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50 Feminist Posts That Call Out The Patriarchy With Zero Mercy
Feminism has helped women gain things that once seemed impossible, or were treated like a luxury. The right to vote, access to education, the ability to open a bank account without a husband’s permission, the freedom to build a career and be your own boss. The list goes on.
But even after all that progress, there’s still a long way to go. Seriously, why are people still fighting over women’s bodily autonomy in 2026? And that’s just one piece of the daily sexism women still run into. It’s exhausting. It’s infuriating.
That’s why sometimes the best response is to vent online and say the quiet part out loud. The Facebook group Heroic Girls does exactly that, calling out the patriarchy with zero mercy. Scroll down for some of their best posts, and feel free to add your own thoughts in the comments.
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Riley Quinn 8 months ago
It's long past time that people, not just men, learn that "No" is a complete sentence. Whether asking a girl/woman on a date, attempting to force drinks or food on someone who isn't interested or any other reason, if the response is No, then stop harassing the person.
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Ali 8 months ago
I was once driving behind my husband (he needed to leave car at the train station for later, we would finish journey in my car) and he made a rude hand gesture at me when I came up behind him at traffic lights. It was a joke, not at all mean. I saw a man walk over and knock on his window, this lovely guy had seen and wanted my husband to pull over to let me get far away. He laughed when we told him, but we both thanked him lots for his effort.
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Callum Young 8 months ago
"Older" women? Not any of the older women I know. They actually fired up the civil, women's, and environmental rights movements. Please check the ageism at the door, people.
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April Pickett 8 months ago
That's true. Back before those ladies, you would have to have your husband/father sign off on you having a checking account, a car, a house. It wasn't that long ago that was the norm.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
I never liked Barbies or any kind of human doll/baby doll XD I remember for a few years, some relatives would still give me Barbies as bday/Xmas gifts, and I would always perform "surgery" on them XD I preferred my dinosaur toys, my Transformers, and my GI Joes. I had a bunch of cheap shoddy horse toys too, and I used to play with them in the backyard - they were a tribe of meat-eating horses who had a hierarchical rule system XD They would go to war with rival tribes of horses (aka the horse toys I liked the least) and have grand battles with a lot of casualties. I was a strange child. XD
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 8 months ago
As an alpha male I have to tell you that I find it very cringe when men have to tell people that they are alpha males themselves. I can assure you, as an alpha male, no true alpha male would do this.
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Chris the Bobcat 8 months ago
Hallmark movies are a guilty pleasure of this guy. Sometimes I just want an ending where everyone is happy.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 8 months ago
Ha ha! Levels of misunderstanding that end up in perfect understanding....!
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
What "certain tasks"? Peeing while standing up? Getting teabagged?
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Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago
That's Philomena Cunk as played by Diane Morgan. Watch anything entitled "Cunk on..." Charlie Brooker apparently has the writing credits, but Diane Morgan is a force of nature.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 8 months ago
Do not care try to take my masculinity away from me! I will throw a hissy fit it you try!
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 8 months ago
D**n it I am gay. Excuse me whilst I break the news to my parents.
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Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
So we got our last Coivid stimulus check and I suggested we check out bathroom vanities for a remodel. My wife, practical person she is, "How old is the furnace?"..."umm..20 y/o"..we got a new furnace.
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Michael Largey 8 months ago
It's useful to know which men are made uncomfortable by feminism. In fact, it's all you need to know about them.
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Neon_Pickles 8 months ago
Oh heavens no! Not the exposed brastrap! GASP! I'm not looking forward to this nonsense when I eventually go on HRT... the fact that people think it's inappropriate to show a brastrap is wild.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 8 months ago
Wait... Women can read assembly and set up instructions? Whatever next!
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 8 months ago
I mean, kinda both? XD But for me, it was caused/perpetuated/first inflicted upon me by my mother all throughout my childhood and teen years. Then I managed to date a guy for 24 years who was basically my mother in dude form! Good times!
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Zig Zag Wanderer 8 months ago
Nooe. That is the woman I definitely want. And that is the woman who currently loves me, and I'm absolutely fine with it!
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Zig Zag Wanderer 8 months ago
Thinks "she's too smart for him"? Doesn't that mean "He's too dumb for her"?
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 8 months ago
And they were not wearing floor length skirts! Or aprons! And was there even one flowery bonnet? Nope!
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Zig Zag Wanderer 8 months ago
We say/do this all the time as a family when getting in the car. I'm not a girl, but I'm more than happy to join in!
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April Pickett 8 months ago
Drink water while you're eating your treat. You gotta stay healthy.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 8 months ago (edited)
I don't know of any woman (that I respect, anyway) who has chosen their partner by looks. They don't want eye-candy. They want a real companion. It's always given me hope for myself 😁
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 8 months ago
I'd like that, can I live in the hut next door? I'll make mushroom soup for everyone?
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 8 months ago
That's a shame, I have a treat for you and was about to take you walkies...
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Fcutdlady 8 months ago
I did the same . My next door neighbour was giving me a lift home and I said turn left here and my house is 4th lamppost on the left. She said as a joke, remind me how long ive been living next door to you ? To defend myself if sometimes get a taxi home as I don't drive . I'm used to directing taxi drivers!
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Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago (edited)
Julie S: some of us white men aren't anything like as confident as you seem to assume. Everyone's different. White men without wealth and power often struggle as much as anyone else. Yes there are such things as "male privilege" and also "white privilege", but both mostly work out to be "not suffering from specific disadvantages and discrimination". Doesn't necessarily get you anywhere, especially not in such a class-stratified society as the UK.
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Lee Gilliland 8 months ago (edited)
Joan Rivers - "We will never have true equally until an unmarried woman of forty, losing their hair and thirty pounds overweight considers herself a catch."
Forrest Hobbs 8 months ago (edited)
Julie S: some of us white men aren't anything like as confident as you seem to assume. Everyone's different. White men without wealth and power often struggle as much as anyone else. Yes there are such things as "male privilege" and also "white privilege", but both mostly work out to be "not suffering from specific disadvantages and discrimination". Doesn't necessarily get you anywhere, especially not in such a class-stratified society as the UK.
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Joan Rivers - "We will never have true equally until an unmarried woman of forty, losing their hair and thirty pounds overweight considers herself a catch."
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