[mikroblogolas]

“The body has been for women in capitalist society what the factory has been for male waged workers: the primary ground of their exploitation and resistance, as the female body has been appropriated by the state and men and forced to function as a means for the reproduction and accumulation of labor.”

— Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (via owl-priestess)

[vladtheunfollower]

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[cisthoughtcrime]

saying I'm 'cis' would be saying that I have an internal identity that 'matches' my physical sex. I fundamentally reject the premise of any internal identity 'matching' either sex. I do not have a womanbrain or a femininemind or a girlgender. my body is female and that has shaped many of my life experiences, specifically because of the ambient misogynistic culture of male supremacy; none of that is innate to my brain. the things I like or do or want are gender neutral and particular to my personality as a human. the idea that the things I like or do or want either 'match' or 'don't match' my body rests on the premise that different personalities are tied to 'matching' bodies on the basis of sex innately rather than artificially. that is a fundamentally sexist premise at odds with feminism.

[neetlesbian-deactivated20240403]

I typed out a response to a "Are you going to do genital inspections at the entrance to the women's bathroom?" post but OP turned of reblogs before I could post it so here it is I guess:

It [the idea that women's spaces are pointless because female exclusivity is unenforceable] is such a telling argument because all that's really being asked for when we demand single sex spaces is for men to VOLUNTARILY self-select out. For males to understand that, though they may not fit in well with other males, female spaces are still not theirs.

The suggestion from feminists is never genital inspections at the bathroom entrance, but that males voluntarily refrain from entering and that females have the right to expel violators when we can identify them. Some males do pass as females, and our request is that they respect our space regardless.

Males truly cannot conceive of the idea of simply respecting the space and boundaries of women. It literally doesn't cross their minds, so their minds immediately jump to whether or not women can forcibly stop them. The belief is that if a woman cannot forcibly prevent it, you may take anything you like from her with impunity.

"You can't force us not to enter!" They shout. Of course we cant! Forgive us for believing in your humanity and thinking that you might simply respect us. We thought too highly of you.

[marmorada]

People trying to decenter poc from racism die challenge

[dykerhetoric]

this has got to be satire LMFAO

[tejuina]

re: the swing in detrans community... while I do feel tremendously for women medicalized as children or teens (something I was lucky to avoid) and the sweeping nature of modern gender identity is going to harm a generation of girls in unique ways, I really don't like that the politics of detrans are hinged around the ROGD model... that detransitioners were girls led astray by a contemporary mass hysteria who progress along "normal" channels of feminine development when led back. myself and the majority of lesbians I know with a trans history are or were "properly" diagnosable with gender dysphoria. I know "ideal candidates" who were roundly gatekept under older transition models who detransitioned. it often seems to me that pundits and straight-detrans-people-gone-pundits often fail to consider that there is a healthy trajectory for homosexual (or otherwise strongly same-sex attracted and/or gender nonconforming) identity development that could be derailed at all and that transition for so-called "good candidates" could actually cause deeply soul-disruptive and generationally traumatic problems not easily represented through failure to "pass" (i.e. have others facilitate your social integration into the other sex's gender roles) or the medical complications of transgender interventions. besides, "social contagion" means something far different for gay people who only rarely transmit culture, knowledge, and structure for said healthy development through reproductive family units-- when "trans" is the memetic unit for how to handle Being Gay we sever young gays and lesbians and isolated gay people (i.e. rural, disabled, etc.) from this means of cultural transmission and hand them directly to medical specialists, predators of all sorts, and other entrapped young people instead.

you're so right honestly.

"rapid onset gender dysphoria" could've been used literally to describe a phenomenon that I do think occurs, but instead it's become this pseudoscientific theory that oversimplifies the issue and touches on everything but the root problem. parents are blaming tumblr and their kid's friend group and the lgbt-friendly teacher at school and of course end up thinking the solution is to isolate their kid and control their life. they blame gender therapists and simultaneously think the panacea is ~good~ therapists, who can occasionally help but are not a substitute for oh, say, the eradication of sexism and homophobia on a systemic level.

rogd implies there's non-rogd trans people aka "real" trans people who can't be harmed by transition if they stick to guidelines set forth by "good" doctors. and on top of that, I think it minimizes the very real problems that rogd teens face that make them vulnerable to "social contagion" in the first place. it's easier to say, "my child was such a normal little girl, nothing was wrong until the internet made her trans!" than to say, "my child grew up in a a patriarchal and homophobic environment" (especially when you contributed to that misogyny and homophobia whoops).

I also hate this assumption that this is just gen z’s ~emo phase~ and that in 10 years everyone will look back and cringe at the phenomenon. things are not going to just magically get better, and they will in fact get worse if we don’t do something about it.

[sundazesun]

[haggishlyhagging]

Pornography is the most blatant political terrorism on earth. Although this fact seems lost on all but a few feminists, it wouldn't be lost on anybody if it were primarily directed against any group but women. For instance, if this country were suddenly flooded with billions of magazines and books and movies and videos, 98 percent of which portrayed graphically and in detail pleasure and power gained by the debasement, humiliation, and physical maiming—to the point of dismembering and killing—of Black South African males, or Sandinista males, or Jewish males, a hue and cry would arise in the liberal community such as would put all former human rights outcries to shame. Masses of outraged people would rampage through the streets of every city and town. Something would be done immediately to stop it, and the ACLU would be there, leading the pack. An interesting phenomenon would occur. Liberals would suddenly recognize pornography as the deadly political weapon, as the potent forger of societal attitudes, and as the powerfully persuasive legitimator of oppression that it is and is intended to be. They would know it for the ultimate terrorist tactic.

But pornography is not primarily designed to reduce men to meat, to objects, to bloody pulp. It concentrates on reducing women to meat, to objects, to bloody pulp. When it does this to women, it's suddenly, magically, not political at all. It's erotic! It's being really sexually "free." It's sexual hi-jinks, and lots of fun! Surprise, everyone!

This is the truth of women's lives: that we live in a world where invisible institutions with inaudible voices command men to do everything possible to stop us from being fully human, fully ourselves; to hunt us down, and, if necessary, to slaughter us, emotionally and physically. We live in a world where the strongest women are deliberately and subtly co-opted into leading the cheers in the woman-hating contests. Nothing like this systematic breaking of the heart and spirit of half of humanity happens in the wars men call wars. There is no battlefield so strewn with broken bodies and lives as the sexual battlefields which constitute the foundation of every "civilized" society in the world.

Men speak humorously, or so they say, of "the war between the sexes"—a transparent and guileful attempt to mislead us into thinking that there is a natural enmity between women and men, and that the "sides" are evenly matched. Nothing could be further from the truth on both counts. The "war between the sexes" is man made, and it is not between anybody. It is against women.

-Sonia Johnson, Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation

[theeleanorvance]

"Feminists who want to dismantle gender, because they see it as a product of male dominance, do not 'trans' gender, they simply get over it. Transgenders are so attached to the notion of gender, albeit to a different one from that in which they were brought up, that they spend huge amounts of time, energy and money in order to acquire their gender of choice. Transgender politics are fundamentally conservative, dedicated to retaining the behaviours of the dominant and subordinate classes of male supremacy - masculinity and femininity."

- Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny

[theeleanorvance]

"Beauty practices show that women are obedient, willing to do their service, and to put effort into that service. They show, I suggest, that women are not simply 'different' but, most importantly, 'deferential'. The difference that women must embody is deference. The way in which the sexual difference/deference is required to be expressed can vary considerably between male dominated societies, but there is no evidence that any societies exist in which the sexual difference/deference is irrelevant or in which the social order of male dominance is founded in anything but this difference. Indeed how could male dominance have any existence without a clear difference marking who is in the dominant class and who is not? In western societies it is expressed in the requirement that women create 'beauty' through clothing which should show large areas of their bodies for male excitement, through skirts (although this is not such a pervasive rule as it was 20 years ago), through figure-hugging clothing, through makeup, hairstyles, depilation, prominent display of secondary sexual characteristics or creation of them by surgery and through 'feminine' body language. Women are required to practice femininity in order to create sexual difference/deference. But the difference is one of power, and femininity is the behaviour required of the subordinate class of women in order to show their deference to the ruling class of men."

- Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny

[theeleanorvance]

"The feminist critique of beauty practices, [Sandra] Bartky explains, 'threatens women with a certain de-skilling, something people normally resist' (1990, p. 77). Women spend a great deal of time and money learning and practising to be beautiful. Especially if they feel they have mistressed this well, it may be difficult to accept that it was all for naught, and the skills have no value."

- Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny

[femsolid]

“We have asked students in our classes to describe characteristics of people whom they’ve heard called “man-haters” and “woman-haters”. A man hater is a woman who speaks her own mind, a feminist, or a lesbian: in other words, a woman who has her own voice and doesn’t put men first is a man-hater. By contrast, students are unable to recall any situations in which they have heard someone being called a woman-hater. We ask, “Are rapists and wife batterers woman-haters?” They answer, “Just because a man rapes or batters women doesn’t mean he hates women.” The differential definitions ascribed to terms that should have equivalent meanings suggest an enormous collective need both to deny male hatred of women and to derogate independent female action (which might be used to expose expressions of that male hatred).”

- Loving To Survive by Dee L. R. Graham

[femsolid]

"A man rose at the back of the hall with a pencil and paper in his hand. "You say that over 2000 women are raped every day in this country. I did some quick figuring. That makes about 40,000 a day worldwide." Significant pause. Then he exploded: "That's the number of children who starve to death every day! Think about that!" And he plopped down in his seat with a smug, duty-done look on his face. At that point, another man, encouraged by his colleague's outspokenness and impeccable logic, arose and pointed out that no matter how bad incest is (he called it "child abuse" since he was apparently unable to face the implications of "incest"), he was furious at my saying that what happens to females in incest is far worse than anything that happens to men in wars. How could I be so insensitive? How do I think he'd felt, leaving the blasted bodies of his buddies strewn all over Vietnam's battlefields? Didn't I have any conception that men were being tortured even as we sat there, in El Salvador, for instance?

What they were saying to me was very clear. As long as any male, anywhere is suffering, women are selfish to mention that they are suffering, too.

I'm sure neither of those men realized the woman-hatred behind their feeling that everything and everyone should come before women. I pointed out quietly that in every country where children are starving, women are starving also. In every country where men are being tortured, women are being tortured also. I was insensitive enough to point out that Vietnam is also strewn with the blasted bodies of women, and that many, many of those bodies were not simply blown up, but were also sexually abused-raped, gang raped, used up in prostitution, tortured. No matter when or where or what men suffer, women's suffering is on some totally different, more exquisite, plane.

But no one wants to hear that women are suffering. Men's ordeals are recounted and described and depicted in every conceivable way in every medium on earth, and have been from earliest history. We are always asked and expected to look at and listen to and understand and sympathize with men's pain and suffering, and we have always done it, all of us, men and women. But women's agony at the hands of men must never be revealed. If women steadfastly and courageously began to tell the truth and would not stop, would not be co-opted, would not become afraid, the truth of our enslavement would be undeniable, and the jig would be up.

That this might indeed happen is terrifying to most people. It would stand the whole world on its head. This is why any time women say, "Look at what is happening to us!" someone invariably rises up on the spot (as patriarchy has trained us all so well to do) and shouts, in order to divert us, to frighten us, to remind us of our vulnerability and danger: "But what about men?"

I explained to the distraught man whose buddies lie in fragments all over the corpse of Vietnam: ''You are performing this function here to night. May I interrupt this well-rehearsed performance to point out that we have given men 5000 years of undivided attention." (Is it any wonder they have remained spoiled little boys?) As Pauline Bart points out: "We are not allowed, even now, to speak of women's suffering without someone saying, 'and men, too,' although we have always spoken of men's suffering without adding 'and women, too!'" Patriarchy has worked hard to make women's experience appear so trivial and so invisible that it is inconceivable to most people that we warrant any attention at all. Otherwise, it would not be so maddening to them to have to listen for a whole hour to a speech about women, though they listen willingly day after day, year after year, to talks by and about men. For many hundreds of years they have heard about nothing but men: their wars, their ideas, their art, their politics, their science, their blah, blah, blah, ad nauseam."

- Going Out of Our Minds by Sonia Johnson

[laurierrose]

liberal feminists express more outrage over black women having limited nude makeup choices compared to white women than they do over black women being three times more likely to die in childbirth than white women

[seeuspacelesbian-deactivated202]

it will never cease to make me want to be violent that when homosexual people started to play the uno reverse card and say ‘you know what, i’m tired of being told i’m inferior to you just because I don’t experience heterosexual attraction. Actually I’m the one who is superior to you for only experiencing homosexual attraction and that makes me fundamentally better than you’ the homophobes got all up in their fee fees about not feeling special enough and said “NOT ONLY CAN I SAY I’M YOU, BUT I’M QUEER YOU’RE A QUEER. ALSO not fucking the other sex and finding them repulsive is STILL immoral so i’m STILL better than you for fucking them aren’t i a good gay” and homosexuals are at large expected to just take it.

[awoman-is-alive]

super ironic when people who rant about late stage capitalism have pronouns in their bio. imo the current state of gender ideology/identity politics is a part of late stage capitalism. the extreme individualism, the commodification of identity, and the erasure (or suppression) of class consciousness. ppl who go on about late stage capitalism in the same breath are like “actually women have nothing in common nooo dont achieve class consciousness ur so sexy haha, also are you uncomfortable in your body? are you uncomfortable with how you as a female are treated in society (especially a capitalist society)? theres a label for that, theres surgery for that, theres hormones for that, theres clothing and makeup for that, the validity of your identity thrives on how others perceive you externally etc etc etc”

[wallflowerpetal]

Documentaries that will radicalize you:

The Hunting Ground (sexual assault on college campuses)

The Invisible War (sexual assault in the military)

Hot Girls Wanted (exploitation of young women in the porn industry)

Our Father (exploitation of women seeking fertility assistance via donor sperm)

Athlete A (sexual assault in USA women’s gymnastics)

Period. End of Sentence (Indian women empower themselves to combat menstruation stigma by making and selling reusable pads)

Surviving R. Kelly (his victims come forward to expose his pedophilia and sexual abuse)

The Bleeding Edge (exploitation in the medical device industry, primarily affecting women)