One Day Men Are Gonna Be Putting Flowers In Their Hair And Theyre Gonna Speak Softly And Be Comfortable

One day men are gonna be putting flowers in their hair and theyre gonna speak softly and be comfortable with open displays of affection for one another and they’re still gonna be violently oppressing and dominating women :+)

😒 He's been replying to this shit for like a while now

The West often claims to lead the way in women’s empowerment, but when it comes to education, especially in STEM, the Global South is leading in that sense. In Algeria, over 50% of engineering students are women, while in Egypt, women frequently pursue higher education in fields like medicine and engineering, often surpassing men. In Palestine, even amid genocide, women remain highly educated, using their knowledge as a form of resistance. Education is deeply valued across the Middle East, where literacy rates are among the highest globally. Iran stands out with a huge percentage of women in engineering, including female leaders in university departments, even under the constraints of the Islamic regime . Meanwhile, while Western women do pursue education, a huge gender gap in STEM remains, raising questions about the progressiveness of a society that often discourages women from entering these fields. In contrast, in the Global South, families prioritize higher education for their daughters. So, why does the West continue to disregard the achievements of women in these regions?

In an alternate universe, societies that use oral tradition are coming out with studies proving that "documents", a primitive writing system used by various tribes in Europe to keep track of history, are actually very accurate despite common wisdom being that physical documents are so easy to destroy or forge that they couldn't possibly be relied on to contain any truth

i went to a leftist festival last month and there was a panel dedicated to prostitution, why abolition is the only road to go for leftists and how to help and support prostituted women exiting the trade, and i keep thinking about that union organizer who said, "we hear more and more that 'sex work is work', but if that were true, then there'd be professional trainings leading to a qualification for prostitution, then there'd be prostitution diplomas, then high schoolers could send applications to follow those trainings and become prostitutes. but we all know that all these things don't exist, and if they did exist we would all recognize them for what they are: a grooming business encouraging pedophilia and violence against women and girls." and what she said later; "trade unions that argue that 'sex work is work' never engage in legal battles against pimps or brothel owners. they don't even recognize that pimps are the bosses of the prostitution market. "sex workers' trade unions" don't fight pimps because sex workers' unions don't represent the alleged "workers" (prostituted women), they represent the bosses: pimps."

and that made me think of what Kajsa Ekis Ekman said about the trade unions that consider prostitution to be work and prostituted women to be workers: they offer trainings about condom use and spend millions of dollars funding "worker peer education" about "safe sex".

So one again, it's prostituted women who are held responsible for the spreading and the prevention of STDs - not the johns, not the pimps. the prostituted women, many of them victims of sex trafficking. "As human trafficking expert Malka Marcovich has pointed out, this means a return to nineteenth-century ideals of hygiene, where the onus was “primarily on the women to take responsibility for the health of ‘the customer’, so diseases would not be spread to their families” (2007, p. 347)."

It's quite obvious to any trade union organizer that prostitution is not work and the sex trade can't be organized as a trade union. a few months ago, the biggest unions in my country (which included the traditional left-wing trade unions as well as students' unions) issued a paper condemning the 'sex work is work' narrative and the pimp lobbies got so mad about that because they know their strategy isn't working because leftists know what left-wing politics look like and they know women's liberation doesn't come from prostitution. Now it's interesting that the biggest voices of the "sex work is work" movement come from the USA, where the anticapitalist left doesn't exist. American liberals love to pass reactionary politics as revolutionary but not because they are stupid in their own country does it mean they should influence the actually left-wing labour movement in other countries, right?

What this past year should have taught every "leftist" in the US is that unions in the US primarily serve Imperialism, and most skilled labor in the US will eventually end up serving this goal. They want a bigger cut of the imperial superprofits, not any actual worker's rights. Yes, even wobblies.

This is such a great example because it like, says the quiet part of American jobs being worth Palestinian lives out loud.