#enlighten men

[futureless]

you know what really gets me heated? the fact that men are SO incredibly uneducated on the female body.

i feel like if boys were made to sit down in school & actually learn about periods, hormones, birth, & how/why our bodies change so much during our lifetime. there’s so many times i have seen boys HUMILIATE girls over things that are… normal. i feel like it’s important enough to since we ALL came from a woman & women literally bring life onto our planet. like yeah, some of it is gross & graphic but it’s REAL, it’s life, & could help husbands tremendously by understanding their wife’s struggles & they would know how to help a little better in the future. it could also change a few minds about pro-life.

boys are so so so mean to us about our bodies, but it’s only because they don’t understand & aren’t educated! they really don’t know that it actually is NOT normal to naturally look like a kardashian. or that girls, too, grow hair everywhere, even on our faces. STRETCH MARKS. that discharge can sometimes be so strong it can literally bleach our underwear, hence the spots on them sometimes. or the biggest issue (to me) i’ve seen is that guys don’t understand & make girls feel so bad & self-conscious about is that vaginas do not all look the same.. and they’re not supposed to naturally smell like roses (in fact, it shouldn’t smell like roses..) .. & some girls have bigger labias & all types of things can be different! they assume that if it doesn’t look like the surgically perfected ones on xvideos that she’s been “ran through”.. when it’s NORMAL!! do they not realize we can literally push out an entire child & go back to normal??? like relax, brad & tyler, your little sausages are not gonna do that much permanent damage.

boys might think it’s stupid (of course) but we ALL come from a woman.. and maybe men would have more understand & hopefully respect towards us. not that our country gives a shit about women right now, but it would be so nice in another world/in theory. i’ve always been big on this, just seems to me like throwing out condoms in health class obviously isn’t working well & there are SO many different things within this subject we could shine light on that would be such a weight off our shoulders & help so much! not just women, but all of us..

#war on women #understanding #enlightened one #enlighten men #women’s bodies #my body my choice #men need to know #teach men #normalize #normalize normal shit #anatomy #womanhood #women bring life #hormones #changes #normalize this #text #talk tag #health #health class #stop #stop downing women #women need a break #women deserve a break #cut some slack #we are human #human beings #women deserve better #being a woman

[hyperfocusfeatures]

nothing could have ever prepared me for the day the walt disney company decided to tell me that charles xavier is canonically a puppy sub

#x men 97 spoilers #x men 97 #x men tas #x men the animated series #xmen #charles xavier #professor x #lilandra #lifedeath #marvel animation #marvel studios #disney plus #disney #shitpost #walt disney #puppy sub #puppy pl4y #puppy pl@y #k1nk #submisive and breedable #i guess i could have made another politically enlightening xmen post instead of this but i dunno man the heart wants what the heart wants #maybe i'll do both

[feluka]

been listening to refaat alareer's lectures on poetry on the subway and it's brought me to tears several times. i want to transcribe them and compile a document of all of them as soon as possible.

#there was this part where a female poet was referred to as '[name]'s sister' and he corrected it and said #to be careful not to restrict women to men's shadows even if these men are their family and #when i heard that i thought of that fuckface reporter who kept interrupting the palestinian speaker she was hosting #and she said 'you're probably not used to women speaking' #anyway. i love his words and i feel like i have more a connection to poetry than i've ever ever had through him #he said something very enlightening about resistance through poetry #and i don't want to paraphrase because i want to transcribe and share his exact words but god. god. i've never felt the power of poetry so #so strongly*

[hellhoundmaggie]

Oh no I have been having Bad Wrong Fun on the computer

#If I had a problem with the video game characters people chose to romance I would simply shut up and move on #Maybe block the fans and their tags if I really couldn’t stand to read their posts #Alas I am not as enlightened as this poster #Also some of us ARE men (and women and enbies) like that #Shane stardew valley #stardew valley

[good-to-drive]

Not to start shit but there's no non-misogynistic explanation for hating Pattie or Jane

#i guess you could say the same about cyn or mo but no one seems to hate them #it's just the women who stand up for themselves who we want to villify #because omgosh you not wanting to be treated like absolute shit really hurt Paul's feelings :(((( #bc as a woman it's your calling to absorb cruelty from ✨special✨ men so they have more time and mental energy to be special little boys #sorry i had an irl conversation about jane that filled me with rage #saying you wouldn't have left 1960s era paul doesn't mean you're super nice and loving and special and better than jane #you're not a loving beacon of tender femininity #you have low self esteem #just the way ppl try to twist it to make jane a bad person just for wanting some basic decency and respect.... #if she and pattie did a bunch of fucked up shit that i dont know about please enlighten me #bc all the judgement i see comes from unhinged Beatles fans who can't accept their fav has a history of treating women like shit #(and that they probably continued to have those tendencies even in their fairytale romances) #the beatles #jane asher #pattie boyd #paul mccartney #george harrison

[hadesoftheladies]

"not all men" is so funny to me because i've been studying feminist theory and deconstructing my experiences with being a woman for years and i still struggle with internalized misogyny

sorry, but no man has a prayer in escaping misogynistic beliefs. no one gets out of this without intense conscious and deliberate effort. and you, dear sir, still think "feminism has gone too far"

i rest my case

#radblr #feminism #not all men #i'd believe you more if you recognized your misogyny and admitted to it instead of denying it #posing as this enlightened guy who's never had a bad thought about women just makes them sound like a predator #because why else would you be lying?

[earlgrey24]

See, I'm taking my research extremely seriously. I'm even annotating and stuff.

#frederick the great #francesco algarotti #oh to be a fly on the wall at Cirey #men of letters #age of enlightenment #enlightenment #émilie du châtelet #philosophy #prussia #french history #prussian history #thesis research #queer history #18th century #1700s #voltaire

[abimee]

i actually saw someone complain that FF14 is being "oversaturated with too many big beefy characters" and they wanted more feminen men in the game (and used elidibus transformed as an example?) and i would honestly love to know which ff14 game theyre playing. because im fucking drowning over here in a sea of skinny bunnyboys

#byregot and rhalgr drop and everyone screams NO MORE BEEF as if the last meaty bitch we got #wasnt all the way back in ARR with rauhbahn and gosetsu. go to your corner #or i guess runar but only gay men and the enlightened yshtola/runar lesbians gaf about him

[filbert-weevil]

Listen, I understand the instinctive desire to portray Frankenstein with a 19th century aesthetic like you would with pretty much any other gothic lit, but it's a shame that most people seem to ignore the fact that the story is canonically set sometime in the late 1700s, like a century earlier than Dracula or Jekyll and Hyde. We're still in the age of enlightenment here, people - the vibes are entirely different from what you find in the Victorian era.

anyways this whole post is to say that I never want to see a picture of Victor Frankenstein in full-length pants ever again

#justice for knee breeches #tbh enlightenment-era men's fashion is so much more fun than victorian stuff i don't know why this is slept on #also like.. victor is part of the aristocracy. what if he wore wigs #much 2 think about... #frankenstein #victor frankenstein #gothic literature

[baeddling]

Genuinely blows my mind how stupid some people are

#ik its bc they get all their politics from twitter but still #how are u out in the world both calling yourself a feminist and believing men are oppressed by the patriarchy #these are contradictions in terms #if u dont believe in the basic reality that women are subjugated under men in patriarchal society #then u do not believe in feminism #at least be up front abt it instead of pretending ur an enlightened intersectional icon bc u agree w MRAs

[flemmboyant]

hey, listen. i understand that you have depression. but if you are in a room with (or a group chat with) other clinically depressed people, and you respond to them talking about a nice time or about how they enjoy life rn that actually life is an endless tar pit of misery and they're all wrong (and, implied, stupid to not be miserable), you are an asshole.

#often men (but not only men this is in NO WAY an exclusive behavior) do this #where they unironically think ''ha those stupid sheeple actually having fun..../I/ am the ENLIGHTENED one here...'' and then SAY THAT #Like you can think whatever you want. I'm also depressed and I've honest to god thought probably the same thing verbatim before #When it was really really bad #But if you vocalize it in all seriousness (so like not as a joke) then you're a dipshit #Like i have an irl groupchat that has this problem often enough for us to dm each other about the repeat offender

[theidlefurry]

The filmbro movies thing annoys me because these ppl think they're special for liking those movies as if they're not just a compilation of the most acclaimed usamerican films all directed by the same four guys

#i know it's an ironic thing but since it's specifically an ironic thing making fun of men some ppl have started saying they have #filmbro taste in a braggy way. ok you and the rest of the world enjoy those movies congrats you're not enlightened you're average and banal

[graviconscientia]

I like her! She gets it.

#ic #“Men with babygirl hips” is truly enlightened. #The brightest mind of our age.

[roakkaliha]

my real question is that where do stuff like bigender n genderfluid ppl fit in with the lesbians cant be men stuff. like theres plenty of butches are also men to some extent, are they still considered ‘non-men’ or whatever

#.txt #ive genuinely never seen anyone rly address that. its always that 'non-men' stuff #n idk. that doesnt seem very Gender Enlightened