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32, Heckin rad

[cannabutch]

im soooo sick of these people. female homosexuality will exist regardless if you strip away the meaning of words and bulldoze our spaces to make them all “inclusive.” the experience of being a female homosexual is biological, innate, and unchanging. you can dress up your misogyny and homophobia in whatever post-modernist queer theory speak all you want. we will always be here.

[violet-lavender-fem]

happy pride month to those who experience attraction to people of their own biological sex 💛

[z0ruas]

When one woman puts her experiences into words, another woman who has kept silent, afraid of what others will think, can find validation. And when the second woman says aloud, ‘yes, that was my experience too,’ the first woman loses some of her fear.

- Carol Christ

[moonshineshrew]

And this is exactly why men will do anything to stop us from being able to speak, to silence us, to prevent us from using accurate language, to make sure we're never alone together as women, that we're never talking to another woman unsupervised without a male there to watch over us and make sure we're not 'misbehaving'

[loserdogma]

I haven’t been able to get over the grief of all human history being held back by the subjugation of women and I actually don’t think I will. Could you even imagine. Thousands of years of recorded history and women have only just (not everywhere and not fully) been able to really get the opportunities that led to the men of history we all know now. Everyone knows Socrates but so few know Aspasia. The amount of philosophy, technology, theory, and humanity lost due to the oppression of women is a genuine travesty. I think of it all the time; how many geniuses were confined to the home? How many Albert Einstein’s were forced to be wives and mothers? How much of human history is corroded by the subjugation of women? All of it?

[aux-squiggle]

things I hate most about the "don't drop the t because they'll never accept us anyways" regarding the lgb drop t conversation is that

a) lgb divorcing tq isn't about acceptance from heterosexuals but for safety and wellbeing of lgb which is being actively poached and hated on by tq, primary heterosexual people calling themselves "queer" in tq at that. it's about lesbians and bi women having genuine wlw spaces without males, and gay and bi men having genuine mlm spaces without females.

b) actually lgb was getting increasingly close to acceptance and rapidly so. opinions were (and fortunately still partially are) shifting not only hugely in 1st world countries but even in 2nd and 3rd world countries too. Homophobic laws were increasingly being unenforced. It was seriously getting better (and fortunately still is but at a slower pace).

TQ put a major spanner in those works and those progress, especially when people felt that by accepting lgb they had to accept some of the straight up misogynistic demands of tq (such as entry to women's school's, sports, DV shelters, universities, homeless shelters, prisons, and of course the famous bathroom topic) as well as the anti child wellbeing demands of wanting people to accept the use of puberty blockers, cross sex hormones, (and in some edge cases, surgery) on children.

Of course when people are learning that that their preconceived notions about homosexuals, and about homosexuals raising children have no basis in science, but to accept that they must also accept a movement shown to be inspiring suicidality in children, yea the homosexuals are gonna have a harder time of acceptance that would be partially mitigated by a divorce.

This idea that "you'll never 100% get what you want (despite lgb goals drawing nearer) so you must stay with us as we drag you further and further away from liberation" is fucking ridiculous and this black-and-white logic does not strike me as dissimilar to how cults / high control groups use "you'll never get what you want on the outside so you must stay with us" despite staying being to your detriment.

[hirsuteandcute]

I'm just going to say it - body hair (and beauty standards in general) is truly one of the final frontiers of women's issues in the West. Too many women just love their gilded cage too much. It shocks me how virulently women will defend it. I barely open my mouth and the "well I like how it feels. it just makes me feel cleaner. sensory issues. I do it for me. feminism is about choosing (to conform)." brigade come rushing in by the dozens.

Well I don't like how it feels. I don't feel cleaner without body hair. I don't prefer not having body hair. But who will advocate for women like me, but me? For women who do like hair removal, they are advocated for every time they step out of the house and see 99% of the female population also conforming to that standard, or when they watch a movie and see all the shaved actresses, or view an advertisment, or open a magazine, or watch a music video, or scroll through social media, or walk down the streets without receiving insults and glares for having a completely normal bodily feature.

You genuinely can't even point out that hairlessness is a man-made standard without women losing their shit and acting like they are totally immune to propaganda they've been exposed to from birth. I'm so tired.

[gondorrevealparty]

They need to eat less because they're so small and weak. Why are they so small and weak? Because they eat less. Let's base our entire society on this distinction.

[vintage-bentley]

But this never happens! Everybody respects lesbians’ “preferences” to not date men!

[mallloryrowinski]

the surrogacy ban post you made is tone deaf. Gay couples can't even adopt in Italy

This is how you sound

[anjomecanico]

Someone that loves you would never want to hurt you. It doesn't matter if it's "consensual", if it's to "cope with trauma" (it won't treat trauma in the long run at all) or whatever reason, a person that truly loves you will never want to hurt you for whatever reason in any context whatsoever. Even the idea of them hurting you probably hurts them.

Never accept to be hurt.

[depsidase]

[businessofwomen]

Stop asking little girls if they have boyfriends Stop referring to the boys that little girls are friends with as their “little boyfriends” Stop telling little girls they’re going to have boyfriends or be “boy crazy” Stop raising children on heteronormativity and let them be children

[virtualcremefem]

not leaving prev in the tags great addition

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

“It's one of patriarchy's perfect self-perpetuating cycles: the demonisation of older women ensures we do not wish to identify with or learn from them, so cannot gain any knowledge to prepare us for our own experience of ageing. Instead we turn away from our future selves.”

- Hags, Victoria Smith

[naliathelioness]

i do concern myself with listening to and learning from older lionesses

[divorcedwife]

studying history is like. here's to another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be. thank you women who fight for abortion and contraception and independance from men for another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be

[bubbtub]

I can't verbalize this in the way I want to, and I don't want to make any woman feel like she's not allowed to complain. But every time I see the uterus personified as an evil entity and periods treated as bad, I low-key cringe. No, your body isn't inherently meant to be pregnant, and no your period is not a punishment for failing to be pregnant. You're not failing at being a woman because you aren't having babies. Your body is not turning against you because you did something wrong. Unless you suffer from an illness that exacerbates your periods, you're just going through a neutral, dare I say good because it's a sign you're healthy, human female experience. This way of thinking feels like the modernized opinions of a medieval priest.

[deadfish-inabarrel]

The uterus evolved to protect the woman from a fetus. If a fetus implants anywhere else, it siphons resources to a dangerous degree and MUST be removed or the woman WILL die.

The cervical mucus and uterine environment is actively HOSTILE to sperm.

A period is not your body punishing you for not being pregnant. Your body doesn't WANT to be pregnant and actively avoids it. It's your body disposing of the old armor and building a new set to try to keep you as healthy as possible if a fetus latches on to you. It is not nutrients for a baby, it is nutrients stored away to PROTECT YOU. Even WITH that protection, a fetus will STILL siphon calcium out of your bones and teeth, still delete the nutrient stores across your whole body.

Without that lining, you would DIE. It MUST be replenished and maintained, or you will die in the event of a fetus.

[thehairiestfeminist]

The solution to an oppressive system that puts people into pink and blue boxes is not to create more boxes. The solution is to tear down the boxes altogether.

- Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, Gender is not a spectrum

[beroebluejeans]

I just really enjoy saying things to my coworkers like, “yeah, I just don’t read many books by men.” I think it’s good for them.