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@clittromney-refs

Radfem sideblog. 26 . Canada

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Exhibit 569

are we gonna do this “actually Amber Heard was the abuser” shit every two months until we die like is that it

what do you all gain from defending a 55 year old man who was getting drunk and assaulting people in public even before Amber Heard was born? Depp is not only a violent asshole but also a creep who dated Winona Ryder when she was 17 and he was 26 and then Kate Moss when she was 20 and he was 31. Do you dumbasses really think if there was substantial proof of alleged abuse Amber Heard perpetuated Depp’s lawyers wouldn’t have used it to avoid paying a 7 million dollar alimony? (all of which Heard donated to charity by the way) Johnny Depp is near bankruptcy and he is trying to get his money back and you dumbass woke genzennials are helping him in his smearing campaign for free

since this post is still going around i’m gonna leave this aricle here because it debunks all the allegations made by depp and his lawyers and provides sources so you can stop coming to my inbox telling me about the ways johnny depp was totally abused

Even aside from Depp’s long history of bad behavior, I’m inclined to side with the person who didn’t send texts like:

“Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will f–k her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she is dead.”

So yeah, Johnny Depp can piss off and die.

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/02/johnny-depp-lawsuits-text-messages

#ref #johnny depp #I need to do more research to decide on whether amber is also an abuser but Johnny is def not the innocent victim

the-real-ted-cruz

This is not going to be a fun post. If you are sensitive to graphic descriptions of violence and rape, here is your warning. Also a warning for suicide and self harm mentions.

I know I am probably going to get hate for this post, but I honestly really don’t care. The porn industry is horribly messed up, and the thought of people continuing to watch pornographic videos of girls being assaulted makes me pretty pissed off. I know people are going to argue, “oh, but it’s consensual. The women WANT to be there,” and I could go on about how that’s just blatantly incorrect, but instead, here are some testimonies of a few women who were/are in the porn industry:

EVA ANGELINA: “My pussy was so swollen, it was unbelievable. And the next day, I was obligated to work for Cherry Boxxx. And that f—ed me up even more. Working three scenes after having been so injured f—– me up. For a good six months, I wasn’t normal. My pussy wasn’t normal until a couple of months ago. It just sucks.”

MICHELLE AVANTI “Some of my experiences on the porn set include me being totally wasted and porn producers allowed me to be and even provided alcohol and drugs for me. I experienced rough sex scenes and have been hit by male talent and told them to stop but they wouldn’t stop until I started to cry and ruined the scene. During one specific scene called “Bukkake” I was really high and the producers knew it and they told me to use a Douche to pretend I was urinating on another performer but I had an accident and instead I defecated on the performer. I was so humiliated and wanted to die. They told me it was okay and not to worry that they weren’t going to make a big deal about it and the next thing I know they blasted the scene all over the web. I felt totally degraded.”

MAHLIA MILIAN “My worst day was when I was forced to use a sponge to do a scene because it was already booked and my monthly came early I had never did anything like this. The sponge was pushed so far and got stuck that I had to be taken into the hospital because I had caught a infection and they had to open me up to remove the sponge. I wasn’t able to work for a few weeks and the agent stole two of my checks to replace the money he didn’t get from me leaving me broke and without food.”

EMILY EVE “I shot scenes where I had to pretend to be dead and let someone rape my dead body. I came home bruised and sometimes a little bloody from the rough scenes. I shot deep throat scenes where they slapped me and spit on me and called me horrible things. I threw up, and had to keep shooting.. I couldn’t breathe because of the vomit in my nose and the genitals in my mouth.”

REGAN STARR “I got the shit kicked out of me… most of the girls start crying because they’re hurting so bad… I couldn’t breathe. I was being hit and choked. I was really upset and they didn’t stop. They kept filming. [I asked them to turn the camera off] and they kept going.“

CORINA TAYLOR “When I arrived to the set I expected to do a vaginal girl boy scene. But during the scene with a male porn star, he forced himself anally into me and would not stop. I yelled at him to stop and screamed ‘No’ over and over but he would not stop. The pain became too much and I was in shock and my body went limp.”

JERSEY JAXIN “Guys punching you in the face. You have semen from many guys all over your face, in your eyes. You get ripped. Your insides can come out of you. It’s never ending.” - Jersey Jaxin

ELIZABETH ROLLINGS “I didn’t want to feel the pain of penetration from an over average sized man, being told to freeze in a position until the camera man was happy with his shots was very painful. I had peoples body fluids forced on my face or anywhere else the producer pleased and I had to accept it or else no pay. Sometimes you would get to a gig and the producer would change what the scene was supposed to be to something more intense and again if you didn’t like it, too bad, you did it or no pay.”

GENEVIEVE “I had bodily fluids all over my face that had to stay on my face for ten minutes. The abuse and degradation was rough. I sweated and was in deep pain. On top of the horrifying experience, my whole body ached, and I was irritable the whole day. The director didn’t really care how I felt; he only wanted to finish the video.”

JENNA JAMESON “Most girls get their first experience in gonzo films – in which they’re taken to a crappy studio apartment in Mission Hills and penetrated in every hole possible by some abusive asshole who thinks her name is Bitch. And these girls, some of whom have the potential to become major stars in the industry, go home afterward and pledge never to do it again because it was such a terrible experience.”

ROXY “After only 30 movies I caught two sexually transmitted diseases. Herpes, a non-curable disease and HPV, which led to cervical cancer where I had to have half of my cervix removed. Porn destroyed my life.”

DANIELLE WILLIAMS “A female porm star that’d been in the industry for a while had excessive anal intercourse and a piece of her muscle from her anus fell out on set while she was filming. Some females damaged their reproductive systems which left them unable to have children. A male porn star broke the muscle in his penis because he was having abnormal and outragous rough sex. I found that a male porn star who was in the business for a while was a devil worshipper. Both male and female porn stars were committing suicide. A lot of the porn stars were known to go overseas and do beastiality in porn. (Sleeping with animals.) Shortly after that, a numerous amount of people starting turning up with diseases, Herpes to be exact.”

ALEX DEVINE “Donkey Punch was the most brutal, depressing, scary scene that I have ever done. I have tried to block it out from my memory due to the severe abuse I recieved during the filming. The guy, Steve French has a natural hatred towards women in the sense that he has always been known to be more brutal than EVER needed. I agreed to do the scene thinking it was less beating, except the ‘punch’ in the head. If you noticed, steve had worn his solid gold ring the entire time, and continued to punch me with it. I actually stopped the scene while it was being filmed because I was in too much pain.”

JESSI SUMMERS “I did gonzo porn to start out and it was the most degrading, embarrassing, horrible thing ever! I had to shoot an interactive DVD which takes hours and hours of shooting time with a 104 degree fever! I was crying and wanted to leave but my agent wouldn’t let me he said he couldn’t let me flake on it. I also did a scene where I was put with male talent that was on my no list. I wanted to please them so I did it. He put his foot on my head and stepped on it while he was doing me from behind. I freaked out and started balling; they stopped filming and sent me home with reduced pay since they got some shot but not the whole scene.”

ERICA CAMPBELL “Being in the world of adult modeling I see A LOT of pain….A LOT of heart break. SO many lost girls get into this business just for some extra money….to help pay for school….to help support themselves or even their children as single moms. “It’s just temporary”. They are only going to do this for a while…just a few shoots. I too started out to make some extra money to help me finish school. Almost ALL of the time It doesn’t end where you think it will…..the path goes on……the hole gets deeper….and the road gets darker. MOST of the time the girls don’t even realize it. One day you see this bright beautiful girl shooting tame nudes…the next they are signing on the dotted line of a hard-core porn company. Lost. Broken. Alone.“

CRISSY MORAN “I went through more heartbreaks and became suicidal. I was taken to the hospital for panic attacks. I tried to overdose on xanax, strangle myself, and cut my wrists but not nearly deep enough. I was too scared of the pain. I prayed God would just take me away! I felt helpless. I even went to church for a few months but the guilt I felt was overwhelming that I would feel as if I were choking when I was at church. I had to choose and once again I chose to continue sinning. It was easier and I needed the money.”

TIANA LYNN “I tried porn a year-and-a-half ago for three weeks. They [my agent DK] booked me for everything I didn’t want to do. I was in the hospital three times. Allergic to lube. Being pounded too hard. My cervix closed up. My ass got torn up.”

ERIN MOORE “Over the course of my porn career I have been belittled and treated like a piece of trash more than I could have ever imagined in a lifetime I would. I wasn’t a woman in any of these directors eyes, I was nothing to them. The male talent at times were nice, but sometimes, they were horrible. I’ve had men choke me, slap me, thrust me so hard until I couldn’t walk and this would happen even after I would tell them to stop. They have no respect for women.”

Can we stop pretending that what goes on in porn is fake? That the women in the scenes are happy to be there? That it’s consensual? Can we stop pretending now?

#ref #Jesus fucking Christ

Men are more related to male chimpanzees than human females.

we been knew

loatheeverythingmale

well that explains some things

tfw living in a world of copy machines seeking equality with little slips of paper, each a little more degraded than the last

Copy machines from the perspective of men, anyways.

Females can differ from each other almost as much as they do from males in the behavior of many genes at the heart of sexual identity, researchers said.

“Literally every one of the females we looked at had a different genetic story,” said Duke University genetics expert Huntington Willard, who co-wrote the study. “It is not just a little bit of variation.”

[...]

All told, men and women may differ by as much as 2% of their entire genetic inheritance, greater than the hereditary gap between humankind and its closest relative -- the chimpanzee.

“In essence,” Willard said, “there is not one human genome, but two -- male and female.”

[...]

Until now, researchers considered the shuffle of sex chromosomes at conception a simple matter of genetic roulette.

The chromosomes that dictate sexual development are mixed and matched in predictable combinations: A female inherits one X chromosome from each parent; a male inherits an X chromosome from his mother and a Y chromosome from his father.

To avoid any toxic effect from double sets of X genes, female cells randomly choose one copy of the X chromosome and silence it -- or so scientists had believed.

The new analysis found that the second X chromosome was not a silent partner. As many as 25% of its genes are active, serving as blueprints to make necessary proteins.

To investigate this variation, Carrel and Willard isolated cells from 40 women and measured the activity of hundreds of genes to see whether those on the second X chromosome were active or silent.

Although those extra genes were supposed to be turned off, they found that about 15% of them in all female cells were still active, or in the terminology of genetics, “expressed.” In some women, up to an additional 10% of those X-linked genes showed varying patterns of activity.

“This is 200 to 300 genes that are expressed up to twice as much as in a male or some other females,” Willard said. “This is a huge number.”

Researchers were surprised that they found so many unexpected differences in the behavior of the one sex chromosome that men and women share.

Though there is dramatic variation in the activation of genes on the X chromosomes that women inherit, there is none among those in men, the researchers reported.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-17-sci-xchromosome17-story.html

Just one of the many reasons to stop worrying about men. As above so below, micro is macro, etc. Pay attention and you’ll see the way this echoes throughout society, culture, etc.

If we’ve tried it with men once, we’ve tried it with men a thousand times. Observe the result, and move on.

You all know the saying about insanity? About trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results? Nevermind being the same thing over and over.

It’s in working with women, for women, among women, to women[’s goals], from women[’s perspective], etc. that you will have a chance for something besides action, reaction, reaction, reaction. A chance for real experimentation, creativity, novelty, ingenuity, growth, etc.

Try, for a litte bit, to stop fussing about men. You don’t even have to fuss about other women, you can start with just yourself.

You can always get back to men later. They’ll still be there, same as ever.

@finnishrogueradfem also provided some exceptional comments on this post as well, very much worth reading

https://finnishrogueradfem.tumblr.com/post/625805115904966656/it-works-the-other-way-around-too-though-human

#ref #biological sex

aragonite-slasher

Why there is so much hate on straight people… Like, dang

I get that LGBT+ people also get hate but don’t be a hypocrites

Let’s just don’t be an assholes to each other

Straights must die

diarrheaworldstarhiphop

Maybe it’s from the

*adjusts microphone*

MEDIA

that ceaselessly portray family as this post-simpsonian hell where frumpy, stupid but endearing husband dreads the wife and the wife is just a neurotic nag bag

maybe-someday-eventually

lesbians be like *70% of us commit domestic abuse* haha i love my partner

gender-has-failed-us

@tug-of-war-intestines @jlongbone @nekocourse @ringtailrodeo every other dumbass gleefully reblogging that addition without a moment’s thought.

let’s start with a quick exercise in critical thinking:

1. men constitute 70-90+ of all violent crime perpetrators- murder, rape, domestic violence, robbery, assault -according to FBI crime statistics. why would lesbian women suddenly be more violent than men in intimate settings? doesn’t that just seem odd, considering women have a statistically considerably smaller risk for violence?

maybe it’s more likely that you’re parroting incorrect assumptions through a warped game of telephone, since none of you seem particularly inclined to source anything. besides the inclination to automatically assume lesbian women are violent predators, of course.

2. so here’s a source: the Williams Institute in conjunction with the UCLA. according to their report, of the dozens studies on intimate partner violence experienced by lesbian and bisexual women, the highest number was in the mid 50%. pretty much all of them put the number between 5-40%. where’d 70% come from?

3. also, this particular analysis goes a little bit more in detail about the cause of the intimate partner violence lesbian and bisexual women are reporting.

89.5% of bisexual women reported only male perpetrators of intimate partner violence, rape, and/or stalking.

almost a third of lesbian women who have experienced such incidents have had one or more male perpetrators.

hm. how interesting. i’m shocked, truly.

it’s almost as though the studies in questions generally don’t separate IPV caused by past male partners with female partners. not to mention lesbian and bisexual women are more likely to be abused by male partners on the basis of their sexual orientation, making up for a large part of the discrepancy in IPV numbers.

so tell me, what do you think is more likely:

lesbian women are, against all pre-existing statistics, suddenly more inclined to violence than men

you all are spreading misinformation pulled from numbers including male violence against lesbian and bisexual women

that said, how about you collection of willful idiots give me some sources as reputable as mine and i’ll think about it. or better yet, explain to me why women would suddenly become more violent than men because they like pussy.

They’re STILL intentionally reading that study wrong. It its amazing how many subsectors of the population just detest the fuck out of lesbians

stuck-in-a-well

God I hate that study, seen people use it as source for their lesbophobic beliefs both online and irl

Truth is, the reason people believe it so easily is comfirmation bias, and that’s… very depressing to think about

sappho-the-witch

I love how they think that calling lesbians abusive monsters is somehow like…hot tea

notice when they reference that study it’s never lesbians are more likely to be victims of domestic violence, it’s always used to say lesbians are more likely to be abusers. as always, no one gives a single shit about lesbians and they take every opportunity they can to portray us as violent, perverted man-women

gendieschickentendies

I love how women are disproportionately murdered by their male partners/men in their personal lives and yet when you bring that up and the issues that often lead to those murders its “THATS NOT MOST MEN DONT JUDGE US ALL YOU PARANOID HARPIES WAH” as well, yet they then pull this shit.

#ref #domestic violence

aragonite-slasher

Why there is so much hate on straight people… Like, dang

I get that LGBT+ people also get hate but don’t be a hypocrites

Let’s just don’t be an assholes to each other

Straights must die

diarrheaworldstarhiphop

Maybe it’s from the

*adjusts microphone*

MEDIA

that ceaselessly portray family as this post-simpsonian hell where frumpy, stupid but endearing husband dreads the wife and the wife is just a neurotic nag bag

maybe-someday-eventually

lesbians be like *70% of us commit domestic abuse* haha i love my partner

gender-has-failed-us

@tug-of-war-intestines @jlongbone @nekocourse @ringtailrodeo every other dumbass gleefully reblogging that addition without a moment’s thought.

let’s start with a quick exercise in critical thinking:

1. men constitute 70-90+ of all violent crime perpetrators- murder, rape, domestic violence, robbery, assault -according to FBI crime statistics. why would lesbian women suddenly be more violent than men in intimate settings? doesn’t that just seem odd, considering women have a statistically considerably smaller risk for violence?

maybe it’s more likely that you’re parroting incorrect assumptions through a warped game of telephone, since none of you seem particularly inclined to source anything. besides the inclination to automatically assume lesbian women are violent predators, of course.

2. so here’s a source: the Williams Institute in conjunction with the UCLA. according to their report, of the dozens studies on intimate partner violence experienced by lesbian and bisexual women, the highest number was in the mid 50%. pretty much all of them put the number between 5-40%. where’d 70% come from?

3. also, this particular analysis goes a little bit more in detail about the cause of the intimate partner violence lesbian and bisexual women are reporting.

89.5% of bisexual women reported only male perpetrators of intimate partner violence, rape, and/or stalking.

almost a third of lesbian women who have experienced such incidents have had one or more male perpetrators.

hm. how interesting. i’m shocked, truly.

it’s almost as though the studies in questions generally don’t separate IPV caused by past male partners with female partners. not to mention lesbian and bisexual women are more likely to be abused by male partners on the basis of their sexual orientation, making up for a large part of the discrepancy in IPV numbers.

so tell me, what do you think is more likely:

lesbian women are, against all pre-existing statistics, suddenly more inclined to violence than men

you all are spreading misinformation pulled from numbers including male violence against lesbian and bisexual women

that said, how about you collection of willful idiots give me some sources as reputable as mine and i’ll think about it. or better yet, explain to me why women would suddenly become more violent than men because they like pussy.

They’re STILL intentionally reading that study wrong. It its amazing how many subsectors of the population just detest the fuck out of lesbians

stuck-in-a-well

God I hate that study, seen people use it as source for their lesbophobic beliefs both online and irl

Truth is, the reason people believe it so easily is comfirmation bias, and that’s… very depressing to think about

sappho-the-witch

I love how they think that calling lesbians abusive monsters is somehow like…hot tea

notice when they reference that study it’s never lesbians are more likely to be victims of domestic violence, it’s always used to say lesbians are more likely to be abusers. as always, no one gives a single shit about lesbians and they take every opportunity they can to portray us as violent, perverted man-women

gendieschickentendies

I love how women are disproportionately murdered by their male partners/men in their personal lives and yet when you bring that up and the issues that often lead to those murders its “THATS NOT MOST MEN DONT JUDGE US ALL YOU PARANOID HARPIES WAH” as well, yet they then pull this shit.

#ref #domestic violence

Hi! I’m writing a paper on prostitution (I’m in favour of the Nordic model) but my professor told me I should focus more on the POV of the sex workers themselves. Do you have any suggestions on how to do that - are there any good resources from (ex)sex-workers who are anti-prostitution? I’m struggling a bit; I can find things from sex workers who are pro, but not so much a radfem perspective.

Ex-sex worker Rachel Lloyd’s NYT article about how legalizing sex work leads to higher rates of trafficking

Prostitution research that features many statements from ex-prostituted women

Research the European Parliament did over Sexual exploitation and prostitution and its impact on gender equality

“Prostitution is not a job. The inside of a woman’s body is not a workplace” by Julie Bindel, founder of Justice for Women

Kat Lee, former sex-worker, discussing her time in the industry and the harm she saw

Prostitution in Five Countries: Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, interviews collected from prostitutes, (92% report wanting to leave the industry)

“My work as a prostitute led me to oppose decriminalisation” published in the BBC

Interviews with prostituted individuals in New Zealand reveal that a majority of prostituted people in the country did not feel as if decriminalization had curbed the violence they experience, demonstrating that prostitution is inherently violent and abusive

One study of prostituted women in San Francisco massage parlors found that 62% had been beaten by customers

The “workplace” homicide rate among prostituted women in Colorado is seven times higher than what it was in the most dangerous occupation for men

An investigation commissioned by the European Parliament found that in countries with legal prostitution, such as Austria, “the effect of regulation can be a massive increase in migrant prostitution and an indirect support to the spreading of the illegal market in the sex industry.”

After New Zealand decriminalized prostitution in 2003, there were still reports among prostituted persons of “continuing stigma” and “harassment by the general public.” In addition, there was little difference in disclosure of occupation to healthcare professionals before and after decriminalization.

One study with data from 150 countries found that those with “legalized prostitution experience a larger reported incidence of trafficking inflows.”

A large-scale evaluation of the legalization of prostitution in the Netherlands, coordinated by the Ministry of Justice, found that licensed brothels did not welcome frequent regulatory inspections. This undermines their willingness “to adhere to the rules and complicates the combat against trafficking in human beings.”

New Zealand’s Prostitution Law Review Committee found that a majority of prostituted persons felt that the decriminalization act “could do little about violence that occurred.”

The Committee further reported that abusive brothels did not improve conditions for prostituted individuals; the brothels that “had unfair management practices continued with them” even after the decriminalization.

Evaluations have found that regulation of prostitution creates a façade of legitimacy that hides sexual exploitation, and that brothels can “function as legalized outlets for victims of sex trafficking.”

I have more if you need them :)

#refs #anti sex work

while this elliot page news is really great and cause for celebration, please don’t what’s going on in the uk right now go ignored. the court has essentially banned hormone blockers for under 16′s, and kids who have been on waiting lists for years are having their endicrinology appointments cancelled, and those already on hormone blockers are having their perscriptions withheld. this is after the country’s only private trans healthcare provider being banned a few months ago.

trans people in the uk are really legitimately scared right now, and we need everyone to be loud about it.

there is currently a crowdfunding campaign to fund 2 legal investigations to try and get this appealed.

please share this and donate if you can

Please educate me if im wrong but this seems like a legitimate medical approach? Your endocrinal system is not finished until you hit the end of puberty so it makes more sense to wait until then for a hormonal treatment (unless its life threatening, but i know taking the pill too early can fuck up your growth for example)? Idk, for once, this looks more like a way to protect people from clunky side effects than anything else

transbrotherhood

you realise blockers are not hrt? its literally the opposite. it is not a legitimate medical approach, its highly damaging forcing people to go through the wrong puberty then later have to deal with the effects caused by that when it could easily have been prevented in the first place. blockers are halting puberty and the damage it can cause. they are not harmful and are completely reversible, once stopped puberty would ensue. blockers are effectively useless beyond that age as the damage has already been done. that is the point of it, its just transphobia wrapped in the guise of ‘concern’ and treating them as if they are too stupid to know what they want

why do people think forced puberty is somehow better? it isnt. if you’re cis you dont have to worry about that but when you’re not it can be the most damaging thing to have to go through. not just from the physical side but mentally it can be highly destructive. blockers prevent all of that happening in a safe way until you are either old enough to begin hrt or possibly later realise you dont want hrt and come off it. there is no harm done yet its somehow harmful to want to prevent it and must force puberty? no one has any right to try to control someone elses body. forcing someone to go through (potentially the wrong) puberty by taking away any control they have over it is fucked up and dangerous

from-psych-to-seneca-deactivate

i don’t like posting stuff like this on my main but this post is full of so much information that i feel genuinly upset. (before anyone comes at me, i am transgender and i have extensively studied this subject).

Anyone who knows how hormone blockers works would be skeptical of its use. It functions by inhibiting the pituitary gland. That gland is not only for controlling the release of sex hormones, but is also in charge of multiple hormonal functions throughout the body. blockers are harmful. they are not “reversable.”

Roughly 60% of people who stop taking Lupron do not go back to their baseline estrogen levels after one year of stopping Lupron.

Puberty blockers inhibit normal bone development which often leads to permanent low bone density.

Those who take Lupron often also experience joint paint and symptoms indicative of early arthritis.

Use of Lupron in children is also correlated with a decrease in IQ and impaired cognitive functions such as maintaining long-memory.

Some studies have shown that taking puberty blockers increases suicidal ideation after one year of use.

Other studies have shown that Lupron can cause mood swings, irritability, and depressive symptoms.

The most important piece to mention of that puberty blockers can cause permanent disabling of one’s sex drive. For trans women specifically, if their phallic tissue does develop during puberty, they can end up with non-functioning penises. This is not reversible. For those with genital dysphoria, if the penis never develops, they are unable to have vaginoplasty (Jazz Jennings) without using pieces of the colon.

If you think hormone blockers would be a good choice for you, then go for it. That’s your choice. But we need to stop saying that these medications are not harmful and are reversible. These can cause harm. They do cause harm. And for many bodily functions, these medications are not reversible.

I also encourage you all to read the actual trial notes from the legislation passed in the UK. A young black girl was fighting for blockers to be banned after she experienced irreversible changes to her body from her transitioning experience.

#ref #puberty blockers

cheshireinthemiddle

You guys will do this, then unironically say #killallmen.

Which includes black men. Middle eastern men. Gay men. Men you care about.

opabiniawillreturn-deactivated2

you know that oppressed men can still oppress women right

knight-of-vengeance-deactivated

I’m certain that the homeless man sleeping under a bridge is oppressing the city councilwoman who cut funding for the homeless shelter.

Honestly, do you people ‘people’ actually listen to yourselves? You wouldn’t know oppression if it bit you on your unwashed ass.

drpepper-is-a-woman

Did you forget that men can rape women? Regardless if they are poor, black/white/asian, etc? Like all men pose a threat to women inherently. Get your head out your ass.

knight-of-vengeance-deactivated

Women also rape men. And other women. Domestic violence is an epidemic in lesbian couples. People inherently pose a threat to other people. This isn’t a gendered issue. Get your head of your ass.

drpepper-is-a-woman

Maybe actually look up rape statistics. Men make up over 90% of rapists and women make up over 80% of rape victims. This is absolutely a gendered issue and you can literally fucking google it lmao.

Rape is absolutely not an epidemic in lesbian relationships, I know what source you’re referring to and it’s already been debunked. It said the majority of lesbians reported that they had been victims of sexual assault/intimate partner violence , not that it was committed by their female partners. Some lesbians are raped because of their sexuality, women in general are more likely to be sexually assaulted then men.

Once again, all of this is easily verifiable. You can check RAINN and other government sites. Women don’t rape men at the same rates as men rape women, you have to be fucking joking lmao

Tinfoil hat moment but I swear this ‘omg evil SWERFs!!!” nonsense is a psy op bankrolled by the sex industry because in what world is “I think it’s okay for 60 year old men to buy sex from 18 year olds struggling to afford their next meal :)” something you can say with a goddamn straight face.

sororise-deactivated20180403

that’s not even a tinfoil hat moment tbh like ‘turn off the blue light’ was a campaign run by traffickers, the #notyourrescueproject was run by a man who posed as one of the women he trafficked under the name “molli desi”, there’s probably more examples but yeah, that’s 100% what’s going on

Red umbrella project was started/run by pimps and traffickers too.

Also think about now much modern feminism has to do with “sex positivity” and glorifies PornHub 👀

Also the NSWP, one of the most influential sex work orgs (backed by Amnesty & funded by George Soros) has ties to human trafficking. One of their leaders got sentenced for procuring and trafficking a few years ago

Oh and the IUSW openly takes money from pimps, including Douglas Fox who ran one of the biggest prostitution rings in England

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Julie Bindel took a trip to Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2015 to visit women who were supposedly apart of a popular and well-funded NGO called “Women’s Network For Unity” (WNU). She was not aware beforehand that a board member would actually be at the meeting. She details in this article that the board member consistently interrupted the prostitutes she came to speak with. When asked about the services they provide for women, she said that “If the women are beaten up by the police, they are given legal training on their rights; if they are arrested, the WNU will provide food during the time they cannot work; and if one of the women dies, they will help to buy the coffin.” When asked by Bindel if the organization was planning to raise money to help women out of prostitution, she replied “No.” When Bindel spoke with the women at the WNU meeting, many told her that they needed hundreds of dollars to obtain identification documents that they would need to seek out other, less dangerous work. Many said they had no idea they were apart of any sex workers union or NGO, which WNU claims to be.

The International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW) is a UK-based union for sex workers, and became a part of GMB, another general workers union and Britain’s third largest union, in 2002 after a vote to become an affiliate. Like @feministclassicist mentioned before me in the thread, Douglas Fox is one of the many donors to the IUSW, and is also a part of Amnesty International, which I’ll address shortly. Fox owns the largest escort service in north-eastern England, and has dedicated a lot of time, money, and resources to lobby for the legalization of pimping, brothel-owning, and sexbuying.

In 2010, Douglas Fox published a post on the official IUSW website, wherein he routinely refers to women who are prostitutes as “whores,” claims that Julie Bindel and other anti-coercive sex industry feminists are not “true feminists”, claims prostitution does “not institutionalise the sexual objectification of women”, and states “the whore challenges social oppression of both men and women by refusing to conform to narrow oppressive role prescriptions.”

These statements are diametrically opposed to the lives and vocalized experiences/desires of the overwhelming majority of so-called “sex workers”, who want to leave these industries and find other sources of labor, but often don’t have the resources to do so. [2] [3]

In 2008, Douglas Fox proposed a motion for blanket decriminalisation of the sex trade at the Amnesty International (AI) Annual General Meeting, a proposal that became international AI policy seven years later.

In October of 2014, Alejandra Gil, the Vice President of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), was arrested for running a massive sex trafficking ring, using APROASE (a proclaimed sex-worker led sex work Union, for whom she was a co-chair member) as a front for her illegal activities. In March of 2015 she was charged. Despite that, the very NSWP article I linked paints Gil out to be a victim, and dismisses her guilt.

“Turn off the blue light” is a primarily European campaign, whose mission is “to raise awareness on the violence, crimes and discrimination against sex workers, a marginalized female group and mobilize public opinion and stakeholders in order to tackle these phenomena” Despite this self-proclaimed mission, the campaign is backed and funded by characters such as Peter McCormick, a convicted pimp who rakes in millions of Euros from his online prostitution service annually. Additionally, his son, who was convicted of running 6 brothels is another advocate for the campaign. TJ Carrol is yet another of these traffickers and pimps who supported the campaign. Carrol ran the largest trafficking/prostitution ring in Ireland, and utilized African gangs to traffick women and sell them into sexual slavery, where oftentimes they were horribly abused and unable to escape. Carrol and his associates used voodoo rituals to terrify African women into staying in the industry, and he also groomed his daughter into the business. Tony Linnane is yet another convicted pimp who backed the campaign. He was also connected to an incident wherein a woman was “threatened with being burned alive after gasoline was thrown on her.” Had enough yet? Mihai Selaru is a brother owner and pimp who plead guilty to beating the prostitutes forced to work for him, and threatened to starve a woman if she did not bring in more business.

Claudia Brizuela, a former leader of Asociacion de Mujeres Meretrices de Argentina (Association of Women Prostitutes of Argentina) (AMMAR) and a founder of the Latin American-Caribbean Female Sex Workers Network (LA-CFSWN), was arrested and charged with sex trafficking. The LA-CFSWN was represented by none other than Gil Alejandra.

Julie Bindel, through her fantastic and diligent research, discovered that the #notyourrescueproject hashtag and campaign, which claimed to be a “sex-worker-led” campaign was actually created and sustained by burner accounts of Dr. John Davies by women he had pimped and trafficked. Primarily, he posed as a disenfranchised woman from the Indian sub-continent named “Molli Desi.” All of the pictures of “Molli” were actually pictures of a woman he had trafficked from Bangladesh. Davies was a Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Migration Studies Department of Sussex University, where he routinely hid behind his respectability as a doctor in order to promote trafficking denialism. Davies was also involved in an adoption scheme called the King Solomon Foundation, which operated out of Romania, and where he sold the children of prostituted women for up to $20,000.

Liberal feminists and pro-“sex work” advocates, have you asked yourself who is benefiting from the constant platitudes you throw out? When you forego listening to the experiences of actual women who live in these conditions, the women who have been forever harmed and scarred by these immoral industries, and instead parrot talking points made by child predators, traffickers, pimps, and sexbuyers, who do you think is benefiting? I used to be like you. I used to spout the “sex workers deserve rights, and the way to go about that is through legalization” talking points. That stopped once I started dedicating time to researching the endless campaigns, legislative bodies and lobbyists that end up being the ones who are actively hurting women and selling them into sexual slavery. I started reading theory from women who have dedicated their lives to the protection and advocacy for women who don’t have the privilege of seeking these outlets themselves. Almost one million men, women, and children are trafficked every year alone. Have you ever critically addressed why you support legislation that increases this number? Why you claim we’re “sex-worker” exclusive when our feminism seems to be the only kind that seeks to abolish the sexual violence that pervades still? Empowerment is not commodifying women and selling us into sexual slavery. Empowerment is a state of being that requires that we have the conditions to make choices free of economic or otherwise violent coercion, or ultimatums that force women into inescapable circumstances. Wanting to legalize sexbuying, pimping, or brothel-owning is the advocacy of selling women for men’s sexual pleasure no matter the cost, and attempts to codify into law the types of situations that cause women to become prostitutes or trafficked individuals rather than eradicating the sociocultural, economic, political, and legislative plagues that commodify & objectify women, and force them into scenarios where they must submit to the sexual wills of men to survive.

Always asks to yourself “who benefits”

yassss-black-diaspora

And you know what’s crazy, this won’t get the notes because the terfs cant be right

#ref #sex work #prostitution #sex trafficking

Matt Lubchansky.

I wanna @ every single TERF on this site, you have no idea!

appropriately-inappropriate

Look at this racist, ignorant moron right up here.

First, let’s consider how racist it is to compare race and sex. A Black woman and a white woman are both female; the only difference between them is a feature of melanin production in the skin.

Black women, however, are often called “manly” by racists looking to score points. And here you are, comparing Black Americans advocating for their legal and civil rights to men who want to play sports against women. That’s foul.

Now, you can talk all that good shit about summoning TERFs, but since the closest you get to team sports is masturbation, allow me to explain something to you:

Males and females gave different bodies. That’s a scientific principle known as “sexual dimorphism”, wherein the males and females of the species have differences in anatomy and physiology.

In humans, primary sexual dimorphism presents as follows:

Males:

-have longer legs, which results in a longer stride. This makes them more competitive in sports where stride length is important, like soccer, track and field, long jump, speed skating and swimming

-have longer arms, resulting in a wider reach. This makes them more competitive in sports like basketball, tennis, volleyball and swimming

-have more fast-twitch muscle fibres, which results in a kinesthetic ability for faster “bursts” of movement. This makes them more competitive in sports that require fast starts and sprints, such as 100m Sprint, long-jump, Nordic skiing and karate

-have thicker bones, which results in higher durability towards, and capacity for, blunt force. This makes them more competitive in sports that require physical strength, like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai, Krav Maga, Boxing and other martial arts.

-have more upper body strength, which results in a stronger core and practical strength. This makes them more competitive in sports like parkour, weight lifting, and biathlons

In order to ensure that sport is equitable, and accessible, you have to ensure that the competitors are playing against equally ranked competitors. If is absolutely not equitable for CeCe Telfer to be the bottom slot in every race he’s ever run… right up until he declares himself a Brave And Stunning Trans Girl, at which point the same mediocre male athlete becomes a once-in-a-generation record-breaking female competitor.

But hey, don’t take it from me. Look at this fight:

I watched it in real time. That’s Fallon Fox, an ex-NAVY veteran (who served in a position women aren’t even able to hold yet!), brutally beating one of the top female mixed martial artists in the world, Tamikka “Boom Boom” Brents.

Brents was notoriously dominant in the ring… until that day.

Notice how I said “was”, because this was the match that ended her career. Notice the way she drops like she’s been killed after that high-knee to the face?

It’s because she nearly died. She suffered orbital bone fractures, skull fractures, required over a hundred stitches to her head, and suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury.

So go ahead. Tell me — a woman who fights in this exact same sport — that it’s safe for Fox to fight other women.

Go on. Fucking lie to my face.

wandering-feminist

In the first panel, the people are opposing an end to racial segregation, therefore denying people of colour the same access to facilities as white people. In the second panel, the people are opposing the legalization of same-sex marriage, and the employment of gay people as teachers, therefore denying gay people the same life/employment opportunities as white people. These are both accurate examples of denying minorities equal rights.

However, in the third panel, the people are shown to be opposing the allowance of transgender people into bathrooms for the opposite sex, and opposing letting trans-identified men compete against women in sports, which is biologically unfair because of the reasons @appropriately-inappropriate explained so well. These are not at all comparable with the examples of discrimination based on race or sexual orientation because no one has the rights trans activists are demanding. Straight people have the access to marriage and jobs. Gay people want the same. People of colour want access to the same facilities as white people. But trans activists do not want the same rights as the rest of us. No one has the right to use the washroom of the opposite sex. No one has the right to compete on a women’s sport team, despite being male. “Cis” people do not have these rights, so no, you are not asking to be treated the same as us; you’re asking for special privileges that will put women’s safety and careers at risk. To say that this is comparable to the liberation movements of gays or people of colour is disgustingly racist and homophobic. It’s not the same thing, it never will be, and women have every right to stand up for their rights and say NO.

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Civil Rights Movement: want black people to be treated like humans and not have to worry about constant random violence and harassment, with the aid of the law acknowledging their rights

Trans movement: want self-ID which allows men (truly identifying as women, or not) to be able to access women’s shelters, bathrooms, lockerooms, and sports leagues, along with censorship of lesbian and women exclusive events, products, and movements.

If you can’t see the obvious difference I’m just gonna have to assume you’re racist

yassss-black-diaspora

Its the irony of a white man making this comic with the 100% certainty that he’s the one on the right side of history. Malcom X was right. White liberals are 100 times more dangerous.

It really angers me when people trivialize the discussion of women’s sports as is done in this comic, because the reason there are seperate classes for men and women is because of biology and that alone. It has nothing to do with fucking identity.

These people have no arguments, so instead they try to shut down the entire discussion by calling it transphobic and trivial. Trivializing and making fun of the entire discussion. They just want female athletes and their allies to shut the fuck up and let transwomen(males) dominate female sports, so that they may have their identities fully validated. The sacrifice for validating their identities: women’s place in professional sports. How fucking progressive.

appropriately-inappropriate

This is Matt:

We can see that he does lots of sports, for sure.

appropriately-inappropriate

And actually, while I am on the topic:

1. I am a mixed race woman. My white grandfather called my father a racial epithet the first time he met him. I won’t repeat it, pero imagínate. Until about the 1950s, my existence was at best a social faux-pas and at worst a literal crime. Box one is personal for me.

2. I am a lesbian. I was a teenager when I earned — earned, thank you very much — my right to get married to, raise a family with, buy a home for, adopt a child with, inherit property from, visit in hospital, make legal decisions on behalf of, my wife. I earned it by marching, being spat on, risking being disowned, actually being disowned, being threatened and speaking out anyways. Box two is personal for me.

3. I train Krav Maga, one of the sports that makes you a contender for MMA. I have chipped a tooth, broken my toes more times than I care to count, received black eyes, bloody noses, bruises, lacerations and pulled muscles. The only reason I stopped the sport was due to being concussed during a bout. I still watch MMA, and am close with my krav buddies. And one thing about Krav Maga is that it’s “open class”; women at my gym are encouraged to fight men for a practical purpose: it’s hands on self-defence, so women need to know how to fight our most common attacker (an adult male). All that to say: I have been punched by a lot of dudes. I know what a fist coming at my face looks — and feels! — like. I know how it feels to be lifted bodily off my feet, hurled to the ground and pinned there in a clinch by a man who has 100 pounds on me. I also know how to get out, and how difficult it is. I have first hand knowledge of the disparities I listed above. Box three is personal for me.

I refuse to be lectured on institutionalized racism, or homophobia, by a straight man in his auntie’s expired Maybelline. Dude needs to sit his larval-looking ass down.

illalwaysbehere

Trans people treat women, our bodies, and our issues like a fucking joke, and then they wonder why more of us are becoming “terfs”.

smittywerbenjaegermannjensen

He writes “I care about women’s sports suddenly” because he can’t imagine anyone caring about them before, because he doesn’t care about them now.

So basically ur blog won't be visible in the notes if u interact with any other blogs posts or even ur own blogs posts and u lose message privileges in the shadow banned blog and u understand if the blog is sb or not is by searching in in Tumblr search system, and don't worry kronkk in not shadow banned

Okay I'm glad I'm not!! How does one get shadow banned though? Like reports?

#o fuck I think I might’ve been shadowbanned 💀

jesus wouldnt have worked if i were the virgin mary like i wouldve been like wtf and got an abortion

drpepper-is-a-woman

I keep seeing people on twitter claiming that most countries were accepting/celebratory of varying gender identities before colonization and it's like....you have to be joking right. I don't understand how these people can just rip a single word from it's cultural context and claim it was a badge of honor. These words were applied to gay men/women, gender non-conforming people and infertile women to ALIENATE THEM. not celebrate them!

The audacity to claim that sexism was a white invention is so fucking ahistorical and racist. Women have been oppressed in nearly every country and culture on Earth. Women have been exploited and abused because of their bodies since before modern civilization. These people really are trying to write sexism out of history.

Also comparatively few cultures had "third gender" options for females.

Many cultures with male "third genders" had very strict gender roles. For example, the Hawaiian third gender, "māhū", took the place of women in temple ceremonies that women were barred from entering and participating in.

Many "third gender" males were prohibited from pursuing romantic relationships. The Hijra of India are considered married to their god. Most, if not all, are gay men and traditionally they are eunuchs. Some going through a castration process to become hijra, literally removing their ability to have intimate sexual relationships in a homophobic culture...hm...

Even the few cultures that have female third genders, these women are usually sworn virgins taking the place of sons. This was commonly practiced in the Balkans: northern Albania, Montenegro, and Kosovo. They live in an incredibly patriarchal culture, prohibiting women from owning property or being head of the household. When a family failed to have a son, daughters swore to a life of being raised and treated as boys/men in order to serve the family. These are female people. They are/were required to take a vow of chastity, hence the name, because the cultural is patriarchal and homophobic and the people still knows that sworn virgins are female regardless of what they call themselves.

Egalitarian cultures do not need third/fourth/whatever genders. When cultures are strict on what men and women can't do, other categories must be created to fit those that are deemed failed or flawed. That alone should shatter the myth of pre-colonial cultures being utopias of equality and freedom of sexuality and expression.

I have a queer studies degree and look an entire course on cultural gender variance for my degree. Of course, feel free to take my word with a grain of salt as I sold my textbook and don't have the sources anymore lol

forwomenbywomen

Nope. Shut up. I don’t want to hear about professionalism. Women shouldn’t have to decorate our meatsacks to accommodate others.

If a woman in her natural state makes you uncomfortable - if a human being without concealer, a padded bra, and waxed body hair makes you queasy - you have been conditioned.

We owe you nothing. If you cannot get past your negative perception of skin texture, facial hair, pigmentation and rolls - that sounds like a you problem. Maybe you should focus less on assessing the aesthetic of women in the workplace and more on how capitalism has taught you womanhood = a refined, decorated product.

theradicalbutch

My general rule when it comes to appearances is that if men aren’t expected to do it in order to be presentable then it’s most likely a sexist thing.

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Human societies weren’t always male-dominated. The switch came when we became farmers – and that suggests ways to roll back towards a more equal system

THE vast majority of cultures are patriarchies, where men are more likely than women to hold positions of social, economic and political power. So it is tempting to assume that this is the natural state of affairs, perhaps because men are, on average, stronger than women. But a study of humanity’s roots suggests this answer is too simple.

Chimpanzees are not a proxy for our ancestors – they have been evolving since our two family trees split between 7 and 10 million years ago – but their social structures can tell us something about the conditions that male dominance thrives in. Common chimpanzee groups are manifestly patriarchal. Males are vicious towards females, they take their food, forcibly copulate with females that are ovulating and even kill them merely for spending time away from the group.

Males also spend their lives in the group they were born into, whereas females leave at adolescence. As a result, males in a group are more closely related to each other than the females. And because relatives tend to help one another, they have an advantage.

The same is true in human societies: in places where women move to live with their husband’s family, men tend to have more power and privilege. Patrilocal residence, as it is called, is associated with patriarchy, says anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Hrdy at the University of California at Davis.

For most of our history, we have been hunter-gatherers, and patrilocal residence is not the norm among modern hunter-gatherer societies. Instead, either partner may move to live with the “in-laws”, or a couple may relocate away from both their families. According to Hrdy, a degree of egalitarianism is built into these systems. If they reflect what prehistoric hunter-gatherers did, women in those early societies would have had the choice of support from the group they grew up with, or the option to move away from oppression.

According to one school of thought, things changed around 12,000 years ago. With the advent of agriculture and homesteading, people began settling down. They acquired resources to defend, and power shifted to the physically stronger males. Fathers, sons, uncles and grandfathers began living near each other, property was passed down the male line, and female autonomy was eroded. As a result, the argument goes, patriarchy emerged.

This origin story is supported by a study published in 2004. Researchers at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, studied mitochondrial DNA (inherited from mothers) and genetic markers on the Y chromosome (inherited from fathers) in 40 populations from sub-Saharan Africa. This suggested that women in hunter-gatherer populations, such as the !Kung and Hadza, were more likely to remain with their mothers after marriage than women from food-producing populations. It was the reverse for men, suggesting that agriculture is indeed correlated with patrilocal societies.

“It’s tempting to assume male dominance is the natural state of human society. It isn’t”

In righting things, solidarity is crucial, says Amy Parish at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She studies bonobo societies, which are patrilocal but female-dominated. Females weigh 15 per cent less than males – similarly to humans and chimps – yet Parish says they have the upper hand because they cooperate and form alliances. She sees a parallel with feminist movements: “The goal is to behave with unrelated females as if they are your sisters.”

It’s not as easy as it seems. “The #MeToo movement is about female cooperation,” says Hrdy, “but getting cooperation among non-kin is difficult.” Competitive instincts can prevail, or events can cause cooperation to fall apart – for instance in times of war, Hrdy says. “Women start to look out for the safety of their own children and their husbands.” She worries that conflict could erode gains from recent decades. “None of this stuff is certain,” she says. “It’s what I tell my daughters: don’t take any of this that you have now for granted.”

Restoring and strengthening equality will require effort on multiple fronts, she says. If patriarchy originated in sedentary social structures that formalised male ownership and inheritance, then laws that give women the right to own property in their own name, for instance, can help.

But such laws exist in many 21st century societies – so why does the patriarchy persist? Ultimately, real change will only come when societies embody the values espoused by the laws, argues Lise Eliot, a neuroscientist at the Rosalind Franklin University in Chicago: “The laws are the first step, the internalised values come later.”

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can you guys believe that terfs think *complete antithesis of radical feminist tenets* that is soo crazy

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