Chronicling the ongoing intersectional struggle to liberate women — inclusively defined as the legacy kind and the transgender individuals — from the Patriarchy™, one microaggression at a time.
Leslie Jones: Marriage tantamount to ‘legalized slavery’
Leslie Jones — a cartoonishly nightmarish creature seemingly ripped out of a J.R.R. Tolkien novel like some abominable breed of orc from Middle Earth — recently likened holy matrimony to chattel slavery: “I think marriage is legalized slavery… Especially if he’s expecting you to be a tradwife. He might as well pull out a whip and a chain.”
Leslie Jones likens marriage to slavery: "He might as well pull out a whip and a chain." pic.twitter.com/eokhoIRtB0
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) April 13, 2026
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I’m tempted here to make some off-color comments that might be a bridge too far even for liberal — “liberal” in the sense that writers enjoy a wide rhetorical latitude — PJ Media, so I’ll just leave this here.
Australian state media vexed by resurgence of ‘traditional gender norms’ among Gen Z, rejection of feminism among zoomers
The boomer feminist mind simply cannot comprehend that their ideology — which is much more like a religion than a political philosophy — might not be taken for granted for all of eternity by everyone everywhere.
Via ABC (Australian state media, not the American corporate media) (emphasis added):
What role do you think you should play in a family or relationship?
It's a question that has different answers depending on which generation you ask.
If we look back to the 1950s, society had a fairly black-and-white picture of what roles men and women should play: women as homemakers, and men as breadwinners.
It's what some people call "traditional" gender roles, and you may expect older generations to have stronger gender beliefs, which is something many young people, such as Woobin, Valentina, Annie and Maddy, all 16, think…
It turns out that's what generation Z believes more so than any other generation, according to a recent study from The King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership.
Released on International Women's Day in early March, the study surveyed more than 23,000 people from 29 countries, including Australia.
It found that of all generations from baby boomers to generation Z, it's gen Z that holds some of the strongest traditional beliefs when it comes to gender roles, with 31 per cent of men and 18 per cent of women believing that a wife should always obey her husband…
'Sad, but it's not surprising'
Those are the words of Josh Glover. He's a facilitator at The Man Cave*, a mental health charity that tackles issues such as gender stereotypes in schools.
He says social media is largely to blame for the revival of what many see as outdated gender norms; in particular, "manosphere" content**, which has been thrust into the spotlight recently in Netflix's Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere documentary.
*It's always cute to see these people name their organizations masculine-coded terms like "The Man Cave" in order to lure boys into them, in much the same way that the local weirdo scrawls "free candy" on his windowless van.
**Frankly, I’m shocked it took Australian state media until the twelfth paragraph to blame Andrew Tate and the “manosphere” in a veiled call for more government censorship power.
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They usually get to the punchline right up front, on the correct presumption that their moronic readers don’t have the attention span to go that deep into the article for the takeaway.
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan…
I see your “marriage is literal slavery in Western Patriarchy™,” and I raise you a “forced marriage to your rapist who impregnated you as your only chance to not be ostracized from Afghan society.”
Afghan rape victim forced to marry rapist after he impregnates her pic.twitter.com/wAeYNP9LX8
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) April 13, 2026
