A re-evaluation of “choice” and being empowered through choice is significant because of how it can be used to excuse abusive behavior.
An abuser can psychologically abuse/train and groom targets into believing that they are “choosing” to be in a commitment where they are treated disrespectfully.
Abusers can and often do groom their victims, not just to be compliant and submissive, but also psychologically gear the abused to think of themselves as consenting to the entire thing.
In this case, a person can be in an abusive relationship, argue that it’s a “consensual choice” while it’s actually the result of psychological abuse, trauma-bonding and stockholm syndrome.
WhatIsPatriarchy?
A blog investigating what patriarchy is and how to dismantle it.
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Link reblogged from Die Male DomsThese six scientists were snubbed for awards or robbed of credit for discoveries … because they were women.
Patriarchy is…erasing women’s contributions. It’s making women lose historical and cultural visibility.
(Source: ksierzpu)
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Photo reblogged from my personal blog
You didn’t think too deeply about this did you? Of course not. If you were prone to thinking deeply about things… you probably wouldn’t be a Feminist, now would you?
I’m screaming “THAT’S THE POINT THAT’S LITERALLY THE POINT YOU JUST MADE THE EXACT POINT” at my computer screen right now.
(Source: wonderful-manna)
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Link reblogged from GYNOCRATICGRRL
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Link reblogged from STFU, Sexists.
American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going “on strike.” They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this “man-child” phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility simply because they can. But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them?
As Men on Strike demonstrates, men aren’t dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development. They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands and providers. In addition, men are going on strike, either consciously or unconsciously, because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century. Men are starting to fight back against the backlash. Men on Strike explains their battle cry.
“Men aren’t dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development” - yeah, completely shutting yourself off from a potentially fulfilling romantic relationship because of some perceived slight seems very mature and rational.
I’m fairly certain that men not wanting to be involved in raising and nurturing their children, being active and available spouses and not seeking out employment or intentionally avoiding the workplace, predates the dawn of feminism (which I am assuming this book’s author will blame for creating a society that he believes makes being male “a crime” in the 21st century). What a pathetic delusion for one to have.
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Quote reblogged from GYNOCRATICGRRLSimply put, not everything has to be about you. Yes, sometimes men’s involvement in discussions of oppression is relevant, even vital. But when the focus is on women’s oppression, men don’t need a token mention. Why? Because men, as a group, aren’t oppressed. Men don’t have to deal nearly as often (or at all) with cat-calling, victim blaming, unequal pay, objectification, rape culture, and so on. If, as occasionally happens, men are relevant to the conversation, it all leads back to one thing: Patriarchy is bad for men as well. But what are you, as a men’s rights activist, promoting? Patriarchy.
(via misandry-mermaid)
My friend Indigo wrote this. I’m so impressed with her article and proud of her for persisting through the hate from MRAs. Y’all should really read the whole article.
(via everyday-feminism)
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Post reblogged from Part-Time Femme Full-Time Feminist
The patriarchy told me that having courage means having balls.
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Photoset reblogged from Women Organized Now
This is what feminists mean when we talk about rape culture: these cards are considered socially acceptable and men buy them. Women are socialized into believing they are nothing more than fucktoys and men are raised to believe that rape is a joke.
Stores sell merchandise encouraging men to beat and rape women, and men are complaining about misandry hats? Fucking hell.
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Quote reblogged from A new recruit to the radfem cabalPatriarchy is the worship of men - violent men, men who hate women, who mock femaleness, who fragment our personhood and cut us down into bits and pieces - into cunt, tits and ass - men who compliment us by telling us how much they’d like to rape us, how cute we’d look abused, men who laugh at our pain and tell us to laugh along with them - the worship of men who would encourage us to diet, to over exercise, to wear make up, to starve ourselves and to obsess over our appearance until we look the way a voiceless, edited image of submissiveness and compliance looks - that’s patriarchy.
(via angrywomanistcritic)
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Photo reblogged from GYNOCRATICGRRL
University of Arizona student tells women who dress like “whores”: “You deserve rape.”
