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Gender Critical Feminism
Feminism is the movement to liberate women from patriarchy. We stand up for the rights of women to control our own bodies as individuals and to control women-only spaces as a class.
Women are adult human females. We do not believe that men can become women by 'feeling' like women or 'identifying' as women. We condemn the erasure of females and female-only spaces, the silencing of critical thinking, the cancelling of feminists and critics, the denial of biological reality and of sex-based oppression. We oppose the 'cotton ceiling' and the pressure on lesbians to have sex with men. Women are oppressed to exploit their biological sex characteristics, and women have a right to a movement that is about their own liberation from that oppression. We resist the redefinition of both "women" and "feminism" to make them serve men.
"Women do not decide at some point in adulthood that they would like other people to understand them to be women, because being a woman is not an ‘identity.’ Women’s experience does not resemble that of men who adopt the ‘gender identity’ of being female or being women in any respect. The idea of ‘gender identity’ disappears biology and all the experiences that those with female biology have of being reared in a caste system based on sex." –Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts
"Men often react to women’s words—speaking and writing—as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women’s words with violence. So we lower our voices. Women whisper. Women apologize. Women shut up. Women trivialize what we know. Women shrink. Women pull back. Most women have experienced enough dominance from men—control, violence, insult, contempt—that no threat seems empty." –Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse
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"I hate the fact that most men will just wander through life, fucking up the lives of almost every woman that crosses their path and not looking back until the reach a certain age where they decide, “you know what? I can apply for social security in less than 5 years so maybe it’s time to get my life together.” Women have never been allowed that luxury. It’s not fair that there are so many of us walking around with psychological trauma from horrible relationships with shitty men, and we still have to attempt to answer the question “who hurt you?” with a straight face.
"We, as a society, need to change the narrative around men, personal development and relationships. We should teach our young boys that it is not okay to use and abuse women in effort to fix their own inner turmoil."
That's great stuff!
I love this.
I’m fucking tired of men acting like they’re great and have achieved a lot in life because they have women taking care of them.
No. Those women have achieved a lot. You haven’t achieved shit. If you needed a woman to get you to realize that there is more to life than video games, cocaine and binge drinking, then you’re not responsible for your “achievements”. She is.
I have a friend who recently broke up with an asshole who kept talking about how he just “didn’t feel like drinking anymore.” The one constant in why he didn’t want to drink anymore was that he met her, (when they met he was a pretty bad alcoholic), and she really did put his life on track, and got him to stop the bad habit of alcoholism. Of course, he couldn’t grow the fuck up in other senses, so that’s why they still ended up splitting up, but I remember being so pissed listening to him talk about how he’d stopped drinking and started feeling proud of himself, like it was some mysterious force from deep within himself that finally came forth, like, DUDE, we all know why you stopped drinking. It’s because of her. She got you to stop drinking. Stop acting like it’s all you. She got you to get the help you needed when you didn’t know how. Literally. You didn’t even know how to make appointments.