I’m trying to find good content creators

I just like… don’t fully trust so many of them. I feel like coco is genuine in her videos

But I also watch a bit of public offender but he’s a man so I can’t be certain

And I did watch princella but she gives so many red flags I kinda kept one foot out the door while soaking some of the valuable stuff

I did look into some of her controversies and found she may in fact not be trustworthy but the apparent feminist channels critiquing her do weird shit like quoting Chris brown or bringing flawed villain on (I’m not saying she’s definitely bad or has nothing good to offer) but as far as I know she came under fire for being a Trump voter while also posting decenter men content ???? Like what.

I feel pulled in every direction

I run a feminist fashion brand that makes comfortable clothes with a radical message, started on a shoestring budget and built entirely by myself.

A few months ago in Berlin, an old acquaintance approached me to “talk about investing,” which quickly revealed itself as bait as he suggested discussing it on “vacation together”, never intending to actually support the brand, but to use my company.

This is the dynamic my work fights against: a system where women are expected to trade more than their labor to access resources. I looked it up: globally, only about one percent(1%!) of startups founded solely by women receive funding, while men around me raise money effortlessly for mediocre projects without even delivering results.

I know I need investment to grow, but I refuse to compromise my values or accept these conditions. Has anyone else faced this, particularly women founders, and how do you navigate raising funds in a system built against us?

And I noticed that one massive living space with just a couple of skilled cooks cooking for everyone and sharing resources is way way more efficient than a bunch of nuclear households where half of your workers are spending all their time cooking and cleaning for just themselves and a partner.

I figure a video game is way too simplistic compared to real life and I doubt it is really meant to be such an accurate representation of reality, but I’m still fairly new to learning about how humans live outside of patriarchy so it got me wondering if patriarchy and nuclear families are really that fucking inefficient and stupid and not simply oppressive to women.

I hope that makes sense how I wrote it out because I know how stupid it felt to actually write it out.

I know absolutely jack about how communism works or looks in practice. I know it’s defined as the people owning the means of production but it doesn’t compute with me how it looks or plays out

But I see the discourse online currently saying it’s a solution to capitalism

But is it? I heard it’s another patriarchal concept so is it really just another exploitative system that simply rivals capitalism (thus all the heavy propaganda against it from fascists)?

If that’s the case then it seems like people on Reddit constantly arguing about it are never addressing the root problem (patriarchy) and just trying to trade one bad situation for another

I hope someone here who understands better than I do can help make this easier to understand.

Let’s be real for a second.

Men have controlled governments, religions, economies — nearly every major institution in history. But the one thing they can’t do is create life. They can’t give birth. They can’t carry children. And I truly believe that deep down, this creates a kind of womb envy that fuels misogyny.

Organized religion called women “unclean” for menstruating, for giving birth — for doing something men could never do. And instead of honoring it, they demonized it. They wrote myths where women were the ones who brought sin into the world (Eve), and turned female desire or power into something dangerous.

And let’s not forget: women were blamed not just for “tempting” men, but for being the very cause of sin. Why? Because men couldn’t control their own urges, and rather than take responsibility, they blamed women’s bodies.

To me, misogyny isn’t just about power — it’s about envy, fear, and insecurity. And I think it’s time we admitted that womb envy isn’t just a theory — it’s real, and it’s everywhere.

Curious to hear what others think. Am I alone in this?

I keep on seeing posts like this on Pinterest and other social platforms and everyone in the comments of such posts are always in agreement + applauding men for the bare minimum. Doing this places straight white men on a pedestal as if they can exist without the qualms of the political climate. It subconsciously places the ‘straight white male’ as the default and frankly divides us more. Anyone have any other thoughts on this? Ive just seen things like this so much and it just really annoys me.

I rarely see anyone talking about this, I live in the UK and we have a fair amount of muslim citizens, but what I see a lot of the time is women fully covered head to toe and their (young) husbands wearing jeans and a t-shirt.. not their religious clothing (I generally see older men wearing their religious attire), but women are expected to not show anything but their face.. and sometimes not even that. It is deemed sinful and shameful to not cover up, which is kinda manipulation if you think about it 😐 fear mongering, saying you will go to hell if you don't cover your ankles

How is this equal? How is this fair to the women who want to have their own unique styles and looks? Their looks belong to their husbands in the quran, not to themselves.

And the fact that many people want sharia law in the UK? Many people would much prefer to hate on Western ideology even though it is much more free than some other places.

The reason I believe that women have been indoctrinated via quran ( and Christian bible a bit but thats for another post ) is because we know these bibles have been changed to suit their learders ideology, Iran before their awful transformation, women had educations they wore skirts and had free will just as men did, now they are punished for singing, talking, dancing, being seen by anyone that is not their husbands or family, and locked in their houses.

if god [theoretically if he's real] wanted us to cover up, he'd give us thick fur, not naked bodies..

Not to mention places like Afghanistan and Iran killing or beating women for not wearing the hijab and not even letting them protest peacefully about the laws of it. People are under the idea that 'this is just their religion?' But thats just an excuse to let them treat women like shit. You probably don't wanna get involved because it's not your culture or your race, but that's just ignorance to blatant oppression of women.

Please give me your take on this, especially if you are muslim yourself. I will be as respectful as humanly possible

Dear men, look. We don’t dress for you. We dress for ourselves and/or for the weather.

I used to (and still am) a big show/movie fan. But, since getting more and more into feminism I struggle. Women are always being treated like absolute shit in everything it feels like, either they're treated like shit or they're so poorly written that I want to bang my head in a wall. Its gotten to a point where I find it hard to really watch anything, is there anything good? I've only been watching Dororo and the Rurouni Kenshin movies for weeks as they're pretty much my only ones I tolerate and I'm getting sick of it a bit. Is there anything I can watch that won't make me want to bury my head in the sand?

Everyone in The Walking Dead fan base HATES Lori with a passion, so I was expecting to hate her too before watching. Well, I’ve recently finished season 3 of TWD and I didn’t hate her one bit. The way people talk about her you’d swear she was a horrific, evil villain. But every single one of the choices she made made sense to me.

It’s so funny how Shane, a man who literally attempted SA, doesn’t even get 1% of the hate that Lori gets. In fact, none of the male characters get nearly as much hate as the female characters.

A male character kills, rapes, lies and cheats? He‘s just misunderstood.

A female character is slightly annoying and doesn’t always make the best decisions under immense pressure? She’s an evil, manipulative bitch.

(Same goes for Skyler White in BB)

I am SO fucking sick of the hypocrisy and double standards.

Unhinged, financial logic that men just don't understand - and that's the whole point.

Behind the ridiculous reasoning is a powerful truth: Women finally have the agency to choose themselves.

But what have $699 hairdryers got to do with declining birthrates?

I've seen a bunch of the sexualized breast cancer awareness merch around lately, most recently a shirt with this slogan on it worn by a guy who looked like he was at least 50. My MIL battled this awful illness for 20 years. It's an ugly-ass disease just like all cancers are. I'm glad there's been so many advances. But I can't help but notice that there hasn't been as many jokey, sexually charged marketing campaigns around colon cancer screening. And "save your ass" is right there. I guess it's only good for sexualized humor when it's an illness affecting mostly women. It's disgusting that even our diseases are sexualized.

It wasn’t always normal. A little over 100 years ago, women didn’t shave at all because long dresses covered everything and nobody thought about it.

Then fashion changed sleeveless dresses and shorter skirts started showing underarms and legs. Razor companies saw a chance to sell more and started advertising that body hair on women was “unfeminine.” During WWII, when stockings were hard to get, bare legs became common and shaving really took off.

So it wasn’t some natural thing women chose it was mostly marketing mixed with fashion trends that made shaving the “standard.”

Add in some epic music and you’ve got the ideal place for women to go!

Hey, I am already sort of well-versed in how deeply rooted misogyny is in religion; however, my articulation and just foundational knowledge need a lot of refinement, so I am asking for any essay, paper, article, video essay, debate or book (or anything, honestly- long reddit posts too) that explores this in depth and can help me enrich my arguments.

The literature or source can focus on challenging any abrahamic religion- but I'd prefer if it refered to islam cause thats the state religion of my country...(I'd rather explore what I am directly interacting with first, before diving deeper) I come from a heavily Islamic environment where either people are shoving bigotry down my throat or trying to glorify Islam every day- and honestly it's taking a terrible toll on me...

I have gone through multiple forums and also engaged in debates, but I really just need some formal or just organised source exploring this with nuance that can help build a solid foundation.

Also, to clarify, I am not asking for works that only focus on disproving religion (like the god delusion), but ones that take a deep dive and prove religion to be heavily misogynistic.

Thank you very much.

So I was just trying to sleep after this argument with my brother. But couldn't sleep and ended up crying a lot. I am 20f and he is 26.

Today morning when I was getting ready for college , he saw that I am wearing a jeans and a crop top. He said "don't I have a top smaller than this one" as a sarcasm and scolded me for wearing that. The top was short I agree but enough to cover my body. No part of my body was visible. But still he insisted and made me cry. Because of this I didn't even go to college.

And tbh I didn't bought those jeans and top. My elder sister did. And I wear the outfits they buy , I don't go to market and buy any clothes for myself. The College has made a uniform compulsory and that's a pair of pants and shirt. But I was not wearing them from past some days because I needed new shoes.

There is an outfit girls wear in my country called "suit and salwar". My brother asks me to wear that always cuz he thinks all the girls wear that outfit here mostly. But there are many girls who wear jeans. I said it's not like I am wearing revealing clothes, my whole body is covered up. And the people who are gonna stare WILL stare even if I will wear "suit salwar".

I asked him to buy me five pairs of "suit salwar" and my own shoes until then I won't go to college. I even said that I won't wear that uniform and if the teacher said anything to me for not wearing the uniform I will just tell them how toxic he is.

I just want some freedom. I am even depressed because of my dad . He just keep fighting and destroy peacefulness at home. It's another topic tho but I wanna let you all know that I even ran away from home once because how toxic this environment was getting but my brother and cousin found me and brought me back to this cage. I just wanna get rid of my family and get out of this cage. Please help me somebody.

Correction: WOMEN were forced to birth during horrible historic events. They had no rights, no money and no education

They simply had no other choice but to reproduce

This is in response to people who are choosing to be childfree due to all the shit happening right now.

I highly doubt every woman through out history wanted to be a mom during war, famine, disease etc.

From what I remember in this sub-reddit there have been some heated posts regarding Islam and modesty clothing (hijab, niqab etc. etc.).

Let me just clear up that I'm not a Muslim and I have no experience with the religion as a whole as I grew up in a mostly Christian country.

However, these questions have been lately on my mind:

1. Maybe this sounds stupid but do you think that these outfits may have functional and cultural influence other than Islam and modesty? Because it seems like they were always a good protection from the heat and sand such as long robes for men in Arabia and other countries with similar climate (yes I am aware that women's robes were also a thing e.g. in Afghanistan but women were forbidden to wear them) but the burqa for example seems really useful to wear in a desert climate and environment under specific environmental conditions (maybe way more rarely I wouldn't know how useful it would be). Do you think the complete abolition of them is needed? Because it just seems to me like in a perfectly equal society women could reclaim them as something functional and not as a sign of modesty and oppression. I just have been thinking are we talking of the complete abolition of such modesty garments only because of men? If men didn't factor in do you think women wouldn't be wearing them at all?

2. This was inspired by a reel from a source that I was unable to track that I watched some weeks ago. If I remember correctly it was an outfit used in Latin America by women to fight the colonization. The garment was banned because women were using them to gather information against the oppressors and they couldn't be hold accountable for it since they could never find the culprit. Maybe there's a way they could be used as a means of protecting anonymity and freedom in a world that is becoming more and more all about surveillance against activism. Something similar to modern day full-face masks for women but even better since now there are odds that the eyes and body could play a role for telling people apart.

I dont understand the helping men part especially, why cant men understand themselves what we are saying and their stupid thinking should be our business like women didnt try to tell them what we want nicely for years. Did it help? NO

for me it’s any mention of the ‘modern woman’ or an implication that all women cheat/lie to their partners

I've been giving this a lot of thought since my first and only relationship ended.
We dated for 3 years, and he was my first love. That relationship taught me a lot of things, and the most important thing it taught me was that I don't ever want to be in one again.

I was happy with him, but sometimes it felt like something was...off? He wasn't a bad guy, he was deeply in love with me and he still is. But sometimes he'd say insensitive things, without even realizing they're insensitive. That was a crazy awakening to how emotionally immature men are. Society allows them to thrive in their incompetence, but it never grants us the same privilege. So chances are, if you do end up with men, there's a really good chance you're going to have to explain a lot of things to him from the emotional perspective, and that's a lot of labour we shouldn't have to do.

Love as a concept sounds really cool, but it's not real. Love is not unconditional, like we are led to believe. Love is transactional. Men and women love each other because of what they DO for each other, not for who they are. Be it beauty, emotional labour, financial security, it's always love in exchange for something.
But if you get sad, angry or sick, this love disappears.
Is anyone loved simply for existing?

And let's not even talk about the consequences of getting it wrong. Marital rape, domestic violence, and ending up with a misogynist who makes you do all the house work....having CHILDREN with someone like THAT. And this isn't even some far off case, the statistics show just how common this is. You think it could never be you, until it is.
Divorce is the best case scenario in these cases.

It just seems like....the odds are stacked against your favour. Sure, you could find a unicorn nice guy who actually loves you unconditionally, who is intelligent and doesn't make you do unneccessary emotional labour for him. But he would still be raised in a patriarchal society, he would have had to actively fight it like we do.
It shouldn't be that rare, but it is. Is it worth it to pursue this man when chances are, he doesn't even exist and you're never going to find him?

What are even the consequences of being single forever? Loneliness? You can get a cat (or two), you can live with other women who feel the same way as you....the consequences of ending up with the wrong man are, in my opinion, far worse.

Is it REALLY worth it to be dating in 2025?

Women are aware of just how potentially harmful a relationship with a man could be, yet there is a cognitive dissonance from the harsh reality because of a fantasy we are sold from a young age.

Well, I don't buy the fantasy anymore. I'd rather be happy and single than dating the wrong person and heartbroken.
And odds are, it's going to be the wrong person, because the "right guy" doesn't exist, and if he does exist, he's out there somewhere in a faraway land and it's too awfully difficult to find him.

Does anyone else feel this way?