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[cast-lit]

nonbinary: when you buy into sexist stereotypes so hard that you think not adhering to them somehow turns you into something else

there is no “wrong” way to be a man or a woman. those are body types, not personality types.

[user87262893]

what do radfems think of drag? been thinking about this a lot recently and i don’t know what to think because it all hinges on stereotypes of women, but these men aren’t claiming to be women either

Varying levels of critical, for the exact reason you said.

Historically, it was a way for GNC gay men to express their feminity in a safe environment. This is a good thing.

My thoughts are:

✅ gay men expressing feminity via "cross dressing"

❌ jokes about gross/smelly/loose vagina

✅ art, singing, dance, gender non-conformity and the confidence of taking that expression to a stage

❌ caricatures of dumb bimbo whore stereotypes

[cast-lit]

i really like silky’s breakdown of gender non-conformity here:

[millennialgenderabolitionist]

I’m going to be very categoric on this point: people don’t choose to be dysphoric, however people choose to be trans. And that’s why the experience of lgb ppl is not comparable to the experience of trans ppl. Us lesbians, gays and bi want to be accepted as we are, we don’t want to change anything about ourselves, we encourage self love. Trans ppl change themselves, their physical appearance, it’s not about accepting oneself the way they are, it’s about leaving yourself behind because you cannot view your body as if it was yourself. So can we stop pretending like these two communities live the same things?

[web1995]

Joan of Arc on Blingee.com

[la-laborista-republiko]

[mysharona1987]

Has this guy ever seen an episode of Law and Order: SVU in his life!?

[kittiesatemypronouns]

Never Say No To A Man, Girls!

[auntiewanda]

Silver lining: she dodged a bullet not having to work for this asshole. 

[femsolid]

Yeah that happened. This guy tried to pick up a girl, failed and then invented this story on twitter to make his bruised ego feel better. What a pathetic loser. 

I’ll tell you, I’ve been offered a ride 5 times in my life, (that I recall), all of them were by predators.

1) The first time I was 16 and going to school, it was a car full of men in their 20s, laughing and telling me to get in. When I refused they insulted my appearance. 

2) The second time I was 23, it was a beautiful afternoon, I took a book and went to the local park, sat on a bench to read, I was completely alone, most people were at work I suspect. But an old man came towards me out of nowhere “it’s a beautiful day isn’t it ? what are you reading ? is it good ?” I answered briefly and tried to be polite despite the bad vibes I was getting and then stared at my book, indicating that I did not want to talk. He just stood there for a while then left. Or so I thought. A few minutes later I heard some noises in the bushes in front of me and saw him walk around in the woods, where no one goes, still alone. I started to freak and wonder if I should leave. Then he disappeared behind the trees and I thought he was gone for good. 10 minutes later I felt like someone was staring at me. I turned around and he was sitting behind me looking at me. I have no clue how he managed to get behind me without me noticing. So this time I left as fast as I could while still trying to keep it cool so he would not be tempted to jump me. Right after this happened I stopped by the bus stop, still trying to make sense of what just happened and immediatly a car driven by a man twice my age stopped by and he said “do you want to get in ? can I offer you a ride ?” with his creepy smile and the predatory look in his eyes that all women can recognize. I said no, he insisted, I said no again and he left. 

3) I was 24, exhausted after work, sitting alone at a very isolated bus stop, a man twice my age again tried to persuade me to get into his car, I said no, he insisted, I said no several more times and he drove off.

4) I was 25, going home from work, it was very late in the evening, pretty much night time, I was catching one of the very last bus. Guess who the predator was this time ? The fucking bus driver. Twice my age again. As I was starting a new job and was a bit confused with directions I asked him about it and he tried to start a conversation with me. I thought he was just trying to be friendly with me so I talked with him for a while, he seemed a bit eccentric but I thought that he was funny and not that unplaisant to talk to after a shitty working shift. I was the only person on the bus with him because it was so late. Then the conversation started to get creepy, asking me where I lived, what my name was, where I worked and offering to come and get me when I finished work the next day at 3 in the morning, not with his bus but with his personal car… I declined, said I would get a taxi, he insisted for a long time… said he could come pick me up in his car tomorrow. I said no. For the next few days I was anxious to take the bus to go and leave work, I was scared to see him again. Then one afternoon here he was. The bus was full this time and I ended up being kind of trapped next to him. And he started saying creepy things in front of everybody calling me “my darling”, this time I stopped answering and looked away. He was saying “my sweetheart, why won’t you talk to me, ah, women, you’re so hard on me” with a very creepy voice. Everybody was looking at me. That was really awfull and embarassing. I got off the bus and went to work. On our break I talked to a coworker and out of the blue she said “did you have a bad experience taking the bus ? cause I heard a woman complain about a certain bus driver, she was saying he harassed her”, I said “yes ! he harassed me too !”. After that I actually stayed on the phone with my mother while waiting for the bus at night, she wanted to make sure I was safe. What a relief it was when I saw that the bus driver was a woman this time. I sent an e-mail to the bus company, explaining what had happened with the bus driver. They replied that they were taking it very seriously. I never got news about it and eventually left my job so I don’t know what happened with this guy. 

5) And last but not least, 27 years old, I was walking home from work and I saw a car parked on the sideway, with a man acting weird around it. At some point it looked like he was pretending to be doing something to the car but I saw him looking at me through the side mirror. The door of the car was open. I knew something was off so I braced myself, stopped the music I was listening to on my phone to be fully aware of my surroundings. I expected the guy to, at the very least, say something to me. I walked by him and nothing happened. What a relief. I continued to walk and saw the car drive by. I thought hey that’s the same car, he’s gone. But one minute later guess who drove by me again ? And this time he slowed down, pulled down his window and asked : “excuse me ?” I stopped, I knew he was a creep who had been working up to it, the shy girl who used to gaslight herself into thinking “he’s just trying to be friendly” was gone, I was in full rage mode the minute I saw his car for the third time. He said “I’m not from here, do you know where the highway is ?” there was no highway, I said “I don’t know, sorry” and kept on walking. He followed me and said “would you like to go to the swimming pool with me ?” I was like “wtf ? the swimming pool ?” is that the non pedo version of “would you like some candy ?”. I said “no I would not, weren’t you looking for the highway ? you know where a swimming pool is now ?” he insisted that we should go to some obscure swimming pool together instead and I should get into his car. I rolled my eyes and told him to fuck off. He kept on trying to persuade me to get into his car, asking me what my name was and where I was going, assuring me that we would have a lot of fun together… at this imaginary swimming pool. I stopped responding and just stared long and hard at him… and he started to grin, knowing his plan had failed he finally drove away. I had to be careful the whole way home, checking if he wasn’t still there, somewhere. 

The men who complain that they can’t talk to women or try to be friendly anymore because of the “paranoid feminazis” are the same men who blame women for being stupid enough to trust men, get into their car, their home, invite them in or just talk to them. It’s a perfect circle that allows them to harass us, assault us and then get away with it because it’s our fault for trusting them… but we should also trust them or else it’s a clear indicator that we’re crazy. That’s a beautiful mixture of gaslighting and terrorism.

[desaturated7-deactivated2021090]

hey guys, did you know that uhhhhh

referring to radfems alongside terrorist groups like incels or the kkk despite there never being a radical feminist terrorist or even support for terrorism within radical feminism is a conscious manipulation effort aimed at getting you to believe women talking is literally the same as men commiting mass acts of violence so that violence against radfems appears justified?

[spinsterhoods-archive]

“A long-term study of children raised by lesbians found that these children were less likely to suffer from physical and sexual abuse than were their peers who were raised by heterosexuals. This is thought to be due to the absence of adult heterosexual men in the households (Gartrell, Bos, & Goldberg, 2010). Girls raised by lesbians tend to have higher self-esteem, show more maturity and tolerance than their peers, and are older when they have their first heterosexual contact (Gartrell et al., 2005, 2010). Children raised by same-sex parents seem to be less constrained by traditional gender roles; boys are less aggressive, and girls are more inclined to consider nontraditional careers, such as doctor, lawyer, or engineer (Gartrell et al., 2005; Stacey & Biblarz, 2001). Over the course of more than 20 years, scientists studied the psychological adjustment of 78 teenagers who were raised by lesbian mothers. Compared to age-matched counterparts raised by heterosexual parents, these adolescents were rated higher in social, academic, and total competence, and lower in social problems, rule-breaking, aggression, and externalizing problem behavior (Gartrell & Bos, 2010). There are fewer studies of children raised by two men, but gay fathers are more likely than straight fathers to put their children before their career, to make big changes in their lives to accommodate a child, and to strengthen bonds with their extended families after becoming fathers (Bergman, Rubio, Green, & Padrone, 2010).” ~ Martha Rosenthal, Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society, p.247.

[moved2misfires-lil-butt-rockets]

“having gay parents will harm children”

[kanguin]

I love that this is cited and sourced ahhhh. Actual researched support! So good.

[tiyadyree]

Here’s Gartrell, Bos, and Goldberg’s paper since whatever link that was is broken.

[solarsyrup]

Still blows my mind how quickly capitalism self-destructed streaming tv

Like netflix rejuvenated a dying market and made it way more afforadable and accessible, and then... everyone needed a slice of the pie and fucked the whole thing up

Incredible

[solarsyrup]

An actual genius: What if we made television convenient and inexpensive again?

Corporations: What if we milked this money cow until it fucking DIED

[movedtowhiteworms-deactivated20]

this is a transgender zone you either support trans rights or you die dude

[kendallandherstuff]

[rad-virgo]

LMAO just admit it the TRA movement is a cult

Also... trans identified males have every single right they could possibly hope for, including the right to put women out of business for refusing to wax their balls, and the right to be in a female prison even if they’re in prison due to charges of rape and domestic violence. It’s almost like they’re males, and therefore have every right that males have 🧐 hmmmmmm

[xenosagaepisodeone]

we need unfluencers. we need unfluencer culture. we need people that tank the value of brands and make things terminally uncool by just associating with them. how do we boil this site down to it’s essence and spread it like a viral disease.

[chwhore]

[sandersstudies]

Anybody else remember how for a few years after 9/11 it was totally reasonable to be scared of a low-flying plane or flying/airports in general. It was just understood the 9/11 was an event that affected the American psyche and even though most planes landed totally safely it was understandable to be scared.

But when young people who are increasingly forced to consider the thought of being shot in school or at concerts say they feel uncomfortable with people openly carrying guns in public, suddenly they're too sensitive and infringing on the rights of others.

[theatre-tech]

I work in an event space. People are legit scared 24/7. I walked in to work and reached into my laptop bag and had to reach around to find my badge for a few seconds and people visibly flinched and one reached for a radio and told me after it was in case he had to radio for an active shooter. This is not just young people. Convention centers and arena staff are on constant vigil, I'm sure people in parks and school officials are too. Like we hear a car backfire or something loud drop and bang and the building staff all tenses ready to go to active shooter protocol. The stress that puts on people is fucking immeasurable.

[thentheysaidburnher]

if you openly don't accept trans women you are absolutely not a feminist. shame on you for calling yourself one.

These sorts of messages are fascinating to me–how they play on female socialization to be accepting and inclusive and supportive and accommodating, or else SHAME.

Accept trans women how? As what? Accept them without hesitation into female-only spaces, places designated specifically for women who face oppression based on their sex class? Into spaces intended for women who share meaningful life experiences due to female anatomy? Into lesbian spaces even though they are heterosexual males (sexuality being based on sex)? Accept them into my own sexuality, even though I am exclusively attracted to adult human females, known as women?

I accept that gender-nonconforming males who try to fill the social role of women often face discrimination and violence. They shouldn’t. No one should.

But if I don’t do everything they demand, I should feel shame? Shame for knowing my sex is important, for knowing the boundaries of my sexuality? Shame for defining feminism as being strictly for and about female women, colloquially known simply as women?

I don’t feel shame, and I won’t. I am immensely proud to be a women, it’s an honour to be female, being a lesbian is sacred. I feel no shame.

[thentheysaidburnher]

As this is re-circulated, please connect with the first demand “OPENLY accept” and remember how much of this ‘pro trans’ movement is PERFORMATIVE.

The point is not to actually believe what you regurgitate, but only to recirculate. True belief is secondary to the appearance of it.

Cultish?

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

5th rule of misogyny: women and feminism must be useful to men or they are worthless.

[theuntameableshrews]

A choice between sex work and poverty is not a real choice. Not everyone has a choice.

[ellie-nors-deactivated20191119]

Is any paid work really a choice when poverty is the other option?

When chosen, sex work is not different from other work, except in the risks of violence to those who engage in it, and the social stigma attached to it (which are, of course, linked). Trafficking is an entirely different, although related, matter.

Listen to sex workers. 

Respect sex workers. 

Decriminalise sex work.

End trafficking.

[cast-lit]

@ellie-nors​ your opinion is misinformed and actively harmful. you are contributing to human trafficking with this rhetoric. no other job has STDs as a risk. no other employee decreases in value when they gain more experience. no other job has the same level of rampant sexual abuse. i encourage you to research the “nordic model” which criminalizes buyers instead of the trafficked women who are just trying to survive. decriminalizing buying women for sex leads to more trafficking (just look at what happened in germany.) if you ever actually did listen to sex workers, you’d know that over 90% of them want to exit.

[rapeculturerealities]

Victims, Prosecutors Frustrated About Layton Stalker Repeated Arrests

Utah women tell the KSL Investigators that one man has been traumatizing teens, girls and women around the state for more than a decade – leaving behind a trail of victims. They are concerned his behavior is escalating – and the law isn’t doing enough to stop him.

Chad Dee Flitton, 43, has been in and out of county courtrooms and jail cells, ordered to complete treatment and placed on probation repeatedly for allegedly stalking multiple young women.

His criminal record dates back more than ten years and includes drug offenses, theft, sexual battery, stalking and lewdness.

Prosecutors tell judges Flitton is a “danger” to the community, and yet time and time again, judges suspend large portions of Flitton’s jail sentences in exchange for court-ordered mental health and drug treatment – treatment the KSL Investigators have discovered he has repeatedly failed to obtain.

But no matter the punishment and whether he actually fulfills the requirements that go along with the punishment, Flitton’s trail of victims continues to grow.

read more

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

1. The Death of Barbara Radziwill by Jozef Simmler (1860)

2. Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag, (1978)

3. Noseratu (1979) & Dracula (1992)

[antiporn-activist]

[ididntgiveyoupermissiontodothat]

Just say boys under the age of ten.

[radkuromi]

Tbh girls have been indoctrinated in this too I started watching porn at 9. It is very much a female problem as well

[antiporn-activist]

I met a girl recently who said she’d been watching porn since age 8.

[hellfresh]

Anybody remember that post about some woman’s 12 year old brother’s girlfriend telling her that her little brother has a “piss kink.” (We are meant to assume she knows this via actions he did to her)

Kids are about to be all the way fucked up.

We’re gonna see a huge rise in Asexual kids, Kids trying to deny sexuality in all aspects because of their traumatic first experiences with it (with porn)

9 year olds getting Instagram famous because of their grown male following

Seamless grooming. Pedos are simply going to have an easier time abusing their victims when kids already know what anal gaping is at 8.

Body dysmorphia like we’ve never seen before.

The rate of anorexic boys, and young gay boys in toxic “Dom/sub” “top/bottom” porn-style relationships I gonna jump because they think it’s just normal now.

Suicide rates in young, young girls boutta jump up.

Teachers abusing students because going home every night and searching that “teen” tab just isn’t cutting it anymore

Paternal familial abuse thanks to the mainstream incest porn.

Men just fucking step up and fight me challenge

[antiporn-activist]

Suicide rates in girls are already up.

[feministbyanyothername-deactiva]

none of this in the future all of this happens now.

I volunteer with peer support for CSA survivors and hear both personal stories and do research on these topics. There is direct proof in the UK of porn exposure rasing rates of COCSA. 

Girls experience more mental health issues in connection with objectification. 

Sex offenders recognize grooming culture themselves. 

all of these are affecting people now. All of this is leaving people traumatized right now.

[radfem-lyanna-mormont]

I saw a post on Reddit that was a screenshot of a child on Twitter calling himself a dom, and it was clear that he knew what that meant. This boy looked like he was maybe eight or nine years old and everyone seemed to think it was funny, but I was so disturbed by the fact that a kid who was so young even knew what a dom was and that he was calling himself that.

I saw porn for the first time when I was fourteen years old and it had a profoundly negative effect on me. The idea that kids under TEN are seeing this stuff and learning from it is absolutely horrifying.

[thisistruefeminism-deactivated2]

My friend group (mostly online) when I was around 12 was obsessed with this stuff. Them role-playing dom/sub and even rape was a daily thing and all they talked about was porn.

Im still friends with a lot of them but most either regret it all or are so messed up from it. It was a mess, still is now

[whatthemcfyck]

I was molested as a toddler and started watching porn at 8/9 as soon as the iphone came out and I could sneak one into my room. It reinforced the idea that what happened was ok and I was introduced to DDLG at 12, which made my abuse seem light and fun and not serious. I ended up getting groomed over and over again and by 16 had extensive vaginal scarring and had tried to kill myself at least 20 times. Literally fuck all of this and fuck the people in kink that put their shit in little kid tags like princess, daddy, kitten, puppy. You are ruining lives and I will always have some form of PTSD/ painful sex

[exjade]

Is this at all surprising to people? Considering the ease with which children can access porn nowadays, how do you not expect them to look at it? And I don’t mean teenagers, I mean actual children. How old were you when you first saw porn? Even if your parents tried to prevent you? Well it’s far easier for children today. All the teenagers you see today were indoctrinated to porn, rape porn, since childhood. Every female teenager you see has been indoctrinated since childhood with the idea that in order for her to have worth she needs to be a semen receptacle who is used by males any way males desire. Just look at the way that teenage girls pose and try to appear on social media, what exactly do you suppose they’re trying to emulate? That’s the only way they think they can be worthwhile. 

[gcdk]

Mothers want action over sexual assaults

Two mothers whose children were attacked at school are calling for changes to prevent similar assaults

More than 1,000 rapes and sex attacks have been reported in London schools in four years

Of the rape allegations, 15 per cent were reported to have taken place in the borough of Croydon

Sexual harassment 'normal' in schools, warns report

Hundreds of thousands of female pupils have suffered sexual harassment at school and the government is under mounting pressure to take actio