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Welcome to the gender war. You’re in it whether you know it or not or want to be in it or not. It was there before you were born and it will continue after your death. The best we can do as women is be aware of it and fight like hell for women’s rights and women’s safety while we’re alive in the hope that future generations will benefit.
Don’t let the current propaganda tell you that feminism is bad and being anti feminist is good. It essentially translates to “women are bad” when the reality is that everyone benefits under feminism—including men. Feminism benefits women, children, seniors, the disabled, BIPOC, and the LGBTQ+ community. Everyone would equally gain rights, benefits, and safety within feminism, but men unfortunately have the incorrect view that giving rights to others will lessen theirs. Everyone should be championing women and working together with us to create a better world for all —except we’re not. Everyone is divided instead. Why? What happened?
According to feminist author Susan Faludi, the blame falls on a continuous pattern of societal anti-feminist backlash whenever women make any advance in their rights —and we are currently experiencing the start of a big and bad one in response to the Me Too movement. If we’re not careful, if we’re not fierce, it could set women’s rights back decades.
“America has never been willing to spend time caring about the safety of women without making them pay for it later. The Me Too moment was going to end. Then there was going to be a backlash, and it was going to hurt. The backlash has arrived.”
“The anti-feminist backlash has been set off not by women’s achievement of full equality but by the increased possibility that they might win it. It is a preemptive strike that stops women long before they reach the finish line.”
I very much believe the pattern is real having experienced it more than once in my lifetime. I grew up during the backlash against working women when the propaganda was about how working women were ruining families & society. I was groomed by society, my family, my schools, my peers, and by entertainment media to be anti-feminist, to be a “cool girl”. I experienced the rise of porn and the subsequent normalization of the degradation and sluttification of women. It was all a big patriarchal lie —a backlash against the rights women gained before I was even born.
Read the full article:
“Faludi argues that each feminist backlash always centers on two ‘pressure points,’ which it rapidly endangers: a woman’s control over her own fertility, and a woman’s claim to her own paycheck.”
Yeah. And these bastards can fuck ALL the way off my body, personhood, and livelihood. 🤬
The worst part is: women’s own internalized misogyny keeping them from forming resistance. The biggest anti-MeToo backlash I’ve seen in my own life is from other women.