“The left needs to give men dating advice” is such a stupid and unserious take and I keep seeing it everywhere. it’s just another version of the “male loneliness epidemic” discourse

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

i wish they could stop themselves from destroying the fabric of society but i guess that's a lot to ask

"Should straight women go into the closet? Straight women say yes."

Like. Are you "female socialized". Or are you just kind of a massive weenie

Again I say: how fucking interesting that remote work technology is bad and not worth adopting despite all research pointing to productivity gains, but genAI which offers NOTHING is so important to adopt and force on people who have no use for it despite all the horrible things genAI does

Transphobia is misogyny is nationalism: a mandated, enforced sorting of the state's 'reproductive assets' from those granted the agency and right to exploit them.

The abuse of trans children is about this compliance, about upholding the patriarchal sorting of humans by reproductive role.

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.

Notably, boys have gendered limitations placed on them too: they can't act too much like girls without being punished.

So what happens to boys who act too much like girls and girls who act too much like boys? Or the children who show more affinity for their own gender than simple homosociality?

too many people treat straight sexuality like it’s just another flavor on the orientation menu and not the default enforced by centuries old oppression

"Anything a woman does is feminist. If a mom tells her daughter to suck up and marry her cousin who's 20 years older, that's feminist. If a woman President bombs a country, that's a feminist bombing." -- Andrea Shelley

"Feminism is about having choices. Women should be free to choose anything, such as choosing to stay in the closet because my family would disown me for marrying my girlfriend." -- Naomi Freidan