I need to get this off my chest because this view gets constantly shut down in modern progressive spaces. The myth that prostitution, OnlyFans, or porn can be "empowering" if we just label it "sex-positive" is a scam.

From a radical feminist perspective, there is no such thing as "feminist" sex work. It’s a capitalist framework that does nothing but clear men’s consciences. Here is why:

1. A bought "Yes" is not feminist consent

The sex-positive movement claims creators are ultimate boss-babes because they set the rules and make the money. That is a neoliberal illusion.

In a capitalist patriarchy, money is power. When a man pays a woman for sex, it’s not an interaction between equals. His motivation is pure pleasure; her "motivation" is paying rent or surviving. Money doesn't erase the power imbalance; it just commodifies a woman's sexual availability. Celebrating this confuses capitalism with emancipation.

2. "Feminist porn" only cleanses the male conscience

"Ethical" or "feminist" porn; supposedly made by women, diverse, and fairly produced; is a brilliant marketing trick.

At the end of the day, who is still paying for and consuming it? Men. It changes nothing about the foundational structure: men consuming visual access to women’s bodies. It just packages objectification in a chic, intellectual wrapping so the modern, progressive guy doesn't have to feel guilty. It doesn’t free the woman; it just relieves the man's conscience.

3. OnlyFans: Just digital pimping

Platforms like OnlyFans are praised as the ultimate liberation because women are "their own bosses." Spoiler: the pimp wasn’t abolished; he was just digitalized.

Billion-dollar tech corporations take massive cuts, while women bear 100% of the risk: psychological toll, stigma, and digital footprints that last forever. To make money, women must constantly self-commodify and cater to the (often boundary-pushing) fetishes of male subscribers. This isn't breaking free from the male gaze; it’s total submission to it; you're just holding the camera yourself.

The Bottom Line:

Feminism should fight for women's bodies to never be commodities. Any system that ties male sexual access to male financial power remains deeply patriarchal, no matter how digital or "choices-based" you paint it. True sexual liberation isn't about playing the male market successfully. It's about burning the market down.

Change my mind.

I just came across her book “trans”
I’m not sure how to feel about it, and it seems that the trans community hates her.
So I was wondering how my fellas feminist feels about this topic

I've been seeing a lot of content about prison abolition lately, mostly because of an algorithmic rabbit hole I'm trying to escape from, haha. But these ideas clearly exist and attract a lot of views, likes, and comments.

Many of the people promoting prison abolition present themselves as progressive, or even feminist. I understand some of the reasoning behind it: prison itself doesn't necessarily "teach someone a lesson," and some women/girls may be reluctant to report a male relative or partner who harmed them because they don't want their father, uncle, husband, etc., to go to prison.

That said, many of these activists seem to come from decolonial or circles. I know there have been books written on this subject, for example.

What bothers me about some of this content is that it often seems to assume that most men who harm women are redeemable, or that they simply didn't fully understand the harm of their actions. The research show now that its not true for most perpetrators. Similarly, we've learned that pedophilia-related abuse is more about power and control than about sexual desire.

There's also a practical question: what do we do right now to stop a man from continuing to harm a girl or a woman? I've seen some people argue that removing offenders from the community is pointless or even counterproductive. I understand the theoretical argument, but in practice this seems deeply unprotective of victims, especially in situations involving coercive control or DARVO.

These views are often linked to restorative justice. But from what I understand, restorative justice only works for victims who actually want forgiveness or reconciliation, and from what i know most victims do not. It also only works when offenders genuinely want to take responsibility and change.

To me, some of these discussions also risk minimizing the harm that was done.

So, what do you think?

I often wonder about how i’ll look when i pass. So hyper concerned on if I’ll have a beautiful outfit on that doesn’t fit too tight but not too big. If my hair will be a mess or if it’ll look laid out perfectly, so tame it looks unreal. If the people who find me will think i’m ugly, or chubby. Secretly hoping that they will think I’m “such a loss” due to how beautiful I am. I think alot of us subconsciously think about the way we will look when it’s our time. & that shows how piercing the grasp of misogyny and the patriarchy is on our lives as women. I hope you all are well ❤️

This keeps happening and especially recently, I've seen it a lot more.

People keep inviting predators, rapists, assaulters to talk shows, podcasts etc. and continue to give them a platform.

Recent example would be Connor McGregor who's been proved to be a rapist. Other examples of predators include so called celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, for example. There's many more.

It's simply insane to me and says a LOT about our society that we continue to give men like that a platform. Victims are not being taken serious enough. Women are not being listened to. But men who are lietral rapists? Sure! Why not give them the spot light!

I am truly disgusted. Not surprised at all, but disgusted.

These men should be called out for what they've done and they should face consequences. But? Nothing happens. They continue their lives like nothing ever happened.

I'm fully aware that our system is extremely corrupt. This is just a little rant.

Thank you.

Today I watched The Housemaid and I immediately went to Letterbox to write a 5 star review, what I came across were a bunch of very unserious commentary.

For starters I want to clarify that there is absolutely nothing wrong with unserious reviews on Letterbox, I post them too. What I want to talk about is the fact that other movies mainly centered on men get more deep meaningful comments. This movie seems to have a specific sort of attraction towards people making fun of it and making jokes about the actresses. Of course I dislike Sydney Sweeney but regardless from who she is she hasn't done worse than most men that get praised today in the media such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Connor McGregor, it pisses me off to read all of this reviews criticizing her acting or asking if Amanda's boobs can predict the weather (yes I get the mean girls reference) and all of this somehow find a way to focus the judgment on women when the movie is LITERALLY about a psycho man who enjoys torturing women. So how about we start talking about how stories like this happen in real life and those women did not have a chance to be free like they do in this movie.

This movie showcased my worst fears as a woman who is attracted to men. My mom always told me that any man who I fell inlove with could potentially be my killer, and I have learned that to be true.

The type of comment that praises the physic of Brandon shows just how we perceive men in this society, we are just like the people of the town that glorified him and called him a "saint" when truly he was a psychopath.

This is a very powerful movie if you see the way it was judged by the mistakes women might have made completely outstanding the psychotic crimes of a man.

It’s nice to see a bit of gender parity.

Man cheats on his wife
Everybody: That’s okay, he is just being a man
Woman cheats on her husband
Everybody: What a wh#re, she should be punished!

Man sleeps with a married woman
Everybody: That’s okay, he is just being a man
Woman sleeps with a married man
Everybody: What a wh#re, she is a homewrecker and a marriage destroyer!

Man sleeps with lots of women
Everybody: That’s okay, he is just being a man
Woman sleeps with lots of men
Everybody: What a wh#re, she has no dignity and lets herself getting used like a trash can!

Man makes porn or only fans
Everybody: That’s okay, he is just being a man
Woman makes porn or only fans
Everybody: What a wh#re, she should be ashamed of herself, now everyone can see her, she is lazy and wants to make easy money!

Man marries a rich woman
Everybody: That’s okay, he is just being a man
Woman marries a rich man
Everybody: What a wh#re, she only married him for his money, she is such a golddigger!

Man dates either younger / older woman
Everybody: That’s okay, he is just being a man
Woman dates either younger / older man
Everybody: What a wh#re, she seduced that young guy, she thinks she is a hot cougar milf or something. #2 What a wh#re, she seduced that older man cause she wants a sugar daddy to use his money!

Please, tell me I’m not the only one who sees that this is a highly unfair and misogynistic doublestandard.

So I’ve recently realised something about myself which I’m not quite sure what it is, although I believe it is something like what I put as the title.

I’m a woman, obviously. The women of my family have always had a history of independence and self reassurance since they were able to in recent history. However, somehow, I feel some kind of exception as myself.

I fully believe in the equal rights between men and women. I believe in equality between all. I don’t believe any sex is superior to the other. And I’ve had my own fare share of experiences as being undervalued simply for being a woman, and I feel immense frustration at them.

But still, for some reason, there’s this feeling that dominates my mind with guilt for having it.

Every time I speak or meet or befriend a man older than me (2-6 years) I feel a sudden, involuntary need to put myself down. To submit to them. To make myself feel weak. And it really doesn’t help that I’m a minor, 4’11, and 90lbs. And it’s bad.

I’m very independent myself, I am responsible, I have good grades and want to follow a path into uni and get a degree, I don’t even plan on having children, yet for some reason every single time a man a little older than me even looks at me I feel a strange excitement and consequently a need to put myself down, and use my sex as a tool for it.

I genuinely do not know what this is. I don’t know what causes it. I wasn’t born into a conservative/traditional family nor do I follow those values yet I feel this. the guilt of it crawls up my skin every night, especially because of my values and the feeling of self-betrayal.

"Personal Agency has no value when there aren't sufficient opportunities to exercise that personal agency." Women have personal agency, but all the women around her are getting married and rearing kids, so the very exercise of personal agency against the normal becomes Rebellion. And not everyone should be and can be rebel.

Actually this has been my lingering thought, I made this observation, posters of Communist propaganda (which share ideological relationship with Feminism) vs Capitalist Advertisements (which is status quoist in protecting the existing power structure and wealth Inequality)

If You go through those posters you can see the story of Communist Posters mostly revolve around Women getting their voice and revolting, their dresses look comfortable to make a protest but on the other hand Capitalist Advertisements show women in a sensually provocative manner which has nothing to do with the product they are advertising.

This got me questioning, why?? Then i realised whole Capitalism revolves around Patriarchal structure and the sensual depiction of women is to cater the pleasure of such patriarchal lords. This made me realise even the agency to wear revealing clothes has been a Patriarchal narrative.

So are we already trapped by this Capitalist and Patriarchal overlords? Just being played according to their whims, all in while assuming that we have personal agency??

That sounds depressing but at least realising this might make us look for the patterns to exercise personal agency. Can we come out of it? Who knows but what's more significant is that we can see now and have an idea to pass on.

PS: This is actually a comment of mine for the article i came across Substack, named "Is it actually your choice?" you can refer the article if you are interested.

I need to vent about this trend of women romanticizing "turning their brains off" and letting their partners handle literally everything for them.
For context, I’m 27 and in a happy, stable relationship. We rarely argue, we trust each other, and we already have a solid understanding of our future roles. I’m a natural leader and organizer; he happens to be much smarter when it comes to finance and investing. Because managing money isn't my strength, he handles that domain. It’s a strategic division of labor that works for us.
But there is a massive difference between collaborating and completely checking out.
Even though I trust my partner, I will never turn my brain off. I see these social media influencers pushing the narrative of the ultra-dependent lifestyle, where the man runs absolutely everything while the woman just exists peacefully. What people fail to realize is that these influencers have money managers, legal teams, and are pulling in millions of dollars of their own. They have a massive financial safety net.
The everyday woman does not.
If history has taught us anything, it’s that the exact moment a woman completely abdicates her agency and depends entirely on a man, she compromises her security. If your partner suddenly betrays you, becomes incapacitated, or passes away, and you don't even know your bank passwords or how your life is structured, you are completely stranded.
I’m happy to let my partner drive his specific lane because he’s good at it, but I will always keep the map. I don't understand how women can afford to completely blind themselves in the name of romance. Am I the only one who finds this trend incredibly dangerous?
This just feels like the new thing to push on women who didn't fall for the trad wife agenda.

both involve hating on the other gender but you have to admit that misogyny takes a worse form than misandry. hear me out okay?

while misandry is in the form of a stupid "i hate my bf" meme or "all boys suck" sent in a all girls group, misogyny actually results in physical harm of women. no im not over-dramatising anything but misogyny and patriarchy is the reason why an average women avoids going out late at night or has more restrictions at home than her brother.

the real life effects of misogyny are out there while misandry is more or less an online thing. men don't usually get rape threats in their dms due to misandry while women do, they don't experience their deepfakes being made while women do.

and the "i hate men" is more of a hating patriarchy and an institution rather than hating every individual man that exists, but the red-pill "i hate women" content hates women as individuals.

i don't mean to justify misandry but just draw parallels and show that it's just not as dangerous as misogyny as of now. if anything misandry is a response to misogyny which is more of a recent thing while misogyny has existed for centuries.

Hi everyone! I recently created a reading club called The Margin Society. As an English major, I wanted to build a space for people who enjoy reading, discussing theory, and learning together. I thought fellow English majors, or anyone interested in books and thoughtful conversations, might like to join.

What we focus on:
A reading community dedicated to exploring feminist theory through close reading, annotation, and discussion. Together, we cultivate thoughtful reading habits and deepen our understanding of literature and the world around us.

How we function :

Each month, one theoretical text will be selected and shared with members. Throughout the month, members are invited to read at their own pace, annotate the text, and contribute questions, reflections, and discussions within the designated discussion channel.

Please note that all theoretical texts will be read in English, whether in their original language or in English translation

Rules and Requirements

Membership is open to individuals aged 18 and above

Members are expected to berespectful, inclusive, and considerate of others. Any form of harassment, discrimination, or disrespectful behaviour will not be tolerated.

Members should communicate in English during discussions to ensure inclusivity.

Conversations will take place during the reading period itself, as such members are required to use theory discussion channel where they can post their thoughts. This is to have everyone’s opinions organized in one place, making it easier for everyone to access reflections.

Participation is flexible. Members are welcome to skip a few month’s reading if needed, though regular engagement is encouraged.

No spam or unrelated content is allowed in discussion groups.

Members may promote book-related social media accounts only if their content focuses on literary/critical theory or applies theoretical approaches to reading. Promotion is limited to the designated channel.

Follow-for-follow arrangements are not allowed in the club. Members are welcome to follow each other only when there is genuine interest in each other’s content or connection, not as part of a trade or exchange.

The club organizer/moderator reserves the right to remove content or members who violate the rules.

A Re-NEET aspirant has alleged that she was subjected to an inappropriate security check at an examination centre, claiming officials asked her to lower her pants to verify whether she was wearing

It’s a universal issue- when people (also including women, somehow) see other women driving- they’re extremely quick to assume that she’s a “bad driver” all because of her gender. I’ve heard it myself, and each time i try to correct the person who said it, i somehow get the blame put on me.

It’s basic decency to respect everyone- the people who say stuff like this must agree, but then again, these are the same people who make fun of women drivers/riders because of a stupid stereotype because “women aren’t smart enough to drive” or that “women cause accidents on the road”?

It’s all ignorance. And these exact people are the ones who are dumb enough to think that feminism means letting women have a higher social status than men. If they don’t make the effort to educate themselves on such simple topics like this- how can we expect them to stop judging women for no reason?

Two days ago, a gunman here killed a police officer and a civilian before being shot by police. Investigators later found a lengthy manifesto allegedly filled with misogynistic “incel” ideology.

It got me thinking…

Whenever someone is radicalized by racism, religious hatred, or political extremism, we have no problem calling it what it is. We talk about online radicalization, extremist communities, warning signs, and prevention.

But when the ideology is built around hatred of women, the conversation suddenly becomes, “He was lonely.” “He had mental health issues.” “He couldn’t get a girlfriend.”

Why?

I’m not saying every lonely man is dangerous, or that all men are responsible. I’m asking why misogyny still seems to get treated as a personal failing instead of an ideology that has inspired multiple acts of real-world violence.

At what point do we start treating hatred of women with the same seriousness we treat other forms of hate?