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facelesspassport · 1 year

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Today I heard someone say that there is an "insecurity epidemic among young men" and I am just so fucking happy someone has FINALLY given me the words to describe what is happening to the world. I keep hearing whinging about "men's mental health crisis" and "male loneliness" and "male suicide rates" blahblah in spite of the fact that none of that stuff is actually an issue. Women's depression and rates of suicide attempts have remained consistently higher than men's over the years, and if we look at sex stats you'll see that the rise of loneliness is actually affecting women at very similar rates to men (12% and 14% celibacy rates in the US, respectively). Not to mention the suicide attempts of young women and girls have sky-rocketed in the last couple of years. Suicidal ideation in girls in my country is currently double that of boys. In spite of all this we still see males lashing out en masse, claiming that "men are under attack", "women are privileged", and feminism is "ruining men's lives". Even though none of their claims have any basis in reality there is still an obvious problem here- something is very disturbed in the modern male psyche; but I have not seen anyone accurately label the issue until today. There is an insecurity epidemic among men. Women are finally attending classes, entering the workplace, and gaining voting rights in most countries around the world. These changes are a recent development and they are making modern men question their place in society- as they should. Sadly, instead of taking this time to self reflect, men are desperately trying to stop women's suffrage and cry "abuse" whenever we hold firm. What we are seeing is a big, glorified tantrum, not a "mental health crisis". I am not sure how we would go about fixing this problem but I'm glad that I am finally able to name it!! I thank D'Angelo Wallace for the help.

#sources in hyperlinks #shout out to saudi women finally gaining the right to vote in 2016 #sorry for how US-centric this post is #it isnt easy to find “involuntary celibacy” statistics for the entire globe #feminist #feminism #womanist #womanism #womanist discourse #misandry #mra #mens rights activists #mens rights #mens rights to shut the fuck up #feminist discourse #girl blogger #girl blogging #femcel #femcel actually

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theamoristwriter · 23 days

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Womanhood !

Boygenius // Fleabag

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solitaryearthperson · 1 year

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I just want to first say congratulations to KeKe Palmer for her pregnancy and hope that it is nice and peaceful, and pray that her birth will be as well. Next, I just want to talk about how I am so sick of black people putting down other black people, especially black (single) mothers. A woman online did not hesitate to make some stupid ass think piece about KeKe's pregnancy and it made me so mad that there were so many people agreeing with her bullshit. So I just decided to rant about this stupidity and the things she said.

1. She is not a single mother.

From what I've heard, Keke is in a relationship with the father of the child, so stop claiming that she's a single mother.

2. Marriage is not always an end goal.

I did not know that there were so many people who actually think that marriage is somehow more important than dating and that people who date are still single. Yall do realize that there are probably thousands of people in the world who have been together for years and have never got married and never will, right? Marriage does not and never has determined whether or not a relationship is serious or guaranteed that everybody in it is happy. We as a society have got to rid of this mindset that marriage is the end goal for every relationship.

3. No one says anything about the Kardashians.

It truly confuses me how there are so many people trying to shame KeKe for being happy about her baby and not caring about being married or not, while at the same time not saying shit about the Kardashian sisters and their children. So many of y'all are quick to call KeKe a single mother, yet I never heard any one call any of the Kardashians this or shame them for not being married.

4. The black community ain't the only community with single mothers.

Yall love to claim that the black community is the only community with single mothers, when that's actually not true. Every race has single mothers! And just like in every race, there's absent fathers too! The only difference between black people and the other races is that single mothers who are specifically black gets talked about and degraded the most.

5. The hate for black (single) mothers is stupid.

So many black people love to claim that the black community is the way it is because of single mothers or because of black mothers period, when it actually isn't. Y'all love to shit on single mothers but never say a damn thing about absent fathers. Yall love to blame the outcome of the child solely on the mother, but always forget the father who, a majority of the time, don't be doing shit for the child.

#black people #black community #keke palmer #black women #black woman #black feminism #feminism #womanisn #womanist #misogynoir

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lionheartapothecaryx · 2 years

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The Allure of Lori Harvey

A Social Analysis of the Modern Black Feminine

For the summer of 2022, Ms. Harvey’s social life is trending, due to her sudden and abrupt ‘amicable’. break up with Michael B. Jordan, who’s also known as baby Denzel and one of the most eligible black men in the world.

We can speculate that the relationship was fake, real, MBJ was played or trying to rehab his image or Lori just didn't want to settle down and we’ll likely never know the real reason they broke up, but we can unpack the mysteries of Lori’s femininity an allure and figure out why she is so polarizing, equally admired & despised. But first? We need a little background for a clear picture!

Lori Harvey is the quintessential Black American princess + socialite of the mainstream urban & hood collective. The adoptive stepdaughter of Steve Harvey and progeny of Majorie ‘Lady Heroin’ Harvey, she was born into one generation of black wealth and the genetic lottery. Her biological father was a famed drug kingpin from Memphis who managed to snag her mother. Majorie was also a legend in her own right on the streets, known for her beauty, ruthless demeanor, a peculiar sense of lascivious and lavish tastes, while she courted and eventually married famed drug kings, gangsters and pimps, in the black underworld. Majorie was described as beautiful, intense, ruthless and hypergamous. There was no doubt in Majorie’s mind that she would make it to the top and she didn’t care how she got there. Majorie narrowly avoided going to prison, after being investigated by the FBI and moved on to higher pastures by cleaning up her image, setting her sights on seducing and marrying comedic legend Steve Harvey.

Steve & Majorie Harvey

The glamour of a famous stepfather and the dangerous mystique of her mother's past has rubbed off on Lori, as it appears she intends to follow in her mother’s footsteps by doing the same, and marrying well.

This lends Lori an incredible amount of curiosity and admiration from the black feminine collective. Her personal style, diet and dating choices are all up for social inspection and which she seems to enjoy and utilize to her benefit.

Socially in the black collective, it’s not looked upon favorably for black women to openly date hypergamously. Some could say this fact is easily said for all other women, except for the black woman is drastically socially different. The black woman is expected to be completely self sacrificing to the detriment of herself, other women, black men and the mental and social health of the black community and world, at large.

Historically the black body has been seen as hypersexual cultural commodity and unfortunately still black women aren’t free from these archaic assumptions. This hypersexuality when paired with two hundred plus years of systemic racism & psychological terrorism has created a confusing and hostile climate for the social and mental health of the feminine in the black community. Anything feminine is inherently seen as detriment or looked upon with disgust or shame, in both black men and women. It's culturally ingrained and internalized, for Black women to be consistently expected to have lower standards in terms of partners whether it be mentally, spiritually, physically or financially and the collective actively participates in defeminizing an robbing black women of their individual self respect and womanhood. These toxic ideologies, have seeped into the black social structure and in the global& mainstream social collective, an have done irreputable damage, terrorizing and harming the social and mental health of both black men and women, whom have been passing down this vicious cycle of toxicity from generation to generation.

In comes Lorie Harvey, who represents a new breed of Black American women in this modern social landscape who have grown tired of a horrible status quo, are hoping for better & who see fractions of themselves in her. She may not even know it but Lori actively carries a new hope of shattering the toxic glass ceiling prepared for black woman by creating a better example of the social options for the black female collective and maybe even the mainstream globally.

Lori is bold and actively hypergamous, dating some of the wealthiest black men in the community and making a clean break when things don’t work out. For the modern black woman this is considered to be highly unusual and makes her intensely polarizing and hated by certain groups of black men, women and the community who aren’t used to change and are comfortably brainwashed by status quo.

For many Lori represents a break from convention and social change of the modern evolution within the mainstream black feminine collective. Change is not easy and this new development is going to be extremely scary to many, for a variety of reasons. For some groups of men, this means having to put in more effort when finding a sexual partner or mate and losing certain benefits they felt previously entitled too, for outsiders this can also mean possibly losing access or the interest wealthy or high status black men financially or sexually that they also feel entitled to, it could even threaten centuries old racist structures which are were intentionally created to keep the black community currently unstable and foster hostility via gender wars. The current dating scene within the community is obviously toxic. The Modern Black women hasn't really built the healthy structure dating structure, that pushes her and the community to the highest good. Most black women are ignorant on how to go about dating properly or seeking out quality mates, which in turn creates a horrible cycle of toxicity. For many black women this has led to hyper paralyzed state of toxic independence, which has been severely harmful to both black men and women, something that can be further researched by taking the time to read the Willie Lynch letters. It’s important for black women to break this cycle which has been enforced since the beginning the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, because it will actively promote better social and mental health for both black men and women, and in turn the entire community.

Lori fits a certain beauty standard, which can be argued to fit within some Urban or Eurocentric ideals. She’s moderately brown skin, gently relaxes her hair making it wavy/straight, an has a slim nose and full lips. She’s relatively in shape partaking in Pilates, a bit of precarious dieting and her shape varies between lightly petite and curvy. Her resources give her access to a variety high quality skin care, plastic surgery and beauty treatments. Despite this, her beauty looks natural and feels more easily accessible. She takes a considerable amount of care in her looks and it’s certainly strategic on her part because she’s hyper aware of beauty privilege and the visual nature of men, which she works to her benefit. All of these things somewhat work in her favor, but also can lend way to her being ripped apart socially, because beautiful brown skinned black women aren’t often taken seriously within black collective, without an extremely well credentialed educational background or status, and this may still never be enough. She walks a precarious tightrope of gender and colorism. There is no way of knowing for certain if her behavior would be considered less controversial and tolerated slightly better if she was of lighter of complexion, like the semi-controversial musician and queen of hip-pop Doja Cat, for example. Colorism can be fickle and random, as symptom of systemic racism, which is aggravatingly hard to gage.

Lori’s beauty, background and dating style seems to resonate mainstream black feminine collective who desires to find a new way to counter the deliberate defeminization of the black woman socially. This brings her a degree of considerable allure and magnetism an makes her a interesting woman to watch in the future.

How will it all end ? Will Lori finally find the right man for her ? Only time will tell.

In the meantime, let’s keep our eyes peeled n stay tuned. If there is one thing we can count on it’s for Lori to keep tongues wagging, while putting on a great show!

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thelonelyqueenofthenight · 1 year

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Happy Black History Month!

On the first day of Black History, Beyoncé gives to us: the announcement of her much anticipated world tour!

I am definitely going to get tickets for this tour. I have never seen Beyoncé live but I will be seeing this tour.

#blackgirlmagic #singersongwriter #singer #blackgirlsrock #womanist #musician #feminist #muse #black history month #beyoncé #renaissance #Renaissance world tour

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reckless-revolutionary · 6 months

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#feminism #feminist #america #activism #donald trump #intersectional feminism #lgbtq #womanist #womanism #women #womensrights #women's rights #stand with palestine #palestine #freedom #free palestine #tiktok #spread awareness #revolution

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liminalgoddessworld · 22 days

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#goddessnature #self care #self improvement #goddess #goddessbeing #positive mental attitude #womanism #astronomy #autumn #womanist

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globalriseofblackpeople · 1 year

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Black history

#black history #black women #black men #amerikkka #black power #knowledge #black unity #black knowledge #feminism #womanist

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dailydoseofmelanin · 2 years

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We Didn’t Even Skip a Beat

This is just a reminder from the universe that had any of this be actually about babies, this country would prioritize excellent and universal maternity care. No matter how difficult or complicated the birth was. Not to mention lowering the cost for necessities like daycare in addition to having months of paternity and maternity leave.

I know it’s been a minute but what better time to return when Roe v. Wade is literally hanging in the balance🫠?

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facelesspassport · 1 year

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We need the vagina dentata condom to be on store shelves NOW

#check the comments #feminist #feminism #womanist #womanism #misandry #false accusations #rapeawareness #kam

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theamoristwriter · 1 year

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All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid

nymph, then a virgin, nurse, then a servant

just an appendage, live to attend him

so that he never lifts a finger

twenty-four-seven baby machine

so he can live out his picket fence dreams

it's not an act of love if you make her

you make me do too much labour

~ Paris Paloma, Labour

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curlyhairedintrovertsworld · 1 year

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i stopped wearing skirts and dresses as a child because they were stereotypes for girliness. girliness was stereotyped as weakness. i stopped wearing skirts and dresses as a child because they had open bottoms. that openness, whether or not i had shorts on underneath meant my legs were vulnerable, among other things. wearing skirts and dresses in my young impressionable mind meant i was choosing to be weak and vulnerable and a target for boys and men that wanted to take advantage of me. i told myself i didn't want to be girly, i didn't want to be like other girls, but what i really wanted was to not be a victim.