my slightly snarky Catholic feminist side blog

If he treats you like trash, look into getting that annulment, queen!

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

The more I find out about the UK grooming gangs and rape gangs, the more I realize that the systemic rape of an entire country that was effectively protected by their government puts almost everything that happened with Epstein to shame. Especially in regards to raw numbers. What's even more wild, is the fact that they were protected purely because of who the victims majority were. Which was white Christian girls.

The sad reality however, is the fact that we aren't going to hear a lot of people talk about that. Because the reality is they don't care about it. Every single leftist who cries about the Epstein files is going to turn a complete and utter blind eye to the grooming gangs and rape gangs that were exploiting the UK. When according to reports the numbers of girls affected was around 250,000. Sad reality is most people don't even actually care about the victims of Epstein and the people who participated in his illicit activities. Because if they did they would be talking about the grooming gangs out of the UK as well. Of course they won't. Because the people who did it are not white or Jewish. Or Rich. Which is apparently the only time when rape is bad. If the perpetrator is the right religion or color, or the victim is the right religion or color.

And it really just baffles me because I see people go you want a know who isn't on the Epstein files illegal immigrants. To which I normally have to respond saying Yeah because Epstein didn't hang out with the poors. But second and third world countries are known as awful places for women's rights and bodily autonomy. Which is to say in a lot of those places they're consent doesn't really matter or exist. So, on an industrial scale the UK grooming gang scandal puts anything that happened with the Epstein stuff in a classification of "those are rookie numbers".

Certainly a crass way to put it. But the more info we find out, the worse it gets. What they did to these girls isn't just disgusting. It was basically done on an industrial scale. And I fully expect leftists to defend it or to force ignorance of it due to the people who did it and the people it affected. Which frankly is also pretty disgusting.

[wintersglow]

[moderntradwife]

Let me be a woman by Elisabeth Elliot

[rosecorcoranwrites]

Body Horror and Internalized Misogyny

This post showed up in my "for you" feed, and I commented that 63% of people have internalized misogyny, to which two other people asked how being afraid of getting pregnant was misogynistic, so I thought I would explain.

First, the option that the majority of people voted on was this: Pregnancy "sounds like unreal terrifying body horror". Not just something scary or dangerous, but body horror. So lets talk about that first.

Body horror comes from taking something normal and natural about the body and twisting it. Putting teeth where there should not be teeth. Grafting dozens of arms onto every part of the body. Faces in odd places. Limbs bending the wrong direction. Think Dark Souls et al.

Now, one could try to describe normal bodily processes as horrifying, but I wouldn't call this body horror. Take puberty, and all the crazy things your body goes through during it, or describe exactly how each organ keeps you alive in detail. Or take "Skeletons", by Ray Bradbury. This is a horror story in which a man feels aches in his bones and becomes convinces that his skeleton--all skeletons--are some form of Other, some entity inside people that is trying to get out. He describes seeing his wife's skeleton peering out of her mouth each time she smiles, and seeing the shape of people's bones poking out just below the skin.

The thing about this story is that the skeleton is not actually what is horrifying, but rather the man's phobia of the skeleton. It's one of those stories where the protagonist is clearly not in his right mind. It only veers into body horror once the inhuman doctor that first stoked his fears into a phobia shows up and sucks the skeleton out of the man, leaving a gasping, jelly-like mass with nothing to hold it up.

Body horror inherently comes from something being unnatural, something a body is not supposed to have or be able to do.

If one were to view a racial trait, such as more or less body hair, darker or lighter skin, or the presence or absence of epicanthic folds as horrifying, we would call that person racist. If they viewed their own racial traits as horrifying, we wold call that internalized racism.

So now we can circle back to pregnancy. True, pregnancy can be dangerous and scary, and one's body goes through some pretty crazy changes during and after it, but it's also something that female bodies have evolved to be able to do. The potential to become pregnant--the specific gametes and organs and hormones--is literally what makes a body female, at least for placental mammals like humans. Pregnancy is a normal, natural, uniquely and definitively female biological process.

You don't have to want to get pregnant, and it's totally fine to be scared about being pregnant. But to treat it as something unnatural, or as the original poll said, as "unreal terrifying body horror" is to see the capabilities of the female body as somehow Other and alien and twisted. That is misogyny. When women view our own bodies this way, it's internalized misogyny.

[anjomecanico]

If you look at this and still continue with that liberal "sex work is just like any other work" thinking you're simply a fucking monster

[vvulpeszerda]

You know what pisses me off? The constant sexualization of nuns. Women who decided to distance themselves from being sexual objects, yet people can't seem to respect them. Try searching the word "nun" on tumblr, it's disgusting. We live in a pornified reality.

[prettyeyeslies]

Trans ideology be like “sex and gender are different” ok so why trans women want to join in female sports? You compete with your body not your pronouns

[sapphicconservative]

It's also not putting women down to say there is a biological difference.

I saw that recently, that by claiming trans women can't be in female sports, we are claiming women are inferior.

No! There is a difference in the sexes and that is okay. It's okay to recognize we are built to handle things differently. It's okay to recognize women are not as likely to hit certain physical milestones as a man. It would be sexist to turn around and argue that difference makes women inferior.

Women are great at a lot of wonderful things. Our immune system? Better on average. Memory processing? Also better. Ability to function better when sleep-deprived? You guessed it. Better.

[annulmentqueen]

I wish tumblr would give me the option to only let beloved mutuals interact with my posts because like sometimes I don't want to go so far as to block someone but I also do NOT want to hear their takes on things lol

[lucydacusgirl]

And like I genuinely am loath to negatively discuss women’s bodies online and I think the way that famous women’s bodies are up for discussion online and in the press is upsetting and dehumanising and I feel a lot of compassion for women who are struggling with eating disorders and body image issues in the public eye however the fucking mass weight loss happening to all famous women either through eating disorders or weight loss medication cannot just go uncommented on. Nearly every single famous woman got skeletal overnight and it is so incredibly worrying both for them and for what it signals to other women and girls about how they should look.

[andreadworkinq]

Ah, Andrea Dworkin. We still live in hell.

[cisthoughtcrime]

they always act like men's sexual "needs" are an unstoppable force and women's humanity is a very movable object

[tomatosplat]

holy shit. what a succinct and perfect observation

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

Finland W

[salt-n-tigers]

Weird, you’d think hacking off body parts or taking chemicals strong enough to warp your physical features would calm ya right down!

[vomitdodger]

Key takeaway right there.

Things we already know but this is the most comprehensive and undeniable data set yet.

Well…undeniable to people who think.

[millionsknives]

’he’s a woman to me’ and its a male character who has experienced sexual violence. ‘he's a woman to me’ and its someone they headcanon as a submissive bottom. ‘he’s a woman to me’ and it’s a nonwhite man who wears cultural dress that includes long hair or robes or jewelry. ‘hes a woman to me’ and it’s just a guy who’s good with kids. we are not making it out of here alive

[rude-fem]

one the most revolutionary things a woman can do is allow herself to be perceived as ugly

[perfectterf]

WhereIsMyName: Afghan women campaign for the right to reveal their names

Afghan women are often forced to keep their name secret, even from doctors. But some are fighting back.

[tiredyke]

can’t even criticize the diet industry or the recent wave in misogyny and return of thinspo with the rise of ozempic as a weight loss drug without everyone having this knee jerk reaction to defend “women’s rights” to be malnourished and conform to white patriarchal beauty standards in the name of feminism. god forbid we not encourage eating disorders and unhealthy body image in women. choice feminism is a disease and everyone is licking the rats it’s driving me crazy

[eternal-echoes]

“We must especially reject all calls to abortion-related violence. We should instead emulate Pope St. John Paul Il's compassionate outreach toward post-abortive women. In his encyclical Evangelium Vitae, the pope wrote,

The Church is aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision, and she does not doubt that in many cases it was a painful and even shattering decision. The Father of mercies is ready to give you his forgiveness and his peace in the sacrament of reconciliation. To the same Father and his mercy you can with sure hope entrust your child (99).

-Trent Horn, Persuasive Pro-Life

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[erdogun-deactivated20251116]

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