Ariadne's Thread

"I have been woman/ for a long time/ beware my smile/ I am treacherous with old magic" - Audre Lorde. Ariadne. 31. Radical feminist. Likes poetry & witchy stuff

[hollowistheworld]

I really can and will blame the 9-5 for everything. "We're in a loneliness epidemic" well, we have to spend a third of our day interacting with people in a professional way that makes forming real friendships difficult and then we're peopled out by the time we're done. "People are eating more and more unhealthily" people have to spend more than a third of their day doing work related tasks and they don't want to spend their tiny amount of free time making food. "People aren't involved in their local communities" after spending more than a third of their day doing work related things people are tired and also all those community events take place during normal working hours. "People need to get more hobbies" after spending more than a third of their day working, people are TIRED and don't want to do anything that takes yet more energy. "Literacy is dying" to maintain your critical thinking skills you need to read/watch things that make you think and after spending more than a third of your day doing work related stuff you are TIRED and don't want to expend even more brainnpower. "People need to get outside more" People. Are. TIRED. Because they have to spend all of their time working or preparing for work or recovering from work or doing all the chores they couldn't stay on top of because of work. I can blame fucking anything on having to work, it is truly the root of all fucking evil.

[ailithnight]

Hey OP, love your scalding take here; don't forget about commutes.

Once you factor in commute times (which even for short distances can be grotesquely inflated due to the fact that so many people are all commuting at the same time, but that's a different conversation) many people are actually devoting upwards of 10-12 hours a day on "work related tasks."

[eattheschoolboy]

[funny-tik-toks]

[youremysunshine8]

This dog's face is sending me. New reaction image

[ra-meat]

As i was cropping it i thought the "no he'd die" was really funny so I kept it

[silly-jellyghoty]

I'm stealing this. Thanks.

[superbeans89]

[hurupasyt]

My first rule of feminism is to simply not believe men and their institutions. I don't believe men's stories about the creation of the universe, their religions are bullshit, what the fuck do men know about the creation of life. I don't believe men when they tell me they are women, what the fuck do men know about womanhood. Internalizing this disbelief of men is one of the most important things I have ever done.

And it has to be disbelief. If you try to instill hatred and disgust in yourself, you are setting yourself up for failure, because men are people. And people are complex and varied. Men aren't some evil unknowable creature, they are capable of kindness and competency, and that will disprove whatever foundation you had for your hatred. That's why feminism can't just be founded on manhating. Disbelief keeps you questioning, keeps you sharp. And it makes you realize how little men truly know.

[veganfeministfromhell]

I LOVE MY BUSH I LOVE MY LEG HAIR I LOVE BEING A HAIRY WOMAN!!!! EVERYBODY PUT THE RAZOR DOWN NOWWWW!!!!!! BE FREE

[veganfeministfromhell]

Seriously though, once I stopped shaving, I became so much more connected with myself and the entire universe. It was genuinely a grounding experience. We're literally just animals like any other creature. Humans are mammals; our hair protects us; we evolved to grow body hair for a reason. I feel so wonderfully female, allowing myself to be a fluffy animal. Maybe this is just fru fru bullshit, but ditching the razor meant a lot to me beyond the immediate benefits. I started admiring my body with neutrality, just in awe of nature's beauty. I still get insecure from time to time, but remembering that I am just another child of Earth quickly quells the self-criticism. I've never felt more comfortable in my skin. Women and girls, for your happiness, please embrace your imperfections and liberate yourself from beauty standards and gender roles. We are all just our bodies and nothing more, and I think that's incredible. There's only one life, so shed your chains and be free of all arbitrary restrictions.

[immortalremnantriver]

😤😤😤

[necarion]

They should just bite the bullet and make a female James Bond. Hot, athletic, suave. She wears tuxedos with a somewhat feminine cut, drinks vodka martinis, drives sports cars, and goes by "James", because why not.

Also, because this is incredibly important to Bond for some reason, she needs to be an incredibly predatory, womanizing lesbian. Some perfectly happy married straight woman needs to become gay by the end of the movie.

We live in the future, and we can admit that all of the cool things that a Male James Bond can do are things a Female James Bond can do. But at all costs, we need to avoid making this thing feel "woke" of self-aware. If Female Bond is not exactly as toxic and awesome as any of the male ones, we will have failed, and might as well be making another franchise.

[readingbibooks]

“There is a trope about the 'secretly gay' husband who is married to a woman but sneaks out at night to the nearest public toilets to have anonymous sex with men. There's also a trope about the secretly les-bian' housewife who has a 'best friend' who's really their lover. And there are the often-publicised cases of people who leave marriages after years and years, having realised they are gay/lesbian. The word ‘bisexual' is rarely used in these examples, and it's interesting to wonder why that is. One reason is that often the people concerned don't think of themselves that way. In fact, the world is full of people who behave in a way that would fall under a definition of bisexuality but who would never think of using that label.

What identities people choose to claim are entirely up to them. However, this book would like to suggest that adopting the label 'bisexual', if it felt appropriate, could be helpful to some. It can be deeply stressful being outwardly straight and secretly gay' or going from 'was completely straight, now completely gay'. Bisexuality can help tie these identities together into a whole, and perhaps could help some people resolve their need to cheat on partners. On the other hand, we recognise that many people in these situations do not feel that a bi identity is appropriate, and for those who do, they could be risking their relationship by coming out as bi. There are no easy answers.”

- Kate Harrad, Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain

[shushmuckle]

Misses Hassler, McNahee, and Kackley, photographed in 1930 for the Continental Optical Company of Indianapolis, Indiana.

[rabidwolf2point0]

[virtualcremefem]

Something that bothers me just as much as their denial of women's reality, is men's SILENCE on our problems.

They can be told any number of stories about women being victimized, but it rolls off them. They have nothing to say. They don't CARE.

This SILENCE leads to denial of what we face. What's important in societies are often things men care about more.

Give a man on the internet receipts of violence against women and chances are he'll have nothing to say about it, yet he will tell you how hysterical and wrong you are. Similarly, a man will watch violent porn all day, then log on to an account and announce that women have it easy in the world.

The way they don't care is demonic. It fills me with dread.

But I've come to accept that I should surround myself with women who care about women. Men never will.

[radfem-polls]

Do you think there is any way to get more women into traditionally male fields? I’m one, but there are so little women in it with me. Online I always read about sexism being a barrier but I have not experienced that at all. When I ask friends why they don’t pursue a field like this, they often say they just aren’t interested. But I’d like more women to be interested? My country already does so much outreach and camps for kids (math, engineering, trades). I even got asked to speak at schools. But it was always only boys who showed interest.

Is there a way that has not been tried yet that you have in mind? I’m interested to find out?

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[nansheonearth]

Female exclusive spaces. Doing outreach intended for women that includes men anyways is doing more of what already exists. Some of those women interested are put off by male presence but won't say anything. Some aren't even aware there put off by them until they're in a female only space.

[susansontag]

Eva zu Beck on Instagram: "The mission is to normalize women looking… normal."

13K likes, 537 comments - evazubeck on July 7, 2026: "The mission is to normalize women looking… normal.".

eva zu beck, who divorced the husband she married at 25 to become a travel and outdoor adventure host/vlogger, discusses how she always puts a clause in her contracts that states the network or production company cannot force her to wear makeup, which she has not worn in her personal life for 4 and a half years

feel like not a lot of women on here are onto her yet, but I find her very interesting and refreshing. she has come to many feminist conclusions about things not from theory, but simply from keen observation and making a life for herself that revolves around her independence and physical capabilities rather than any man she has an attachment to. she also doesn’t shave and doesn’t date men (she is straight as far as I know), and discusses why she doesn’t do these things etc. an interesting woman for sure, surprised more on here haven’t come across her/talk about her!

[balkanradfem]

I hate the phrases we had to invent just to describe how m*n perceive us. What is 'having sexual access', those are not the words I would ever use to describe having an intimate relationship with a woman. It grosses me out, the mere concept is dehumanizing. But it does practically describe how we're perceived by m*n. Having sexual access to a body.

Hearing that triggers the realizations we were never people to them, and we need to understand that. If it weren't for m*n we'd never have to even imagine gross stuff like that.

[iredreamer]

I can’t believe a tv show about a 19th century lesbian is giving me everything I’ve ever wanted! I AM CRYING!

[ihavegotnotimeforfeelingsorry]

Franck Sorbier Couture Fall 2011

[partialbirthabortion]

The fact that a wealthy, white mother-of-two in California with access to excellent prenatal and birth care, acting as a surrogate for another family in the safest, cleanest, least coercive of all possible surrogacy arrangements, died this week while giving birth really underscores the surrogacy thoughts I've been having recently. Should you be ethically willing or legally able to compel another woman to risk death at worst and major lifetime health consequences at best just so you can have a child that is biologically related to you?

[heringstuff]

Here’s an article about it.

She died of an amniotic fluid embolism, which is rare but very deadly.

This post gives another example of a surrogate dying and includes this disturbing information:

An article online incorrectly states “the risks of being a surrogate mother are the same as for every pregnancy.” This is not true. Recent studies have shown that surrogate pregnancies are different and are high-risk. Studies show that women pregnant with donor eggs (as in gestational surrogacy) have a more than three-fold risk of developing pregnancy induced hypertension and pre-eclampsia.  

[dasfeministmermaid]

W/ the greater risk of hypertension/pre-eclampsia, why? Or rather, is it known why?

[goblinous]

Because in a normal pregnancy the baby is >50% related to the mother. In surrogacy, an unrelated egg is used, which means entirely foreign biological material in the woman's body.

[theradicalbutch]

Pregnancy is basically a 9 month-long battle between the woman and the embryo; a "healthy" full-term pregnancy can only happen if, essentially, the women's body doesn't realize that the embryo is there, because if it does it will attack it with the woman's immune system as a "foreign body." This is the main reason the placenta exists, to shield the embryo from the woman's immune system (along with nutrient absorption obviously).

The closer the embryo is to the woman, the less likely an immune response will be triggered; this applies to gestational surrogacy, but also relates to things like the sex of the embryo and the embryo's blood type. So, the more genetically different an embryo is from its mother, the higher the overall risk of triggering an immune response, which then increases the likelihood of a smorgasbord of complications given the strain that an immune response causes both the mother and the embryo.

[karington]

this is just personal observation, but all the people I know who had surrogates (which is only 3 so who really knows), their babies are so so sick all the time. Like months premature, weeks in NICU, multiple hospital stays in infancy, now constantly sick as toddlers, can’t keep weight on, lowest percentiles of height / weight, etc etc. Literally every one of them.

and maybe it’s just a coincidence but maybe you aren’t supposed to implant your eggs in another woman and assume her body will grow a healthy baby for you? not to even talk about what it does to an infant to be forcibly removed from their mother at birth….

[bittermarching]

This should be obvious to anyone who knows anything about pregnancy/women's healthcare. But because even doctors seem to think that pregnancy is when a woman just incubates a man's offspring for a few months, providing nothing but a chamber in which the baby can grow, they treat it as if it makes no difference where the embryo came from.

Surrogacy is this horrible intersection between modern medicine + capitalism and an almost medieval understanding of pregnancy. Worst of both worlds.