madeofpatterns:

fierceawakening:

bizarrolord:

stopmakingliberalslookbad:

sexgenderbody:

men – 

we are the problem.  all of the problems.  and not just some of us – all of us.   we are bullies, rapists, murderers and we live off the sweat and pain of anyone we can.  you may not have raped or stolen land but you sure as hell dine off the privilege of being a member of the rape and murder class.

and the biggest problem are those of us who say nothing.  we are the grease for the machine.  we are cowards because we don’t want the brutality of other men to be focused on us.  we are taught as children to play along with the rape and murder class rules or be punished.

so we keep our mouths shut when we should protest.  we laugh at sexist jokes. or racist jokes.  or we just slink away and say “I’m not like that”.

well guess what assholes – we are like that.

all of us.

so, if you’re not throwing yourself and every other man you see under the bus – you’re just another chickenshit rapist happy to skate by while others do the raping and live the fat life that buys you.

we don’t know 10% of how shitty it is to have to listen to the crap that comes out of our mouths every day.  street or office harassment, stupid jokes at the dinner table, loss of money or healthcare or whatever simple autonomy we enjoy being denied to women, queers and people with less money or darker skin.

at every injustice of bloodshed and starvation, there is a man causing pain to someone else.  

it’s a man’s world alright – and all this shit is man’s fault.

silence is consent motherfuckers.  this shit doesn’t end so long as you stay quiet (and saying “I’m not like that” or “men get hurt too”…by men, btw – doesn’t count.)  

speak up cowards.  act up.  yeah, and your life will be harder.  you will lose shit.  but that’s shit you stole – it ain’t yours.  so buck up and make the term “act like a man” mean something other than rape or murder or violence.

Men –

As a woman, I am begging you not to engage in such embarrassing self-flaggelation. You aren’t oppressive for existing. It’s your actions that matter. Oppressive men are the problem. Men as a whole are not. By all means, acknowledge and speak out against oppression and misogyny, but don’t throw yourselves under the bus like this. It’s more counterproductive than anything. In fact, it makes me wonder how sincere you truly are when you make posts like this.

Every time I see/hear a guy talk like this, I wonder to what extent he’s trying to use feminist rhetoric to either get laid or to be the gay guy with the most hags. It’s suspicious af to me.

I have absolutely no idea whether or not this is a troll.

That said, in my LJ days there was a guy who had a blog and talked like this.

He was caught filming himself touching an unconscious woman’s breasts.

I do not trust people who talk like this at all.

*This* is what I mean by toxic masculinity.

Male identity that has misogyny and rape and abuse of power built into what it means to be a man.

That is not inevitable. Not all men are like that. You don’t have to be like that to be a man or to be masculine.

But a hell of a lot of ideologies seem to say that you do.

That terrifies me.

madeofpatterns:

fierceawakening:

bizarrolord:

stopmakingliberalslookbad:

sexgenderbody:

men – 

we are the problem.  all of the problems.  and not just some of us – all of us.   we are bullies, rapists, murderers and we live off the sweat and pain of anyone we can.  you may not have raped or stolen land but you sure as hell dine off the privilege of being a member of the rape and murder class.

and the biggest problem are those of us who say nothing.  we are the grease for the machine.  we are cowards because we don’t want the brutality of other men to be focused on us.  we are taught as children to play along with the rape and murder class rules or be punished.

so we keep our mouths shut when we should protest.  we laugh at sexist jokes. or racist jokes.  or we just slink away and say “I’m not like that”.

well guess what assholes – we are like that.

all of us.

so, if you’re not throwing yourself and every other man you see under the bus – you’re just another chickenshit rapist happy to skate by while others do the raping and live the fat life that buys you.

we don’t know 10% of how shitty it is to have to listen to the crap that comes out of our mouths every day.  street or office harassment, stupid jokes at the dinner table, loss of money or healthcare or whatever simple autonomy we enjoy being denied to women, queers and people with less money or darker skin.

at every injustice of bloodshed and starvation, there is a man causing pain to someone else.  

it’s a man’s world alright – and all this shit is man’s fault.

silence is consent motherfuckers.  this shit doesn’t end so long as you stay quiet (and saying “I’m not like that” or “men get hurt too”…by men, btw – doesn’t count.)  

speak up cowards.  act up.  yeah, and your life will be harder.  you will lose shit.  but that’s shit you stole – it ain’t yours.  so buck up and make the term “act like a man” mean something other than rape or murder or violence.

Men –

As a woman, I am begging you not to engage in such embarrassing self-flaggelation. You aren’t oppressive for existing. It’s your actions that matter. Oppressive men are the problem. Men as a whole are not. By all means, acknowledge and speak out against oppression and misogyny, but don’t throw yourselves under the bus like this. It’s more counterproductive than anything. In fact, it makes me wonder how sincere you truly are when you make posts like this.

Every time I see/hear a guy talk like this, I wonder to what extent he’s trying to use feminist rhetoric to either get laid or to be the gay guy with the most hags. It’s suspicious af to me.

I have absolutely no idea whether or not this is a troll.

That said, in my LJ days there was a guy who had a blog and talked like this.

He was caught filming himself touching an unconscious woman’s breasts.

I do not trust people who talk like this at all.

*This* is what I mean by toxic masculinity.

Male identity that has misogyny and rape and abuse of power built into what it means to be a man.

That is not inevitable. Not all men are like that. You don’t have to be like that to be a man or to be masculine.

But a hell of a lot of ideologies seem to say that you do.

That terrifies me.