-Anaïs Nin, 1939

Behind every misogynist is a girlfriend/wife and/or mother who is okay with it.

anyway… if anyone is looking to improve their reading & writing skills, i highly recommend this article by celine nguyen, which analyses the opening paragraphs of good essays to understand how and why they work. focuses on nonfiction but could apply generally i think

doing exactly what misogynistic patriarchy loving males want and tell you to do doesn’t help to uphold or even contribute to the continuation of patriarchal society’s and other comprehensible takes from radblr

someone got salty that I said some women become mothers out of naked self interest / desire for more victims / free labor & called it a bad take. well. it's not a take it's an observation. some women even use their own children to secure pedophile mates and act as their children's pimps. there is nothing inherently sacred or sanctifying about motherhood & the people who want to pretend otherwise are often the ones who cry crocodile tears for sacred Motherhood when accused of (enabling) abuse

disturbing parallels i've seen with tras and christianity (as an ex christian)

x is true because x is true!

christians: the bible says it's real because the bible says it's true!

tras: transgender individuals are: (the gender they identify with) because they say they are the gender they identify with!

we don't understand how x works

christians: god works in mysterious ways

tras: only people can define the gender they are. (only women know what women are)

ostracization from the community

christians: so and so is an atheist/gay. is walking down a worldly path. we can't associate with them anymore .

tras: TERF! THIS PERSON IS A TERF! BLOCK THEM!

demanding access into places

christian's: we demand that creationism be taught in public school. that the 10 commandments be showcased in every school!

tras: trans women deserve to be in women's sports! trans women deserve to be in locker rooms! trans women deserve to be in female only spaces!!

strict gender roles

christian's: a woman must be submissive, feminine, present herself in a way that is pleasing to god, and must present herself as non aggressive, gentle, be focused on her husband and children

tras: if a person identifies as a woman they MUST be submissive! they must be emotional! they're very soft spoken and passive, and love being soft, and have a gender non conforming/feminine fashion so they MUST be a woman!

persecution complex:

atheist: i believe you have the right to practice your religion but i have a problem with...

christians: WE'RE THE MOST PERSECUTED MINORITY! WE'RE BEING SILENCED INTO NOT SHARING OUR FAITH! THIS PERSECUTION MEANS GOD IS COMING! THE END IS NEAR THE RAPTURE IS HAPPENING!

radfem: if you'd like to dress in a gender non conforming way, then fine. but i have a problem with...

tras: WE'RE IN STAGE 7 OF GENOCIDE! WE'RE BEING DIVIDED AS A COMMUNITY! OUR OWN KIN IS TURNING AGAINST US! THIS IS WHY SUICIDE RATES ARE SO HIGH!!!

if you are x then you are x

christian's: you need the faith the size of a mustard seed to be a Christian.

tras: if you even think you're trans than you're trans

flipping the script once you're in the group

christian's: well actually women need to be pure for their husbands, follow traditional gender roles, reject who they are to be worthy in gods eyes and instill this belief that you are an inherently unloveable person!

tras: you're trans? oh wait, now you can go through years of hormone therapy treatment! you can start voice training to be perceived as the gender you've chosen! then if you feel comfortable you can have surgeries to look your identity!

The transition a large swathe of people have made from "this cause is righteous therefore it is would just of me to support it" to what we have now which is "I am just therefore any cause I support is righteous " has done irreparable damage to online discourse, and frankly it's dones irreparable damage to people's ability to critically think or discuss literally anything

The excuse “they didn’t teach us this at school” tells me the person has been spoon fed information at school their entire life and have become so accustomed to it, they now feel entitled to it. Everything they should know must served to them otherwise how could they know? Which is absurd since they’re the same people who know so many useless information about celebrities and who broke up and who married who. Their main problem is entitlement. Also, education main purpose is to teach people how to reason and obtain and analyze information. If you can’t do that then education was wasted on you.

glad to be a eugenicist. glad to not pretend that humans aren't animals. glad to not think humans are in any way special. glad to not deny reality to self-soothe and/or shame opposition.

moids are absolutely terrified of women waking up and realizing they’d be happier without them.

I've come to the conclusion that people who demonize those without empathy or criticize the human obsession with love and the imposed need for company, no matter how loud and different words they say, can only argue with this: