A Bootlicker Says Wha?

Translation: "We support bootlicking misogyny in the name of looking cool on this page." {Peanut Gallery: Yass gurl, preach! So stunning and brave, you prostitution whore!}

This is the state of 3rd wave feminism. 🙄

Men simply do not say things like this to other men--as if there's even 2 slurs as degrading as these to describe them--let alone confuse those slurs with actual power. The fact that women conflate things like a positive body image or "their sexuality" with power is disturbing enough. Empowerment would be controlling the banks, the food supply, the nukes, the House and/or Senate. We don't even control our own reproductive organs. We comprise at least 50% of the population of the entire Earth, ffs. What's our excuse for being this low on the totem pole? Oh right, I guess we're too busy 'building each other up' with these nicety put-downs to notice just how little power we actually have, not to mention the slide backward into Stone Age superstition, the rise (again) of Christian fascism, the corporate coup of American politics & more "isms" than you can shake a stick at. You'd think we would be a little more concerned with our own oppression and less with rewarding the oppressor by pressuring other women to casually and mindlessly give their bodies to them. Koreans have the 4b movement; American women praise "sluts and whores". Which do you think will have the bigger impact on women's rights and social change?

.... and before you say it: No, calling yourself or other women sluts, whores, cunts or other hideous female-specific slurs does not = "taking back your power" from those words or the historically violent men who said/say them lol.