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women only. into female separatism. here for the gals. --In our culture, not one part of a woman's body is left untouched, unaltered. -Andrea Dworkin

[norton-not-an-anti-virus]

For any women looking at the radical feminist 4B or 6B4T movements and wondering how to commit, here are the tenants:

4B stands for:

1. no sex with biological men (비섹스; bisekseu)

2. no giving birth (비출산; bichulsan)

3. no dating men (비연애; biyeonae)

4. no marriage with men (비혼; bihon)

To add the tenants of 6B4T, you must also commit to:

5. no purchase of sexist products (비소비; bisobi)

6. fully supporting other single women who are practicing and committed to the movement (비돕비; bidopbi)

And fully reject:

1. strict beauty standards (탈코르셋; talkoreuset)

2. hyper-sexual depictions of women (탈오타쿠; tarotaku)

3. religion (탈종교; taljonggyo)

4. idol culture (탈아이돌; taraidol)

My wish and my hope is that many more American libfems will genuinely join us radfems in committing to the 6B4T or 4B movements.

However, please don’t just toss these terms out indiscriminately. These movements stand for very specific protest behaviors and commitments.

(And perhaps this movement is not for you, that’s okay! It’s a big commitment and perhaps you’re not ready. Radicalization is a process and not everyone is at the same place. So, no judgement!)

But please, please my libfem sisters, don’t pretend to be 4B or 6B4T without a true intention and desire to commit. It won’t help the movement, and you’ll just harm genuine efforts both locally and globally.

[majchic]

[lapzoli]

I lost the video but recently someone said “y’all want iconic 2000s pop stars again but can’t even handle Sabrina Carpenter” and I think that sums up roughly what’s going on

[unsentimentaltranslator]

I still have the song but a few years ago Marina sang “2007, when size zero was the rage, Britney shaved her head and all we did was call her crazed” and I think that sums up roughly what’s wrong with prideless doormat women who not only abandon all their anti corporate principles the moment Universal Music produces an album cover that degrades women in a way that pleases men, but also hold up THE FUCKING 2000S as the gold standard for women in pop.

[evilgothmisandrist]

“Sabrina’s fans are women, she’s not doing it for the male gaze 🙄” Do yall ever think? Genuinely?

Of COURSE she is doing this for the male gaze and her female fan base. Her fans are women who glorify her, so whatever she says and does they love. Making an album about being a man’s “dog” (b!tch) makes her fans idolize it and love it, it makes them want to be like that. Like, she is making young girls (bc most of her fans are teenagers) glorify and fantasize about being abused!

And that’s how she gives the patriarchy another win!

[a-griffin-in-the-clouds]

Oh how i love being a women.

[benzohoarder]

[femmesandhoney]

"but if i don't shave then it's super itchy!" it's itchy because it's trying to grow back you fucking dumbasses, let it grow out to normal length and you won't be itchy. problem fucking solved.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

[senatortedcruz]

The girls who tweet shit like “I’m toooooo pretty to work omg” are getting sent to the assembly lines first

[senatortedcruz]

Honestly lmao you ask these people to describe what they want to do all day and they’re like Go to Starbucks get my nails done take Pilates and raise my 5 children and it’s like ok well someone’s gotta make the coffee do your nails teach the children in school and teach your little classes, so are you just more important than them??? You are LAZY!!

[stagtomboy]

I think it's linked to the fact that femininity is inherently high class. Practices like foot binding and keeping the skin pale were feminine, but they also signified that your family was so rich they could afford for you to be an ornament. Even now, what is feminine? Expensive/excessive skincare, expensive/excessive perfume, excessive clothing, discomfort (high heels etc) that you can push through because you're not using your mental energy elsewhere

The promise of femininity is that you are beautiful in exchange for being useless. But when femininity is mandatory and you're too poor to spend all day doing fuck all you're simply being scammed and coping

[barbievspredator]

It's giving "I have such delicate constitution i spend whole summer at sanatorium by the sea"

[uncaring-sky-of-spring-deactiva]

[rakiloslov]

The main female interest I don't understand is the desire to read so many books that are just about the theoretical implications of being a woman

[rakiloslov]

Unlocking your masculine roar. Men in ancient Greece. The male orgasm. Penis: A History. What your balls say about your heart

[cpagliahater]

Men do read about men in ancient greece, it's just called "people in ancient greece" but just talks about men. Men absolutely do read shit like "unlock your masculine roar". Also most philosophy books pre 20th century are written just from and for the male pov.

[femsolid]

"books about the theoretical implications of being a woman" what does that even mean?

[awomen]

bro thinks the female orgasm is theoretical lmao

[femsolid]

Ah. OP is a man. This explains that. Man doesn't like it when women focus on women. So he proceeds to make fun of women for trying to learn about our history and body, which to him are just "theoretical implications." He's so used to being treated like he's the main character that he now actually believes he is.

He's like, "Hey guys, weird thing from the ladies lately, you're gonna laugh, get this, women are reading books?? About women?? It makes no sense! Why would they want to learn about their own history? Seems like a weird little hobby. Is the history of man not enough?? And why are women interested in learning about their own bodies after years of shame and degradation?? We put so much effort into that! Why would they want to read books that make them feel confident in themselves? What a silly little thing to do! Women are so funny! Haha! Anyway, all my girlfriends' orgasms have been theoretical implications.

[thesinisterspinster]

The Victorian want their tired old sexisim back

Why Did the Victorians Think It Was Dangerous for Women to Read Novels and Newspapers? - Christie Stratos Author

Victorian women were allowed to read novels but not newspapers, yet only some novels were acceptable. Why?

I swear men have never come up with a new idea.

[unsentimentaltranslator]

Anyway read Dworkin and tell manipulative men to fuck off

[sweetest-girl-in-the-universe]

[sweetest-girl-in-the-universe]

https://x.com/rights4girls/status/1904591677416702113?t=GUHoufjB5wiYLGwn_rsSIA&s=19

[adayinthelesbianlife-deactivate]

One of the most effective ways of making females stronger protagonists in society is to prioritise them in our choices and to live a consciously gynocentric life, whenever practicable. Are you voting? Looking for a tattoo artist? Need a plumber, a gardener, a builder? A voiceover artist for your video? A DJ for your party? Security staff for your business? Find a sister. Give her your time, give her economic power, help her achieve her dreams. Choose women, it is a small act in your daily life but with massive impact. We’ve got to do this for each other, because I don’t see anybody else giving a fuck.

[b3causeisaidso]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssssss

[terfjawn]

holy shit I haven’t seen this post in years and I can’t believe it only has 4k notes. for me this was one of those slight thought shifts that changes your life. I haven’t had a male doctor or tattoo artist in over ten years now and I choose a female service provider or female owned small business whenever I can for everything else too

[scrappy-dood]

The REAL way for women to support women ♀️💪

[aalexan]

me: I don’t think it’s fair that women are expected to do something unnecessary and clearly sexist when men aren’t

the replies: so you think that women shouldn’t be allowed to choose for themselves…so you think everyone should only do what you say…so you think women shouldn’t have the right to vote if you don’t like them….

[thehairiestfeminist]

Beauty practices show that women are obedient, willing to do their service, and to put effort into that service. They show that women are not simply “different” but, most importantly, “deferential”. In western societies it is expressed in the requirement that women create “beauty” through figure-hugging clothing which should show large areas of their bodies for male excitement, through make-up, hairstyles, depilation, prominent display of secondary sexual characteristics or creation of them by surgery and through “feminine” body language. Women are required to practise femininity in order to create sexual difference/deference. But the difference is one of power, and femininity is the behavior required of the subordinate class of women in order to show their deference to the ruling class of men. 

-  Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny

[sickofeverythingmale2]

"A woman's place in ancient (country) was the home, and she wasn't seen in public life."

Beep! Beep! Wrong! Try again male historian. How about something like:

"In ancient (country), men oppressed and subjugated women and forced them into the home to suit their own desires. In an effort to keep this unjust system in place, men made sure there were no places in public life women could enjoy and punished those who dared tried. Even to this day, the inequalities between men and women are not fully realized or changed."

I know it's really hard to think about the realities of women's oppression. But that's okay! If you're ever unsure, just ask a woman next time before writing literally anything about women.

[exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti]

There’s more to Radical Feminism than being against pornography and prostitution (e.g.: sex trade abolitionism).

There’s more to Radical Feminism than being against pornography and prostitution (e.g.: sex trade abolitionism).

Radical Feminism has politics on ending capitalism, analyzing and criticizing surrogacy, criticizing [heterosexual] marriage and marriage as an institution, examining patrilineage and challenging it, challenging [patriarchal] religion(s), advocating for and developing a [womon’s] spirituality, criticizing and ending [compulsory] heterosexuality (e.g.: challenging and ending heterosexism and ending heteropatriarchy), examining sexuality and sexual relations (e.g.: sex critical, sex negative, PIV-critical and anti-PIV, political celibacy, heterosexual celibacy, kink critical, anti-BDSM), being against gender (e.g.: being gender critical, supporting gender abolitionism, advocating against gendered socialization also known as sex-role socialization or sex-based socialization, being against queer theory), supporting female solidarity, sisterhood, and feminist consciousness-raising (e.g.: female-only safe spaces like womon’s crisis centres and shelters, female-only CR-groups and events, remembering and promoting the fact that Radical Feminism is strictly a female-centered/gynocentric, female-focused, male-exclusionary Feminism, ending girl-hate/womon-hate and internalized misogyny, decentering maleness in our lives, language, and in praxis), fighting for reproductive rights and reproductive justice (e.g.: access to safe, legal, abortions and voluntary sterilization while being against forced abortions and forced sterilizations), politicizing and examining mothering and child-bearing and child-rearing (e.g.: “the cult of motherhood”, childfree politics, midwifery), politicizing female domesticity (e.g.: “the cult of domesticity”, or “the cult of true womanhood”), criticizing and ending [compulsory] femininity, examining the role of the beauty industries in upholding gendered and racialized oppressions just as we already do with the sex industries/sex trade, incorporating, at least aspects or elements of: Disability Feminism, Womanism, Lesbian Feminism, etc – integrating an understanding of double oppressions (or double jeopardy), triple oppressions (triple jeopardy), multiple oppressions, and intersectionality as it initially relates with the systems of racism and sexism oppressing the lives of women of color, particularly black womon.

Radical Feminism has a lengthy, complicated, contentious and intellectually enlightening and inspiring herstory and also has a very resourceful range of political critiques that provides insights about the world in which we womon are oppressed in. You don’t have to agree with everything you research related to Radical Feminism, most don’t and certain areas of our politics require critique and clarification so that we can gain more grounds for unity as womon wanting to liberate societies from male supremacy and female oppression/sex-based oppression/gendered oppression, white supremacy and racism, heterosexism and homophobia, class oppression and the ending of capitalism and [neo-]colonialism, and other systems, structures, and institutions of oppression.

There’s a lot more to being a Radical Feminist than being a sex industries abolitionist.

Avoiding other areas of Radical Feminist politics can result in a sort of confusion in which womon will claim to be Radical Feminist while rejecting key values and core tenets, such as supporting womon’s access to legal abortions.

Radical Feminism is not conservatism and although one or two RadFem stances may appeal to some conservative womon, it is their misunderstanding of what it means to be a RadFem that makes them misappropriate the politics, which further confuses others as to what our intentions and politics really are.

And there’s a lot to learn and realize and this is not even all of it.

[radfemblack]

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[shollymannon-deactivated2019032]

This is relevant rn

[decapod-dyke]

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