I still don’t know what happened in that movie.

Until Raven Simone I had never felt compelled to call someone stupid online. But she is just so very stupid.

Thank. you.

My point of view is not misogynistic. It is the opposite. It recognizes that love is not a neutral phenomenon. It is a political phenomenon. Like every emotion that women have it has been colonized by patriarchy to compel certain kinds of labor. You can’t argue otherwise. Everything women do, whether inherently…

“You can love someone and condemn things that they’ve done.” This is just a hollow platitude. Love isn’t a mystical force. It’s a social phenomenon. Love isn’t and shouldn’t be unbreakable.

I just have to keep telling myself when confronted with these cases that women who stand by “their men” are often victims of patriarchy themselves.

I doubt he thinks all the victims wanted it and are lying. I bet you anything his though process goes like this: Each individual time he assaulted one of those women he was doing something wrong. But not that wrong. Not bad-guy level wrong. Because how much suffering could one little encounter with his penis cause a…

“Gaslighting” is exactly the correct way to describe campaigns of this type. Two of my favorite examples from the Dove Real Beauty campaign: The commercial in which sketch artists drew women to prove to them that their self-image was false and the commercial in which women were literally told to stop talking about…

“He would just be there, as an EMT or a person working at a store.”

I honestly can’t tell if you are trying to wind me up now. I am not talking about my experience. I am making an argument based on something other than experience.

I just wrote about this in another post. If you want to say that feminism benefits everyone then fine. But feminism benefits men less than patriarchy does. At least in the immediate future, which is what I believe truly determines our social identities.

I appreciate that you took the time to articulate this question. I am familiar with the claim you are referring to. But it’s not a valid claim.

That’s not my experience. That’s a recognition of the significance of a man saying “I am a feminist.” It holds true no matter your personal experience. It takes balls for a man to call himself a feminist. And not in a good way.

Then what do they do? Because you’re implying that it’s normal for men who respect women to make themselves a participant in the conversation that women are carrying out about feminism and it’s just not. No man knows enough and if he thinks he does then that is a problem.

You’re pretty much just saying what I’m saying. If a man is talking to a woman about feminism, or saying to a woman “I am a feminist” he by default IS advertising himself to make himself seem a certain way. The specific example we were talking about was a dating profile. That’s literally an advertisement for oneself.…

Oh my God. Consider this a virtual bucket of ice water in your face: Do NOT go out with a guy who writes that he is a feminist in his dating profile. That is a huge fucking red flag that he is a chauvinistic asshole.

No it’s not. “I support feminism” is a good alternative statement for men who shouldn’t call themselves feminists. Which, in my opinion, is all men. It makes no sense for men to call themselves feminists. It implies a collective struggle where one really isn’t possible.

I was seriously JUST reflecting on this the other night.

Totally unacceptable. Especially since one of the visual references for this film was supposed to be The Ten Commandments (1956). Look at the extras in that film. The miracle of CGI appears to involve actively and consciously erasing brown bodies.

Ok. So then I was right originally and she is still an incomprehensible character.