Vegan Feminist

I will not stay silent so you can stay comfortable

[guerrillamamamedicine]

(via Turkish woman allegedly kills abusive husband, becomes social media icon)

“Will women always die? Let some men die too,” Dogan told police. “I killed him for my honor.”

[hi-karii]

Since it was not included in the article, I thought I would provide a rough translation of her historical defense on court;

“When men wear suits and look down they get their sentences lowered; I dont have a suit, my mom barely managed to find this shirt for me. I won’t lie, there is also the joy of being able to survive that i can’t conceal. I’ve walked the corridors of these courthouses countless times, my face covered in bruises, for a restraining order. I didn’t have any other choice. If he hadn’t died, I was going to. He wasn’t going to tell you he had decided to pimp me out, he wasn’t going to talk about his plans of putting me in the arms of other men, he wasn’t going to tell you about the beatings I endured just because the eggplants were slightly overcooked, because the curtains were dirty, because there were leftover crumbs on the table. He wasn’t going to mention how many times I was hospitalized. There is a picture of me taken in the teahouse. I’ve smiled a bit lopsidedly. Maybe he was going to show you that picture and tell you I looked like a dishonorable woman. He was going to tell you he ‘cleansed my honor’ as if he wasn’t planning to pimp me out. You were going to sentence him to 3-5 years and pardon him because i had dishonored him and see my lopsided smile as provocation and feel sad for him. However, honor is mine Mr. Judge, I won’t leave it to anyone else just because I signed a paper.”

[kabaks]

her name is Çilem Doğan and she was sentenced to 15 years for this. the court initially wanted to give her life imprisonment. she was released on bail in june 2016 and has since become a symbol for the movement against femicide and violence against women in Turkey. 

[nemfrog]

Havasu Falls. Natural History. June 1949. Cover photo.

Internet Archive

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

"I learned a long time ago that the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side." - Maya Angelou

[vegance]

starting to wonder how exactly y‘all want to create collective action while refusing to engage in any individual action….

[the-vegan-elves]

It should tell you something about carnists’ overall mindset that they think one of their most valid defenses against veganism is, “It’s wrong to tell people their beliefs are wrong.”

Literally, “I’m paying for torture and slaughter, but since you’re pointing that out, that makes you worse than me.”

Sometimes I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

[wilwheaton]

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[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“It takes more courage to reveal your insecurities than to hide them.”

— Alex Karras

[bergamotbarbie]

De-center men. That’s all the advice I can give. De-center males and focus on yourself. For the love of You.

[amoei]

Remember when Radical Feminists said that obscuring language when it comes to women's health care & abortion would help in the destruction of women's health care & abortion.

If you frame abortion as a "people" issue instead of a woman's issue you can't get mad when men have a say in abortion.

Then this shit happened...

Fucking clowns and idiots. You gender shits are not seeing heaven.

@menalez @ms-hells-bells @ms-gay-frogs can u help boost this

[gustavowasright-deactivated2022]

calamity jane in film:

calamity jane irl:

amelia earhart in film:

amelia earhart irl:

[overpoweredbyfunk-deactivated20]

It's the erasure of butch women for me

[whitepeopletwitter]

[terracemuse]

start now.

[thealkalinespinster-deactivated]

Yeah, sure, let men be feminine and let women be masculine. But by all means, let’s not act like these options are equivalent.

After all, men set the standards for both masculinity (they get to decide how they want to see themselves) and for femininity (they get to decide what they want to see in women). So when men start adopting more a feminine attire - and femininity to them mostly means fashion, make-up, beauty, etc. - they will increase the already sky-high pressure women face to be feminine. There’s of course some grey area with regard to what is feminine enough, but the absolute minimum is to be more feminine than a man, right? So the more feminine men become and the more they broadcast their femininity, the more pressure women will feel to shape up.

The reverse is not true. Women never get to call the shots with regard to masculinity. The fact that some women successfully adopt a more masculine fashion or mannerism or that they excel in masculine-coded skills doesn’t change that. Men do note measure themselves in relation to women the way both men and women measure women in relation to men. So if men feel threatened in any way by masculine women, they won’t think: Shit, this chick is tougher than me, I have to improve my game. They will perceive her as treading on their turf and bully her off.

[the-queer-demon]

there is no such thing as a swerf. radical feminists want all pimps and johns executed, but we support the actual victims of sex work. please actually read up on this subject instead of running your mouth based on some porn addict's misogynistic take on how evil ex-prostitutes are "swerfs" trying to ruin everyone else's fun.

okay, but? do you not understand that this is exactly why swerfs are bad? Because they see sex workers as victims instead of real people. Yes, there is so much wrong with sex work and porn, which is exactly why legalization and protection under the law is so important instead of just labeling every sex worker as a victim who can’t speak for themselves

[femclasscirce]

Uh… why do you imply that victims are not real people?

Legalization does jack shit to protect the women in prostitution. Look at the Netherlands, look at Germany: the only people that are actually protected are the sex buyers and the pimps. Legalization & decrim increase trafficking, because once its legal more men will want to go to prostituted women, but women won’t suddenly want to go into prostitution in droves. This means that the demand will outweigh the supply by magnitudes, and the only way to remedy that is trafficking. In Germany, where I lived for a decade, most women on the streets don’t even speak German. Trafficking is everywhere, in plain sight. And even the women who are not trafficked are subjected to insane levels of exploitation (see the Pascha in Cologne or the Paradies brothel chain for some good examples)

Maybe listen to the countless prostitution survivors who have been saying this for ages?

[psspsspussy]

They’ve done it! They’ve swallowed so many political purity rules and so much propaganda it’s a bad thing to even acknowledge victims of harm even exist now!

[ms-gay-frogs]

One study found that “82% [of prostitutes] had been physically assaulted; 83% had been threatened with a weapon; 68% had been raped while working as prostitutes.”

Another report found that 90% of prostitutes want to leave their job but don’t have the resources to.

One study found that “63% of women in prostitution were raped, 71% were physically assaulted, and 68% met the criteria for post traumatic stress disorder.”

(these rates of PTSD are also similar to those who fought in wars and those who experienced state-organized torture)

the same source i linked before also discusses a report in the British Medical Journal, which found that “half of the women interviewed had experienced being slapped, punched, beaten, robbed, threatened with a weapon, held against their will, strangled, kidnapped, and/or raped.”

aaaand once again, the same source also discusses how 50% of prostitutes’ deaths are caused by murder.

just look at that fucking mortality rate. how can you NOT say these women are victims? you must be a fucking demon to think that this is okay.

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Pro-prostitution liberals think victims of trafficking and rape are weak and pathetic, that being a victim is something to be ashamed of. People need to understand that acknowledging that a woman is a victim of violence isn’t a condemnation of her as a human being; it is the person who victimised her that should be condemned. Being a victim of violence says nothing about your character. 

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