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While I was still in Germany, I remember being invited over for lunch on Sundays by this Mennonite family. At the time, their daughters were around 11 and 13. And I, in my ignorance and still lost in the world, far away from God, looked at them, noticing their faces free from any make up, their plain clothes without any famous logo and their eyes, still full of innocence, and I thought with myself “they will never know their full potential as women.”

But nowadays, after being saved by God from this decadent world, I ask myself: full potential for what? Full potential of being sexualized by men? Of being lusted after by men wherever they went? Full potential of wearing toxic products for the sake of being conventionally attractive? Full potential of covering their natural nails with fake glass or plastic nails? Full potential of being addicted to daily validation of strangers online? Full potential of spending their whole life obsessed with being perceived as sexually attractive? Full potential of developing depression, anxiety and eating disorders after spending years consuming fashion magazines and comparing themselves with naked women on television and shows and social media? Full potential of being groomed while being induced and manipulated into showing their bodies for any men while dissociating from their souls?

Full potential for what end? Years later and still struggling to overcome the vanities of this world, I can say those two simple and humble girls are in a much better place physically, emotionally and spiritually than most full grown women, who believe they reached their full potential in a soulless world, full of worthless standards, where the ones with the most huge ego and vainglory will always thrive.

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”

1 John 2:15-17

cisthoughtcrime

I'm out of words and patience to explain once again that 'empowering' does not mean 'makes me feel confident/good/strong/powerful'. for something to be empowering it actually has to be enfranchising, it has to give you power not just the feeling of power. male approval is not empowering no matter how much it makes you feel like you have power over men by being sexy to them. this fantasy of leading lustful idiotic men around by the dick serves only men.

mellified-moth

This whole idea of women having succubus-like power to manipulate men with our beauty and sexuality is really a product of male fantasy that's been polished up and sold back to women as though it originated in female fantasy, and as though we could actually make it a reality, but we can't. Men aren't helplessly enslaved to their dicks, as much as they want to pretend they are, and the power you get from appealing to them is only as much as they're willing to grant you, which isn't much. No woman is actually so beautiful that she isn't disposable, and men are more likely to resent and hate you for this power they project onto you than they are to fall over themselves to please you.

cisthoughtcrime

ok you've missed the point of the post

your tags say "it feels empowering" and you believe that it "can actually be powerful"

choosing to cater to male fantasy may "feel empowering" but it does not grant real power. that's the point. they don't care whether you pluck and primp yourself for them, for yourself, or for the illusion of power; they just care that you end up plucked and primped for their visual and/or sexual consumption. they care that you justify and excuse your existence in their world by making yourself an ornament for them to admire. and yeah, feeling like you're the prettiest, most alluring ornament can make you feel like you have real power to distract or blind them with your beauty. but even the most exquisite ornament is still an ornament to them and self-ornamentation for whatever motivation still does not magically make them respect that you have more to offer than an attractive sparkle, nor does it magically grant you more agency or social/political/economic power. choosing to make yourself attractive to men only benefits you at men's discretion, and that's part of what incentivises our continued performance. male approval is not power.

that's the whole point.

"feeling empowered" ≠ actual empowerment

clish-moved-deactivated20210119

“If you are not attracted to an individual, because the individual has a trait, that’s okay”

ruffboi-mags

1) This is a very good twitter thread.

2) the notes are full of terfs (in part bc OP put it on terf tags intentionally) and it’s gross af but it makes a damn good blocklist

iamshadow21

Reblogging the good stuff from Laura Kate Dale, the gay autistic transwoman gamer we deserve.

aintnosinglegoodnames

Read the second tweet: “While I do now have a vagina-”

Immediately checked out mentally. A surgical wound is not and never will be the functioning, self-cleaning, self-lubricating, structurally and endocrinologically crucial and unique organ to female anatomy that the vagina is. Whatever point you had about womanhood and lesbianism is immediately fucking useless on this atrocity of a proclamation alone.

This is such misogynistic drivel without even getting into how pathetic it is that you have to lecture people on the “correct” grounds to romantically reject you. Get this: people’s bodies and romantic lives are not employment or housing opportunities. You don’t get to argue with someone on their hard romantic boundaries, even if it hurts your feelings. Yes, this includes people putting a blanket statement on their dating profiles and online groups stating only biological women invited.

Trans males belong in female spaces the same way Rachel Dolezal belongs on the chair of the NAACP; that is NEVER. Imposters fuck off out of spaces you don’t belong in challenge.

they-called-me-terfy-deactivate

Can you imagine going back in time and telling activists that in the future piv sex will be considered gay by certain people? That women will be told that they “aren’t real lesbians” for refusing to have sex with males? That gay men will be called bigots for refusing to date females? That “gay” people will shame homosexuals for their same sex attraction?

Can you imagine going all the way back to the time of the suffragettes and telling them that some day men will put on dresses and declare themselves the most oppressed women of all? That in the future these men will be able to threaten women with murder and rape with no repercussions, but that women will be ostracized and fired from their jobs for acknowledging biological reality? That these men will steal scholarships and resources made for women and people will call it progressive?

Can you fucking imagine?

radlearning

they would totally think we're describing the most fucked up dystopia......

thevaginamonoblogs

It is

radfemblack

womented

Look at those professions. They're not society's outcasts. They're men that many women might work for or buy a service from. Never forget that

shamelesslyunladylike

Like I always way, these are your fathers, brothers, sons, friends, classmates, coworkers, boyfriends, husbands. We will never be free before women truly realize that this is the reality of men.

femsolid

I've spent some time on their forums for an essay I was writing and this is definitely tame compared to the way they speak about women among themselves.

radredrecluse

we need more exposés like this

balkansoul-deactivated20220924

it’s always “let women and girls do what they want” and never “why do women and girls want to go through such tremendous pain to change their physical appearance to fit into arbitrary beauty standards set by industries making billions off of their insecurities“

ttthebreakfastclub

so u wanna talk about how bad hypersexualization of women is but you don't see any problems with pornography or the sex industry or how being sexy is viewed as the only way to true empowerment yet you think consent is important and that sexual assault is horrific but you don't see any problems with paid consent (prostitution etc) yet you hate how women are always judged by their looks but you don't see any problems with women being indoctrinated into caring about their appereance at all times and to whatever cost because it's a "choice" to wear makeup and do plastic surgery yet you think women should love themselves and their bodies

jokeboy-deactivated20260221

I love trans girls for lots of reasons but I think the biggest is that growing up as a girl for me was SO hard. horrible. nightmare. but they make it look happy and enjoyable... they redefine what womanhood is to me from something horrible to something beautiful... very hard to explain... me being a boy is awesome... and seeing trans people love womanhood in a way I couldn't is even better. thank u girls

sarahtheferret

I look at my mom and ask “what is womanhood?” she shrugs and says “idk, suffering?” I look at my wife to ask the same question, and she is twirling in place to make her skirt flare out.

closet-keys

one of the most fucked up things that ever came out of liberal feminism was the bizarre idea that literally any belief, desire, or behavior was okay so long as it was in the context of sex

couldbedon

growing into a woman is the most heartwrenching experience ive ever had to go thru. the lessons, the mistakes, the signs, the realizations, the anger— its consuming. ive never felt something of this magnitude.

blackgwenstacy

i like thinking about things critically but i also like not giving a fuck too so you can imagine the kind of stress i am under

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