Thinking about when I asked my mom why humans keep having children when we spend the majority of our lives working—is life just supposed to be work? Is that the point? Are we learning something? Why did you have children? Why is human life so precious when it’s mostly suffering? Why do we keep doing this? And she just stared at me blankly for a long time then said I don’t know I don’t think about things like that I would never ask those questions. Oh ok
genuinely one of the most annoying things is when you criticize religion and someone has to come in like umm 🥺🥺 but the text has been altered over time through faulty translation 🥺🥺 if you look at this one rare version of the text from several hundred years ago as practiced in one town maybe from a certain angle while hanging upside down you can see that my god didn’t MEAN for all of this misogyny and rape and slavery and conquering and cruelty to happen in his name 🥺🥺 or maybe even her name or their name 🥺🥺 if we all returned to the TRUE version of the faith you’d see that it was good all along 🥺🥺 like girl ! i do not believe in your god. he cannot be misinterpreted because he is not real and has not spoken. the church is an institution which is made up of people! it preaches certain values and arranges certain orders and has an obscene level of influence in our supposedly secular government, and all of these things are carried out by people with agendas who have the arrogance to believe they are imbued with divine authority. a religion is precisely what it is in practice and nothing more or less!
Blaming women for any part of their oppression is misogynistic. Yes women are the guard dogs of the patriarchy, but because their life is on the line if they don't
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The excuse “they didn’t teach us this at school” tells me the person has been spoon fed information at school their entire life and have become so accustomed to it, they now feel entitled to it. Everything they should know must served to them otherwise how could they know? Which is absurd since they’re the same people who know so many useless information about celebrities and who broke up and who married who. Their main problem is entitlement. Also, education main purpose is to teach people how to reason and obtain and analyze information. If you can’t do that then education was wasted on you.
sorry for shooting your dog with a crossbow you have to understand Im american our education system is in the gutter most of us were never taught that killing peoples beloved pets with medieval projectile weaponry is wrong and we're all too burnt out to research it on our own time
“yall never criticize men like this” says radfem… here’s the thing. women DO criticize men for their behavior, men don’t listen, why waste time on men? when a woman is catering to men (i.e the female singers that are very much catering to men and the patriarchy chappell roan and sabrina carpenter and sooo many more), as a woman, im not gonna sit back and allow them to make us all look like doormats. SORRY. im not gonna sit back and watch them reinforce stupid stereotypes onto little girls and women. it’s not in my nature, it’s not who i am. that weak bullshit is why we’re always gonna be where we’re at. we need to address problems , just because it’s a woman doesn’t mean that it’s feminist to just shut up and call her a victim. some of u need to go back to ur little libfem spaces and stfu.
x is true because x is true!
christians: the bible says it's real because the bible says it's true!
tras: transgender individuals are: (the gender they identify with) because they say they are the gender they identify with!
we don't understand how x works
christians: god works in mysterious ways
tras: only people can define the gender they are. (only women know what women are)
ostracization from the community
christians: so and so is an atheist/gay. is walking down a worldly path. we can't associate with them anymore .
tras: TERF! THIS PERSON IS A TERF! BLOCK THEM!
demanding access into places
christian's: we demand that creationism be taught in public school. that the 10 commandments be showcased in every school!
tras: trans women deserve to be in women's sports! trans women deserve to be in locker rooms! trans women deserve to be in female only spaces!!
strict gender roles
christian's: a woman must be submissive, feminine, present herself in a way that is pleasing to god, and must present herself as non aggressive, gentle, be focused on her husband and children
tras: if a person identifies as a woman they MUST be submissive! they must be emotional! they're very soft spoken and passive, and love being soft, and have a gender non conforming/feminine fashion so they MUST be a woman!
persecution complex:
atheist: i believe you have the right to practice your religion but i have a problem with...
christians: WE'RE THE MOST PERSECUTED MINORITY! WE'RE BEING SILENCED INTO NOT SHARING OUR FAITH! THIS PERSECUTION MEANS GOD IS COMING! THE END IS NEAR THE RAPTURE IS HAPPENING!
radfem: if you'd like to dress in a gender non conforming way, then fine. but i have a problem with...
tras: WE'RE IN STAGE 7 OF GENOCIDE! WE'RE BEING DIVIDED AS A COMMUNITY! OUR OWN KIN IS TURNING AGAINST US! THIS IS WHY SUICIDE RATES ARE SO HIGH!!!
if you are x then you are x
christian's: you need the faith the size of a mustard seed to be a Christian.
tras: if you even think you're trans than you're trans
flipping the script once you're in the group
christian's: well actually women need to be pure for their husbands, follow traditional gender roles, reject who they are to be worthy in gods eyes and instill this belief that you are an inherently unloveable person!
tras: you're trans? oh wait, now you can go through years of hormone therapy treatment! you can start voice training to be perceived as the gender you've chosen! then if you feel comfortable you can have surgeries to look your identity!
you have to rid yourself of the idea that everyone whose nuance threatens yours belongs to The Other Side. a good way to start doing that is to accept yourself as a culturally informed subject whose internality, too, is constructed of ideas that are worth critiquing, and will be forever