Andrea Junker 
For this year’s International Women’s Day, let me put it as simply as possible: Men should be glad we want equality — not revenge.
LM Little
derptron@Strandjunker Yeah... They totally mutated that message when turning Queen of the Damned into a movie, huh.
No no no...can't be talking about that.
Court Cantrell does not comply@crazyeddie @Strandjunker As a friend of a friend said.... Queen of the Damned if I know what the hell was going on with that movie.
Jenkins. Tom Jenkins. 🤮🤢🤮@Strandjunker and here’s the reason why women aren’t as good in deal making as 🍊🤡.
JackieAlways a kraut
@burnoutqueen ich bin nicht sicher: war das jetzt eine Beleidigung oder eine Beleidigung?
samiamsam
Robin Barton@Strandjunker Being a feminist is a clear path to a better society for women but also for men. What women want makes everyone's live better and is worthy of support
Jörg Walesch@Strandjunker
Well said!
Well said!
Dimitris Karamanis@Strandjunker what a weird thing to say. Men should be thankful you give mercy? It is delusional and ironic to “celebrate” women’s day with a quote like this one.
Enrico@Strandjunker grateful, surprised and grateful.
ohmrun@Strandjunker
This might be a grand flourish, but it's still disgusting rhetoric.
This might be a grand flourish, but it's still disgusting rhetoric.
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote@Strandjunker
🤣 🤣 🤣 Just texted this to the BT
🤣 🤣 🤣 Just texted this to the BT
Humphrey Archer
zendao42@Strandjunker
I'd like to see some restitution, though
I'd like to see some restitution, though
Tattie@Strandjunker yes. And yet this idea will bewilder, even anger, many men.
Whatever their conscious politics, men will understand that they are part of a class that oppresses women and gender minorities. And having basic human empathy, they will wish this to end, but at the same time they feel powerless to effect the scale of change necessary.
They may feel dismayed and guilty at their own prejudicial thoughts and feelings, ones they didn't consciously ask for but which are present nonetheless, internalised from wider patriarchy. They may try to repress these, obliterate them. Or they may rebel against their sense of responsibility and own these thoughts, become overtly sexist.
Neither strategy removes the underlying anxiety. In this fearful state they fantasise about our wrath, our revenge. The subconscious wish is for their responsibility as part of the oppressive class to be taken away, and for themselves to be placed in a defensive position instead. So their minds spin up endless scenes of angry women punishing them for imagined slights and for their "bad thoughts".
This is why this post has already prompted a few men to bring callous, misogynist responses. They are dismayed that we, too, see that revenge would be justified, yet we are not calling for it— only equality. These few are so upset that they try to childishly force our anger. (They earn only an eyeroll and a block).
What's the solution? Men need to look with clarity at their part in this, have the strength to hold guilt but the wisdom not to claim too much of it. Yes, they may be complicit in some ways, but as part of a wider system of patriarchy that they didn't personally author. That is societal, working within us all. And that damages us all in some ways, too.
Ultimately, binary thinking limits us all. Gender is socially constructed— the gender we are identified as gives us a certain positionality but doesn't make us distinct in kind or in responsibility. There is no essential "man", no essential "woman", only human beings signified differently.
All anyone can expect of themselves is to hold hope for a more equal future. To acknowledge the prejudices that live within us all as a result of the systems we live in, and so continually educate themselves, hold empathy for those oppressed, and to make whatever changes they can to make the places around them a little closer to their ideal.
Female revenge is a fantasy. Honesty, reparation and growth is the path out of this.