normal woman

tired

[roycohn]

things to remember when i see a post that pisses me off

[cupcakesandmisandry]

[enki2]

[muskeww]

Somewhere in Afghanistan, a girl is old enough to remember what freedom looked like and young enough to never see it again.

She watches classrooms fill without her. Watches dreams shrink into rooms she is not allowed to leave. Watches men debate her future as though she is not sitting inside it. And perhaps the cruelest part is that none of this happened because she failed. None of this happened because she was incapable. It happened because she was born a girl.

I think about that sometimes when people say women’s rights have gone too far. Somewhere, a girl is staring out of a window at a life she is forbidden from touching. And the distance between her and freedom is not talent, effort, or ambition. It is simply the fact that the world decided her gender mattered more than her humanity.

[toastyglow]

(some guy on the internet voice) it's so unrealistic and forced when women win fights against men in stories. of course, when a young boy defeats a huge man I'm cheering and screaming because it is so badass, and when a frail old man defeats a cocky young warrior I feel nothing but satisfaction. I love these power fantasies about easily dispatching people who underestimate you, a thing I desire despite the fact that I will likely never have the skill to achieve it in real life, but I'm pretty sure women don't have that same desire, and even if they do, they shouldn't get to see it in media. because it's so unrealistic, you see. I mean I'm smart enough to know I can't take down a big man in a fight but the women, you know, they'll get ideas. I could probably do it if I trained hard enough, but the women??? for some reason I can't see it happening, and who can say why that is.

[kittyit]

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

[im-not-an-object-ok]

“A child who’s told she has to do more housework than her brother because she’s a girl, or that she can’t be an astronaut when she grows up because she’s a girl, is likely to say “that’s not fair!” A boy who is told he cannot play with dolls because he’s a boy, or that he cannot be a secretary when he grows up, may find that unfair as well. But the boy who is told he can’t be a nurse is being told that he is too good to be a nurse. The girl, on the other hand, is essentially being told that she is not good enough to be a doctor.”

—

Eckert and Ginet, Language and Gender

[vintage-bentley]

Source: @/horriblemeanbadwoman on Instagram

[ashstfu]

dostoyevsky kinda ate with “your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”

[lianedegrenade]

the detached brutality of all these “women need to have more babies” thinkpieces man

[lianedegrenade]

split your body wide open for the stock market

[klainebayeuxtapestry]

people don’t remember this but in the early 2000s white brunettes and white blondes were treated as something even deeper than different races- they were seen as like animals of two different species locked in a never ending battle for dominance. they were like yin and yang- the blonde was pathos and the brunette logos. it was truly something to behold.

[sashaforthewin]

I used to have a shirt that said "blondes have more fun" that I wore while brunette and when random men would say "You're not blonde" I'd reply "I'm also not having much fun"

[radfemme-rage]

the EU parliament invited *the TALIBAN* to brussels, to have tea with them and discuss sending afghan refugees (i imagine there will at least be some women and girls) back to afghanistan.

let this serve as a reminder to every woman, no matter where you live, it’s not you today but it will be you tomorrow.

you may live in a “progressive” place, but your rights as a woman and girl will always be up for debate and trades with male and patriarchal female politicians in power.

[kaz-curlymonster]

Reuters article

Guardian

Amnesty International

[csny]

[thesituation]

[passionpeachy-deactivated202312]

[passionpeachy-deactivated202312]

excuse me

[chubby-aphrodite]

[passionpeachy-deactivated202312]

OH. can’t believe I forgot about such an important part of art history my apologies

[australian-red-cedar]

men will complain 'but women forced their way into male spaces first' and they mean like. steady employment, hobbies or politics

[kkoffin]

also like. video games and movies/fandom (often based on books by or directed by women)

meanwhile men in women’s spaces is like. our changing rooms. reminds me of that dianic wiccan quote about how the men only want to be included in women’s events when the women are naked

[kkoffin]

[b1tchcup]

my favorite tweet ever. Every time I go to find it I’m blown away by how few retweets it has

[haveuevermetme]

sometimes politicians in order to prove a point do experiments like work as a waiter for a day, use a wheelchair to navigate around the city or survive a month on minimal salary. i think every politician who believes sex work is work, who is actively pro sex work and pro porn, who protects pimps and doesn't give a damn about trafficking should do an experiment and become a sex worker at the brothel for a day. they should show people how it's totally normal to be raped multiple times a day, get ptsd, get infections, get cut of more than 40% of their paycheck, not being able to say no to people they don't like and don't want to have sex with, not being able to say no to humiliating sexual practices they don't want to do, not being able to get back to a normal job if anyone finds out about the past, and so much more. let them show how nice sex work is, let men lead the way they so desperately want.

they don't want to be a sex worker? but why not? after all it's no different than working in mcdonalds.