For All The Dreamers

King😁| Nigerian 🇳🇬| 26 and immortal | I'm working on achieving my big, scary dreams - while enjoying as much of the process as I can. Try it out.

[parisrainynight]

maybe because you are a gen-z spicy straight from a liberal accepting area who has never faced any hardship in your life, or bothered to pick up a book or use context clues ever

[niiwa-angel]

And they blocked every older gay person who told them.

[pothead-paisan]

a minnesota gubernatorial candidate's daughter (age 22) was found stabbed to death and the murderer was her 23 y/o husband (who had previously been booked on a count of strangulation against her) and for once the top reddit comments on the news article are about how strangulation by an intimate partner is the #1 indicator that a woman is at risk of murder by said partner, and dozens of commenters are shutting down every guy who comments "well some women like that in bed and there are safe ways to do it" with statistics and facts about how it's never safe and should never be done, and that women have been groomed by porn for decades to think it's normal when it's harmful and abusive. some of this information DOES get out there and people (esp women) ARE starting to wake up.

[z0ruas]

It can be fun to feel exceptional—to be the loophole woman, to have a whole power thing, to be an honorary man. But if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that women are inferior, you haven’t made any progress.

Ariel Levy, "Female Chauvinist Pigs"

[sluttynurse]

"X thing is like or equivalent to blackface/minstrelry/lynching/police brutality etc etc" i think some things are not like this very racialized thing to put it mildly.

[hyperdemona]

I'm tired of menstrual cups only having these cutesy girlie names. Like fine, I get why you'd call one a Lily cup or a Luna cup or a Diva cup or whatever, but society needs it's Wild cups and Wolf cups and maybe even a Shark cup. Like where are the Lion cups and the Tiger cups and the Camo cup. I just think they need to exist too

[hyperdemona]

Right? Why can't one be called The Chalice or the Darkmoon or smth if u need to go that route for the witchy types.

[dianic-witchcraft-official]

you're right this would work on us 100%

[kragehund-est]

[evenuelle]

One of the most telling sign that every political movement is co-opted by male supremacist values is the fact that critiquing prostitution is easily disregarded as a “conservative talking point” in mainstream left-wing discourse. If being critical of women being commodified and dehumanized for male consumption cannot be more than a conservative stance, what does it imply about being radical or progressive today?

It is undeniable that radical feminists are easily boxed with people who hate speech as a form of new misogyny where in women’s articulations of their material reality is deemed illogical or no less than gossip unless a man whispers the same rhetoric, and then we can say it is “theorizing.” It is undeniable that the stereotyping of radical feminists very much mimics silencing tactics where our experiences cannot be interpreted in the terms where we see it but only when it fits male narratives. They are saying we can be feminists as long as it is the feminism the male envisions.

[imeverywoman420]

it is so crazy that emaciation is considered a normal beauty standard for women lol like people never really talk about it in that way its just “unrealistic beauty standards!” No be specific. People think its normal and healthy for women to have bones jutting out like prisoners of war. And that just gets thrown in with things like “unrealistic beauty standards so bad :(“ the average person is so used to seeing emaciated women in media it doesnt even register when women look like skeletons. Like this is way worse than too much photoshop and bbls and makeup….

like society (tm) is fully trolling by not acknowledging this and doing the whole “some people are naturally skinny” thing its never PEOPLE its women theyre talking about. If a male celebrity had the same BMI as the average female celebrity he’d be strapped down to a bed on an IV drip.

[nilovalentine]

in this fantasy world, theres no homophobia or sexism! but the governments are still patriarchal monarchies and everyone still adheres to the standard nuclear family, two things that have absolutely no relation to homophobia and sexism whatsoever

[stonefemmesiren]

a lot of you really need to internalize that acting avoidant isn't cute at all and that it will cost you experiences and life outcomes if you don't change course

[riftclaw]

[kominfyrirkattarnef]

Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. I click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

[fem-lit]

When a modern woman is blessed with a body that can move, run, dance, play, and bring her to orgasm; with breasts free of cancer, a healthy uterus, a life twice as long as that of the average Victorian woman, long enough to let her express her character on her face; with enough to eat and a metabolism that protects her by laying down flesh where and when she needs it; now that hers is the gift of health and well-being beyond that which any generation of women could have hoped for before—the Age of Surgery undoes her immense good fortune. It breaks down into defective components the gift of her sentient, vital body and the individuality of her face, teaching her to experience her lifelong blessing as a lifelong curse.

— Naomi Wolf (1990) The Beauty Myth

[probuccalfat]

i’m sure it works for some people but the thought of marrying your high school sweetheart from your little hometown without ever experiencing anything without them sounds like a punishment for some unforgivable and inhumane act you carried out in a previous life

[majchic]

[depsidase]

[female-eren]

They need to make yuri manga with good (not moe) art that doesn't take place in high school

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Pretending you're fine when people cross your boundaries doesn't make you a really nice person, it just makes you a really shitty communicator. Far too many people pride themselves on being "too nice" when it's just that they have zero conflict resolution skills and will seethe in resentment for months instead of articulating the problem

[bookrebelwordwarrior]

Yeah, don't do that. "Hey, I really don't like when you do X and Y. Please don't do it again." will save you, your friendships, and your sanity. If they disregard this, then distance yourself accordingly.

[rapidlydecayingcorpse]

reverse suicide note where everyone you write on it dies

[rapidlydecayingcorpse]

wait

[definitely-not-a-plant]

and we could call it something like... murder note.. or something.. Kill note.. die note... we can workshop it later