on patriarchy
When feminism is twisted to justify borders, bans, surveillance, or moral panic, it stops protecting women and starts policing them. It doesn’t prevent harm. It redistributes it, pushing the risk further down the social hierarchy while congratulating itself for doing something.
shreya • let's talk about weaponising feminism
Femonationalism; a word that describes the hijacking of feminist language to justify nationalist, racist, and authoritarian projects.
shreya • let's talk about weaponising feminism
Politicians and commentators who have spent decades undermining women’s rights suddenly discover a deep concern for women only when that fear and concern can be blamed on migrants.
Not because chivalry has risen from the dead. But because fear is useful, and the feminist fight carries cultural weight.
This is nothing but propaganda wrapped in shiny... See more
Not because chivalry has risen from the dead. But because fear is useful, and the feminist fight carries cultural weight.
This is nothing but propaganda wrapped in shiny... See more
let's talk about weaponising feminism
Taking on the cause of violence against women, but associating it with migrant men, is a tactic that we've seen the far right using throughout time. So this is nothing new. Gender based violence is overwhelmingly perpetrated by people that the victim knows...The trope of Stranger Danger is really deployed to foment racist attitudes and beliefs...... See more
Feminism is being co-opted by the far-right again, this time to target migrants
If my body had been a passive machine from which men made withdrawals, like an ATM whose code they were handed on the day of their first erection, then with her it was a winning slot machine, screaming jangly music and spewing coins.
Melissa Febos • Girlhood
A trans woman friend of mine recently explained to me how the technique for training your voice to sound more feminine has a lot to do “with speaking less or asking more questions or deferring to other people more.”
Melissa Febos • Girlhood
I had spent most of my life thinking of my body as an instrument, an object connected to my psyche but not integrated with it. My body, I was realizing, was not the box that held myself, it was my self.
Melissa Febos • Girlhood
the reason we "consent" to empty consent is because we dont see the mind and the body as a whole entity, if we can shut down the mind we think that our body wont be able to experience it. We see the body as our vehicle to explore the world and not as part of our psyche which is why its easier to abandon the body as long as we control the narrative inside our brains
Billy is rewarded and punished for what he does when his attention is out. “Look what Billy did! Look what Billy made! Do you believe what Billy said?” Whereas Mary is rewarded when the attention—hers and others’—is placed on her. “Look at Mary’s pretty dress! Doesn’t she have lovely manners? Isn’t she sweet?” From the very start, then, boys are
... See moreKasia Urbaniak • Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Power
The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our oppression as women