of feminism that currently exist.

They just became equally useful and annoying to me at the same time 😄

An excerpt from the end of a letter where Mary Shelley rejects the advances of her long-time friend Edward Trelawny, 26 July 1831:

"My name will never be Trelawny. I am not so young as I was when you first knew me, but I am as proud. I must have the entire affection, devotion, and, above all, the solicitous protection of any one who would win me. You belong to womenkind in general, and Mary Shelley will never be yours.

I write in haste, but I will write soon again, more at length. You shall have your copies the moment I receive them. Believe me, with all gratitude and affection,

Yours,

M. W. Shelley."

wow almost seems like this whole romanticization of "girlhood" thing kind of revolves entirely around consumerisim. "little treats". 10 step skincare regimens. "girl math" as an excuse to be financially illiterate. be a good girl, don't think, just spend inordinate amts of money to conform to the latest tiktok microtrend bc that's all it means to be a girl <3

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