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Women’s liberation 30 adult human female Gender critical

[terfarchive]

[friendlyearthling]

It is not the same. Being gay doesn’t require surgery or medication.

[ransomnote]

unabashedly love your trans sisters. talk about transfemininity with love. read books, watch movies, listen to music by trans women. learn about the transfeminine experience. DO MORE FOR TRANS WOMEN THAN ARGUE WITH TERFS PUBLICLY ON YOUR BLOG FOR BROWNIE POINTS, EXPOSING MORE AND MORE PEOPLE TO THE SWILL COMING OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS. DO MORE FOR TRANS WOMEN THAN SAYING YOU WANT TO FUCK THEM. FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE.

[unholyunlovely-deactivated20250]

unabashedly love men. talk about maleness with love. read books, watch movies, listen to music by men. learn about the male experience. DO MORE FOR MEN THAN ARGUE WITH FEMINISTS PUBLICLY ON YOUR BLOG FOR BROWNIE POINTS, EXPOSING MORE AND MORE PEOPLE TO THE TRUTH COMING OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS. DO MORE FOR MEN THAN SAYING YOU WANT TO FUCK THEM. CONFORM OR DIE.

[thefutureisdyke-deactivated2018]

when we say trans women are male and trans men are female, we are not saying they deserve to be discriminated against or that their dysphoria doesn’t matter. we are saying biology exists and matters in certain contexts.

when we say we won’t date trans women because we’re lesbians, we are not saying trans women don’t deserve to have happy, fulfilling relationships. we are saying that we are not romantically or sexually attracted to them and so that neither of us would have a happy, fulfilling relationship if we dated.

when we say we are gender critical, we are not saying everyone should be gender-conforming. we are saying the opposite, that men and women should be free to dress and act however they like instead of being forced into certain gender roles based on their sex.

when we say female-only safe spaces are important, we are not saying trans-only or mixed safe spaces aren’t also important. we are saying that based on our biology, women have certain shared experiences and face specific oppression that we deserve to be able to discuss among ourselves.

when we say one thing and you hear another, that isn’t our fault. when you’re ready to listen to what we actually believe or to have a genuine discussion, we’ll still be here.

[friendlyearthling]

The lived experiences of women matter

[feministdragon]

gyns, if you see something on the internet that resonates, keep a copy of it somewhere, put a copy of it on a hard drive, write it in a notebook, and record who wrote it and where they wrote it, and the link. also save it to the internet archive. there is an information instability these days, the internet is not actually forever, especially for information that may not be convenient for the people in charge of maintaining our information spaces

there is a pattern in history of erasing women’s words, we need to make sure that this time we keep our women’s knowledge alive and growing

[friendlyearthling]

Radium Girls Curie Eleison by Rachel Sumner and traveling light.

True story of men killing women for profit. They hid the negative (and deadly 💀) effects of radium even as they had to hire replacements for the sick women workers.

[onmy-tallest-tiptoes]

I am tired of seeing complaints about America's monologue in Barbie being very basic and nothing new. Yes, it feels like something I have tweeted a thousand times years ago but I still cried and cried. What people tend to overlook is that in the movie she is not saying these things to women who have lived these all their lives, she isn't watering it down for hardcore feminists who know this and a thousand times more. She is talking to a literal doll who has only experienced womanhood in the real world and in Ken's mimicking of patriarchy for a moment and it has already broken her down. She is saying these things to someone who is feeling some things, most things for the very first time and can barely articulate them, and is doing it for her because she knows it very well. It might not feel like much to someone who has lived the life we lived, read and watched the things we have and fought our whole lives, but its everything to a doll who is experiencing patriarchy for the first time or may be a little girl in the real world who is growing up now and being more exposed to it everyday.

The strength in America's monologue is not in what she says being something noone has heard before, but its in the fact that we go through these things so often that they seem like nothing to us anymore and she is seeing the same things break Barbie down and is realising how messed up it is that even a doll who was made to represent women couldn't escape it. Such is the plight of womanhood.

Its inevitable.

[friendlyearthling]

This monologue is especially important to show girls that women are fed up and they don’t have to follow the same “rules” as they become women.

[radsplain]

Lmao literally women should be allowed to have female only spaces just because, and not just because of safeguarding from males. Women want to go to a women only gym? A women only club? A women only knitting circle? A women only concert, yoga class, workshop, etc? They should be allowed to without MALES pitching a fucking fit about it and demanding “inclusion.” Women should be allowed to seek out and use female only spaces because that’s our fucking right in this male centered, male dominated, male obsessed society. Just fucking BECAUSE.

[marimekkogirl]

anyway I love things like having independence, being intelligent, taking pride in my skills, not feigning incompetence, referring to myself as a woman instead of a girl, aging unapologetically, having pores, stretch marks, grey hairs, wrinkles and body fat, listening to my body's needs, eating as much as I need to satisfy my hunger, being bare-faced, wearing comfortable clothes, etcetera

[friendlyearthling]

All this and I love being strong

[girlschasinggirls]

every generation there’s a huge feminist breakthrough and then their is a huge misogynistic backlash. i didn’t fully realise that until we started experiencing this current backlash.. but the first generations breakthrough was the right to vote, then women having access to careers, university, bank accounts, being able to live our lives without a man’s presence or permission. personally, i think our generations biggest breakthrough was the metoo movement and bringing to light that rape, sexual assault and battery, drugging and abusing women are not at all rare nor women’s own fault like men have claimed. now we are in the current backlash but remember women have gone through this before and we came out the other side even stronger. remain vigilant and educated, there is still hope for women ❣️

[womansart]

This Woman Has Been Anonymously Funding Female Artists for 22 Years

A total of 220 deserving artists have benefited.

For the last 22 years, an unknown contributor has been donating $25,000 grants to hundreds of female artists as part of a program called Anonymous Was a Woman. The project was developed to give artists over the age of 40 financial aid in order help them realize their creative careers. A total of 220 deserving artists have benefited so far, with grants totaling a staggering $5.5 million. Motivated to set an example for other women to have a voice, photographer Susan Unterberg has recently revealed herself as the mysterious donor.

The name Anonymous Was a Woman comes from a line in Virginia Woolf’s novel A Room of One’s Own and refers to historical female artists who had to keep their identities secret in order to work and be respected. And although women’s rights have come a long way, there’s still some gender equality issues in the art world. For example, female artists make up just 3-5% of major permanent museum collections in the U.S. & Europe. Explaining her decision to come forward, Unterberg says, “It’s a great time for women to speak up. I feel I can be a better advocate having my own voice.” She adds, “Women have been anonymous for far too long.”

The now 77-year-old photographer’s generosity was inspired by her own struggles to become a successful contemporary artist. After hearing of the National Endowment for the Arts grant cuts, Unterberg decided to use funds she had inherited from her father’s oil business.

One artist to receive a grant was Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama’s official portrait. She reveals, “I had $1,500 left and that’s exactly what my rent was. The announcement of the portrait had just come out and I was sitting there flat broke. It saved my life in terms of securing my studio to make that portrait.” Carrie Mae Weems was another artist to benefit from Unterberg’s generosity. She recalls, “I was offered this extraordinary gift…It was important, because I needed the money, but more than anything, I needed the encouragement and the support to keep making, to keep pushing—to continue to work in spite of all of the pressures.”

Photographer Susan Unterberg has recently revealed herself as the mysterious donator behind the Anonymous Was a Woman program.

[captainbisexuelle]

Women of America, are you awake yet? Do you still believe you’re a citizen of this country?

Are you still swallowing that comforting lie that your eyeliner can kill a man? Did you know the suffragettes used bombs?

We have been watching the erosion of women’s rights for the last decade like a tide going out at sea. Have you? Are you getting cold in the shadow of this tsunami with your eyes closed, or are you brave enough to see it for what it is?

We do not have the same rights as men. We can’t speak of our abuse without getting sued - 1st amendment. We can’t stand our ground with guns against men without longer and harsher sentences - 2nd amendment. We don’t have control over our own bodies. We’re financially punished and educationally stilted from cradle to grave.

Forget the fantasy of empowerment. Lose your comfort with reality. Get a grip and get angry. Do you know what power is? It isn’t clothes and makeup and subservience in hope of scraps. It isn’t how confident you feel today. It’s the ability to enact change on your life, the lives of others, and the world. It’s land, money, knowledge, political office, and bodily autonomy.

It’s the ability to CHOOSE which pregnancies come to term. Do you truly grasp the weight of that power? How restricting reproductive rights operates as a fundamental baseline for patriarchy? Nature granted that power to women. It’s our choice. Not theirs.

We have to advocate for ourselves. We have to fight for ourselves and each other. We have to take lessons from our foremothers 50 years ago. The men with real power sure as hell will never do it for us. The men with real power identify with the throttled fetus, not the woman. The men with real power are complaining about low birth rates.

Abortion bans = sex kills. Women will die and it might be you.

[friendlyearthling]

Women haven’t even had basic autonomy for one hundred years, and laws these days are going in the more-strict-control-of-women direction. You should be enraged.

[drpepper-is-a-woman]

So I've been thinking a lot about how socialization can influence so much of what we do that it almost seems innate. Cause a lot of people seem to misunderstand how much it can impact the development of the brain. Often times we will use the map of the brain as proof that something is biologically ingrained instead of the brain being molded by that external factor over time.

10-12% of the population is left-handed. Sociologists and psychologists observed that left-handed people scored higher in areas like creativity, visualization, intuition and rhythm. Is this to say that these traits are innate to being left-handed? Not exactly.

Our society mainly functions on a right-handed basis. There's a lot of things that we don't realize are oriented like credit card readers, scissors, computer mice, writing desks, most instruments, public pens at places like the doctor, the bank, the DMV. I really could go on, but I think you get my point. These are really inconveniences at worst but it does force a certain kind of modified behavior or way of thinking to compensate for these obstacles on a daily basis, does it not?

So maybe, left-handed people are not genetically predisposed to being better at coordination or intuitiveness. Maybe, it's because they have had to be adaptive in their learning because they were socially disadvantaged as a result of being left-handed. It would make sense that they would come up with creative ways to solve problems, it's human nature. We find the best ways to exist in the world we live in. Sometimes it's even hard to observe who is truly left-handed because a lot of the time they just learn to do certain things with their right hand. Like throwing balls, typing on their phone, using a mouse and keyboard, shooting a gun, even using silverware. The behaviors are mostly influenced by the environment around them.

So really, how much of what we perceive to be human nature is really just socially reinforced? You could really apply this sort of questioning to any minority group really, but for some reason not when it comes to men and women. Despite making up half the population, women are treated like a minority group. Socially we are. Does this mean it's women's nature to be disadvantaged? Or is it because they are forced to live in a world that forces that disadvantage on to us?

Women's brains showing the reflection of our society's misogyny is not proof that it's innate. Women have had to adapt in order to survive in a world that is sought out on oppressing us. Humans will do whatever they can to fit in and survive. It's in our nature to do so. Women are not biologically programmed to be submissive, motherly, feminine, caring or emotionally intelligent. Our society conditions us from the moment we are born and it shapes our brain as we continue to grow.

You cannot feel this socialization if you have never experienced it. You cannot possibly articulate these experiences if you did not experience them from the moment you were born. Or even before then if your parents knew your sex beforehand. Socialization starts the exact moment they know your sex. Just like you cannot feel left-handed and you can't understand the ways in which people adapt to certain situations unless you have been there yourself. Socialization and conditioning is an important aspect to the lived experiences of women, but that does not mean it's genetic. It's reinforced.

[friendlyearthling]

“How much of what we perceive to be human nature is really just socially reinforced?”

“Humans will do whatever we can to fit in and survive. It’s our nature to do so. Women are not biologically programmed to be submissive, motherly, feminine, caring or emotionally intelligent.”

We learn these skills through socialization. It makes our lives easier to embrace the roles that are foisted on us, instead of fighting the system which created the roles. It’s only when you’ve done as you are told for years without the benefit ever being yours, that some women wake up and realize they no longer give a shit about societal roles, and wouldn’t it actually be better to be myself than to do what is expected?

I wish for all women the freedom to be who they are and chose to act for their own happiness now. Today. Immediately!

[friendlyearthling]

Continuing the series of feminist songs that people should know, though no one asked for, here is another gem! Nameless, Faceless by Courtney Barnett. The chorus sings:

I want to walk through the park in the dark,

Men are scared that women will laugh at them,

I want to walk through the park in the dark,

Women are scared that men will kill them.”

However, the intro verse may be too spot on to be sharing on tumblr where people argue with each other anonymously #nameless faceless.

“You sit alone at home in the darkness,

with all the pent up rage that you harness.”

[friendlyearthling]

This song is amazing! So relatable and vulnerable and powerful. More people need to know this song!

[shesnarls]

Men made it uncool/dangerous to be a woman or associated in any way with femininity but then women started doing cool shit like we listen, we work, we anticipate the needs of those around us, and we kiss passionately, we make art, we get our education, we make our spaces bright and lovely and livable, we cook healthy meals and dance and sing and exercise and play. We better society every day. The reason so many men are useless neets with no personality outside of cynicism is because they hate women enough that they're willing to exist on a subhuman level only rather than be affiliated with us. They would rather live lives of Grey empty spaces, navy blue and vague interest in cars, self deprivation and gut issues than join women in our joy. That's how strong male ego is. But congrats males, ig, you played yourselves.

[friendlyearthling]

It’s sad that being a full healthy human is unmanly in this society.

[friendlyearthling]

Found in southern Wisconsin! Speak the truth, sister!

“Women don’t have a right to meet and organize without men… who said it? Trans rights activist or men’s rights activist?”

“Women saying no to (transwo)men is not hate, even if (transwo)men hate being told no.”

Transgendertrend.com

Sex-matters.org

[rupikaur-deactivated20170926]

[friendlyearthling]

He does not deserve unfettered access to you. He is not entitled to you. It’s your body, and he can fucking leave.