When David Foster Wallace Said “there’s A Lot Of Narcissism In Self Hatred” He Was Absolutely Right.

It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.

Marie-Louise von Franz

doing exactly what misogynistic patriarchy loving males want and tell you to do doesn’t help to uphold or even contribute to the continuation of patriarchal society’s and other comprehensible takes from radblr

I believe the myth that anger turns you into the people/person that abused you was created to keep women placated and in a position where we are never fully able to take ownership of their own rage because, according to that myth, that makes you just as bad as your abusers. Please be a hater and angry till the day you die. WHAT THEY DID WAS NEVER OKAY AND IT NEVER WILL BE.

Honestly the 'women should have a right to choose' thing is baffling in the same way that it was when pro Makeup and Shaving Women said it. The BPers and separatists have no political power they're not personally going to destroy the male fucking industry and take their boyfriends from them by force.

They know we have no power. They just hate being reminded of their cognitive dissonance and not being coddled.

Nobody on radblr ever goes "hm. female socialization is so prevalent and suffocating that certain women will rebel against it and look down on women perpetuating it. We need to be considerate of them too. #all women are my sisters"

It only gets mentioned in the context of "be considerate and say nothing against str8 momma #16781265829^10 who is doing everything patriarchy wants her to even if it's throwing you under the bus"

hm. so interesting

Another heterosexual humiliation ritual in which women attempt to “bash” men by publicly admitting to sleeping with them. No wonder men have humongous egos, why wouldn’t they? You can resemble the Mucinex Man monster, stink from not wiping properly, make empty promises, and women will derail their lives for you.

Women give up everything in the hopes that men will fulfill fairytale promises. We will call men ridiculous for believing pornography accurately reflects reality, but let women forever be influenced by Disney films they watched as children. Just as women aren’t comparable to the adult actresses being paid to perform fantasies, neither are men going to be Prince Charming.

Women are going to continue auditioning themselves and pledging allegiance to users, so ignore the blame game they participate in once it inevitably ends. Remember this is a bonding activity that women in relationships partake in, seeking to normalize such behavior. If female socialization is to be undone, no more making light of terrible life choices, or publicly announcing stupidity.

"It's not that the women don't have the capabilities to far exceed standards; it's the fact that they don't want to. Women have NO desire to rise above their limitations. Women want to be servants, women want to be sex objects, women want to be passed around.

Men really ain't doing nothing to women that women ain't asking them to do to them. *reads screenshot out loud*

Don't you ever forget that women out here got rape fantasies, and trying to act on them. You want to be used, you want to be a servant, you want to be a slave. You do not want to be deep thinkers, or problem solvers, or leaders; you want to be submissive slaves to your ideal fairy tale man that only lives in your head."

one of the most frustrating things about the neil gaiman situation (and others like it) is people who were fans immediately moving to a different person to idolise ('well, at least we still have x author' or 'please tell me y author is still a good person') and in this situation specifically, 'terry pratchett would be furious'. no!!! you do not know!!!you have no idea whether terry pratchett or any author you like was/is a predator! you cannot take a situation in which a man's public persona as a feminist and supporter of women allowed him to prey on vulnerable women without suspicion and then look at all the other men who portray themselves as good people and say 'well, these ones are still okay though.' just stop idolising celebrities!!!!!!!

Liberal feminists for men’s rights: "Men can cry" "Men can wear pink" "Men can wear dresses" "Men deserve flowers" "Men don’t have to pay the bills" "Men deserve princess treatment too" "Men's mental health matters" "Men deserve better" "Feminism is about equality" 🥺

Liberal feminists for women’s rights: "Women can sell their body to make money" "Women can wear sexy revealing clothes" "Women can be housewives serving their husbands" "Women can enjoy violent sex" "Women can have casual sex with men" "Feminism is about choice" 😍

I'm getting kind of sick of people saying things like "you have to be careful, predators are masters of disguise" because in my experience the reality is that most people will bend over backwards to make excuses for and defend very obviously creepy behavior from men. Middle aged men will make crude, sexual comments about underage girls all the time and usually the adults around them will laugh and brush it off, and if you say anything against it they'll accuse you of being dramatic. People will overlook obvious red flags that a man is a predator and then when the guy is finally arrested for child porn/rape they want to pretend like there was no way they could have known. It seriously pisses me off.