I think public harassment of ugly women by men needs to be talked about seriously as a form of gender-based harassment just like more stereotypical sexualized cat-calling, as someone who has somehow experienced both lol, they both damaged my self-esteem just in different ways. I feel like people incl some feminists'don't want to acknowledge how much outright harassment unattractive women can face, like "unattractive women are invisible / ignored" isn't always unrue but it's not the whole story,
real! i feel like feminists are sometimes unwilling to acknowledge the shit faced by women who are not conventionally attractive bc they don’t wanna say anyone is ugly, but it is true that “ugly” women, especially fat women, face a unique type of bullshit and harassment that attractive women don’t. i recently saw an insta reel by a fat but otherwise not ugly woman about how terribly men treat women they don’t find attractive and the comments were full of men saying the most vile shit.
Why is this app now overrun with the most HIGHLY “regarded” people on the planet now. I don’t remember it being like this years ago when I was on here for hours as a teen. It’s nearly indistinguishable from pre-Elon twitter.
Spread the word.
i wish men were as disgusted with rape as they are with periods
Can we please just start k****** them
I liked this article, although I don't agree with "patriarchy good" and the casual misogyny. But I agree with the author and "his" solution -already shared it on this blog.
If you go by how we use the word colloquially which is all that matters, basically 99% of men are pedophiles. It is true that if you're going by the dictionary definition “a psychiatric disorder in which an adult has sexual fantasies about or engages in sexual acts with a prepubescent child” only about 1 to 4 percent of men experience pedophilic attraction. However, 9 times out of 10 when someone's calling a person a pedophile online that's not what they mean.
So what about their revealed preferences? Instead of asking men, what if you showed them a series of images of naked underaged girls and naked adult women and then measured their reactions (don't ask me how this study was legal)? Well, then the percentage of men who are attracted to sub-18-year-old girls is by no means a minority.
In the first study, there was very little difference between the amount of arousal men experience from seeing nude 12 to 16-year-old girls and nude 17 to 37-year-old women. In the second study, men expressed a preference for adolescent girls ages 11 to 15. So from these two studies, the results indicate that men are either more attracted to adolescent girls than adult women or almost as attracted to adolescent girls as they are to adult women. Either way, it's not looking good bros.
They legitimately have convinced themselves they could never find a teenage girl attractive because such attraction is legally, morally, and socially prohibited. None of this changes the fact that if you show them images of 15-year-old girls in bikinis their penis becomes erect.
Oh, one last thing before I move on. If you are a woman reading this, I want to give you a very helpful piece of advice. If you have a guy friend who regularly says things like "I'm 27, I could never find a girl who's 19 attractive that's freaking weird and gross" that's the type of guy who is knowingly lying and he is a dangerous sociopath. Run.
(this part lmao)
In reality, if you remove all extrinsic social factors and place men back in the state of nature for a couple of generations they become way more violent and rapey.
In pre-civilization times something like 1/4 of all males died due to having their skull caved in with a rock by another dude. About 1/10 of the Skulls from prehistoric women have also been found with rock-shaped holes in their heads. Given that most female homicide victims throughout recorded history have been killed by men I think it's reasonable to assume that was probably the case back then too. I can't find good stats on prehistoric rape because unlike getting hit with a rock it often doesn't result in skeletal trauma that anthropologists can later identify. That said, the idea of sexual consent being important is a relatively modern phenomenon. Let's be real if a fella is willing to bash your head in with a rock I don't think rape is far-fetched.
Our patriarchal society makes men behave far better than they otherwise would. That said, the previous studies showing the ages of girls men find attractive demonstrates the limits of socialization. We can change men's actions and stated preferences but their underlying drives, urges, and desires will always remain the same. To summarize, the essentialist radfem who believes that all men are born violent rapist pedophiles is a lot closer to being correct than her moderate counterpart, since she doesn't try to shift the blame from men onto some nebulous social structure.
The author responded to a thoughtful comment saying:
"Thank you for reading my piece. I'm glad you had a chance to read it as you were one of the authors who inspired me to write it. I'm going to compartmentalize your response that way it'll be easier for me to respond to each point.
> and possible start advocating for major male-specific eugenics
This is unironically my ultimate solution to the issue. In the past eugenics was actually performed somewhat unintentionally in Western Europe with around 1% of the most violent elements of the male population( rapists murderers etc) being executed each generation before they could create offspring for about a thousand years. I think Ryan Faulk ( the alternative hypothesis) did a study on this. It had a massive effect on the Western European gene pool both raising its IQ and domesticating it somewhat. In pre Medieval Times northern European men had rates of homicide exceeding some African societies. I think more feminists should take a serious look at Eugenics as a solution to the issues they have with men since “ teaching men not to rape” is probably not going to eradicate the issue entirely. Plus many of the four foremothers of the feminist and Reproductive Rights movement like Margaret Sanger were ardent eugenicists."
TRAs love rape threats
Sex is why women are opressed
Gender is how
i’m sorry, but i feel like we give men plenty of space to cry whenever they need to. didn’t achilles break down in tears over hector’s body? didn’t jesus weep? did johnny cash teach the weeping willow how to cry?
get the actual fuck out of here with “in our culture we teach boys to suppress their emotions” when western literature and art is full of heroic men who cry, when it actually exalts their tears and elevates them into profound significance. get OUT of here.
Girl when I tell you that this fucking slaps
I know Calla.
This is disgusting and heartbreaking.