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this blog is mostly a personal archive for my use. i dont necessarily agree with every post i reblog i just want them here bc they have links or sources i wanna check out, or its a perspective or idea i want to think about

[leonine-regent-deactivated20230]

When your feminism is absorbed and based solely off of your hate for trans people you are now just a transphobe. If your blog is decorated with trans hate and it’s all you talk about, you’re now just masking your transphobia with the label of feminism. How are you contributing to feminist rhetoric? How are you contributing to inter-sectionalist rhetoric? There’s a line to be crossed, and many of you have leapt across it. Remember why you’re here, and remember what first inspired you to study theory. Don’t forget why you started this journey, because God knows it’s a painful one.

[handweavers]

people like the idea that there is an identity they can claim that will absolve them of the responsibility to examine their beliefs and actions and adjust them accordingly to better align with their values and desired outcomes but there isn't, we all have to practice humility and do the work regardless

[theambitiouswoman]

[rabidwolf2point0]

Something that gets overlooked in the discourse about women who struggle to connect with women and get along better with men is that they typically aren’t good at connecting with ANYONE… its like when people say they LOVE animals, but hate people. That man is going to laugh at your jokes no matter what and that dog is going to beg for a scrap regardless of who’s at the table. If you can’t connect with other women, it’s not that other women are opaque and inconsistent. You are just gravitating towards a predictable source of social validation. Tragically the same shallow nature of connections with men that make them easy to access also stalls development, of relationships and of skills

[weepingwidar]

Heeyoung Noh (Korean, 1995) - Be Quiet! I Won't! (2025)

[depsidase]

[meramyst18]

“Never forget that it only takes one political, economic or religious crisis for women’s rights to be put in jeopardy. Those rights are never to be taken for granted; you must remain vigilant throughout your life.”

Simone de Beauvoir

[star-temeraire]

there are a lot of red names popping up in the notes so I’d like to add another quote from Simone de Beauvoir:

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

[enigmatic-insect-deactivated202]

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic destiny defines the figure that the human female acquires in society; it is civilization as a whole that develops this product”

That’s the full sentence of the quote you chose. She says the role human females (women) are expected to fulfill in society, i.e. femininity, does not arise from differences in psychology, biology, or intellect, but rather, femininity is a result of socialization, of a social construct. 

So in very simple terms: the feminine role is not natural to human females. Women are taught to occupy a specific place in society through socialization, not as a natural result of biology. 

Or do you think Simone De Beauvoir, an existentialist philosopher, was actually saying men can become women? 

[deadfish-inabarrel]

“I see a lot of red names”

Unfriendly reminder that shinigami eyes is made by a rapist. Y'all refuse to play harry potter games because “JK Rowling is a TERF” but you’ll use an extension made by a rapist. Tells us all that you really support. Rape apologists.

[iwanttolisten]

"male socialization isn't real" -person who is so male socialized he literally cannot or refuses to perceive that his experiences are different to that of the opposite sex

[iwanttolisten]

In the end MTFs are displaying pretty typical behavior for males who are low on the male hierarchy (see: incels) where instead of allying with females, the ones degraded by the hierarchy the most, they think they suffer uniquely to all other people and form a pack with other males in their same little "caste". They then convince themselves females are actually giving them the most pain and are uniquely responsible/culpable, so they direct all their hatred and bitterness toward them. They do this even if they might have grievances towards males higher up in the hierarchy than them, because in the end some part of their subconscious realizes they share a positionality (see: them recruiting willing cis men, often teenage boys, and pressuring them into transition with forcefem "jokes" and "egg-cracking")

[ablednt]

Woah you fetishize the concept of abuse that's so crazy transgressive no one's ever done that before it's not like woven into the fabric of our bigoted societies or something

[trans-masked]

(From the abstract to Carlo Sariego’s paper “Transfeminist pregnancy: reproductive speculation, genre, and desire”)

I’m sorry but this is absolutely fucking bonkers we have exactly one mention of trans men who actually can get pregnant and are deeply affected by the Dobbs decision and then instead of actually talking about us the author makes the batshit claim that pregnancy is not a biological process but actually a “genre of experience” this is erasure plain and simple and it’s so goddamn offensive. What is this “becoming” that trans women experience and trans men don’t? Why is it acceptable to advocate for a complete change in the definition of pregnancy in order to make it an amorphous feminine experience rather than a nuetral biological process? Pregnancy is already and un gendered term jfc

[bdbdbdbdmn]

dear trans men who are being denied abortion access, just imagine yourself as spiritually not (capable of being) pregnant! because it's for girls. this metaphor will improve your material conditions!

[goblinous]

It's easy to say pregnancy is a "genre" when you're not the one bleeding and risking your life to have a baby.

It's a fascinating approach, agreeing with conservatives that having a uterus makes someone a brood mare, just denying what those "people with uteruses" are called. Obfuscating oppression rather than addressing it.

[determinate-negation]

i already had to unfollow some of the more tedious MLs on here a few months ago for making posts arguing that chinas policy of doing less than the bare minimum for palestine while still trading with israel for billions of $$$ is actually a principled stance rooted in marxism and socialism you idiots and actually they have literally no other choice and no leverage over the global economy and china will implode if they do anything more than make statements while the worst atrocity of our lives happens before our eyes. but dont even question it because this is all part of socialism

[princesssokphanny]

A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕

[romancenjoyer]

im not sure i buy into the dichotomy of shameful abject sex vs. good wholesome sex

[romancenjoyer]

like in order to escape from the violence of patriarchy we have had to invent a utopian version of romance/intimacy/sex that, by the way, is not even actually free from all the fears, doubts and anxieties that attend desire

[romancenjoyer]

i think what’s missing from a lot of narrative representations of romance/intimacy is precisely this exploration of tension. hence the lack of eroticism, of sensuality. you cannot banish doubt and anxiety from the province of desire. these feelings are ordinary, not pathological. there is a place where reluctance and attraction meet, and it is not called shame or loathing. if you even care

[dhakcjshkvjbd]

watching people in trans spaces try to understand the dynamics between male and female trans people without allowing for the existence of bio sex or sex-based oppression is like watching people try to reinvent the wheel by making a series of regular polygons with more and more sides each time. but every time it starts looking too round, they scrap it and start over because it was starting to look suspiciously circular, and circles are TERFy

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

i’m gently cupping every woman’s face when I say this: there are things far worse than being single at any age

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

do not let your loneliness convince you that indifference or someone who is constantly hot + cold is better than being alone. being misunderstood or unappreciated is a loneliness of its own

[loveletters2myself]

best advice to all women — take men off the pedestal and focus on creating a beautiful, secure life where a (good) man is only an added blessing, not someone to chase, please, or manipulate into staying.