Like she just loves baking and being a mom but also drops hot Marxist takes.

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    oh hello, you’re talking about me

    I’m gonna be real with you, though: nobody cares about my takes. since I don’t have a Real Job and have only done paperwork (women’s work, donchano) and childcare (same) for the last two decades, none of my opinions count.

    being a perimenopausal lady has not been helping my case; as you all have experienced, I’m not exactly ✨stable✨

    it’s not great: women are either locked up in childcare until they’re perimenopausal psychopaths like myself, or their opinions are ignored because they didn’t raise children so what do they know.

    this plus a conversation today on /r/perimenopause has me ready to try to restart the Womyn’s Circles movement

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      I just feel like if we had a movement to harness the fury of trans women and perimenopausal women, the ICE nazis would literally run and hide from us

      I have made men twice my size cower from the look in my eyes, by myself, alone. we could shake governments with our fury combined.

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    Ok, but I absolutely love this bit and have come up with something similar - “Big Sister Katya” - her whole thing is that she’s a 1950s/60s Soviet sympathiser, who thinks McCarthy’s a complete idiot, but her personality is otherwise every bit a sheltered middle class teenage girl of the era, she’s often in the kitchen with her mum or helping with some domestic task in her videos, the mum is always a voice offscreen, or partially on screen for short periods but her face isn’t seen, she’s seen taking care of children sometimes - her little siblings - her whole vibe is “It’s the beginning of souring relations with the USSR post war, and your big sister explains why the Cold War is bullshit and neither the guys on the TV news nor Mum and Dad know what they’re yapping about”. It’s never made clear to what extent the character she’s playing genuinely believes it’s the beginning of the Cold War and the peak of McCarthyism, and how much of it is “it needs to be that soon after the Great Patriotic War for some of her points about fascism and defense and good allies to land properly”. Every video follows a formula of “Today we’re doing [insert domestic task] with Mum/for Mum while she’s out today, and discussing [insert Marxist-Leninist theory concept]”.