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Claire Keane
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Sade Olutola
trying on a metaphor
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Janaina Medeiros
if i look back, i am lost
shark vs the universe
taylor price
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sheepfilms
dirt enthusiast
Sweet Seals For You, Always
JBB: An Artblog!
noise dept.
NASA
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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@dykesent
I don’t know who needed to hear this today but if you are not a biological female attracted exclusively to other biological females than your opinion on how lesbian is defined is irrelevant. ♥️
You don’t get to take our word and “make it more inclusive,” it’s not yours to redefine.
Dysphoric radfems sound off with tips on how you deal with it
Female only spaces, women's festivals, existing in nature, camping, working out, yoga, meditation, avoiding male produced media, general separatism, talking about it with women
Radical acceptance, body neutrality, and complete dissociation from myself as a physical being
Sometimes it's a "look at all the neat shit female bodies are capable of" and trying to induce feelings of sisterhood to make myself feel better kinda day, sometimes it's a "my body is merely a meat sack for my brain and as long as it's functioning correctly, it's doing it's job" kinda day, and sometimes it's just a "put on a baggy sweatshirt and avoid mirrors" kinda day.
Sports! Lots of them. I love the ones that’ll give me strength and protect me if I need it (martial arts, boxing). Also yeah learning about all the amazing things the female body can do helped a lot too.
The obsession with pronouns is particularly bizarre to me. How did so many people become convinced that they are an integral part of their personality and important to their lives in any way
social media and how it forces you to sell yourself and consider yourself an image, a commodity, a brand
Thinking about how modern, “progressive” culture surrounding sexuality still enables homophobic rhetoric.
There is, first of all, the idea that sexuality is fluid. The issues in this, I hope, are obvious; by saying that it is fluid, one is saying that it can change. I wonder who preys upon this idea, exploiting vulnerable gay people telling them that there’s something broken with them that can be fixed?
… oh. As we can see, not only does this conversion therapy group draw on this idea, it directly uses this phrasing that is so popular.
Then, of course, there is the idea that people can (or even should) “healthily” engage in sexual activities with those to whom they are not sexually attracted. For example, we commonly see the idea that it’s normal, great even, for asexuals to have sexual activities with their partners. I have seen this justified in several ways:
It still brings physical pleasure to the asexual
It makes the partner happy, and they have an emotional bond with the partner
Both of these could be used to “support” gays and lesbians having straight sex. After all, it’s not as if not being physically attracted to wo/men means that they still can’t love them on an emotional level, right? And they’re still capable of physically enjoying sex. After all, there are plenty of gay men who sustained physical arousal enough to have kids with their female partners.
Then there is the rhetoric that it’s transphobic for lesbians or straight men not to be attracted to a trans woman, or for gay men or straight women not to be attracted to a trans man—genitalia included. No, this certainly isn’t a view every trans person or self-style progressive holds, but it’s something that unfortunately happens too frequently:
I’ve seen several posts where a lesbian will ask if it’s wrong for her not to be attracted to penis if that penis belongs to a trans woman, or ask if there’s a way that she can overcome her penis repulsion for trans women, and she will be met with long lists of advice about thinking about something else, or imaging the trans woman’s genitalia as a cis woman’s genitalia, and so on, the fact she is incapable of being attracted to penis being reduced to “genital preference”. She could completely respect trans women, not be at all transphobic, but still be labelled as such for not being attracted to penis.
The phrase genital preference itself, used in these instances, reduces an immutable part of someone‘s orientation to a preference, in the same way that a bisexual might prefer men but still be attracted to women, or I might prefer brunettes but still be attracted to blondes.
These are multiple areas in which a person’s unchangeable sexual orientation is viewed as changeable, downplayed, or disregarded within progressive spaces. All of these result in an environment where old homophobic rhetoric is validated, because if you’re gay maybe you really aren’t, and even if you are, that doesn’t matter; you can have sex with people you’re not attracted to anyways and it will be completely fine, so what’s holding you back from a normal heterosexual life? There has to be something wrong with you.
“They [men] can stop rape by not raping, and bring the sex industry to its knees by not paying for sex. Oppression doesn’t just happen to women like bad weather. Men as a group systematically oppress and exploit women, and feminism is the political movement to challenge and change that.”
— Finn Mackay, on male involvement in feminism (via discosherpa)
Why am I supposed to empower myself as a woman by “reclaiming” everything misogynistic and degrading and pornified.... I’d rather “reclaim” my rightful dignity and humanity lmfaoo
cops assault women holding a vigil for a woman murdered by a cop.
ive never seen anyone capture the feeling of meeting older dykes as well as this
giving the kubrick stare to the fish at petco
after this c*ovid shit they should let us smoke indoors and in airplanes for at least a year
And harm those with bad lungs and migraines ?
yeah i hate everyone with bad lungs and migraines
Unbelievable quality commentary on this site
i need at least 10 anthropologists on this asap
oOOOOH SH*t !!!by AnatoFinnstark
@lesbianmeouch
why dont you nerds gaslight up a joint
the fact that kristen stewart and robert pattinson both started in twilight and have had similar film trajectories – gotten into small, critically acclaimed indies and received almost identical levels of critical success in that area, before moving back to more mainstream things and having very comparable levels of talent – and yet kristen is still deemed a shitty actress bc of twilight and robert is now held up by film bros who think he’s the second coming…..
it’s misogyny babes
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