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Okay so I didn’t know exactly which category to put this in, but I’ve felt really hopeless and demoralised recently because of what’s going on in the world. The current unprecedented anti feminist backlash has been relentless and we are losing from every side. The manosphere is on the rise and more and more people are getting advice and domestic violence tactics to use against us. This includes Fresh and Fit amongst others (tho I’m very pleased Kevin Samuels died) as well as simping, pathetic handmaidens like Lauren Chen and filth like Rollo Tomassi etc. We’re losing the ability to define what a woman is and what marks our basic existence and reality - we’ve been reduced to “menstruators” “people with uteri“ “vagina havers” while men still get to be called men - the trans movement is diametrically opposed to women’s rights but handmaidens have very politely allowed violent men in dresses into our spaces at the expense of our comfort and safety. We are losing our sports, our change rooms, our awards and scholarships, our basic ability to go to rape shelters without being surrounded by men in womanface. The left is erasing our existence and biological reality - now men can enter women‘s prisons with the freedom to rape and kill us. The conservatives are taking away our autonomy over our bodies, we’re being told high value women should return to the kitchen. Johnny Depp humiliating Amber and allowing the floodgates to open to drown out metoo and the ensuing mass misogyny, which is going to be repeated with Brad and Angelina.
What can we do? How do we beat this? We need to work together.
I just finished listening to Men Who Hate Women which explains how women are being attacked by the manosphere. It is a hard thing to read what men really say and think about women but I feel like it was a necessary reading. We need to understand their methods and counter them. We especially need to be involved with our youth. We need to be very vocal on the issues you mentioned online and in real life despite the death threat consequences. Get very involved in politics and legislature, push your children's schools to implement a variety of programs to give another narrative than the one the manosphere is writing for us. Encourage your daughters to start feminist clubs at school despite the backlash where they can read and discuss feminist literature. Get involved in your own community. We need to push our governments to make misogny a terrorist threat and a hate crime with severe punishments. Elliot rogers and all the other mass shooters with manifestos declaring their hatred for women need to be labeled as terrorists by our governments.
Our fear and silence benefits this ultra misogynistic culture. Lack of feminist social media accounts benefits it. They are specifically targeting children (young boys) and there is no strong counter narrative to help them think any other way. Parents aren't aware of what their kids are exposed to online or what their kid's friends are telling them at school.
And what fds is already doing, making sure we have zero tolerance for being in relationships with mysogynists. I'd like for fds to help more young girls stay safe.
You summed up how I feel about trans movement. I will call you whatever you want, show you respect, but stay in your lane. "Man in woman face" is brilliant!! You cant even have a normal moderate view on Facebook without being piled on or banned as being trans-phobic.
Birth less males. The male is a parasite upon the female, on every level except for some physical lifting.
Don't even dare think this way, our foremothers went through far worse and stayed persistent and insistent. My advice is to get off on the idea of triggering them and approach them with the exact mental state they come to us with.
A real burden will be lifted from your shoulders if you drop the appeal to empathy approach that is not needed in any form.