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What are female microsubmissions? They're ambiguous displays of female sexuality and female traits designed to tease or confuse heterosexual men. In so doing they make being a hetero man easier in terms of navigating the sexual waters, because they are defining women as distinct from men and thus making it easier to locate the universals. Things like,

 

Cleavage

Revealing clothing

Skintight or form fitting clothing

High heels

Hose

Accessorising

Exotic fabrics

Jewellery

Feminist insignia and slogans

Coiffed hair

Long hair

Brightly coloured hair

Body piercings

Dresses and skirts

Corsets

Visible brassieres/panties

Bare chestedness (nipple tape optional)

Dressed solely in lingerie

Disrobed entirely

Minor cross-dressing (combat boots, masculine hat, etc.)

Veils

Niqabs

Hijabs

Burkas

Tattoos (feminine versions)

Makeup

Depilation

Polished / long fingernails

Maintaining a figure

Allowing a man to complete a sentence

Transforming appearance

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More microsubmissions, often exploitative:

Accepting a seat on a bus from a man (accepting a display of gentlemanly courtesy)
Accepting dinner from a man
Receiving alimony from a man
Accepting a door held open by a man
Taking advantage of ladies' nights
Playing with children unselfconsciously
Accepting gifts for being women, from men
Accepting male protection
Accepting a women-only scholarship
Staying at home to raise children
Opting out of parenthood after the fact
Gaining custody of children
Partaking of women-only spaces
Perceiving women-only tv programs
Blaming inappropriate behaviour on hormones
Accusing men of having privileges without allowing a retort
Evading the label “creepy” for being attracted to a man who doesn't reciprocate
Not complaining of negative male representation on tv
Being selected to fill a quota
Not complaining of disproportionate male homelessness
Not complaining of disproportionate male soldier casualties
Not complaining of disproportionate male presence in dangerous/dirty jobs
Not complaining most suicides are men
Accepting lowered standards to become firefighters, soldiers, police, etc.
Entering a lifeboat in lieu of a man
Accepting an assumption of innocence in a sexual assault allegation
Accepting any assertion that women cannot rape men
Accepting no responsibility for intoxicated sex
Engaging proxy violence
Not questioning the lack of shelters for battered men
Not defying male attempts to protect women
Accepting less jail time than a man for the same crime

Helping a man

Agreeing with a man

Hugging herself

Looking behind herself

Flicking her hair

Allowing a man to give her an injection, draw blood, stitch a wound, etc.

Lighting a man's cigarette

Asking for a man to light her cigarette

Asking for directions

Fishing for compliments

Having a male teacher

Having a male boss

Triggering / being shocked

Standing on a chair to elude a mouse

 

(much credit: Sargon of Akkad)

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My favorite is wearing heels but cursing men for the discomfort (if not long term damage) caused by wearing them, all the while refusing to consider dating men not half a foot taller than they are.

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The amusing one for me is Staying at Home to Raise Children.

 

As a feminist, my ex-girlfriend should have been all about letting me stay home with the children to raise them and manage home schooling, becoming a mentor for my children, which is something I never had from my father. When I made a great case against public school and child day care, she changed her tune and suddenly embraced this microsubmission wholeheartedly and talked about taking an extended leave of absence from the University of Colorado.

GG, feminism, GG.

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