no, I don't think I will

radical feminism, gender critical sideblog

[doingitatmybirthdaydinner]

I used to not get lesbians until I realized they aren’t just horny sex freaks, but also feel romantic attraction! 🥺🥺🥺🥺✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻#ally

women aren’t choosing to be lesbians for emotional understanding, it’s technically possible that a man could understand me better emotionally, but that doesn’t matter because I physically am incapable of feeling attraction to a man! the phrasing of this post is so weird, it’s like those people who think lesbians decide to try women after being scorned by men. it doesn’t work like that, it’s an innate immutable thing.

[gender-machine-broke]

Yeah I do think they see us as women giving women a try after being scorned by men because that’s how they are. Seems like it’s a relatively popular thing for straight women to lament “having” to date men (you don’t. No one does) and “wishing” they were attracted to women instead. But their idea of women dating women is just like. Chastely braiding each other’s hair and going to Sephora together because it’s taboo for women to have any active sexual desires at all in a society that expects us to be passive for men, but especially taboo to desire other women. That is literally the only thing that makes you lesbian or bisexual though. Not some innate “understanding” that all women share because lesbian women are not a monolith and we all have different personalities and life experiences. Plenty of people have been in bad/unsatisfying relationships where they didn’t feel understood by their partner! Regardless of sexual orientation. But, quite frankly, I find the implication that these straight women go into dating expecting to not be understood and to feel zero emotional connection to their partner alarming. If you feel like men and women are from completely different worlds and you could never connect with a man on a deep level, do not date them. Once again, you don’t have to. And giving up on men doesn’t mean you have to “try” women.

[taika-waititii]

A guide to Rocky’s markings, posted on Instagram by Tom Blake

[torchestogether]

it actually infuriates me that we as a society have decided to medicalize and pathologize gender nonconformity

[socialistexan]

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

[quinntheestallion]

Before I use to be a “I dont care if men wanna wear a wig and call themselves Susie, just leave women’s spaces alone” kind of terf.

But now I think every attempt of a man to “transition” or identify as a “woman” is insulting and misogynistic. I don’t even care if it’s one of the good, genuinely dysphoric gay ones who pass. Like what the fuck are you doing bro. Your whole existence is some kind of misogynistic insult.

Like you can look as feminine as you want but calling yourself anything but a femme boy is insane.

[starryweever-blog]

Gays: if you’re not gay then you’re not gay

People in hetero relationships but who wear silly clothing: How DARE You Disrespect me! I exist!

[evilwomendefender]

If I hear another person say that people can change sex because of clownfish or whatever I'm gonna start talking about how women should be able to eat their children because of lions, hamsters, spiders, etc etc

[violet-lavender-fem]

the actual pride month rundown

- marsha p. johnson repeatedly identified as a gay man and drag queen and survived into an era where the language did already exist if he chose to identify as transsexual. he explicitly stated that he was not transsexual and claimed that all transsexual people were also homosexual.

- sylvia rivera did identify as a transsexual woman (and made disparaging speeches about lesbians). she was not an ally to lesbians. lesbians and transwomen have not always been allies.

- neither of them were there when the stonewall riots began, according to marsha’s own testimony. sylvia was sleeping off a drug trip on a park bench, and by the time marsha arrived at stonewall, the riots were already in full swing.

- storme delarverie, a mixed black gender-nonconforming lesbian and drag king, may have been the one who incited the stonewall riots. she never identified as a transman despite surviving into an an era where the language was made accessible to do so. accounts differ as to who started the riots.

- stonewall was not a special haven for trans people and drag artists, it was just some bar where gay people met up. by all accounts, it wasn’t even a good bar.

- pride as a festival and parade was invented by gay men, lesbians, and bisexual people. fred sergeant is one of those gay men, and he has been beaten (in recent years, as an elderly man) by trans people and their allies due to his views on medical transition. non-homosexual trans people were unheard of in this era.

- this is just united states history, and not even the beginning of gay rights activism in the united states alone. the rest of the world didn’t necessarily base its gay rights activism on stonewall.

[doingitatmybirthdaydinner]

Video of young girl in Iran: I hate being female in this horribly misogynistic society where women and girls are violently oppressed, and I’m also attracted to the same sex. I wish I were a boy sometimes

Commenters: Aww I hope this BOY is a happy BOY now! Trans joy uwu!

[marbleguard]

it’s crazy these people never realize when they say shit like this they’re essentially agreeing with the oppressive gender roles of the society at hand.

[sichorean]

CAKE AND FUCKING DRESSES AND PASSIVITY???

TRAS ARE MRAS.

[radfemverity]

I love the radical feminist community because it is full to the brim with cycle breakers.

Desi women who have been raised to see them, their sisters and their mothers stripped of their personhood in tightknit patriarchal families, and who have decided they will break with the tradition.

Closeted ex-Muslim women from countries like Pakistan, Iran and Somalia who quietly work towards a life of freedom in apostasy, risking shame and estrangement from their entire families for doing so.

Eldest born daughters who recognise that they should have never had to absorb the rage of their dysfunctional family, and who learn to find the balance between taking care of those they love, and taking care of themself.

Women who grew up around loveless marriages, domestic abuse and crime, who commit decades of their adult life to growing into a healthier person, pursuing a life free of fear, addiction and violence — to provide a better life for their children.

Underdog women who were made to feel that they could never amount to anything, because they were working class, a ‘trouble child’, disabled, undesirable to men, or struggled with their mental health, who then put in the work to psychologically disentangle their self-worth from these false messages.

Women who looked at the unfulfilled lives of their mothers and grandmothers, and who decided that the cycle ends with them; that they will commit themselves to knowledge, personal growth, compassion, fulfilment and adventure, to live the lives that their foremothers couldn’t, for those foremothers.

Cheers to all the cycle breakers out there. In case anyone hasn’t told you today, you’re doing great, keep it up. 🥂

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

Mystical connection? No. Physical and actual? Yes

[midwifepilled]

like there is a connection . and we can name it

[g1rluninterruptedd]

i wish people would stop saying this stupid shit, really. children can learn about sex without porn. no it shouldn’t be easily accessible to children. then to call it “mass surveillance” is absolutely absurd

[artemis-melody]

Brown men say it's white men

White men say it's brown men

Left wing men say it's right wing men

Right wing men say it's left wing men

Muslim men say it's Christian men

Christian men say it's muslim men

Poor men say it's billionare men

Billionaire men say it's poor men

Gay men say it's straight men

Straight men say it's gay men

What's the common denominator? Are you noticing a pattern here?

[majchic]

[wrigglewormz]

I'm perfectly fine with people criticizing my favorite stories and frequently do it myself but can you stop being so boring about it

[wrigglewormz]

"This scene made me so uncomfortable" given the subject matter, it would be really, really badly written if it wasn't.

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.