Tara van Dijk

I wonder if these women “ditching alpha males” are the same ones purchasing large octopus tentacle dildos?

So it's evil, the height of patriarchy 🤬for “trans women” to bang on about “exploring one's gender identity” online, but good and empowering for political lesbians to encourage women to choose lesbianism as an act of resistance to “compulsory heterosexuality”? Political lesbianism and transgender activism share an emancipatory premise that established sexual and gender norms must be challenged. However, whether encouraging others to challenge them is deemed empowering or “grooming” apparently depends on who's doing the encouraging.

Me in @bjportraits blog and substack 🙏 whose thankless job it was to curb my sarcasm. "Efforts to “smash The Patriarchy” coexist quite comfortably with elite plans to restructure the economy. Globalization and deindustrialization devastated much of men’s industrial employment in working-class communities across the West, while women entered the burgeoning service economy and professions in growing numbers. Feminism’s emphasis on sexual liberation, representation, and combating “male violence against women and girls” saw men’s reactions to this upheaval as patriarchal resistance to women’s emancipation..."