Elle Beau ❇︎
2 min readAug 20, 2024

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Doesn't matter your skin color, you still have massive privilege as a man, although you undoubtedly suffer some oppression as well. That's the way privilege works - it's intersectional.

What on earth makes you remotely believe that the job of feminism is even close to being done? Willful ignorance?

90% of British girls say they have been sexually harassed before the age of 17 - often as young children - higher even than the world average.

1 in 4 women in England and Wales has been raped or sexually abused as an adult

Fewer than 3 in 100 rapes recorded by the police resulted in someone being charged, much less convicted.

There may be a record number of women MPs but it's not half, and they are still facing extreme levels of sexism, racism, and other abuse simply for being women in the political sphere.

I could go on and on and on, but the short version is, the UK is not remotely close to actual gender equity and isn't expected to get there on even the most basic metrics like political representation for another 47 years at the current rate. And as noted in the OP, patriarchy harms men and boys as well. Has bullying been expunged from schools? How about gay-baiting and trans-hatred? Those are also manifestations of a patriarchal social system and the gender binaries it obsesses about. Is shaming boys for not being tough enough nearly a thing of the past? Give me an effing break! Saying that feminism won’t know where to stop is a meaningless, baseless assertion in a world where there is still so, so much work to be done.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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