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eastern european radfem 😎 occasional troll & correct opinion haver

[coldafternoon-deactivated202102]

don’t you defend men around me

[disillusionedmonster]

I dislike the way that people dance around the oppression of women when it comes to conversations about history. Lots of people acknowledge that women were seen and treated as property, but the horror of that experience is rarely conveyed. When teaching about women's rolls in ancient cultures there is always that comment about women not being able to own property, that they were property themselves, and were expected to be submissive to men. But what does this actually look like?

It looks like rape. Like mothers being seperated from daughters. It looks like being forced to cohabit with and serve an owner who will force himself on you and breed you like stock. It is the sadness of miscarriage and the realisation that your body won't hold up. It's mutilation and violence. It's watching the deaths of your friends knowing that none of them lived a truly happy life. It's watching your daughter grow up knowing that she will be sold into servitude and raped until she dies, the same fate you face. In some cases you didn't even have a name.

Women's oppression is the oldest form of oppression, and yet we are still so strongly gripped by patriarchy that there is a refusal to acknowledge what that actually means. We have barely even started earning our rights in the west, and our sisters still face the terror of what I have described above. Women are always one step away from losing everything, and yet the movement meant to fight for women's liberation is being overun by men and misogynistic women. It's easier for them to uphold the status quo than challenge it.

Women need to learn their history, the grim and horrifying reality of it. The truth of our existence under patriarchy. If we don't seek out this truth, then history is doomed to repeat.

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[rainbowsnviolets-deactivated202]

Mind you these men are saying these things while showing their faces. Now imagine what those are saying who do not show their faces. Actually you don’t have to imagine that, you can look at https://dieunsichtbarenmaenner.wordpress.com/menu/

[femclasscirce]

It's missing 2 of the men in Bettina Flitner's photo series. Here they are:

"I first went to a brothel at 17. The chicks are clever, there's no chatter. I was in a relationship for 4 years but it always comes out. Now I'm making an Internet platform for sex buyer alibis: accidents, hospital - everything's possible." - Ralf, 28, computer scientist, single

"I've been happily married for 50 years. But my wife, she's very different, a good catholic... The chicks are nice and clean. I meet business friends here, so you can talk about internal stuff in the steam room." - Rudi, 73, businessman, married, 1 daughter.

These men were all interviewed in the Paradise brothel in Stuttgart, a place that has since shut down because its owner, Jürgen Rudloff, has been jailed for sex trafficking.

[germananon]

Here's Bettina Flitner's page with the original, and also her series with women in prostitution. I don't like that the women are photographed in underwear too, but the quotes are worth reading.

[ultrafacts]

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[outlaw-monarch]

“A Female Reporter”

NELLIE BLY. HER NAME IS NELLIE BLY.

You know what else she did??

Saved a ton of mental hospital patients from persistent & sickening abuse. She went in undercover, and the doctors, nurses, orderlies, etc trrated her like all the others. They essentially said ‘Who cares if you don’t like hiw we treat you? No one will ever hear you or believe you!’

Wanna bet? said Nellie Bly

“Behind Asylum Bars:” Nellie Bly Reporting from Blackwell’s Island. | Headlines and Heroes

“Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell’s Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.” In 1887, investigative journalist for

Nellie was a fucking hero. You put some respect on Nellie Bly’s name.

“A Female Reporter” my ass

[grungyradfem]

Mia Farrow in The Public Eye, 1972.

[hot-peanutbutter-chicken-ramen]

Extremely based.

[freckledscum-deactivated2023071]

People don't actively think rape is inhumane. But if you suggest a punishment that fits the crime like she does in the video suddenly you're the inhumane one

[discyours]

People who believe that small children are proof that gender roles are natural are really on a whole other level.

A young child, using words she learned purely by mimicking the way others speak: I want to be a mommy when I grow up.

Y’all absolute Mensa candidates: Wow. This child is a blank slate. Completely unaffected by society. Guess lady-brains truly are the only explanation here, science deniers. 

[discyours]

Babies cry with an accent within a day of being born, and can even observe sounds while they’re still in the womb. There’s no stage of life where people aren’t already affected by socialisation, everyone who believes that nature can truly be separated from nurture is naive as fuck. 

[evvergreen]

people have conflated female physical beauty with morality so much it's disturbing. "this is how you age when you're unproblematic" "it's disrespectful to say mary, mother of jesus, wasn't a barbie doll"

like there's nothing disrespectful or immoral or problematic about a woman looking like a woman. you're insane.

[basicbabe]

Tumblr banning porn really saved this website. Made it a public square for the girls to chat like philosophers. Girlblogger ideas only.

[bingobongosbaking-deactivated20]

crazy how the sexual revolution was founded by creeps who woulda thought

[correctopinionhaver]

[geeses]

reblog to diminish the horrors from the person you reblogged from

[strugglebot]

Thinking about multi-modality and facial expressions as a mode of communication and how our society is taking that away from women. How can we ever communicate the entirety of how we feel if we are freezing our faces. How can we ever be received if the delivery of our message is stunted. The popularity of Botox and fillers sending the message to women and girls that it is more important to be beautiful and frozen in time than to express how you feel, and ultimately than to have any feelings or visible displays of emotion at all. I wonder who this kind of new age lobotomy and placidity benefits.

[bogleech]

"you only deserve food and shelter if you contribute to society" says people living in countries where nobody's labor actually feeds or benefits their neighbors anymore but exclusively benefits the companies keeping the food and shelter behind the artificial paywalls

You're not nomads relying on each other to hunt and gather anymore, you're talking about stocking shelves for fucking wal marts

And even the oldest societies on earth all took care of the elderly or sick anyway

[caroline-vibecheck]

dudes will be like "if you don't Contribute To Society you don't get to live, that's the simple facts" meanwhile their job is like Marketing and Brand Development Specialist

[theviscosity]

I hate you “sorry I look so gross I didn’t put on makeup before recording” I hate you digital fake lashes on every video of every woman on my fyp I hate you “natural glamor” I hate you “am I deer pretty or cat pretty” I hate you filters that shrink your nose I hate you filters that lighten your skin I hate you 12 step “no makeup” makeup routines I hate you sponsored posts and paid partnerships I hate you impossible beauty standards fueled by AND fueling capitalism I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you

[madeline-kahn]

Dancing in Film: Pearl (2022) dir. Ti West

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PEARL (2022) dir.Ti West

[pumpumdemsugah]

The intolerance online young women have towards depictions of female competence, independence or ambition as #girlboss and pretending this sneering is criticism of oppression and anti-capitalism...you're just a misogynist that's probably embarrassed by their life and current accomplishments

That young woman with a nice 9 to 5 isn't Elon Musk. Her work gives her free croissants and fruit not stocks in Shell or a butler.

Direct that stupidity elsewhere because they do not try this with similar men or powerful men. Why are so many online women uncomfortable with women having decent jobs ? Insanity. Horizontal hostility. Most 9 to 5 aren't at raytheon, she does spreadsheets for some no-name business.

So many people are so odd about office jobs.

[kiefbowl]

I wanna get with feminism but i'm only 22 and it's hard to imagine having anything in common with women older than me 😭😭 Like every woman older than 35 is always miserable and mean-spirited wtf how are you supposed to find community with ppl like that??

I don’t even know how to answer this. Like I want to be encouraging to you but I find this really demeaning and insulting. you have those thoughts because you’ve been conditioned to hate women and perceive women as bitches and nags and to by hyper vigilant observer of women’s flaws. you’ll have to start with yourself because age 35 is coming for you whether you like it or not

[ijime-hime]

In “Hags: the Demonization of Middle-Aged Women,” Victoria Smith addresses how patriarchy encourages intergenerational disconnect between women as a means of oppressing us.

“…the demonisation of older women affects all women. It interrupts the passing down of knowledge and undermines the foundations of a consistent, inclusive feminist politics, one that reaches across the divisions constructed by our complex allegiances to the men of our own culture and class. Younger women are being disadvantaged by the relationships they will not form and the stories they will not hear.

‘The generation gap,’ wrote Audre Lorde, ‘is an important tool for any repressive society [.. .] We find ourselves having to repeat and relearn the same old lessons over and over that our mothers did because we do not pass on what we have learned, or because we are unable to listen.’ There are vast bodies of feminist scholarship in economics, politics, literary studies, philosophy, science and history, and countless models for revolutionary activism, which women either do not know about or are taught to dismiss because they are the work of woman past, and woman past does not count. This harms all of us.”