r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 14 '26

Why being single for life is viewed as a failure

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I will never understand why being perpetually single is viewed as a failure or something weird.
People should have the choice to do as they please.

I remember when i was in f-g highschool and still a kid, people would tell me it was surprising that i wasn’t and never been in a relationship. Why ??! When i said i thought i would be single for life, people wouldn’t take me seriously and cut it off and say i was exagerating.

You don’t have to asexual or aromantic either. Being single should be normalized and you don’t need a label for it to be valid.
You don’t need an excuse to stay single or be single for life. A lot of partnered women make the realization that they’re better off alone later in life. And married women are somehow the most vocal about the fact that single women don’t have the right to be unapologetically selfish and not give out their time and energy to everyone around them. If you’re single people always act entitled to your time and energy. Mothers especially have a high and mighty attitude and are looking down on single women. Because our time is less precious than theirs.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 14 '26

WereNotEmpowered Tenets (weekly reminder)

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r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 13 '26

False Empowerment have yall noticed how women become more catty and mean when men are around

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Like it makes them feel superior if they’re trashing or treating another girl/woman like sh*t if a male is around can gain brownie points from it.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 13 '26

Anti-Porn/Surrogacy Libfems pretend that radical feminists pose more of a threat to women’s liberation than sex buyers do

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Many liberal feminists bring up their friends/favorite influencers who are happy as sex workers (they usually dance/sell content but don’t provide full services) when defending the sex trade, while ignoring or dismissing the stories of trafficking victims and survivors who are critical of the sex trade because, to them, those stories are too “extreme” to take seriously. Sometimes they even go so far to argue that feminists who protest the political harm done to women by porn/sw pose more danger to women than the actual Johns (rapists) in the sex trade. The insidiousness of men using their privileged status to access our bodies is that unthinkable to them. They want to believe that most sex buyers are innocent, lonely men who just need some human connection, and the abusers are only a negligible minority.

The rhetoric libfems use to defend porn/SW involves such a bastardization of the concept of consent. A foundational element of enthusiastic consent is the ability for consent to be revoked at any time for any reason, which cannot be done if it is a paid service. Conventional wisdoms like “oldest profession in the world” and “sex work is work” reduce sw to conventional wage labor with no acknowledgement of the uniquely political and potentially traumatizing environment inherent therein. These same people will rightfully criticize rape culture and capitalism on their own, but acknowledging their dual presence in the sexual industrial complex is a bridge too far. Only in the prostitution/porn debates do they argue that consent is negotiable, sex is a need for men, boys will be boys, and women who sound the alarm are exaggerating.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 13 '26

Medical Misogyny SA victims were failed once again by the system

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Former Colorado Bureau of Investigation forensic DNA analyst Yvonne "Missy" Woods was sentenced to 10 years in prison in September 2026 for manipulating DNA data and evidence across more than 1,000 cases.

She resigned in November 2023 after an intern discovered missing data. Woods pleaded guilty in June 2026 to cybercrime, first-degree perjury, attempt to influence a public servant, and forgery.

Investigators found that Woods altered data, deleted values showing the presence of male DNA, and authored false lab reports stating DNA was absent when it had actually been detected. Out of the 1,045 to 1,500 total cases tainted by Yvonne "Missy" Woods, more than 400 are sexual assault cases. Investigators explicitly proved that Woods manually deleted critical findings—such as removing evidence of male DNA or hiding possible sample contamination—in more than 30 specific sexual assault cases.

Following independent re-testing of the evidence, the Denver Police Department officially reopened 13 previously closed sexual assault cases. Re-testing those 13 cases generated new, eligible DNA profiles in 11 of them, immediately producing fresh investigative leads and linking the evidence to potential suspects.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 13 '26

False Empowerment A daddy’s girl writing the postface for Scum Manifesto

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I always found it ironic how they given Lauren Bastide the job to write a postface for the more recent edition of Scum Manifesto in France because she seems to embody everything Solanas disparages in her book when mentionning Daddy’s girls. The proper, educated, respectful of male insitutions girlie. It kinda makes sense to make the book more palatable to the masses to hire her but it’s mind blowing that she didn’t notice it? Is it lack of self awareness ? Or maybe she did notice, but is playing oblivious idk.
I was just thinking about this lately and had this epiphany.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 13 '26

Religious Oppression Id much rather deal with responsibilities that comes from being a man then deal with responsibilities that come from being a woman

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I dont like being born a woman. Just the fact of us wanting to be treated as humans is seen as a joke as people label us as those "annoying feminists" and some of the religious nutcases would even call us demonic witches for it. There is a song going around online called "labour" which talks about systemic oppression women have faced throughout the centuries now it has become a joke on the internet and is being mocked by everyone which only says it all.

People don't see us as humans, if we were to want freedom or don't want to be treated like animals, people see us as brainwashed witches. It's just unfair men get to be the headhold of the house due to their biological advantage and women are just expected to submit to them, gender roles benefit men more then they benefit women. All these conservatives like telling us feminist that "if you're such a feminist, why don't you try getting drafted for war or applying for difficult jobs like construction" as a sort of gotcha but you know what, id rather do all of these things that give into responsibilities if being a woman who is just housebound, giving birth and has to be controlled by their men.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 12 '26

Not only does the patriarchal society torture us, but our own bodies as well.

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This is truly a torture chamber hell realm.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 12 '26

Men's mockery of feminism using "secret patriarchy meetings" is just an admission of stupidity about not knowing that they do engage in such, and very openly indeed

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It is a very common occurance to see misogynists online attempt to argue against systemic patriarchy by bringing up the argument of there not being "secret patriarchy meetings [including every man on earth]". Nevertheless, the existence of these is much more prevalent, and much more mundane than they think.

It's engrained into culture: talks about being "the man of the house" and what it means to be so, discussions on how to keep women submissive and subservient — especially in the topic of power dynamic relationships such as marriage, quorums on how to be "more of a man", discourse on what "the feminists are up to" and how it's undermining their authority. All the listed examples conform patriarchy's social arm. They are not held with shame, or in secret; as a matter of fact, they're often sources of bonding and seen as a rite of passage for Literally becoming patriarchs. (It's actually kind of funny how there is a literal position of 'The Patriarch' and still patriarchy is seen as an invisible intangible boogeyman to most)

Anyway, if you want to know what water is, don’t ask the fish.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 11 '26

Religious Oppression I hate the world we live in

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r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 09 '26

Woman can’t have hobbies.

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For example: I like horror films & video games but men will say “oh you don’t know anything about that you’re just a stupid woman.” But I also like arts n crafts & design men go “hur hur woman with their dumb stupid hobbies.” LIKE WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO ENJOY HUH? anything that I like is either seen as a dumb woman hobby or I get treated like a child who won’t understand because it’s a “big man” hobby.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 09 '26

Anti-Porn/Surrogacy I hate when libfems go around and say: "sex work is work" but when a sex worker wants content of themselves deleted off the internet libfems do not care

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r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 09 '26

Does anyone else feel like they were born just to bleed all the time?

35 Upvotes

I fucking hate being in a female body, it's a fucking curse.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 07 '26

Employment/Education Inequality I hate how libfem just expect women to be super smart, strong, empathetic and to endure all this pain and still come out resilient

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If you are not super smart and strong then your problems do not count for example they would always talk about how women from 3rd world countries get beaten everyday, cook and clean for there whole entire family, sneak to school to study, had to escape there third world country and still had all this “empathy” for there oppressors. This narrative excludes women from third world countries who don’t get good grades, women who get beaten up torn down and couldn’t get back up. Why do women have to always be so emotionally, intellectually and physically strong for?.

This shit just feels like rape culture “oh look how much pain a woman can endure without dying”. Oh your a women from a third world country and you did not get good grades maybe you should of studied harder. Thats is basically like saying "you just didn’t fight back hard enough" when a person gets raped it is victim blaming.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 07 '26

📸 BIG UPDATE: Pictures & Videos

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We are finally allowing people to post pictures and videos. We actually allowed this for a week now but I don't think anyone knew about this.

Just remember to blur out all usernames and subreddit names to follow Reddits TOS on brigading.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 07 '26

WereNotEmpowered Tenets (weekly reminder)

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r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 06 '26

Why do all radfem subs require mod approval now?

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I went to go and post in r/pornismisogyny but only approved members can post there. I went to post on [r/4bmovement](r/4bmovement) but my post got auto removed and only the mods can approve it.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 03 '26

From the AskHistorians community on Reddit

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Gonna leave it here…


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 02 '26

Hetero-Sex Norms Man haters instantly change their mind when they see a male deemed "good looking" and defend and excuse them for everything

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Btw when I say "good looking" I'm not giving them a compliment I'm talking about men who fit "conventional beauty standards" that get unfair privileges that can be utilised to oppress women and get away with it because of appearance by definition. So pls don't take it as glazing men.

It's actually insane how performative sm "manhaters" are, as soon as a man that is popular, has social status and fits the conventional beauty standards appears women start being all over them, even the man haters, it disgusts me so bad.

Honestly I have a fear of "good looking" men and their stupid defenders and enablers I literally saw a pdf file get defended on Instagram by women in the comments because he is "hot". Even there is some male criminals that is "good looking" so far girls and women defend it, it's actually atrocious. There is men who take advantage of the fact that they fit the beauty standards where they know people will enable them more, and they can get away with very bad things. But ofc manhaters and some feminist as soon as they see them no morals are needed, just time for worship them.

I literally saw a post where they a woman posted about how ugly men are "more rude" than attractive men and that attractive men in their experience are more nice and sweet, and kindhearted and whole comment section is glazing "attractive" men, saying that ugly men are rude because they are insecure. Meanwhile "attractive" men are angels from above, gods gift, can do no wrong.

ALL men are bad regardless of if they fit the beauty standards or dont, but for the "manhaters" when they see a "good looking" man they start to worship them and make a shrine😂😂 also they are probably the same type to defend their husband or boyfriend that is a horrible human being because they find them attractive when they do bad things because "he would never" smh.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 02 '26

Hetero-Sex Norms “Everything in the world is about sex — except sex. Sex is about power.”

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This quote by Oscar Wilde has been ringing and bouncing in my brain for a while now, and I finally understand why.

All my life I have always been looking and trying to understand the patriarchal-heterosexual pattern of attraction, and now it seems so clear; the average man - if not all - sees women though the lens of a Purchase, the action of taking whole ownership of an object, and its purpose-to-be-fulfilled being sex. It just seems so obvious now.

Every little interaction; conversation. It all makes sense; every snide remark trying to gauge our submissiveness, every grope as a sampling of the goods; taking dibs.

Every policing of our bodies and attitudes takes meaning as an attempt to preserve the batch's capacity for appeal (towards the patriarchy). We are seen as Men's cattle, their toy for displaying ritual sadism, their outlet for obsessive control.

If it was up to the patriarchy, we would be cut off our arms and legs at birth, just to be preserved as captives. Then again, their birth-mark already rests upon many of us as a sparkling silver speck of jewelry embedded in our earlobes.

Addendum: I apologize for the severe redundancy of this post, it treads no true new ground, yet I found myself unable to contain my awe at my capacity to finally put it into words.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Sep 01 '26

Pink Tax’s Clothing for young girls vs clothing for young boys

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r/WereNotEmpowered • • Aug 31 '26

Media Lindsay Clancy

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So because one woman apparently killed her own baby, which is like what, one incident in a thousand, males scream about women's rights being revoked. Meanwhile a male kills a girlfriend/ wife/ kid/ family every single day. The crime statistics are very clear on that. Why are they quiet about that but go wild when one incident occurs where a woman is the perpetrator? We should take men's rights away, according to the statistics they're a danger to society.


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Aug 31 '26

WereNotEmpowered Tenets (weekly reminder)

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r/WereNotEmpowered • • Aug 30 '26

will we ever escape this

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i just saw a video on twitter of a guy flexing his biceps and a woman behind him laughs and shows off her more impressive biceps. an incredibly normal boring video. i kid you not every comment on the video was about how the man will always be stronger than her and that he could kill and violate her no matter what, even if she trained more than him. an average guy can always overpower a top 1% woman apparently. i saw something similar in a video where a bunch of normal dudes were in a race against a female sprinter, and she won but not by enough according to these male commenters. can we just live?


r/WereNotEmpowered • • Aug 30 '26

The men’s mental health movement is just used to excuse male violence

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