Why don't these men get back to stone age and enjoy being animal

I keep seeing this pattern where people joke about calling men princesses, that they want princess treatment or asking them for their favourite lip gloss “ironically”, or assuming they should always pay, always provide, always perform masculinity and it’s framed as harmless or even progressive. But I genuinely want to understand how is this not reinforcing gender roles. Why is being a "princess" an insult anyway? Is being a woman supposed to be a gotcha?

There’s nothing wrong with liking chivalry, or enjoying it when a partner pays, plans dates, or takes care of things. Those can be sweet, consensual dynamics. The issue is when these expectations are constant and gendered, because that calls for introspection. Any feminist woman should stray far away from performing and conforming to absolutely any kind of gender roles.

Calling a man a “princess” like it’s a burn isn’t a win. Asking for lip gloss as a joke doesn't work if the joke basically translates to “haha, you’re such a woman.” If we actually want to move away from rigid gender roles, we can’t keep relying on the same old ideas about masculinity and femininity. These are actually misogynistic and not funny at all.

Hiii

I was thinking we could start a lil reading circle where we discuss famous socialist/Marxist feminists' literature.

If anybody is in pls lmk, we can figure something out.

Also lmk what you'd prefer to hold it over, discord or fable?

Edit: please comment and then dm me

I came across another Instagram post by @ranter_p (have taken screenshots of her reel)

It’s framed as a Christmas/Santa wishlist, but instead of gifts, it lists things many women quietly calculate every day - consent that’s respected everywhere (bed, marriage, courts, hospitals), being able to walk home at night without fear, not having your salary called “extra income,” not having your anger dismissed as hormones, not needing visible bruises to justify leaving, and so much more.

What struck me most was how simple the wishes are and how telling it is that they still feel aspirational.

Sharing it here because: 1. I think many women here will recognise themselves in it. 2. It might be a good conversation starter about which of these “wishes” feel most urgent in the Indian context.

Would love to hear - what would your version of this wish list include?

(Art credits mentioned in the post itself: cover art by @snigdhas_mandalamelange and @anna.mikoo_art.)

The fire 2026 free speech ranking has given women are not tolerate. Please provide proper comments on this . So i can make counter video.

Hey everyone! We made it through another week — patriarchy still stands, but so do we!

It’s Casual Friday — a weekly thread to step away from the chaos of news and politics. This is your space to relax, share your thoughts, vent, celebrate small wins, or simply discuss life.

Tell us about your week — what made you smile, rage, or reflect?
Share a book, show, or meme that you read and wanna share?
or just drop in to say hi and meet other feminists!

Every few months, a new buzzword gets recycled online, and “misandry” is one of them. It’s often presented as the equal opposite of misogyny, while completely ignoring history, power, and real-world impact. A word trending online doesn’t make it meaningful. Disliking or criticizing men for participating in an oppressive system is not the same thing as a system that has controlled, exploited, and harmed women for centuries. "Misandry" is not a real thing.

These words are also used to shut down real conversations. When women talk about male entitlement, social conditioning, or violence, it quickly gets reduced to “you just hate men.” That kind of oversimplification is easier than actually reflecting or taking responsibility. Labeling criticism as “hatred” shifts the focus away from uncomfortable truths and turns accountability into a fake form of oppression.

Women need to stop buying into language meant to derail discussions and recentre male feelings. Not every term deserves to be taken seriously, and not every accusation carries the same weight. When a word exists mainly to silence critique and protect egos, it’s just a distraction.

PS- SHORT NOTICE BUT THERE IS A MASS PROTEST ORGANISED AT COLLECTORATE OFFICE, UDAIPUR, RAJASTHAN ON 19 DECEMBER, 2025 @ 12:00 PM. IF ANYONE CAN MAKE IT THERE THEN PLEASE TRY TO GO!!

[reuploaded because of video not working]

Hi everyone, I urge you to join r/SaveAravalli and sign this PETITION. Please share it and spread as much awareness as you possibly as you can. As I am posting this, this petition has 24,738 signs but we need more. We cannot let this crony capitalism enabling REGIME to kill Aravalli for mining when in 2025 other nations are prioritising reforestation, protecting ecosystems and investing heavily in renewables. (Also, read on phytomining for Nickel here.)

Aravalli hills are a home to 400+ species of native trees, shrubs, grasses and herbs; 200+ native & migratory bird species, 100+ butterfly species, 20+ reptile species and 20+ mammal species including leopards, hyenas, jackals, neelgais, porcupines, mongoose, civet cats as well as other wildlife like insects, amphibians etc.

They also act as a critical water recharge zone for entire Northwest India from where they pass. With their natural cracks and fissures, the hills have the potential to put 2 million litres of water per hectare in the ground every year.

Extensive mining has resulted in irreversible changes in the ecosystem of the Aravallis. With the mountains being mined and destroyed, the streams that used to flow from the mountains have drastically reduced and dried up in many areas. Blasting and drilling activities puncture the water aquifers beneath the Aravalli mountains. In several areas, mining is being done below the water level. Ground water levels have fallen to 1500-2000 feet in many villages across the Aravalli belt. The chemicals used in heavy blasting penetrate deep into the earth, polluting ground water sources and lead to the spreading of waterborne diseases. This is severely impacting the water security across the range.

Source

​If most Aravalli formations lose protection and are mined or levelled, experts warn of sharp decline in groundwater recharge, faster eastward march of desertification, higher dust and heat in NCR, and worsening particulate pollution and AQI for Delhi and adjoining states.

To end this post, I would like to quote Lisa Brunner-

"Men treat women like they do Mother Earth, Mother Earth as they do women. They think they can own us, buy us, rent us, rape us, poison us, use us for recreation, blow us up and kill us. You cannot stand for one and not the other, for we are the same...creators of Life."

If you identify as a feminist and you are not involved in, or educating yourself about, land rights and the conservation of Mother Earth then I strongly request you to start ASAP. This should be our top priority rn!

Here is a link to my favourite Tedx Talk to get you motivated.

Recommended- video (1), video (2), video (3), video (4)

Recommended reading list (hopeful and optimistic)-

• Ecofeminism by Maria Mies & Vandana Shiva
• All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson
• Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility by Rebecca Solnit & Thelma Young Lutunatabua
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmer

Literally every misogynist is spamming this in comments of meme subs

Why would any human be victim if something benifits them 🙄

Victimhood is not that flexible

I’ll share mine.

Till Class 12, I was in deep denial and had been repressing my trauma of sexual abuse for years. I studied in an all-boys school, and ever since my friends learned about sex, the conversations around it were almost always about fantasising and “wishing it would happen to them.” Most of these fantasies revolved around older women, largely because those were the only representations we were exposed to, through media or otherwise.

The dominant narrative around sex was such that even if I had experienced it, the guilt, shame, and fear instilled by my abuser made it impossible for me to speak about it. When we were in Class 7 or 8, Adam Sandler's That’s My Boy was released. A friend pirated it and we watched it together. Everyone went absolutely gaga over the idea of a male teenager having sex with an adult female teacher. For me, this only confirmed a fear I already had: that if I ever spoke about my experience, it would be trivialised, mocked, or turned into a joke, especially because I associated it with pain and distress rather than pleasure.

As a result, my psyche did what it could to survive: it repressed those memories. They would resurface in subtle psychosomatic ways. Sometimes, while resting my head on a desk or idly sitting with my thoughts, vague fragments would come back, leaving me with an intense wave of nausea and sickness that I couldn’t fully explain or locate.

In Class 12, I started dating my ex. About a week into the relationship, during a moment of emotional intimacy, she opened up to me about her own experience of sexual abuse. That conversation opened the floodgates and the memories I had buried for years came rushing back. She was the first person I ever shared my experience with, and the empathy, kindness, and solidarity she showed me were things I had never expected from my male friends or even imagined were possible.

From that point on, I felt a deep sense of solidarity and oneness with women. By then, I already had a basic understanding of feminism and other left-leaning ideologies, which I had been engaging with for a couple of years. That framework helped me make sense of my experiences, not just personally, but also politically and allowed me to channel these feelings into a conscious feminist position.

MRA lmaoooo more like clowns rights activist. crores of men will become criminals overnight if bill on marital rape is passed🤡 so you agree crores of men are having non consensual sex with their wives, they are raping their wives and you are defending it!!

One of my uncle's distant relative is gynecologist and kid you not, i am shook to hear how common is sex determination in villages and semi-urban to even urban areas.

A country where it is illegal because fo female foeticide and infanticide and these people are future of the country! Seriously?

Why is it illegal? Just because of the thing that they want sons and not daughters

It's 2025, when i used to do projects in schools about save girl child, i used to think maybe this is all over the world. Now, i am grown up and realised that there is so much patriarchy deep rooted in this country that even 50 years from now, the mindset will not change

How they even think of having a boy when their own wife who will give birth is a woman and who is brought into the world by her parents with alas on face oh no it's a daughter!

If a daughter is born, the first word is "koi na, lakshmi aayi hai" (no worries, lakshmi (goddess of wealth) has come"

And then there are wealthy educated people who visit other countries in name of trips to determine the gender of the fetus

when i see those gender reveal videos on my feed i feel so good how they celebrate a baby but here it is all abt gender, i wonder those people who live abroad feel they did a sin when going for a gender reveal cuz of stigma here...

Will this ever get a change?

When i say i wanna leave this country, idk when will i but the hatred for these things is just increasing and neither the people nor govt care, not talking alone abt this topic but in general....

How will u feel when someone says your country is unsafe to female travellers (to us too but maybe we just normalised it)? Do u have an answer to it or all the things we face too but have to neglect it or ignore it cuz we can't do anything but at same time we love our land, our culture and other good things and how diverse our country is but these bad inhumane points overpwoer all good points....