Shout Out to Women

For everyone who supports equality between all. This is a hate free zone. All are welcome. My name is Madeliene and I'm from Australia, always happy to talk to someone if they need. Please tell me if anything is triggering and I will take it down

[a-calm-feminism]

TRIGGER WARNING SA RAPE.

Here's a couple questions for everyone.

Women: do you remember the first time you were told you were sexually assaulted? Not the first time it happened, but the first time you were told. Maybe you were sharing a story with your mate about a sexual encounter that was uncomfortable or awkward, maybe you were laughing the whole situation off. Maybe when they responded with "you were assaulted/raped" you looked back at previous encounters with men and realised fuck, that wasn't the first time.

Men: do you remember the first time you followed a woman to a secluded area, probably at a party or a pub? And she giggled and pushed gently against your chest and said she had to go back to her friends/go home/go to sleep, and you kept touching her, kissing her neck, pushing your hands under her clothes. And she kept giggling and coming up with excuses to leave but you knew if you pushed enough she'd give in?

Women: do you remember the first time you gave a handjob or a blowjob because you just wanted him to leave you alone? And you figured the best way to get him to go was to get him off, and at least he wasn't raping you?

Men: do you remember the first time you had a woman by herself and you were "sweet talking" her into staying with you, and you spit on your hand to rub her vagina because even then you knew, she wasn't into it and she wouldn't be wet.

Women: do you remember the first time you had the courage to say NO, it probably was with someone you were comfortable with, someone you thought was a friend. Maybe they didn't listen.

Men: do you remember the first time someone said NO but you kept going because you knew they wouldn't fight?

[shithowdy]

just saw a post complaining about how hard it is to find adhd resources for adults and one of the comments said “tiktok has a lot of adhd tips” as if telling someone with adhd to enter the algorithmic quicksand of perpetual dopamine hits isn’t the most insane thing you could suggest for someone with adhd

[funnytwittertweets]

[imagine-all-the-people]

Yeah like that… 👆🏻

[backstepping]

a dark day... the onion went off

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

I would like to remind everyone that women have historically been silenced, not silent.

[iwasbored777]

I found out about abortion laws and I'm so sorry for every woman in America because their rights to have abortions were taken away. If I had two years I wouldn't be able to explain why this is a terrible decision and how afraid I am that other countries will accept this law too.

[princesserica84]

Tsunami

If they think that we are just going to sit here and let them take away the rights that our mothers, aunts and grandmothers fought for us to have, then they are more stupid then I thought.

The feminist movement has more power than you can possibly imagine. We will keep fucking fighting until they realize they have NO RIGHT making decisions about our bodies. And when we die, our daughters, nieces and granddaughters will continue to fight.

This begins the fifth wave. But this won’t be a wave. It’ll be a fucking tsunami and we are ready to drown all of you who think you can just take our fucking rights away.

Reblog this if you fucking agree.

[notspinelli]

I hate how in conservative minds, woman are so responsible for everything that leads to a pregnancy (not even taking in to account that there is someone else involved who is free of responsibility) but as soon as they are pregnant, they are no longer trustworthy enough to manage a good decision. If this doesn’t speak misogyny, I don’t know what does.

[meangan-thee-lesbian]

So for all the Australians thinking 'oh Roe v Wade being overturned is horrible good thing that would never happen here in the lucky country' well, yeah nah, it wouldn't because we have never had any federal protections for abortion at all. Abortion actually only became legal nationwide last year, and it's still heavily restricted and functionally inaccessible in most parts of the country. In the Northern Territory, for example, you need to get the abortion before 14 weeks, otherwise you're going to need to find two doctors to sign off on it (which given how remote most of the NT is, this is basically an impossible task in such a limited timeframe). After 23 weeks even two doctors won't help you unless you obviously gonna die. No exceptions for rape, pedophilia, incest, poverty, etc. Oh, and did I mention there are only two abortion clinics in the entire state (a state which covers an area almost half the size of the entire US of A?) So anyway, friendly reminder that while us Aussies are being outraged about Roe v Wade, actually our own backyard could probably use some of that attention.

[theweirdwideweb]

Had to break up with my best friend because *squints at notes* he wouldn't stop insulting my physical appearance despite multiple arguments about the topic, including after I was diagnosed with body dysmorphic disorder, and two days ago he did it again and I told him again to fucking stop and he said that he places a lot of stock in his image and he finds it embarrassing when we're out and I look so bad, so really his feelings are the ones that are hurt.

[theweirdwideweb]

I cried about ending this friendship all day long.

[theweirdwideweb]

A 30 year old man.

[amarguerite]

🎶 there is power in a union 🎶

[loth-catgirl]

put up a statue of this woman actually

[acquaintedwithrask]

if you as an institution aren’t committed to making your fucking campus safe for your students then you don’t get to get pissy when they make it safe for themselves!!! jesus!!1!

[gamma-xi-delta]

“Humans have long used shaming as a weapon to preserve social order and cohesion; indeed our brains are hardwired to register shame.”

— Shaili Jain

[disillusionedmonster]

I was at a swimming carnival the other day for my school and a lot of girls were wearing bikinis which had very revealing cuts. Now, before I begin, if you think that this post is going to shame these girls for wearing these bikinis, you are wrong. Me criticising a structural issue does not equate to thinking that the girls that wear them should be shamed.

I started talking to another teacher about the bikini bottoms and how revealing they were and the topic moved onto more feminist ideas. And I argued that they were a form of oppression because they were so revealing. As the conversation continued my colleague asked "what if the girls are confident in what they are wearing?" I always get a little thrown when I am asked this. I responded with "who benefits and who designed these bikinis." She conceded the point.

But I keep coming back to it in my mind "what if these girls feel confident?" And you know what, who cares. Who cares if these girls feel confident in these revealing bikinis? Oppression isn't individual, it's collective. I feel like the argument always comes back to this. Women's confidence. Not all the girls who were wearing these bikinis were confident. I saw several of them swap shirts with boys or wear a towel around their waist to hide them. I also saw several girls having to adjust them because they kept getting wedgies.

"What if she feels confident?" Women and girls feeling confident in their bikinis is great and all but it doesn't stop them from being a form of objectification. It doesn't stop making their bodies more available for men to view. It doesn't erase the fact that many girls feel pressured into wearing these bikinis because that is what is advertised to them. Sometimes these bikinis are the only ones available, so girls and women just have to settle for them.

Know what the boys were wearing? Boardshorts down to the knees. That was the main type of swimmers they boys wore at the carnival. The second type were the swim bottoms. But these are not comparable because the two pairs I saw both covered the boys' butts. It was interesting because the teacher asked me why wearing budgie smugglers was seen as less acceptable than what the girls were wearing. At the time I didn't have an answer but now I do. It's less acceptable because we are so desensitised to the objectification of women and girls bodies. We are constantly bombarded with images of women's naked or half naked forms. We are used to it by now. Men simply don't get the same treatment therefore when they do wear budgie smugglers it's something to gawk at or make a statement of.

Women and girls' confidence doesn't negate oppression. Oppression and misogyny doesn't happen on an individual scale, it's something that women as a class experience. Some women would have been content with not having the vote. Didn't stop it from being a systemic way to prevent women from participating in politics and how countries are run. Some women would have been confident being housewives. But, that didn't negate the fact that they were deterred from higher education and the workforce to do their so called duty to their husband and children. Something which is still going on to this day. As sad as this is, some women feel confident that thier husband's and boyfriends love them. This doesn't negate the fact that 1 in 6 Australian women will experience Domestic Violence. That 2 out of 5 female murder victims were killed by thier intimate partner. Some women feel confident in revealing clothes. This confidence doesn't stop them from simultaneously being objectified by men and also being shamed for being a slut or whore. Feeling confident while wearing makeup doesn't erase the fact that a woman is more likely to get a job if she is wearing makeup.

Confidence is not as good a clap back as people seem to think.

[a-calm-feminism]

I understand your take on this and do agree with it. I also loved wearing a bikini, board shorts gave me mad chafe between my thighs and I was never comfortable in one pieces as I couldn’t find any that fit my larger chest but smaller torso and also hated the feel of the wet fabric which is why I didn’t wear a tankini. I now struggle to find bikinis I can wear that support my breasts and don’t have me adjusting the fabric every five minutes, and ones that have bottoms that cover my ass because I’m not comfortable with that.

My biggest issue with women’s swimwear is that it’s acceptable for girls to wear bikinis from infant hood right through until their body shape doesn’t fit the “ideal” shape, or they have stretch marks or they’re too old etc. As soon as a woman’s body is deemed not attractive enough they get judged for wearing one.

[danielle-gets-fit-deactivated20]

I have stretch marks.

Reblog if you do too. Just to prove that it is more normal than what people actually think.

[legintheheadlights]

When i was younger i didn’t know what stretch marks were, so i was really confused by all the ‘random scars’ i had, no one told me they were a thing besides for pregnant women.

[marcy-playground]

This is how all rape trials should go. Especially those of people who work in the sex industry because, unfortunately, some people take their profession as consent.  

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

I said what I said and I did not stutter

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

Motherhood should not be the punishment for having sex. Not all girls are able to receive appropriate sexual education.

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

Also, children deserve to be born WANTED. Children deserve to be born into families that are financially and emotionally ready to receive them into the world. Pro life is just pro birth and anti choice- pass it on