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[lentilsoupforthesoul]

quilt by Chinami Terai

[fairycosmos]

the infatuation with being skinny is ….. Boring

[fairycosmos]

makes the culture boring. makes fashion boring. makes people boring. made me boring when it was all i thought about. like are we still harping on this

[makingqueerhistory]

Pornography remains an important part of queer expression! Queer people deserve space to explore/express their sexuality. Rejecting the expression of sexuality because some people do it in an exploitative way or get addicted would be like closing the Stonewall Inn because they were run by the mafia at one point or because they sell beer which can be addictive. Sexuality is an important part of the queer community and stopping queer people from expressing that is a form of oppression. Queer people deserve to enjoy their sexuality without shame!

Porn can and does exist ethically. I am so grateful to know queer sex workers, and I love not only them but also their work. I'm not ashamed of the ways queer porn has been a part of my development. I am so grateful for works from Elana Dykewomon which includes explicit sex or erotica from authors like Kathryn Moon who express sexuality in a beautiful and emotionally powerful way. Shutting down human sexuality is not something I am interested in engaging in.

[pineapplecake555]

Gooner freaks stop insisting that your addiction to watching women (or gay teen boys) be sexually brutalized is inherent to being homosexual.

Same sex attraction does not require one to celebrate one of the most evil and misogynistic and exploitative industries to ever exist.

LGB drop the TQ.

You people can be rape defending sex pests in your own name.

[gloomyrelaxing]

Remember when gay people were fighting for the right to be seen as normal? I miss that.

[thefrenchrad]

Remember when being LGB was about the private stuff you do in your bedroom and not being a public porn-addicted freak ?

[vanilla-voyeur]

Any time you say something about men being inherently predatory (man vs bear, a group of men is a threat, etc.) you are being racist. Treating men as inherently predatory is fundamentally inseparable from anti-blackness because Black men are hypermasculinized. That rhetoric affects Black men the most.

When you say you'd pick the bear over the man or a group of men is a threat, you are saying you'd pick the bear over a Black man and a group of Black men are a threat. It's not changing anything or flipping the genders. All Black men are men. If it sounds racist now, that's because it's always been racist and you didn't realize the implication.

Sure you could freely use your free speech to freely say, "A group of White men are a threat" or "I'd pick a Black man over a bear but a bear over a White man." But you and I and everyone else all know exactly how that sounds. And it's still racist because why do you always think only of White men when you're thinking about an abstract hypothetical man?

When you hear something about men being predatory, you should always think about how that affects Black men or you will inevitably say something racist.

[zendayaimdb]

framing black men in this way (as victims who could never hurt a woman) is an interesting choice when western black women are currently in the midst of a yearslong femicide crisis. said femicide (and rape, and abuse) is committed almost entirely by black men who, as men, are indeed dangerous. your rhetoric frames the modern issue of black femicide as inherently less important than the historical issue of black men being wrongfully accused of sex crimes. it suggests that black women should shut up about their negative experiences with men out of a kind of race fealty. it’s despicable because black women are indeed incredibly race loyal and suffer in silence from the physical, material harm inflicted on them by black men as well as the psychological warfare of being subjected to constant, intense misogynoir within the community and also outside of it. black cultures, like all cultures, are rooted in patriarchy. the logic of this post is a particularly ugly and blunt example of what afro-patriarchy looks like.

a black woman, along with any race of woman, has every right to say, “i hate all men” because men are dangerous. you should not seek to control the speech of women when they discuss misogyny, as women are a marginalized group based on sex and subject to sex-specific violence, a universal force that keeps women at the global level under the control of men. when men stop targeting women for sex-based violence, then we can speak on the issue of whether or not saying “all men are ___” leads to racialized thinking. until then, telling women to not disparage men is simply another manifestation of silencing victims and survivors. the fact that you felt this was at all appropriate to write is the perfect demonstration of how misogyny warps thinking to minimize harm to women as mere collateral damage in the rhetoric of political activism.

[pumpumdemsugah]

Rhetoric like this is how the black power movement shamed black women who were raped and sexually abused by Black men in the movement to stay silent or they're race traitors. 30 to 60% of all black women in America are victims of sexual assault. Many Black male predators in the black power movement knowing this, used this to have a captive stock of victims who were too scared to speak because black men are seen as violent.

Lets not forget the femicide rate in the black ass Caribbean and Africa is also high and will regularly be in the top 10 highest femicide rate countries

You people do not see Black women as subjects of oppression or misogyny. Doing PR for Black men is almost more important than the rape, beatings and abuse of Black women.

You people think that everyone lives around white people and that the home is a space place for women and girls

[eroscestlavie]

I need to stop replying to “how do you make friends in your 30s?” threads because all my answers boil down to “you have to want to know people instead of have friends” and I don’t think people wanna hear that

[eroscestlavie]

It’s like. People can tell if you don’t really like or connect with them. If you aren’t truly enamored with someone you will have a hard time coming up with activities to do together to deepen the friendship. Because you don’t really like that person that much.

[mala-santa-radfem]

estén atentas a la situación en colombia con el tema de la mutilación genital femenina. estamos hablando de una práctica que está afectando niñas menores a 5 años. ya basta de esta barbaridad y de mirar al otro lado.

[mala-santa-radfem]

in english: FGM is about to be outlawed in colombia. i'll keep you updated after june 18th or hopefully sooner.

UPDATE: FGM IS NOW BANNED IN COLOMBIA. GREAT JOB AND CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERY FEMINIST AND ACTIVIST GROUP WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR YEARS 🥹💜

[kiefbowl]

I'm 60% through the Lila Shapiro piece and I find it offensive that in the same paragraph of describing Pavlovich's horrific experience she takes a detour to explain "actual" BDSM and "consenual nonconsent." Thuddingly tactless. The things described in that paragraph are profound in their depravity and yet I need to be lectured first that in some universe this exact scene could play out in a way that is "good."

[pineapplecake555]

I saw a few people explain this was to head off the defense that “oh that’s just how BDSM is.” This is an article for the masses and they might believe Gaiman when he says “well it’s just the BDSM culture”

Now we as radical feminists have done the analysis to say “actually it’s all like this, and there is no such thing as “safe, sane, and consensual”. But this article is for the normies who haven’t seen 800 think pieces on how to incorporate “BDSM but like a girl boss!” They haven’t seen “kweer” manifestos claiming BDSM is a protected sex class like being LGBT and being that it’s an inherent part of being “kweer”.

I think the author meant “BDSM is not an excuse for his behavior” and not “BDSM is not the problem”

[kiefbowl]

Perhaps that was her goal, I think the criticism still stands that it could have been handled far better than to included it mid paragraph before describing graphic rape that involves things I'm going to put under a cut because of how upsetting it might be for people who don't want to read it or know...

raping her anally without lube, then using butter as lube because she cries in pain, and then making her lick her own feces off his penis. I think the article over all is good, but she failed Pavlovich in this instance. It is tone deaf.

[socialmaya]

[kiefbowl]

whenever a famous man is outed as a total creep, his fans have to make everything about how it impacts their mediocre and underperforming lives. which really shows a lack of moral fiber.

[noah-wyles]

i mean for the palestinians the war is never over

just because they've stopped actively killing them in one of the worst genocides doesn't mean it's over for them

"they can return to their homes! their towns! their villages!" what homes? they've been bombed into rubble!

they're going to need help more than ever

[mich3454fest-deactivated2020110]

Not to be a freak but why isn’t anyone into being.. gentle and not evil in bed

[rosedustd]

Also why is it that sex that isn’t wildly misogynistic or otherwise sadistic and borderline/actually abusive is immediately referred to as “boring”??? What does that say about you as a person?? What does that say about our society?? Also tmi but to be honest if things get too rough my body literally goes numb anyway. The lack of nuance in sensations is boring to me like the what fuck has porn done to people???? The definition of modern “exciting” sex is just beating someone and at least hinting at some sick parody of rape. Just because you have a boner doesn’t mean it’s any less fucked up.

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

In the 1980s, when many women were graduating with professional degrees, anger against women crackled the airwaves [popular culture recast tender, intimate sex as boring]. We saw a stupendous upsurge in violent sexual imagery in which the abused was female … In a world where both sexes’ guilt and angry fear surrounded the sense that women were getting out of control, the public quickly lost interest in ordinary unharmed nakedness. Presented as more compulsively engaging to the attention of men and, eventually, women, was imagery that played out anxieties from the sex war, reproducing the power inequality that recent social changes had questioned: male dominance, female submission. Female nakedness became inhuman, ‘perfected’ beyond familiarity, freakishly like a sculpture in plastic, and often degraded or violated.

Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

[theambitiouswoman]

[rhinestoneintherough]

 Opened the parade with Dykes on Bikes, riding through thousands of people flying our own  little fuck you to  the military recruiters at SF pride this year. 

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

a surprising number of people see the term "social construct" and think that it means something is not real when it actually means something is so very real because it was created by us and is constantly enforced, often violently

[k1ntsug1-r0b0t-g1rl]

[frogmood]

capitalism likes to act like it’s the big grown up who takes life seriously but the entire system is based on such laughably childish goals that a fucking 6th grader could tell you it’s unsustainable. trying to always beat your previous profit record is not only an obviously impossible goal, it shows a complete lack of forethought, and is also, completely pointless. it’s not the shrewd mindset of a master strategist, it’s the impulsive drive of an addict, always looking for a better high. its the kid who eats too much candy on halloween and gets sick. it’s childish and honestly just fucking dumb.

[athimbustanut]

no shade but people on here would fall for nigerian prince scam if it said it was a poly trans femme from gaza

[kronkk]

I'm sorry but I really don't like seeing yall hype up emaciated hollywood women for their appearance

[kronkk]

I dont care how glamorous and well put together she looks, her arms are toothpicks and she looks like she's going to do the "how many quarters can my collarbones hold" challenge

[kronkk]

If you think this is body shaming I will get in my knees and beg you to think critically for once in your life

[kronkk]

Like Anya Taylor Joy and Zendaya are both too thin. We are so used to seeing emaciated women yall can't even recognize it.

[sansaralias]

As someone who struggled for a decade to get control over my ED, so many famous women are just not eating. When you can see every rib in their chest, when their arms and legs are sharp because the muscle is being eaten away to fuel the body, and when they have that dull look in their eyes… I see myself at 84lbs. Sick. On the verge of fainting when I stood up, because I didn’t eat. The glorification of thinness is so horrific I had people, up until the day I ended up in a hospital, tell me how good I look. I was so not in control of life when I was younger but I thought welll I could be young and pretty tho. Now, as recovered, I cry at sending photos of myself. Sunken face with a distant look, I don’t even look like myself.

Please, if you or anyone you know is struggling with an eating disorder please seek help. It’s a silent deadly disorder. Me passing out and being sent to the hospital woke me up to my problems and sent me down a healthier path. It doesn’t have to be like that. So many famous women are sick and we should not idolize their illness. You do not need to be thin to be “beautiful” and you sure as hell don’t have to be beautiful to have worth. It is okay to eat and be happy.