What is feminism? Do you know what is feminism? I know.
Let's talk abou it? Today I will go straight to the point, I'll put it bluntly.
Feminism is, according to a few definitions that are very superficial,
A political and philosophical moviment,
that strives for equal rights between men and women.
It is also, obviously, a movement that fights for feminine political emancipation
and that seeks to fight the patriarchy and chauvinism.
It looks harmless, doesn't it?
Of course!
It looks also very plausible, so be it.
It seems like that.
But is it really that?
Would that story that you've been told, be the true essence, the true history of the feminism?
No, it's not. Let's talk about it today.
If feminism was only about the stuff I mentioned here, trust me
I would be the most feminist woman that thiss world has ever seen
After all, which woman in her right mind would oppose herself to a movement
that wants to put her as protagonist of her own life?
No one, right? And I wouldn't be the first one.
But the thing is that the water is much, much deeper than that.
And this story no one tells you.
For a long time I have been studying this subject
because I always had a genuine interest in getting to know the movement in depth
so I can understand not only what it is about, but also what are the causes and the consequences of it in society,
what are the impacts of feminism in society.
I study this subject for a long time already
and it's obvious that everything I know won't fit in these stories being made today
but I intend to continue talking about this subject, we will return to this matter,
I don't know when, but we will return to it.
So today, I would like to begin
as a theoretical introduction, talk a bit about the movement, how it began,
so we can continue this matter later, in another chapter of this saga. But let's go!
The beginning the history of feminism took place at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century,
especially in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Feminism is divided into generations, that are actually called waves.
Historically there are three, wow, there are three,
historically there are three but there is already talk of a fourth wave that we are experiencing today ,
but I will talk about these three waves that are the most important
and the ones with the most bibliographic references for you to eventually study about it later.
Each one of these waves of the feminist movement had its characteristics and its particularities.
The first wave is the Suffragette wave.
For those who do not know what it means, suffragette comes from suffrage and suffrage means vote.
So this is the wave that became known for giving women political rights that they did not have,
that was the fight: female political emancipation.
One of the best known names of that first wave was Emmeline Pankhurst,
she was an English woman of upper middle class, married a great lawyer and she had five daughters.
But a curiosity about her is that she had servants, yes she had servants.
Why did she have servants? Because she needed people to take care of her life
while she dedicated herself exclusively to political activism.
The first feminist group that has been registered in history was created by Pankhurst
and it's name was the National Society for Women's Suffrage, I think that was it.
And it's curious because when she created this group a short time later there was a rupture,
some women dropped out.
Why did these women drop out?
Because Pankhurst wanted this group to submit to party membership,
she wanted this group to be affiliated with left-wing political parties,
and some women did not agree with that so they decided to disengage from the group.
You are paying attention to these information that I'm throwing here, right?
First feminist group, affiliated to left-wing political parties...
Yes, write down everything and then we will talk about it again later.
But then back to the subject, after the shit that Pankhurst had in the other group,
she decided to go out and founded a new alliance, along with her husband.
So she created a group called Women's Franchise League
and this group, this new group that she founded in her own home,
it denominated itself a socialist and radical group.
It was a group that supported unionism, that made an alliance with socialist organizations,
that even joined the labor party at the time.
And a very interesting thing for you to know about this story,
is that, as I said at the beginning, Pankhurst had five children,
and her daughters were all part of the suffragette movement
but one of her daughters, that I will not remember the name of now,
but anyway, one of her daughters was expelled by her and a sister,
was expelled by Pankhurst,
from the suffragette group, do you know why?
Because at one point she was opposed, she repudiated,
the acts of vandalism and violence that the suffragettes were practicing.
She said: "fuck, seriously, are you going to be depredating things in the middle of the street? I don't agree with that".
And then you know what was the answer that Pankhurst gave to her daughter?
She said, "oh, are you repudiating what we're doing? Okay, so you're out of the movement.
Because you have your own ideas", pay attention,
"you have your own ideas and here we don't want women with their own ideas,
we want women to follow our instructions, we want women to march with us, because this is a regiment".
Do you understand what the content of this thing is?
Have you already captured the essence of the feminist movement?
And there is more, I'm not talking about current feminists who are more radical,
I'm talking about the feminism that gave "birth" to all this.
I'm talking about the first groups, the suffragettes, you know,
women who already had this mentality from the end of the 19th century.
And I am not saying this here to convince you of any shit.
What I really want is you to be in doubt,
for you to finish seeing these stories and run desperate to find out if I'm telling the truth or not.
That's what I want, that you get out of here and check everything that was said, every information that was given, ok?
Then you tell me what was the conclusion you reached.
So yeah, continuing the story, here comes 1918 and the great achievement, the great victory of the suffragettes,
which was as follows: women over 25 years old and single could finally vote, just like men.
Was it "just like men" for real?
Let's talk about another curiosity here, that probably nobody tells you because it's not "interesting".
But did you know...
That for men to vote they had to do a number of things, they had to comply with obligations?
Well, it is still like that today. So for a guy to vote it's not just him getting there, typing the numbers he wants in the ballot box and that's it.
He must first fulfill a series of obligations to the nation.
He needs to join the army, did you know that? (in Brazil at least)
If a man does not join the army, he cannot vote, he cannot get a passport,
he cannot have a work record booklet, he cannot have any formal registration.
So, for a man to exercise his right to vote,
first of all, he needs to be ready to go to war for his country.
What about us, women? What do we need to do to be able to vote?
Nothing!
We don't need to do anything, just be over 16 years old, and we can vote.
And it's equal rights that you call it, right?
In fact I just remembered something here, let me ask you, to see if you know it...
If one day, eventually, God forbids but if one day eventually
Brazil goes to war
and one of those men who enlisted obligatorily (because enlistment is mandatory),
if one of those men refuses to go to war,
do you know what happens to him?
He is shot.
That's right, if a man who enlisted,
if the man who swore the homeland, because the enlistment is this,
if he swore to serve the homeland,
and he refuses to go to war,
he is killed.
He is shot.
Just that, he is shot.
In other words, there was no fucking conquest of the right to vote at all,
the vote was given to women on a silver plate, it was a gift that was given to the women.
Because for the men, while the vote was the bonus of the burden of going to war, of having the obligation to serve the country,
women were left with only the good part.
So, there was no conquest, it was a gift, for God's sake!
But continuing the discussion,
let's talk about the second wave of the feminist movement.
The second wave started in the mid 50's and lasted until the mid 90's, approximately.
And in the second wave, the agenda was already a little different.
Ok, now that we can vote, we will talk about issues related to sexuality,
we will talk about the role of women in the job market, in the family, we will talk about gender issues.
It is in the second wave that it begins the story that gender is a social construction.
It's also then that all the strands of the feminist movement appears.
Today more than 20 strands are already counted.
There is anarcho-feminism,
there is black feminism,
there is christian feminism, this for me is the best of all because it is the most contradictory.
So, fucking lots of feminisms now, it has all kinds of strands.
And it is also in this second wave that feminists will say
that patriarchy is inherent in the bourgeois society of exploitation.
Then again the influence of marxist ideas on the feminist movement is clear.
In fact, one of the main works in that period, of this second wave,
deals precisely in this matter,
is Firestone's book "The Dialectic of Sex".
And in this book she explains in detail how feminism followed the same methods as Marx.
It is also in this wave that we see the great influence of Simone de Beauvoir in the feminist movement,
from the publication of her book "The Second Sex".
Simone de Beauvoir, who is still seen today as the icon of the feminist movement,
she has a little-told and very hidden history about her.
A history that she was actually a Nazi, a pedophile,
an abuser of teenagers, of teenage girls who were her students.
In fact, she had her license permanently revoked in France to teach,
after parents of students reported the cases of abuse.
So this is the woman icon of the feminist movement.
Still in this second wave, some authors such as Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich,
said that heterosexuality does not exist.
If you're straight,
you’ve been deceived, my darling, because it doesn't exist!
Heterosexuality is something that was built
and shaped by patriarchy
in order to perpetuate women's oppression and male power over them.
Man, it's a lot of creativity, I envy that creativity.
Seriously, it's not possible!
In other words, they say that if you are not a lesbian,
if you are a woman and you are not a lesbian,
it is because you are being oppressed.
Man, what a madness!
Second-wave feminists, they were pioneers in criticizing prostitution and pornography.
And they also said that motherhood
was a form of exploitation of patriarchy.
So fuck biology, right?!
I mean, if I am born with a uterus, I was born like this because someone (nobody knows who) wanted to exploit me.
My dear Jesus!
They also preached that women's rejection to femininity was a must.
So only by rejecting this idea of ​​being feminine, of looking feminine, would women be free.
In other words, your feminist friend who wears lipstick and high heels
would be a source of shame for the "roots" feminist.
If you think that what I'm talking is an exaggeration, then I recommend that you read two books:
"The Beauty Myth" and "Woman hating".
These two books talk about exactly what I'm talking and were written by feminist authors.
Finally, my dear ones, we have the third wave of the feminist movement.
This wave started in the 90s, and had the same foundation as the second wave,
which was the fight for gender equality and women's freedom.
But now the discourse was even more radical,
and it was also guided by the punk movement.
Third wave feminists now claim that not only is gender a social construct,
but some other biological issues as well.
Because according to them, science was biased by the male perspective.
Wow, it's too much out of reality!
Well, it is in this third wave that feminists deconstruct the concept of prostitution
that they themselves criticized in previous waves, remember that I told you here?
That before prostitution was seen as a form of female exploitation?
In the third wave they already change their discourse a little
and say that prostitution is actually a form of sexual freedom for women.
It is in the third wave that feminists begin to appropriate some adjectives,
such as whore and bitch, as being good things. They start to be proud of being called that.
Just see an example of the SlutWalk, right,
which is one of the biggest feminist movements in the world
and that is proud to be called SlutWalk.
Another important thing about this third wave
is that this is where feminism started to be discussed.
Feminism and "feminisms".
Because as I said at the beginning, there are already more than 20 strands existing today.
And as much as each strand has some very specific characteristics,
the basis, the essence is the same for all of them.
The third wave is the wave that will talk about gender ideology
and that will bring the redefinition of concepts.
In other words, that story of "one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman",
famous phrase of the "pope" of the feminist movement Simone de Beauvoir that I described to you a little while ago.
Well, that's it, my loves, that's it for today, but it's not over.
I'll come back here later to talk more about feminism.
Today I only told you a little bit about the history of these three waves,
but later I'll come back here because I want to talk to you about feminism's myths and curiosities.
It will be cool, wait for it!
And look, don't believe anything I said here, okay?!
Research!
Research! Homework for you: research!
That's it, I'll be back later! Kisses!
"Women owe everything to feminism".
You have certainly heard that phrase out there.
And in fact, when we make this statement,
we are disregarding and despising the whole history of humanity
and everything that women did long before feminism existed.
As is the case with women in ancient Greece, for example.
Various anthropological and sociological studies show,
as long as this can be recorded,
that the woman have always, I repeat, always
sought self-determination and power.
Feminism was only born in the 19th century. And those who came before?
And all the women who came before feminism?
How about their history?
Then you will say to me: Oh Mariana, but these women who came before feminism are called "protofeminists".
The fuck NO, people!
Feminism didn't even dream of existing, the term hadn't even been coined.
So there is no point in wanting to use this excuse
to credit everything that has happened in humanity to feminism.
By the way, let me make a note here for you.
When we talk about the conquest of women's political rights,
we immediately feel obliged to credit, to put this in the account of the suffragettes.
But the truth is that the right to vote has never been a gender issue.
Until the early 20th century, the majority of men,
the overwhelming majority of men, were also unable to vote in parliamentary elections.
And this is rarely mentioned, but the men who voted were the wealthy, who had many properties.
Before the Reform Act in 1832, only 2% of men in UK were allowed to vote.
The suffragettes were not the only group at that time that fought for the vote right.
There were several other movements that sought the so-called "Universal Suffrage",
which was the right to vote, not only for women and other men who could not vote,
but for everyone, for all adults.
What the suffragettes really wanted, and no one talks about,
was a separate law for wealthy women.
So that women with properties, wealthy women could vote like men.
I talked about Pankhurst here, that she was an upper middle class woman at that time.
So that was the appeal of suffragettes, right?
Why am I saying this? Because you, who are crediting this achievement to suffragettes,
get to know that, in what depended exclusively on them, you would be without voting until this day.
Unless you were very rich.
And since I mentioned the term here, do you know where the word feminism came from?
Many people think it was created by suffragettes, within social movements.
But the truth is that the term feminism was used for the first time inside a doctor's office.
A French doctor used the term feminism in his doctoral thesis in 1871,
when he talked about men who had tuberculosis.
And feminism, according to this doctor,
is what happened to the bodies of these men who had the disease.
They were becoming feminized.
Oh, Mariana, fine, but it was the suffragette women who started using the term. Wrong!
Who started using the term was a writer, also French, and he used it pejoratively.
Because for him, feminists were the men who supported the suffragette's cause.
And he used that term for the same reason as that doctor.
He said that the men who supported the suffragettes, they were becoming feminine for that reason.
And then it was only after a long time that the suffragettes, finally,
began to use the term to refer to the movement.
Let me tell you something very important here for you, which is the following...
It was on the basis of Marxist ideas that feminism emerged as a political movement.
There is no discussion, there is no discussion.
Marxism contested the submission of one class by the other,
because of economic oppression.
It is the famous "class struggle", of course,
whoever has read the minimum about Marxism will understand.
And feminism followed the same method, it only adapted it to gender issues.
Remember I said here that feminism was essentially left-wing?
Many people have come to disagree, but it turns out that this is not my opinion.
And the first step for you to start to understand the reality of things,
is knowing how to separate opinion from fact. And that is a fact.
Anyone who tries to completely dissociate the feminism from Marxism
makes it clear that they understood neither what feminism is nor what Marxism is.
Marxism inspired directly suffragettes and other feminists who came later.
They appropriated the Marxist theory that deals with oppression
to explain the submission of women to patriarchy.
Just read what Engels said in the book "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State"
and also what Engels and Marx said in the book "The German ideology".
They said that women and children were considered slaves of men.
Damn, Marx always spoke openly in his books
about female emancipation,
about the objectification of women,
about marriage as a private property that should be abolished,
all of this, all of this is Marxist theory.
And all of that was incorporated by feminism as well.
By the way, let me read an excerpt from a thing that I saved here for you, which is the following, pay attention:
"making women participate in productive social work,
freeing them from domestic slavery,
freeing them from the crude and humiliating, eternal and exclusive of the kitchen and nursery:
this is the main task. This struggle will be a long one.
It requires a radical transformation of technique and customs,
but it will ultimately lead to the complete victory of communism".
Do you know who said that? Lenin.
A communist revolutionary and one of the greatest assassins in History.
That is, as much as they deny it, feminism was born with a very clear ideological bias.
And this bias was only adjusting, aligning with time.
So, as much as many feminists today try to dissociate feminism from Marxism,
there is a legacy in the movement that does not deny its origins, right?!
And what is this legacy?
In addition to all that I just said,
there is the legacy of authoritarianism.
Anyone here who has read the least about Marx and Marxist theories,
will know what the essence of what he preached was.
In the book "Capital" he makes very clear what must be done.
He explains that one must take power of the government and ideas
through violence and force.
Is there any difference with the feminist movement? No, it doesn't.
Oh, Mariana, what an exaggeration. It’s not such a huge deal.
Ah okay, isn't it a big deal? Ok.
So let's make a test here, you and me.
Try one day to disagree with something in the feminist movement.
But to disagree like, publicly, for everyone to see.
Say "I don't agree with that!".
Try it and see what happens.
Folks, feminism does not admit that there are women in the world who are not submissive to it.
That there are women in the world who have achieved the same results, but by going the other way.
Do you think it's overkill?
Okay, so I'll give you some examples here.
I once wrote a tweet, many years ago,
criticizing the feminist movement.
It was a very punctual criticism, it wasn't very important, actually.
Hundreds immediately appeared - hundreds of women who claimed to be feminists,
group leaders, the leader of Femen.
And these women came to curse at me, came to say you know what?
That I deserved to be raped just to learn to value feminism.
Isn't it amazing? Isn't it lovely?
Now, for example, when I recorded the first part of this content here,
Fucking lots of women appeared, all saying they were feminist.
And they came to curse me, called me stupid,
called me a slut, in short, several things.
Just because I talked about one side, I told a side of the history that is painful for them.
Just because I said something they didn't want me to say.
So look,
if these women, who say they fight for women's freedom, could shut me up, they would do it.
And look: when I recorded those stories,
I didn't even make a value judgment.
I just brought historical facts and presented them to you.
But these are facts that they insist on hiding
because these facts do not help the movement.
And since I brought light to these episodes that
can compromise the image of what they stand for,
so for them I am worthy of lynching.
I mean, you just need to disagree with a single agenda of the feminist movement,
that even if you are a woman as they are,
you will be treated like the worst of the machos.
And by the way, I wanted to recall an episode with you that is very bizarre,
for me one of the most bizarre.
I will talk about this episode, later I will link the video here for you to watch,
because with me it is like this: I kill the burger and show the cow (everything in reverse).
In 2017, in the Women's March that took place in the United States,
a man who was there protesting,
a feminist man, who defended the feminist cause
and was there at the demonstration,
he just punched, he punched a journalist in the face
who was covering the event, working.
Because he said that journalist worked for a broadcaster that supposedly supported Donald Trump.
So, well, he just thought that she, for working on a broadcaster that supported Donald Trump, should be beaten.
So he went over there and punched her in the face, inside of a feminist walk.
And the most curious thing about it is this:
do you know what happened to this guy?
I'll tell you:
this guy was surrounded, the women who were there,
in the Women's March, the feminists who were there,
they simply isolated him.
They protected this guy, after he punched another woman,
so that nobody would do anything against the guy.
And even worse: after that they still went there to the woman who was attacked
to squabble with her, they went to argue with that woman.
Guys, this is very bizarre.
And I hope that this episode, out of thousands,
will show you the perversity of this movement.
I'll leave the video here for you to watch (link in description).
Then you will say like this to me: Oh, Mariana, but these women are not feminists they are femists.
Damn people, seriously, it's amazing how you make excuses for everything in this life!
Because every time the essence, the authoritarian and perverse character of the feminist movement comes to light,
then one blames the other, right?! They outsource the blame,
it's never your fault, it's always the other feminist's there.
It's like: "I am feminist, but I am not THIS feminist, she is!"
then the other one goes there and says: "no, no, I'm not, I'm not an extremist, I'm not radical, the other is!"
So they keep in this fuckery, this ping pong table.
One blaming the other and no one assumes that this is actually the root of it all.
Femism doesn't exist, people! For God's sake, femism doesn't exist!
When people use this term, which does not exist,
they are actually trying to refer to misandry, to women who are misandrical.
And what is misandry? Misandria is the hatred of men.
Just as there is misogyny, which is hatred of women.
These misandrical women, they believe that women are superior to men.
And I ask you: do you think this is something that is strictly related to today's feminism, this radical feminism?
Of course not!
I already said here I repeat: do you remember Pankhurst,
the leader of the suffragettes, one of the founders of the feminist movement in the world?
Ok, then!
Research about something called "White Feather” - "White Feather Movement".
I will not say anything about it, this is the homework for you today.
Go there and research the "White Feather Movement".
Then you come here and tell me what you found.
But then continuing...
At that time of the suffragettes, they distributed a pamphlet
which I have already posted this pamphlet here and I will post it again.
This pamphlet gathered advices from suffragettes for young girls.
And those advices were about marriage.
The first piece of advice written on this pamphlet is this: do not marry at all.
That is what they said to young girls: do not marry at all.
But so far so good.
However, they continue,
and they say that men are like dogs
and that they must be tamed.
I think this is not a very lovely thing, is it?
To me, that makes it very clear there's a certain anger, a certain hatred.
So, guys, for God's sake!
"Oh no, because hatred of men is a..." - Oh, go f...
And then you will ask me the following:
But Mariana, why are there so many good women who defend the feminist movement?
They don't agree with this authoritarianism that you're talking about.
That is true, there are many peaceful women who call themselves feminists
and I know several myself.
But do you know why that happens? I will explain to you.
There is a profound mass ignorance of what the feminist movement really is.
What are its ideals, its goals, its methods.
And these women have no idea what they are defending.
When I recorded the first stories on this topic here,
and I told another side of the history that few people know, very few people know,
apart from name calling, I also received numerous messages from many women who claim to be feminists
and who knew nothing of what I had said.
Most of these women stuck to a very superficial definition of the thing.
That is this idea that feminism is the fight for equality, for women's rights, etc.
But they hardly know that this is just marketing, right?!
Because in reality the thing is very different.
And if feminism told these women what it really represents,
if they told the story I'm telling you here,
do you think there would be thousands of women adept to the movement?
Of course not!
So my darlings, pay attention to what I am going to tell you.
It is perfectly possible, pay attention,
it's perfectly possible for you to be against domestic violence,
you be in favor of more women in politics,
you be in favor of women earning the same salary as men, if they occupy the same functions as the men do.
It is possible for you to be in favor of women to be protagonists of their own life,
without you having to be affiliated, so to speak,
to a segregationist identity movement,
and that in the end it will only oppress you!
Because that's what feminism does: it oppresses!
It is authoritarian and it is going to oppress you.
So it's no use to be proud of not being submissive to the man,
if you're being submissive to several women.
For the love of God! It's the same thing!
Submission is submission, no matter to whom.
Did you get it? It doesn't matter to whom!
So I, as a woman who truly values ​​the freedom of women,
mine and your freedom,
I wish you to be free! Truly free!
Even free from the obligation to be a feminist.
That obligation that they threw down our throats.
So, for us to finish this matter, keep the following in mind:
There are many paths to freedom, to obtain freedom.
And if in the middle of the way you find a group,
that says in an insistent, violent and authoritarian way,
that for you to be free you need to join them, be wary.
Because that alone is slavery.
And slavery is the opposite of freedom.
Okay?! Kisses.
