ever since i was a little girl i’ve always known i’m a big fan of alone time
some of y'all are strong, brave and invincible feminist women until a woman on tumblr.com implies that separatism is a good idea and that women should try to stop dating men for feminism and safety reasons, then there's no strength or bravery left it's literally too much to handle and you're all crying and shaking in your boots. grow a fucking spine
nuanced takes on radblr are like “let’s all just do nothing then cry about it” lol
"The man who popularised bdsm was himself a serial rapist who tortured women and children" wait who is this? I mean checks out but I want to know
The S in BDSM comes from Sade, Le marquis de Sade. He was a french pedophile, rapist, torturer and kidnapper. He wrote about his methods, men loved it and intellectualized it and thus the Sadist movement was born and with it sado-masochism and bdsm and kink and all that revolting shit. His methods are exactly what bdsm proponents and porn addicts love. Rapeplay, bondage, whipping, hot wax, beating etc. Sadisme, Sadism, Sadismus, Sadismo, Sadizm, etc, in most languages the word for taking sexual pleasure out of torturing someone comes from Sade, who was a real man and a real criminal. It's a movement based on a serial rapist.
He started by raping prostituted women, some were so upset with his violence and perversity that they reported him to the authorities and that's when he got arrested first. He was released but put under surveillance, the inspector telling brothel owners to never let their girls go with this man.
Sade then met a poor woman who was a widow and a beggar. He offered her a position as housekeeper and took her to his house. He pretended to make her visit the house but in the bedroom he assaulted her, tied her to the bed, whipped her, poured hot wax on her wounds, threatened to kill her if she did not stop screaming, jerked off and then forced her to do blasphemous things because she was catholic and part of what he loved was making catholic women do things that are clearly against their religious teachings. She managed to escape through a window and ran to the village. He was imprisoned for 7 months.
Then during an orgy with some prostituted women and his valet, he drugged the girls and some of them felt sick and incapacitated. Him and his valet were condemned to death for the poisoning and for sodomy. But they escaped. Sade was from a bourgeois family, their money and influence helped him a lot. He was caught later but paid the prison guards and escaped once more.
After that, there were several cases in which he would hire servants who were almost always very young girls, children, and he raped them violently too. Turns out some of the girls had been kidnapped. They had marks on their bodies showing the abuse. The parents were looking for them. One father tried to shoot Sade but the gun misfired.
Sade was on the run again, went to Italy for a while, then went back to France. But his mother in law (yes, he was married this entire time) had been working really hard to get him arrested if he ever came back to Paris and that's what happened. But he was mostly accused of "libertinage" and "obscenity", making him a martyr to our modern liberals.
He was imprisoned for 11 years at La Bastille and was treated better than most prisoners because he was paying the staff for privileges. But in prison he was still violent, aggressive and he would write filthy and offensive letters to his mother in law and his wife, describing how he wanted to see them die. So he was not released early. He also wrote that for a man like him to become mentally healthy and to be treated fairly, he should be given access to girls in his cell.
That's when he started writing his pornographic books in which he pretends to be fighting for sexual freedom and against religious prudishness. He wrote novels illustrated with pictures and engravings of naked girls being raped, tortured and killed (yes killed, in gruesome ways) in much the same way BDSM photos and videos depict nowadays. But in some pictures he had little children drawn and participating in the orgies too.
During the French revolution, The Bastille was taken by the revolutionaries and the prisoners freed, unfortunately he was one of them. However, his books were perceived as horrible and concerning by the authorities, as something beyond simple obscenity, and he was placed in a mental institution, where he kept on writing his pseudo-intellectual garbage for a few more years before finally dying.
Years later, men got to read his books about torturing, raping and killing women and rehabilitated it. And now here we are. BDSM. The epitome of female empowerment.
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.
I've noticed my life improved significantly when I started keeping male-centered womens at arms length. For one, I don't want to be around men and they ALWAYS bring their man into everything. I had to cut a women off after she did the whole, 'I hate when someone brings their stupid boyfriend along to girls nights🙄' then brought her stupid boyfriend along because obviously she didn't mean HER man. Not to mention a lot of male-centered women are downright dangerous to be around. They will put you in the vicinity of predators and abusers, they will always side with a man, and they will direct their own hatred towards any women around them. They are the type of women that want feminists to exist so they can benefit from the work of other women, and always rely on a women when something goes wrong, but still laugh with their man about how the hairy, man-hating feminists are just mad because they can't get a man. I support organisations that help women, but I do not help individual women that are male-centered. They want endless support and sympathy from the same women they mock and help put in harms way. Not for me thanks.
That's the way to go girl. We need to protect ourselves from men but also dangerous women.
i'm not even speaking of merit or genius or "separate the art from the artist" because i think it's a debate so excruciating and useless i would rather chop my arm off. there is just this one specific way that - yes, i do hate to admit it - young, female fans approach male artists. it's like... the artist is always made bigger than his art. like a pseudo-husband or a surrogate father and i hate say this shit but i fail to see any other explanation i dont think you can even use projection/identification as an excuse. most of these women will probably spend the rest of their lives creating and loving different male idols/gods and even if every single one of them was revealed to be a rapist they would be incapable of seeing the one single common thread and just do it all over again. so we're stuck here. forever.
Women are just as responsible for their roles in upholding the patriarchy as men are. They should not be given a pass by talking about how they were just "brainwashed" or conditioned into their beliefs.
Men and women have both been handed a belief system about EVERYTHING, including our roles in society and the ways we ought to treat each other, and once you're an adult you're 100% responsible for unpacking and unlearning all harmful programming and making good decisions. If you're not responsible, you're not a grown-up. To hold men accountable for this and to give women a pass is to say that men are sovereign, intelligent beings with free will, capable of reason and making a choice between good and evil, and women are not. It reduces women to status of robots with no free will, who are slaves to their programming, or to the status of mental children. It puts women on a level BENEATH men. We hold adults responsible for their actions. It's children who we point to and say, "They don't know any better, they're just doing what they've been told. Give them a break."
You know all these harmful patriarchal attitudes we waffle on about all day, like the idea that women should wear makeup and shave or that females are inferior to males? When you see a post with a thousand comments by women telling a girl she's ugly and needs to begin "looksmaxxing," you're seeing that self-hatred abusively being instilled into another young woman in real time...by women. It's happening right in front of you. It OFTEN comes from other women; THIS is how it's perpetuated!
Or when you hear about boy moms who abuse their daughters while favoring their sons, setting that girl up with a sense of low-self worth that she'll be looking to balance her whole life (probably with manipulative men or self-harming behaviors), you're seeing the message that "𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦" inflicted on one of your sisters - BY A WOMAN! Quite aggressively too, I might add!
If you saw a person abusing a child or beating a dog with a stick, you wouldn't tell yourself, "Well, they've probably just been taught to do that" or "Well, this OTHER group hurts kids and beats dogs far more often so, I guess I'll let this one slide," would you?
Hold abusers and agents of the patriarchy accountable wherever and whenever you see them. Shut it down. If you're against all this shit, act on it when you see it. No matter what individual you're standing against in any given moment, when you push back against these messages you're standing FOR women and against the patriarchy.