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[amazonalissa]

Personal...

I will admit something really personal... I haven’t been active in months because of #fear of what I would face in my inbox and scrolling through my dashboard due to #patriarchy #fear mongering and downright #TERRORISM through the coded psychic rape of #coded misogyny... and right when I get back on here, that’s just what I find. I honestly feel #triggered and want to curl up and cry. I can’t even have a #safe space here, FUCK. #problematic #ptsdtriggered #feministproblems #personal #This Is Why I Need Feminism

[datarep]

Age that women first noticed men were looking at them sexually

by Teelo888

[thentheysaidburnher]

Girls don’t get childhood. They get girlhood.

[dea-fhtagn-deactivated20160615]

Because I don’t want to see any comments after this reblog on how it’s perfectly normal for boys to start noticing girls when they’re all going through puberty – this graph is based on women’s responses to an /r/AskReddit thread that specifically mention grown, adult men. 

[ilikemyownopinion]

And if you click the link, you’ll see that this was based on 130 people.

And that they used top comment sorting because they figured that lower ages would get more up votes.

So your sample size is small and you’re admitting bias.

Please kindly fuck off.

[minority-privilege-blog]

This is also a survey, not a study.

[amazonalissa]

???? Fucking rape-culture/PEDOPHILIA apologists, what the hell! 130 people is plenty for a sociologically oriented STUDY (study= survey, semantics bruh). THERE IS NO “BIAS”, THIS IS LITERALLY NUMBERS AND FIGURES AND CHARTS, your patriarchist’s favorite “objective data”. Don’t tell me to fuck off. I do what I want. These are the words subtextually influenced by #rape culture and #rape culture and pedophile apologistism.

[sixteenyearoldfeminist]

my boyfriend told me that once he saw a PSA on TV talking about how “over 33% of the homeless population are women” and “we must protect vulnerable women now” and i just 

can you math 

who are the other 67% supposed to be

stray dogs 

[furlockhound-inactive-moved-dea]

Modern Feminism in a nutshell.

[amazonalissa]

?????? Womyn are oppressed because they’re subject to numbers-based erasure like here. WE ARE PEOPLE TOO, ASSHOLES, NOT NUMBERS TO CRUNCH INTO A CALCULATOR. Fucking patriarchy and its numerically reductionist approach to HUMAN BEINGS. Modern Patriarchy In a nutshell, fucking assholes. Womyn are the PRIMARY victims of poverty, just as they are in warfare (see Hillary Clinton’s quote on that). Poverty is SEXIST, not just asymptomatic of the hegemonic ideology of toxic masculine “stewardship” we call Patriarchy!!!!!

[notshyfaery]

Dear Feminists, please stop speaking for all women. You are not our voice. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t.

Sincerely, A woman who thinks you should stop talking.

[amazonalissa]

You are engaging in erasure of real womyn's opinions. Your opinions are invalid because of your internalized misogyny. There is such a thing as being more or less entitled to engage in freedom of speech. You threw your credibility right out the door right when you fell into the patriarchy's traps. So we are your voice, get the fuck over it. Same applies to SJW and POC and other underprivileged groups. Seriously, run a pole and see how many people agree with "your" side (the patriarchal paradigms) vs. the enlightened liberal/feminist/SJW perspective. The voices, especially the nonindoctrinated ones, will show that we are on the right here and you are wrong.

[wearethefourthwave]

Please tell me you don't believe in "man-spreading". I really respect your blog, but it's really annoying how a lot of feminists on Tumblr have been ignoring biology. Please, please tell me you aren't one of them.

i have no idea what man spreading is but if it’s that thing where guys can’t shut their legs on the train let me fucking tell you i got on a subway car this morning and sat between two guys and both of them refused to shut their legs so i was just crushed between these two large men for 40 minutes even though there was nothing keeping them from literally putting their knees together so if that’s what your talking about then fuckin right i believe in man spreading (if that’s not what man spreading is i can’t help you sorry)

[amazonalissa]

Agreed. Biology?! Seriously? Respect their blog? When you perpetuate such misinfo? A penis and scrotum and contents are NOT that big and don't require a meter of room that PRACTICALLY every man takes to sit down on a train!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let me tell you, womyn have genitalia too! Where's that factored in and interpreted to justify "womynspreading"?! That's right, NOFUCKINGANYWHERE, because of the patriarchy. Men are 99.99% of the time the ONLY ones spreading their damn legs that far apart and it's disgusting and a pathetic attempt to show patriarchal domination. Male privilege at its finest and most obvious. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

[camerupt-rants-blog-deactivated]

"If you’re anti sjw/feminist you don’t support equality!!"

No, actually I just don’t support people who think doxxing, death threats, getting pets killed, people fired, laughing at a terrorist attack at a convention, fake and romanticize mental disorders and think all of those things make them a good person.

[amazonalissa]

This is such a logical fallacy. I'll dispell it one by one. 1. Doxxing does not indicate feminism. Not all feminists dox, not all doxers are feminists. False equation fallacy. Next, true feminists only dox those who deserve it, those who benefit from heteronormative white-empowering hegemonic power structures that disprivilege the rest of us, the 99% so to speak. 2. Death threats are bad but can be of RHETORICAL non literal use in bringing down patriarchal power structures. 3. Killing pets is grey area but most subjective feminist moralities (subjective because all moralities are subjective as is beauty standards) OPPOSE animal abuse, as animals are also falling under heteropatriarchal norms and hegemonic structures under man's dominion, so oppressing them further by KILLING them is the furthest thing from most feminist's and TRUE feminists minds. 4. Getting people fired is small and inconsequential unless brainwashed by materialistic patriarchal norms. Get over it, money and material value are PATRIARCHY in the flesh. Besides REAL feminists only get or try to get it done to bad, oppressive individuals who are in classes that oppress and steal agency from lower hierarchical classes. 5. What terrorist attack? Terrorism like sexism racism etc. takes OPPRESSION with negative actions and attitudes and thus if against privileged or WRONG people (sexual perverts included), it is not terrorism but justice!! Especially if nonfatal, as violence is generally frowned upon for good reasons! 6. Faking and romanticizing mental illness is NOT what we do. We simply are fully aware of the spectrums of illness and embrace healing and diagnoses. We are more aware of mental health than most of the general populace and thus more sensitive to symptoms and signals of nonhealth, which is why people ignorant about mental health think we are hysterical (that traces back to Victorian-era patriarchy, labeling womyn as paranoid and hysterical, wow how forwardthinking...) when we are really 10x more aware. PTSD for instance is something I struggle with due to my awakened experiences since becoming a feminist.

[beevomitbooboo-blog]

It’s ok to be white. It’s ok to be cis. It’s ok to be straight. It’s ok to be male. It’s ok to be all of these at once.

If someone tells you otherwise, they are not venting, they are not fighting for justice, they are not lifting others up by bringing you down, they are just a shitty person, and the problem lies with them, not with you.

[amazonalissa]

NO one is saying being these things is inharently BAD. The POWER STRUCTURES of society that accompany these is what is bad, the oppression and the privilege that all members of these natural classes all fall under!!!!!!! It's ok to be these things but NOT ok to benefit from being these things, therefore all we SJW/feminists are saying is that we need to equalify the playing field and check privilege! Oppression is NOT ok and must be stopped in all its forms like fat oppression/thin privilege, male privilege/womyn oppression, cisprivilege/trans or nonbinary et al oppression, white privilege/POC oppression etc.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Womyn make like 80% of what men make, how is that not a sign of a seriously ingrained social psyche that privileges men and oppresses womyn??? Gays, trans, womyn and women are murdered and sacrificed emotionally the world over every day for being underprivileged. MORE than men die in warfare and dangerous occupations which the patriarchy forces men to occupy! What about fat shaming? Slut oppression through shaming? "Ugly" shaming? Shame must end! This is all part of the oppression dynamics of the Western World. The problem in fact lies with people like YOU who ignore all these stinging social realities to go HAHA FEMINSTS R BAD PPL I GOT U GOOD YOU FEMINAZZZZZIIIIII U H8 MEN. Always remember Anita Sarkeesian's quote about sexism being OPPRESSION plus discrimination and hatred, we literally CANNOT be sexist or oppressive towards dominant classes or hierarchies such as men, or racist vs. whites! Educate yourself!

[icyarguments]

Nobody deserves harassment; except for those pesky anti-sjw blogs. But they’re obviously racist/sexist/transphobic so they deserve it. Also I do cameos hello.

[amazonalissa]

I can't see how someone can survive being so obtuce. TRUE feminists per the official, dictionary definition e.g. the ONLY real feminists do NOT act like this, this is total patriarchist disinfo to discredit the real movement. Anti-SJW people are anti-morals! SJW = social justice warrior. If you don't fight or war (warrior) for social justice, you are ANTI JUSTICE AND IMMORAL. Wake up to the enlightened liberal values of justice, social justice, gender sex equality, etc.!!!!!!!!!!!! The oppression, the rape culture, patriarchy, the wage gap, the discrimination, the harassment, the attacks, killings, murders, etc. are REAL and therefore the oppressive class structures are REAL. Wake up! This isn't opinion, it's fact. Your ultraKKKconservative notions of morality are wrong, morality is subjective and your blinders are showing, how can one ignore such reality????

[amazonalissa]

Let me tell you how much I HATE MEN!

[amazonalissa]

Leaveformanhattan, like I previously stated, these are rhetorical symbols. Few if any TRUE feminists hate men. Besides, to quote some wise words, sexism against men is not possible. Men are privileged oppressors and sexism means discrimination/prejudice PLUS power/oppression. You are missing the point and whoever told you you have internalized misogyny is probably right. I don't want to draw conclusions too quickly, but if you cannot appreciate the worth of antipatriarchy rhetoric you are one lost woman.

[amazonalissa]

Let me tell you how much I HATE MEN!

I’m a feminazi. I laugh at men, but not at their stupid jokes. I want to take away their porn—erm, sorry, I mean “free speech.” I won’t fuck them or flirt with them. I don’t find them interesting. …

This is a great piece of rhetoric. I do not condemn the use of strong rhetoric to kick the patriarchy down a notch. Of course, I do not agree literally with all of the hate and points in the article, but I agree with the purpose of the hate in this, and that is what counts.

[deletedgoodbye2025]

THAT WHOLE FUCKING ARTICLE IS LIES, GARBAGE, AND LITERAL FUCKING FECES FOR GOD’S SAKE

Okay okay this is a dance blog so don’t worry i’ll stop!

[amazonalissa]

Hi, leaveformanhattan! Thanks for your comment. I try to engage as much as possible with people who interact with me, so here goes! :) I don't understand your total opposition with this article... It's not bad. Like previously stated, I don't literally agree and condone all points, but it's a great rhetorical piece that is very pro-womyn and helps to equalify the playing field in a linguistic sense. If we could have an open chat about the pros and cons to shed more light on it, that would be awesome! <3 Thanks again for the comment.

[kristenwiiggle]

[profeminist]

IT STARTED WITH GHOSTBUSTERS 3 … THE MRA’S WARNED US …

[amazonalissa]

Do you realize how much this would actually help our state of affairs and in bringing down the hegemonic power schema of patriarchy? We need the empathy, compassion, emotionalism, and multiple experienced perspectives cisfemales, womyn, etc. will bring into government. Bring BACK the matriarchy. Fix the broken power balance and VOTE IN WOMYN PERIOD. Irregardless of your or her/their/etc. partisan politics and other petty details.

[bunpunk-deactivated20210228]

When I was in college, a teacher once said that all women live by a ‘rape schedule.’ I was baffled by the term, but as she went on to explain, I got really freaked out. Because I realized that I knew exactly what she was talking about. And you do too. Because of their constant fear of rape (conscious or not), women do things throughout the day to protect themselves. Whether it’s carrying our keys in our hands as we walk home, locking our car doors as soon as we get in, or not walking down certain streets, we take precautions. While taking precautions is certainly not a bad idea, the fact that certain things women do are so ingrained into our daily routines is truly disturbing. It’s essentially like living in a prison - all the time. We can’t assume that we’re safe anywhere: not on the streets, not in our homes. And we’re so used to feeling unsafe that we don’t even see that there’s something seriously fucked up about it.

Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism (via candacebanning)

TW for rape culture

(via profeminist)

My parents just got a new security system a month or so ago. Every night they check to make sure the doors are locked. Same with the cars. This terrible rape culture goes further than rape, for it has spread to our everyday lives and for atrocitiousness other than rape. We need to band together as feminists or womyn in general to stop the oppressive power schemas of this hegemonic set of norms that brainwash us to think this is natural. Crime is not natural, evil is not natural, just look in the animal kingdom and life untouched by patriarchy.

[profeminist]

The Trouble With Disney’s Teeny, Tiny Princesses

A culture populated by absurdly small princesses and hulking male heroes can change the way men and women see themselves

”Disney has taken a lot of flak for perpetrating sexist stereotypes in its princess movies. In today’s competitive, every-moment-counts child-rearing culture, American parents want their kids’ entertainment to be not just fun, but also fulfilling. So if a movie sends the wrong message, many parents stay away. That’s why the company has responded to the criticism, shaping more recent princess movies such as Frozen and Brave around female characters for whom romance is not the primary motivation.

I welcome this evolution. But there’s still a lot to wonder about — and even complain about — in today’s animated children’s movies, especially in the radical differences between male and female bodies.

Yes, on average real men’s bodies are bigger, and more muscular, than women’s. And yes, animation is an art form not restricted to the boundaries of realism, which is what makes it great. But the exaggerations in these children’s movies are extreme, they almost always promote the same image of big men and tiny women, and they are especially dramatic in romantic situations.

The differences between men’s and women’s hands and arms in these pictures are more extreme than almost any you can find in real adults. The men’s hands are routinely three or four times larger than the women’s. For comparison, I checked a detailed report that the Army commissioned to design its equipment and uniforms. In real American adults, for example, men’s wrists are on average only about 15% larger in circumference than women’s. In that scene from Frozen, not only is Anna’s hand tiny compared with Hans’, but in fact her eyeball is wider than her wrist.

Having written about this subject frequently in the past few years, I know many people will disagree, arguing that the fundamental differences they perceive between men and women are natural and should be embraced. But what we think of as normal is not simply natural; it’s a product of the interaction between the natural world and our cultural ways. When the beautiful and romantic stories we grow to love in childhood set a standard that exaggerates gender differences and makes them seem natural — built into our very bone structures — it gives us a more limited, and less complex, vision of our human potential.”

Read the full piece here

[amazonalissa]

I fully agree. Fuck biology, the sexes are the same and differentiations are social constructs that we use to pigenhole and divide ourselves.

[kingforaking]

I’m doing a social experiment called ‘agreeing with boys when they compliment you’. 

the results: 

[fuckyeahbodypositivity]

perf example of how uncomfortable boys are with women owning their own awesomeness. for many men, beauty, coolness, desirability are gifts they alone can bestow upon women. they get baffled, even aggressive when you show you’ve known you possess those things all along. 

[misandry-mermaid]

Here is an article with more info on this experiment…

[amazonalissa]

I experienced and can see the same thing everywhere. Examples: a woman (not womyn) on the bus complimented me "I love your haircut!" I said, "Me too!" and she just gave me this weird look. My body-positive friend Marie was also told by one of our mutual guy friends that she had nice hair one day and she said, "Yepp," and he told her off for being full of herself Some brainwashed patriarchal compatriots might think this is just because instead of responding with a note of gratitude to complements as is considered polite and kind in our culture, you are responding in a way that looks arrogant in the cultural context. Well, if that is true, that is because of a messed up patriarchal culture of entitlement that means we females/womyn/allies of underprivileged etc. cannot be complimented without having to reciprocate. I DON'T WANT TO SUCK YOUR DICK BECAUSE YOU COMPLEMENTED ME. COOL I KNOW I'M HOT NOW GO AWAY I AGREE. #bodypositivityalltheway

[amazonalissa]

Obama's State Of the Union Address: A Commentary

Listening to the State Of The Union Address by President Barack Obama was an inspiration. It was an embodiment of highly liberal and feminist principles. It made me proud to see feminism on the high pedestal with the President's gleaming mentions of the wage gap, which MUST be effectively fixed! It is 2015, as he astutely noted! Hanna Rosin, a renowned feminist, said it best: "The official Bureau of Labor Department statistics show that the median earnings of full-time female workers is 77 percent of the median earnings of full-time male workers. But that is very different than ‘77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men." (Hanna Rosin). Obama is, as the President, a valid source, but it helps to back him up with other liberal and/or feminist backgrounds, like Hanna Rosin. Also, his points about the paying of sick leaves are very valid. Employees must have legal recourse against the potential oppression of not being paid for not working. Employers, being a constituent of the oppressor class in a capitalistic society, must be forced to check their privilege and equalize the rich-poor gap to a degree by minimizing their capital-increasing prospects. They cannot simply expect to handle their own "property" (increasingly obsolete idea) and business as they want -- it is not theirs but society's anyway. Besides, why do you want employees to come to work sick? Patriarchal capitalists seem to want employees to kill off the weak in the style of Darwenism by spreading illness... Here is a good research article that summarizes the issue of sick leave: http://www.myfreedomfoundation.com/sites/default/files/documents/The%20Effect%20of%20Mandatory%20Paid%20Sick%20Leave%20Policies%20-%20Reviewing%20the%20Evidence.pdf

[dapperdonuts]

This was in my psychology book. I thought it might be useful to those who can’t think if gender-neutral terms.

[thatscottishplay]

Finally I see something going against the implied language that suggests the male gender is the default gender, illustrated by “man-made, mankind” etc,

[amazonalissa]

I analyzed the "suggests the male gender is the default gender" thing (among other things) via "man" as default here: http://amazonalissa.tumblr.com/post/106950535677/use-of-pronouns-and-womyn-in-feminism-my-analyses It is an atrocioty that many of us further daily by discussing life in such sexist, presumptive terms that the patriarchy forces on us...

[amazonalissa]

Shout Out

(((Shout out to all my followers, old and new! <3))) I want to thank you ALL for aiding me and accepting my aid in turn in our fight against the patriarchy, but I have some news: I will be returning to study at university soon and will be less active because I will be focusing on academia. Please overlook my decreased output and continue to stick around! I promise I will try to generate fresh analysis and commentary at least weekly, hopefully more. Irregardless, I will not be quitting anytime soon, because this fight is timeless and will not die with me. And when break comes around, you'll hear a LOT more from me. Perhaps even with stories of my efforts at spreading the truth around on campus, etc. Thanks again and remember these words: NEVER BE SILENCED INTO SUBMISSION. NEVER ALLOW THE STRUGGLE AND OPPRESSION OF WOMYN AND ALLIES BE SILENCED. SPEAK UP AND SPREAD THE HIGH TRUTHS OF LIBERALITY AND FEMINISM WHEREVER/WHENEVER YOU CAN.