If "female socialization" is your shorthand for being treated like whipped dogs who never learn to act right, that is something that applies to queer kids pretty intensely!

Heck, call it "queer socialization". The universial experience of society attempting to beat us into the closet or the grave.

"Male socialization" is kind of meaningless, then, insofar as we *all* are taught that Boys Are Better Than Girls.

It *does* affect the respective behavior of boys and girls, who learn exactly what they're allowed to get away with, and how much, but people forgot how this affects queer kids.

Mothers who tell their daughters to care more about looking pretty than doing well at school are socialized patriarchal.

Teachers of all genders who help their girl students less than the boy students with math and science are socialized patriarchal.

We are all marinated in this bullshit together.

i guess i'm not surprised given how gleefully reactionaries and MRAs call "describing patriarchal society" as "gender essentialism"

It’s like “oh women have to be sexually available to men or else the men will destroy the fabric of society” damn ok

Childbearing is physically dangerous & painful for women; childrearing is an exhausting, degraded, isolating, and impoverishing endeavor that annihilates women’s other opportunities & goals. When women are free, they choose fewer children. There is no way to make them have more that is not violent.

A non-Western culture cannot be a complex society with its own castes, classes, conflicts, and contradictions. It has to be enlightened, simpler, happier, more primitive but all the more wise and enriching for it.

Y'know, orientalism.

That's all Westerners can do. Orientalism or xenophobia.

If you talk about misogyny in a non-Western culture, you are immediately assumed to be dismissing that culture as evil and barbaric, worthy of being nuked from orbit. This runs the high risk of you being called racist!

So, in order to prevent this, Westerners ignore any issues completely.

it's the apathy that kills me. no one fucking cares. sympathy is the right of cis men, rapists especially, and the rest of us are dog food who should accept that our bodies do not belong to us and stop whining about how they use their discretion over us.

men can get away with anything they want. women's bodies are 100% disposable. metoo was a flash in the pan that they will punish us for forever. we will never be free.