I hate that the main reason for hating feminism is that feminists are ‘pushing for a matriarchy’. It shows that lots of people recognise that we currently live in a patriarchal society but the idea of living in a matriarchy of the same intensity terrifies them greatly.
Effectively, they’re saying that they understand how women are treated in our current society and the thought of being treated in a similar way scares them. And they’re so damn worried by the idea that they actively push away any feminist ideas because they don’t care that women have to endure that shit just as long as they can keep their privilege and stay on the top of the hierarchy they created.
~ terfs stop reblogging this challenge ~
“Because traumatized people often have trouble sensing what is going on in their bodies, they lack a nuanced response to frustration. They either react to stress by becoming “spaced out” or with excessive anger. Whatever their response, they often can’t tell what is upsetting them. This failure to be in touch with their bodies contributes to their well-documented lack of self-protection and high rates of revictimization and also to their remarkable difficulties feeling pleasure, sensuality, and having a sense of meaning. People with alexithymia can get better only by learning to recognize the relationship between their physical sensations and their emotions, much as colorblind people can only enter the world of color by learning to distinguish and appreciate shades of gray.”— Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“How can I teach her some way of being human that won’t destroy her?”— Margaret Atwood, from Selected Poems II
