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(CW: SA) The people our system puts in positions of power
Manhattan prosecutors say a private equity executive turned his New York City apartment into a torture chamber of “grotesque sexual violence.”
Yet another horrible case involving violent SA that has been ongoing for a long time. Content warning for descriptions of what he had done to the victims.
The part where it states how this monster re-enacted his victims trauma is something I can relate to from my own experience of SA.
Alexandra Kollontai - New General Thread for the 1st-4th of April 2025
Alexandra Kollontai, born on this day in 1872, was a Marxist feminist revolutionary who served as People's Commissar for Social Welfare in the Soviet Union and, later in life, as a diplomat for the USSR abroad.
Alexandra was born into a wealthy family of Ukrainian, Russian, and Finnish background, acquiring a fluency in both Russian and Finnish early on. This experience would later assist her in her career as a Soviet diplomat.
In 1895, Kollontai read August Bebel's "Woman and Socialism", which was a major influence on her thinking. In 1896, she helped fundraise in support of a mass textile strike in St. Petersburg, retaining connections with the women textile workers of St. Petersburg for the rest of her career.
In the years leading up to 1917, Kollontai was active as a Marxist theoretician, educator, and anti-war activist (opposing World War I, specifically). During this time, she established contact with Vladimir Lenin and gave a lengthy speaking tour in the U.S., sharing a stage
Reading common feminist discourse as an intersectional person is tiring.
One subject within feminism that I, unfortunately, decided to take a look at common discourse for is whether men can be feminists or not.
Right from the get-go, I noticed that this discourse is insanely binarist, cisheteronormative, and non-intersectional. It's typically a separatist tendency to put forth that men cannot be feminists due to them lacking the experience of life as a woman, but this has many flaws:
1. It's a matter of semantics: This is just a convoluted effort for feminists who do not actually understand feminist theory and ideology to tie support for a tendency to being personally impacted by that tendency. If a man supports woman's liberation, whether or not you call him a "feminist" is just within a label, but his ideas are in the direction of such a tendency, just like how one can oppose something like sinophobia without being Chinese. Feminism is often defined by an ideological stance that supports women's liberation, regardless of one's experience (or lack th
Do you ever stop to think about how cis men can just walk around shirtless without getting arrested?
And then unironically say that sexism isn't a thing anymore?
