radfem in the vatican

this ain't a zine it's a g-d arms race

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

I’m still kinda astonished they really had no qualms offering disproportionately autistic kids (who they know hate change, have issues visualising the future and are usually emotionally immature) puberty blockers. Like obviously they’re gonna say yes, trans identifying or not.

[florellia]

I'm pretty sure this is a huge part of why I identified as trans when I did, I hated the changes my body was going through and wanted them to stop. Being trans was promised as an alternative that would fix that discomfort (and all my mental problems!)

[gendercriticalbutch]

i hope this doesn’t make sound insane lmao. the scientific community has been sterilizing, abusing, and experimenting on neurodivergent & mentally ill people for fucking eons. they’ve just found a new “politically correct” way to do the same bullshit they’ve always been doing to us.

it’s not much of a shock at all that these dodgy medical treatments promoted as “gender affirming care” are mostly being given to people that either have one or more mental illnesses or are neurodivergent. it’s just the same medical malpractice done to the same communities we’ve seen dozens of times throughout history repackaged as legitimate healthcare for like the umpteenth time.

[kkoffin]

if what the Taliban is doing to women was happening instead to a minority racial group, especially if the oppressors were white, i’m just saying, there would be A LOT more outrage.

there would be encampments, huge protests, everything you see with palestine but probably a hundred times more extreme. We’d be listing the stage of genocide this is, and calling it a second holocaust.

I mean IMAGINE a certain racial group’s voice is made illegal in public, and they have to wear a HUGE, ridiculous, uncomfortable garment like that. They aren’t allowed to leave the house without an (oppressor) escort. Banned from education or employment. No protections from violence and rape, basically less than an animal in law. IMAGINE IF ALL THAT HAPPENED TO A MINORITY RACIAL GROUP. this IS what’s happening to women.

But it’s just women and it’s just their culture so there’s nothing we can really do, who cares. Maybe we’ll do a march or two, and maybe we’ll post about it on twitter, make a few articles. But it’s just women.

[womenvoices]

THIS!!!!!! “It’s their culture” is fucking bullshit. If your culture involves treating women like shit, it’s time to change your culture

[vesperterf]

Every time a sexist practice gets rebranded as "self-expression," women are expected to celebrate our own conditioning. Liberation isn't about finding new ways to decorate the cage. It's about questioning why the cage exists in the first place. If a practice overwhelmingly benefits patriarchal expectations while demanding women's time, money, pain, and energy, then maybe it's worth asking who that practice is really serving.

[diana-lostandfound]

A big part of the reason I don't want kids is simply that I don't think I would be a good parent. I'm short-tempered and can be vicious when I'm angry. I hate loud noises, repetitive noises, sticky sensations, and being touched when I'm not expecting it. I like getting drunk and high. I like doing things quickly and efficiently. I always have to be at least 15 minutes early to everything. I have horrible sleep as it is, and that's living alone and having a big comfy bed all to myself and never having to get up in the night unless I need to pee. I love being alone and doing things by myself.

Other people have always rushed to console me when I say this -- "you can learn to get good at it! I was the same way before I had kids!" But like. I don't want to change. I like my life and I like doing things the way I want to do them. In many ways I'm a lot like the woman who raised me, who I can best describe through the anecdote that she didn't let us have balloons on our birthdays because there was a chance they could pop and make a loud noise that would hurt her ears. I love her and I always will, but there was a lot of warmth and comfort I needed that she just wasn't able to give me and I know I would probably be the same way. It wasn't her choice to have to raise me. I get to make a choice that she didn't.

Women in particular are shamed for possessing the qualities I've listed above. It's seen as morally wrong for women to not be intrinsically nurturing, endlessly self-sacrificing, interminably patient. I get that we will be shamed a lot for admitting that we aren't. But I hope that those of us who lack those qualities can just accept that, because it's a terrible thing to bring an unwitting child into the world just to prove to the haters that you're not a cold mean b*tch.

[cunning-pope]

i'm personally skeptical of the legacy of mother teresa, and i'm curious to read christopher hitchens' book the missionary position, which claims to be an expose---

but it bears noting, to title a book "the missionary position" about a woman who chose a celibate life, that's definitely a misogynistic and degrading title right off the bat. :p

[veritablevent]

you can't girlboss your way out of the humiliation of performing femininity. miniskirts are supposed to humble you by having you stay alert to them riding up and exposing you. high heels are supposed to humble you by having you move carefully, wary of twisting an ankle (or stumbling and exposing yourself). make-up is supposed to humble you by having you control your feeding and resting habits, lest you smudge it. there's sexualization imbedded in them. they are SUPPOSED to embarrass you, because the ultimate titillation is the assertion of control over you. you can't desex them.

[hookedonyonics]

idk how to write this without sounding corny but social media isn't activism or whatever blah blah blah but every day I'm so thankful for every single woman on here who has ever reblogged a feminist post onto my dash, shared their insight about misogyny, challenged my biases, posted excerpts from feminist texts, reblogged posts to add additions to connect dots and open my third eye, linked articles about women's current events, etc etc

I'm sure it's often thankless and feels like it's not affecting anything but you never know if a lesbian in alberta who's never thought about that before or never had the facts to back it up might be reading :+)

some posts that have like shifted my entire way of thinking about something have like 500 notes. Like. Do they know they changed my life? Do they know they gave me the power to contribute a feminist perspective in a conversation on that subject? Like sure Feminism is organizing or affecting change or reading texts.. but I'm not doing those things 🤷‍♀️ I'm scrolling on social media. and these thousands of women are making it insightful, educational, and emotional ♀️

[g1rluninterruptedd]

“woman doesn’t have a set definition” is a very privileged take. you are able to happily sit in a position where you get to act like woman has such a vague definition and you act like this should be accepted worldwide. but ask a woman in a third world country what it means to be a woman and what makes them a woman, and it’ll be pretty fucking obvious. women are oppressed because of their sex and have been for centuries. i’m not letting some males with hurt feelings overrule that because they can’t piss in the woman’s bathroom.

[vintage-bentley]

I don’t understand how people are interpreting this as homophobic when she’s defending homosexuals in this very post. “That blames and shames homosexuals for not sleeping with members of the opposite sex”—in other words, she believes that gender ideology is bad because it harms gay people. She’s saying here that the gay rights movement is being used as a host for this ideology that harms gay rights. In other words, trans ideology is a parasite that has latched onto the LGB and is eating us from the inside out. Where’s the lie? And where’s the reading comprehension with the people who are yelling “omg first she came for trans people now she’s coming for gays!!”?

[kittyit]

internally, you must start adding “and they still can’t stop us” to the end of every dismaying statistic about rape, male violence, and woman-hating. 1 in 9 girls are sexually abused, and they still can’t stop us. a woman is killed by a partner or family member every 10 minutes, and they still can’t stop us. the global pay gap is still wide, we have not achieved gender parity in global politics, etc etc etc, and they still can’t stop us. women & girls can’t be stopped. we carve out our lives and make change. we are at war and many individual battles are lost, the suffering is enormous. but women will win the war (and are winning across the eons), because everything they’ve done so far hasn’t been able to put a dent in the collective female spirit, which is evident when you look at the curve of human history and how we never give up on improving, inventing, innovating, changing life for the better

[powerburial]

one of the most manipulative things women do is telling you how they feel. because the whole point is theyre trying to get their words inside your head to make you feel what they feel. and they want to do this to change your behavior. its disgusting

[bitterbutesweet]

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[golem-brigadier]

Over 100k like of a white supremacist tweet of 9/11 truther conspiracy about Jews doing it.

The kids are not alright, they're neo-nazi, white supremacists, Arab Supremacists and Islamists, and Marxist-Leninists.

The kids are going destroy this world.

[featherweightwing]

As for the claim in that post, it’s so obviously ridiculous I shouldn’t even be validating it with a response, but not only is that obviously not true, a Jewish Israeli man was literally the FIRST PERSON to die on 9/11

[sprinkledsalt]

It's been said a hundred times before but this site applies its anti-intellectual "you shouldn't even read problematic books—not even critically—or else you're endorsing problematic content and everything the author ever did" ideology the most to texts about feminism or the patriarchy, and it quickly becomes clear that their definition of "problematic" can be like, saying men as a class oppress women, or something an author did outside of the given text at hand, to the point where the end goal is clearly just to get women to stop reading anything about feminism and the patriarchy at all, because Good progressives wouldn’t ever hurt vulnerable people by reading those evil scripts

[vileengine]

i actually did draft a bunch of abortion jokes but ultimately decided not to keep them

[vifetoile]

“At first, I looked along the road hoping to see him saunter home among the olive trees, a whistle for the dog who mourned him with his warm head on my knees. Six months of this and then i noticed that whole days had passed without my noticing. I sorted cloth and scissors, needle, thread, thinking to amuse myself, but found a lifetime’s industry instead. I sewed a girl under a single star—cross-stitch, silver silk— running after childhood’s bouncing ball. I chose between three greens for the grass; a smoky pink, a shadow’s grey to show a snapdragon gargling a bee I threaded walnut brown for a tree, my thimble like an acorn pushing up through umber soil. Beneath the shade I wrapped a maiden in a deep embrace with heroism’s boy and lost myself completely in a wild embroidery of love, lust, lessons learnt; then watched him sail away into the loose gold stitching of the sun. And when the others came to take his place, disturb my peace, I played for time. I wore a widow’s face, kept my head down, did my work by day, at night unpicked it. I knew which hour of the dark the moon would start to fray, I stitched it. Grey threads and brown pursued my needle’s leaping fish to form a river that would never reach the sea. I tried it. I was picking out the smile of a woman at the centre of this world, self-contained, absorbed, content, most certainly not waiting, when I heard a far-too-late familiar tread outside the door. I licked my scarlet thread and aimed it surely at the middle of the needle’s eye once more.”

— “Penelope,” by Carol Ann Duffy