radical feminism

“ I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity,... See more

The irony is that advertisers who ignore women’s sports for “lack of audience interest” will happily pay an influencer to wear their brand while filming her boyfriend in-between games. WAGs and female athletes are all playing by the same rules, even if only some of them profit from it.

Where weaponized incompetence is the performance of male helplessness, feminized incompetence is its mirror: the performance of effortless devotion. It’s not that these women lack agency or ambition—it’s that pretending not to has always been more profitable.

It’s not about infantilizing women—it’s about noticing how “choice” only ever seems to matter when it’s about protecting a man’s vision.

That men who in general champion civil rights defend the photograph without experiencing it as an assault on women intensifies the fear, because if the horror of the photograph does not resonate with these men, that horror is not validated as horror in male culture, and women are left without apparent recourse.

The male conceit that women have sexual power (cause erections) conveniently protects men from responsibility for the consequences of their acts, especially their acts of sexual conquest.

He forces her to become that thing that causes erection, then holds himself helpless and powerless when he is aroused by her. His fury when she is not that thing, when she is either more or less than that thing, is intense and punishing.

Money is primary in the acquisition of sex and sex is primary in the making of money: it is tied into every industry through advertising (this car will bring you women, see that slinky thing draped over the hood), or items are eroticized in and of themselves because of what they cost. In the realm of money, sex and women are the same commodity.... See more

Money in the hands of a man signifies worth and accomplishment; in the hands of a woman, it is evidence of something foul, unwomanly ambition or greed.