the part of the epstein thing that no one wants to admit is that it's not remotely an outlier unique to the obscenely wealthy. there's no conspiracy needed, this is the way patriarchy is

Look, you have to be real with yourself here: the hypothetical POC you're supposedly championing by leaning on them for your claims of 'but nazi country has culture and the food is good too!'... do they have the same rights the white citizens of that country do? Do they? Do they really?

it's a mistake to use framing in which "sex = good, no sex = bad," because this is also framing that benefits rape culture. sex is neutral, it is not even really one definable "thing" but a cluster of social and interpersonal practices of desire, bodily interaction, and yes sometimes power

“if you don’t placate men with sex, they’re going to destroy everything“ so women are correct to cut them out of their lives as much as possible?

we must go harder on the one and only acceptable answer bring gender freedom. trans liberation. women's liberation. ABSOLUTE body autonomy. total destruction of EVERY patriarchal structure and social attitude. nothing short of absolutely overturning everything. you will get no concessions.

i'm so fucking sick of liberal men playing coy and concern trolling about "birth rates" and "marriage rates." pretending they don't fully know that they're echoing right wing sentiment. you wanna talk about charlie kirk? he's whose footsteps you misogynists are following in.

notice how the primary "problem" these men name is women having filters and preferences for partners. they have nothing to say about sexual violence, growing right wing reactionary misogyny, the loss of roe & body autonomy etc as factors. those things are expected not to interrupt mens access to sex

"the solution is that younger women need to be willing to fuck older men!!!!" not idk both younger and older men should act like grown ups and treat their peers with respect and personhood

"do what you want with your own body" really should be the most basic fucking fundamental right of existing in a body, and yet!! everyone's body is the property of the nearest cis man who gets to treat all bodies under his authority as resources for his consumption and use

the right has BEEN saying out loud that abusing teenagers is good actually since the 1970s, it's just that the center and left can't quite bring themselves to unanimously disagree with this particular aspect of conservative sexual politics and has been laundering it too since the 80s-90s