Anyone else feel like a lot of "female empowerment" material is just another coat of paint for shitting on women?

[Google Drive]

must be a pick-me

Hate the pick me shit. Called a pick me if I wear makeup, called a pick me if I engage in my autist activities like games and cars. It is so meaningless.

 

[Stabby_Pencil]

Hate the pick me shit. Called a pick me if I wear makeup, called a pick me if I engage in my autist activities like games and cars. It is so meaningless.

They also do the 'she must not have a mind of her own' when a woman doesn't agree with them or has centrist or right-leaning opinions. And this shows up in women streamer's chats and current year entertainment.

 

[Weland]

Hate the pick me shit. Called a pick me if I wear makeup, called a pick me if I engage in my autist activities like games and cars. It is so meaningless.

Slurs like good old Nigger fell out of fashion long ago, now they insult their fellow women for the crime of... doing something that isn't the same as their valley girl friend group. I hope incels and "wah pickme" bitches rape each other and leave normal people alone.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Bit of a necro but Hannah Schmitz and Laura Mueller from the F1 have been ''honoured'' with corners at Albert Park (the corners are now named after them) for International Women's Day and the ''In Her Corner'' initiative. I hate this sort of thing because it takes away from the actual achievement- a man can just be given a corner or an award for his success, it feels like they've only been given them because the sport needed to ''do something'' for women. Both ladies are vital to their teams imho, and deserve recognition, and it cheapens their achievements if they are only given them because it was womens day.
To me, equality comes when no one gives a shit if you have lady bits. F1/Red Bull also has a crazy issue with sexual assault allegations every other week and male engineers watching pornography openly in the garages, but whatever we have female corners now.

 

[Lizard Pope]

Well, part of society is men.

Hmmm, now who would reap the benefits of a generation of scantliy clad, sexually indiscriminate young women....I just don't ~*know*~.......

The Jews, obviously.

 

[Not A Bunny]

Hate the pick me shit. Called a pick me if I wear makeup, called a pick me if I engage in my autist activities like games and cars. It is so meaningless.

If someone calls you a "pick me", what it really means is the accuser is mad that you didn't pick them.

"Pick me" shit is all just "with us or against us", Mean Girls style.

Personally, I've told therapists that if they use the word "empowerment" with me that they can fuck right off.

Because, look, I complain about my life, probably a lot more than is reasonably healthy. However, what I never do is complain about not feeling empowered.

Like many women in my age range and social status, I am not a paycheck away from being homeless. I wake up every morning in a comfortable, temperature-controlled setting that I can change to another temperature whenever I feel slightly uncomfortable. I have the choice to eat what I want within reason, but the only thing that's stopping me from eating really bad shit is my shit digestive system, not someone ordering me not to or depriving me. I have the money to reasonably buy anything I need, but also a wide variety of goods and services that I don't. I'm not surrounded by men that will beat me to death for not being accompanied by a male relative or showing a little too much skin. I can get in my car on a Friday afternoon, take a long road trip to however far I can get before I need to turn around in time to clock in Monday morning, and there is not a God damn thing to stop me.

I'm plenty fucking empowered. And anyone who says they need something arbitrary (like, say, going to a kickboxing class or having a high-power job) to feel empowered is a spoiled brat.

 

[Safir]

Ghislaine Maxwell is grooming empowering inmates in prison. [A]

[the movie] tells the story of a playboy billionaire (Robert Redford) willing to pay $1 million to sleep with a beautiful married woman (Demi Moore).
'The idea behind it is that you watch the movie and put yourself in the shoes of the female character,' the source explained.
'Afterwards you discuss it and write in your journal about the choices they made and what they could have done differently.
'It's a self-help exercise. But, of course, the prospect of earning credits while watching great movies is just too good to miss.'

 

[The Ugly One]

Most of us have never actually known what it feels like to live in a world where we can exercise true autonomy free of coercion.

No such world exists, or can exist. Even if you run off to an island to live alone, the laws of Nature are even less forgiving than the laws of Man.