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Greetings!

My interests include hiking, reading, writing, casual gaming, radical feminism, animals, plants, fungi, mythology, manga, and horror!

Feel free to message/ask if you're a in my area or just want to strike up a conversation! (And you're a woman. Males need not apply.)

I need to learn how to manipulate people. Waiting for people to become good on their own isn't getting me anywhere.

#“maybe if i explain how i feel it will encourage her to try to be better” incorrect buzzer sound #do i believe people are inherently good? that our natural state is “good”? yes #do i think people will choose to be good just because theyve been given the opportunity? NOPE

milf--adjacent

fearlessfeministcat

You are more sexist than you think

You are more racist than you think

You are more homophobic than you think

You are more bigoted than you think

You are not immune to propaganda and misinformation, just because you don't think you are bigoted does not mean it to be true

I can read 20 billion feminist books and still be a bigot because I fail to properly criticise my beliefs and consciously apply that to my daily life

In these discussions always think to yourself why do I think this? What do other people think of this? What do professionals think of this? What biases might exist?

sisterofrage

On the note of reordering society, I really love Valerie Solanas' assertation that a male rebel or anarchist does not exist. Men cannot rebel against the system, only reorder it. Male "rebels" will still go and rape or abuse women--which is using power to hurt others, just like their own oppressors do. A male, especially one who rapes or abuses, cannot be an anarchist, because anarchy is inherently against power, and rape is the utmost way to use power to hurt someone. It is antithetical to anarchy.

No male rebel can exist because the "anarchist" male simply wants to replace the men on top, not eliminate those positions.

tall

taylor14firefly

“Women are described in animal terms as pets, cows, sows, foxes, chicks, serpents, bitches, beavers, old bats, old hens, mother hens, pussycats, cats, cheetahs, bird-brains, and hare-brains…‘Mother Nature’ is raped, mastered, conquered, mined; her secrets are ‘penetrated,’ her ‘womb’ is to be put into the service of the ‘man of science.’ Virgin timber is felled, cut down; fertile soil is tilled, and land that lies ‘fallow’ is ‘barren,’ useless. The exploitation of nature and animals is justified by feminizing them; the exploitation of women is justified by naturalizing them.”

— Karen J. Warren Ecological Feminism (via quoilecanard)

thatsonemorbidcorvid

“I am asking you to retaliate against rapists, to organize against rapists. We know who the rapists are. We know because they do it to us. He did it to me; he did it to my best friend. We know who he is. We know that it happened: when, where, and how. I'm asking you to take rape seriously. If the law won't do anything, you must do something.

I'm asking you to close down the pornography outlets wherever you can and to stop the distribution wherever you can, in whatever way you can.

I am asking you to stop passing: stop having feminism be part of a secret life. I am asking you not to apologize to anyone for standing up for women.

I am asking you to organize political support for women who kill men who have been hurting them. They have been isolated and alone.

This is a political issue. They're being punished, because at some moment in their lives, they resisted a domination that they were expected to accept. They stand there in jail for us, for every one of us who got away without having to pull the trigger, for every one of us who lived to tell about getting away without having the trigger pulled on us.

I am asking you to stop men who beat women. Get them jailed or get them killed, but stop them. Men who rape make a choice to rape. And men who beat women make a choice to beat women. And we women now have choices that we have to make to fight back.

I am asking you to look at every single political possibility for fighting back-instead of saying, "I asked him, I told him, but he just wouldn't stop." We need to find ways to do it together. But we need to do it.”

- Andrea Dworkin, Terror, Torture, and Resistance

hugewoman

“I am asking you to stop passing: stop having feminism be part of a secret life. I am asking you not to apologize to anyone for standing up for women.”

teathattast

#this is an insanely good deal on raspberries #also raspberries best fruit no contest

heavensghost

I learn everything the hard way

tall

sowhatnotcreative

The only reason forced pregnancy and forced birth is not considered against human rights is because women are not considered humans.

kronkk

I’ve talked about this a lot but something that I think makes it painfully obvious that men see how horrific both rape and forced impregnation and birth are is the movie Alien (1979). Alien came right behind Roe v Wade, of the Hyde act, serious discussions on pregnancy discrimination, and Commonwealth v Pitchford, where a woman who gave herself an “illegal abortion” with knitting needles was put on trial for manslaughter. All this touches back on the fact that horror is very much tied to public fears and broader societal conversations.

In the making of Alien, H.R. Giger wanted the face hugger to be hermaphrodictic in appearance, but him and dir Ridley Scott both wanted the first victim of the alien to be a man because they knew a man being orally raped and impregnated then murdered by the ‘birth’ of that thing would be more shocking than if it was a woman. They know how horrifying it is. Which somehow makes it more sinister that when it’s women actually experiencing it that isn’t not seen as torture. A man being forcibly impregnated (yes with a monster but it’s a horror movie and that argument goes out the window when they specifically wanted a man as the victim to be more horrific) and killed by it is what made what is widely recognized as one of the best scifi horror films in existence.

They know how horrific it is, they just don’t care because it doesn’t happen to them and because they don’t see women as humans.