hotcommunist:

miraculousdays:

14exquisitenymphs:

queefgender:

youareagoodperson:

radfem: a matriarchal society is the only way to go, since women are sweet and pure and would never abuse their power like men do

me, an intellectual: women are just as capable of being shitty and being cruel and abusive as men are

If you were “an intellectual”, you’d be citing research and statistics to prove your points.

Like the fact that men commit almost 90% of all US homicides.

Like the fact that most US child murders are committed by men.

Or that nearly 99% of all rapes are committed by men.

Or that nearly 80% of aggravated assaults are committed by men.

Between 1982 and February 2018, there were 97 mass shootings in the US. Only three even involved a woman, one of whom was a shooter along with her husband. The remaining 94 shootings were all committed by men.

Are both women and men “capable of being shitty and cruel”? Yes. Are there women who abuse their power? Of course. Are there violent, abusive women? Obviously.

Does this happen NEARLY as often as it does with men? According to the research, not even close.

The problem with this kind of counter argument is that it assumes that the different levels of violence committed by men and women under a patriarchal system correspond to different levels of innate desire to commit violent acts. Patriarchy is a system that encourages men to be hyperaggressive and women to be nurturing. 

Conflating sociology and psychology leads to an inaccurate, essentialist view of gender. You cannot look at the aggression of men under patriarchy and conclude that men are just inherently ~like that~ any more than you can look at the submission of women under patriarchy and conclude that women are just born that way.

Yes, women are less likely to be violent and abuse their power under a system that gives them less power. But this is conditional probability. Under a system in which women had the unchecked power that men do, there would be far more shitty and cruel women. This is what we mean when we talk about SYSTEMIC problems: no individual’s change of behavior can fix the overall system, given that the problems are symptomatic of the general power structure.

Also, arguing that women are inherently sweet and pure is part of some weird trend whereby radfems appropriate patriarchal ideas (i.e. women are inherently less aggressive) and call them feminist. A tenet of actual feminism is that patriarchy hurts men, too, by leading them into toxic masculinity.

Finally some good sociology on this site

lmao op’s username is always hilarious to me because they defend pedophilia in ~shipping and talk shit about ppl that are “anti fujoshi” and now they have the nerve to post takes about as hot as my granda’s porridge….whew.