i don't know about other people, but from what i've heard and seen there's a growing number of people, usually men, becoming more misogynistic and more traditionally (ish, not true traditionally) minded in general. there's now the banning of abortion in america (or the attempt of it), rumors of them banning birth control, more men that are denying women's flights of fancy, more separation between men and women, and overall just a greater divide and the corruption of equality happening in the western-sphere (mostly north america, especially the usa).

don't get me wrong, it's terrifying. i hate that i'm living in a world where my rights are now under question, where my position as a person is questioned, where i'm just another woman, just another number to them and not my own person that owns my body. i largely don't understand why men and women should be separated and act and think differently, i see no difference beside our shared humanity.

yet personal views like that no longer matter. it's like there's something far more powerful than any individual person that's manipulating everything into their design, into one where men and woman are inarguably different, where women must be submissive and men are strong, powerful, and unstoppable. the same misogyny and gender roles of the past but freed from the rules of politeness, of social dignity, and of respect (the misogyny of the past vs misogyny now are two different beasts with the same hunger).

it's bizarre, unimaginable, and unbelievably scary. and yet, for whatever reason, part of me finds it hot. that my personhood doesn't matter, that all that is important about me is what my body can provide for a man. that with something so simple i can be reduced to a toy, any autonomy, authority, and humanity i have gone just because he wants to fuck me. or control me, or whatever men want.

i tagged this as maga because maga influences are largely what i'm exposed to, but it's bigger than just that, they're merely the spearheads of a greater, societal change, one that seems almost inevitable, and yet equally unimaginable. i'm terrified, afraid, and don't want to live in such a world, and yet it seems like it's inescapable and that men will truly win, and will dominate and rule the world. some terrible part of me doesn't hate that reality -_-