I love aging, and I think one of the worst lies patriarchy tells women is that aging makes us irrelevant and worthless, that aging is something to be ashamed of. As with everything in patriarchy this lie has a malicious intention, and it runs like a straight line through patriarchy’s stories of wicked witches and scary crones. Aging women, older women are stronger women, more independent women, women who’ve lost their insecurities and who do not live to please, and there’s no bigger threat to the system of male dominance and female subordination. Of course women need to be taught to worship youth and of course older women need to be hidden away under notions of them being irrelevant and pathetic or strange, because otherwise women would be much more difficult to control, and older women would take over the world. The strength women unfold within themselves when they get older is unyielding; it stands tall as a tree and has deep, deep roots. Men have much to loose in women realizing this. Women have everything to gain.
the author of this thing i’m reading briefly gives her explanation for why leftist men call gay men “elitist and privileged,” and this is in 1984, just in case you thought that shit was new. the idea that gay men are somehow especially privileged has been a trendy radical hot take for ages, not just nowadays when people use our recent hard-won legal progress to tell themselves homophobia is over
#since at least the late 19th century and early 20th century gayness (especially in men) #has been seen as something bourgeois and decadent #depictions of gayness were either the dandy or the fop #who was rich and air headed and an idiot #or some type of slumlord coupled with a sex worker (obviously using crueler language) #when socialism/communism started coming to power in certain states in the 20th century #gayness (in men) was banned/made illegal on the grounds it was a western import derived from bourgeois sensibilities #Engels actually wrote to Marx once about the Homintern a (fake) organization of gay men whom he thought were going to take over and dismantle #the communist party from the inside out as a result of their deep seated love and really necessity for living bourgeois lifestyles #gay men have for decades (if not centuries) been caricatures of people - #seen as too stupid too undereducated too inundated with capital and bourgeois lifestyles to successfully #organize or understand deep seated political critiques not to mention a perceived inability to #be leaders in a political sense in a leftist society #the left still believes this wholeheartedly in a lot of ways #it’s clouded with language but depending on the academ? it’s incredibly #open especially if you know what to look for
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i’m so protective of mitski bc her music lives inside my heart and also all she does is mind her business & make music & talk in interviews about how she’s scared everyone is gonna turn on her like leave her BE this post brought to you by mitski defense gang
Everyone on twitter is just like ‘i think this Marginalised Woman whose art has lately been receiving acclaim is actually a boring stupid talentless fraudulent idiot bitch shrew. Would like a medal for my valour posthaste pwease’
sincerely half the people on that site are like“Mitski sucks and y’all just pretend to like her to seem woke. My favorite artists? Kanye West, Quentin Tarantino, and Rick and Morty”
