a bit rad

icon is a cool bug I took a pic of. Hi I'm a lesbian in my 20s. I'm a little hesitant to categorize myself as an actual radfem bc I really only hang around radblr and am too lazy to be actually well-read, but the sentiment is here.

[planetbass]

can tumblr make a community label for ‘x reader’ posts so i never have to see a single one ever again

this post is not safe for r*dfems and if ur a r*dfem that reblogged it you look like a fucking idiot rn and i think you oughta die. you will never be truly happy. you will never get bitches.

[watermelinoe]

if it's so unethical to want to avoid giving birth to an unhealthy baby why should women avoid drugs and alcohol during pregnancy

[watermelinoe]

what it all comes down to is the belief that pregnancy is god's will, that babies are gods creations, and women's bodies are just the vessels he uses to make life. it's the belief that pregnancy is passive. anything the woman does to actively interfere with god's plan is her playing god and acting above her station.

but we know this is bullshit, that women's bodies make unconscious decisions regarding pregnancy, from conception to miscarriage, prioritizing her welfare above all else. if binge drinking during pregnancy is an active choice that creates a disabled child, materially so is continuing a pregnancy that you know will create a disabled child. there is no difference in outcome for the child who has to deal with the lifelong disability. and there's no material difference between miscarriage and abortion, either, except that one is a conscious choice. fundamentally, what people are uncomfortable with is women defying what they see as divine authority by exerting her own will over creation. but she's the only god in this scenario, because nobody's getting created without her.

[helenekuragina]

you cannot make a post about how men put women in certain boxes without someone going "but what if i love the box? what if i've decided that it's comfortable in the box? are you gonna tell me i'm not ALLOWED to like the box? not very feminist of you to police a woman's decisions... maybe you'd be less ugly and miserable if you stopped talking about the box LMFAO #Girlboss #MyBox<3"

[magnetothemagnificent]

Holocaust education failed when people went away thinking that the Holocaust

a) Was a surprise

b) Wasn't preventable

c) Can never happen again.

They also seem to think that they would be the heroes saving people and fighting back in the scenario, but y'know....those people were a tiny minority. The majority of people truly believed that Jews and Rroma were a disease on their society and wanted them exterminated. And yes, they believed these things with sugar-coated social justice terms.

Jews weren't Christ-killers anymore, they were "greedy outsiders who have dual-loyalty and corrupt the economy, disenfranchising the poor."

Rroma weren't devil-worshipping heathens anymore, they were "wandering people with no morals who prey on vulnerable people and trespass."

Killing and torturing disabled people wasn't exorcism anymore, it was "furthering society by eliminating the burdens on it" and "sparing those poor souls the horror of living" and "advancing scientific research."

Many progressive and leftist and liberal people ended up being complicit and even active members of the Nazi party because of the way the xenophobic and bigoted ideologies of the parties were painted in "progressive" vocabulary.

Think about how many times you've uncritically reblogged and shared posts about the "global elite" or "secret pedophile ring" or "X country eliminated Down Syndrome" or "scientists are so close to finding the autism gene" or "religion is poison" or "overpopulation".

You are not immune.

Not everyone may have personally manned the gas chambers, but they certainly didn't stand in Hitler's way.

Holocaust education isn't enough until it teaches that.

[adoratato]

I also think its important to understand that the holocaust didn't come out of nowhere. Antisemitism has existed in Europe since us Jews arrived 2000 years ago (yes even in the countries fighting against the nazis)

[publiusmaximum]

The Holocaust started with camps MUCH LIKE "Alligator Alcatraz" that opened in Florida today- 1 July 2025.

[magnetothemagnificent]

Holocaust education failed when people like yourself started comparing every single atrocity to the Holocaust

[hazel2468]

@publiusmaximum The Holocaust did not start with camps, wtf?

It started with the systemic antisemitism in Europe and beyond being leveraged by the Nazis. It started with SPECIFICALLY antisemitic hatred. With pogroms against Jews. With Jews being relegated to second class citizenship and put into ghettos. With laws prohibiting the “mixing” of Jews and others.

Not everything is the damn Holocaust. Things can be bad without them being the Holocaust. And I really do not appreciate the co-opting of what was a primarily antisemitic (and anti-romani) movement being CONSTANTLY used in comparison to other things that are not the damn Holocaust. It can be bad and fascist without being the Holocaust.

[mewwon]

i feel like we really don’t need a million pride flags. it gives hogwarts houses and sweatshop temu accessories. it gives sense of identity through consumerism. it gives those pic art avatars fuckk whatever they’re called from 2019. and most importantly its unchic

[femalegothic]

too many otherwise good posts on this site refer to women as ‘bitches’

[hirsuteandcute]

I'm just going to say it - body hair (and beauty standards in general) is truly one of the final frontiers of women's issues in the West. Too many women just love their gilded cage too much. It shocks me how virulently women will defend it. I barely open my mouth and the "well I like how it feels. it just makes me feel cleaner. sensory issues. I do it for me. feminism is about choosing (to conform)." brigade come rushing in by the dozens.

Well I don't like how it feels. I don't feel cleaner without body hair. I don't prefer not having body hair. But who will advocate for women like me, but me? For women who do like hair removal, they are advocated for every time they step out of the house and see 99% of the female population also conforming to that standard, or when they watch a movie and see all the shaved actresses, or view an advertisment, or open a magazine, or watch a music video, or scroll through social media, or walk down the streets without receiving insults and glares for having a completely normal bodily feature.

You genuinely can't even point out that hairlessness is a man-made standard without women losing their shit and acting like they are totally immune to propaganda they've been exposed to from birth. I'm so tired.

[iwanttolisten]

In pretty much all spaces, a male being present is seen as "legitimizing". Shows for women and girls begin getting attention when it gains a fanbase of men. People note when ideologies are predominantly women and then associate them with being frivolous, impermanent, or hyperempathetic (veganism, astrology), and when men pick up on them they have a much easier time becoming thought leaders and gaining traction. There's a sense of "a man is saying it, this must be serious business".

This is also seen in the trans community. People look up to trans women, listen to what they say, and think about them before the opinions and presence of female trans people, because they are male. The ranting and condemnations of trans women are taken far more seriously than a trans man's, and trans men use them to legitimize their own gender feelings, because they are still subconsciously searching for the opinions of a male to validate them.

This also goes for the plural thing. People were thankful when it switched from being predominantly AFAB to being taken over by MTFs for this reason.

[2well2water]

stop posting about your badly behaved dog i mean husband online if you’re going to get upset with the people telling you he’s a bite risk. “look at what my husband packed me for my lunch” and it’s the most insulting low effort assortment of snacks you’ve ever seen accompanied with a note that says “i see you as subhuman”. “ugh guys stop telling me my husband doesn’t respect me you’re not the ones in the relationship you don’t know what he’s really like” yes i do and i think you should have him put down.

[immortalremnantriver]

Susana Trimarco disguised herself as madam and walked into brothels across northern Argentina, searching for her missing daughter among women trapped in sexual slavery and in the process, she sparked a movement that would free over 3,000 sex trafficking victims. It began in April 2002, when her 23-year-old daughter, María de los Ángeles Verón, left for a doctor's appointment in their city of San Miguel de Tucumán and never returned home. Frustrated by a police investigation she believed was deliberately sabotaged by corruption, Trimarco obtained the names of known pimps and sex traffickers from police files and launched her own search. She posed as a buyer interested in purchasing the captive women and girls - some as young as 14, who could be traded for about $800. One rape victim told her she had seen María drugged, with swollen eyes, in a trafficker's home that doubled as a holding place for newly abducted women. But by the time Trimarco could follow the lead, her daughter had been moved. Though María was never found, Trimarco's relentless pursuit transformed her into one of Argentina's most powerful human rights activists and forced sex trafficking onto national agenda. "The desperation of a mother blinds you," she says. "It makes you fearless." Through this dangerous work, Trimarco discovered the full scope of sex trafficking and corruption within the police and judiciary that kept women trapped in forced prostitution. "The police would hand [the trafficked women] back to the criminals," she recalls. "They used to say: 'Don't leave me. Take me with you.'" Trimarco ended up becoming the personal guardian to 129 survivors of sex trafficking, sheltering them in her home and helping them reunite with their families. Trimarco's relentless advocacy forced change at highest levels. Her work helped lead to first law, passed in 2008, making human trafficking a federal crime; the subsequent reforms have led to thousands of people being rescued from sex traffickers. These successes, however, have come with high personal cost to Trimarco: she has suffered many reprisals over the years including countless death threats, having her house set on fire, and several attempts to run her over in street. As more trafficking survivors and families of trafficking victims reached out to her for help, Trimarco says, "It came to a point where I just did not have capacity to help them all. That is when I decided to open a foundation." In 2007, she founded Fundación María de los Ángeles, a non-governmental organization focused on helping people escape from trafficking and lobbying for legislation to prevent it. Her efforts focused on her daughter's disappearance eventually resulted in trials for 13 people, including several police officers, in 2012; all 13 were acquitted, a ruling that prompted outrage by many and led to impeachment proceedings against three judges. In December 2013, Tucumán Supreme Court reversed acquittals and convicted ten of defendants, who received sentences ranging from 10 to 22 years in April 2014. But despite it all, Trimarco still hasn't found out what she wants to know most: what happened to her daughter. Some witnesses say she was murdered - although her body has never been found and others say she was taken overseas. Twenty-three years later, Trimarco's work continues in her daughter's name and for all survivors. Her foundation remains at the forefront of the country's fight against human trafficking, recently helping to dismantle trafficking rings in 2024 and 2025. In recent years, the foundation has expanded its role as a legal plaintiff in trafficking cases, ensuring survivors have representation throughout the judicial process. Now in her seventies, Trimarco remains internationally recognized for her work, though her search for answers about María's fate has never ceased. "Every woman I help somehow helps María," she reflects. "They represent hope in this new life of mine."

[friendlyfreakazoid]

Random lesbian: I’m glad I’ve never slept with a man :)

Every person across the entire political spectrum:

[queer-as-in-fuck-12]

drug addicts deserve housing, food, water, and healthcare btw

[watermelinoe]

and let's talk about how "subversive" femdom really is. femdom is a male fantasy. it is still used as a patriarchal tool to sexually harass women, with men making unwanted comments like "mommy" and "step on me," reminding us who's still ultimately in control. the little play is orchestrated and directed by him and carried out by a woman of his choosing. and much like men who use women's bodies as costumes, he gets to wash up afterwards and carry on enjoying the privileges awarded to his sex, heedless that these little performances are in fact yet another privilege reserved for him in a world that caters to his desires and maintains the supremacy of his sex. he enjoys the so-called "subversion" of his power from a position of complete safety, knowing the true power dynamics remain securely in place.

[glitter-soda]

Tbh, when it comes to abortion, I really don’t give a shit about debating when life begins. I couldn’t care less about drawing the line between a “baby” and a “clump of cells”.

What I care about is bodily autonomy. Pregnancy causes major changes to a woman’s body, many of which are permanent. Giving birth is infamously painful and difficult. It’s not something that a woman should have to go through involuntarily. Bodily autonomy is where my personal feelings on abortion begin and end.

[kiefbowl]

Idk if you've lived the same thing but holy shit people tell me to get a reduction totally unprompted. My transmasc friend talked about it like it was just a regular trip to the grocery store when it's a serious surgery that can cause lack of sensations and takes a while to recover from. And the fact it's happened twice with two people just because I complained about bras/clothes ???? Anyway I don't really know how to respond to it and they make it seem like I'm only not doing it because I "like having big boobs". That's just my body ????? Fuck man it just annoys me how commodified the body has become in a "woke" way. I don't think we should view ourselves as detachable pieces either for the sake of conservative men who want to sell you products or for "gender" that is rooted in stereotypes.

I commiserate. The number of people, men & women, young & old, stranger & love one, through out my life that felt completely comfortable commenting on my boobs without warning is literally uncountable. Luckily, as an older woman, I now have the tools to tell them "you thought that was acceptable to say?" and make them uncomfortable. The best defense is to just call them out on that shit. "You should get a reduction" "I don't remember asking you your opinion on that" etc. If you really want to be sassy you can always respond something like "let me be decent and ask you first before I do which part of your body you'd like me to comment on" I mean like really practice getting to the point of the matter, not just explaining why they shouldn't or how it makes you feel. Like put all the energy on their behavior and calling it out.

[fematrix]

also as someone who got reduction a year and a half ago - it really is not that simple. maybe some women go through the recovery smoothly and without a care in the world, but it wasn't the case for me.

for a long time you can't sleep on your back, raise your hands (even to do such simple tasks as taking a glass out of a cupboard), wash your hair (or even wash yourself because of the bandages). it hurts, it itches, you can get hematomas or other weird side effects after your nipples have been basically cut away, put aside and stitched back after a while.

despite getting it done by a surgeon with stellar reviews, my body still decided to do some weird shit with scar tissue, change the sensory levels over time, and sometimes it still. fucking. itches. ohmygooood.

it was a necessary thing for me to do, as i was at risk of developing some spinal pathologies, i don't regret it by any means, but when i see it treated as some sort of a new, fun way to spend your free afternoon, my blood boils for a second

[rabbitheatedgrrrl]

Not wanting to have sex is NOT a problem. It doesn’t matter if you are asexual or allo, there is nothing wrong with not wanting sex. It’s just an activity. That’d be like saying that if you don’t like soccer, you need to go to soccer therapy to figure out why you dislike it and figure out how to like it because it’s for your own good. See how ridiculous that sounds? IT IS OK TO NOT WANT TO HAVE SEX AND IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED!!!!!!

[evenlesssentimentaltranslator]

As a straight woman who just plain doesn't want to have sex, I'll add that the more asexual women try to distance themselves from "allo" women, the more they reinforce this situation where they're only "allowed" not to have sex because they have a Special Identity. Rape culture is rape culture, being "allo" doesn't mean a woman is asking for it, and the reason why men keep pressuring asexual women to have sex is because society lets them get away with pressuring "allo" women to have sex too. Take a look at the absolutely deplorable way lesbians' sexual boundaries are treated, for example. It's all connected.

[feministism]

[kiwianaroha]

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. 

[neveria]

She and her mom also denounced their royal heritage because of the Nazis in their family

[antiracistfeministanarchy]

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.

[abbeydoesthings]

These are things I literally never would have known about. I’m tired of women being painted as just being pretty.