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@Dr_TheHistories I wish I could have met her. She’s unbelievably insightful and courageous.

In 1986, a city council meeting in Minneapolis became a battlefield over a question nobody wanted to ask out loud: Could pictures be violence? Andrea Dworkin stood at the center of the storm. She wasn't there to make friends. She never was. The radical feminist writer had just co-authored legislation that would allow women to sue pornographers for civil rights violations. Not obscenity. Not indecency. Discrimination. She argued that pornography wasn't speech—it was a weapon, a training manual for male dominance, documentation of women's subordination. The room erupted. Conservatives loved her proposal for all the wrong reasons. Liberal feminists accused her of betraying sexual freedom. Free speech advocates called her a censor. Sex-positive feminists said she was erasing women's agency. Dworkin didn't flinch. She had spent her career saying things that made people uncomfortable. That violence against women wasn't random—it was systematic. That legal equality meant nothing if women's bodies remained territories for male conquest. That being asked to smile through your own oppression wasn't liberation. Her books read like indictments. Woman Hating. Pornography: Men Possessing Women. Intercourse—the one everyone misread as claiming all sex was rape, though she insisted that wasn't what she meant. She wrote sentences that landed like punches: "Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us." The personal attacks came fast. Critics mocked her weight, her appearance, everything except her actual arguments. She was called man-hating, sex-negative, dangerous. Some of the cruelest attacks came from other feminists who feared her radicalism would destroy the movement's credibility. But here's what nobody could deny: she was asking questions that wouldn't go away. What does consent mean when your whole life has been shaped by systems designed to limit your choices? Is equality within an oppressive system actually freedom? What would women's lives look like if they were truly liberated, not just protected or tolerated? Andrea Dworkin died in 2005. The arguments she started haven't ended. Every debate about pornography's effects, about sex work under capitalism, about where protection ends and control begins—she mapped that territory first. She wasn't asking to be agreed with. She was demanding that we look at what we'd rather ignore. Dworkin's anti-pornography ordinances passed in Minneapolis and Indianapolis but were struck down as unconstitutional. Courts ruled they violated First Amendment protections, even though the legislation framed pornography as discrimination rather than obscenity. The legal battles became landmark free speech cases. Her personal life contradicted her critics' assumptions. She was married to John Stoltenberg, a gay man and feminist writer who later wrote "Refusing to Be a Man." Their relationship lasted decades and challenged simplistic readings of her work. She also survived domestic violence in her first marriage, which profoundly shaped her understanding of male power. Dworkin was arrested in 1965 during an anti-Vietnam War protest at the United Nations. While in the Women's House of Detention, she was subjected to a brutal internal examination. She later testified before a grand jury about the abuse, and her testimony contributed to a investigation into conditions at the facility. Despite being labeled "anti-sex," Dworkin wrote erotica early in her career and consistently argued she wasn't against sexuality—she was against subordination being eroticized and called sexuality. © Daughters of Time #drthehistories

Who wants to take bets on the collab with him and David Duke?

@CartoonsHateHer That’s just your average male feminist

We need woman exclusionary radical feminism. just a buncha dudes bro'ing out, cracking open a couple cold beers and discussing their favorite feminist literature.

@EvieLupine Yeah that’s exactly what she wrote. Good reading comprehension.

women are tender, delicate flowers who, biologically, only enjoy being handled like porcelain during sex due to their thin, inferior skin. pretending women like sex with tempo and force behind it is just porn brainwashing. all men love hurting women during sex.

@Woman4W @SwuishyTofu My main issue is that he’s hot as hell and that just seems wrong for Snape.

@SwuishyTofu Nothing about Snape required him to be white. He was described as white because he was conceived as white. If the author, screenwriter, producers, and investors don't care, why do you? Why do you NEED Snape to be white, when it was not at all central to his character concept?

Paapa Essiedu is a great actor but this is the wrong role. Get him in another - Remus, Kingsley, etc - because he's talented but he doesn't match the physical description for Snape in the slightest.

@brdgesbvrn crash n snitch 4 lyfe or whatever she said

are they ever going to address how gay this was

@MadelaineLucyH What do you MEAN we don’t talk about it? There are endless thought pieces and articles and books about this.

We don’t talk about it because it’s seen as deeply shameful and emasculating as a culture, but there’s enormous numbers of emotionally neglected, socially-stunted men out there dealing with the trauma of an upbringing that punished activities and play that aid developing emotional intelligence and emotional control. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve spoken to a man that not only can’t label the emotion he’s feeling, but feels deeply distressed by the idea of vocalising it or seeking help.

@woodenpicador Also that's still stealing, just from the hospital.

where does the idea that langdon was overprescribing and “just taking the extra” come from? I’ve seen it in a few places but I don’t know what it’s based on, because the lorazepam wasn’t taken with a prescription it was siphoned and returned as if not opened, and Louie’s pills—

@witchesflight Y'all have forgotten real House. It's kinda impressive that only one of his employees killed himself.

It’s absolutely killing me that Robby created a more hostile work environment than House did

@designmom That's why they love the military so much. They love being told what to do.

Of course it’s true. Males are the secondary sex and naturally submissive. Males are happiest in a drone role, where they are told exactly what to do. This is also why males are such horrible leaders.

@babayagawtf @chime_szn I wish. Unfortunately that's been shown to have a silencing effect on victims, especially because most rape takes place in the context of families.

@chime_szn need to up punishment for rape to death sentence fr

i really need people to, just for one day, leave their houses and randomly enter a criminal court. especially the sexual offences division. go there for a month and sit and listen, and tell me if you won't come out with anger in your veins.

@Sorelle_Arduino @WomenAreRealCAN Hopefully this will encourage him to stay offline

Absolutely no one looks at this man and sees a woman, he isn’t even trying anymore This is the face of a man who knows he doesn’t have to try, he can just bully women into submission This is what the patriarchy looks like

@Aella_Girl I think men have been pedophiles for thousands of years before the invention of hardcore pornography

i do wonder if totally preventing any access to porn had anything to do with it

@LizzyStarrrdust @GroyperHoliday He’s trying to speak from experience

@GroyperHoliday That's not how IQ works, hun

There are more low IQ men than there are low IQ women. It's science.

@glosswitch @ForWomenScot @DalgetySusan Continuation of the belief that feminists aren’t “real women”, because “real women” meekly accept whatever men tell them and that’s what being a woman is.

@ForWomenScot @DalgetySusan Struggling with the logic of "women never had a problem with it until these women had a problem with it"

The BS lads are getting their knickers in a twist about @DalgetySusan's piece on the rape crisis sector. They are falling back on the claim that there was no issue with including men in these services until nasty feminists got angry. Actually, as the new alliance & the foundation of Beira's Place shows, there was plenty of dissent for a very long time in the services, despite the messages from "head office". If it was such a "manufactured" problem why was there a disastrous fall out when they put a man in charge of Edinburgh RC? The Wadhwa debacle is proof enough that the "no issues" line was always a lie.

@lisavsworld So, no. You could have just said no.

@FUnredacted You can look up the evidence yourself. Here are your clues. Have fun. x.com/lisavsworld/st…

You're not meant to be in multiple long-term monogamous relationships.

@shadowmaster132 @theoceanblooms Did you watch the show? In that episode he admits to being misogynistic and apologizes. Really clear move on the part of the writers.

@theoceanblooms Tbh I thought the writers just let their own bias in, not that it was intentional. Like how the social worker got the mandatory reporting rules wrong. They're not subtle like this on almost anything else

people have actually been talking about robby’s misogyny since season one and getting dogpiled and ridiculed for it but I guess it’s reached a point where men can feel enlightened for noticing it and now we finally have permission to talk about this.

@the_corvidae That’s not shocking, do you not know what happens in Palestine?

@/Workshops4Gaza going from one of the most prolific advocates for Palestine on the platform to posting propaganda justifying child marriage/rape of girls as young as 9 is one of the worst downfalls I have ever seen of any account on here. It is genuinely horrifying to watch.

“So the woman hangs on, not with the delicacy of a clinging vine, but with a tenacity incredible in its intensity to the very persons, institutions, and values that demean her, degrade her, insist upon constraining and paralyzing the most honest expressions of her will and being.