Nobody 'gives' women rights. We have the same rights as any other human being. Men just have to drop the fantasy that our rights are theirs to give or take away.

This.

"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

The House has chosen not to work and is withholding the swearing-in of newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva. She still hasn’t been seated, and it definitely feels intentional since her signature would provide the last vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

This says all you need to know.

birthrate handwringing is intrinsically fascist. not just "ordinary" conservatism, it's an explicitly nazi hyperfixation. but if you really want to pretend to care about it for non-patriarchal non-reactionary reasons, i'd blame the loss of roe before blaming women for using dating apps.

There is no way you can make being raped and forced to give birth not traumatizing (for anyone but especially a ten year old) no matter how many "resources" you provide.

To answer his question, men wait for many reasons, including: They are lazy and expect women to do all the unpaid labour, including the work of breaking up or divorcing They are the abusive/ exploitative one in the relationship, so they don’t want to break up

The crazy wife/girlfriend trope was made up by men, so they never have to be responsible for the ways they traumatize women.

Nasty when dudes pretend the "crime" we're mad about is ~he likes beautiful women~. They always try to pretend we're about "shaming the male sex drive" or whatever. Nah dude. What we're shaming is how comfortable you are with violating us and how much MORE it turns you on to not have permission.

Ooh, so close. Virility, not fertility, that men are obsessed with. For male approval. They just claim to value fertility to justify preying on younger, more vulnerable women but if they cared so much about kids there wouldn't be so many deadbeat & tourist fathers.

We should all know the name Ann Burgess. Much of the techniques and methodology of modern day criminology stemmed from her: FBI Mind hunter profiling, how to interview victims, co-founding r*pe crisis centers & much more. Today, she is working on a study about missing & murdered indigenous women.

Cheating is not a 'mistake' it is an active series of choices. Also every dude who claims someone is 'destroying the family' by not forgiving can go straight into the dumpster. No fuckface, YOU destroyed it with your lies and infidelity. Stand your ground, love. You don't owe him ANYTHING.

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

Here it is! I just cited it for someone else. It's damn good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qliV...

"You are neither wanted here, nor needed here. Your remarks about this effort over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties and are not fit for the auspicious office that you occupy."

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

This is the same reason men make dating profiles dripping with misogyny, same reason men send DMs to random women to abuse them. A lot of men hate women & want access to hurt women but they're too undesirable to obtain a partner to abuse so they turn to the internet for victims.

Sex 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 a 👏🏻 need! 👏🏻 Run from people who refer to sex as a "need" or "withholding" sex. That is rape culture.

Yup

If your partner ever utters "can't you take a joke?" it's time to leave. Same with "you're too sensitive" or "stop being so emotional." Every single one is a big red flag.

most men don’t hide their views because they’re ashamed. they hide them because they know they’re disqualifying. — author

True

A fact we can expand. If most single parents are mothers, and a nearly equal number of prisoners were raised by single fathers as single mothers, then people raised by single fathers are *overrepresented* in prisons, ergo single fathers are more likely to raise criminals than single mothers.

That's interesting considering mothers are disproportionately the sole caregivers.

The 80% lie is pure propaganda. "In 2016, the Bureau found that 41.1% of prisoners were raised by single moms, while 40.7% were raised by single dads."

Colbert, FTW

The reason people speak out in support of women accusing men of abuse is because we know the system doesn't support them & will most likely fail them. We know there will be loud backlash to not only discourage that victim but all victims from pursuing justice.

The person who behaved so badly they made the family situation untenable is the one who broke up the family. Not the one who refuses to silently suffer the treatment

Men. They rape women. Then judge women who have been raped. There's no "honor" in any of it.

Like, why would they "Run the home"? Why not just burn it down? "Raise the children" again, why? Sure, mothers can be very attached to a child even in bad circumstances. But raising more rapists and raped? Why bother? If women are placed on death ground, there is no choice.

The Protectors "I can't be a misogynist or abuser. I have a daughter." Once again men having proximity to women & girls does not make a man safe.

There aren't the words to describe how much I despise men who think being held down and badly weinered for 30 seconds, then thrown away like a kleenex, is a real treat for women.

Cue all the shitbags who chime in to say what she should have done to avoid being murdered. "If she'd just..." Fuck off. There is literally no way for women to win with violent, entitled men. There is no way to decline that they will accept. Saying no risks death, as does saying yes to one date.

Britney Spears explaining why she shaved her head and it makes so much sense

"You matter so little to me I'll ruin our relationship for something meaningless" will never be the defense they want it to be. And no, you don't love your partner. Treating sex like a binge drinker doesn't speak to your maturity or capacity for love.

“oh he can’t help that he just likes you so much!!” when a little girl is knocked over on the playground. “why can’t you just say yes to him one time?” when men harass women into trying to get them to date them and the women say no, REPEATEDLY. i am tired. i am sick. i am sick AND tired.

men’s projection needs to be studied. like genuinely so many men love to say women lack accountability and they’re projecting. women are BROUGHT UP to take ACCOUNTABILITY FOR MEN’S ACTIONS. “oh he’s just like that!!! he didn’t mean anything by it!” when he assaults you, demeans you, etc. etc.

Girls are treated way differently to boys and that's a problem for sure.

You can literally say directly to a man's face "please leave me alone, I am not interested in you or in talking to you or anyone else" and they'll think you're just kidding

When women don’t initiate, that’s a no. When women don’t pursue, that’s a no. When women say no and you ignore that boundary and rape her, her disassociating or freezing isn’t “refusing to reinforce boundaries” …that’s literal trauma YOU just caused because you’re a rapist.

The only people expecting you to "dominate or control others" are other misogynists, and if you decide it's too hard to say "No, I'm not going to rape/ beat/ murder this person/ child even if it means the other misogynists will laugh at me", you kind of earned the ugly world you got.

- If a man is incompetent at his job, it is unlikely that people say “men really shouldn’t do this job, they’re not capable of it” - There is not currently an online movement to revoke men’s right to vote in the U.S.

- If a man chooses to prioritize work over his children, he is unlikely to be vilified for it - If a man wants a vasectomy, it is likely to be approved without much fuss - If a man is at a bar, he is unlikely to worry about his drink being spiked while he’s in the bathroom

- If a man marries a woman, no one will expect him to change his surname to hers - If a man has children, he is unlikely to be expected to be their primary caregiver - If a man does not have children, he is unlikely to be vilified for it

Here are some ways all men benefit from patriarchy: - Medicines have historically been tested & optimized for male bodies rather than female bodies - If men stay out of prison, they are fairly unlikely to ever experience being raped - If a man rapes a woman, he is unlikely to be punished

It overwhelmingly benefits them & they could end what doesn't (or patriarchy in general) if they wanted but the truth is much of what "hurts" them is tied to giving them power so they won't relinquish that possibility. I'm not centering men in feminism or rebranding it as patriarchy lite.

“Put up with my shittiness on the off chance you’ll need protection from someone just like me” is not the flex they think it is