its really very funny when people stir up this fake outrage about how transandrophobia is “misusing” intersectionality, and then immediately go “the patriarchy centers manhood so trans men can’t be oppressed for being men, only for being trans” like. do you fucking hear yourself
ALT
“It is no accident that feminists began to use the word ‘patriarchy’ to replace the more commonly used ‘male chauvinism’ and ‘sexism.’ These courageous voices wanted men and women to become more aware of the way patriarchy affects us all. … Antimale activists were no more eager than their sexist male counterparts to emphasize the system of patriarchy and the way it works. For to do so would have automatically exposed the notion that men were all-powerful and women powerless, that all men were oppressive and women always and only victims. By placing the blame for the perpetuation of sexism solely on men, these women could maintain their own allegiance to patriarchy, their own lust for power. They masked their longing to be dominators by taking on the mantle of victim hood.
The Will to Change, bell hooks (2004), pg 25. Emphasis mine.
“By highlighting psychological patriarchy, we see that everyone is implicated and we are freed from the misperception that men are the enemy. To end patriarchy we must challenge both its psychological and its concrete manifestations in daily life. There are folks who are able to critique patriarchy but unable to act in an antipatriarchal manner.
To end male pain, to respond effectively to male crisis, we have to name the problem. We have to both acknowledge that the problem is patriarchy and work to end patriarchy. Terrence Real offers this valuable insight: ‘The reclamation of wholeness is a process even more fraught for men than it has been for women, more difficult and more profoundly threatening to the culture at large.’ If men are to reclaim the essential goodness of male being, if they are to regain the space of openheartedness and emotional expressiveness that is the foundation of well-being, we must envision alternatives to patriarchal masculinity. We must all change.”
Pg 33. Emphasis mine.
They also are dramatically misapplying & misunderstanding the whole fucking point of the term “patriarchy” (especially as used by visionary/enlightened/intersectional/Black feminists). All the time.
idk if anyone else has talked about this but a trans man wheelchair user, andrew blake-newton was shot with a pellet gun in a drive-by hate crime & called a “tranny faggot.” the injuries worsened his disability. i don’t know if there’s any ways to donate to him to help but i wanna make sure people hear about this. the link has a video of him & his husband talking about the hate crime.
logically, i know that the philadelphia flyers know the worker who wears the gritty costume but it’s so much funnier to imagine that none of the flyers have ANY idea.
No male WWI pinups exist yet so my gay ass decided to change that at 1 AM and I ended up looking like a propaganda poster with homoerotic undertones so
Some of you mistook the belt around my tunic for me wearing a crop top, but then I thought, what if it WAS a crop top instead?
“No Charles, I will not be taking criticism” I say whilst making direct eye contact with my WWI soldier ancestor’s portrait hanging on the wall in full view of me wearing my uniform with tiny shorts posing like an Edwardian renter in front of my phone taped to a tripod at 2:26 AM
People told me they want more so here’s to being anti-war!! War is a trap lads!! Lord Kitchener’s ghost is going to manifest in my room after I post this but I WILL fight him!!
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