Really Fucked With Me Learning That When Michel Foucault First Arrived At UC Berkeley His Friends Tried

Really fucked with me learning that when Michel Foucault first arrived at UC Berkeley his friends tried to warn him not to participate in the local gay bathhouse scene due to the risk of AIDS, but that he did it anyway because he thought that AIDS was just a social construct. And when he inevitably got infected with AIDS as a result of unprotected sex he refused treatment insisting it was a pulmonary infection, and he didn't get diagnosed until his symptoms were so bad that he was forcibly hospitalised.

"AIDS is just a social construct" sounds like the sort of thing you would make up as a parody of the sort of stupid shit a post-modernist would believe. But the most famous post-modernist in history believed it, and ended up dying as a result of that belief. And given how respected he was, other men probably also died as a result of believing what he was saying. I get that they didn't know as much about AIDS in 1983 as we do today, but it been around for a few years already, so one of the supposedly smartest men on the planet should have had enough evidence to be able to overturn the hypothesis that viruses are just social constructs.

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2 months ago

if the usamerican civil war was happening now instead of the 1800s you would see posts on here like "im literally disabled and i need a slave to function"

3 weeks ago

The way most feminists believe women have no agency sure resembles the "I'm literally JUST a girl 🎀" thing to me, in spite of how much they claim to hate and reject that sentiment.

Yeah, and it's one of the reasons why I stay on the outskirts of radblr. Too much of radblr and it's choice "feminism" is bad for a womans health.

It's basically just a place for whining about the patriarchy and yet pretending there's nothing at all that can be done about any of it. It's a brainwashing arm of tumblr for women who are tired of liberal feminism. A new trap of fake feminism.

"We know wearing makeup is a way of performing for men and that it has harmful health effects, but don't listen to those mean women who say you can choose to stop! It's too haaaaaaaard cause like we were brainwashed, so that means we don't have to try and stop."

"We hate men but of course we need to keep fucking them! OMG my poor vag needs a man, like, psychologically or something. How can those mean separatist radfems say I should quit men even though I keep talking about how dangerous they are?!"

1 month ago

some problems are so humiliating the only solution is to solve them yourself and then continue to never talk about it


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3 months ago

When I write about how much I love asexuality and celibacy, I always feel like I need to add a qualifier of "and there's nothing wrong with healthy sexual relations," etc. I'm not doing that anymore.

The entire world is obsessed with the carnal and cheers you on to objectify yourself and others in every way imaginable, 24/7, 365. If you want validation to do that, look in almost any direction at any time, because you'll most certainly find it from our very sick society. But you're not going to find it here.


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2 weeks ago

"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."

"It's Not That The Women Don't Have The Capabilities To Far Exceed Standards; It's The Fact That They
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2 weeks ago

Women enjoy the danger of men.

They know that men are always abusive in some way, whether it's weaponized domestic incompetence, financial, or more severe emotional or sexual abuse.

Most continue to date them, because they get a certain sort of sick high on not knowing how abusive and tumultuous the next one will be.

Women are also far more competitive with other women than many people would have you believe. They can be as competitive as men in their own ways, because they compete with other women for men.

They compete to see how much they can take, while maintaining the so-called status symbol of being owned by a man. They become proud of their own degredation.

Men are nothing, really, in the grand scheme of things. Once you realize they're subhumans, they don't have emotional power over you anymore.

Traitor women are the ones who can really hurt us.

The ones who will ignore us for months while in the lovebombing phase of their latest master, as he draws them onto the hook for the new obsession.

The ones who only contact us when the abuse gets to be too much and all they do is vent. Never a, "how are you these days"? Their entire world is their moid.

We will try to help them get out of abusive situations, over and over, and they may sometimes claim to want help, but refuse to take the steps which they could take to leave.

There are situations where women are trying to make escape plans, but due to lack of outside / financial support and the threat of losing her kids, she can't figure out how to.

The above situation is also common.

So it's important to try to educate young women to get educated and have their own careers, but we can't beg them. We can't waste too much time on people who can't hear us.

Women will do what they want at the end of the day and it usually involves letting some man control them.

And ultimately, we have to look out for ourselves so that those women, along with men, don't control us.

2 months ago

female liberation will go nowhere because many of you are lazy. you don't do anything to help yourselves or other women and think complaining on the internet is real activism. you'll say you love mean women and that women should be gross and loud but get upset at girls who do act like that. you hate women who treat men the way men treat women. you think misandry and the female gaze are actually real. you think being rude and perverted towards men is wrong. you think males can be victims. you still date men. you defend boymoms. you probably are a boymom. you only call out misogynists if they're ugly. you can't leave your house without wearing makeup and uncomfortable clothing, shaving, and inspecting all of your flaws. you put no effort into changing yourself. you can change if you wanted to. you can stop caring about males. you can stay single and stop engaging in hookup culture. you can leave men behind but you choose not to. you don't want to admit it but you'd rather stay oppressed than put any work into getting yourself out of this shithole because it's easy. you're stupid if you complain while doing nothing about your situation. you're stupid if you complain about males while still choosing to keep them in your life, including your male relatives. men are the people oppressing you so stop thinking that they're going to save you. you can only help yourself


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3 months ago

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


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3 months ago

“yall never criticize men like this” says radfem… here’s the thing. women DO criticize men for their behavior, men don’t listen, why waste time on men? when a woman is catering to men (i.e the female singers that are very much catering to men and the patriarchy chappell roan and sabrina carpenter and sooo many more), as a woman, im not gonna sit back and allow them to make us all look like doormats. SORRY. im not gonna sit back and watch them reinforce stupid stereotypes onto little girls and women. it’s not in my nature, it’s not who i am. that weak bullshit is why we’re always gonna be where we’re at. we need to address problems , just because it’s a woman doesn’t mean that it’s feminist to just shut up and call her a victim. some of u need to go back to ur little libfem spaces and stfu.


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