Post by Moira Donegan / Redsky

Seems like now would be a pretty useful time to have a theory of gender as a hierarchy and women as a class

aug 28, 2025, 1:10 am • 551 39

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I have not been able to stop thinking about this for what feels like years now and it kind of makes me feel like I’m losing my mind a bit

aug 28, 2025, 2:38 am • 3 0 • view

When you realize that masculinity simply means domination to a big chunk of society... Feels real bad. Meanwhile, they've kept a us (not you lol) tapdancing to give "positive" examples of masculinity that they were never going to accept because they lack the critical component of boot on neck.

aug 28, 2025, 1:15 am • 96 7 • view

aug 28, 2025, 10:21 am • 3 0 • view

It always has had that meaning.

aug 28, 2025, 11:40 am • 0 0 • view

we need a new wave of feminism. I'm still brainstorming what it should be like. any ideas?

aug 28, 2025, 9:10 am • 2 0 • view

g/Acc Neo-Amazonian Feminism

Victorious Third World struggles, so long as they have been successfully localized, do not lead to realistic post-capitalist achievements, and certainly not to postpatriarchal ones, since the conservation of the form of the nation state is itself enough to guarantee the reinsertion of a society into the system of inhibited synthesis. For as long as the dynamic of guerilla war just leads to new men at the top -with all that this entails in terms of the communication between individuated sovereignties - history will continue to look bleak. For it is only when the pervasive historical bond between masculinity and war is broken by effective feminist violence that it will become possible to envisage the uprooting of the patriarchal endogamies that orchestrate the contemporary world order. With the abolition of the inhibition of synthesis - of Kantian thought - a sordid cowardice will be washed away, and cowardice is the engine of greed. But the only conceivable end of Kantianism is the end of modernity, and to reach this we must foster new Amazons in our midst.

The adversary is thus no longer called an enemy but a disturber of peace and is thereby designated to be an outlaw of humanit There is no inside except as a folding of the outside; the mirror cracks. I am an other, and I always was. The shudder here is the shudder of the eerie, not of the unheimlich.

The trans woman is an insurgent against patriarchy who is continually flanking it, introducing an affirmative zero into the gender binary.

aug 28, 2025, 11:45 am • 3 0 • view

smells of marxism to me!

aug 28, 2025, 1:32 am • 0 0 • view

Gender being a social construct perhaps? The category “woman”being defined by unfair social rules, and not by biology? Gosh, what radical thoughts …

aug 28, 2025, 7:52 am • 0 0 • view

I'd be inclined to describe it not quite so simply as as women constituting "a" class, but as a lower-ranked class-within-each-class-or-stratum. And it can be complicated as "class" itself has subtleties in a society without permanent, formalized ranks. 1/

aug 28, 2025, 2:31 am • 3 0 • view

But to oversimplify, we might estimate that all other things being more or less equal between them, a woman is "valued" as a person _to taken seriously_ at roughly 1/3 to 1/2 the importance of a man. 2/

aug 28, 2025, 2:39 am • 3 0 • view

And simultaneously as a contaminating influence, whose presence in a group beyond a certain point (roughly 1/3) dilutes or even destroys the group's right to be taken seriously. (Typo in previous: "_to BE taken seriously"_) 3/3

aug 28, 2025, 2:47 am • 3 0 • view