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can i ask for your advice? i’m sorry if this is annoying, you don’t have to answer of course if it bothers you. i cannot come to terms with having a female body, compared to moids i feel almost subhuman :(( i keep thinking having a flat chest, wider shoulders, taller height etc. would be so much better, not only for practicality but also for aesthetic reasons. moids seem unrestricted by their biology and don’t seem as vulnerable. and i think their secondary sex characteristics are preferable. am i brainwashed? have i got the soul of a handmaiden?

it’s funny because i’m rather robust for a female naturally, so spending unnecessary energy on this shit doesn’t even make sense.

any way to cure this self-loathing? i don’t want to become suicidal over something that’s materially unchangeable lol.

i say this with utmost seriousness: get jacked

had a friend who practiced a lethal martial art form invented legendarily by a woman, Wing Chun. it is what Ip Man and Bruce Lee both practiced.

you can do a fucking lot with the female form. women are 100% socialized to avoid Getting Jacked. they police muscle growth as strictly as they do weight gain. there is a massive gap between the average woman and what we are all capable of.

in the age of lethargic video game playing pornography addicts, the average woman getting as jacked as physically possible could evolutionary tip the scales in our favor.

society hates fat women. but a visibly muscular female visually comparable to a male superhero is a monstrosity with no representation. a joke. there's a reason.

men are degenerating into little weaklings sucking the teat of addiction at all times. the upcoming generation of males is deeply dysfunctional and disturbed.

get fucking jacked, stop self-harming &start studying martial arts & philosophy. there's about to be a gap in the world where those young men should be, and it's up to third gender terfpilled second wave androgynous female looksmaxxers to fill it

love dropping "female" and "women" in a conversation where people are using "afab" and "femme presenting"

#have never gotten pushback even from my trans friends lol #what are they gonna do - tell me not to say “women”? out loud? irl? we both know how dumb that would sound

victusinveritas

Here's something from Margaret Killjoy. Not cropped to annoy those of you that loved cropped screengrabs. Also not cropped because I have better things to do and found all of this on Facebook, where someone other industrious soul copied it from Bluesky. If you haven't listened to Margaret Killjoy's podcast, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, I recommend it.

radfemwuornos

there is NO radfem more unshakable than an ex/current SWer radfem. you will never understand the rotten, disgusting underbelly of masculinity the way someone does when their literal survival depended on catering to it.

this idea that women just “choose” SW on a whim or because they’re wanting to cater to the male gaze?? delusional. at least 90% of women end up there because they don’t have other options. this is my personal opinion as a former sex worker who used it to escape homelessness. most of my co-workers were single mums struggling to feed their kids. full stop.

and YES you’ll see women online saying “i love it, i chose it, it’s empowering.” but you’re forgetting: that’s the JOB. the fantasy is the product. the whole point is to make men believe it’s fun, empowering, and a choice.

and sure, there are always tourists who get tricked into thinking it’s quick cash because of what they see online. but they find out real fast that the “fantasy” was NEVER meant for women. it was always, always meant to lure in men.

coshayphinelove

I know I haven't posted regularly on this blog in years but I'm not seeing a whole lot of posts on this site about what's happening in Minneapolis right now. And the posts I am seeing are not covering the scope of it. I'm genuinely surprised because tumblr is usually where I find out about things organically through my feed. So I'm making a post about it.

A brief summary of events, from someone who pays attention and also lives here, best taken with a grain of salt and some fact checking:

2020: George Floyd is murdered by Minneapolis police. There are weeks of protests about it. It makes national news. Protests happen in DC. The infamous Trump and his bible photo shoot happens.

2024: Gov. Tim Walz is Kamala Harris' running mate in the presidential election. He starts the "they're just weird" thing. Is folksy, Trump personally hates him.

November 2025: ICE starts showing up to "crack down" on "illegal immigrants" in our Somali community. I may remember the numbers wrong, but something like 90% of our Somali neighbors are either naturalized or were born here. People distribute ICE whistles and are on high alert. Localized to the twin cities.

December 2025: Nick Shirley is paid by a bunch of MN Republicans to do an exposé on daycare fraud. I didn't hear much about this. All I really know is this was an ongoing investigation that MN officials were already taking care of and some of the guilty parties have already gone to court from a COVID era food assistance program. Mostly, if not all, legal US citizens. He did a really bad job at doing journalism and just showed up to day cares with a camera crew and went "YUP nobody's here" as if they weren't in lock-down procedure because some fuck ass white men showed up with camera equipment that could easily be mistaken for guns. I believe. I will fact check all of this and will correct myself in a reblog if necessary. (source but not all the details that I remember hearing about but they said there was no recorded evidence of fraud)

Conservative internet explodes. Kristi Noem sends a mess of agents. I know it's more than a thousand more. They call it Operation Metro Surge. They are going everywhere. There are protests. People try to interrupt the arrests. It's a lot.

1/7/2026: Renee Nicole Good is shot by an ICE agent in the middle of a protest. A few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed. Broad daylight. In front of a crowd. While she was following instructions to turn her vehicle around. Jonathan Ross, the piece of shit Nazi who did it, was recording on his phone the whole time, switched his phone to his non dominant hand so he could more effectively shoot her in the face from 2 feet away. Claims self defense, several angles immediately disprove him. He releases his video, he calls her a "fucking bitch" as her corpse drives away. Does not help him at all. (source) He has not been seen since. Some photos/reports exist of a bunch of agents showing up to his house and taking some tubs and art away. His wife is an immigrant. (source but it's the daily mail so grain of salt.)

Not hours later they go raid a school and tear gas a bunch of kids. (source). Minneapolis has switched to distance learning. I'm not sure about St. Paul.

The last week: There are up to 3,000 ICE agents here. Keep in mind Minneapolis and St. Paul only have 600 or fewer police officers each. So these dudes are roaming in packs. It's 2-4 dudes to a car and 2-5 cars per pack. People are "commuting with" ICE agents to honk and alert people that they're there. People are going on patrols with their neighbors.

ICE is no longer asking "are you a citizen." They are simply walking up to you and taking you into custody. They are going door to door. They have started just breaking the door down if you don't comply. They are driving recklessly to just grab pedestrians and drivers alike (source). People are afraid to go get groceries. It's all over the state. I am learning names of cities in places I thought were just factory farm land and I've lived here my whole life because they're doing raids there. I had to text my family in the suburbs because I saw reports of my small little hometown an hour away getting door knocks today.

It's insane and I am not doing it justice. There are thousands of masked federal agents roaming around all of Minnesota with no warrant or specific goal. They are just trolling around looking for people. They are detaining anyone and everyone. They are beating people. They are pepper spraying people. They are kidnapping people. They are acting unconstitutionally, aggressively, and unpredictably. They are creating situations that are dangerous so that they can try to justify beating or shooting their way out. I will run an errand and then get fed a tiktok that was shot from the Cub Foods that I just left and there's 20+ ICE vehicles parked there now. They're taking people from work, from day care, from schools, from shopping centers.

Iceout.org tracks ice sightings. This is a screen shot with the date set to 12/1/2025.

And from today.

They have cut off SNAP and WIC benefits. Just for us. Not any other state, just Minnesota. They're saying it's because of fraud but I think it's because they hate that we use federal funds to give free breakfast and lunch to every public school student.

And this is breaking just now, 1/13/2026: the DOJ is trying to investigate Renee Good's widow. 4 people have resigned about it. (source). I don't even want to read the article to see what they're saying.

So that's a brief history.

Unicorn Riot is doing a lot of good reporting and they don't seem to have the spin that a lot of local news stations will have where they downplay everything. This article specifically goes into a lot of the specific instances of brutality.

It's also a rumor on TikTok that all of the videos of ICE and protests and the such and the like are being geo locked. So my feed is all footage of people being detained and talking about the "commuting" they're doing and what they're seeing but people outside of the state are not seeing it. So if you're also on that infernal app, try searching for Minneapolis or Minnesota and see what you see. I'm kind of curious if this is true. Because I've been living and breathing ICE and doomsday prepping content for a week. I'm sure those two topics aren't connected.

I don't really know what my goal with this post is. I'm tired. I'm in the first ring of suburbs, so it's been pretty quiet. But I have friends in south Minneapolis. And I'm worried for them. And I know it's a matter of time before my quiet pocket is affected. Because they're coming door to door.

Pay attention to Minnesota, I think an example is being made of us.

crafting-and-tea

I've been monitoring this closely because I have friends in the area, and because I think every city in the country is at risk of having the feds come to do what they're doing in Minnesota, and we all need to get ready.

There are some Twin Cities activists who have been very clearly laying out what they're doing, and why it's effective at slowing down ICE. It sounds like all you really need, is neighborhood group chats where people can let one another know when and where ICE is present, and then people show up, start recording, and blowing whistles, and then ICE will leave again more often than not. This VERY SHORT thread by a Twin Cities activist outlines what to do and how it works.

Getting a lot of messages. A lot are like "Can I come help?" (appreciated, but unless you know the area very well, probably not THAT useful)

Also: Minnesota Public Radio has been doing great coverage of what's happening, and the local NBC affiliate has some excellent interviews with activists who were arrested and detained for hours.

And finally, some good news: the courts restored SNAP funding.

#yeah no I have not been aware of how bad Minnesota is getting hit right now #thank you for sharing and thank you for the resources #fuck ice

a-florenceblack

was looking through Goodreads for "Why Women Are Blamed For Everything: Exploring Victim Blaming Of Women Subjected to Violence and Trauma" by Jessica Taylor and something tells me I should really buy the book lol

partycitywigsale-deactivated202

imagine buying a book called “why women are blamed for everything” and then writing up a review that just accuses the female author of being a woman and writing about women.

radgoblin

Jessica Taylor is a radical feminist academic and a lesbian. Brilliant woman and very funny. If y'all want to follow her on Twitter, she's @drjesstaylor.

She recently published a study on sexual assault and domestic violence that surveyed over 22,000 women in the UK. The study found that 99.7% of UK women have experienced some sort of violence, including assault, harassment, and rape.

Here's a summary of their findings.

kkoffin

aside from your harmful transphobic views, what did kink ever do to you 😭

literally let me choke my boyfriend if hes into it lmao

to me personally, kink fucking ruined my relationship with sex and affection. people such as yourself always seem to assume i’m just some sheltered prude who thinks “anything other than missionary is the devil’s lust taking over!!”, but i was probably just as deep, if not deeper in it than yourself, and i’m still recovering from it, after years of trying to fix things.

sex was a performance, an act on both parts. sex wasnt a matter of what felt nice, and caring for my partner, wanting to share something, and be intimate. i felt exhausted after the act - sometimes it felt awkward returning to daily life. sex wasn’t really sex. it wasn’t intimate, it wasn’t loving, it was performing. I don’t know how to be intimate anymore. i can’t turn back time, and get my first times back, and recreate them as loving, and explorative. i was reliant on porn and kink, and now i’ve lacked any libido for years. I’m afraid to be intimate with anyone. I know that if i were still dating, many people i’d partner up with and have sex with would start choking me or hitting me without asking, or even if i explicitly told them not to.

it had much worse consequences too. sometimes, or eventually, it isn’t an act. sometimes it becomes real. you can’t act like one partner is superior, and the other is indebted or lesser-than without it seeping outside the bedroom. one starts always feeling like they owe the other, they must be obedient to the other, not question them. even when the other partner doesn’t intend this at all, and even where you might not notice it. after long enough of this, i spiraled into self-hatred, and complete reliance on my partner for any affirmation of my worth.

kink affected me before i’d even had sex, too. it was popular at my school, or maybe just amongst my group of friends, to take that “bdsm test” online. from the get-go, it wasn’t “cool” to be “vanilla”. before i had ever had sex, before i ever got to explore my own sexuality, what i liked and what i didn’t, i expected my partner to hit me, degrade me, etc, because that’s what was “cool”. it’s cool for women to let their boyfriend hit them. it makes the boys like you more, it makes you more fuckable. sometimes boys were the ones being hit too, or girls would be the ones degrading others, but either way, it certainly wasn’t cool to be a “vanilla wife”. i was maybe 13 when this started.

so that’s what kink did to me specifically, but that’s not the only reason i’m against it. refer to pavlov’s dog here: do you think it’s a good idea to condition yourself to be turned on when someone’s in pain, or when you hurt someone? look at the faces of many “submissives” in porn, see the fact that “painanal” is a hugely popular category - those faces are not happy, or in pleasure, or intimate and loving, or even aroused. they’re suffering. they even cry, or the video emphasises their pain. maybe they don’t say “no” or “stop”, but there’s a reason the video takes place in a situation they can’t escape from. that’s why “stuck in the washing machine” is such a popular category. it’s so they can’t escape. it’s an unsaid “no”. do you think it’s a good idea to condition yourself to be aroused when others suffer? hint: majority of misogynistic serial killers did just that. same with majority of serial rapists.

it is like a drug - you look for the next high, or the next taboo. whatever’s bigger and badder. i believe that’s scientifically proven; that porn addicts and people who engage with kink content always end up getting more and more extreme. it doesn’t stop at choking, or light “spanking”. it ends with CP and/or murder and/or rape etc. the only thing that really ends it is a prison sentence, or giving it up. vast majority of older men in the kink community have some sort of abuse or SA allegation against them. there’s a huge portion of men in prison for possession of CP who aren’t pedophiles, it was just their next taboo.

there’s so so so so so much more to address, and if you’re truly interested i can recommend books, but this post has gotten personal enough. i doubt you truly wanted to know “what kink did to me”, but that’s a peek into it. besides me, it’s worth note that kink has killed plenty people. choking can kill much easier than one would think - you can damage veins in the neck and die days after, just as one example

no-i-can-not-shut-up

I know this is a very personal reply to an ask but I’d like to add my experience as well. Kink is a very easy trap for people who have low self esteem, because that desire to be loved turns into an acceptance of being objectified in place of true love. It’s a mindset of “If I can’t be loved, I’ll be desired and that is good enough.”

I don’t doubt that a lot of “Kinksters” believe they love their partner(s), but consider: If you can’t have sex with your partner(s) without a tool like kink/roleplay/fetish, do you love them or do you love sex?

Yes, it is a problem if you cannot divorce sex as something you do *with* someone from something you do *to* someone. It’s unhealthy and dehumanizing, and before anyone pro-kink says dehumanizing is the point, consider that if you wish to be dehumanized, you should go to therapy (and I mean this lovingly and with the utmost respect, it genuinely helped me), and if you wish to dehumanize others, also go to therapy I’m begging.

Dopamine is one of the strongest conditioning responses in the human body. Yes, conditioning yourself to be aroused at the act of dehumanization (whether giving or receiving) will fundamentally change how you view those around you, and yourself.

byjove

GUESS WHO TURNED 30 TODAY!

That’s right! The world’s oldest (documented) cat! Her name is Flossie. She was born a stray in Liverpool in late 1995.

joy-and-whimsy-official

Joy and whimsy detected! Flossie is joyful and whimsical!

#30!!#a tortie stray just like my girl omg #:')

lifeafterpsychiatry

Stop just asking "is it normal?" and start asking "is it harming anyone?" Lots of harmful things are normalized in this society and lots of things considered weird or rare are completely harmless. Whether something is considered normal or common shouldn't be the deciding factor in whether it's okay

lifeafterpsychiatry

Like a lot of disabled and neurodivergent and mentally ill ways of living and expressing yourself are both not normal and not harming anyone and it's the last part we should focus our attention on

yuri-puppies

@heterodox-heterographer you've hit the nail in the head

headspace-hotel

Thinking statistical norms are moral prescriptions or ideal goods is one of the founding philosophies in a lot of eugenicist thought

kkoffin

match my freak (i don’t need to see or imagine women/children being beaten and raped in order to cum bc i actually enjoy enthusiastic consenting sex)

kkoffin

match my freak (my sex isn’t a self-harm practice and my partner doesn’t get off to the idea of me being hurt)

kkoffin

match my freak (i enjoy consenting sex between adults and find my partner’s body attractive + arousing. also i can say ‘stop’ whenever i want - “no safewords” because no means no, and i can just say that.)

ihatemenandtherearereasons

Exhibit 3106

anomalys-bane

The replies are full of other women with similar experiences, but some of the most popular ones that stuck with me were that in red dead online where you play with a lot of other ppl, men would frequently band together, hunt down, capture, tie up and rape (make suggestive movements with their characters to the tied up female chatacter) and they wouldn't stop until the women players reset their own characters and left. and that this happened so frequently that many women stopped playing as female characters entirely. I don't even have words. What the fuck is wrong with males. This is the kind of shit even the 'good ones' who swear it's just a game and they'll never do it in real life do, they all have that capacity in them. Sickening.

forwomenbiwomen

🙋‍♀️ can confirm as someone who played red dead for a while, was tied up and suggestively crouched on more times than I could count. And men would literally hunt me down and shoot me as soon as they saw me. I stopped playing.

genderisareligion666

This is why the only thing I play online is GTA5 and I never speak to them mfs out loud because it's relatively common in this game for men to be female characters since they're so custom, even still I'm probably getting targeted more than others

ihatemenandtherearereasons

And if we avoid them in order to escape the harassment and stick to games like the sims, they will make fun of us for not playing “real” games

dapperprincess

and yet males still ask why we want sex separated chess tournaments and such if “men and women are equally good at chess” like men and women are equally good at video games until men band together to fuck the women over.

tockthewatchdog

i love how in shit like stoner or a clockwork orange they’ll establish the main character is a rapist, and then they’re like “oh, something bad happened to him. isn’t that sad?” ahh well no, you established he was a rapist, so now i think he’s subhuman chimp scum who should be blown apart by a shotgun. are you stupid?

tockthewatchdog

Yeah what was this mid century male idea that kept popping up of like “what if the authoritarian government grabbed me up and took away my desire to rape…” What are you a fucking animal

kkoffin

HEY BY THE WAY THAT WASN’T JUST “kinda sexist” AND “weird”

JULIA IS NAMED AFTER A REAL WOMAN, JACINTHA BUDDICOM, WHO GEORGE ORWELL TRIED TO RAPE. he held her down, bruised her and ripped her skirt before she got away. he inserted her into his book, told a fictional version of her that he wanted to rape her, and the version which he wrote of her just laughed it off

as a big fan of classic lit, a lot of people wanna ask why i haven’t read and refuse to read anything by george orwell. because his fiction is an outlet for his rape fantasies. same for tolstoy. i am not reading that shit!!!

kkoffin

Trans women are beautiful :)

maybe!! but i don’t believe conventional attractiveness/adherence to beauty standards = moral goodness or philosophical superiority :) same reason ur constant “radfems are ugly, hairy, masculine beasts” argument doesn’t mean anything to me.

adherence to patriarchal standards doesn’t justify misogyny. thought that would be obvious, and it’s almost stupid to say, but every day the bar gets lower!

paleo-violet

A woman on this website posts "castrate men" and you look at her blog and it's full of cute cat pics, fandom stuff, and anxious posts about women's rights being in danger.

A man on this website posts "alright everyone let's go to the women-only commune with pistols and no condoms" and you look at his blog and lo and behold he's there whining about how two women have 'falsely' accused him of rape + how he did something terrible to his gf and will totes be better in the future

Anyway this is why I don't get all up in arms over gals who post vaguely threatening misandric content ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

paleo-violet

REBLOGGING THIS FOR THOSE OF YOU FORTUNATE TO MISS THIS BACKSTORY

bogleech

An investigative journalist infiltrated three white supremacist platforms, including the dating site WhiteDate, exfiltrating over 8,000 user

arabbitbeingfiredoutofacannon

bogleech

When she says it had a smurf village gender ratio, it's possibly even funnier and sadder than you could have thought. The article doesn't specify, but I keep hearing that out of 8000 users, less than 50 appeared to be women.

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