caycepollard78:

Men, especially young men, need to realize women are not your inferior. In light of what I’ve been reading on a very powerful blog, I have become disgusted with my gender.

Hatefuck, slutbang, easy lay, whatever name you use to refer to demeaning women, casting them as nothing but sexual objects for your assumed entitled pleasure, it all comes down to one powerful word: rape.

You throw this word around in many different contexts, but the meaning remains the same: subjugating women through sexual power. Making her weak and subservient to your attack.

Rape is not sex. Rape is not funny. Rape is not slang. Rape is the ultimate removal of any power from the body, replaced by violence, hatred, and loathing.

Thus, men, I stand against you. I fight to equalize the power of the sexes. I recognize my cultural place, albeit against my will, as the more powerful gender. Only, this is accidental power. I only have it because of the random accident of being born with a Y chromosome.

But I fight against this forced power. I am a Feminist. I recognize the insecurity and weakness that drives male oppression against females. I know why you attack women who fight the same fight; telling them to kill themselves, restructuring their sexuality (like it’s a bad thing), calling them “fucking whores” and “dykes”.

It’s because we men are weak. We are afraid of sexuality of any kind. And we act out this deep seeded insecurity by violating women, physically and culturally.

I am a Feminist. I am male. I am disgusted by those in my gender—typically younger, college aged—who are so willfully ignorant about any sort of human right that they collapse all that is a woman into her sexuality.

So remember, even if she’s standing topless in the middle of a crowd, smiling seductively while slowly smoking a cigarette, she’s still not “asking” for it. At no point, ever, is she asking for it.

And if you justify your sexual insecurity by mocking her, verbally attacking her, slinging the worst vulgarities at her, she is all the more powerful.

Because we are the weak ones. We have the mutated chromosome. We are nature’s big joke. And, eventually, we will no longer be needed.

Feminism is the radical idea that women are people. Remember that. And remember what a Feminist looks like. They look like me.

And there are more of us than you think.