Hi everyone so my name is Imogen Crowe and I am a progressive intersectional
deme genderqueer radical feminist who'd fight for the rights of women of all
sexes I have a Bachelor of Gender Studies in queer theory from the
University of Sydney and I am currently doing my masters in feminist dance
philosophy both of which have prepared me so well for fighting and dismantling
the oppressive white supremacist patriarchy that I am forced to live in
and I have something to say as I'm sure you are all aware there is a big global
problem going on at the moment the name of which I am not even going to mention
because hearing it may make people feel physically unsafe and literally cost
lives but I know you all know what I'm talking about now as we all know
governments have enacted a whole lot of social restrictions in order to stop
this problem from spreading as a radical Democratic Socialist
I personally am all for massive government restrictions on the way we
live our lives I mean aside from a few people like me who are enlightened and
educated and informed most people actually can't make the correct
decisions for themselves in most cases people can't even be trusted to vote
correctly which is why democracy around the world is literally falling apart
democracy only works when the correct candidates in political parties are
winning and right now that is just not happening it represents a massive
failure of democracy that the people I and my friends think should be running
the world aren't even though everyone I knew voted for them it's really
problematic but I digress it is kind of my attention that the restrictions on
our freedom of movement and Association and not actually in place for the
greater good I mean sure the Australian and US government might say they are for
the benefit of public health but here's the thing
they're both conservative governments and since conservatives are generally
pretty evil people who don't actually care about human life and would like to
see as many people die as possible so long as they can make some money out of
it we absolutely should not believe a word they say about wanting to flatten
the curve side note the term flatten the curve is inherently misogynistic and
offensive to women of size as it is a sexist dog whistle designed to make
women feel bad about their bodies there is no proven lame
between an unhealthy lifestyle and being unhealthy change my mind
hi my name is virtue Tovar and I'm the author of you have the right to remain
fat as I was saying the fact that Donald Trump and Australian prime minister
Scott Morrison are even mentioning the economy at a time like this is just
proof of how heartless and uncompassionate they are
who cares if people lose their businesses and their jobs that's what
the government stimulus package is for my sociology professor says that paying
everyone the exact same wage regardless of what work they do is the best way to
run a society but unfortunately nobody has had the guts to try it properly as
such the government needs to look absolutely every single person and
business down indefinitely until the big global problem that I can't actually
name goes away and really I'm the best person to ask about governments in the
economy during this time see I don't actually have a job or a business my
student welfare payments cover all my expenses plus me and my oldest sister
got left some money and our grade on Edith will sir my judgment isn't clouded
by any kind of emotional attachment to a job that I might love or a business that
I've worked myself to the burden for years to start and run I have a
completely objective perspective so when I say the government should shut up
about the economy and look everything down or they are literally going to cost
lives then they should listen this is sorry I digress again I just get so
worked up about this because I am so tall earned and compassionate and
empathetic and I just know that anyone who doesn't feel the exact same way that
I do is a terrible bigoted piece of scum who deserves to die a horrible death
but as I was saying since Conservative government's have instigated these
regulations there is absolutely an immoral ulterior motive I have looked at
this problem from like every angle and I can only conclude that the whole thing
is designed to oppress women think about it
shutting down restaurants and pubs and clubs stops women from socializing with
a fellow lady warriors it also stops us from drinking and expressing ourselves
physically with people of all genders I mean it is a well-established fact that
women and men are exactly the same biologically and that all differences
between us is socialized and part of an oppressive patriarchal conspiracy to
control women I mean that means that despite what society has conditioned us
to believe women can drink as much alcohol as men and have as many intimate
partners as men and enjoy both activities the exact same amount as men
I mean please who needs a husband when you have a cat as such with no means to
express our individuality women are being forced back into the home and
since because of health restrictions it's now dangerous to have a cleaner or
a nanny we are being forced back into domestic duties and under the thumb of
men seriously it could literally be 1955 you
might as well love up the house and call me a tribe wife if I was a wife not that
I want to be therefore there's absolutely no denying that the world is
in the grips of a gendered crisis disproportionately affecting women and
we should all be outraged I mean I did hear something about men being more
likely to get sick and die of the bug than women but I guarantee you that's
not true it would just be a rumor started by
m-ras to get attention and even if it was true like who cares they're men and
the lesser than that are oppressing women the better when you put it all
like that it's pretty clear what the real problem is which is why it always
astounds me that there are some people out there who disagree with me
especially other women I mean this is right-wing commentator her name is Daisy
cousins I'm sure you know who she is since this is technically her channel
that I'm on and she is a literal she always mentions this study called hidden
which analyzed the political landscape of the USA in 2018 and it found that
America's progressives make up only 8% of the population the study also found
that those progressives were mostly made out of white people and that they were
the most likely group to have a university education and earn $100,000
or more a year first of all that study is BS like it is so obviously fake I
know so many Americans to Twitter and they all literally progressives like me
and second of all Daisy has said that she thinks maybe the study draws sort of
a parallel with Australia considering that the Greens who I vote for of course
get 10% of the vote but in doing this she is denying the experience of what
would most likely be like hundreds of millions of people by implying they're
not actually victims of oppression just because they say they are now I take
this very personally just because I went to a private school and my parents owned
three houses doesn't mean I didn't grow up oppressed seriously my dad is a Tony
Abbott supporter who's like an uber conservative Australian politician and
everyone on Twitter says he's like a noon misogynist so you can imagine how
my dad's patriarchal worldview and misogynistic tendencies affected me and
my older sister growing up like my boss sister she's married while banker has
three kids and works part-time as a receptionist I mean you can just tell
how oppressed she is she's been forced right into the oppressive traditional
gender roles that have subjugated women for literally thousands of years and
it's all thanks to my dad's straight white male prejudice like totally
brainwashing her when she was very young at least that's what my sociology
professor thinks he's a feminist and he's so into empowering women he's
always telling all the girls in my class how oppressed we are by men and how hot
he fights against that as a man seriously sometimes he just asked me to
tell him everything I did in a day and then he analyzes from my descriptions of
my interactions all the ways I would have been treated better if I were a man
in that same situation he's so woke some of the best feminists I know her men
anyway back to this right-wing commentator Daisy cousins seriously this
woman and trust me I use that term very loosely not because she is a beloved
member of the LGBTQIA to community but because she absolutely
fails so spectacularly at being a woman you know apparently she's engaged
probably to some like conservative misogynist he's going to treat her like
a literal domestic slave but like then she'll probably like that because of all
her internalized misogyny I swear I don't know how women who don't agree
with feminism can look at themselves in the mirror
they are such gender traitors and the thing is whenever I call them like a boy
suck or a female misogynist or a bootlicker the patriarchy on Twitter or
say they clearly just desperate for male attention all of which is totally true
they say stuff like but isn't feminism about empowering women to do say and
believe anything they want and I'm like yes of course it is about empowering
actual women because actual women know that they are the victims of an
oppressive white supremacist patriarchy and that we all have to fight together
as women in order to overthrow it if you don't think that you're not an actual
woman because you're very clearly not thinking in your own gendered interests
and therefore you're not actually doing and saying and believing whatever you
want you're just doing what the patriarchy has brainwashed you to do so
you need to be told constantly what a lame disgusting patriarchal bu us so you
realize you're not an actual woman and you shut the hell up until you become
one by the coming of feminists seriously one of these stupidest things I've heard
conservative women say is that when feminists say they're of Jerell or just
in it for the money or that all their opinions clearly come from men who've
told them what to say but somehow we're being sexist can you believe that
seriously I tweeted all of those things at Daisy cousins ones and she said I was
a hypocrite and I was like um why and she said that if a man had said those
things to a feminist then I would be calling that man sexist so I literally
blocked Daisy cousins like right then and there because if she can't realize
the difference between a man saying sexist things to a feminist with a clear
intention of silencing her and a feminist saying these same things to a
conservative woman with the clear intention of making her stop saying her
wrong opinions then like she doesn't deserve my follow I unlocked her and
followed her again there like really quickly
just to like mess with her head because she definitely cares just as much about
people on Twitter as I do and yeah like I knew she has a YouTube channel and
multiple other social media platforms and she's on TV and she speaks at
conferences but she will like totes notes that I blocked her and unblocked
her again I mean it would be like hilarious to be a fly on the wall when
she realizes what I did oh my gosh her mine is gonna be like balloon speaking
of Twitter it is like the best platform ever it's where I go to get all my
information that's why I'm so informed about politics and stuff it's just so
good to have a place where I can go for like educated intellectual discussion
and the 280 character limit just helps so much with that like it's so easy to
get bogged down nowadays in you know detail and sources and new ones all of
which are like totally oppressive to minorities who might be made to feel
unsafe if they read words that they don't like so that character limit I
think stamps out like so much unnecessary and potentially dangerous
discussion I mean if you're on the right side of history which like I clearly AM
and so all my friends then do you really need to discuss where you're actually
getting your information from I mean we don't know where correct because we have
moral superiority why would we need to discuss anything that might contradict
us the other thing I just love about Twitter is that it is such a handy
snapshot of public opinion seriously if you ever want to know exactly what
everybody is thinking just log on to Twitter it is the most accurate
reflection of the general public that we have and I really think the politician
should base all of their election campaigns purely on what people on
Twitter are saying that's why it's like so obvious that so many major elections
over the last four years have absolutely been rigged like literally everybody I
spoke to on Twitter was voting for Hillary Clinton Jeremy Corbyn Bill
Shorten and romaine and then for some reason the opposite result happens in
all four cases like are you kidding me the literal only logical explanation for
that is that Russia hacked all four those elections I mean how else would
you explain it like nobody actually supports Donald Trump Boris Johnson
Scott Morrison or Briggs it for a racist misogynistic straight white
man of course all the rest are just Russian BOTS Russia if you're listening
anyway I just wanted to make this public service announcement to remind you all
that the fight for social justice is never over never no matter what happens
it's never over even though there hasn't been quite as much in the media lately
about the climate crisis or feminism or intersectionality which is most likely a
right-wing plot considering how grossly over-represented conservative voices are
in the mainstream media the problems are still there they're real and despite
what people like Daisy cousins say they're important even though we're in
the middle of a global health crisis that is literally costing lives just
remember this the personal is still very very very political if you liked that
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