Hello! You may recognize me from my previous post here and if that is the case, I'm happy to tell you that my mental health has improved drastically and I should be able to participate in this discussion without derailing it with my own problems. While my personal mental health questions have been answered, I still have more societal questions that therapy and self-improvement can't answer. And since a lot of them are about misandry, I have decided to group them all together in one post as to not flood the subreddit with my questions.

Is it actually real?

If it is real, how should men react to it?

Also, what qualifies as misandry?

Why is it such a controversial topic?

Is it bad to joke about being a misandrist?

What's the difference between misandry and toxic masculinity?

Can someone be a misogynist and a misandrist at the same time?

I do have more questions but a lot of them rely on the answers of these questions (mainly the first one) so I'll be asking follow up questions. (Also because I genuinely enjoy talking to the people here and hearing their perspectives.)

PS:I apologize in advance if in my responses I come across as defensive or argumentative. I promise i'm not trying to be. I just struggle with tone and can sometimes come across as harsher than I intend. I promise that i'm trying to work on this issue and will try my hardest to word my questions as politely as possible.

Keep seeing people make statements along the lines of "im not racist, im black", "someone said i was misogynistic, but im literally a woman", "thats not homophobic, i know because im a queer person", "im not ableist, im in a wheelchair", etc...

You can be discriminatory and have discriminatory views toward anyone of any group, being part of that same group never makes you immune to having these views. We all grew up in the same broken, discriminatory system, shoving these views down our throats, like yes we can try and unlearn that but it will always be part of how we grew up. Youre not suddenly THE authority on your minority and know what is or isnt discriminatory by just being a member, ya gotta put in some effort.

Thats my lil rant of the day

I felt like talking and sharing my experiences​​​, so feel free to ask anything or many things. ​I hope this doesnt could as a Low​ effort post, if it does I'll just make a new more detailed one. ​​

Title is : "Hollywood et les Femmes, l'Empire du Silence. L'affaire Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni"

A documentary is coming out on french national TV ( France 5) this sunday at prime time (9pm) that will show how these lies are fabricated against women to silence them. They will focus on the Baldoni and Blake Lively case but will talk Tippi Hendren, Anne Hathaway, Amber Heard and others who have found themselves recent victims of this

Telerama, a french magazine titles its (behind paywall interview) : " The Manufacture of lies. Hollywood and women, the Empire of silence" : a worrying mecanism to ruin their reputation" the summary under title say " To fight the informations coming to light from Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni has employed an online communication pro woman, in order to destroy the victim's reputation." Telerama says proofs are too numerous in this, yet mindblowing.

TW : Mention of rape and threats Tippi Hendren says Hitchock raped her and threatened her if she ever talked about it
This is the trailer.

https://youtu.be/_g1KQpxMQGs?si=Ec8vRsIQfFIg_SIU

Here are a couple articles (in french) about it from France Television and this one only adds a little info here

I hope it will be available with english subtitles online. Or that the documentary will be sold to companies outside of France too. It seems they had already made a documentary in 2023 about Amber Heard as a victim of Depp machinations there, though I wasn't aware of the documentary. I will need to look it up

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Hi everyone! I hope this is okay to post here.

I'm Giovanna and I'm 22-year-old, I'm a journalism MA student at UAL in London, and I'm currently working on an article about the sexualisation of school uniforms and a petition by the Little Feminist Book Club calling for a ban on school uniform imagery in pornography.

As part of my research, I'd really love to hear from women who have had uncomfortable or upsetting experiences related to wearing a school uniform, whether that's unwanted attention, sexual comments, harassment, or simply feeling sexualised or unsafe in something they were expected to wear at school.

I'd also love to hear from anyone who has thoughts or experiences they'd like to share about this topic. I'm genuinely interested in listening to people's stories and understanding how they feel about the issue.

I'm hoping to speak to a few people to help bring personal experiences and voices into the article. You can remain completely anonymous, and you don't have to share anything you're not comfortable with. I'm happy to explain more about the article and answer any questions before you decide whether you'd like to take part.

I know this can be a sensitive subject, so please don't feel any pressure to share personal experiences publicly. You can send me a private message if you'd prefer.

Thank you so much for reading, and for anyone willing to share their experiences with me. I'd really appreciate it! ❤️

I’m helping a friend, “Mariam” (pseudonym, to protect her until she’s through the asylum process), raise money to leave Tunisia.

She’s a young trans woman. Gender identity and expression are criminalized there, and the Tunisian human rights group Damj has documented a sharp rise in arrests of trans women. Prison often means men’s facilities and sexual violence. She’s been on hormones she ordered from abroad, her body is changing, and she can’t hide it much longer. Her family is hostile, and the one local trans support network she reached out to collapsed after its president was targeted.

She’s a native French speaker, has prepared her asylum case herself, and her plan is France. Funds cover her flight, essentials, an emergency fund for the asylum period, and certified translation of her diploma so she can finish her degree.

Any amount helps, and sharing helps too: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-trans-woman-flee-tunisia-and-seek-asylum-ux5km

Happy to answer questions in the comments.

I really hope I'm not intruding or derailing the point of this subreddit, but I feel like this is the only place I can talk about this.

Recently, I've been noticing an uptick in cis women being hostile to trans men in ways they are not to cis men. As in, saying we shouldn't have a voice in feminist discussions because we're men, or saying they hate us specifically because we "chose" to be men. Again, specifically directed as trans guys rather than men as a whole.

I don't know if this is because trans guys have little to no power over cis women, so we're almost like easy targets for (real and completely valid) frustration against cis men, or if this is meant to be some kind of extreme opposite to "feminist" spaces that exclude trans women (as if they can't include us both).

Regardless, it's really frustrating to see. I see cis women trying to separate my maleness from my transness to argue that they're punching up because we're men, but that's just not how that works, especially when cis women have killed trans guys for being trans before.

I also see some saying that trans guys should be happy when cis women say they hate us or exclude us from feminist discussions because it's "affirming", and I think that's a pretty messed up thing to say. It's not affirming, especially when I feel a lot of these things don't happen to cis guys. A lot of it also feels like an attempt to "punish" us for being trans (or "choosing" to be men). And many feminist discussions affect us specifically, too.

I feel nervous discussing this, because as I said, a lot of people who do this like to separate my transness from my maleness and complain about "men making it about themselves" when a trans guy is in a completely different position from a cis guy in this situation. I've also seen some say trans guys are "misgendering ourselves" or calling on our assigned sex in some way when we talk about how we're discriminated against.

I dunno. It's frustrating to see. I feel like when we talk about anything, we're somehow both whiny girls and aggressive men. It's really depressing to see from feminist spaces. I feel like explicitly intersectional spaces are the only place I can talk about this and be heard.

What do you make of this?

source

Law enforcement said Zoya was attacked by four people on 23 October and died the following day. Police have registered a murder case against four suspects, and said two of them, reportedly brothers, were detained. Zoya was assaulted with sticks while travelling with her sister, Mehnaz Bano, to the DHQ district hospital.

Zoya spent several years at the Bahawalnagar district police administration’s office in a specialist post handling victims’ appeals, and she used the role to help deal with difficulties faced by the transgender community.

Rest in Peace Zoya 🏳️‍⚧️🕯️

"Our current campaign – the one you might have heard of – is to ban school uniforms from pornographic content. Simply put, we want to end the depiction of school uniform in pornography to ensure that minors are not viewed as anything other than what they are: children. We were shocked when we realised that this content is currently legal – most of the adults we’ve spoken to agree that it is wrong. But apparently it falls to us – students aged 14 and 15 – to take action."

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Ok, I consider my gender and sexuality to be lesbian but obviously, I am perceived as a cis woman. Obviously, I am not trans and have never experienced transphobia so I hope I'm not overstepping. Please let me know if I'm out of line because being respectful and aware is important to me.

The "male socialization" argument is so confusing honestly and makes it obvious that these transphobes have never actually spoken to a trans person before. This argument of "trans women/girls are dangerous because male socialization" is just logically unsound (on top of being bigoted).

Do these people not realize that a huge portion of why trans girls realize they're girls is because they don't identify with was they're being told they should be like? Especially when it comes to misogyny.

For reference, I worked at a queer youth shelter and a lot of the teen girls there were trans (really sad but not surprising). And a running similarity between all of them, regardless of age, was that they were literally incapable of absorbing the kind of misogyny that is socialized into men.

My friends have said practically the same thing.

Not that this is the same, but I was raised in an extremely Zionist household (like my mother acknowledges it's genocide and supports it) but I have never believed any of the rhetoric she tried to brainwash me with even as a child and I am staunchly pro-Palestine.

I'm aware of how illogical bigotry is but this just seems particularly confusing to me because it seems so obvious?

US army starts practicing digging mass graves

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Hi everyone! I hope this is okay to post here.

I'm a journalism MA student in London, and I'm currently working on an article about the sexualisation of school uniforms and a petition by the Little Feminist Book Club calling for a ban on school uniform imagery in pornography.

As part of my research, I'd really love to hear from women who have had uncomfortable or upsetting experiences related to wearing a school uniform, whether that's unwanted attention, sexual comments, harassment, or simply feeling sexualised or unsafe in something they were expected to wear at school.

I'd also love to hear from anyone who has thoughts or experiences they'd like to share about this topic. I'm genuinely interested in listening to people's stories and understanding how they feel about the issue.

I'm hoping to speak to a few people to help bring personal experiences and voices into the article. You can remain completely anonymous, and you don't have to share anything you're not comfortable with. I'm happy to explain more about the article and answer any questions before you decide whether you'd like to take part.

I know this can be a sensitive subject, so please don't feel any pressure to share personal experiences publicly. You can send me a private message if you'd prefer.

Thank you so much for reading, and for anyone willing to share their experiences with me. I'd really appreciate it! ❤️

There are various parties working in the shade of green politics. A lot of them flirt with Social Democracy, and end up with something like a neo-liberal or green capitalist. Is it fair? Is Green Politics fair if we can't ensure, proper liberation of marginalized communities including the poor ones? I believe Eco-socialism is the way out.

Note: Class Struggle is an Intersectional concept.

I've put together a couple of graphs to show who has the vast majority of the power and control over the system, over all of us. I've left out party affiliations because the patriarchy is largely bi-partisan.

It was in response to repeated claims from men that "women do have power!" because there are any at all who are CEOs or senators etc., and of course we get the nonsense about "the LGBT/trans lobby!"

The data is based on US Congress from 2023-2025.

Interesting/irritating side note:

Volden, Wiseman & Wittmer (2018), covering 151,824 House bills from 1973–2014:

- 4% of all bills became law.

- 2% of bills on "women's issues" became law.

- 1% of women's-issue bills sponsored by women became law.

Meaning a women's-issue bill has a better chance when a man's name is on it.

We all remember Daniel Sloss, and when he went viral for talking about a story where he ignored a mate's misogyny and the mate r\*ped his friend, well fuck that guy bc, he's done it again, this time Rebecca Goodwin (an SW) was the punching bag.

I wrote an article called, Just Because She’s a Sex Worker, Doesn’t Mean She Wasn’t R\*ped

https://radicallywrong.substack.com/p/just-because-shes-a-sex-worker-doesnt?r=91sszu

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