bow down to no man

20, bisexual, eastern european, not your cool girl, philosophy student & an evil radfem

[mommyhorror]

I find it fascinating that Karen is only ever used towards “cis” women. Interesting that trans women can act as entitled as they want, can speak over women, incite violence online and otherwise, not back down, not listen to other people, are majority white .. and yet they aren’t called Karens. I’m fascinated by this. Truly. and I know for a fact that trans women call women Karens. because it’s a sexed term and it only ever refers to females.

[wildwitchofthewoodland]

Every culture likes to pretend that feminism is something foreign to them, that it's the crazy and hysteric bitches from another country that are trying to corrupt their own women, who neither want nor need feminism, because they actually enjoy being oppressed. Afghan women love not going to school and covering their whole body, feminism and women's rights are a western concept that you can't force upon them! Italian women don't mind being catcalled, it's different here! Only girl bosses whine about discrimination in the work place, working class women just soldier on! But feminism is a worldwide movement and it is at home in every class, culture and country, because women everywhere are oppressed and women everywhere hate it. If it's a natural part of your culture to abuse women, then the women's struggle against it is a natural part of your culture as well.

[replicated-archive]

i think i would rather encounter multiple women who take astrology too seriously over even one guy who genuinely believes in sigma/alpha/beta male bullshit

[sarahtheferret]

women who take astrology too seriously:  hey bestie i made u a star chart

men who believe the s/a/b male bullshit:  women should be enslaved

[dippyface]

I say this every 10 days but golddiggers aren't a real problem and don't exist and powerful men who marry 20 year olds are the problem

[mirthfulrealist]

Funny how we have a word for Golddiggers and Cougars and Karens but not their far more common and predatory male equivalents hmmmmmm

[antiandrogen]

u know… a sexual act is not instantly good and healthy simply by being consensual

[saintmaudes]

https://www.instagram.com/CKwmWM0gx8P/?igshid=k4y78ez1oj9n

[just-shower-thoughts]

All tests should be open book. It’s not like your future boss is going to say, “I need those tax returns finished by noon, but don’t look at any of the financial statements. Do it all from memory.”

[tyrantworld]

Exactly! You should be tested on application of a concept not memory

[intj-confessions]

I’ve told this story before but idc I’m doing it again.

My dad once taught some class at a conference. He gave everyone a worksheet and after watching them flounder for a few minutes on their own he said, “You guys know you can talk to each other and work together, right?” These were industry professionals who suddenly reverted back to that must-not-collaborate mentality when put in a classroom setting.

[warsawmouse]

school fucks us up soo bad

[lierdumoa]

It becomes more and more obvious every year that public school as it exists was designed to prepare people to enter the factory system in the 1930s.

[berlynn-wohl]

In case anyone didn’t know, the above is literally true. The modern public school system was designed a little over a hundred years ago by captains of industry to train people to do the dehumanizing labor needed on assembly lines.

Human beings crave meaningful work that makes them feel accomplished and resourceful. Humans like to feel like they’re part of a community, and see the results of a job well done. These desires are incompatible with industrial and post-industrial economies, so people have to be brought up in a system that crushes as much of this desire as possible and convinces them that any remaining scrap of yearning for dignified labor is not worth acknowledging or pursuing.

Class periods that aren’t long enough to devote serious thought to a subject; the bells that tell you when it’s time to eat, regardless of when you’re actually hungry; the alienating tedium of standardized testing; these things didn’t develop organically. They were designed by the people who stood to derive the greatest benefit from them.

[rosalie-q-deactivated20181204]

“The Rise of Standardized Educational Testing in the U.S.: A Bibliographic Overview,” Torin Monahan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1998)

“Standardized Testing: Fair or Not?” Dr. John Poulsen & Kurtis Hewson, University of Lethbridge

[kaleighfratkins]

sex is not supposed to be about what you can tolerate!!!!! sex is supposed to be about what you genuinely want and enjoy!!!!! and if you’re traumatized and/or not straight, believe me, I know it’s not that simple to figure out what it is that you actually want and enjoy.

you’re not a bad person if you do something that you don’t particularly enjoy because, for example, it makes your partner happy, but always remember: you have no obligation to engage in sexual activities that you don’t fully like and enjoy. 

and you don’t ever, ever need to justify that - if your partner has an issue with “It makes me kind of uncomfortable” or “I don’t really like it”, then that person does not deserve a moment of your time, in or outside of the bedroom. you don’t have to prove yourself to anyone; you don’t have to meet anyone’s standards of acceptable vs. unacceptable activity (or lack thereof); you don’t have to force yourself to be comfortable with something because of any perceived political connotations of performing or refusing that act.

saying yes because you feel guilty about saying no is not consent. saying yes because you’re scared of what will happen if you say no is not consent. saying yes because you figure you might as well just endure it is not consent. sex ed on here and elsewhere doesn’t give a single shit about traumatized people and I wish someone had told me all of this a lot sooner. 

[josieandthepussycatsofficial]

also sex should never be part of any transaction. i’ve seen posts talking about asexuality that say, “i have sex with him and he does laundry, like any other division of chores.” sex should never be a chore or some kind of necessary labor you grit your teeth through. doing dishes is necessary, sex is not

[kiefbowl]

not to be all terfy or whatever but my uterus mccuterus literally physically exists in space and time and that space and time is in my lower abdomen where my pelvis is and it sheds a uterine lining every 27-30 days for like five days which has real world consequences in my actual life which are not figurative nor ignorable, and sometimes I want to be able to go “as a woman…” to talk about like, how my life as a woman is affected by like this really actual thing that if you cut me open you could literally physically hold in your hand like it’s tangible and has weight and mass, without being told I’m responsible for murders.

[a-womb-of-ones-own]

Do libfems really expect men who rub aggressively an inch away from the clit for two minutes as foreplay to be so discerning and skilled as to only safely cut off blood flow to their partners brain? Men who can’t be bothered to wash their hands or ass before sex? Men who furiously jam their dick into a dry vagina because foreplay is just too much work? You expect me to believe a horny man would never accidentally crush their partners windpipe? Suffocate them? Cut off blood flow and oxygen to the brain and cause permanent damage? Sure babe 😐 let’s spread cutesy strangulation infographics to minors on Instagram about how safe and fun it is and call them slut shaming frigid unfuckable prudes if they’re uncomfortable. Girl power.

[hieronymouscock]

it’s funny because i don’t think other forms of oppression are relatively unimportant compared to misogyny it’s just that misogyny is routinely treated as relatively unimportant compared to every other form of oppression

[stephenroot]

If the tyranny of vulnerability demands that women care for every other oppressed population before they talk about their own oppression, is the natural endpoint of that the assumption that women can only talk about their own oppression if they’ve decided that no one else’s oppression matters?

[she-volution-deactivated2022052]

literally the only difference between men and women is their body, that’s it. how did society forget this overnight. it’s incredibly sexist to claim women and men have any other difference, because that would imply sexism is a consequence of this mystical ‘other difference’ instead of men wanting to control our reproductive abilities. i’ve lost all sympathy for anyone who isn’t gender critical, i feel like you’re telling i deserve sexism because i have some female essence or something similar. no i have a female body, that’s why i experience sexism and no i don’t deserve it and no i can’t opt out of it.

[velvety-secret]

Like most people don’t like to admit this, but one of the reasons a lot of us have so many mental health issues is because we live in a world that has basically become untenable. People can’t afford basic necessities, let alone to cultivate their interests or take breaks and rest or do any of the things necessary for good mental health. People my age are wracked with debt, working at jobs they hate or studying topics they hate, living in a shitty apartment with five roommates. We live in a world that’s very hard to be healthy in. So while yeah, a lot of people obviously do have mental illnesses that would need medication no matter what, they are greatly exacerbated by these issues, and a lot of people have basically just been thrust into an eternal situational depression. So if that doesn’t change, medication is just a band-aid. 

[zvaigzdelasas]

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

[positiveattitudehunting]

my leg hairs are my friends

[divorcedwife]

but why is it that when people talk about internalized misogyny it's always girls who hate on girls who are super feminine and never girls who mock other girls for not wearing makeup or having visible body hair? i dont think girls who think they're not like most girls are the #1 enforcers of patriarchy

[momqueer]

isn’t it interesting how lots of cis lesbians are happy to have penetrative sex with a strap on and some cis girls even refer to their strap on as a dick or a cock and that’s totally fine but as soon as it’s homegrown and not store bought, penetrative sex isn’t gay anymore? and by interesting I mean transmisogynistic

[itburnsitshines-deactivated2023]

[gorgonetta]

I’m not a misandrist I have man friends and sometimes I even read books by men I’m very open minded

[ripiwashereonce-deactivated2021]

I’m not a misandrist I have a dad