the trafficking of women is inextricable from capital. misogyny is its glue. the extreme reluctance by male chauvinist leftists to build a cohesive politics that fights misogyny & unifies feminist and queer/trans lib. is literally doing the pater-bourgeois' work for them here

Having a coherent theory of gender informed by transfeminists and transfeminism is like the secret to the universe and also makes everything fucking infinitely frustrating.

Don’t ever let people forget this.

it’s no accident that all the fascists are like that, patriarchal violence is a cornerstone of fascism

what the actual fuck OH MY GOD Isn't she rich enough??? How much money does she need???

Holding up the corpse of your murdered daughter without once speaking a word about transphobic radicalization, the transphobic policies many of those selfsame Labor MPs support, or the transphobic rhetoric in the press, all to focus on Those Damn Phones. How nauseatingly British.

"most men either neglect or despise women and either support or are bystanders for sexual assault and murder to the point where hegemonic manhood is inextricable from misogyny" is like just an elementary observation if you are a woman and some kind of existential personal attack if you are a man

It’s fine, I will just sit here losing my Black Jewish mind explaining to people that These people like the KKK and Nazis and enslavers and colonizers and they aren’t being picky about their inspiration

Hidden Valley is the absolute worst ranch. Overly sweet and repulsively thick….i don’t care that they invented it literally everyone else did it better

They largely have not changed their opinions. They have only realised that the current situation is hurting them. It's the old classic: The problems are bad but the causes are good. If they don't understand why we got to where we are and how to address it, we'll be fighting this fight forever.

Graham Linehan proves the point that trans liberationists have been saying from the start: If you'll permit dehumanising and stripping the rights of trans people, you will dehumanise and strip the rights of anyone on a long enough timeline.

anyone you ever thought was doing “purity tests” was right and you need to shut up about it for ever

Last time I felt silent seething anger about a transmisogynistic (and generally misogynistic) creep reply guy who spends all his time in the mentions of big accounts and can’t stop hopping on to harassment campaigns against (mainly trans) women a day later the floodgates broke

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

I’m so fucking sick of this bootleg Patrick Bateman ass weirdo

Just because a lot of people are cruel, bigoted, and brainwashed doesn’t mean we have to find a “middle ground” with them or a “compromise” that satisfies some of their racist delusions. We just don’t.

NEW: This week, Daily Show host Jon Stewart introduced his audience to Jenin Younes, describing her as a courageous civil rights attorney who had been canceled by both the right and left and therefore “must be doing something right.” Really, she spent years undermining public health—and Democrats.

Per YouGov this week: 🟥44% think transphobia is a "major problem" among Republicans 🟦34% think "transgender ideology" is a "major problem" among Democrats Americans list transphobia second among "major problems" for Republicans, behind "hostility towards immigrants" (47%)

This leads me to believe that up until this meeting, Trump absolutely thought it was "hole milk."

Lots of people are correctly pointing out that this man has basically nothing to do with her but I want to stress that even if he was her own actual father this opinion wouldn’t mean shit.

I know it’s corny to complain about eldest daughter syndrome but really its not so much the having to do everything for everyone so much as it’s the one-two punch of condescension from them when they claim they don’t ask it of you (they do!) & the shitty attitude when you call the bluff & don’t

Today, I would like to present a deep dive into feminist history that got away from me. Like, really got away from me. It is about the futility of a politics of appeasement. It is about the unburial of a neglected feminist history. But most of all, it's about lesbian feminism, and sins unforgiven.

I was put on this earth to love women and destroy patriarchy AND I'M VERY HAPPILY PARTNERED Y'ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t fucking nominate this man

The increasingly common habit of screenshotting the AI summary of a Google search and presenting it as evidence must be nipped in the bud immediately. That is nothing. That is not anything, it is not a thing.

Lots of men in the reply spreading the completely unfounded lie that the door was closed. They will literally believe a lie with no evidence over video proof of a woman’s accusation in order to protect a man they will never know. Thats men’s solidarity.

I keep thinking about how a young woman DoorDash driver was charged and hauled into court for recording and posting evidence of her customer sexually harassing her, while nothing is happening to the droves of men using Grok to sexually harass women and children. The institutions are pro-perpetrator.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

"Domestic terrorist" wasn't landing so they're going with "bitch" and "dyke" and "race traitor".

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Today I learned there are Brits on Bluesky who to this day justify the settler-colonial violence done by their government to Ireland.

The thing about Kat Abu is how many of the men who hate her are Like That because they’re also attracted to her, a la AOC haters. They’re just centrist dem men instead of right wing men. You can fucking smell it on them.

Holy damage control

Anyone who points to Biss’s initial post as a counter to his follow up is being willfully intellectually dishonest.

Anyone who touted this guy as a progressive alternative to Kat Abu for her crime of “carpetbagging” (something no one in earnest gives a shit about or *should* give a shit about for a federal position) to the front I wanna chat.

Deeply racist genocidal white person has psychosis over brown mayor, instinctually pedo jackets him

AHHHHH STOP ASKING ME ABOUT WINDOWS 11 AHHHH FUCKING STOP JUST STOPPPPPPPPAppoo

one of the most evergreen videos ever made

literally one of the examples is "public figure y is critical of the sexual objectification of women in fantasy" --> "public figure y is prudish" --> "public figure y is anti-sex" --> "public figure y is anti-sex worker" you are literally doing the exact script of this RIGHT WING playbook

not to go all identity politics but I think it’s also because the victims are women

Idk I just think plugging your fingers into your ears and simply ignoring something is not a good argument.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

“They did gamer gate to a trans woman over a horny mod for furries” is going to be an ideological litmus test on here for whether or not people ostensibly on the left are actually serious about feminism and trans rights huh….

This is like an old fashioned Gawker blog but somehow British and high-brow. I'll take it. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

They'll stall, delay, and deflect until he's dead and powerless, at which point the files will show he was an even bigger raping criminal scumbag than anybody assumed, at which point they'll pivot to their new chosen one and memory hole the last decade

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

just wanna say that it’s trivial to find people degendering molloy with he/him as their pronouns and I don’t give a fuck how queer the furry community is, if you degender a trans woman in this context you are the one in the wrong.