I especially like this:
"Our goal of maintaining shitty men in power requires that millions of men do not call out the shitty behavior of other men—big or small. So, the bottom line graph is how that happens."
https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/patriarchy-masterclass
(source: https://xyonline.net/images/not-all-men-what-its-actually-coinswallow-instagram)
"for this cycle of abundant sexual assault, violence and inequality to end... 1. End the glorification of violence...Normalize nonviolent methods of resolving conflict."
One reason I write/promote #solarpunk is it attacks patriarchy at the roots, incl violence as a problem-solving technique...
...the normalization of violence as a problem-solving technique is especially acute in storytelling but it's just a reflection of what we "value" socially even if it's completely divorced from how most people live their lives.
(my 2023 article on #hopepunk)
https://dreamforgemagazine.com/story/rewriting-the-future/
(at the end of a list of hopepunk elements...) "choosing gentleness over violence. I put non-violence last because if some folks are allergic to hope, you should see how they feel about non-violence..."
"Also: deep misogyny in our society codes almost everything on the list as feminine, and therefore weak, unintelligent…yet somehow also a threat that will “soften” civilization (an interesting threat).
This is the entire point of hopepunk: to threaten the status quo brutality of our world."
More good stuff: https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/seinfeld-and-patriarchy
undefeated: every post showing the need for feminism brings out replies that show the need for feminism
@susankayequinn favorite, favorite, favorite, favorite, ...
Wow. Talk about projection.
@susankayequinn Footnote 9 reads especially as Screwtape style advice.
9: "PS The same rules apply for classism, racism, homophobia— divide them, put them in a power hierarchy, pit them against each other and call it all inevitable."
Alasdair Gray's take, in "Lanark": "Man is the pie that bakes and eats itself; the recipe is separation."