Dear sisters, didn't it seem to you that there is some kind of gap in the ideas of equality? No, do not rush to close the page, I'm not talking about the fact that men and women are naturally different, and therefore we have to be beautiful and feminine kitchen maids, and men should be strong and powerful defenders. Actually, I'm talking about the exact opposite.

Nowadays the ideas of universal equality and justice are very popular, and it goes without saying that feminists, since they are against the oppression of women by men, should support these ideas. Problem is that this approach does not consider where, in fact, the inequality arose, what are its causes, therefore it does not work with the root of the problem. It is proposed to "equalize" women in rights with men, and in every possible way to demonstrate that women are no worse, that we are just as strong, smart, inventive, we can also earn money, get an education and be superheroines. After all, a man is a "standard" of a person who is worth striving for, right? And the fact that before that women were enslaved by these same men for thousands of years is a pure coincidence, or a natural evolutionary process, it has nothing to do with their own will anyway, so now that the conditions are ripe, the men are ready to move in and accept us into their world of "real" people...

Is there anything disturbing in this proposal?

Do we really feel like we are "second class" ourselves, that we are ready to go out of our way to earn the respect of our oppressors, who have valued us as goods to buy and used us in their own interests for centuries? The fact that before there were almost no women scientists, women rulers, women fighters, is not due to the fact that we did not try hard enough, but to the fact that THEY DID NOT ALLOW US TO DO THIS. That is, they were literally locked up, forced to serve them, to work for them for free, under fear of violence and ostracism. What does it look like? Slavery, that's right.

Now you can start to remember various exceptions, because there were women who were engaged in science, became queens, were engaged in entrepreneurship, so it wasn’t all that bad? Maybe slavery is too strong of a term? The answer is that it would be strange if there were no exceptions in the existing system for thousands of years. However, slavery does not imply that you are engaged in heavy physical labor from morning to night. There have always been room slaves, especially close to the owners and therefore privileged, and slave guards, to whom the owners delegated part of their functions, and those who managed the property, etc. It is the same with women, among us were the privileged, but they, like the rest, performed the tasks that the men who had power over them assigned to them.

And because of that, dear sisters, I want to set the records straight: what is wrong with men, why did they build this terrible society, full of violence, parasitism on other people and narcissism? There are many utopian models of society, but they all break down on the concept of "human nature" – as if you can't argue against it. But what if it is not "human nature", but exclusively male? After all, women have never, generally, been in power, and we do not know what a world ruled by women would look like.


I want to discuss this topic next time, but for now I will highlight an important fact. Throughout history, men have been our enemies, which means that they have realized interests that are hostile to us, related to parasitizing on our body and personality. In most countries, nothing much has changed today. Therefore, the ideas of equality in the modern world are inevitably perverted to please men, in whose hands is power. This brings various theses such as "we are equal, but different, you naturally want to serve us", "we must respect the free choice of a woman to be a servant / meat for men", "since you are for equality, it means that you will be beaten" and the like. The problem is not that we somehow convey badly, and they do not understand. They deliberately twist these ideas, because, unlike us, they are well aware that they have opposite interests with women, and they are hostile to us. They would like to continue to use us, and therefore we will in no way achieve an improvement in our situation by turning to them. We only need to educate other women, because they are our potential allies, and feminism is beneficial to them. Women's freedom is unprofitable for men, because then where else can they get free resources and services? Why you should not count on their empathy and sympathy, I will explain later.


Author: Philosopher's Stone of Artémis
Translator: Yulia N.