29 | she/her | materialist feminist
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Plugging my tumblr where I take anonymous questions + post feminist reading recs/resources!!
tumblr.com/askgothamshitty/
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If you only see patriarchy as men vs women then you are not getting the full picture. The family is the locus of gender, and within that is a dynamic of absolute adult power over children. That dynamic is one way in which women’s participation in the system is negotiated.
“Teach boys consent” is inadequate for many reasons, one being that rape is not only about an inability to notice a lack of willingness but also the ability to continue without it. The absence of her pleasure doesn’t deter him; her passivity, her object status is what’s erotic.
Lauren retweeted
The thing is that it literally doesn’t matter who Jane Doe actually is because the men defending the Cornell rapists are not attempting to assail an individual woman, but women as a “class” who are beneath men and should know their place in accepting patriarchal abuse
Lauren retweeted
it’s everything. it’s the burnerverse, it’s andrew tate, it’s grab her by the pussy, it’s dobbs, it’s the trad wife movement, it’s “I’m just a girl”, it’s the word foid (and the word bitch), it’s repeal the 19th, it’s literally everything.
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TERFs will demand laws to punish queer people for existing, the state will codify those laws as “women have a sex based right to be breeding stock for the patriarchy”, and even as that is shown to their faces they will cheer for their own enslavement so long as it spites the fags
Lauren retweeted
philly serial killer has me once again thinking that the absolutely worst legacy of gen x is the championing of "transgression" for its own sake, not the hard work of making difficult/unpleasant/confrontational art but the apocalypse culture style fetishization of actual monsters
Lauren retweeted
This is actually true, but it’s an argument that consent is an insufficient standard for sexual ethics and assault law. “Consent” comes from “consent of the governed.” It is a concept with inequality, and indeed coercion, built into its spectrum of definitional possibilities.
It’s no coincidence that TERFism has increased in popularity alongside the rise of the global new right. The conservative “anti-gender” movement has converged with this strain of second wave feminism to form a united front against threats to traditional patriarchal gender logic.
I highly recommend this journal issue for better understanding this phenomenon:
read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/arti…
