Tag: feminism

Femininity as Filter For False Flag Feminism

This is from personal experience, and I’m not advocating it as an approach for other people, it just brings up some interesting thoughts about stuff:

I found it was easier to find a good guy who shared my lefty convictions the more dolled up I got, I think it’s because he had to actually mean it and not just have a creepy ‘natural beauty’ ‘don’t I deserve to be congratulated because of what excites my genitalia’ fetish.

Cause like how many dudes who are into fake tits and big hair are going to do the “I’ll get involved in feminism to get laid” thing?

Yeah, like when that dude is like “I don’t date non-feminists (unless they don’t identify as feminists because of the feminist movements failures with intersectionality)” that dude means it.  Like you get some douchebros, but it really clears out the “I’m a ‘feminist’ because I’m one of those dudes with a thing for girls with short hair who don’t wear makeup” (You know the ones I mean, they always seem to be kind of vaguely pedophilic to me, they normally like em’ quite petite and gamine and waify and ugh I HATE those dudes, they also really end up fetishizing lesbians and being really smug for not liking ‘regular’ girls) so filtering was much easier.

That said it got much harder to find ladies who were into going out with me, which sucked.

I also think there might be a unique phenomenon with second shift labor and the relation of bourgeois women and proletarian women.

Because in essence the capitalist receives compensation for the work of many workers, yes? And the capitalist heterosexual housewife receives compensation for the sexual and domestic labor of many women, from her husband’s paycheck receives her compensation, and she receives an unjustly large amount, just as a proletarian heterosexual housewife receives a portion of her husband’s paycheck, and receives a small amount, and I believe this is in part because as the capitalist is paid for the value created by many workers, the capitalist wife is paid for an amount of domestic and sexual labor one worker could not do, she is paid for the work essentially of many “wives”, she is paid for the surplus created by the housecleaners, sex workers, beauty support workers, childcare workers and so on, I’m not sure if this is the exact explanation or perfectly theoretically correct but I think I have a point… there’s something there.in the way second shift labor is done in bourgeois households.

I think applications of labor theory to the domestic sphere are useful and important for understanding the condition of women

Beauty Standards

I feel like what people do to meet beauty standards is relevant most of all in how it indicates the internal damage they do, after all how much pain must that standard have caused to make a woman coat herself in carcinogenic chemicals, or subject herself to surgical intervention. I mean like, I’m incredibly impulsive, have no self preservation instinct, am a masochist and will do nearly anything people tell me is bad for me that seems like it might be fun or get me some kind of attention, including communism and a lot of unprotected sex, so my getting cosmetic surgery is just a function of my essentially unbearable innate personality, but for people who never ate half a cup of dirt or did a week of preparation to picked to get topless on stage with a mid-level famous rock band in the hopes of getting someone to pay attention to them, what must it indicate?

After the revolution plastic surgery will be made broadly available

somewhereinaburstofglory:

thepeacockangel:

somewhereinaburstofglory:

thepeacockangel:

Everyone should have the right to control of their appearance

I thought I had seen the worst this site had to offer, but every day y’all manage to surprise me

Hey, people deserve the right to look how they want.  It’s not actually a huge expenditure of resources

Because how people “want” to look isn’t at all influenced by a culture which demeans and demoralizes women by making their bodies into projects which can never be completed? Because how people “want” to look isn’t founded in a blatantly racist society which presents a singular image of white ‘beauty’ which every woman, but especially non-white women, has to nearly kill and bankrupt themselves to attain? Because how people “want” to look isn’t due to a culture which hates non-white features… unless of course they are artificially reproduced on white bodies? Because how people “want” to look isn’t overseen and preplanned by hoards of white male-dominated conglomerates? 

I really could not give a single fuck about the “revolution” that white men and women imagine where women’s bodies are controlled as commodities to an even greater extent, all because some white woman wants breast implants and doesn’t have lips. If your idea of a “revolution” is appealing to every single misogynistic repressive ideal in our culture, and taking it to an even more extreme level, then you can fuck right off. White liberal feminism is a cancer.

Says the feminist reading:

strong curves: a woman’s guide to building a better butt and body by bret contreras & kellie davis

Curly Girl: The Handbook by Lorraine Massey

Sounds like you’re totally in favor of “performative femininity” as long as it’s the way you believe it should be performed.

I’m talking about shit like brow ridge implants and tongue forking.  People should look whatever weird way they want to.  Part of the revolution is abolishing patriarchal white supremacist beauty standards.

Duh.

Thinking about how conditional male privilege is at times, and how vulnerable men who violate the terms of it are.

I see the effects of that a lot at work.  Transgressing against masculinity is a very scary thing and I totally have props for dudes who do.

That said then it’s all actually really complicated because like when a woman enters a masculinized field she’s scorned and made to work twice as hard, a man enters a feminized field and he’s welcomed by the women there with open arms and usually ends up getting paid more.

I feel like things with that are complicated.

They label us whore, they label us victim, they label us “friend”, they label us help, they label us invisible, they label us object, they label us wife, but they never label us worker.

Me on the similarity between domestic and sexual labor

So if your question of why so many young women are turning to radical feminism wasn’t just hypothetical: mainstream feminism let us down. It’s so watered down that when I discovered radical feminism I felt like I’d woken up. You can’t criticize anything in mainstream feminism because choice is sacrosanct and analyzing things deeper is seen as an affront, at least for a lot of people. Radical feminism has a lot of problems, but at least I feel like it’s actually meaningful.

You can be radical and a feminist without being a transmisogynistic swerf.  Respecting sex workers isn’t about ~*~*~*~*~*~Choice~*~*~*~*~*~ any more than respecting waitstaff is about choice, it’s about the fact that our work is real actual work, like any other work, our problems are labor problems and the failure to acknowledge that is really fucking not radical.  You wanna be a Marxist feminist?  Well then failing to analyze and acknowledge our labor as the same as other labor means you’re REALLY BAD AT MARXIST-FEMINISM.

Also the studies claiming that porn makes men violent and misogynistic A: have shit methodology and B: Prove that violent misogynistic imagery (not inherent or unique to porn) encourages men who are already violently misogynistic are encouraged by it… but they’re encouraged by a spring breeze, because they live in a culture steeped in misogyny.

What we call radical feminism is just aggressive defense of the status quo, oppressing trans people and sex workers is not radical and never will be.

Like we need to be able to discuss shit but “radical” (I put it in quotes because whorephobic transphobic misogyny is never radical) feminism is the opposite of helpful.