I’m Not a Feminist. I’m Sane. This is a post-ideological human rights enforcement theory.

I’m not a feminist.

Not because I oppose women’s rights—but because feminist has become a word for something that should never have required a movement in the first place.

At its most basic level, feminism is supposed to mean one thing:

Women are human.

Fully human. Not adjuncts. Not resources. Not bodies to be managed, traded, extracted from, or discarded. Human beings entitled to agency, dignity, bodily autonomy, and equal protection under the law.

That is not radical.
That is not political.
That is not an ideology.

That is sanity.

We do not have a word for people who believe men are human.

We do not require a label for the belief that men should not be enslaved, extracted from, stolen from, discarded, or ignored once they’ve been used up. We treat those principles—at least in theory—as civilizational baselines.

So why did women’s humanity need branding?

Why did it require an “ism”? Why factions, waves, academic abstraction, endless internal argument—just to assert something so obvious that denying it should disqualify a society from calling itself free?

The answer is uncomfortable:

The label exists not because the idea is complicated—but because the system keeps violating it.

When women are assaulted and their attackers face no consequences.

When fraud, coercion, and violence against women are quietly deprioritized.

When women’s labor, taxes, and compliance fund institutions that routinely erase them.

When women are treated as expendable, decorative, or disposable rather than fully human participants in civic life.

In a sane society, none of this would require a movement.

It would require law.

And the law would be enforced.

Calling someone a “feminist” for stating that women are human subtly reframes a fact as an opinion.

It turns reality into a belief system.

It suggests this is something you can opt into or out of—like a lifestyle brand or a political tribe—rather than a foundational truth.

And once something becomes an opinion, it can be debated.
Once debated, it can be diluted.
Once diluted, it can be delayed.
And once delayed, it can be ignored.

That framing is not neutral.

It protects institutional failure.

I reject it.

Let’s also be clear: this is not about replacing one hierarchy with another.

Men are human too.

Men should not be enslaved, extracted from, stolen from, or reduced to disposable inputs in an economic or political machine. Men should not be used until they break and then discarded or ignored. That isn’t justice. It’s exploitation with a different target.

The problem is not women versus men.

The problem is a system that treats people as resources.

A system that selectively enforces the law.
A system that tolerates abuse when it’s profitable or convenient.
A system that demands obedience, labor, and sacrifice while offering impunity to those at the top.

Let’s name where this failure actually lives.

In institutions that claim legitimacy while refusing accountability.

In media that normalizes abuse, reframes crimes as “controversies,” and buries patterns under spectacle.

In courts that selectively enforce the law, downgrade violence into misunderstandings, and treat power as a mitigating factor instead of an aggravating one.

In corporations that extract labor, obedience, and silence from both women and men while insulating executives from consequence.

And most critically, in a system where our taxes are taken from us and then used against us—to fund institutions that surveil, coerce, extract, and subjugate the very people paying the bill.

We even enshrine remnants of ownership logic in our most basic structures—defining “family,” property, and economic dependence through legal frameworks that still echo a time when women were property.

That is not culture.

That is not tradition.

That is institutionalized dehumanization.

This is what patriarchy actually is.

Not a vibe.
Not a tone problem.
Not a cultural misunderstanding.

It is the collapse of the rule of law.

When laws exist but are not enforced.
When crimes are known but not prosecuted.
When harm is documented but ignored.
When public money is weaponized instead of used for the public good.

At that point, a society doesn’t merely fail.

It becomes predatory.

This isn’t “feminism’s” problem to solve.

This is a governance failure.

Until women’s taxes—more than half of America—are used for our benefit rather than our subjugation…

Until media tells the truth…

Until courts enforce the law without fear or favor…

Until corporations and executives face real consequences…

No amount of labels, movements, branding, or moral signaling will fix what is fundamentally broken.

We do not have a cultural disagreement.

We have a justice system and a government that have abdicated their duty.

And we are living in the outcome.