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hi ! I love your blog and i hope im not bothering you, i was wondering if you have any book recommendations that you think are important for women to read. You are super smart so i thought I'd ask since i love reading ❤️

This is so lovely of you to say I really appreciate it <33 My top feminist non fiction book recs are:

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez, gives a broad outline of the many ways women are not taken into account across the world and how this impacts us.

Loving to Survive by Dee Graham, a deepdive into female socialisation, love, domestic violence and society.

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner, goes deep into history, mythology, philosophy, offers a great compelling account of many parts of women's history.

Right Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin, fiercely and passionately written, about both female and male misogyny

Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft, a lot of great info about abuse, the myths, the ways our society supports it, etc

Those are my top picks. Other non fiction books I've enjoyed and found value in (mainly feminist focused)

Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria, highlights the hypocrisy and damage of many so called feminist national (American) and international organisations and how feminist rhetoric has been wrongfully used to support colonialism and war

Sexy but Psycho by Dr Jessica Taylor, a feminist critique of psychiatry

Talkin' Up to the White Woman by Aileen Moreton-Robinson, an Indigenous Australian woman's work on how mainstream feminism has excluded and devalued Indigenous women

Enlightened Sexism by Susan Douglas, a really interesting book that looks at the idea of post-feminism and enlightened sexism through media analysis of 90s and early 2000s and how it ushered in a new era and new rhetoric of misogyny

The Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandel, not about feminism but an analysis of how both the ideal and reality of meritocracy does far more harm than good

Close to home by Christine Delphy, a feminist book that's gone under the radar, is a collection of essays and has really interesting analyses of the home, of marxism, etc

Witches, Midwives and Nurses, a History of Woman Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich, a fascinating and super short book that analyses the medical industry's history

germananon

What legalised prostitution looks like

A lot of well-meaning activists, including feminists, especially from countries that do not have legalised prostitution, advocate very loudly and very passionately for that legalisation. And I understand that, given I was one of those activists until a few years ago. But most people have no idea what legalised prostitution looks like, and back then, neither did I even though it was all around me. It's usually presented publicly as the pretty face of a luxury escort who smiles into the cameras and says she loves her job. But she represents perhaps ten percent of German prostitution - at most. So I figure I should talk about what it actually looks like. It looks like the owner of the Paradise brothel getting invited onto talkshows and lauded as a businessman, with his brothel seen as the epitome of the nice, clean, ethical German brothel, all certified and above-board, right until he was sentenced for human trafficking. It looks like Berlin's bio toilets, the city's grand solution to residents complaining about the street prostitution impossible not to notice along Kurfürstenstraße - let the women be raped in public toilets then, instead of in the street. Out of sight, out of mind. Most of the women along Kurfürstenstraße speak no German. Most are under control of a pimp. Many have no permanent address. But at least city council can pat themselves on the back for their little wooden toilet boxes. It looks like johns salivating at the idea of Ukrainian women, suddenly left homeless by war, ending up in German brothels - sadly not simply a fantasy of theirs, but a common occurrence. It looks like a group styling themselves as an NGO handing out flyers offering to help Ukrainian refugee women get into prostitution while the police tries to warn them about human trafficking. It looks like underage girls pulled out of legal or illegal brothels every other month. Like strip club ads on the public buses I had to take to school every morning. Like high-rise brothels with a different skin colour or nationality on each floor. Like flatrate brothel offers, finally outlawed after the sheer obvious abusiveness became too much for even our politicians to turn a blind eye to. Like boys in my eigth grade class joking about their dream job: being a pimp sounds good to them. It looks like survivor Huscke Mau leaving a talkshow for her treatment there, made to explain and defend her experiences, doubted, belittled. it looks like the Netzwerk Ella letters. It looks like casual "job offers" on the street; if one woman is for sale, all women are. It looks like one hundred women in prostitution murdered by johns or pimps since the legalisation came into effect in 2002. It looks like human trafficking experts estimating nine out of ten women in German prostitution being forced, by poverty, by trafficking, by a loverboy pimp, by addiction. Like Germany being the trafficking capital of Europe. Like eight out of ten women in German prostitution not being German. I could go on, but this is getting long, and I imagine my point has been made. The German government itself conceded in a review of the legalisation of prostitution that prostitution has become no safer, conditions have become no better, crime has not gone down, prostituted women have become no richer, and no one is factually getting any promised social benefits. But at least the state is getting brothel taxes. Now you know what legalised prostitution looks like. Maybe it's time we look at other approaches.

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Niezsche has some pretty hateful things to say as well. It is extremely hard to find a well-respected, long-revered philosopher who didn’t have horrible things to say about women. These men are considered geniuses, but never even bothered to question the gender norms and misogyny of their time. This isn't even touching on the horrible things Freud had to say about women.

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tumblr has reduced the concept of intersectionality to "+/- 1 oppression" instead of bothering to gain a basic understanding of kimberlé crenshaw's work, which is free online.

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Discover Radical Feminism

Radical Feminism:

Authors, Theorists, Ideologues:

Sheila Jeffreys

Janice Raymond

Gail Dines

Catharine MacKinnon

Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin has a lot of gender critical and anti-porn books. Bell Hooks is also a black woman who has written a lot of books, and her book Ain’t I A Woman deals specifically with the intersections of misogyny and racism. This page (http://radfemresource.tumblr.com/resources) also has numerous sources.

Hope this helps!

On systematic male against female violence:

Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing (Anthology) , http://www.dianarussell.com/f/femicde%28small%29.pdf

THE ORIGIN AND IMPORTANCE OF THE TERM FEMICIDE

December 2011, written by Diana E.H Russell, Ph.D

Femicide – The Power of a Name

The Rise of Femicide: Can Naming a Deadly Crime Help Prevent It?, by Aaron Schulman. The New Republic. December 29, 2010

On the issues that pornography presents feminists and ways we can challenge them:

Making Violence Sexy (Anthology), http://www.dianarussell.com/f/makingviolencesexy%28smaller%29.pdf

On the psychological and behavioral consequences of pornography consumption:

Ph.D Diana E. H. Russell, “Pornography & Rape: A Causal Model”. Vol. 9, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), Published by: International Society of Political Psychology.

Exposure to Pornography As a Cause of Child Sexual Victimization

Stolen Innocence: The Damaging Effects of Child Pornography- On and Off the Internet

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/VAW02/mod2-6b.htm

The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality, and Relationships (2007/2008), http://www.antipornography.org/Price_of_Pleasure_doc.html (Warning: censored nudity but some of the content remains graphic and disturbing. Potentially triggering).

Pornography FAQ (http://catwa.org.au/?q=node/67 ):

How is pornography related to prostitution?

Pornography and prostitution are often thought of as completely separate entities. In many parts of the world, this is even reflected in law where pornography and prostitution hold very different positions; pornography is often privileged as a form of ‘representation’. Pornography, however, is filmed prostitution. Both pornography and prostitution involve the sexual use of women in exchange for money. Often, the only difference between the two is the presence of a camera. Pornography can also be seen to increase the legitimacy of prostitution, by depicting the commercial sexual exploitation of women as entertaining, glamorous and acceptable. In addition, pornography is frequently used by pimps to ‘season’ or train women for prostitution and in a rather cyclical relationship, women used in prostitution are often also used in pornography.

Shouldn’t pornography be protected as free speech?

It is important to note that pornography is not speech but rather filmed acts of prostitution. Pornography is not merely the representation of sex acts, but involves the filming of real sex acts, performed by real people. Arguing that pornography is speech, ignores the realities of how pornography is actually produced and also ignores the harm to women that pornography both generates and reinforces.

Read: Only Words, by Catharine MacKinnon Isn’t porn just harmless sex?

There is no such thing as harmless pornography. Many people believe pornography to simply be sex between ‘consenting adults’ rather than understanding pornography as a multi-billion dollar industry. Pornography is not ‘just sex’, it is a particular construction of sex which involves the commercial sexual exploitation of women for the purpose of men’s sexual pleasure. Pornography harms both the women who are directly abused in the making of it, and also women as a group more generally. It promotes a model of sexuality which is incompatible with women’s equality.“[P]ornography plays an important part in contributing to sexual violence against women and to sex discrimination and sex inequality” - Catherine Itzin Pornography: Women violence and civil liberties. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 (p. 1).

Isn’t pornography a good sexual outlet for men?

The idea that pornography creates a useful sexual release for men, assumes that men have uncontrollable sexual ‘urges’ which require an outlet. It also assumes that pornography use is acceptable and healthy. Neither is the case. Pornography use is harmful to the women used in creating it, and pornography creates and reinforces harmful ideas about women, sex and sexuality; for example, that women enjoy or welcome unwanted sexual contact and sexual assault. Rather than reducing the likelihood that men will act out, it creates a culture in which women are increasingly objectified and viewed as commodities. Such a culture helps to fuel, rather than prevent, acts of sexual violence.

Doesn’t opposing pornography make you a prude?

Many people assume that the only reason to oppose pornography is because you find it personally ‘offensive’ or are ‘anti-sex’. Opposing pornography means that you oppose abusive sexual practices that harm women, not that you must oppose all sex. Nor does opposing pornography have to be about arguing that its content personally offends you. From a feminist perspective, it is not necessarily explicitness or the depiction of sex which is the problem with pornography. It is not about offence and decency, but about harm. “What is objectionable about pornography…is its abusive and degrading portrayal of females and female sexuality, not its sexual content or explicitness” – Diana Russell Dangerous relationships: Pornography, misogyny, and rape. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998 (p. 5).

What is pornification?

Pornification, sometimes referred to as pornographication or ‘raunch culture’ is the increasing distribution and acceptance of pornography as well as the fragmenting and blurring of pornography and pornographic imagery into popular culture. Pornography and pornographic imagery are infiltrating popular music videos, outdoor advertising, fashion and art to name but a few. While pornographication is sometimes viewed as simply the increasing acceptance of sexual themes in media, it is actually the promotion of a particular model of sex which is harmful to women. The mainstreaming of this type of pornographic sexuality which fundamentally objectifies women, is already harming the development of young women and girls. The American Psychological Association, for example, has linked the rise of this unhealthy model of sexuality to increases in mental health problems such as eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression. See: Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls (2007). Available from:http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/sexualization.

Legalisation of Prostitution

Brothels without Walls: The Escort Sector as a Problem for the Legalization of Prostitution, bySheila Jeffreys 2010

What Happens When Prostitution Becomes Work? An Update on Legalisation of Prostitution in Australia. A paper by Mary Sullivan, 2005 (CATWA)

Submission to New Zealand Parliament, CATWA 2003

Prostitution Culture: Legalised Brothel Prostitution in Victoria, Australia Sheila Jeffreys 2002. Talk given at Swedish Ministry of Gender Equality Seminar on the Effect of Legalisation of Prostitution. Stockholm, 6 November 2002.

The Legalisation of Prostitution: A failed social experiment, by Sheila Jeffreys

Legalising Prostitution is not the Answer: The example of Victoria, Australia by Mary Sullivan and Sheila Jeffreys

Trafficking

Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (2000) (Known as the Palermo Protocol)

A Guide to the UN Trafficking Protocol (2001)

Sex Trafficking and Human Rights

Marriage Trafficking

Pornography and Pornification

The global industry of pornography is growing rapidly. The business of pornography is now worth in excess of $57 billion worldwide. More than $10 billion is generated in the United States alone. Pornography is an industry which, like prostitution, makes its ever increasing profits from the sexual exploitation of women and girls. Women in both the pornography and prostitution industries suffer abuse and violence. Despite this grim reality, tolerance for pornography is increasing in Australia and many other Western nations. Through the ‘mainstreaming of pornography’ or ‘pornification,’ pornographic imagery and even pornography itself are gaining legitimacy and a degree of glamour and cultural chic. Porn stars are becoming household names, advertising mimics pornographic conventions and poses, and Playboy is not just a magazine but a global brand that markets everything from clothing to stationery. The mainstreaming of pornography is also changing our conceptions of sexuality. Women are increasingly becoming required to perform sex acts straight from pornography in their everyday heterosexual relationships, and the pornographic model of sexuality is harming girls’ and women’s concepts of self. As pornography continues to become more prominent and pornographic imagery becomes more ‘mainstreamed’ we become accustomed to living in a pornified world in which it is acceptable that women and girls can be bought and sold.

Boyle, Karen (ed). (2010). Everyday Pornography. Oxford: Routledge.

Dines, Gail. (2010). Pornland: How Porn has Highjacked our Sexuality. Melbourne: Spinifex Press.

Dines, Gail & Jensen, Robert & Russo, Ann. (1998). Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality. New York: Routledge.

Dworkin, Andrea. (1979) Men Possessing Women. New York: Pedigree Books.

Long, Julia. (2012). Anti-Porn: The resurgence of Anti-Pornography Feminism. Zed Books.

Tankard Reist, Melinda & Bray, Abigail (eds) (2011). Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry. Melbourne: Spinifex Press.

Tyler, Meagan (2011). Selling Sex Short: The Pornographic and Sexological Construction of Women’s Sexuality in the West. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Strip Clubs

Read CATWA’s indepth report on strip clubs in Victoria (2010).

The sex industry and business practice: An obstacle to women’s equality, by Sheila Jeffreys 2010

Jul 2014: Business women suffer discrimination because of the male executive culture of strip club visits.

Jul 2014: Executive director of UN Women Australia calls for zero tolerance of strip club visits

Dec 2010: ABC radio interview with Sheila Jeffreys on ’Why strip clubs are harmful to women and the community’. Includes transcript

Dec 2010: Corporate functions and Christmas parties at strip clubs

On the feminist activist struggles against woman-battering, rape, misogyny (Right Wing and Left Wing), gendered oppression, hatred of lesbians, prostitution, pornography, societal stockholm syndrome, female-only spaces and more.:

Letters from a War Zone, by Andrea Dworkin

Our Blood, by Andrea Dworkin

Right-Wing Women, by Andrea Dworkin

Pornography: Andrea Dworkin (1991) - Documentary

Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by Andrea Dworkin

http://radfem.org/dworkin/

Against Our Will, Susan Brownmiller

Femininity, by Susan Brownmiller

Rape In Marriage, Diana Russell

Women-Only Spaces: An Alternative To Patriarchy, by Jennie Ruby

Exploring the Value of Women-Only Space, by Kya Ogyn

Women, Health and the Politics of Fat, Amy Winter, in Rain And Thunder, Autumn Equinox 2003, No. 20

Free Space: A Perspective on the Small Group in Women’s Liberation by Pamela Allen 1970 Download PDF

Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men’s Violence, and Women’s Lives by Dee Graham, Roberta Rigsby, Edna Rawlings 1995 Download PDF

Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism by Somer Brodribb 1992 Download PDF

A deafening silence: Hidden violence against women and children by Patrizia Romito (translation by Janet Eastwood) 2008 Download PDF

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis 2003 Download PDF

Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice by John Stoltenberg 2000 2nd Ed. Download PDF

I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde ed by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall 2011 Download PDF

Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation ed by Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Angela Davis 2005 Download PDF

Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West by Sheila Jeffreys 2005 Download PDF

The Spinster and Her Enemies by Sheila Jeffreys 1997 Download PDF

The Lesbian Heresy by Sheila Jeffreys 1993 Download PDF

The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade by Sheila Jeffreys 2008 Download PDF

The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism Edited by Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond. 1990 Download Full PDF (5MB)

Liberalism and the Death of Feminism, Catharine A. MacKinnon (PDF)

Sexology and Antifeminism, Sheila Jeffreys (PDF)

Woman-Hating Right and Left, Andrea Dworkin (PDF)

Taking Our Eyes Off the Guys, Sonia Johnson (PDF)

Family Matters, Ann Jones (PDF)

Confronting the Liberal Lies About Prostitution, Evelina Giobbe (PDF)

The New Reproductive Technologies, Gena Corea (PDF)

Mothers on Trial: Custody and the “Baby M” Case, Phyllis Chesler (PDF)

Sexual and Reproductive Liberalism, Janice G. Raymond (PDF)

In the Best Interest of the Sperm: The Pregnancy of Judge Sorkow, Pauline B. Bart (PDF)

Abortion and Pornography: The Sexual Liberals’ “Gotcha” Against Women’s Equality, Twiss Butler (PDF)

When Women Defend Pornography, Dorchen Leidholdt (PDF)

Eroticizing Women’s Subordination, Sheila Jeffreys (PDF)

Resistance, Andrea Dworkin (PDF)

Sex Resistance in Heterosexual Arrangements, A Southern Women’s Writing Collective (PDF)

Toward a Feminist Praxis of Sexuality, Wendy Stock (PDF)

Sexual Liberalism and Survivors of Sexual Abuse, Valerie Heller (PDF)

The Many Faces of Backlash, Florence Rush (PDF)

Liberals, Libertarianism, and the Liberal Arts Establishment, Susanne Kappeler (PDF)

You Can’t Fight Homophobia and Protect the Pornographers at the Same Time—An Analysis of What Went Wrong in Hardwick, John Stoltenberg (PDF)

A View from Another Country, Susan G. Cole (PDF)

Women and Civil Liberties, Kathleen A. Lahey (PDF)

Be-Witching: Re-Calling the Archimagical Powers of Women, Mary Daly (PDF)

Not a Sentimental Journey: Women’s Friendships, Janice G. Raymond (PDF)

Femicide Fetishize female vulnerability Handmaidens of the patriarchy Harm reduction/refusal to name the agent Joke’s on women Male bonding over misogyny Male entitlement Mansplaining/women’s perspective is wrong Necrophilia Normalize abuse/neglect Normalize porn/prostitution PIV-centric narrative — Goal is to “land a man” — Normalize exaggerated/simulated female pleasure — Normalize reproductive stress and pain — Pathologize menstruation — Pathologize older women and menopause/fetishize female youth — Rape and rape culture Pornify girl children/infantilize adult women Primacy of the nuclear family Reversal Support patriarchal institutions (medicine/religion/law) Woman as “useful object”

Crimes Against Women: The Proceedings of the International Tribunal

On the feminist analysis of beauty standards and oppressive femininity: Beauty & Misogyny, by Sheila Jeffreys

On the feminist analysis of queer theory:

Gender Hurts, by Sheila Jeffreys

Unpacking Queer Politics Download PDF,

LibFem vs. RadFem views on Gender

On the feminist analysis of the sex industrial complex:

The Industrial Vagina Download PDF,

Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry. (Anthology),

Accounting for Pornography, Prostitution, and Patriarchy. by Pala Molisa, PhD student,

Women, Lesbians, and Prostitution: A Workingclass Dyke Speaks Out Against Buying Women for Sex, by Toby Summer, in Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe, eds

Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant, eds.

Sex critical & Kink critical text:

Against Sadomasochism (Anthology)

Ten Lies About Sadomasochism, by Melissa Farley

Unleashing Feminism: Critiquing Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties, by Irene Reti, ed.

How Orgasm Politics Has Hijacked the Women’s Movement, by Sheila Jeffreys

Intercourse, by Andrea Dworkin

Theological feminist criticism:

Beyond God The Father, by Mary Daly (1974)

Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Mary Daly

The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe, Marija Gimbutas

Woman, Church and State, Matilda Joslyn Gage

The Women’s Bible, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Pure Lust, Mary Daly

On the feminist criticism of sexual liberalism:

“The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism” Anthology, (1987, edited 1990), http://radfem.org/the-sexual-liberals/

Incest: The Great Incest War: Introduction to The Secret Trauma

Making an Issue of Incest, Louise Armstrong (PDF)

Activism:

Lone Radical Feminist Actions

Best Strategies to Advance the Global Struggle Against Femicide

Feminists Threaten Larry Flynt: My Personal Contribution

Bin the Bunny. This is an anti-pornography campaign from London. It began in response the opening of a Playboy shop in 2007.

Object. A UK group committed to challenging the objectification of women.

No Porn Northampton. This site, based in USA, contains information about campaigns and many papers and resources relating to pornography.

Routes Out. This is a Glasgow based organisation founded to help women exit prostitution.

Turn Off the Red Light An Irish organisation working for an end to prostitution and sex trafficking in Ireland. It advocates the adoption of the Nordic Model.

Feminist Coalition Against Prostitution A UK coalition who believe that prostitution is male violence against women and are working to achieve Swedish style legislation. The site contains many useful links and resources.

Abolicion de la Prostitucion. This web site, in Spanish, was set up by a group of 77 women’s organisations to fight prostitution in that country.

Centre for Women’s Human Rights. This Korean feminist organistion was established in 2005.

The Polaris Project. Anti Trafficking organisation with a focus in Japan and USA

Websites with other resources (video clips, documentaries, quotes, articles, essays, interviews, graphics, etc): http://www.antipornography.org http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/ https://radicalhubarchives.wordpress.com/radfem-101/ http://www.feminist-reprise.org/fembib.html

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Ever wanted to read a feminist text that you’ve heard about online but not known where to find a copy? I know I have! I obviously don’t agree with everything here or endorse the positions of every woman here, but this is a great masterpost imo because of how many links to free PDFs it has! Read and form your own opinions! Access to women’s education for all women!

oldrfb

Anti sex “work” because—

Consent can’t be bought

The majority of prostituted women want to exit

Poor women and girls of color are disproportionately funneled into the sex industry

The industry relies on there being a vulnerable and uncared for class of women and girls to sexually exploit

Racism, classism, imperialism, slavery, and colonialism are all embedded in or connected to prostitution

Prostitution is a cause and result of inequality between the sexes

The sex industry is proven to rely heavily on trafficking and exploitation

It promotes violence against women

It is violence against women

Prostitution is inherently violent

The sex industry encourages, promotes, and caters to male sexual entitlement

Under full decriminalization and legalization, prostituted women are still murdered, raped, assaulted, and stolen from by pimps and johns

Women who have escaped from prostitution have high rates of PTSD and other disorders

The industry promotes fetishization, stereotypes, and sexualized racism and racialized sexism against women of color

“Consensual sex work” and human trafficking are inescapably linked (Oof)

The liberation of women and an industry dedicated to the objectification of women cannot coexist

It reduces women to sexual objects and masturbatory aids

The sex industry preys on the most marginalized women and girls

Porn culture harms women and girls (yes, even “feminist” porn)

The normalization of sex as “work” degrades the status of women as a class

These are a few reasons for the abolitionist stance I came up with at the top of my head. The only reason to be pro-porn and pro-prostitution is if one believes that the orgasms of johns, profits of pimps, and pleasure of a few “happy hookers” is worth more than the safety, freedom, and humanity of every other woman and girl.

TL;DR

The sex industry is incompatible with feminism.

anti-porn-unicorn

I just saw a ted talk called “why sex work is central to feminism” I-

Oh yeah bc objectifying ourselves and selling our bodily autonomy and giving perverted men exactly what they want is totally feminism hahaha wtf

antiplondon

Glosswitch on twitter

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"...the argument seems to be that feminism was always a battle for women-as an idea and as people-to no longer be associated with the disgusting penis-less bodies of the inferior half of the human race."...

terfvania

If biological sex is all that determines your gender, how do you respond to the brain scans showing that trans female brains are more similar to cis female brains than to cis male brains?

Try starting here

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00677-x

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28582-scans-prove-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-male-or-female-brain/

https://sexnotgender.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/fine_cordelia_delusions-of-gender.pdf

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/brains-men-and-women-aren-t-really-different-study-finds

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053811915007697

The brain is not a sex organ, it cannot have a sex. If anything, sex hormones can affect our behaviour, but they don’t come from the brain.

Also sex does not determine your “gender”. Nobody should be restricted to a set of roles, behaviours, interests because of their biological sex, period -we just ARE. Gender abolitionism is all about being male and female and nothing else.

buzzcutbulldyke

Ladies have you all seen what's going down on /r/antiwork 💀💀 one of the mods, a TIM, got interviewed by Fox News for some reason, proceeded to make the entire subreddit look like a bunch of idiots who want to sit around playing video games all day, the sub rightfully called him out for it, and first he went on a banning spree, and then they made the ENTIRE SUBREDDIT PRIVATE. All in the course of today. A moid made the choice to do a horrible, horrible interview, and when people were understandably pointing out how bad it was, he threw a tantrum and shut down a VERY LARGE, QUICKLY-GROWING subreddit that was INTENDED to be an actual labor movement. Because his feelings were hurt. It's hilarious, though also frustrating. I was actively in a thread when it all got shut down so I'll post some screenshots I took under the cut, but here's his actual interview

Edit: lol NVM I can't figure out how to do a read more on mobile

girlsmoonsandstars

you can tell they’re men because they’re allowed to call the trans woman “they” without being accused of terven thought crimes or literally murdering trans people

buzzcutbulldyke

YEAH I was genuinely shocked to see so many people calling him "they" or even outright "he." I saw more of that then anyone calling him "she." Not what I would've expected for Reddit recently, but I'm sure you're right, it's because they're men and not the evil terves.

rf-times

Was looking at this sub a few days ago when it was thousands of men talking about how “if you’re anti work you can’t be anti sex work” because “sex work is just like any other work!” but also apparently not because “people can get involved in sex work for many reasons and to suggest it’s exploitative is really gross.” So I haven’t had much faith in that subreddit as a legitimate labour movement. But this is just beyond a shitshow.

bornwoman

Don’t forget the part where this TIM got exposed for being a rapist 💀 like clockwork

comrade-meow

rf-times

The more I learn about family courts, the more furious I get. Nobody cares about abused women and children and it is one of the strongest examples of how in today’s society the woman is punished for being abused and for trying to protect her children and how legal structures uphold the literal patriarchy, the ultimate right of fathers. In the 80′s, a psychologist invented “Parental Alienation Syndrome” as this horrific condition where one parent will turn their child(ren) against the other parent. And what’s a strong symptom of this syndrome? Claiming abuse. The stronger the claim, the more likely it must be a manipulative ploy to stop the poor father from seeing his children.

In a widespread study, it was found that in “family courts mothers’ child abuse allegations [were believed] less than one-third of the time. They believed only 1 in 49 cases of child sexual abuse when the accused father crossclaimed that the mother was alienating. Approximately one-third of mothers alleging a father’s abuse lose custody; when the father crossclaims alienation, that increases to one-half.”

This has led to abusive fathers being awarded custody and unsupervised access to their children and going on to further victimise and even murder them.

spring-sent

Broke: males can have female brains

Woke: a male having neurological traits supposedly associated with the “female brain” is proof in and of itself that there are no EXCLUSIVE traits that are SOLELY found in the female brain

andreearuxxaurus

Everyday I log into my little tumblr and keep learning about these logical fallacies that go by unnoticed by a lot of people

antiporn-activist

this is why there is no longer lab research on pornography.

“Countless studies have since shown that exposure to pornography desensitizes men to violence against women, often shaping their sexuality in such a way that they become unable to experience arousal without some element of dominance or violence. The evidence has been so damning that, at times, universities have refused to allow further research on the topic. When a study shows detrimental effects that cannot be reversed, ethics boards will often refuse similar studies to go on. This has happened repeatedly with research on the effects of pornography.”

-Maya Shlayen, Whose Porn, Whose Feminism

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ok so the first calendars were lunar calendars, 28 days, and a woman's menstrual cycles are 28 days. The implications of this are staggering, like isn't it conceivable that women were the first to recognize and implement time as a concept as a matter of survival just based on having to plan for one's period every month? and her observation that the moon's phases roughly correlates to her period could be one of the earliest breakthroughs of abstract thinking. what if she believed the moon controlled her cycle? First deity, first worship. Why would prehistoric men need to conceptualize time in the sophisticated way women clearly did? Men did not need to plan for periods, pregnancy, or raising children into adulthood. They had no reason not to scamper around the wilderness pissing on trees and ejaculating into the nearest holes they can find for the rest of time because they never had to plan long-term for monthly uncontrollable bleeding and keeping infants alive for years. Why would men look at the moon's phases and see anything other than the moon's phases? He cannot biologically realize how the moon is intrinsically connected to him, how he and time are intertwined, how one is all.

We are the timekeepers. This blood built society.

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very very very much recommend Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World by Judy Grahn!!!!

ukrfeminism

Instead of addressing systemic racial issues, an abhorrent judgement has been made to administer coerced induction

“A few days ago, whilst scrolling through my Instagram explore feed, I came across the #notsonice hashtag. There was a mahogany-coloured grid of carefully curated posts that displayed a collective outrage concerning new guidance for pregnant women.

The National Institute of Health Care and Excellence (Nice) recommends that ethnic minority women should be induced at 39 weeks in order to mitigate the risk of death during childbirth. So, by default a 34-year-old Black-British mother like me would need to surrender my future water birth plans in favour of an induction. After my experience just over three years ago, I was hoping I would not have to succumb to that pain ever again. However once again, that choice has been taken away from me and many others.

My concerns about this regulation aren’t around the method of intervention, but the repercussions surrounding it.

In 2017, I conceived from my second IVFcycle. It was my first pregnancy, and was deemed as “high risk”. So just shy of 40 weeks, my body was prematurely “tricked into labour” to reduce the possibility of birth complications.

I didn’t feel the need to question my consultant’s decision, because after years of my husband and I dealing with infertility, I wasn’t prepared to lose another baby within the space of 18 months.

On 21 February 2018, my labour was started by inserting a vaginal pessary to start my contractions. Whatever had occurred in between this time and the delivery, remained as foggy as my memory and the weather.

On Saturday 24 February at 6:25am, Sebastian finally arrived into the world. He was beautiful in my eyes, but bruised, with an imperfectly shaped potato head, from the forceps delivery.

Days later, I felt the tightness in my chest and perineal stitches as I struggled to waddle back into the emergency room with my tiny newborn clutched onto my engorged breast. We were admitted to an isolated room in the high dependency care unit. It was suspected that I had caught postnatal sepsis.

I shared the same indignation as my allies who advocate for women like me within the maternal health space. Many have campaigned tirelessly to tackle the disproportionate rates of Black women who are four times more likely to die in childbirth.

Instead of addressing systemic racial issues, an abhorrent judgement has been made to administer coerced induction to combat the problem – when it only creates another. Just like what I, and many other women of colour, encountered during our induced labour. I can now understand why at the precipice of my adolescent years, conversations surrounding sex education were avoided.

I grew up in North London with my three sisters. We were raised by our first-generation Ghanaian parents who migrated to the UK in the 80s. Their cultural values enforced their belief that a successful life meant a good education, followed by marriage, and then motherhood.

Anytime the latter was discussed, my mum would say: “Childbirth is the closest to death that a woman will ever come”. From the palpable pain in her eyes, I knew she was referring to her older sister who passed away whilst giving birth to her son.

She was still working through her trauma 30 odd years later, while trying to protect me from being subject to such a tragedy, like when I had a near fatal ectopic pregnancy in September 2019.

The ongoing scandal shouldn’t only concern Black and Brown communities. Women who have conceived by assisted conception, and are over 35 years of age, or have a BMI of 30 or above, are also implicated.

This isn’t another issue for just ethnic minority groups to deal with, it’s an immoral decision that needs more than just performative allyship. As social justice advocate Dorothy Roberts said: “Blaming Black mothers… is a way of subjugating the Black race as a whole… and devaluing [our nuanced experiences] of motherhood is particularly damaging to Black women”.

We need to amplify the message that being Black is not a crime. The weaponisation of “our DNA” to suppress our reproductive autonomy should be challenged. By taking action , you are dispelling the falsehood that being Black means our bodies are less capable of carrying our babies to term, when actually our institutionally racist system is broken, and it needs rebuilding.”

antiporn-activist

Have you posted the study you mentioned where it shows porn use decreases users empathy for rape victims? If so, could you send it my way so I can reblog it? Thank you

it’s from the 80s so not easy to find online. you can look in my tags under zillmann and bryant. i’m sure i’ve posted several times but there’s 12K posts here and i can’t go digging today.