feminist-ame

Call me Ame. 19. UK based. Lesbian. Getting a Physics/Chemistry Degree. Feminist. Musician. Knitter. Crocheter. Reader.

[rad-claid-plaid]

Posting this on its own for the girlies

[kkoffin]

talking to pro-prostitution people is crazy bc you’ll propose “i don’t think you should coerce women to let you rape them in exchange for basic necessities” and they’ll respond like “well what solution do you propose then???”

just don’t rape them?? just give them the fucking necessities? you literally already have them and are willing to give them away. it is so crazy to propose basic human rights to life be applied to women without them needing to trade sex for them?

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[sarahthecoat]

don't forget lateral and rotational movement too.

[plushdablush]

Random thing for people to consider is that since Laika is the saint of one way trips should Felicette be known as the saint of safe landings since she did make it back to the ground safely

[somefishycat]

tu LANCES félicette ? tu lances son corps comme la fusée ? oh ! oh ! prison pour les scientifiques ! prison pour les scientifiques pendant Un Mille Ans !

[bug-yogurt]

You can understand the French perfectly fine with only context but the English translation I got still had me floored

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[jacquelinej]

"this sounds terfy" of course it does: a woman is speaking and you don't want to listen to her

[amilta]

Why women need to have power to be independent

[mini-wrants]

People forget so fast what life was like without birth control and access to abortions and condoms.

[the-curated-woman]

This isn't just a moment from our past that we've happily progressed from. No, this is still happening - not to the scale, perhaps, that it used to. But there are still women across this world who are not in control of how many children they have and to what frequency they bear them.

The man in this video acts as if having a child is something both he and his wife are participants in, but after the act of unprotected sex, which of the two is putting their body through pregnancy? Which is putting up with swollen ankles and morning sickness and the threat of devastating complications for nine months, again and again? Bearing a child is a solo act. This man is not a participant.

He smiles because he wanted a boy, and boy did he get what he wanted. This is not a good man. This is a cruelty.

And this still happens.

There's a woman who comes into my work with ten kids - and she's pregnant again. I have never, in all these years, seen her NOT pregnant. Even when she was supposed to stay in bed because of complications, she would drive her kids to my store and send in the oldest daughter in with a credit card and several of the younger kids in tow.

She is not the only woman I have met with children in the double digits. She will not be the last.

It does not matter if it's two kids or twelve: No woman should have to bear any number of children because it's what a man wants from her.

There is no cruelty a man can face that is anywhere near the same level of cruelty he can inflict on a woman.

There's simply nothing similar to this that a man will ever face in his lifetime. No bad job or unjust boss or angry father or poor circumstance. A man can never know this same pain that the woman in the video has lived. That the women across the world and throughout time have lived. That the woman who comes in my store still lives.

And this woman in the video - I frankly don't know how she lived it. I can't say I'd survive in this same situation. I'd go mad, try to kill this man while he slept, or ultimately try to kill myself. Eleven children, and fourteen abortions.

I say it again: There is no cruelty a man can face that is anywhere near the same level of cruelty that he can inflict on a woman.

[misandrysaveslives]

Women are raised to fear men, yet if you explicitly say that you fear men it’s wrong…?

From a young age, you are told not to hang out with boys and “they only want one thing” and you hear stories in the news of women being kidnapped, assaulted or murdered by men. Or that if you go out, don’t be surprised if your drink is spiked and to take measures to prevent this etc etc. Fathers especially hate the idea of their daughters being around men because they fear for their safety. There is this general idea that is taught to you as a woman, specifically as a young woman (16-24) that there are men out to get you and you need to be very cautious.

But if you say that you’re scared of men, you are immediately met with statements like “don’t say that” “not every man is bad” “you shouldn’t generalise” “well then how do you expect to find a boyfriend?” “what about your dad or brother?” “that’s a little dramatic, don’t you think?”

So which is it? Are we to be scared of men or not?

[antiporn-activist]

I think you’re supposed to be scared of an anonymous generic man in the distance, not the specific man in front of you.

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Not-so-friendly reminder that there is no such thing as an underage woman or non-consensual sex, the words you’re looking for are “child” and “rape”. Way less syllables and way more accurate! Thank you for your time.

[devilleworship]

saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?

ALSO

It's not as if this shit has been around SOOO LONG. We all existed JUST FINE before this shit became THE THING someone decided to shove in our face like...

[bolasaurus]

Dude, I wouldn't even fucking notice until I go to Google something and the search actually works again.

[serenitynerd]

The only reason I would notice is my life would suddenly get easier

[the-commonplace-book]

Imagine a more beautiful world. Could you survive it?

[may27bowl-deactivated20251224]

"will women always die? let some men die too. i killed him for my honor."

28-year-old Çilem Doğan told police in the southern province of Adana on july 9. "he came home in the morning on the day of the incident. he slept for a short time and then wanted me to prepare his luggage. i asked why. he said we would go to Antalya together and i would become a prostitute." the woman reportedly told the police, "when i opposed, he beat me. he pushed me on the bed and the pistol under the pillow came into my mind. i grabbed it and shot him repeatedly. then i took my daughter and left the home."

while walking to the courthouse for medical checks on july 9, the suspect was photographed wearing a t-shirt reading: "dear past, thanks for all the lessons. dear future, i am ready." handcuffed between two police officers, Doğan also gave two "thumbs up"' to the reporters following her.

[annie-ave]

free her now!!!!!

[annie-ave]

reading an article about her. legitimately heartbreaking that this got taken all the way up to the turkish supreme court and they upheld her sentence. Makes my stomach turn that even though she'd reported her husband to the police and attempted to divorce him before the incident, the turkish prosecutors literally said in their closing statement that she clearly didn't want to leave badly enough bc she didn't "get plastic surgery"

the statement she put out before being jailed in 2021 is also powerful.

[tragediegh]

stay vigilant. there are still people out there who will try to convince you that eating fruit is somehow bad for your body

[bluejayblueskies]

[krasnoarmeyets-deactivated191907]

i bet it feels good as fuck to intend to do something and then actually do it

[arinzeture]

[boyfriend-beater]

reddit having a normal one about ummm. the uk banning an act that’s been observed to cause brain damage from being shown in porn

[fillejondrette]

#''stay out of our bedrooms'' is so funny like what part of your bedroom is contained in porn studios

this is so true, they try to frame it as some violation of their private life, as if everyone is watching their own homemade sex tapes instead of watching videos commercially produced by companies with paid actors, cameramen, editors, advertisers, etc. if porn is so legitimate, they should have no problem with it being regulated like any other industry.

[antiporn-activist]

if porn is so legitimate, they should have no problem with it being regulated like any other industry.

[crimes-chevalresques]

I cannot stress enough that women can't save men from themselves. Women can't be there in the boys' locker rooms, they can't shield them from other drunk men at football matches. Women can't control the media their coworkers consume, they can't stop their brothers from watching violent pornography. It's not even a matter of saving or prioritising ourselves over men, though we are well within our rights to do so. We physically can't be there. I solemnly swear that every man I come across, I aim to make them just uncomfortable enough so as to offer them a small way out of their terrible view of the world. I just can't pull them out.

[crimes-chevalresques]

The willingness to deconstruct patriarchal structures needs to come from men themselves. My feminism cannot 'include' men anymore than my anti-racism can 'include' white people, or my economics 'include' the bourgeoisie. Just because I need their co-operation and affirm them to be my equal fellow human does not require me to make their self-interest my priority. In fact, it's quite the opposite.

These mantras saying men will not lose anything by treating women as their equal, or the notion that the patriarchy is just as oppressive to men as it is to women are sweet attempts to lure men out of the hell of their own creation, but I need feminists not to forget that it isn't true. Men benefit from patriarchy. Ultimately, men need to treat women as their equals not because it is beneficial to them but because it is inhumane to do otherwise.

[onlytiktoks]

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