i just saw a fb post where a man was arguing with a woman about the best way to make macarons and he kept insisting that she was wrong, and then eventually he was like “I’ve never personally made macarons, but if you think about it what I’m saying makes sense, i’m simply stating the obvious. i’m sure there are plenty of youtube tutorials that would show you the same thing.” and the woman replied by linking him to her instagram business page and she makes fuckin macaron towers for parties for a living and i’ve been laughing about it for a solid 5 minutes.
Men automatically assume they’re more of an expert on something than any woman on account of their dicks. I’ve never met such an ignorant and narcissistic creature as a male
I’ll never forget a time when a fb friend of mine posted that she’s on her way to hospital to give birth. Women commented with “good luck” and other encouraging messages. A man’s comment was advice on how to give birth.
You have got to be kidding me
So I was talking about Jekyll & Hyde (the book) at a writer’s museum while we were looking at an Robert Louis Stevenson exhibit. I was giving my take on Jekyll, and my brother tried to counter it. I countered back easily, and then he said “well I’ve never read the book”
My dude………..stop
my ex, whose baking experience was pretty much limited to frying premade biscuit dough in boy scouts to make ‘donuts’, would constantly try to correct me or give me advice on baking
i’m a fucking pastry chef
met a dude at a party who was talking about physics and asked if i’d ever listened to any online physics lectures bc he listened to all of this one series and they were so helpful and maybe i could learn some physics too
Men Explain Things to Me – a collection of essays worth reading!
Rebecca Solnit’s scathing but insightful collection of essays left me with a lot to think about. Throughout the book, she provided several fascinating points about the oppression of women in our modern-day society.
She first discussed the origin of the word mansplaning – how men take advantage of women by their words, an established power move. Then, she moved on to more serious ideas – that there is a consistent problem of violence of men against women in society. She used an example of a sexual assault by the head of a powerful government organization to show that the entire power system of the world is skewed. In fact, the struggles of disadvantaged countries reflect those of women. Is this a coincidence? I think not.
She questions our society’s ideals, like those of traditional marriage. The model of marriage puts the man in power, making the husband controls wife. The wife is almost made into a possession, while the man is the owner. Marriage equality is is where two people who love each other have the same rights and power. Contemporary marriage should be a partnership more than a conquering. Another societal ideal is how society has made women disappear – through family trees, names, and even physical confinement. When we tell girls to stay in, we do not question the men who make them do so.
Solnit begins to bring up a solution. Virginia Woolf, one of the first feminists, talked about embracing the darkness, or the unknown. She urged us to push forward for women’s liberation, so far that it is dangerous… a kind of limitless freedom. After all, women do not have credibility when it comes to their own experiences. Men will put them down because they are female. We must make the credibility for ourselves.
Now, feminists are rewriting the story! Women are uniting using the hashtag #yesallwomen to speak out against male oppression. Young feminists, the heart of the movement, are dreaming bigger and bolder, becoming scientists and leaders. Ultimately, the idea that women deserve the same rights as men has been already put out there, and more ideas will continue to shape the women’s rights movement more than we can imagine.
