discourse depository

[mademoisellemaddox-deactivated2]

interesting

[musingsunderstarlight]

And it's even scarier when you realize that transgender beliefs hold even more power than actual religion now because they're actually able to get away with so many of these things that are not tolerated from a religious angle.

We had come so far as a society to fight for secularism and the separation of church and state specifically, only for this to happen. A big reason why we were able to make such progress as a civilization was because of the support for scientific evidence, and yet these men somehow bought the scientific community into compliance so now it looks like gender "theory" is actually supported by science. Even the people who do speak out in the scientific community have spoken about the threats they face to their jobs and livelihoods for doing so. This is no doubt all because of the intersection with the medical/pharmaceutical industry. They really are the ones calling the shots. They saw an opportunity for an unprecedented amount of profit and women were acceptable collateral.

If anyone has some good reading recs on this specifically please share!

[opusculums]

dream of silk, 2003, dir. nahid rezaei

[unrespectability]

women you know what we need we need book clubs study groups and discussion circles. we are all very based and hot with our big brains and intellectual pursuits and reading of dense and profound literature but if we do not digest that material together and communally and through conversation we will lose it all we will lose the sharpness of our analysis. we need to deepen the definition of every seminal text we touch through proactive collaborative engagement or it will fade and soften into a vague impression instead of a vivid connective pulse that spurs us to thought conversation and action. we need to KNOW and FEEL and SAY what we and other women take away from the same texts we continuously reference!!! i suggest we start with Intercourse

[preheville]

people on here make ocs and they're mostly men and they ship characters and they're always men and they have favourite characters and they're always men but sometimes they say the men are like women not trans ones though because that would be guh-ross and harsh the vibe of the #fandomspace and they write fanfiction about men and talk about how complicated and #deeplywritten their male favs are and they'll watch movies and tv shows with mostly male casts in every way that matters and not question it because well what do you want them to do about it and they don't even care that that's what they're doing to them it's pure coincidence they always like the male characters better it's pure chance that women are only interesting as yaoi cheerleaders and actually when they write female characters as yaoi cheerleaders they're doing them a favour because they were just so poorly written in the source material it's the charitable thing to do men men men men men men men and if you say anything about it well you're being a killjoy you're being no fun you're being homophobic you're being a misandrist god what is it about women right what is it about women always trying to ruin our fun? why do they care so much? they're just women. who wants to think about women at all.

[inkandguns]

Dude he fingered her - an illegal wrestling move I’m pretty sure. And it was not consensual in the slightest. She wasn’t even told he was male.

[thatisababyitshuge]

“At a clinic in Anand in northern India, women give birth to Western children. White women’s eggs are inseminated with white men’s sperm, and the embryo is implanted in the wombs of Indian women. The children will show no traces of the women who bore them. They will neither bear her name nor get to know her. After giving birth to the children, the Indian women surrender them. They sign a contract and receive between 2,500 and 6,500 USD the moment they give up their responsibility for the child they just gave birth to. For the women, most of whom are poor and from nearby villages, the payment can be up to the equivalent of ten years’ salary. The buyers are typically American, European, Australian, Japanese, or wealthy Indians; they are childless heterosexual couples, homosexual men, and single men… With traditional surrogacy, the industry had been limited to the Western world. An Indian mother would have meant a child with Indian features. But suddenly, through the miracle of modern technology, it became possible for an Indian woman to give birth to a white child. Thus, Americans could pay two-thirds less than for surrogacy in the USA and still come home with their “own” child, even though it had spent nine months in an Indian woman’s body. Embryo transplantation also impacted on American courts’ judgments in the child custody cases. In one case from 1993, almost identical to “Baby M”—the mother had second thoughts after the birth and wanted to keep the child—the judgment was that she was not the child’s mother. She “was not exercising procreative choice, but was providing a service.” Because the egg wasn’t hers, the pregnancy wasn’t motherhood but a “service”; therefore, she had no rights to the child she gave birth to. This has now become standard practice in the USA, and even when the egg belongs to a third woman—a so-called egg donor—custody is granted to those who paid for the child.”

— Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self (via invertprivileges)

[genghis-khan-official]

Kathleen Hanna's autobiography just came out in 2024, and I read it cus I'm a book nerd and a grown-up punk Hanna wrote in this book that the only reason that she stopped yelling, "GRRLS TO THE FRONT!!!!! WE WANT REVOLUTION GIRLSTYLE NOW!" at the beginning of every Bikini Kill show was because transwomen in the audience complained. so that's why this 20-yr long tradition died. jfc

womyn have got to get meaner

[sick-sad-world-revolution-now]

I haven’t read the book (I will) but damn I remember that her band Le Tigre also got cancelled at some point in the mid 2000s because gender activists were mad that they were supposed to play at the Michfest, which, for those who don’t know, was a festival for womyn only. Meaning she got under fire twice because of the fragile feelings of trans-identified males … Honestly I think that deep in her heart Kathleen has resentment for those people, she’s just tired. But you’re correct, we have got to be meaner. Fuck off to all these men who made women give up our hard earned spaces and accommodations when sharing room with their creepy asses. If you’re really punk like you’re supposed to be then you don’t bend the knee for any fucking man sisters !!

[sick-sad-world-revolution-now]

Just reacting to your tags : J.D wasn't identifying as non-binary back then, for most of her career she was just gender non conforming and had a lil moustache that became her signature style. I checked the precise years and when gender/trans activists became angry at Le Tigre for playing at Michfest it was in 2001 and 2005, so back then the non-binary label was nearly nowhere to be found and we'd have to wait seven years to see it kick off and an additional few more years to see its expansion outside of Tumblr.

Also the whole thing is just evidence that trans-identified males wanted to claim triumph over females no matter what because if you look closely, ever since 1991 there was trans protests outside the festival (they called that "Camp Trans"), so much that in 1999 the organisers let a few protesters in to negotiate the possibility of entering if the trans women had bottom surgery. So even when women tried to compromise to get some peace (because obviously, surgery or not they're still males) it still wasn't enough for them and they kept protesting and criticising the performers - doing the very male tactic of trying to enter and enter and enter without permission until they succeeded and bragged up about it on their social media, leading to seeing very misogynistic vandalism and flyers within the land, until the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival creator decided to end it all in 2015, for its 40th birthday of existence.

So as a reminder : "Members of The Butchies and Le Tigre claimed to have been "verbally attacked, endlessly harassed and physically threatened" for deciding to play at the festival."

[drachenstochter]

I got to go to a bikini kill show in 2022, and I was so disappointed when they went "oh we stopped being the gender police a long time ago, anyone who isn't a straight white cis man to the front"

It really killed my enjoyment of the concert. I had no desire to be in a pit with "anyone who isn't a straight cis white man," i wanted to be in a pit with women.

[ratajota]

[crafty-butch]

anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin

[biac-091299]

They've literally always had names (close, identical, or far removed from standardized names that came before it) but now that assistants don't just serve, but are autonomous & being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own, they've got masculine or unisex/ambiguous/neutral names

[2well2water]

stop posting about your badly behaved dog i mean husband online if you’re going to get upset with the people telling you he’s a bite risk. “look at what my husband packed me for my lunch” and it’s the most insulting low effort assortment of snacks you’ve ever seen accompanied with a note that says “i see you as subhuman”. “ugh guys stop telling me my husband doesn’t respect me you’re not the ones in the relationship you don’t know what he’s really like” yes i do and i think you should have him put down.

[iceyrukia]

[swaglet-moved-deactivated202603]

she is literally right

[fisewalafel]

a Goddess creates a Woman, later creates a man so the Woman “isn’t bored”. all humans are referred as the “daughters” of the Goddess. the only male figures in the religion are husbands or fathers of the female prophets; generally males are listed among the properties of a Woman - she has cows, sheep, land and a few husbands. men are advised not only to accept their status, but to take pride in it, since their inferiority is a part of the Goddess’s plan. all religious leaders are female, and they teach Women how to treat their husbands - how to dress them in order to hide their body from Women, how beat them properly.

does this sound like something men could ever accept, believe, promote to each other?

[haggishlyhagging]

Female socialization is a process of psychologically constraining and breaking girls—otherwise known as "grooming"—to create a class of compliant victims. Across history, this breaking has including so-called "beauty practices" like female genital mutilation and foot binding, as well as the ever-popular child sexual abuse. Femininity is really just the traumatized psyche displaying acquiescence. In its essence, it is ritualized submission.

-Lierre Keith, "The Girls and the Grasses" in Female Erasure

[balkanradfem]

I saw a video today about why making an OnlyFans was a bad idea for women, and it had something insigtful in it I never actually thought about. It was re-told from someone's personal experience and it wasn't what I'd expect to happen.

The woman in the video explains that a lot of women's expectations was to only be doing it for a short while, until they get out of a bad situation, and then quit, being more financially stable and on their feet. She explains that even if you have only 12 subscribers, that is 12 m*n who are used to having continuous intimate access to you, and if you one day decide to stop, they are immediately going to get offended and upset. Because they've been paying for this, they'll feel entitled to keep having continuous access, and they'll find a way to make it happen.

She then goes on to say that if you want to make money at all, you'll have to show your face in the videos, and they'll be able to use AI tools to find your identity almost immediately. What happens next is they find your friends, family members, and your job site, and blackmail you; you either return to onlyfans, or they send the content to everyone you know. And if you say no, they will harass all your friends and family, and if you get any kind of job, this will get harassed too. Women then face the immense pressure of having not just themselves, but everyone in their life harassed to the point where they can't stand it anymore, and return to OnlyFans just to make it stop. They'll become isolated and have everyone in their life turned against them.

This effectively stops them for having any other kind of job or profession because it's impossible to stop the subscribers from finding out and sabotaging the entire thing. She explained a woman was put through this and forced to continue onlyfans, when she only had 12 subscribers. Two of them were blackmailing her. So thinking you can try it out and get out, you can't really, it's not just that the content might get out, but you're entire family and friend group and coworkers and job site might get involved.

The other meaningful fact she brings on is that you are unlikely to reach any success if you look like an adult women; it only works if you can pass as a child. I can't link the video because in the other half she berates women, and I don't want that content on my blog, but I found this story important, because it wouldn't cross my mind how big the danger is. I didn't know that if you get even one crazy subscriber, it's impossible to quit.

The other thing I saw women who previously had an OnlyFans account say, is how awful it was for their mental health, and the perception of their own bodies. They noted that even if it felt okay at the start, it keeps feeling worse and worse and they were deteriorating the entire time it was going on. It's impossible to not be affected. And the general, putting yourself in the harm's way, getting stalked, having to move often, having m*n break into your place, and delude themselves into thinking you want them and are specifically interested in them so any invasion in your life is welcome and warranted, is something women might not be aware they're exposing themselves to.

The woman in the video did note that most women don't even decide to do it themselves, but get groomed and pressured by promises of money and then someone else profits off of them. I think women should know exactly what it is and what is likely to happen to them, on top of the violation of intimacy they know they'll have to endure if they join.

[antiporn-activist]

Yikes. Please don’t.

[t4nku]

But seriously, what is the psychological consequence of being required to wear an uncomfortable article of clothing every single day? What are the consequences of associating that uncomfortable clothing with being in public and social situations? And the required uncomfortable clothing is very expensive, and finding a comfortable one is borderline impossible to the point where the vast majority of women just accept this daily background discomfort. EVERY DAY. AT ALL TIMES. What does it do to a person to train them to accept physical discomfort as a fact of life? Oh my god it's horrifying

[shinhati]

i love naming the elephant in the room (porn) in conversation because you're not supposed to do that and people are shocked but then they always agree with me. "teen boys are a menace these days" -> it's because of porn. "that's not normal behaviour" -> it's porn addiction. "does that imagery make anyone else uncomfortable" -> it's inspired by porn. "the way women are characterized" -> it's porn mythology. like ladies we are allowed to stay this stuff out loud