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[rad-dworkin]

Do people live in an alternate universe where J.K Rowling is a misogynist misanthrope who creates her books out of malicious intent, or are they just dense? I'm leaning towards the latter.

[evenlesssentimentaltranslator]

What are these dipshits burbling on about now

[sickofthis666]

[femagotchi]

Also you literally are, JKR has stated that Hermione is somewhat of a self insert for her.

I've watched this video and it is complete slop! How can anyone deny that she created tons of iconic female characters with different strong personalities. Luna and Bellatrix come to mind for me as some of my favourites but there are so many other good picks!!

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

about that "male firefighters actively sabotage equipment that female firefighters use"you said... were there documented cases or just something you personally noticed?

This isn’t the article I recalled, but an example anyway:

Morningstar was hired but given a 90-day probationary period; for men it was 30. Then the gear theft and tampering started. Her gloves, hoods, and radio vanished (2007); her mask was sabotaged (two weeks after 9/11). She found what appeared to be semen on her bed (2012). Clothes continued to be stolen and destroyed. Word of the harassment rose all the way to Mayor Don McIlroy, and the department issued a warning against equipment tampering, but nothing substantively changed. 

Another:

Her concerns included having her firefighting gear tampered with several times

And another:

Ever since Judy Brewer became America’s first female firefighter 45 years ago, women have been hazed in the fire service, including sabotaged oxygen tanks and glass in their boots.

More:

You're living twenty-four hours a day in a firehouse and nobody will talk to you. Shit in your boots. Women at the front end of a fire hose and a fire scene and the water gets cut off from her.

I can’t even find the article I had in mind (it was around four or five years ago), but it looks I didn’t need to.

[swedepea]

And men wonder why women don't want to go into male-dominated career fields. 🙄

[officialweatherwax]

I love when MRAs are like "women make men do all the hard and dangerous jobs" while the women who do enter those fields have to put up with men trying to kill them

[vladscastle-deactivated20231022]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/female-firefighters-bullying-sexual-harassment-fifth-estate-

Female firefighters face bullying, sexual harassment, fifth estate finds About 600 of Canada's 22,000 firefighters are women, and workplace issues can be hard to negotiate

[as1llyl1ttlecreature]

"Not my country not my problem!"

But what if it was your country ?

What if you couldn't go to school past sixth grade?

What if you were sold and marries off to an old man at the age of 12?

What if you couldn't even speak in public because people find your voice "sexual"?

What if you couldn't go to the doctors for matters that were very private without a man accompanying you?

What if you had to cover your entire body and face by law?

SPEAK UP FOR THE WOMEN IN AFGANISTAN. Use your voice for those who cannot.

[skygenders]

Good news everyone you don’t have to have kids

[leebrontide]

Younger people, one thing I want you to understand about Millenials is that, overall, our parents taught their daughters to aim for careers and employment, but they didn't teach their sons to keep house. This causes a whole lot of Situations.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

My brothers are my half-brothers; they spent summers and some holidays with us. I love my brothers.

Their mother picked up after them. They were not required to take plates the kitchen or do the dishes or anything like that.

My mother, who would tell you she is for equality, came home one day, sighed at the mess of dirty dishes scattered about, and said, "Gayle, help me pick up."

"Those aren't my dishes," I said. "I picked up my dishes."

My mother sighed again. "Just help me pick up."

"No," I said again. "I didn't make that fucking mess."

She never approached my brothers and said, "Boys, in this house, you take your dishes to the kitchen." She did not tell our dad, "Hey, tell the boys they need to pick up after themselves."

It was, "Gayle, pick up the dishes."

And when I refused because it was not my fucking mess, I got lectured about being difficult.

See also: My brothers--in a classic dick-move of all siblings--figured out they could pop the lock on the bathroom door and throw it open, and I would freak out because I was in the shower and trying to get five fucking minutes of peace.

Guess who got yelled at for being "unreasonable"? Not the boys. Because a lot of moms of millennial boys still said shit like "boys will be boys" when they should have said "Boys, if you got body-slammed on the concrete, I'm not taking you to the hospital."

[gwydionmisha]

It was similar for Xers. I spent a lot of time in my 20's teaching romantic partners and friends basic household skills and having to be really hard ass about them carrying their weight.

It is stupid and infuriating and I hate that the "Boy Mom" trend is setting yet another generation up for unfairness and domestic strife.

[vaspider]

Yep.

[rhincodono]

One time when I was in high school, my mum came home w/ groceries. She needed help bringing all of them in. Did she ask my brother who was already outside playing basketball? No. Did she ask her husband who was sitting on his ass watching TV in the living room? Nope. She walked past both of them, through the house, and into my room where I was doing homework and yelled at me for not immediately coming out to help her.

I have been told that I am "the last of the millennials" or that I'm a "gen zer" or that I'm "on the cusp" by so many different people that I am 100% convinced this is not a generational problem. It is a societal problem. And millennial parents are not immune to raising their kids this way just bc they're younger than x'ers and boomers. Same goes for gen z'ers and every generation after us so long as misogyny remains the bedrock of society that it is.

[rockatanskette]

My parents did a lot to teach my brothers to keep house but the one that sticks with me and drives me a little crazy when it runs up against social expectations is that when we were 13+, everyone was on the dinner rotation. We didn’t have to make anything fancy and we didn’t have to do it alone, but once a week, dinner was our responsibility.

When I tell people this, they always, ALWAYS, assume I have sisters. They say shit like “oh I’d love to do that, but I have boys” and when I tell them I only have brothers, “oh you must have eaten a lot of burned dinners then!”

Like, no. To both of those statements. Sure we burned stuff when we were younger but we all learned to cook before 13, that was just the age where it became a scheduled chore. You know who did burn everything? My MOM. My Boomer dad did all the cooking because my mum didn’t want to and he was the one to help when we needed it, though my mum did help with prep/chopping things.

Fast forward to now, middle brother can make the best risotto I’ve ever had and my youngest brother is vegan and makes almost all his own meals because his partner isn’t and he doesn’t expect her to make two meals so he can eat.

The worst part of this social conditioning is how bullshit it is. I know this is not ingrained, I know people are teaching their sons to be assholes, and I look at my middle brother in his immaculate apartment with tasteful decor that he picked out himself and I look at my youngest brother who does all the clothes shopping for him and his partner because she struggles with it and it makes me want to just start biting people.

Men can be better than this, I GREW UP WITH THEM. I SAW IT. The parenting described above is fucking bullshit and it can be unlearned. My mum’s Russian and my dad’s a Boomer and they unlearned it, which means anybody can.

[mi-tristeza-es-sosiego]

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

[doginclusionaryradicalfeminism]

[guiltguilding]

actual women since forever: hunt wild animals, bear children, lug buckets on buckets of water for cooking and laundry, handle huge hot pots of food, chop wood, slaughter farm animals, work the fields, push coal carts, pull wounded soldiers off the battle field

these moronic clowns: being unable to do physical work means I'm a real woman uwu this is so pwogwessive of me uwu

[femagotchi]

I worked as a landscaper for 5 years and busted ass to keep up with the men. I didn't do that for this idiot to say "being weak is what makes me feel like a woman".

[deadgenerations]

I really hate that for some reason the narrative became that women fought to join the workforce rather than women fought to have the same jobs for the same pay as men instead of being relegated to labour considered to be lesser and explicitly disallowed from many roles and professions. fuck off and die.

[auroraapplepie22]

Women have ALWAYS been part of the workforce. Always. When we were hunter gatherers, women both hunted and gathered. When we began farming, do you think women just sat around staring at the ground all day? No, they fucking worked. They would strap their baby to their back and work in the fields, all day. When industrialization came to town, women worked. Sometimes longer hours and always for a lot less pay. We typed, we filed, we ingested poisonous substances to paint tiny little numbers on clocks. And became horribly disfigured from it. Fighting for equal rights didn't mean we suddenly "got" to work. It meant we fought to not be denied a promotion because we were women. It meant we fought to not be fired because we got pregnant. We fought to make a dollar for every dollar a man made in the same position, rather than 70 cents for every dollar. We still aren't done fighting because this shit is still happening right now.

[urie]

did you receive abstinence only education in school? (and please say where your school is located in the tags)

yes

no

Remaining time: 4 days 3 hours

[theoretical-terf]

It's absolutely insane that you can say something like "if you watch hundreds of hours of videos of women being beaten, choked, and raped, that says something about how you view women" and people on this website will categorise you with nazis doing book burnings or christians doing witch trials.

[alchemisedsenlinyu]

the incest diary, anonymous

[femagotchi]

The worst part about rape is seeing your rapist get to move on and live a normal life because people didn't believe you, or if they do, they don't want to "ruin" his life and they want to keep the peace in the family/friend group/institution where it happened.

[friendlyfreakazoid]

it’s kinda funny in a sad way that there was that research paper years back that found that lesbians are most likely to be victims of homophobic abuse by the various people in their lives (such as their parents, relatives, friends, coworkers, etc) but everyone decided to interpret it as if it were saying that lesbians are the most likely to abuse each other and then used that false info as a way of furthering the homophobic abuse against us 🙃

[friendlyfreakazoid]

No way a straight woman just reblogged this post claiming I’m being “heterophobic” and a “class traitor” (not even sure which class I’m supposedly betraying lol) by pointing out what the results of this study actually found 😭😭😭😭 you people are CRAZY!!

[occasionaltmblrforafreehero]

the study wasn't even about intra relationship violence?? What???

I was grossly lied to. Where can we read the original study?

[friendlyfreakazoid]

Here’s the original study: The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2010 Findings on Victimization by Sexual Orientation

The study found that LGB women were more likely to be victimized by abuse than men, which most people took to mean that lesbians were more likely to abuse each other, but if you read the study you’ll find that the majority of the perpetrators of abuse of these LGB women were men, not fellow women.

And here’s a helpful article that breaks down the rumors/misinformation that have spread as a result of people purposefully misinterpreting this original study and other similar studies: DEBUNKING THE LESBIAN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DATA. Useful to help understand the statistics and scientific language of the studies and provides a lot of sources and further reading.

Obviously abuse can occur in lesbian relationships, because anyone can be an abuser no matter what demographic they belong to, but to claim that lesbian couples have the highest rate of domestic violence is objectively and provably false.

[claudiadpdl]

i love how white people are supposed to be graciously forgiven for having a racist past because "they were kids and didn't know any better" but no one gives a flying fuck about the black kids that were subjected to brutal racist bullying during their childhoods. bullying that we're still subject to today because nothing has changed. white people were not being racist to some amorphous, unfeeling entity in some vacuous, isolated section of the internet, they were hurling slurs, racist "jokes"/imagery and antiblackness at REAL ACTUAL CHILDREN while gaslighting and mocking us for being upset, and no one gives a fuck!! we're just supposed to forgive these people who are never sorry and never will be and if not we're the problem and im so sick of it

[skankplisskenmoved]

men took my little pony away from us girls so us teen girls are takin pro wrestling fuck yall just try n stop us

[coralbluebirdtiger-deactivated2]

have fun fetishizing the shit out of *real life* celebrities. it actually makes the people who sexualize the shit out of children’s cartoons seem normal.

[rideitslut]

did you just imply being attracted to actual real human males isn’t normal but wanting to fuck cartoon horses is

[femagotchi]

This is literally the hockey RPF fandom and the F1 RPF fandom, lol. I don't get it but have fun girlies

[radical-desiderium]

It'd be nice if the "sex positivity" was about like...women demanding orgasms and pleasurable sex with their partners with the threat of kicking them to the curb if the don't deliver. Instead it shames women to accept whatever kink their partner has in the name of being "open-minded" and that they shouldn't prioritize having an orgasm anyway because "sex isn't all about orgasms". A woman wanting to have "vanilla" sex with her partner and still climax is viewed as boring. Like, if your male partner consistently gets off each time and you never do, why would you stay with that person if you're "sex positive"? Sure seems unfair to the woman in that situation, almost like it's just another way to get women to do only what men want in bed 🤔.

[radical-desiderium]

This is specifically about that post that's been circulating radblr about the woman who broke her neck getting her hair pulled. She described their relationship sensually, called his penis a goddamn treasure, and then concluded the post saying he never made her cum once. So she was letting a man roughhouse her body for no pleasure in return and nobody seems to find that weird. Why was she with him at all? Why is her only comment on this situation to pull hair "safely"? He was hurting her and she admitted that she didn't even enjoy sex with him and nobody cares because they're "sex-positive". The sex positivity movement is fucking cancer.

[radical-desiderium]

I'm bringing this back because it still pisses me off and I feel it's relevant. This is how she starts out talking about sex with this guy:

One part that I didn't include was how she talked about greeting him at the door and he pretty much instantly initiated sex. The whole story makes her sound like a MRA's dream girl: she greets him in her own home wearing high heels and stylish clothes and makeup, has sex with him immediately without complaint, lets him do whatever he wants to get off, and barely even complains about the grievous injury she receives at his hands or the fact that she didn't orgasm once during her entire relationship with him. She mentions that he never thought of her pleasure like it was an afterthought to her, an additional strike against him but not enough on its own to be brought up. And despite that, despite her being a "cool girl" who he apparently said was "marriage material", he still drops her like she's nothing to him the moment she was injured because he obviously couldn't be bothered.

Even to the very end of her story, she doesn't think he did anything wrong by pulling her hair like that nor does she denounce "rough sex". All she talks about is how to pull hair "safely". Like....this is fucked up. How could you read this and not see that man as anything but a self-obsessed, misogynistic, abusive asshole despite all her attempts to paint him to the contrary? He literally fucked her when he felt like it, broke her neck, then left like it was none of his business.

This is what porn culture does to women: it makes them rationalize their own abuse because they and everyone around them continually justify it as normal and any serious incidents that occur because of "rough sex"/BDSM/etc are waved off as "dumb, badly-executed moves". This isn't healthy, you shouldn't wave off this kind of shit as just a mistake. I doubt this man was unaware of the amount of force he was pulling her hair with. Acting like it was completely unintentional is disingenuous. If it was really a mistake, if this dude had felt any remorse for what he did, he wouldn't have left her immediately after. This was a man who used a woman and then threw her away and he should be villified for that.

[femagotchi]

Why are they so obsessed with hurting us, why can't they just have sex normalstyle where no one gets hurt and everyone enjoys it.

[rey253]

i have never and will never understand the obsession with removing body hair, it takes ages, it can be expensive, it hurts to do most of the time, you have to buy all these products so you don’t get rashes and ingrowns and spots, and then half the time you miss spots and have to go back and do it again, and all this work only lasts about two days before you have to repeat it all again.

and the reason behind doing all this is literally just to make your skin resemble that of a prepubescent child, while making yourself more susceptible to infections in the process.

so i don’t understand why some women act like deciding to no longer shave is some long and difficult journey that you have to survive and power through, i see women all the time who speak out against the beauty industry, sometimes even acknowledging shaving being gross itself, but then they still do it, like why?? i truly don’t understand like literally just get out the shower 20 minutes earlier and stop wasting your money on razors, it’s not that big or difficult of a thing, and you’ll be all the better for doing it lol.

[femagotchi]

Its because of shame. I don't shave either and I'm a stubborn motherfucker who will argue with or curse out people who comment... but people *do* comment and it can get exhausting and feel easier to give in.

[no-more-dead-dogs]

my beautiful wife, severe thunderstorm warning, is texting me 😌😚😍😍

[phaeton-flier]

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

[phaeton-flier]

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

[theaudientvoid]

[centrally-unplanned]

Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.

And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.

[theabigailthorn]

love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears

[femagotchi]

Just read Seekers by Erin Hunter (the Warrior Cats authors). They are really good at creating fictional religions for animals!