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hey gyns! i made a female-only discord server for radfems to hang out and discuss our interests :) i'm sure a lot of us have gotten annoyed being in tra-dominated or male-dominated fandoms and i thought it would be nice to have a place where we can chill out together.
DM me for the link!
On September 7, 1968, New York Radical Women protested the Miss America pageant. Along with unfurling a large banner that stated “Women’s Liberation” inside the contest hall, they placed a “Freedom Trash Can” on the Atlantic City boardwalk where women could throw in “instruments of female torture,” including bras, high heels, hairspray, pantyhose, makeup, girdles, hair curlers, false eyelashes, corsets, garter belts, dish rags, mops, Playboy and Good Housekeeping magazines, and more.
The idea for the protest came out of a collective recognition at a consciousness raising meeting that all women are hurt by beauty competitions—both the participants and women at large. They rejected these events and the cultural ideas surrounding women and beauty. Some women might claim that they find these beauty rituals empowering, but women need real, collective power, not individual empowerment. To achieve this, we must look further into these daily routines we’ve accepted as our norm. Who actually benefits and who is harmed when women spend hours primping in front of the mirror?
There is the issue of comfort; women’s bodies are squeezed and contorted to fit an unrealistic ideal. There is also the issue of how beauty divides women; we are in constant competition with one another. But above all, feminists of the 60s came to understand that women were not merely donning uncomfortable, unnatural clothing and beauty standards, but donning the uniform of women’s inferior class status. They understood that this ideal was not just about sexual attractiveness, but about power—when women acquiesce to these standards, we are marking ourselves as the “other.” As Carol Hanisch states, “That ‘who wears the pants’ has long been synonymous with ‘who has the power’ is not an accident of language.”
Total Woman Victory invites you to join us at 8:00PM on October 10 at Implacable Books to throw your own instruments of female torture into a Freedom Trash Can.
In 1968, feminists threw girdles, pantyhose, garter belts, and Playboy magazines into their Freedom Trash Can—what do articles of female torture look like today? If your items are too large or abstract, you may also draw them or write them on a piece of paper. We will have space available in the Student Center at Worcester State University for you to store your items. After the conference ends at 6PM, we will transport any remaining items to Implacable Books.
terfs are not human.
Fr, they're angels 🙏
Reblog if you think TERFs are angelic, ethereal beings:
Before anything else, I will always be a woman first because men will always do whatever it takes to claw their way out of acknowledging their abuse and hatred of women.
They don't view misogyny as a complete axis of oppression with males as the oppressor and women as the oppressed. It explains why some say that white women are the most privileged group only because they're white, or that a man who is black and/or gay is incapable of being misogynistic. And god forbid a woman expresses how she may have been victimized by a man who is part of a minority group, because then she's just a crying bitch trying to ruin a poor innocent boy's life. He's literally neurodivergent and gay, how could she?!
It's all incel thinking at its core: thinking that the female sex can actually be privileged by virtue of being female, that we in any way hold power over men and can ruin their lives with enough batting of our eyelashes and weeping and seducing and "false accusations." But the truth is that even the most downtrodden, oppressed man has always had the right to beat his wife.
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
Sex Binary and Intersex Master Post
This took me some 30+ hours to write/design/compile but it's finally done! If you're not a biologist, I strongly recommend you give this whole post a read (yes, it's long, but I think it has some very important information). Feel free to reference this post and repost the images anywhere to debunk bad gender science!
Here's the Google Drive link.
i really wish people would stop using "the 41%" as a smarmy comeback to own tha transes. it's not funny, and i think less of anyone who does it.
we aren't just talking about sexpests here. we aren't even just talking about adults. bullied gender non conforming children make up a very high proportion of trans suicide attempts. you're talking about homosexuals, prostitutes, impoverished women, rape victims, domestic violence victims.
i myself was almost a trans suicide. so forgive me for not laughing. jokes are meant to be funny. that statistic is not a joke to me.
yeah it never felt right to me either. like trans was a last ditch effort to avoid suicide for myself, and yet people are laughing at the failure of such a desperate leap into what you pray to god is a better life for yourself. like you're not laughing at 'the transes'. you're laughing at someone who thought it was genuinely their only hope for life, and laughing at them for an entire system that failed to give them alternative treatment
you can't girlboss your way out of the humiliation of performing femininity. miniskirts are supposed to humble you by having you stay alert to them riding up and exposing you. high heels are supposed to humble you by having you move carefully, wary of twisting an ankle (or stumbling and exposing yourself). make-up is supposed to humble you by having you control your feeding and resting habits, lest you smudge it. there's sexualization imbedded in them. they are SUPPOSED to embarrass you, because the ultimate titillation is the assertion of control over you. you can't desex them.
PSA: don't blame yourself for feeling aroused by pornography and misogynistic kinks. First of all, the fact that you consciously dislike it already means you don't want it — everyone who tells you otherwise thinks like a rapist. And also we live in a society oversaturated with images of female sexual degradation — it would be more surprising if you actually weren't influenced by it in one way or another. Where are you even supposed to get an idea that it doesn't have to be that way? Even fem"dom" is hardly about women being dominant over men. You are not to blame for not developing a healthy sexuality in a world that desperately doesn't want you to. This can be fixed, but with a deliberate effort and power of will, because it requires going against the current.
Always remember that it’s very easy to condition sexual arousal, and it is never your fault for being groomed! Even if you sought it out, even if you used to like it. Whatever reason, it was never your fault.
Especially with the rise of girls being exposed to the internet at increasingly younger ages, we need to try and break the cycle for those girls.
You cannot help others if you have not helped yourself! Practice self love and self forgiveness. Be kind to your past self!
so has any human being who isn’t an MRA or a troll or a terf in disguise actually used the term ‘cotton ceiling’ or
I’m an MRA and I’ve never heard that term before. What is it supposed to mean?
it means nobody likes you go away
Gonna assume it’s not something I’d ever say then.
Cotton ceiling is the tendency of trans women to be excluded from the higher echelons of (cis-dominated) women’s and queer spaces — specifically within the porn industry, but also society in general. It is a manifestation of transmisogyny at the intersection of cissexism, misogyny, and the glass ceiling
I mean I don’t use it, and I don’t really understand it etymologically, and I think it’s couched in a lot of fancy language which means a lot less than it says, but… I don’t see what’s wrong with it, either…
You don’t see what’s wrong with women’s underwear being called a barrier to be broken through?
the underwear being referred to ISNT the cis women’s; it’s the trans woman’s (or fat, disabled, nonwhite, etc. woman- the cotton ceiling often refers to radicalized bodies in general). the implication is that what is in the trans woman’s pants is excluding her from spaces and connections, and it’s something she needs to overcome. transphobes twisted the language the other way to demonize trans women.
Dude, I was around for the Cotton Ceiling Conference.
Like, literally irl around. It was hosted nearby, even, and I spoke with Morgan Page, one of the people presenting it.
It distinctly referred to the underwear of lesbians who refused to find trans women sexually attractive.
But hey, don’t take my word for it! Let’s hear from Avory Faucette, a trans activist involved with the Cotton Ceiling:
[T]he cotton ceiling [is] us[ed] to challenge cis lesbians’ tendency to support trans causes generally but draw the line at sleeping with trans women or including trans lesbians in their sexual communities.
Drew Deveaux, the originator of the term, is even more specific:
“The cotton ceiling is a theory proposed [by trans porn star and activist Drew DeVeaux] to explain the experiences queer trans women have with simultaneous social inclusion and sexual exclusion within the broader queer women’s communities. Basically, it means that cis queer women will be friends with us and talk day and night about trans rights and ending transmisogyny, but will still not consider us viable sexual partners.
The term cotton ceiling is a reference to the “glass ceiling” that second wave feminist identified in the workforce, wherein women could only advance so high in the workforce but could not break through into positions of power and authority. The cotton represents underwear, signifying sex.”
So right there from the horses’ mouth–
The cotton ceiling represents underwear, signifying sex, and the underwear in question refers specifically to lesbians’
Please, don’t try to retcon history to someone who watched it go down.
If the term is a reference to the ‘glass ceiling’ then it wouldn’t make sense for the cotton [underwear] to belong to the TW. Where do they get off trying to gaslight us like this? How fucking insidious of them to hound us for our sexuality being ‘exclusionary’, to the point where they appropriate a valid feminist term, and then turn around and say “no, we said YOU are the ones who need to break through the cotton of OUR panties, duh!“
Well, here’s something to ponder on: The Glass Ceiling was proposed by feminists who saw that women, as a class, were missing out on opportunities in the workplace. It is a term meant to represent women in the workforce as we fight against prejudice, so that we can finally gain access to something we want. It is a term proposed by those who are missing out, to enable them to fight against a system that is disadvantaging them.
Who, exactly, is the term ‘cotton ceiling’ meant to represent? Who, because of the existence of this supposed barrier to equality, are the people missing out? Because it doesn’t make sense to propose a theory like this from the standpoint of those who supposedly hold all the power in the situation. If lesbians wanted to break through the cotton barrier then we would, but we don’t want to, which is exactly why this tacky, rape apologist, mess of a ‘theory’ was proposed in the first place.
To illustrate my point: A visual representation of the Glass Ceiling - ‘the unacknowledged barrier to advancement in a profession, especially affecting women and members of minorities’
See how the barrier is stopping the disadvantaged group(s) from attaining what they want.
Now contrast this with the Cotton Ceiling - “theory proposed by trans porn star and activist Drew DeVeaux to explain the experiences queer trans women have with simultaneous social inclusion and sexual exclusion within the broader queer women’s communities”
The cotton ceiling was proposed to represent TW who, by their twisted entitled logic, feel THEY are being discriminated against by lesbians who refuse point blank to suck their dicks.
Also: the glass ceiling is mainly about women being kept out of job opportunities further up the ladder, roles with power and authority. Apply that aspect to the concept of the cotton ceiling, and, well… it certainly tracks with the male viewpoint of sex as an act of dominance and claiming someone as your own. 👀
Oop! There it is!
The way men lie, manipulate and gaslight women over everything. Like the way men admit absolutely no one wants them and they’re not embarrassed and they don’t realize they’re the problem. Like maybe go off yourself if it’s that upsetting or just get over it? Men literally think being an incel is a human rights issue it’s like please never look, speak, or approach another woman or girl.
The way you know that transwomen are predators is that they could choose to date straight women, gay men, each other, or whatever and they ONLY want the one group of women who consistently tell them No and ask to be left alone, they want the women that will never feel attraction towards or fall in love with them. They get off on knowing all of this isn’t consensual. It’s sexual harassment and they know that.
Women lowkey live in a mass fawn response and while most understand that male aggression like rape, coercion and abuse is obviously patriarchal and harmful, we've still internalized that male aggression is natural and proof that a 'worthy' man truly, undeniably desires a woman. And that's often why ultra masculine or morally corrupt coercive male characters/dynamics/kinks end up so popular. It's a way to experience being desired by scary powerful men but not the true consequence of that violent coercive desire.
It's like wanting to have our cake and eat it too, which is somewhat possible when it comes to fiction, but systems of oppression like patriarchy don't care why you like male violence, or in what form you accept it, as long as you like and accept male violence. As long as women continue to feel desirable using patriarchal dynamics, in any and every form, the system lives on.
One of the best ways to immortalize a system is to incorporate it into sex culture, so now every criticism becomes very easy to dismiss on the basis of personal freedom, pleasure and popularity 💔
Sorry but liking a villain has nothing to do with internalizing patriarchal violence and everything to do with just. Having taste in fictional characters 💀
And the gender or gender identity of the villain doesn't influence how I feel about them either!! I can love a male villain, hate a female villain, love a nonbinary villain, hate another male villain — completely independently of each other and with zero consistency required because they're FICTIONAL CHARACTERS and my feelings about them are just vibes 🐱
Also radical feminists really want to tell women they shouldn't like morally corrupt male characters while completely ignoring that women also love female villains?? What's the plan there?? Are female villains also feeding the patriarchy somehow?? 💀
Men have consumed dark morally corrupt villain content since the beginning of forever and nobody writes essays about it. But women do it and suddenly it's a whole systemic oppression conversation. I don't want to watch Barbie just because society thinks I should and that's not internalized anything that's just me having my own taste in media like a normal person
The villain's gender is not the point. The vibes are the point 🐱💅
sorry you're just not that bright
this person's posts seem very ai generated/assisted to me i'm not gonna lie 😭 "the vibes" rightt..
when you think about it, it’s icky when short hair, long hair, or certain clothes get called ‘gender affirming.’
that framing says long hair = girl, short hair = boy, dresses = girl, pants = boy. that’s just a sexist stereotype, the same one feminism has spent decades trying to dismantle.
Women lowkey live in a mass fawn response and while most understand that male aggression like rape, coercion and abuse is obviously patriarchal and harmful, we've still internalized that male aggression is natural and proof that a 'worthy' man truly, undeniably desires a woman. And that's often why ultra masculine or morally corrupt coercive male characters/dynamics/kinks end up so popular. It's a way to experience being desired by scary powerful men but not the true consequence of that violent coercive desire.
It's like wanting to have our cake and eat it too, which is somewhat possible when it comes to fiction, but systems of oppression like patriarchy don't care why you like male violence, or in what form you accept it, as long as you like and accept male violence. As long as women continue to feel desirable using patriarchal dynamics, in any and every form, the system lives on.
One of the best ways to immortalize a system is to incorporate it into sex culture, so now every criticism becomes very easy to dismiss on the basis of personal freedom, pleasure and popularity 💔
There r people every day in my comment arguing about if I’m a terf 😭🙏🙏🙏 how do I explain to them that I’m not but I also don’t think terfs really exist but my opinions might get me called one but I’m also not transphobic and care about them too
- I think most people called terfs are either plain transphobes (not radfems) or radical feminists who do include trans people but are critical of trans identity
- I think trans men and women can be real victims of misogyny and transphobia and deserve support
- I think we have to acknowledge biological sex over identity when it comes to socialisation and priveledge
- I think lots of trans politics can actually be regressive and sexist and homophobic and I support gender abolition and gender nonconformity over capitalistic identity politics
that’s literally it if you’re new to my acc
If misogyny was only just “hatred of the feminine” a supposedly mystic state of being rather than oppressive norms, women could opt out at any time by simply not conforming. This is so clearly and painfully untrue almost as if… Sex-based oppression exists
and in fact, refusing to conform to/perform femininity often makes things WORSE for females.
female and feminine? get misogyny
female and masculine? get misogyny
it’s almost like the thing that makes oppression so horrific is that you cannot opt out of it. because the system of oppression relies on immutable characteristics to effectively oppress people.
