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Yvonne De Carlo in Criss Cross (1949).
For the longest of time I told no-one. It is only in the past few years that I have found the words to describe my experience. Thank you, Sh
This article really struck me because it talks about how a man’s trans identity, and the sexual aspect of it, can affect the women who are made to participate in the fantasy.
This man has a sexual fantasy playing out in his head when he’s socializing with women. Even just dressing in feminine clothes and spending time around women is sexually fulfilling for him.
Imagine if a man was walking around in dog fetish gear or something, asking women to lead him around on a leash. That would rightly be considered sexual harrassment, where he’s trying to involve unwilling participants in his sex life.
But when the fetish is for dressing “like a woman”, somehow it’s totally okay? We’re the ones who are wrong or overreacting for feeling uncomfortable?
We’re the ones in the wrong, just because there’s no easy way to describe or justify what’s making us uncomfortable.
Women aren’t just uncomfortable with these men in our spaces, our friend groups, our families, because they’re men.
We’re uncomfortable because even if there’s no obvious evidence or a way to prove it, we can just feel when there’s a sexual component to what’s happening, and we don’t like being forced to be involved in it.
We shouldn’t have to put up with this. And we can and should ostracize these men from our lives as much as possible.
This part was interesting to me because it reminds me of the notion that in adolescence, girls’ worlds shrink and boys’ worlds expand. It seems that continues into adulthood if men so wish.
While scrolling on TikTok, I was pleasantly surprised to see more and more radical feminist ideas spreading: criticizing the misogyny of gay men, understanding that the patriarchal system is built around men regardless of their social class, race, or physical ability, rejecting the expectation that women must be hairless, and also criticizing individualistic women who dismiss feminist critiques with their so-called "sensory issues." I’ve also seen criticism of all religions, people recognizing the mistreatment and silencing of lesbians everywhere, criticism of pornography and prostitution while also criticizing the way the term "sex workers" is weaponized to shut down criticism of the industry, and criticism of the toxicity of the BDSM community.
Of course, while reading the comments, I saw someone say, "that sounds TERFy," and another person replied, "ngl TERFs take good feminist ideas and twist them into their own thing." Girl, what do you not understand about the “RF” in TERF? These ideas were analyzed and discussed by radical feminists as far back as the 1950s and 70s, almost 50 years before now. But back then, people dismissed them as too "extreme." And now that radfems are warning people about the dangers of trans ideology, people are making the exact same mistakes again.
Meanwhile patriarchy is at its peak. We no longer have the luxury of waiting another 50 years and allowing billions of women to suffer before finally waking up.
I feel like other feminist movements have forgotten the "feminist" part of their activism. They understand perfectly well that if a gay man is problematic, you shouldn’t attack his homosexuality; if a Black man is problematic, you shouldn’t attack his race but his actions. Yet they have no issue with problematic women being called "bitches" or "cunts," or "rape joke" about them, and when radical feminists point this out, they immediately fall back into the same logic: "yeah maybe it’s problematic, but she deserves it."
Back then, it was radical feminists and lesbians who prevented pedophile movements from infiltrating and corrupting the LGBT community, and they had already criticized transsexuals and drag queens. But considering how demonized radfems and lesbians and women in relationships with others women are today… why do you think pedophilia and trans ideology are advancing so quickly within the so-called "queer" community now?
Just realized that while femicide and epidemic sexual assault against females will never be viewed as a hate crime, the murder and sexual assault of trans women IS. The irony is endless.
CHARMIAN CARR as Liesl von Trap in THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) — dir. Robert Wise
Agnetha Fältskog The Winner Takes it All, ABBA (1980) dir. Lasse Hallström
Okay I feel like I’m not the only one here but I’m just curious for other radfems- does anyone else fully support vaccines and modern medicine but ALSO believe in big pharma?😅
Like I’ve argued with anti-vaxxers so many times and I fully believe they work and trust medical professionals. I also believe we should take medicine if we need it and I’m not one of those “all natural only” people. If a doctor recommends or prescribes a vaccine or medication, I’ll take it. I get the flu and Covid shots.
But at the same time I do believe that big pharma is a thing. I feel like this is especially evident with “gender affirming care,” like it’s not like those surgeries and hormones are cheap. (Yes many people do have insurance, but many others don’t and do pay out of pocket.) Considering how rare sex dysphoria actually is, you’d think there’d be a lot less people getting surgery or going on HRT, but it seems like the amount went way up especially after the 2020s. Also there’s a disturbing trend of young women, often autistic, getting “top surgery” and even hysterectomies. Idk, I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist but…🤷🏻♀️
That was kind of all over the place but yeah lol that’s what I’ve been thinking about lately.
As a UK radfem, here's my two pence:
Big pharma is both medicine and corporation. They produce life saving treatment, like insulin, but they jack up the prices. Insulin is not the problem, big pharma greed is.
I imagine that it's difficult to separate the product, the medicine, from the corporation.
When medicine becomes a product to be peddled, regardless of whether the patient needs it, or whether the person is even unwell to begin with, that's where the mistrust comes in.
In the USA where healthcare is wildly expensive and designed to squeeze you of every dollar, I totally see why there's an overlapping mistrust of medicine and big pharma. I guess if you know your doctor is paid to prescribe, it doesn't matter if she/he is offering legitimate treatment, it must all look the same.
The laws are much stricter in the UK. Your local NHS GP can't just take money from a big corporation and push a drug because they're getting a paycheck.
However the NHS is under constant pressure and so many corners are often cut to save time/money, with often negative impacts, such as the Tavistock Clinic scandal to do with transitioning minors, which was not the work of big pharma (although I'm sure there was some influence) and more to do with a sudden increase of young folks showing "gender incongruence" and the importance of needing to look like they're sorting these kids out. This lead to fewer therapy sessions, and kids being prescribed hormone blockers after very little interrogation, sometimes just one or two meetings.
The NHS pushed these kids into transition to make their numbers look good. I don't like the bash the NHS (I work with it) but unfortunately, our greedy governments of past and present have brought it to it's knees, and now the distrust of the NHS is out of control.
men trying to wrap their puny brains around the concept that sex is a 2-person activity and therefore relies on the desires of 2 people wanting to do that activity and otherwise is not sex
“imagine you can only hang out with your friend when you friend is isn’t busy and feels like hanging out. you’re a human being with a desire for connection, but all of that is up to your friend, doesn’t seem fair right?”
some activities that involve more than one person, INVOLVE MORE THAN ONE PERSON idiot!! “so you’re telling me that every time I want to have sex, i have to find a person who wants to have sex with me?” yeah…
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Males every 2 seconds: "If you as a woman have the audacity to not conform to feminine beauty standards then I should be allowed to call myself a woman too"
This is also what they imply when they insist that black women just existing should be enough evidence that any male can be a woman.
They try to phrase it in a uwu "we"re all in this together" type of way to mask it when speaking about black women but what they mean is: The punishment for women not conforming to beauty standards is that they have no right to self-determination, boundaries or distinct categories.
If you can be "ugly", I can be a woman
If you can be black, I can be a woman
If you can be fat, I can be a woman
If you can be a GNC lesbian, I can be a woman
They make it clear that if we wanted sex-based rights and the ability to say no, we should've all been white, thin, beautiful and a male fantasy. And if not, then complaining about the presence of males is audacity we haven't earned. It's not solidarity, it's putting us in our place. Insane that ppl can't peep the shade and contempt they try to mask it with flowery wording.
In their minds, to "pass" doesn't mean to look female. It means to look like a "beautiful" feminine fantasy of a female. And all "cis" women don't pass, so why should they have to is the logic.
This is the core thesis of that Ethel Cain post btw. We aren't all hairless baby prostitutes preserved in formaldehyde (passing), we're grown stinking aging beasts with hairy vachinas so we're out of place by attempting to exclude males.
They say it over and over.
Be that as it may, I could not help thinking, as I looked at the works of Shakespeare on the shelf, that the bishop was right at least in this; it would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. Let me imagine, since facts are so hard to come by, what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say. Shakespeare himself went, very probably — his mother was an heiress — to the grammar school, where he may have learnt Latin — Ovid, Virgil and Horace — and the elements of grammar and logic. He was, it is well known, a wild boy who poached rabbits, perhaps shot a deer, and had, rather sooner than he should have done, to marry a woman in the neighbourhood, who bore him a child rather quicker than was right. That escapade sent him to seek his fortune in London. He had, it seemed, a taste for the theatre; he began by holding horses at the stage door. Very soon he got work in the theatre, became a successful actor, and lived at the hub of the universe, meeting everybody, knowing everybody, practising his art on the boards, exercising his wits in the streets, and even getting access to the palace of the queen. Meanwhile his extraordinarily gifted sister, let us suppose, remained at home. She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as he was. But she was not sent to school. She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone of reading Horace and Virgil. She picked up a book now and then, one of her brother’s perhaps, and read a few pages. But then her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with books and papers. They would have spoken sharply but kindly, for they were substantial people who knew the conditions of life for a woman and loved their daughter — indeed, more likely than not she was the apple of her father’s eye. Perhaps she scribbled some pages up in an apple loft on the sly, but was careful to hide them or set fi re to them. Soon, however, before she was out of her teens, she was to be betrothed to the son of a neighbouring wool-stapler. She cried out that marriage was hateful to her, and for that she was severely beaten by her father. Then he ceased to scold her. He begged her instead not to hurt him, not to shame him in this matter of her marriage. He would give her a chain of beads or a fi ne petticoat, he said; and there were tears in his eyes. How could she disobey him? How could she break his heart? The force of her own gift alone drove her to it. She made up a small parcel of her belongings, let herself down by a rope one summer’s night and took the road to London. She was not seventeen. The birds that sang in the hedge were not more musical than she was. She had the quickest fancy, a gift like her brother’s, for the tune of words. Like him, she had a taste for the theatre. She stood at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said. Men laughed in her face. The manager — a fat, loose-lipped man — guffawed. He bellowed something about poodles dancing and women acting — no woman, he said, could possibly be an actress. He hinted— you can imagine what. She could get no training in her craft. Could she even seek her dinner in a tavern or roam the streets at midnight? Yet her genius was for fi ction and lusted to feed abundantly upon the lives of men and women and the study of their ways. At last — for she was very young, oddly like Shakespeare the poet in her face, with the same grey eyes and rounded brows— at last Nick Greene the actor-manager took pity on her; she found herself with child by that gentleman and sob — who shall mean sure the heat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body? — killed herself one winter’s night and lies buried at some cross-roads where the omnibuses now stop outside the Elephant and Castle.
— 'A Room of One's own' by Virginia Woolf
we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
torrents work like this
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
please learn to torrent
An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over
always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.
Paulette Goddard in The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) - dir. Jean Renoir
GROGU The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) dir. Jon Favreau
based on everything i've seen since detransitioning, i believe there are two types of FTMs and MTFs -
homosexual MTFs- transition in order to conform to heterosexual norms ("transing" away the homophobia they face)
heterosexual MTFs- transition in order to live the fantasy of "yuri" (oversexualized idea of female homosexuality and autogynophilia)
homosexual FTMs- transition in order to conform to heterosexual norms ("transing" away the homophobia they face)
heterosexual FTMs- transition in order to live the fantasy of "yaoi" (oversexualized idea of male homosexuality and autoandrophilia) (this was me)
obviously this is an oversimplification, as it doesn't include bisexuals or nonbinary identifying people, but i feel like some mix of these may apply to them as well.
i've noticed that many of the detransitioners i have seen online and in person are homosexuals, and i believe the reason that that is is because the heterosexuals are afraid to admit to the damage they have caused to the homosexual community. it's less embarrassing to say that you identified as trans to escape homophobia, as opposed to admitting that you identified as trans because you had a fetish for homosexuals.
i definitely understand that, as i was one of those people. and i'll add this - the more you "feed" a fetish, it will only grow more intense and debilitating, whereas if you "starve" it, it can go away.