Helloo :) have you seen the video ‘it’s only sexist when men do it’ ? my boyfriend (arghh) recently posted it on facebook, and i’m having trouble explaining why it’s wrong :/ if you get a chance could you help me explain it? Thanks xxx

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Well well. Welcome to ma revue. This is a blog run by a female identified human type person. I'm using this space to talk about gender studies, sex and sexuality, pronouns, orientations, erasure. The gender gap and the gender binary. The glass ceiling. The flood in the basement. Feminism, feminists, and the F-word. Women's rights and LGBT*QAI / GSM rights. Appropriation and oppression and cultural assimilation. Politics. I'm talking about mental health. I’m trying to call myself on my own bullshit and privilege. I'm thinking about how I can exist in the best way possible in a society where I feel oppressed both because of my gender and my sexuality. I want to be a professional queer and a freelance amante and a woman and an activist and so far I have managed to combine all these things in such a fashion as to generate zero income.

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January 30, 2012

hideouspenguinboy asked: Helloo :) have you seen the video 'it's only sexist when men do it' ? my boyfriend (arghh) recently posted it on facebook, and i'm having trouble explaining why it's wrong :/ if you get a chance could you help me explain it? Thanks xxx

Hmmm… There are lots of long and detailed reasons why that is UTTER bull, but the big cat daddy reason is this:

SEXISM = prejudice, with a side of power

Women* are sometimes angry, and they are sometimes mean, and they can direct that at men. Lots of the time, that anger is a response to a life lived in the oppressive and violent space that patriarchal norms constantly places [people who aren’t men] in. Rage is self-preservation. Sometimes this (totally legitimate) anger = prejudice against men, but since women* don’t / have never had a systematic, culturally ingrained power over men, that shit ain’t sexism.

<3 youdon’tlooklikeafeminist

*and other people who are oppressed by patriarchal norms.