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thebeeskidneys:

It honestly drives me up the wall how much radfems will claim they believe socialization is responsible for gender differences (as opposed to “brain sex”) but only carry that belief so far as to account for why women are pressured into the roles that they are, and only to account for the more negative aspects of that. You can chant “gender isn’t real” all you want (and you’re right, it isn’t!!), but if you then go on to say that women are inherently more empathetic or that men are inherently more violent…that means you do believe gender is innate. Those beliefs are incompatible, and only one half of them is empirically supported (hint: it’s the half where gender differences are socialized). Gendered socialization begins before we are even born, and both girls and boys behave differently (and more similar to each other) when removed from that socialization or motivated differently. Very little about our personalities is “natural” in an innate sense- this shouldn’t invalidate us and we don’t need to be afraid of it. This misuse of social psychology really irks me both as a radfem and as someone studying this- not only are you disrespecting the science we use to support our whole theory by cherry-picking, but it makes our theory appear unsupported when in reality it is if you stop trying to convince yourself men are evil and women are innocent by nature. It is all intentional; this system of gender is set up to benefit men. Saying they are inherently violent or incapable of empathy is letting them off too easy- they are capable of choosing, and they are capable of changing. And yes, this is true even in the short-term (see this post describing studies about gender and empathy). I’m not trying to scold anyone in particular, but I think this whole community could benefit from some more credible reading and critical thought (myself included). I’d recommend Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine as a great starting point

gothhabiba:

we lost “femme” in a lot of mainstream discourse bc generic conformance to femininity is a lot more palatable than a role system that was set up to facilitate women fucking other women

whore-of-god:

evilspice:

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notoriouswoman:

Remember that statistically women do better in female only enviroments and men do worse in male only enviroments. We don’t need them they need us.

moonapartment:

popularbussy:

This post predicted the future