Materialist
That is a stunning post. Can I share it?
I acquired late, onset feminism. It appears to be quite contagious. Especially as a result of exposure to the trans issue.
Most women, come up against systematic sexism. The older you get, the more you encounter it.
But it's often only when you see feminism and it's nemesis, misogyny, in an historical context you realise the sheer scale of women's disadvantage. And exactly how it is implemented.
When feminists talk about patriarchy and oppression, the image many people imagine you have is a bunch of shifty looking men with clipboards, ticking off lists on exactly how to piss off and subjugate women.
They will say oh my God, you think there's a mass conspiracy?! Fools. Bloody feminazi.
But as soon as you get into historical context, it's almost exactly that. They're not subjugating for the sake of it, there's a very beneficial result.
They want a certain outcome, they scrabble around to find the means, and lo and behold women are it. Every single time. Until it looks, to many, as though that is exactly what women are for. And nothing else.
At that point, the entitlement sets in and it can be breathtakingly blinding.
So many women say men don't see it, men don't get it.
They do see it, they do get it. They can read. But to them, it's completely normal.
Women are just lesser than. Bless them.
And when you point out the irrefutable facts, they go into a tizzy of namalting and whataboutery.
Because what else can they do?
How can they square away the undeniability or women's disadvantage with the fact that, to them, it's normal and the right order of things. Shhh.
And this latest onslaught against women is getting a soft landing, because capitalising on women's lesser than status and exploiting it is ok. It always has been. What's the big deal?
And now, children, girls and boys, men and women are actually being instructed on how to do it. And they're all falling into line.
When students like loops go into the world and come smack bang up against rank sexism, she will have no tools, and more importantly, no resources with which to either explain it or counter it.
It's no surprise that places like the Vancouver women's library have been targeted. With instructions to burn books by feminists.
The Salford working women's resource instructed to not host feminists.
It's no surprise that older feminists like Germaine Greer and Linda Bellos are no platformed and vilified across the board.
And that suddenly, ageism, but only in terms of women, is creeping in to young people's narrative. As entirely acceptable.
The historical context must be eradicated, it's too revealing.
You have to ask yourself, if men weren't determined to preserve the patriarchy why would they care? Why would they target everything woman? Why would they be this determined?
And, unless it is considered normal, correct, and the right order of things, why aren't more men opposing it?