draconianation

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it's hard to talk policy about rapists bc everyone thinks of rapists as cartoon villians. they'll be like why would a rapist also throw his mother a birthday party. bc he loves his mother he is a person a rapist can only be a person. he still should be shot in the head I don't care how good the cake he bought her lol

ok so first you put on primer and then you paint the entire sides of your face fire truck red which is obviously too much so the process is to then cover all of that up again with skin colored concealer to conceal the fact you made yourself into a cockatoo and then because you now have at least 1cm thick layer of greasy paint on your face try your best to counteract that by covering it all in powder

Does this new makeup trend come across as particularly deranged and manufactured to anyone else? Like it seems like it was specifically designed just to get people to use a shit ton of the blush creme product (something traditionally used sparingly since it’s so pigmented) so you use it up and have to replace it faster and the company makes more money. Like it just seems incredibly transparent yet I see women doing this ridiculous technique everywhere

men… bad

no i dont think women starving themselves and reconstructing their entire faces with makeup and plastic surgery is feminism and female empowerment

“the algorithm only shows us _____” so stop looking at the algorithm. you don't need it. go to a thrift store and flip through some magazines from the 1980s. go read a random book that’s no longer in print on the internet archive. go to a museum and walk around until you see an artwork you don’t recognize. go get a cookbook from the library and make a recipe you've never tried. go listen to the radio. go talk to people in real life. go write a poem or a song and don't show anybody. go take a walk. you are not confined to your online content feed. you never have been!!!!!!!

“Make up isn’t about men! It’s for me!”

Make up is how we assure men they’re the default. Every default setting is reserved for men. Everything default in humans is the boy version of things now. A resting face is male. A smile is female. Textured skin is male. Flawless skin is female. Small, normal eyes are male. Big eyes are female. Colorless lips are male. Colored lips are female. Bushy eyebrows are male. Shaped eyebrows are female. Plain clothing is male. Pants are male. Good quality is male. Cotton is male. Covered up is male. Costumes are female. Skirts are female. Poor quality is female. Polyester is female. Naked is female.

Responsive is male. Quiet is female. Alive is male. Inanimate is female. Active is male. Passive is female. Curious is male. Stupid is female. Wanting is male. Desire-less is female. Self interested is male. Disconnected from self is female.

Everything about masculinity can be summed up as “what is normal and neutral for all humans.”

Everything about femininity can be summed up as “marking women as ‘other’”

The entire point of gendered differences is to mark men as the default. Their thoughts, feelings, perspectives, health symptoms, needs, perceptions, and priorities are the default. Even when a woman recounts a story a man wasn’t present for, his account of it is seen as more reliable. Because he is who we default to. She is “other.” Toilet paper is provided because it’s needed by men. It’s default. Pads and tampons, just as important, are luxury or personal items. If anything, annoying to have to see because they don’t represent the default state. The presence of something female that doesn’t please a man is seen as something out of place that needs to be cleaned up and removed to restore life to its default, male state.

Make up isn’t about beauty. It’s about men hating the idea of women being as naturally occurring as they are, and having a right to our own realities. It’s deeper than looking pretty. It’s deeper than sex. It isn’t about whether your make up is natural looking, either.

When a man says he likes a natural looking woman, he means, “Textured skin and dullness and natural eyebrows are MEN’S THING a woman who has those is broken.”

It doesn’t matter if you’re a goth or you’re typically feminine. The point is that you don’t resemble the men.

In countries where a veil is required for women, does it matter if her hijab is kind of ugly? Is that the point? No. Most women aren’t wearing luxury fabrics or brand new hijabs. They’re wearing whatever they have. The point is that they are identifiable as female so men can treat them differently and not accidentally like equal humans.

When women aren’t required to wear dresses anymore, we start being required to wear make up. We are always required to do SOMETHING. Look at the Elf on a Shelf type dolls where they put lipstick on the girl ones. No matter what, the boy version of things is always the natural, unchanged, normal default. And if they make a girl version it’s that. There’s an elf. And there’s a girl elf. We are a spin off of men. That’s how they see us.

Normalise letting men know that they are the majority of rapists, murderers, and violent criminals. Quit claiming “humans are so evil” when it’s just one specific demographic.

If being generalized drives young men to the right, then how come being generalized and hated never drove people of color, LGBT people, and women to the right...?

Oh right, because the right wasn't made for us.

It's not actually white men's PAIN that radicalizes them, it's the lure of power and superiority.

Women and minorities are hurt and generalized every day. You see less of them on the right or in extreme circles because they still empathize with others and don't want them to feel the same pain.

The narrative of a poor, bullied person resorting to hateful groups because they're lonely and hurt is an alluring one, but let's be clear, that's all it is: an alluring narrative.

The reality is that pain doesn't drive people to extremes: a lack of empathy does.

Not caring about the pain of others is what makes most of these men fly to conservative circles: they're promised power and a place where their feelings are prioritized, and a lifetime of socialization that taught them to disregard the feelings of others is what really pushes them there.

This is why the narrative of a poor, young misled boy is flimsy at best. Many right wingers and incels are older men and they come from a variety of backgrounds.

Pain and mistreatment are not what drive young men to right wing circles--older men feeding them dreams of power and superiority are.

only women can vote, men are more suited for monarchies. They’re natural followers, and will eventually just vote for whoever feels most like a king. Women yearn for more and are capable of logical thinking. Every country should have a ceremonial monarch for men to ooh and aah at while women choose the real leaders

I find bathroom signs demeaning not only because the women sign wearing a skirt is supposed to be what makes it a woman, but also because the male sign is just a blank normal body, suggesting that the male body is default and the female body is the “other.” A skirt does not make someone a woman, and the male body is not the normal/default.

What feminists meant when they said "Gender is a social construct": Hey, we're actually real human beings here, not just the degrading social status and role you've forced on us since birth. Like, we have full humanity and deserve human rights.

What "woke q*eers" mean when they say "gender is a social construct": Anything I do to "women" is a victimless crime because the "woman gender" is socially constructed/isn't real. I can mock feminity or wear a woman costume 24/7 and it's fine- "woman" isn't real, it's just a concept for me to use as I please. Defining woman is like defining a chair. Of course, women deserve rights but also nobody knows what a woman is so..

It hurts so much to see women hating their own bodies, their reproductive system mostly. The menstruation cycle is a beautiful thing imo and our periods are not even supposed to hurt so much. The pain and all the pms symptoms we experience are a sign of hormonal imbalances, and yes, guess why almost every women today has a hormonal imbalance? Because of patriarchy and capitalism. Because this a world made by men for men. Because they've never considered our well-being.

Another woman mentioned that apparently the feminist response to the curfew placed on women because of the Ripper killings was, "Why don't you tell all the men to stay home after dark instead?"

In almost all animals males are sexually violent towards females. It is biological. Thing is, human males should have the brain to see the wrong, but they don't. Males are by nature, dangerous to females. Males and females of all species are constantly at war with each other, with the male always trying to find better strategies to r@pe females while the females are trying to find ways to protect themselves. For billions of years, all life on Earth was female, males are nothing but a dirty mutation. Males created the lie of “romance” and marriage in order to keep women under their control. If you are married to a man you are a product which he now owns. During marriage ceremonies, the father passes his daughter to another man as a product to be used. The fairytale women are sold about romance is nothing but a manipulative tactic used by males to gain access to females. When you watch a sad movie, you feel that emotion deeply and physically, yet you know it’s not real. Romance is just that, an induced emotional reaction that is not actually real.

Why does there need to be validation?

If you like to wear makeup? Okay but it's not feminist to do so.

If you like to shave? Okay but it's not feminist.

Everytime a woman speaks on how these things are damaging to women as a class you always get people whining and crying about their individual choices.

This isn't even talking about why no one takes even a second to question why they want to shave, and why do they want to wear makeup.

If everything is feminist than nothing is.

It was a psyop to make feminism lose it's teeth and the people who've read an ounce of theory are "terfs" and "swerfs".

You know, I once asked "Why are men so obsessed with sex?" citing the extreme rapes and sexual violence we're seeing in the news right now as evidence of men's overwhelming and pathological obsession with sex. I wondered: how could the desire for an orgasm, a few seconds of pleasurable sensation, be so overwhelming for many men that they're willing to cause so much trauma, pain, and destruction in pursuit of it.

And men were offended and said I'm conflating the desire for sex with rape and went on to say rape has nothing to do with sex. "Rape is about power and totally unlike real sex", they said.

I find it interesting that men make such a hard distinction between rape and sex. If such a distinction exists in the minds of men, why are so many rapists under the impression that they're having regular sex?

Rape "has nothing to do with sex" yet the #MeToo movement was littered with men expressing that they had zero clue that their sexual expressions were considered rapey or predatory. Time and time again men expressed that they thought it was a natural, healthy expression of male sexuality to rape women. Entire discussions were had about how in the 70s, slipping a woman quaaludes to loosen her up or render her unconscious was normal. That putting your coworker's hand on your erection was flirting etc. In the ongoing rape case in France, where over 70 men raped an unconscious woman on the invite of her husband- many have so far cited in their defense that they did not think it was rape because her husband was there (the idea that a wife's body belongs to her husband clearly still in their mind).

I'm sure many Afghan men taking 10-year-olds for brides right now are under the belief that they're having normal intercourse with a "wife", instead of brutally raping a child.

This is the insidious and very slippery aspect of rape culture, men claim to know what rape is and be horrified by it while at the same time insisting the rapes they're committing are normal sex. Keeping rape distal helps facilitate rape. In this way, rape is always some almost fictional type of sex that only exists hypothetically in some other time or space, for men-it's never what they're doing in the present moment. That way, they don't have to think about what they're doing. "Yes rape is bad but any type of sex I'm having is never rape."

Much feminist theory unwittingly supports this distal conceptualization. Or rather, women making correct distinctions between rape and sex has been weaponized and appropriated for pro-rape messaging.

“Men gave you those rights.” Oh you mean the human rights that they withheld from us until we caused enough outcry to make them cave??

Like men act as if it was an inherent thing in the past for women to not have rights, that’s not inherent it’s called oppression.

This is literally one of the most misogynistic tweet I’ve ever seen because this person is so dismissive about women in history face restrictions and unable to access to male dominated fields the fact these jobs have been traditionally male dominated due to historical roles and patriarchal social expectations women were often discouraged entering such jobs leading to gender biases that persists today, women face barriers when they enter in these fields because they face discrimination and lack of mentorship and workplace cultures that are not welcoming to women.

“In darkness, the moon rises ” ✨ -Guillaume Seignac

it does seem that decorating yourself is a pretty basic human thing, but femininity treats decorating yourself as a design challenge rather than an artistic endeavour. in a matriarchy, you probably would paint your nails despite them restricting how you use your fingers, you might wear jangly jewelery that's impractical and uncomfortable, because the human body was made for more than just pure rigid practicality 24/7. old-timey men used to wear high heels as status symbol. but women are not the oppressor class, and it's the way in which we engage with femininity rituals that will inevitably make them harmful (for one, men wearing high heels don't have to be worried that a woman is going to chase them down and rape them). and then there's the inherent concern of the psychologial impact of viewing yourself as a customisable canvas rather than an animal - if you're already dehumanised in society, you're vulnerable to that type of thinking from the get-go.

Men masturbate to shit that would be considered an actual fucking crime in literally any other context outside of porn and then act like that has no influence whatsoever on how they view and interact with women.

whenever someone says “where are the feminists???” In response to something horrible happening to women and girls in any part of the world, it shows that they either don’t actually listen to feminists at all or they think that feminists are a group like the avengers and we can just show up anywhere and beat the shit out of the people oppressing women and girls

as nice as that would be unfortunately that is not the case and saying “where are the feminists why aren’t they stopping this??” in response to men oppressing women is just another way to blame women for our own oppression

For all the incels who love to cry wolf❣️

"*putting lipgloss on and curling her lashes* do you know why he is not answering you? it's because-" it's because he doesn't care about you and you didn't let him tap your pussy. hes not that complex of a human being i promise. move on and read pornography by andrea dworkin

“Men aren’t doing well in school”

Yeah that’s because school is about discipline, obedience, following instructions and careful time management.

Women outperforming men in school is not even a flex for us because the skills need to succeed at school and the skills needed to succeed at work are polar opposites. Business culture is very male.

At work how you succeed is by avoiding doing grunt work but taking as much credit for successful projects as possible. It’s a political game. You succeed by being hyper visible, known and well liked. “Leadership” -yeah that’s telling other people what to do and having them like/respect you enough to follow orders. Guess who spent their whole lives preparing for that?

Female A+ students get creamed at work. Women fall into a pattern where they find themselves stuck doing grunt work while their male colleagues goof off and spend most of their time building rapport with everyone in the office. It might seem like they’re not doing anything but they are laying the foundations for crucial relationships that will mean promotions and better pay for them in the future. Meanwhile you’re wasting your energy trying to make every project you work on perfect.

If you’re a young bright woman and entering a corporate environment for the first time, please don’t go in cold. Read Nice Girls Don’t Get The Corner Office by Dr. Lois P Frankel. And your good girl, good student habits might sabotage you more than anything. Business culture is very unfair to women and nobody tells you in school what you’re actually going to be dealing with. In fact, they’d the opportunity to take advantage of you.

Men aren't "corrupted," when placed in positions of power or authority. They are enabled. The bad men in power didn't become bad because of power, they were always deplorable.

Power just lets them do it with little to no consequences. It didn't change who they were, it just made them feel like they'd get away with it. Terrible men will always be attracted to positions of authority.

There needs to be technology that prevents men from physically seeing something. There are things terrible to women that are worth exploring that are turned pornographic by the male gaze. Our art, our exploration of pain, our expressions of sexuality, need to be free from the male gaze.