Femaleness is not a design flaw

30s bi radical feminist from the UK. Please read my about before following. Hateful and spam asks will be blocked.

[horsewheelie]

[vintage-bentley]

This whole debate regarding the woman who got an abortion after learning the baby would have Down Syndrome is ignoring one crucial element: the woman. I’m seeing so much commentary on people with Down Syndrome, how they’re happy and have wonderful fulfilling lives. And that’s great! But a woman should not be forced to carry a pregnancy and give birth if she doesn’t want to. I don’t care how morally concerning her reasons are. Educating on disabilities to ensure that women are fully informed before making a decision on whether to continue a pregnancy is amazing…but it needs to be done without shaming her for choosing to abort.

[rad-fem-junk-drawer]

I like media about loser women, I love anything about cringey, outcast, misfit, weird, gender nonconforming women, I love stories about feminine rage, I love stories about women who are fish out of water, I love problematic, controversial, unlikeable, undesirable women, I love women who don't fit the mold, I like vulnerable, thought provoking, deep conversational, women, I love intellectual women, I love depressed women, I love passionate women, creative women,. I love the less than ordinary women. If I love her, then it's because she's "literally me"

[nem23]

[twinkhole-destroyer]

the weather determines if I’m going to be evil

[thevisualvamp]

Meow

[foldingfittedsheets]

Oh to be a little orange cat curled up safely in a dragons tail.

[goth-queen]

[cinemasavage]

Whores’ Glory (Dir. Michael Glawogger, 2011)

[niqabisinparis]

I remember watching this documentary (twice, actually) and sobbing uncontrollably. This scene really hit me because she let these words out reluctantly. She was silent and then said “wait, I have something to say.” We often forget that not everybody is just “accustomed” to their circumstances and that some people are just “built” to endure these hardships. They too suffer and they too want a way out.

[a-room-of-my-own]

Random thought but if you ever think about doing Botox, have you ever seen the legs of someone who is paralyzed ? They’re extremely thin, because when you don’t use a muscle, it atrophies.

If you’ve ever broken a bone you may also know that it happens pretty fast, and also that your tendons shrink from not being used. That’s also why after a fracture you need to do physical therapy to get your joints to work painlessly.

Now if you paralyze your face muscles with a toxin they will also atrophy. What it will do is that you will progressively look gaunt and it will not be due to aging. But your surgeon will say it is and then will offer fillers.

Also, your bone density is also determined by how strongly your muscles work. If you paralyze your muscles your bones also grow thinner over time.

Finally, there’s a theory about facial expressions having an influence on the brain. It’s not only your emotions creating facial expressions, it’s also facial expressions creating some kind of feedback. If you paralyze your face, you may also diminish your ability to feel certain emotions.

So basically : don’t do it.

The way your skin ages is mostly genetic. If you want to age slowly there’s a few things you can do : sleep enough, protect yourself from the sun, keep smoking and drinking to a minimum.

[thentheysaidburnher]

If you live long enough to age, it'll happen whether you attempt to delay it or not. Might as well greet age with love from the beginning than try to reconcile it after years of harm.

[mi1f]

[rohie-deactivated20191102]

margaret atwood was right

[spearmint-milkshake]

The rest of the article is worse, including pearls of wisdom such as:

“my ob-gyn advised me to schedule an induced labor, which helps to kick-start contractions … That gave me about five days to obsess over my beauty routine and what to pack in my hospital bag. And obsess I did. First matter of business: book a manicure and pedicure. If you have a scheduled birth like I did, a prehospital mani/pedi is important on so many levels. My freshly painted nails helped me feel put-together and polished”

“If you’re not having a scheduled birth, make sure your nails are always done and keep your preferred polish in your hospital bag in case you need a quick touch-up.” (because nail polish fumes are great for a newborn baby, right?)

“I did a quick blow-dry and started to feel light cramps in my stomach. I had a feeling the contractions were about to start, but I powered through and did my makeup the same way I do it every day.”

“After getting an epidural, I wasn’t really thinking about my beauty routine anymore.” GEE, I WONDER WHY

[bitter-badfem-harpy]

This is so appalling why are women forced to do this like you’re going to shit yrself in front of a room full of medical professionals your entire body is going to be bruised from pushing a human out of your vagina. Why must we be pressured to perform femininity during labor. No one cares about your face everyone is paying way more attention to your vulva, which is stretching to accommodate at least six pounds of person sliding out of your uterus…!

Who broke these women

[watermelinoe]

but this is innate :) there’s no outside pressure on women to be beautiful no matter what :) it’s her choice :) :) :) if it makes her feel good it’s empowering :)) i’ve given thousands of dollars to sephora

[mithliya]

this is fucking terrifying to me. you’re giving birth! how pretty you look doesn’t matter! women shit themselves giving birth, your doctors aren’t gonna care that you don’t have eyeliner on while pushing an infant out ur vagina omg

[whatthefuuuuuuccckkkk]

Not to mention this is dangerous. You’re not supposed to wear makeup or dark nail polish because they wont be able to check your vitals correctly. The oxygen readers dont work with dark nails. The doctors wont be able to see if you’re turning blue if you got foundation caked on covering it. You arent allowed to wear makeup or have dark nails for any surgery, why the fuck is it allowed during labor?

[eathotchip-deactivated20240816]

are u mad at me moodboard

[brandonlees]

SLEEPING BEAUTY 1959, dir. Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman, Les Clark

[groupthinker]

something to consider

[omghotmemes]

This is the picture Amazon sent my BIL to say the packages were “delivered to a family member directly”

[red-twist]

You just know his ass is saying roo roo

[sincerely-aaliyah]

sorry, people complaining about certain laws having to do with banning fictional pedophilia or incest is SO unserious to me. yall sound SO dumb it’s not even funny anymore.

“NOOOOO!!!! this is SCARY. my INCEST PORN is BANNED in the UK. WHAT THE FUCK. this is FACISM. this is ZIONISM. fight for OUR RIGHT to have PEDOPHILIA RAPE FICTION! this is NOT something to excuse!!!!!!1!!1!1!1!1!1!”

[gatekeeper-of-witchcraft]

ever since I was a little girl I always knew I had problems with authority and wanted to be disobedient and difficult to manipulate

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