There are two wolves inside of me and neither of them wants to do anything
theres only one wolf inside me the other one got out
There is no wolf inside of me anymore. Now my ecosystem is out of balance.
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@femsplainingwitch
There are two wolves inside of me and neither of them wants to do anything
theres only one wolf inside me the other one got out
There is no wolf inside of me anymore. Now my ecosystem is out of balance.
‘No one’s pressuring you to shave, it’s no big deal if you don’t shave, why are you stopping women from shaving (by just existing as a woman who doesn’t)’
Why should she shave? There is nothing to shave. Have you seen men's legs? If anyone should shave its them not us!
One of the only things I want to push back about the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Case case, is that rape victims who request female-only workers aren't "gender critical". Women in hospitals who ask for female nurses aren't being gender critical. Elderly women who request female carers aren't being gender critical.
They're just requesting a basic, single-sex service that is apolitical and has no ideology attached to it. This used to be like an ordinary thing women and girls could ask for without question.
The problem comes when they decide trans women, who are women, don’t count as women.
This isn’t a “decision”, it’s a biological fact. Being born with a penis makes you different from biological women. And women don’t want to share these spaces with trans identified males. There’s no ifs, no buts, no asterisks to this policy. Women deserve single sex spaces without question, because it’s about protecting a population that has always been vulnerable to male violence, not about protecting the feelings of biological males.
But you can't just state that based on how unsafe you feel if trans women feel unsafe with you too. The basis of your talk is simply that trans women don't deserve anything.
What a shame on you! Dare you say anything against my sisters.
If you read "Women deserve single sex spaces without question, because it’s about protecting a population that has always been vulnerable to male violence," and read "trans women don't deserve anything", then that's your illiteracy talking
Whole ass men are out here saying “I personally identify as not being a threat and should therefore be allowed in spaces with extremely vulnerable women” and not only do y’all believe them, but you really act like women who don’t just take their word for it and still have boundaries are heartless monsters. Get a fucking grip
If your mind twists rape victims requesting female-only workers, women asking for female nurses in hospitals, and elderly women requesting female caregivers as "these women feel trans women don't deserve anything", then you are very blatantly indicating that you feel entitled to women; that women are in some way just a resource for you to use and that they belong to you to fulfill some want you have.
You are also showing us that a very mundane, regular boundary makes you feel out of control.
If this normal, healthy boundary born out of caution for male violence shakes your foundational self-image and makes you feel out of control, I don't care where your politics lie - you are not a safe person.
"For me, 'survivor' sugarcoats the reality of rape."
A man raped me seven years ago.
I was left traumatized and suicidal and with a complex linguistic decision: What should I call myself?
For a long time, I avoided using the terms rape “victim” or “survivor.” I simply said, “I was raped” or “a man raped me.” But the experience of being raped forced its way into my identity, not just my history.
It comes with the territory of writing publicly about my rape, of speaking openly about it. I am a woman; I am a writer; I am a rape ________.
Victim? Survivor?
I started where I always start: Google.
I typed “rape victim vs. survivor” into the search bar. After reading just a few articles, it became clear that the correct term — or at least the most search engine optimized term — for myself was “survivor.”
Survivor is empowering and strong. It rolls off the tongue in a way that “victim” does not. My jaw relaxed, though I had not realized I was clenching it. I knew what to say. I had the words.
I didn’t think to question those articles then, and in the years since, I’ve heard this particular message of empowerment repeated over and over again. It’s a mantra of sorts: “We are not victims; we are survivors.”
I’ve watched many who’ve experienced sexual violence articulate these words: many of the hundreds of women who spoke out against Larry Nassar; leaders in the #MeToo movement; sign-bearers at protests and at the Women’s March.
Scrolling through news stories and watching YouTube videos on autoplay, I began to feel misrepresented.
Was I the only one who felt like “survivor” didn’t accurately sum up my identity?
Beneath this question of terminology, there is an implication that we start out as victims, but we outgrow that label as we “triumph” and move past the immediate aftermath of the crime. Survivor implies having survived the recovery process.
Though the physical pain and rainbow of bruises did eventually fade, the impact of my rape never really did. I stopped doing a lot of things in the wake of the rape — traveling alone, going on runs outside, dating. Though eventually I was able to get my life back, I lost years to fear, to post-traumatic stress disorder, to hiding. Those years would’ve been different had I not been raped. I would be different had I not been raped.
For me, survivor sugarcoats the reality of rape.
Survivor tells an ultimately hopeful, inspiring, empowering story. Look at us, thriving despite violence. Survivor is easier for people to hear. It is more comfortable than victim. Victim reminds people of violent acts and brutal realities. Survivor makes them think of rousing music and impossible courage. Survivor is the story of sexual violence that the media, the public, wants to hear.
I don’t know a single person that has experienced sexual violence and thinks they’re better off for it. The act and aftermath of sexual violence is not oriented around the potential light at the end of the tunnel. 94% of rape victims have symptoms of PTSD, and 13% attempt suicide. Rape victims are up to 10 times more likely to abuse drugs. It’s not all empowerment and #MeToo rallies and harrowing news stories with “happy” endings. It’s not all inspiration.
My friend once told me “surviving rape made you brave and strong.” But that’s not true. I was brave and strong before somebody raped me. The rape made me afraid, made me cower on the gray-carpeted floor of my bedroom and avoid being touched, even by close friends and family, for years. I don’t think I became stronger because of the rape. I think I simply got back to my baseline — brave and strong.
Conventional wisdom tells us to “get out of the victim mindset.”
As if there were a stigma associated with the term “victim,” and “survivor” seeks to evade it. Are victims of other crimes ashamed to have been victimized? Maybe. But there is a particular and particularly egregious stigma associated with sexual violence.
I refuse to feel ashamed of what was done to me. The shame of the act is not mine; it is on the one who perpetrated the crime. My rapist may never be punished, but he will always be guilty. The language I use to talk about sexual violence should place the spotlight on the fact that another person perpetrated a crime against me, and we do not call the victim of a robbery a “survivor.”
I do not want to be the focus. I want the crime to be the focus. I want the criminal to be the focus.
When we hear the term victim, we think about the crime and acknowledge its perpetrator.
We know who these people are, though they are rarely imprisoned. My rapist had dark curly hair, a rough beard, and sharp fingernails.
When we hear the term survivor, the perpetrator is erased. Empowering victims, linguistically or otherwise, won’t stop rape. There are survivors of a fire, a natural disaster, or a disease. Sexual violence is different. It is not an unstoppable pandemic. It is not a blameless illness. There is always somebody who bears the blame.
Though I prefer it, I avoid using the word “victim” when writing or speaking.
I use the word “survivor,” the word the #MeToo movement wants me to use, because I want the movement to succeed. Common language is important to unification and a consistent message.
But when I’m alone with myself, I know my truth. Yes, I survived, but I am a victim of a heinous crime.
Mostly, though, I wish I did not have to spend time worrying about verbiage. We need to get to a place where language can be more nuanced, more telling, and more personal. We need to be able to speak our truths however we want to articulate them, to fully own our stories and not just donate them to the cause.
when i say “i hate men” im not talking about every individual man in the world, im talking about men as a social class, but if youre the kind of man that gets offended when i say i hate men then i do, specifically, hate you on an individual level
This highkey changed my whole view on influencers 🫢
@radfemtiktok thought you might find this interesting
It’s female dominated but mainly depends on duping and scamming women by creating non-existing insecurities to sell them useless shit. How are we suppose to support sth like this? It’s like capitalism and misogyny on steroid sponsored by the every day woman.
Reminds me of people saying that criticizing multilevel marketing is misogynistic
Why is it that everytime there is a talk/ an article / whatever about the 'male loneliness epidemic' that they always wanna try to change society / women's behavior towards men. But they don't ever wanna change the thing that caused the 'problem' in the first place: men's behaviour towards women.
When a man admits to rape it doesn't make it not rape just because he didn't use that word.
Like if the guy is claiming he never even met her then fine, have your doubts, whatever. But if he's literally saying "Oh yes! There was sex but it was consensual!" and he describes a situation that cannot be consensual (a man engaging with sexual acts with a very young woman young enough to be his granddaughter who is also his employee, financially struggling, and lives in his fucking house), it's fucking rape.
"Why did you see artwort about-" Why do you see trans people as monsters, freaks, and find it easy to label entire groups of undesirable people targeted by fascists with "rapist" begging for validation from extremist racists? You know thats the question i asked.
First: I dont see trans people as 'undesirable' monsters or freaks. Or whatever you are trying to accuse me of. Also you never asked any question. You just wrote some weird comment.
Second: again Why do you read/hear 'rapist' and immediately think 'transperson'?
Strongly inspired by @pillarsalt s gender critical and radfem insect art.
Terfs are fascists who fight for the removal of women's rights and block medical access for women. Literally so lame terfs will mimic trans imagery like the xenomorph and the damn mantis too LMFAO nooo get the bug spray. Terfs have repressed torture kinks pretty much against all women, not just trans women but trans women in particular, in a really violently obsessive way. See robert rowling, and this piece, which does nothing emotionally for rape survivors or materially too, just a cry for fascism. Terfs tend to sexually fixate on trans men and take out violent fantasies on trans women.
After reading this I had a lot of questions. But they all boil down to:
Why would you see an artwork about killing ones rapist and instantly jump to transpeople?
I didnt mention transpeople in this post. Nor did I in the two sister artworks to this.
Also it does something emotionaly for rape survivors. I know cuz I am a rape survivor and creating it helped me with my traumatic experience.
Men can never and will never be worth it in this society. 4b/6b4t
Notice how all the people who helped her are female.
The person who recorded it (even if she didn't like it the recording could be used in court)
The woman on the phone over 911. (Granted these people are often women. Oh I wonder why..... )
The woman who came across the street to help her.
This was on a busy public road in front of the building security and NO man thought: Oh she seems in trouble I'm gonna help her! Not even the fucking building security which fucking job it would be.
They always wanna be the big protectors of women but when they actually could help for once in their fucking life they do NOTHING.
Have you seen this book yet I found it at Barnes and Nobel
yes!! I have @dumbbirdsfieldguide’s field guide :)
Have you ever noticed that when a man beats up a rapist for raping his daughter, the community tends to praise him for a job well done.
When a girl or woman uses violence against a man making a sexual transgression, she's considered a psycho?
It is because the man is just protecting his property when he kills his daughters rapist.
When a woman does it the property is acting up.
its so hard . to exist knowing that just by existing . u are meat to the rabid dog sitting next to you on the train. interviewing u for a job. the professor who sees u as rotted but chews u out anyway. ur father who wants to keep you in a freezer. u are to be consumed. again and again and again. until u die. then the desperate dig up your bones in the dead of winter to gnaw on. they chew on your memory turning u into something unrecognizable. a meal that never was. you cannot satisfy them even in death. u cannot own your flesh and bones and name even in death.
u let them chew on you occasionally just to feel something with love being impossible against an expiry date. you let them so you can't get upset when they start nibbling too close to the vital stuff and creating scars that won't heal over, except for when u do. then they act like they weren't salivating in anticipation to begin with, they lash out as they've been left out of a meal they've already planned. you are now a reminder of their infinite and indiscriminate hunger. unable to cope with misplaced shame in their need, they try to spin it that not only is being mauled your divine purpose, you should be so lucky. you are evil for wanting to keep your flesh to yourself when there are hungry dogs all around you begging, hunting, plotting and scheming for scraps.
men be like "if women are really that intelligent, why are all major discoveries made by men? 🤓" as if they didn’t quite literally burn women alive if they were smart back in the day
Men love to use the argument “there would be no internet/infrastructure/other invention without men!” against feminists but like
None of those men would’ve been able to do any of that without a woman giving birth to them so their point goes right out the window. We’re here because of women. Society would completely collapse and humanity would die out if women stopped having kids.
I honestly think males are so jealous of the fact that only women have the ability to bring life into the world, so their only response is to bring up what men invented.😌
Their point gets even weaker when you go through all of these inventions (and scientific discoveries) and realize how many of them where stolen from women. Or were only able to achieve because of the help from women.
The phenomena is called 'Matilda Effekt'.
Two examples:
The Petri dish:
While it is true that Julius Richard Petri invented the dish his invention would not be possible if it wasn't for Fanny Angelina Hesse.
She came up with the idea of using agar to culture bacteria instead of gelatin. And she wasn't even a scientist. Just the wife of a scientist (Walther Hesse) who always complained about his gelatin getting liquid with the ideal temperature to culture bacteria. She suggested to just use agar (cuz guess who knew more about cooking in the household). And it worked. Then Petri made his dish based on the agar method.
The discovery of the double helix:
The first scientist to prove the DNA double helix was Rosalind Franklin.
The nobel price for her discovery was attributed to James Watson and Francis Crick who based their work off of her work.
More women to read up on regarding this matter:
Ada Lovelace
Hypathia of Alexandria
Mary Anning
Elizabeth Magie
Lise Meitner
Mary Anderson
Hedy Lamarr
Margaret Knight
Marion Donovan
Nettie Stevens
Esther Lederberg
Alice Ball
Vera Rubin
Dr Grace Murray Hopper
Caresse Crosby
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Katherine Johnson
Chien-Shiung Wu
I encourage you to add onto this list in the notes! There are many more and I don't want them to be forgotten!
I want you all to remember that these are the ones we were able to prove.
Furthermore:
I think it speaks volumes about the sheer audacity of men to forbid and hinder us to learn, to steal our inventions and discoveries and then have the gall to go on about how society wouldn't exist without them.
Shut the fuck up men! You have so much on the stealing record that I doubt any time I hear that an invention was made by a man that it was really and truly him and not his wife or colleague or just some other woman.