theendlessjoys

19. 4B. Febfem female separatist.

[claudias-diaries]

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[claudias-diaries]

Black radfems and ex Muslim radfems PLS interact

[dailyflicks]

101 DALMATIANS (1996) Dir. Stephen Herek

[vvargamora]

the AI bros are always trying to install in us this fear of falling behind and being abandoned by society if we won't start using AI, and let me just say - men have been telling me I'll "end up alone with seven cats if I don't give them a chance" for AGES. I can smell the barely hidden desperation underneath that axe body spray like a shark, and boy am I about to make you cry from frustration

[atwoodsfemalefantasy]

no one else believes me, but i SWEAR The Giving Tree is misogynistic propaganda. you're telling me a female described tree loves a boy so much she gives him everything. and the little boy asks for everything she has, and she gives it all until she has nothing left. and the boy is never grateful until the very end when the tree is just a stump, and even then the boy sees nothing wrong with what he's done. and this is a message we're supposed to read to children????? that men can take and take and take from women until we have nothing left and it's somehow wholesome?

i remember being read The Giving Tree as a little girl. i remember the little boys thinking it was a great story, while me and my friends, all girls, were left shocked. we had expected some message at the end about how taking and taking from someone while giving nothing in return is wrong. it was like pages had been ripped from the book. the little boys saw nothing wrong, but we understood that the book was saying we were supposed to give and give and give until we had nothing left, and it was a happy ending. because the boy got everything he could ever want, and the tree got the boys attention for an hour or two.

The Giving Tree should really have been called The Taking Boy. i still can't believe we read this to children.

[marbleguard]

this post has unearthed a deep forgotten memory of having this book read to me by my mother as a very young child, and crying inconsolably at the end of it. Like you say, I think because the story feels like it's missing a part where the tree receives some mutual care in return, and you wait and wait as the pages turn for this to happen, but it just never does, and the tree essentially dies as it watches the boy (now and old man) teach his grandson to plant a new tree... presumably to exploit in the same way.

I remember my mother telling me "Why are you crying? The tree was happy! It's a story about love. The tree gave itself because it loved the boy," and not knowing how to articulate what upset me so deeply about the book. It may sound dramatic to say but I felt deeply scarred by this book just from the few times it was read to me, and I think that's because even if we cannot put it into words at that age, even very small female children have some sort of subconscious awareness the book is about their mothers, and by extension about our own future as women, and about the unfairness and cruelty we will experience which will be treated as a virtuous expectation.

[atwoodsfemalefantasy]

i want to bounce off this reblog because it's so great and i also thought of another point i didn't touch totally on in the OG post that relates to this response :)

i remember, as a little girl, hearing all these stories about "sacrifice". "she sacrificed everything for me, she's the best mom" or "my mom sacrificed her whole life to help me" or even our own mothers saying that "love is sacrifice" and how she was happy to give up her dreams or goals because she loved her husband and her kids. The Giving Tree is about our mothers that gave everything to this world, to their husbands, to their children, and it's called love. it's romanticized. it feels like the best thing a woman can be is someone who gives everything up, sacrifices everything, until she's not even a real person but a driving force in someone else's life. we watched our moms in relationships where she gave and gave for so little in return, and called it love. kids pick up on that, especially daughters. The Giving Tree is our mothers.

[marbleguard]

What you describe is something I have noticed over and over in TV and documentary interviews where adult children are asked to speak about their mothers. Both men and women will mention appreciating how their mothers sacrificed for them, but almost without fail, this will be the only thing the men have to say about who their mothers were. Women will often speak about her sense of humor, her style, her favorite hobbies, her talents unrelated to care-giving, but the men almost never mention a single thing about their mothers aside from what she did for them. To them, their mother's greatest achievement is having given up everything to make them a successful man.

In the male mind, women are not their own people with their own lives, but vessels that carry and sacrifice to make and support the people with actual lives... men.

[claudias-diaries]

Hello sisters!

I haven’t posted on here in a while.

Please deconstruct racism as well.

It’s okay to despise the patriarchy.

But if you’re not self reflecting on the beliefs you carry that perpetuate harm, any capitalist, racist beliefs or ideas, it’s not enough.

You benefit from white supremacy. Deconstruct it.

Sincerely, a black ex Muslim immigrant woman.

[claudias-diaries]

Hi everyone! Sorry I haven’t been posting for a while.

I finally moved to a western country, I think my followers know that haha. It’s been great, walking around without my hijab, with jeans, relaxing, being able to creatively express myself through my clothes more and more.

[originalitysquared]

Love when people read through my sad gurl posts and try to insult me with them.

Yeah, I have a deep sadness within me that never leaves

[philosophybits]

“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

[claudias-diaries]

Real

[ratqueen40]

Why the fuck do bikinis exist for little girls and girls who are barely teens? You wouldn’t put a twelve year old boy or toddler boy in a bikini, so why tf do we do that to little girls? This isn’t normal, it’s normalizing the sexualization of young girls.

[shaunaisrad-deactivated20251002]

The girls are waking up

[claudias-diaries]

I wish I had a death note

[claudias-diaries]

Everytime something goes wrong it’s always a man’s fault

[claudias-diaries]

I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men. I wish there were women only public transport. Why do men exist

[i-think-therefore-i-radfem-deac]

i hate how normalised fake nails or even just painting your nails with harmful chemicals and procedures is

also, the way it literally destroys your nails too?!

it fucking scares me whenever i see nail videos show up and the woman’s natural nails literally look so fucking deformed and terrifying - and, this is COMPLETELY normalised and accepted?!

also, not to mention all the bacteria that builds up underneath those things, the potential infections, the way it literally disables women because they can’t do basic tasks like type on a keyboard or write with a pen or wipe their ass in the same way

it’s a humiliation ritual, truly

[claudias-diaries]

The vibe of a girls only hangout

[claudias-diaries]

Studying criminology rn. Everythingpissing me off