but boys who play with muscular and half naked dolls of men are unmistakably heterosexual. this is a paradoxical message to boys - love everything in men, but don’t fall in love with them. despise women, but fall in love with them. this way homosexuality is both approved and shamed in patriarchy.

violence and play out their perversion with as little pushback from the other party as possible. that is why “purity” should never be glamorised. doing so encourages the idea that women are most desirable when naive.

nor bosses, nor lovers, nor husbands, nor fathers. they don’t want to cook, they don’t eat healthy food, they can’t distinguish emotions, they get tired of children, they don’t remember about important dates. even a ficus in the corner is more useful.

think?”
Ursula K. Le Guin

inferior - women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. but why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? why should women feel blindly while men get to >

“but i didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. all that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and >

dehumanising women and belittling them as nothing but magical beings who were simply born that way
we deserve the dignity of being treated as humans

find astrology interesting and fun, but we have to question how it’s seen as inherently feminine while men get to have actual science associated with them. why we allow ourselves to be so deep in bioessencialist spiritual beliefs we distract ourselves from the material world) IS another form of >

instincts as something divine instead of something tragic (given that they had to be developed for self preservation)
painting women as goddesses and untouchable is just another way to dehumanising women.
associating women with every sort of pseudoscience (don’t be mad at me, but astrology…and i >

and concerned with everyone else’s feelings (but our own) since birth. we are conditioned to beware of danger at all times bcs we are, a lot of the time, in actual danger. none of it is divine or magical.
classical conditioning and pattern recognition has got us in a loophole of explaining our >

bcs they’re not the standard that patriarchy wants from them: pretty.

patriarchal system. sexual attention from men, being let in free spaces, etc, it’s all sexism, not you being privileged. the downsides are misogyny too, like thinking pretty women are stupid. women who don’t get this treatment are not suffering from lack of privilege, they’re overlooked/undermined >