Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
We need to talk more about how it feels to be a woman amidst this sudden onslaught of “reclaiming masculinity,” celebrating male aggression and violence, and vanishing smart experienced women from positions of power.
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They don’t think crimes against women and girls are real crimes.
No, lots of people are just hateful bigots who hate people because they are small minded assholes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethpearson/2024/12/02/many-women-are-working-with-high-functioning-depression-post-election/
i feel like it will take a white man to convince the stupidest of white men (which is a lot of white men) not to act so stupidly, but i'm not smart enough to know what words to use to do this.
This deserves to be widely shared. This is so directly and well stated. Makes my day, Moira Donegan.
Maybe you missed it but people like RFK are using that framing to justify why SSRIs, anti-psychotics, stimulants, opiods, and hormones should be banned.
I'm sorry an addict hurt you but now isn't the time.
Men, meanwhile, are not told that they should give a damn about the other half of humanity & misogyny is actually bad.
“If you cut out the nagging I wouldn’t have to hit you” etc etc
A brief SEMBLANCE of parity was enough for men to start whining and blaming women and taking away their rights.
Until men correctly blame the billionaire MEN causing their problems, don't give an inch!
Tens of thousands of lives ended. These women were the doctors and philosophers of their age.
What would cause society to turn so sharply from celebrating them?
Guess we’re finding out
https://amzn.eu/d/5At6cw5
Here's an excerpt from the CIA's Psychological Warfare manual that explains this.
(We've had conversations about how, if boys are hiding who they listen to or downplay it, they're doing so because they know their choices are not good, they just don't want consequences.)
Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned and Trump is back in the White House, many on the right feel they no longer need to hide the sexism fueling their movement or
What about the despair of their victims? Of women? Of LGBT folks?
Always the coddling of the (usually white) men. Man-babies
They were the ones who suggested he run for president.
Men can't be men any more!
What does that mean?
They can't be men!
And so on.
"He became a nazi because you said white privilege exists. You did this."
I didn't realize how abusive civilization's relationship w/patriarchy or white supremacy are until the victim blaming went up to level 11.
https://bsky.app/profile/christineloriol.bsky.social/post/3lhlycsafzs24
But at no point are these men victims of anything. They willfully choose their path.
Ben Franklin studied their governments, but overlooked studying their societies.
It's not too late to learn from them!
Ben Franklin studied their governments but overlooked studying their societies. Not too late to learn from them!
We do however need to ensure men can find their own sense of agency, purpose and direction in the wake of surviving a society that's told every generation of males before them that their worth comes from their control of women.
To me, it looks like this is about preserving unearned privilege.
There aren’t enough keys in all the world to weave between my digits or affix to fists not in all the world…