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Lauren
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Lauren
@gothamshitty
29 | she/her | materialist feminist
Joined January 2014
- The practice of paralyzing facial muscles to mute our natural expressions is, I think, a way patriarchal beauty standards erase women’s individuality in favor of constructing a docile feminine existence.
- “… a woman experiences the masochistic pleasure of her own negation which is perversely articulated as the fulfillment of her femininity” - Dworkin Any (serious) radical feminist would identify Hunter’s words as an apt description of female subjectivity under patriarchy.
- “Dating him made me like pink again” is a perfect example of why feminists say heterosexuality is a regime in which the participants’ compatibility is judged by how easily they are able to assimilate into polarized roles.
- Women aren’t hysterical for being vigilant in a violent world. The issue here is that social media & safety gadget companies have tapped into that fear & rerouted it toward less common scenarios (stranger danger) when the person actually most likely to hurt her is that husband.deeply obsessed with white women living out kevin mccallister fantasies
- The amount of consumerism needed to maintain a normative standard of modern femininity is insane… from makeup to skincare to hair and nail appointments to body hair removal to fad diets… so much time, money, and self-scrutiny necessary to be seen as an “acceptable” woman
- It must be acknowledged, first and foremost, that Lil Tay is being pimped by her family. Second, we must understand that society has groomed her, in a sense, by making it lucrative for teen girls to count down the days until they’re legally old enough to be sexually commodified.
- I feel so bad for teen girls growing up among radicalized manosphere boys. Middle/high school are already such intense times for misogynistic gender socialization. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be around those who have been directly propagandized by femicidal rapists.
- Feminists should definitely be ruthless in our critiques of religion, which has objectively been one of the strongest and most enduring vehicles for patriarchal oppression throughout its history.
- Choice feminism and its consequences 🤦🏻♀️ estheticians are now capitalizing off of its rhetoric to promote their injectables.
- Replying to @gothamshittyImagine having the courage as a trans woman to open up about the most vulnerable parts of yourself, only to have it pathologized by faux feminists & transphobes as proof of “male socialization”. Hunter deleted this post years ago, yet it still is routinely used against her.
- Very sad to me that Michelle Trachtenberg spent her last weeks warding off negative comments about her appearance, and now in the wake of her death many people are only grieving the loss of a beautiful Cool Girl. She deserved better, all women do.
- Liberal feminism has always been cringe but this new “bimbo” wave is something else. What’s subversive about regurgitating the same feminine stereotypes men have been using against women forever?You People are BRAIN DEAD
