I think they hate "woke" even more! After all, there's nothing worse than people respecting each other's equality and individuality. Empathy is a dirty word to them!

People will end up hating fascism, once the fascists begin to take their rights. It’s just a shame that they didn’t heed the warnings of global history. But why would they? Most americans know exarcly zero global history

Great quote! Yours? Cuz I want to use!

I’m following you for this statement alone. (I’m sure you have more great posts, but this says so much.

Feminism is anethema to patriarchy and it has become abundantly clear that men struggle to compete with women on intellectual merit without their historical advantages.

Truer words have never spoken.

Also real feminists need to do a better job at intersectional feminism.

liberal white guy: ugh, i'm sorry. men can be so terrible. not me, though. i promise i care exactly half as much!

Exactly. By setting the bar so low/engaging in such brutality, even mid guys get a pass for not even doing the bare minimum. And they like it that way.

Not only do they get a pass; they expect you to celebrate them for doing the bare minimum. Or applaud them when they acknowledge women deserve equal rights because, shocking, they just realized that “as a father, as a son, as a husband,” they DO know a woman!

when a man does the dishes, it erases the entire history of gendered domestic labor!

Or cooks. OMG. 🤪

he's basically done more for gender equality than any woman if he does both!

Yeah, I have actually heard a guy roll out having a mom once. 🤡

I love it when they come into comments sections, or replies to apologize for all men. Putting the onus of forgiving them on us. How many of these guys ever stand up to their fellow men when the latter are being misogynist?

they're just feeling out where the line is between Doing as Little as Possible and Getting in Trouble 🙃

💯💯💯

I wish they hated fascism less than they hate democracy.

Oh really…totally agree. Just think of all that great energy freed up to fight and hate fascism…

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Dudes mad they got rejected

Fascism is deplorable and SAD.

Good statement madam

Maybe if more women were fascists?

There are a fair number of women fascists, it doesn't really change how the right treats them. All it does is give them a shield, a pick me to call the left misogynists when we point how how those women are working against their interests, are throwing away their rights.

I think they already equate feminism with their version of fascism which is that feminists are here to displace men

There's that too. They see women that think for themselves, that don't want what they do as a threat. They think what the left and what feminists want is to treat men the way they treat women. They're so deluded by fear and hate they literally cant understand we don't want to subjugate them.

Dang, girl. Truth

Powerful. Thanks

All of this, with sprinkles and a maraschino cherry

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Oh. That’s a good idea. I’ll second that.

Instead they blame feminism for turning poor young men into fascists

This.

Blaming once again women for men's behavior.

You want people to hate fascism less?

The thing is people always think they are “ in the club” and protected. It’s only when they get arrested they realize there is only one person in the club, everyone else is just staff and expendable.

Started following you 10 seconds after reading this post.

I literally said this too.

And the reason they don’t is the ignorance is set by their arrogance of skewering the women they dislike & can’t control Fascism is their favorite vessel to goon others on repeat

Wow. Sadly brilliant. Shame...

Not a chance. The very same people who hate feminism would welcome fascism with open arms, until it affected them. And by then it would be far too late. For us all.

Well, no, they "do". They just call everything that opposes them or they oppose fascism.

The better half? 😏

Truth

C'mon honey. You broads have come a long way... You can vote and cook...

If only don't tread on me wasn't a false flag to hate and oppress

Agree. But it really shows white cis het male culture doesn’t it.

Yeah.

good one! wish it weren't true... : / in any case, in case you all haven't heard yet, primo opportunity to fight fascism coming soon.

right-wing media's narrative dominance

This is an excellent quote❤️

💙!

Same.

I hear some folk find it hard to multi-task, somehow I’m not surprised.

jfc

1/100 would have been enough. 1/1000 of LGBTQ+ kids' sports activities. 1/1000000 of criticism of Isreal.

How true

How do I pin a post I didn't make myself

I wish people understood what either of them actually are.

Feminism isn't a hobby, it's a human right. Maybe people would hate fascism if they understood the actual consequences of hate.

when we chose the back-of-shirt names for each other, mine was "feminazi"

to clarify, this was in college not prison

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Or Woke.

I hadn’t thought of it but does distaste for feminism and acceptance of fascism go together?

Yes.

Although distaste is perhaps too mild a word for what is going on.

Yes, for instance those attacking feminists as "TERFS" have many fascist traits

Terfs have many fascist traits

Everybody saying the word "Terf" unironically he as a double digit IQ

I'm going to take it from this that you are a terf and don't like being called on it.

As you are the typical low educated American knucklehead this comes at little surprise

So many incorrect assumptions.

hell yeah

I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or sincere curiosity because internet. Strong gender binary and obsession with masculine strength is one of the hallmarks of fascism.

I appreciate the dialogue and perspective. There are some very natural alignments that seem apparent, but I was seeking input from folks who study the connections more than I have (or than most have). Socials, including BlueSky it seems, don’t reward curiosity.

Scholarship by Lawrence Britt outlines a list of characteristics. Here's a PDF of it. Worth a read. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... I once had students compare this list to Creon in Antigone because I think everyone should see it.

Many thanks!

That would be great. Feminism wouldn't be necessary if there was no misogyny.

Amen, sister!

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The way my eyes widened-- truly!!!

Or even a 10th of how much they hate peoples who are Trans or Drag ….

They see feminists as taking away their rights and privileges while fascism makes them think they are getting it back. It’s sick.

Worked for the Nazis. Women got the vote in 1918, then national socialism took away as many women’s rights as possible. Same in the US now.

"National socialism".

Which ironically was no more "socialist" than the People's Democratic Republic of Korea is "democratic".

The German socialists were out of the country or dead by 1933 when the real nastiness ramped up.

They were second on the list, after the commies and before the unions Almost like fascists start by targeting the people most willing and able to resist them

I mean members of the Nazi Party were also in the mix, with the Night of the Long Knives.

The only “members” were Hitler’s inner circle. Everyone else was fair game.

Ernst Rohm was the head of the SA, the brownshirts. It was the single larges part of the Nazi party. Why they always make a big deal about him being killed because he was gay, it had more to do with Himmler and the German Army want him dead. And that he had power to oppose Hitler.

Röhm had pushed back against some Nazi policies, and with Brownshirt backup, he could have stood his ground. That sealed it for him.

More*

Me, too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgyS... Everyone in the US should watch this - my friend made this documentary, it took 7 yrs, but it is powerful. Face of Hate - one mans story about how he came to hate in America and it is hard to watch, but necessary. This was hard to watch.

Fascism is so intertwined with patriarchy in that one of its chief functions is to coercively enforce traditional gender norms

When you say people who are you referring too???

I wonder if the real problem with the coming fascism, and the real reason it endures, will be that it's boring

Let’s try using the word that Ukrainians coined: rascist. They use it for Russian fascists. We can use it for Republican fascists since they are best friendsies.

Oof. Ain't that the truth. As much as they hate women in general.

I wish people supported women's sports as much as they hated trans woman playing in them.

Or a quarter as much as they hate black and brown people

Well I wish people hated fascism twice as much as they hate feminism

They fear strong women, by they I mean alot of white guys.

Love this quote! It’s a good question.

Or just women, forget feminism for a sec!

💯💯💯 THIS.

Unfortunately, they do.

Well said

It’s because they hated feminism so much that we’re in this mess

Yes who would ever hate a movement about hating men.

Um… a guy called Bob?

Oh the horror

🪿 Why doesn't the movement hating women get the same backlash? 🪿

Because hating women is the natural state, obviously! That's why thinking women are people who deserve rights equals hating men! /s

Just how ignorant and naive are you? But keep living in your echo chamber.

Bob is feeling his fragile masculinity today. Thoughts and prayers dear.

Says the little girl getting all mad. Is all you can do is project about yourself onto me? I get you hate men and don't do therapy but come on surely you can do better.

😂😂😂

Keep showing your fragility.

"Bob" is a Russiabot, lol.

A hurty one

As if you should be talking. lol

Putin doesn't pay you guys enough to be this upsetti spaghetti. 😂 Hope you have a nice day in Moscow.

Imagining being this dumb and admitting to committing to voting in numerous elections. I hope you get some help, but again you be off destroying personal property like the good little leftists you are. Maybe one day you will grow up.

The fascies are the most fragile.😂

Oh the irony, I do love the stalking to really make your point. Yet I am the fragile one. And little one try learning what a fascist is. Amazing how the pro education side is so often uneducated on what they talk about.

Time to boom bob before he gets dangerous

Not in the slightest sweetie.

Ah, yes, so many cases of angry and frustrated women devolving countries into violent theocratic authoritarian nightmares where men are reduced to property and rape against them is institutionalized. You are not a serious person, you just want to rationalize behaving like an animal.

If only you read a history book. But hey all men rape right and women are all bunch of victims. And I suggest you learn to read as point out where I rationalized men's behavior. As you like others all want to make out women as nothing but the victims and women never do anything bad.

honestly, y'all don't get hated anywhere near as much as you deserve.

Sure misandrist.

well, somebody's gotta make up for all the straight ladies coddling you from cradle to grave.

Sorry not your therapist. And I am not the one who needs the coddling.

bahahahahahahaha

😂😂😂

Oh look another stalker. What's with leftists needing to stalk others?

Jeez, I thought I’d blocked you, you desperately unsatisfactory little man. I’ll flush again.

I see the child has no words.

you're correct that there is definitely a child in this conversation....

Yes and I am talking to one misandrist. After all you admit to hating men, yet you got so offended over me pointing this out. Grow up child. Maybe you realize women aren't all bunch of victims and they kill, rape and abuse men. And they even start wars.

Well, gee wiz, Bob, maybe if men stopped raping and killing women & kids and animals, stopped commiting mass shootings, stopped causing wars that wreak mass death and destruction and stopped electing men who do that shit, you wouldn't be so hated. Women are not the problem, Bob.

Yes after all women never do anything bad but all men do bad things. Keep hating men misandrist and keep ignoring facts and that history. But hey only women matter right. After all women are all bunch of victims nothing more.

Oh hello again bob. I see you’re still inventing things to be butt hurt about. How’s that working for you?

You tell me as I am not the one making things up. You the one who thinks all men are bad but all women are bunch of victims who can't possibly do anything bad. You clearly think SCOTUS is all men even.

I wish a lot more people actually UNDERSTOOD those words.

Dang. Nailed it.

Followed!

People just LOVE hating vulnerable groups of beings more than ideas or instruments of oppression. These types of people can go fuck themselves. 😌

Hairy Potter would never sell

And women.

Or transgenderism!

Amen

Wouldn't that be thrilling? I'm incredibly sick of the misogyny.

Here Here!

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hated communism. Like people will literally pick nazis over taking back control from the ruling class :(

Comment of the day.

Is feminism the same thing as women’s rights?

Uhoh ... But I don't hate feminism ... ... now what?

Truth

flip.it/VmmiE4 The experts on fascism are fleeing, just like those who saw Hitler’s rise in Germany.

I can't even imagine what that would look like Its easier to imagine no men at all. Bunch of fat, happy women and no crime

WORD!

Or they hated tyranny more then they hate tranny.

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I’m so tired of liberal White men looking right past the Right’s obvious central theme and purpose to consign women to breeding and domestic servitude. Yeah, your constitutional principles are offended, but everyone else is out here dying while you make sharp commentary or legal motions.

Or disabled people (that's why, for example, there are so many insults: a lot of them are based on medical terms and ableist stereotypes)

Or wokeness

Yeah exactly - which is why culture wars are such a potent weapon for the Reps

But then they would have to hate fascists as much as they hate women. And the people in the US (even half the women here) truly deeply hate women.

on the nail

this edit screams facebook humor ngl

Ok

Seems like people hate the concept of fascism more than fascism itself. Anything less than an EO declaring the end of democracy and start of fascism is subject to endless “just asking questions” and “maybe it’s a string of awkward coinkydinks” Hell ppl would probably even say the EO was just a joke

It’s almost like some people feel those are antithetical, zero-sum issues.

Not a chance. MAGA’s hatred for women is very deep.

I guess misogyny is an obvious evil to half the population (at least!) but there are lots of fools who support fascism in the blind faith that its promises will deliver only good things for them (and who cares about anyone else?)

Ms Ifill said it best

💯💯💯

Oh honey, I keep dreaming q and hoping for this...💜

On a related note, I am sick of seeing Leavitt & Noem described as Fascist Barbie. These women are truly vile, but lets leave their conformity to patriarchal beauty standards out of the insult & focus on the anti-democratic stuff.

I will push back on it being fair as barbie exists in an extraordinarily awful position of pushing capitalistic beauty standards, but I feel like y'all aren't ready for that conversation despite the last few decades of it trying to happen

There are legitimate conversations to be had about the problems with Barbie, but they have nothing to do with it being bad to use aspects of a person that have nothing to do with their behavior as insults. The fact that the word "Barbie" exists in both conversations is meaningless.

Hey, have you been paying attention to Barbie dolls for the last decade? Their DEI initiatives are some of the best I’ve seen. They have dolls of historical women, different cultures, amputees, dolls with vitilago, down syndrome, wheelchairs, and a blind doll, all made very respectfully.

Will take a look :o

This line has since been discontinued, but the doll’s removable wig and neutral fashion allowed you to play with their gender expression.

Yeah we probably align

I have plenty to say about capitalistic beauty standards! 😸 I'm seeing people use Fascist Barbie in a way that doesn't reference this context, tho. I'm seeing it used as a put down, the way people used to casually & openly call women bimbos or dumb blondes: shorthand for stupid woman

I want to argue that the use of Barbie is fine due to its existence as something that drags society in a downward direction

Totally fair, I agree A lot of shorthand gets used poorly

💜

or dark skin

Well said

I’ve met so many women who felt the need to preface a reasonable point about equality and dignity with “I’m no feminist, but…”

Personally, I'm a feminist and.

me too and it's AND?

Definitely and. I have opinions and am not afraid to air them.

lol am a wee Scottish woman, I've never learned to wheesht when told, i just let rip, sarcasm's a great friend at times like that, shoot from the lip is my motto its stood the test of time

US crone here. The same, friend, the same.

dae ye think we can start up a AULD CRONES GROUP world wide? only no cooking, baking,sewing allowed? just be rebellions n how to bring down evil govts?

Also no pink pussy cat hats or blue bracelets. I'm in. I like the ring of AULD CRONE.

oh god no, we need to pick the commitee😁

I take it back 🤭

I'm game! Old crone here :)) Happier than when flung hither thither on the stormy seas of oestrogen.

welcome😁

There’s already a group like that on Facebook.

the more the merrier

am so happy there's some still about we could teach these young nyaffs somethings

I'm a retired teacher. I did my best.

some never learn, no matter what you teach them, thick as mince

Truth.

Sorry to butt in…I’m originally from Dundee. The ‘wheesht’ and ‘thick as mince’ comments had me pissing myself. 😂Reminded me of my old mum, who’d have plenty to say about the bawbags in charge today!

Scottish people in general seem to speak their minds, bluntly and to the point. It's something I admire.

more people should do it not many Scots take crap from folk sarcasms built in(it protects us from the cauld summers n baltic winters)

Wow, that's sad

I will tell you that I am a Feminist. Loud, proud and equal.

Self-hatred and desperation to pander to fragile masculinity

Also to keep themselves safe - let's not pretend there isn't a rationale for that thinking

If you think misogyny and ignorance are purely male, you’re wrong.

Internalised misogyny keeps so many women quiet

We should say "I am a feminist and proud of it...". I do.

Misogyny is rampant here.

men fear women...so, there will always be misogyny. they don't want us banding together

🫶🏻☝🏻 Excellent comment

Might happen when Disney decides to include strong male characters with profound death cult vibes and a lack of empathy in Toy Story 5 ...

Or socialism

I remember being in college when I learned some women hated feminism. I was so shocked. How can you hate a movement designed to give you equal rights?

Feminism is good for and wants equal rights for men too. Like, it's main problem is one of image.

Its "image" is due to the outraged privilege of men. Also, men already have equal rights.

Ah, I used to believe this too. Now I think its main problem is that a lot of people are just misogynists.

The fascism hatred was always less than people ever realized. It was always just underground. Want proof? Go look at what was going on in the nation up through Dec 6th, 1941.

Right?!

BOOM! Perfection. EXACTLY THIS!!

Right ?!?!?! WTF !

So fucking real though.

We have to do more than hate fascism, we must resist it in the streets en masse!

Great point. I'm thankful for your insights. ❤️🙏

This country hates women and mothers more than they hate horrible men You can blame capitalism for that

Overheard

We need T-Shirts with this!

If only fascism was the same danger to insecure men as feminism ...

Give it time. One white wife dies because of a miscarriage in the hospital parking lot, maybe Christian people stop to think? When they can’t vote because their birth certificate doesn’t match their voter ID, because marriage maybe they will be upset?

Fundamentalist Christian men will just get sympathy for their suffering as a widower and possibly as a single parent. A new wife will be on order ASAP.

Yes because white women suffering has absolutely been enough to make people stop hating feminism thus far.

Acceptable collateral damage, now that the threshold for "acceptable" has risen considerably. Although, honestly, they were always an intentional target, but it doesn't matter anymore. Leopards Eating People's Faces Party, etc., etc.

True, but also they can’t care about something until it affects themselves. Which it will.

Wouldn't that be an effing miracle

Or hate rape as much as they hate periods.

Problem is, the men who hate feminism think that it *is* fascism, and that they’re the victims.

It's interesting how words carry different weights in society. Fascism is universally condemned, yet feminism, which advocates for equality, still faces unnecessary backlash. If more people understood that feminism isn't about superiority but fairness, maybe the world would be a better place.

Amen

I need this on a tee right now.

I do! Let’s connect with other people do so we can build a movement

There's nothing like hating the sound of a woman 's laughter to bring people together, conservatives and progressives alike

Or, for some people, simply the sound of a woman. Period.

Being present or active "in their space" is enough. And they consider almost everything--- certainly anything public--- to be *their* space.

Seriously. Take up space. Be big. Be colorful. Do not give a fuck. Be unshameable. Give looks. 👀 Talk loud and laugh loud. I guarfuckingyee you the reason the lattermost bothers them so much is they're terrified of women making fun of them.

I never did give 2 fucks when I was young Too loud to promote Too smart to fire (I sued them and won) I'm old now and disabled but i would still take on tramp, mince and fusk. With one arm tied behind my back. How? I'm a f*cking feisty biatch. That's how.

#respect

This goes deeper into human history, evolution and society than most imagine.

💥🔥

It’ll never happen. One implies gaining power, and the other implies sharing power.

What an excellent point.

Sad truth: Democrats’mistake in 2024 was to not have realized that Hillary Clinton didn’t lose the election because of the emails or Comey or her persona; but because she is a woman.

Yep. A lot of people did not deal with reality. Joe knew it and that’s why he tried to stick it out. I truly believe he would not have run again if he’d had a younger, white male VP. He had to pick Kamala to please the base, but it boxed the party in. Won the battle, lost the war.

They had four years to groom up a successor and run a real primary but, no, Joe just had to go back on his own word and try to stay. That was THE strategic error.

The strategic error was picking Kamala. She is capable and qualified, but the country was not going to let her be President. She would not have had a credible primary challenger because the base of the party would’ve pushed back hard. But if Joe hadn’t picked her, he wouldn’t have won. Catch 22.

He would not have been cornered into picking Harris it he had stuck to his plan of being a one-term president.

Kamala would’ve been seen by the base as the heir apparent, similar to HRC in 2016. Anyone who tried to primary her would’ve been called racist, sexiest, etc. I think that’s why Joe tried to run again.

I disagree. The base was ready for the first honest primary in nearly a decade and only rallied behind the anointed to avoid the appearance of fragmentation.

This is true, & it's not gonna change anytime soon. We are getting less educated, not more. We are getting more prejudiced, not less. Half the country no longer believes in science. I don't believe there is any woman who could win the presidency of the US. We are a backward, ignorant country.

It's because fascist like the late Rush Limbaugh told them for 40+ years to hate feminism.

But her emails

Preach lol

I actually never thought about it this way and it's so true how a nice word like woke is so trashed but dudes be clamouring to say some disgusting mysoginistic shit and get 10 million followers

By “people” do you mean white men?

And a lot of whitey women's, too?

Boom. 💥

They do not hate feminism; they are afraid of it.

A subtle but salient point. You have given me something to ponder. Thx

Maybe some. But some truly hate women; you can see it, you can feel it. Those people hate feminism.

Fear leads to anger and anger to hate.

Me too

This makes me laugh/cry.

I wish children had the protection that fetuses do.

💥 Especially from CON-servatives!🤬

I think about that time Texas gave a woman 20 years in prison because she brandished a gun at a man invading her home.

💯

Amen to that.

or dei

Now that’s a statement! Thank you…

Now that’s a statement!!!

Or half as much as they women

👍

I wish more people were intelligent enough to know what either word actually means.

Most people try to downplay it as they are... somewhat fascist. And I get it. Hard to say you wake up hating not being entitled to power over someone and listening to how others - whether women or gay or children should be empowered to live w/o your consent on anything they do.

It’s men you men. Not ”people”.

No, it's also women. A lot of women are anti-feminist.

That’s true.

no shit

Fuckin right?!!!

Part of the reason I don't have a FOID Card....

I wish people stopped hating, and spent more time creating a joyful and loving world. Assholes need to evolve or disappear.

Clue in your question.

Men who complain about feeling attacked don’t understand that women and femininity have been collectively living with their throats under men’s boots since before there were boots. Since before there were sandals, even. It’s been a long time.

Not even the fascist base is safe from fascists, and it utterly frustrating how so many people are like:

Oof. Yes.