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Hi gyyyns ݁₊ ⊹ ݁ ✮⋆˙
My name is Silver [Silv/Silly] or Silverfoam
I draw girls and lesbian couples⚢
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Let me describe to you what kind of world gender abolitionists actually dream about:
When a child would be born it’s biological sex, being an actual physical reality, would be noticed but not a single assumption regarding the child’s personality would be made based on it.
Growing up, children would be free to chose what toys and clothes they prefer. If they want to play with toy trucks or dolls, it would be fine either way. If they want to dress comfortably or in frilly colorful dresses, it would be fine.
Certain personality traits would not be encouraged in members of one sex and discouraged in the other. Females would be free to be strong, brave and assertive and males would not be shamed for being shy and soft spoken.
No female child would be called a tomboy and no male child would be called a sissy. No kid would ever be bullied for what we in our gendered world call “gender expression”.
When children would reach puberty they would still be free to dress how they want. Females would not be pressured to wear clothes that reveal their bodies and males would not be shamed if they chose to. Everybody would have a free choice of accessories, which would not be categorized as “men’s” or “women’s” but people could should whichever they liked. Or chose to not wear accessories at all if that’s what they are more comfortable with.
Females would not be pressured to keep their bodies slim, soft and hairless. Males would not be pressured to be athletic and muscular. Expectations of femininity and masculinity upon the body would not exist and affect negatively people’s relationship with their own body.
Everyone could choose a career without fearing stigmatization within that particular field because of their biological sex. The most important thing would be competence and not what someone has between their legs.
Domestic work would not be considered “women’s work” and would be shared equally between the sexes.
Biological sex would only be thought about when relevant. And everyone would be free to be themselves without ever having to worry about gender expectations. Nobody would feel the need to repress certain parts of their personality and exaggerate others in order to fit into some gender role that is being forced on them.
Gender abolitionism is not about restricting people’s choices but about giving them greater freedom.
- http://burningax.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/a-gender-free-world-boring/
She took up acting because the malnutrition she suffered under the nazis permanently damaged her health and prevented her from pursuing her dream to be a ballerina. During the war, she danced to raise money for the resistance - even though she was literally starving, she used what strength she had to make sure more nazis got shot.
She and her mom also denounced their royal heritage because of the Nazis in their family
Also Audrey was a humanitarian until her death, though ill with cancer, she continued her work for UNICEF, travelling to Somalia, Kenya, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France and the United States.
These are things I literally never would have known about. I’m tired of women being painted as just being pretty.
I like when an article thumbnail features a pic of a woman conductor, as it is the closest I will get to living in a world where newspapers write feel-good human-interest stories about a local witch who is proud to show off her new spell.
One of the biggest problems I have with Radfems is when they call women who identify as trans “misogynistic”, or dismiss them as though they’re just being stupid.
Do you really think you’re helping anyone?
Story time…
When I was a teenager and first discovered radfem communities - this was before I transitioned - I felt just as alienated by them as I did by conservative women.
Because they didn’t understand me, they didn’t have any experience with how I felt, and they didn’t have any helpful advice for me.
At best, their advice was “learn to love yourself”. At worst, they were actively hateful towards women like me and called us names. Traitor, misogynist, etc.
No one gave me the empathy I needed. No one gave me any actionable steps I could take towards that vague goal of “loving myself”, which felt like an impossible thing to do at the time.
The feelings I was experiencing, and which I had been experiencing for my whole life, needed much more help than that. It needed people who cared and who wanted to understand me.
A big part of why I transitioned was because trans men were the first people who actually understood how I felt and had an answer for me as to how to cope with that.
The answer ended up being wrong of course, but I didn’t know that at the time. When you’re a kid and you’re just looking for someone who understands how you feel? And suddenly you meet all these women who live as men who understand you perfectly, because they’ve felt the same things…
Of course that’s the path you’re going to follow.
Radfems need to be doing better if they want to actually help women who are transitioning. My feeling is that many actually don’t want to help and don’t genuinely care about us.
But for those that do… in order to do better they have to listen to the experiences of women who have been through all of that.
We have to talk about the unique experiences of women who choose to transition in order to actually help the young women who are transitioning now.
If talking to trans identifying women makes you feel like you’re yelling at a wall, consider that maybe it’s not that the person on the other end is dumb - Maybe you’re speaking the wrong language. Maybe you should lower your voice. Maybe you should try to understand her.
Of course it’s not anyone’s job to be our therapists. But when young women are looking for community and empathy, we don’t deserve to be turned away at the door.
Sometimes it feels like masculine women, women who transition, are the only ones who don’t get included in female solidarity.
I completely agree. Despite the fact that I personally have not been on the side of tifs or on the side of radfem, I have noticed that many radfem simply do not understand how to communicate with women in a difficult life situation(tif included). I believe that this is due to female gender socialization, where the female "need" to be superior to another woman is placed on a pedestal. Regardless, women within the radfem community are also not immune to this type of competition, even if it is only at the level of psychological pressure.
Women who experience internal misogyny don't just experience it for no reason. And by being cruel to them and not providing support and acceptance, we're just making the situation worse. Personally, I lacked the opportunity to hear, "It's okay to hate yourself as a woman because society portrays being a woman as something humiliating, and your reaction is justified." Being a woman is a blessing, I agree, but the dissonance between my feelings of being in contact with society and the knowledge that "being a woman hasn't done anything wrong to me" hasn't gone away.
I've been around queers and radfems for a long time, but I really started to improve my gender dysphoria issues when I met former trans men, because they were the only ones who could understand and discuss my feelings without judgment or pretense
I think the problem is not so much that radical feminists don't know how to support a women with gender dysphoria. I think it's a taboo on discussing depressive topics, such as hating your position as a woman in society, hating how society treats your body, hating how society treats your sexuality (which is especially relevant for lesbians due to the comphet), and so on. Because we usually discuss this problem as a phenomenon, but not as the emotions it causes us to experience on a daily basis. It's as if we talk about it, we'll "plant the seeds of evil" in womens minds. However, I personally think that we only plant these seeds of evil only through the silence.
Book review: Goddesses, Whores, Wives & Slaves by Sarah B Pomeroy (1975)
10/10
This was impossible to put down. A fascinating and vibrant history of Ancient Greek and Roman Women: from all walks of life, using just about every resource available within art and archaeology and anthropology.
It’s also also very very well researched and informative with a HUGE bibliography and a great index and lots of notes for the nerdy (aka me) who has already highlighted the next set of books to chew on.
Overall she argues (and does so persuasively with a great deal of thought and objectivity) that Roman women seemed to have enjoyed a higher quality of life than the Ancient Greek women because of generally (especially in upper class households) having a more public-facing life, being slightly more protected by the pater familias model of the Roman household, and having slightly more social mobility.
However a shout out goes to the Amazons and their social model for living 🏹🏹🏹
If you’re curious about the roles of women in varying Hellenistic and classical contexts, this is a must-read.
Her final words are so interesting and prescient too: “Serious intellectual thought about women continued: Stoicism, the most popular of the Hellenistic and Roman philosophies, directed women’s energies to marriage and motherhood. The argumentation is brilliant and difficult to refute. And this rationalized confinement of women to the domestic sphere, as well as the systemization of anti-female thought by poets and philosophers, are two of the most devastating creations in the classical legacy” 😢💔
Also, if you’re upset by reading about things like sexual slavery and infanticide, it might not be the book for you.
Overall, it’s staying in my collection and I’ll definitely be referring to it again.
(comment on a matt walsh video where he asks passerby to define woman, and one man responds that he can’t define woman because he isn’t one, and matt walsh says that you don’t have to be a cat to define what a cat is.)
women exist, we are real, measurable, tangible. we aren’t a social construct. we have social constructs imposed upon us because our female sex, but we ourselves are very real.
this is like saying that black people are not real because african american culture is a social construct. or that christian’s aren’t real because religion is a social construct. or that teachers aren’t real because jobs are a social construct. spoiler alert: a lot of things are social constructs! but human people are real!! and there are 2 sexes!! women are one of those 2 sexes! we have stereotypes and expectations and social constructs imposed upon us, but even in a perfect egalitarian feminist world with all social constructs lifted, we would still be real!! WOMEN EXIST!!!!
this is so insulting. to be like oh well cats are real because they can be defined by their physicality, that’s how we know that they are cats and not hippos or zebras. because they have certain physical characteristics. but women? no we have no way to know who is a woman, and in fact no way to define it! that’s just a social construct that can be voluntarily slipped in and out of and taken off by adopting and abandoning certain accessories and mannerisms at whim!
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i've been struggling quite a lot with this so i wanted to ask, what exactly would be the difference between a preference and an orientation? also, how can you tell the difference between wanting to be/be like a person, and wanting to actually be with them? TIA!
orientation: who you’re attracted to (men, women, both, no one)
preference: only for bisexuals, because they’re the only sexual orientation that experiences attraction to more than one gender, liking one more than the other.
it’s that simple
“It is common belief that whatever the situation, both sexes faced it alike. But the male peasant, however cruelly oppressed, always had the right to beat his wife.”
— Rosalind Miles, Who Cooked the Last Supper?
this is so true and this is why i’m so confused about why so many people (including many black women) are mad at Paris Mwenda for saying she feels like she is a woman before she’s black. because black men can hypothetically find a safe haven from anti-black racism within black spaces, but black women in black spaces are still subjected to misogyny, domestic violence, rape, etc. i think that was her point. that black men can seek refuge from their oppression by forming relationships with black women and creating and socializing within black communities, but there is no refuge for black women. because even in those communities that should be a safe space from racism, they are subjected to misogyny and male on female violence. like she’s literally right?? she didn’t say that being black is totally chill and causes no issues because of racism, she just said she feels like she’s a woman before she’s black. like oppressed men might be oppressed, but they always still oppress women within their same oppressed class! poor men still beat their poor wives! black men are misogynistic to black women! jewish men etc etc etc forever. and everyone is flaming her and claiming that she probably only dates white women, and that she’s whitewashed. she’s right!!!!
The male mad scientist creating life trope is peak womb envy
What’s a “political” lesbian? I’ve never heard it before
Lesbophobes(and homophobes in case) who believe that orientation is something that can be chosen socially ("we're all a little bit bisexuals" ahh shit) and in the same way that patriarchy and the church have sacralized heterosexuality and made it a "politically correct choice," they(political "lesbians") have also made lesbianism a "politically correct choice." Sheila Jeffreys is largely responsible for the development of this idea, at least in the way that I was exposed to this shit through her quotes
Political "lesbians" are essentially the new "queers," because they also avoid biological realities and discriminate against the experiences and histories of the oppressed group (in this case, lesbians), engaging in a some kind of form of political escapism. While women and men are trying to escape patriarchy through "role reversals," heterosexual and bisexual women are trying to avoid male violence in relationships by pretending to be lesbians and hiding behind our backs.
It was also they who developed the idea, as if attraction to men=attraction to violence and oppression. And not to the body. Political "lesbians", again, repeat the same queer rhetoric, as if the presence and the very attraction to any type of body is some kind of betrayal of one's own ✨human dignity✨ and we are "above" having any innate preferences.
To say that for lesbians, their activities and relationships (political "lesbians" do not specify that they are not actually lesbians lol) with political "lesbians" turn into a nightmare is an understatement.
In other words, either they are egocentric, immature women who are offended by the idea that there are some things in their bodies that they cannot control (and should not lol no het/bi women died from not dating/not having sex with men), or they are insecure, androcentric women who believe that their attraction to men somehow defines their own identity and political preferences. There is no sadder phenomenon than women who measure themselves by the actions or personalities of men.
I would recommend that you read about it yourself, as I have explained the main ideas in a very concise manner, but I must warn you that the material on political "lesbians" is a lesbophobic road to hell, and it will be very difficult to read without feeling anger or frustration. At least, no matter how much I have tried to read and analyze it, I have not experienced anything other than outrage and a feeling of "same old story" 🤷♀️
I was married for 25 years. In 2022, he started preaching this ideology of one vote per household. I left him last year. I grew up in evangelicalism. Went to church on Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night. Bible studies. Children’s church. Youth retreats. I spent 44 years, seeking male affirmation and validation, because that’s what I was conditioned to do by western evangelicalism, which is heavily male centered. I can tell you from personal experience, that protecting the patriarchy gets you absolutely nothing in return, other than misery, manipulation, control, and if you’re smart, a divorce. I have so much guilt and shame for going along with that ideology. The truth be told, I felt trapped. He told me about halfway through our marriage, that if I ever left him, he would use our children to hurt me. Verbatim. Ladies, if this is you…..LEAVE. He will not change.
23K likes, 763 comments - montemader on April 6, 2026: "The headship voting movement is directly tied to the intention to take away birth co
literally. SO MANY do not leave and negatively affect more than just themselves with this choice
You are very brave. I hope you will have better life after all of that🫂
It's never late to start again, but there is no hope in the trap. Get out is the best choice for every woman.
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This is available on my Redbubble (MothraMade)! I think it's pretty good for my first time using an art program and not something specifically designed for making cross stitch patterns. If you do cross stitch and embroidery the pattern is on my Etsy (also MothraMade), otherwise here's the link if you'd like to get this design as a sticker or something!
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/160017960?ref=studio-promote