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Me when women are the only oppressed demographic that is not allowed to hate their oppressor
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1105 upvotes, 22 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Girl Talk.
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Anonymous 1w

definitely not the only demographic, but still there’s a difference between just hating your oppressor and making it your entire personality trait.

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Anonymous 1w

the only? Are we sure about that

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Anonymous 1w

Op isn’t saying you can’t hate men, they are saying if that’s the entirety of your state of being you are still just revolving around men. The decisions you are making in your life aren’t for yourself but still about the responses it will get from men

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Anonymous 1w

LITERALLY

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Anonymous 1w

this is most if not all oppressed groups

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Anonymous 1w

she’s not saying you’re not allowed. what she is saying is focusing your entire identity around hating men is still letting patriarchal expectations and power dynamics control your life and the way you view yourself and the people around you. and in my experience it’s a thought pattern that lends itself easily to gender essentialism which makes dismantling patriarchy harder and also leads to transphobia and anti queerness even in queer or trans spaces.

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Anonymous 1w

literally but I just scrolled lmao

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

exactly

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Anonymous replying to -> mother_russia 1w

Hate men, feel angry, but don’t make it your whole life.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

& who is doing that?

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 1w

it’s the same reason why punitive carceral justice systems aren’t effective even tho they may feel good conceptually or seem morally righteous. they just perpetuate the same systemic violent and division that created the conditions for the original wrongdoing. the problem with patriarchy isn’t solely its subjugation of women but the mechanism through which it enforces that subjugation. which is through rigid gender roles, sex and gender essentialism, (1/2)

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 1w

and dividing people into two roles which are defined solely by the way they’re exploited by those with more money and power than them (in the most basic terms possible: reproductive and domestic labor for women, and commercial and physical/violent labor for men)

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Anonymous replying to -> mother_russia 1w

I have never met a woman whose entire personality revolved around 1 thing, and I doubt anyone here has. This appears to be another excuse to shame women who protest men’s bad behavior, another thinly veiled pseudo-intellectual talking point that is really just thinly-veiled misogyny

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

the women that are???

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

No I have absolutely met women whose entire personality revolves around one thing. My sister is one of those women but it’s in a pick me way so everything she does is to get the approval of men around her.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Maybe you haven’t heard about how women were very specifically talking about decentering men from our lives, part of that was by making women only spaces, but also is to do things you personally enjoy regardless of what men around you might say or think or do. If you are covering up to annoy a man or dying your hair to piss off a man, it’s not self expression it’s just another way to base your life off of men and their feelings.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

It’s really hard to break the habit of constantly thinking about what men around you think, and it’s much easier to to just do things to spite them rather than having to completely deconstruct that section of yourself to start focusing on what you personally enjoy regardless of others.

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