dove

i’m so cold let me in your window ✧⋄⋆⋅⋆⋄✧⋄⋆⋅⋆⋄✧⋄⋆⋅⋆⋄✧⋄⋆⋅⋆⋄✧

[ammitapologist]

Women started civilization and men have been jealous ever since

[quinntheestallion]

Before I use to be a “I dont care if men wanna wear a wig and call themselves Susie, just leave women’s spaces alone” kind of terf.

But now I think every attempt of a man to “transition” or identify as a “woman” is insulting and misogynistic. I don’t even care if it’s one of the good, genuinely dysphoric gay ones who pass. Like what the fuck are you doing bro. Your whole existence is some kind of misogynistic insult.

Like you can look as feminine as you want but calling yourself anything but a femme boy is insane.

[briargeese]

A hibiscus flower under ultraviolet light, shining for the polinators.

[catchymemes]

[learningwomanhood]

'For example, the shape we call a heart - whose symmetry resembles the vulva far more than the asymmetry of the organ that shares its name - is probably a residual female genital symbol. It was reduced from power to romance by centuries of male dominance'

Gloria Steinem's foreword in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues

[meowcentrale]

let mama clean the blood off you

[farm-lesbian]

happy pride month to lesbian and bisexual women 🫶

[along-the-silkroad]

Mother Goddess from Çatalhöyük, neolithicum, c. 6000-5500 BCE. Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Türkiye.

Çatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk /ˌtʃɑːtɑːlˈhuːjʊk/ cha-tal-HOO-yuhk; Turkish: [tʃaˈtaɫhœjyc]; also spelled Çatal Höyük or Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal “fork” and höyük “mound”) is a large tell—an artificial mound created by successive layers of human habitation—representing a major Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city in southern Anatolia. The site was occupied from around 7500 to 5600 BCE and reached its peak around 7000 BCE. In July 2012, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Located on the Konya Plain in modern-day Turkey, southeast of the city of Konya (ancient Iconium) and about 140 km (87 mi) from the twin-peaked volcano Mount Hasan, Çatalhöyük comprises two main settlement mounds. The eastern mound—rising about 20 m (66 ft) above the plain during its final Neolithic phase—was the principal habitation area, while a smaller mound lies to the west and a later Byzantine settlement stands a few hundred meters to the east. The prehistoric sites were abandoned before the Bronze Age. In ancient times, a branch of the Çarşamba River flowed between the two mounds, and the settlement was built on fertile alluvial clay favorable for early agriculture. Today, the nearest major river is the Euphrates.

[noma-o]

Olubukola Ogunniyi by Noma Osula

[hecatesbroom]

Katharine Hepburn in Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

[desertmarble]

I need to jump in a natural body of water so bad it’s serious

[christinaguilera]

Michelle Pfeiffer photographed by Terry O'Neill (1990)

[theoretical-terf]

Males think that oppressing women is a human right. No matter how oppressed a man is, he will always seek to oppress women in the same position as him. Their entitlement to oppress women is considered a given, and when they feel injustice at being poor, a large part of it is that they feel injustice at the fact that they can't oppress rich women as much as they oppress other poor women.

Men don't measure class by wealth, or race, or country, they measure it by how many women they are given the opportunity to oppress.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

[raddish-world]

Alabama woman sues alleging she gave birth on prison floor as guards watched - raddish.world

[bushpropaganda]

oh my god this is horrific :(((

so she was thrown in jail for taking substances that might harm her fetus due to the overturning of roe v wade, only to be forced to give birth alone on a dirty jail floor??? even worse, female inmates on the cell block were punished for helping deliver the baby, and any staff who tried to help were threatened with being fired from their fucking job???

just goes to show it's never been about protecting fetuses, but about punishing women in the most barbaric ways possible, any way they can.

[dressed2k1ll]

Book review: Goddesses, Whores, Wives & Slaves by Sarah B Pomeroy (1975)

10/10

This was impossible to put down. A fascinating and vibrant history of Ancient Greek and Roman Women: from all walks of life, using just about every resource available within art and archaeology and anthropology.

It’s also also very very well researched and informative with a HUGE bibliography and a great index and lots of notes for the nerdy (aka me) who has already highlighted the next set of books to chew on.

Overall she argues (and does so persuasively with a great deal of thought and objectivity) that Roman women seemed to have enjoyed a higher quality of life than the Ancient Greek women because of generally (especially in upper class households) having a more public-facing life, being slightly more protected by the pater familias model of the Roman household, and having slightly more social mobility.

However a shout out goes to the Amazons and their social model for living 🏹🏹🏹

If you’re curious about the roles of women in varying Hellenistic and classical contexts, this is a must-read.

Her final words are so interesting and prescient too: “Serious intellectual thought about women continued: Stoicism, the most popular of the Hellenistic and Roman philosophies, directed women’s energies to marriage and motherhood. The argumentation is brilliant and difficult to refute. And this rationalized confinement of women to the domestic sphere, as well as the systemization of anti-female thought by poets and philosophers, are two of the most devastating creations in the classical legacy” 😢💔

Also, if you’re upset by reading about things like sexual slavery and infanticide, it might not be the book for you.

Overall, it’s staying in my collection and I’ll definitely be referring to it again.

[kisxmesoft]