I never really understood why my mutuals on Tumblr kept insisting that "The Prince" should be required reading for all Radfem/Radfem aligned women, but listening to the audiobook rn, I think I finally do.

Ladies I pose you all the following query: Who wrote this based af passage about the nature of men? Andrea Dworkin or Nicccolo Machiavelli?

Men will never do good except by necessity. Whenever they have the freedom to choose and the chance to act with abandon they introduce confusion and chaos everywhere. That is why it is said that poverty and hunger make men industrious and that laws make men good. Whenever things go well of themselves, there is no need for law. But as soon as good habit fails, the law must be quickly invoked.

As you read this passage, you might have heard a noise in the back of your mind. That was a choir of MRA/incels screaming "MisandREEEEEE!"

The manosphere always has something to say about Valerie Solanas' SCUM manifesto, but Nicky himself was out here claiming "ya'll suck and will keep sucking until you suffer serious legal consequences for it" all the way back in the sixteenth century! The fact that moids don't hate him for calling them out, but go apeshit whenever a woman does the same leads me to believe that they don't ACTUALLY take offense to having male depravity addressed/recognized- they just don't want WOMEN to do so.