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#oh you do and then surely you're aware that they mostly don't pay any taxes right
zanmor · 3 years
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can’t believe the lib politician who won election into office in an imperial government isn’t the frothing leftist radical the reactionaries try to paint her as
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omglr · 4 years
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You're now chatting with a random stranger.
You both like feminism.
You: hi
Stranger: m
Stranger: hi
You: F
Stranger: age
You: 34
Stranger: what do you think of men
You: meh
Stranger: what do you think of women
You: yeah!
Stranger: is this what feminism is about?
You: no i'm just a lesbian
Stranger: hahaha you know our conversation up until now can be a great meme
Stranger: with 'lesbian' as the perfect punchline
You: well, we do like fisting
Stranger: why are lesbian lol, why dont u switch to me haha
Stranger: are u*
Stranger: men*
You: idk, thats how it worked out
You: women are attractive to me
Stranger: Is it you being a lesbian a display of resistance against patriarchy?
You: its a perk
You: but i'm not a "political lesbian"
Stranger: what kind are u
You: a lesbian,
You: also, fairly political,
You: but in the 70s there were a variety of 2nd wave feminists who swore off men even though they were straight and became "political lesbians" even though they weren't atttracted to women
Stranger: you mean turning lesbian as a resistance to patriarchy was really a thing?
You: yeah
Stranger: damn. Did it work?
You: eh... idk
You: its similar to MGTOW
You: but with gay lady sex
You: and forrest communes
You: it was a whole movement
Stranger: tell me this. when you talk to men. what emotion do you internally go through? Do you feel prejudice against him? Or Is it something like 'I gotta be on guard I dont know whether this person is rapist', or '
You: eh, yeah, i sometimes worry about violence or rape from dudes, but i can get along with a lot of guys fine,
Stranger: the ones you get along with, do you interactions with them any different than with other women? or do you have certain coldness towards because you know this is the gender that oppressed you all history?
Stranger: are interactions*
Stranger: towards them*
You: eh, not really, i can be friendly and affectionate with guys i like, i generally want to like people
You: but like, i don't hang out with rich dudes or loud jock dudes
You: and yeah, i'm way more upset at the rich for their oppression than men at this point
Stranger: how is the rich oppressing u more than men
You: capitalism man
You: i live in an oligarchy
You: rich people can do what ever they want and shape society to benefit them
You: we are probably all gonna suffer greatly due to climate change cause the people who are making money off of how the system works now, don't want to give up their power or change anything
You: so its butts
Stranger: you can't change this tho. better be mad about things that can be changed
You: nah, i'm gonna be mad about shit that is effecting me and my loved ones, its healthy to be aware of what the cause is
You: and direct my anger to the cause, other wise i'm gonna misdirect it towards my friends
You: plus, its not hopeless, we can stand up to rich
You: folks
You: we have numbers, and most their money is digital / artificial
You: anyway, that's basically what feminism is for me
You: its a useful tool for class analysis
You: and a guidance for justice
Stranger: feminism isnt related to class
Stranger: as far as i know
You: c'mon bud
You: have you heard of intersectionality?
Stranger: I stopped paying attention to terms now
You: well it came in big during 3rd wave feminism in the 90s
You: when feminism was trying to refocus to cover more understandings of oppression than like white lady feels
You: thinking about the intersections of sexism, racism and classism,
You: as well as ableism, homophobia, transphobia, and so on
Stranger: did that start in the 90s?
You: i'm sure convos were happening earlier too
You: roughly late 80s early 90s is where i would put 3rd wave
Stranger: I don't know, but I think current one now has refocused purely on lady issues again. atleast that's the kind that stays in the spotlight
You: well, i think that's mostly the click bait phenomenon
Stranger: look at twitter
You: like shit that is sorta outrageous sounding gets a lot more attention
You: like, "manspreading"
You: like, men taking up space in general is an issue, but the politics of crossing your legs on a bus gets clicks on both sides of the issue and is talked about way more than the complex economic trickery that rich people can do to avoid paying taxes
You: and one is kinda more important than the other
Stranger: how're the women around you? are they like the manspreading feminists or they're more like you?
You: eh, idk, a bit of both
You: like i get bored and can use shit i've learned about feminism to analyze situations and can come up with hot takes that are at least 50% stupid cause society is atleast 50% stupid and ridiculous,
You: so idk, if my shitposting tweets ever went viral or got shared on mra forums maybe i would be the postergirl for how ridiculous and pointless feminism is too
You: sorry, i am just ranting now
Stranger: it's alright. so you're part of the man hating culture of twitter too huh? :p
You: sure
Stranger: do you feel when u do that?
Stranger: feel good*
You: nah, i mean i try not to get into shit on twitter
You: i kinda use twitter to get out my energy that might be put towards flame wars
You: its not a good feeling to get involved in
Stranger: ok, do you atleast get the psychology of them that do these? Why do they do it? Is it the loneliness or something?
You: oh, yeah idon't know.
You: probably boredom, or for building social capital
You: for the lolz of ammusing their friends/followers
You: but some folks are crazy dedicated to twitter fights and ideological warfare
You: like terfs or gamergaters or fandoms
Stranger: I mean how do they have meaningful relationships in real life after all the flame wars. Aren't their relationships affected?
You: i am not sure
You: i mean, i stopped getting into fights on facebook over concerns for a larger community
You: but my personal relationships aren't really effected
You: cause i'm super smart and my loved ones agree with me
You: lol, that's a joke
Stranger: where are you from
You: canada
You: you?
Stranger: I see. Canada is a very pro-women
Stranger: uk
You: it tries
You: what time is it there?
Stranger: I see countless answers on quora of men complaining that men are becoming second citizens to women now. is it true?
Stranger: 6 am
You: its 1:17am where i am
You: i think that's some kinda weird bias
You: like, where if women talk 30% of the time, men come away with the impression that women were talking much more than 50% of the time
You: idk if that's true, but that was a study that was popular on social media a few years back
Stranger: it's not about talking, i see them mostly talking about rights, and in general specialised treatment of women.
You: anyhoo, i'm getting real sleepy
You: yeah, idk,
You: i am gonna head out, nice chatting with you
Stranger: sure, it was nice talking to you!
You: :) take care
You have disconnected.
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