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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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when you bring up rachel dolezal or other racefakers they just say race and gender aren't comparable and then go back to comparing white men in women's sports to jackie robinson and saying black women's existence means males can be women
I should not have to keep saying it so I usually no longer do lol check the date on that
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Howdy gyns, would you like your own digital copy of the movies I talked about in this post ?
Well, the first half is up for grabs if you want it, four of them are on my gdrive and I will leave them here for a few days, then I will replace them with the other four. (I don't have enough space on it to save them all at once! Especially since some of the files are so big)
ENJOY !! :3
Don't forget to download the srt files in the folder if you don't speak french ! Unfortunately Animale is not available with english subtitles yet, those i found were clearly AI made/automated and very bad. If you speak a language other than english, check online, on opensubtitles for example, and you might find it! But i'm afraid the english only gals out there will have to wait.
GDRIVE LINK
Reblogs are appreciated! I'm trying to convert as many people as possible to french cinema mouahahaha 🐓🥖💥
more details about the movies under the cut if you want
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Seriously, I am married to a Frenchman and his parents aren't huge mediaphiles so I never know what to watch when/if we do watch french film. So happy to actually have some options!
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Howdy gyns, would you like your own digital copy of the movies I talked about in this post ?
Well, the first half is up for grabs if you want it, four of them are on my gdrive and I will leave them here for a few days, then I will replace them with the other four. (I don't have enough space on it to save them all at once! Especially since some of the files are so big)
ENJOY !! :3
Don't forget to download the srt files in the folder if you don't speak french ! Unfortunately Animale is not available with english subtitles yet, those i found were clearly AI made/automated and very bad. If you speak a language other than english, check online, on opensubtitles for example, and you might find it! But i'm afraid the english only gals out there will have to wait.
GDRIVE LINK
Reblogs are appreciated! I'm trying to convert as many people as possible to french cinema mouahahaha 🐓🥖💥
more details about the movies under the cut if you want
🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘
Thank you so much! I'm always looking for French movies and tv
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voted labia because they're like the guards protecting her {;} saying "who goes there?" and crossing spears etc
One labium tells only truths the other labium tells only lies
i know most leftists agree that everybody should have a right to food, water, shelter, and healthcare but i think a vitally important fifth pillar is privacy. people should not be compelled to be tracked, monitored, or to share personal space with others to access their other essential rights
people who only use conventional social media are so funny bc they’ll casually be like “can I see your tumblr??” are you Insane. this is no instagram or twitter. this is my vault of secrets
So many questions for the people that decided that this should be canceled for the reason it was canceled.
Would honestly love it if the west could get over its xenophobic bs so that victims of Islamism could share our stories without it being either hijacked by people who hate all non-Christians or cancelled by people who would rather not deal with inconvenient truths about the Middle East.
It’s almost impossible to be an Iranian in western countries. The right wingers call you a terrorist cause you’re from the middle east. The left wingers will silence you cause they think you retelling how you survived Islamist fundamentalists is Islamophobic :))
Standing up against theocratic dictators is NOT ISLAMOPHOBIA
Insha'Allah, time will come that there will be a law in place all over the world that there can be no disrespect to our beloved Holy Prophet.
And lastly, I want to say as brother Imam [?] has said, that we love our beloved prophet more than our parents, than our daughters, than our sisters, than our sons.
So there is no way, the message is loud clear, from the people in Glasgow, Scotland, and 1.5 billion Muslims all over the world that any disrespect to our beloved prophet and any burning of holy quran will be unacceptable, intolerable and the Muslims will not tolerate this.
But Insha'Allah, I am sure that we'll be able to pass the law with United Nations and with European Union that in future, if anybody commits this crime, they will be prosecuted and brought to justice.
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This is former British politician Chaudhry Mohammed Sarwar. This person served in the British government with this mindset.
This is how completely insane Islam is.
What's most alarming though, is how confident they are. They have absolute confidence that they can implement worldwide Islamic blasphemy laws and the UN and EU will help them.
Actually, fit/muscular men in video games being half-naked is fine but women with bikini armor isn't, because nakedness doesn't equal sexualization - and muscular men aren't sexualized to begin with. A man with physique is a disciplined hero, not a fuck-toy. He has an "admirable" personality first and foremost.
Men can and in some cultures/areas, will go out topless in their underwear with no repercussions. A man could go outside completely naked, and the worst thing that could happen to him is being charged with indecent exposure, no matter how attractive or unattractive he is.
A woman is not afforded the same liberty. The saggiest, wrinkliest woman could go out wearing a bra, not even topless, and some shorts, and she wouldn't be able to walk ten minutes in peace without someone insulting, harassing, catcalling, or stalking her, or worse.
Women didn't create this double standard. You did.
Nice quote you got there.
This is how you handle guilty people appealing. Increase their sentence.
my boomer trait is that I’m never going to download tiktok. if you send me a tiktok that I can’t watch in my internet browser, I’m not watching it
Gonna make one hundred soups this year. Starting off with kapustnyak, carrot soup, chickpea soup, and parsnip soup.
4% complete.
8% complete baybeee. This may end up being a long post. Hope you like the colour of the soup.
Can't stop won't stop. 15 soups so far.
Slowed down for a minute because vet bills ate up my grocery budget but made it to 20%, baybEEEE.
Whoops I slowed down but BAM, 25%. I'm gonna make a comeback baybeeEEEE.
I AM BECOMING SO POWERFUL
Four new BEAN BASED SOUPS, the first one trailblazing because it was a taco soup recipe courtesy of @alex-of-1000-dumbasseries. 61 IN THE BAG, 39 TO GO.
I am also linking my soup planning doc because I can, and it's easier than tagging all of them individually.
Have I lost all my followers yet? NOT YET. Time for more soups. I'm up to 70 now.
I’m following just because of the soup.
“Are women in prostitution crash test dummies to be experimented on? […] Are we still human beings [to] the state?” She asked.”
Marylène Lévesque was just 22 years old when she was found stabbed to death in a hotel room in Quebec City, Canada in 2019. Lévesque, who wa
Marylène Lévesque was just 22 years old when she was found stabbed to death in a hotel room in Quebec City, Canada in 2019. Lévesque, who was in the sex industry, had decided to meet Eustachio Gallese, 51, at the hotel instead of at the massage parlor where she typically operated.
Unbeknownst to Lévesque, Gallese was on day parole while serving a life sentence for killing his girlfriend, Chantale Deschesnes in 2004.
Gallese had brutally murdered Deschesnes by bludgeoning her with a hammer and stabbing her repeatedly. After being incarcerated, Gallese began to gradually receive privileges from Canada’s parole board on the basis of “good behavior,” downgrading his risk of reoffending from “high” to “moderate” to “low to moderate.” He was ultimately granted a day parole, the facilitation of which led to Lévesque’s murder.
The case made international headlines after it came to light that Gallese had received express permission from Canadian prison administrators to visit brothels during his day parole, reportedly in order relieve his pent-up sexual tension.
Unfortunately, this case is not isolated.
In Germany, the situation is particularly dire, where women in the sex industry are being used as test subjects for a radical new therapeutic approach to the rehabilitation of convicted rapists.
Often referred to as the “brothel of Europe” for its massive legal prostitution market, there are confirmed cases of men convicted of sexual violence being granted permission to visit brothels with the explicit intention of “accumulating experience with women,” with incidents being recorded in two German states.
In one program, which the Osnabrück Forensic Psychiatric Center has been running since 2001, women in the sex trade were invited to come to the clinic to “aid” convicted rapists in learning about sexual consent. The program has attracted backlash from those concerned with ethics and women’s rights.
Rüdiger Müller-Isberner, former president and current board member of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services, condemned the practice as “aberrant” and “morally dubious.”
Prostitution survivor, PhD student, and anti-sex industry advocate Huschke Mau expressed similar sentiments, questioning the morality of using women involved in the sex industry as guinea pigs for so-called rehabilitation experiments.
“Are women in prostitution crash test dummies to be experimented on? […] Are we still human beings [to] the state?” She asked.
Yet the practice continues, and has far more supporters than one might hope.
Many proponents of the program claim that the men involved in the program are considered to be “low-risk,” and so the risks to the women involved have been accurately assessed. But the claim is dubious at best in light of the Lévesque murder, where Gallese had been determined to be as “low-risk” as an offender can be categorized in the Canadian system.
Other supporters point to the fact the program is not currently taxpayer funded, with the men who paying out of pocket for the visits. But the most widespread contention that underscores all of the support is the belief that, no matter what a man has done, denying him sex would be an egregious human rights violation.
“Sexuality is a part of human dignity. […] Even rapists should not be excluded. After all, it is precisely they who must learn the value of consensual sexuality,” wrote legal correspondent and lawyer Christian Rath back in 2011 for the notoriously neoliberal news outlet Taz.
For an industry that has struggled to maintain a façade of decency, rebranding it as a dignified form of “therapy” or “healing” appears to be yet another attempt at normalization. It comes on the heels of years of liberal feminists attempting to assert prostitution is a form of harmless, legitimate employment.
The Federal Association for Erotic and Sexual Services(FAES), an organization that claims that all members are “current or former sex workers” is now calling for prostitution to be included in the global “care revolution,” even bastardizing Marxist theory to claim that the industry can be classed as essential “reproductive work.”
On their website, they’ve issued a statement comparing the supposed healing power of prostitution to the essential services provided by therapists and nurses.
“The emotional work performed in many cases in sex work can be compared […] with that of coaches, therapists, nurses or similar professions, which are performed close to the body and close to people,” FAES declared.
In recent years, this rebranding strategy has been successfully utilized to argue that prostitution for disabled men amounts to necessary therapy, with the care policy spokeswoman of the Green Party arguing in 2017 that the practice should be publicly funded.
In 2022, a man successfully sued his labor association to pay for his use of prostituted women with a specific “sexual assistant” license after he was in a work-related accident and sustained a disability which he claimed made finding a consensual partner “impossible.”
The decision appeared particularly tone-deaf to many considering already-existing accessibility barriers for persons with disabilities to participate in daily life, but particularly so when noting the high rates of sexual violence committed against disabled women and girls.
But convicts, rapists, and disabled men aren’t the only ones demanding “sexual therapy” from prostituted women; the trend continues in senior care as well.
Associations representing elderly men are now arguing for state-funded prostitutes for geriatric male patients with the added promise of supposedly curbing the widespread sexual harassment of female caregivers.
This phenomenon ties into the “prison sex therapy” programs, as proponents emphasize its need specifically for cognitively impaired convicts.
FAES representative Josefa Nereus argued in 2020 that deploying women in prostitution in experimental “sex therapy” for convicted rapists is morally justifiable, as long as the woman in question is informed about whom she will be seeing.
Despite her strong support, Nereus, a high-class escort who charges 250 Euro per hour, had admitted that she’s never had to endure a rapist as a “client.” In contrast, the women of Network Ella, Germany’s first organization for prostitution survivors, have recounted the horrors of barely surviving male sex buyers who had violent criminal backgrounds.
Another prominent defender of the practice is the university educated 500 Euro per hour escort, columnist and sex industry representative Salome Balthus.
Balthus takes it a step further and argues that prostitution can act as a fantasy service for “ethical” pedophiles who seek out infantilized prostituted women to avoid offending against children.
Unlike Neurus, Balthus walks the walk. Her pseudonym is based on a painter infamous for portraying prepubescent girls in sexually charged poses. On Twitter, she labels herself a “toy for adults,” and posts illustrations depicting fantasy child sexual abuse. On her website, Balthus emphasizes her childlike stature, describing herself as “child woman,” and a “half-legal fantasy.”
In the 13th century, influential Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas asserted that prostitution was necessary to prevent violence against “civil” women, comparing it to the sewers used to carry dirt out of a palace.
Then, in the 19th century, phrenologists such as Cesare Lombroso argued that some women were born sexual deviants and thus were perfectly suited for prostitution and the task of absorbing male aggression. This belief continued into the 20th century, bolstered by fascist regimes which consequently instituted brothel networks in all their occupied territories, claiming that this was in order to “protect” the local population.
In the modern age the so-called “sex positivity” movement claims to have moved beyond these ancient misogynistic notions with calls for “equality in the bedroom” and an end to “the orgasm gap.” Yet, their celebration of the sex industry shares a curious amount of similarities with the raging sexists of history they would otherwise oppose association with.
The belief that a class of women should be readily accessible for purchase by men is not new. But while it was once claimed to be due to women’s natural inferiority, it is now being pushed as a consequence of female empowerment, sexual liberation, and women’s ability to serve the public good by renting their bodies to men “in need.”
Though the rationale has changed, the abuse remains.
By Elly Arrow Elly is a guest writer at Reduxx. She is a vocal advocate for the abolishment of the sex industry, and analyzes the intersecting issues of female poverty, lack of rights for migrant women, intimate partner violence and sexual trauma. Elly is the creator of Die Unsichtbaren Männer (The Invisible Men), a project documenting the attitudes of sex buyers in Germany.
"the belief that, no matter what a man has done, denying him sex would be an egregious human rights violation"
Ignore my typos i was angry typing
So the sexual exploitation of Gazan women by UNRWA workers are starting to come out.
Just like any other place UN agencies work in. See for bread.
UN must die like, yesterday.
Also notice how the only western source (do far) did their best to keep UN and UNRWA out of the headline, predictably:
Death of legacy media indeed.
so women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men, we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it, but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.
This reminds me of something I observed in college while I was doing my honors thesis on women in modern horror films. I watched a LOT of horror during that time as part of my research, and sometimes that was done with my family around.
And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.
Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.
Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.
Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.
My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).
But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.
So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?
Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.
In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.
And they flinch every time.
Here have a newspaper comic from 1993
Considering how borderline pornographic horror movies are…
Of course those men liked them.
Well spoken, JK Rowling.
I sincerely hope that Emma Watson will slowly realize the harm she is doing to women's rights by supporting gender ideology, although my hopes are low. Good on JK Rowling for speaking her truth and not accepting breadcrumbs from her.
