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valeriesolanasapologist

Keep on running up that hill, ladies.

acidbathbunnies-moved

ohhhhh shit. that sucks. superior sex who?

acidbathbunnies-moved

Males over 40 could be putting themselves at greater risk of heart attacks and strokes by taking part in the gruelling events, say experts

yyukine

sapphos-catpanions

i’m a female ultradistance runner and i always assumed that i was hurting my heart, just like what happens to men: i know many middle aged male runners who have had some kind of cardiac event, despite being very fit. this explains why my mother is still racing, while my father had to stop. this is such gorgeous news.

pointlessblogofmine

If it’s so bad for them, are we sure they did all the running after prey animals?

Our was it Mother Nature’s idea to kill them off quicker?

womenarehuman

Society: Men are the superior sex!

Science: Well actually, you have inferior immune systems, you are more likely to die in childhood, you have less ability to fight off cancer, you're less likely to survive a famine, you're more likely to have a genetic disease with only 1 X, you're more likely to have mental deficiencies with only 1 X, you don't live as long, and we just found out that running can kill you.... So men are actually rather frail, evolutionarily speaking....

Women: (Having dealt with the drama of a man with a simple cold.) No shit Sherlock. 🙄

marmorada

This is fucking crazy. I remember SO MANY articles about male runners that dropped dead of sudden cardiac events where the family and media were totally blindsided because “he’s a runner, he was so healthy!” and it being all very traumatizing to my cardiophobia because supposedly it proved anyone can get a surprise cardiac event. Like are you kidding me

queen-mayhem

Oh yeah, this is also a factor in why women perform better in ultra-distance running. I read about it in an article about that woman who beat the fastest known time for the Appalachian trail. Her strategy was, "I can't run faster than a man, but I can run more than a man." So she rested less and ran more, and despite keeping a slower running pace, she blew the previous guy's record out of the water. Beat him by more than a day.

The article points out that at the end of a race, male ultra-distance runners are in bad shape health-wise. They link to a study showing that male ultra-distance runners, but not female ultra-distance runners, display pulmonary edema at the end of a race. Female runners show some signs of cardiac stress, but men show a lot more, a lot more significantly. Interestingly, that study compared time-matched subjects - so it isn't just because the men are running faster. It was a small study, so take it with a grain of salt. But it suggests that long-distance running is harder on a man's heart than a woman's heart.

ms-andrie

Running is also the most egalitarian sport with retirees regularly outperforming teenagers. And if a female long distance runner in her 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's has better cardio health than her male peers, (and live longer than them) just HOW sure are we that it was men who were the persistence hunters. Mix this in with the average prehistoric woman being stronger than modern female athletes. Throw this in with colourblindness being more common in men by an order of magnitude: Yeah. Women were better hunter gatherers.

becausekaiserislousy

This fact blew me off.

Maybe I, even with physical challenges (scoliosis, myopia) and mental, am stronger than a male with same problems.

treasuredplanet

I think that when you're overstimulated you should appear kind of grayed out and no one should be able to interact with you like a locked character in a video game

triangleguy

this should be illegal im so serious

thehummingbirdsound

Remember earlier in the year, like in September, when all the massively disturbing stories about Sean Combs assaulting dozens (if not hundreds) of people came out but somehow there was MORE press about Blake Lively being maybe a little bitchy sometimes? Yeah, surprise surprise that was all a coordinated campaign by a sexual harasser to discredit his accuser and then the internet's misogyny took over and did the job for him:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/business/media/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-it-ends-with-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jE4.JAuY.XGM9RUyJw0ic

laurenillustrated

Mystery Inc. but it’s the 1890s

Who had late Victorian Scooby Doo on their 2024 bingo card? Hmm?

The idea came to me when I was thinking about Sherlock Holmes and then remembered the iconic mystery solving gang hehe

edensmidian

In 2004, a journalist named Asieh Amini came across a story from a small town in northern Iran.

A 16-year-old girl named Atefeh Sahaaleh had been publicly hanged.

The official charge: "acts incompatible with chastity."

The reality, which Amini uncovered through careful, dangerous investigation: Atefeh had been repeatedly raped by a neighbor and other men beginning when she was nine years old. She had been neglected by her family and paid to keep silent — money she used simply to survive. At 13, Iran's morality police arrested her. A judge sentenced her to one hundred lashes. Under Iranian law, a woman could be sentenced to lashings three times — the fourth offense carried the death penalty.

She was 16 when they hanged her.

Amini wrote the story. Her newspaper refused to publish it. Another paper refused as well. A women's publication finally agreed to run an edited version.

She kept going.

Born in 1973 in the Mazandaran province of northern Iran — one of four sisters who spent their childhood painting, reading, and playing outdoors — Amini had built her career as a journalist through the brief flowering of press freedom following President Khatami's election in 1997, editing a women's affairs newspaper called Zan until hardline clerics shut it down in 1999. She had known the Iranian state's capacity for silencing voices. She had not yet known the full depth of what it was capable of doing to girls.

After Atefeh, she knew.

Case after case began reaching her. Leyla — a 19-year-old with diminished mental capacity, herself a victim of child rape, facing execution. The judge in her case told Amini plainly that Leyla was a threat to family life because of her "sexual availability." Amini enlisted human rights lawyer Shadi Sadr, published Leyla's story, drew international attention, and helped get her out of prison and into the care of a women's organization in Tehran.

One life at a time. One story at a time. Against a legal system that had no interest in being exposed.

In 2006, Amini discovered that despite a government moratorium on stoning — a directive issued in 2002 that carried no binding legal force — a man and woman had been stoned to death in Mashhad for adultery. The judge claimed he answered only to Sharia law. The Ministry of Justice denied the stoning had happened. State media attacked Amini's credibility.

That October, Amini and Sadr co-founded the Stop Stoning Forever (SSF) campaign — systematically documenting stonings occurring across Iran and sharing their findings through colleagues abroad who could publish without fear of arrest.

The state took notice.

In March 2007, Amini was among 33 women arrested during a silent sit-in at a Tehran courthouse. During interrogation she realized — with the specific clarity of someone who had been investigating surveillance — that the police had been investigating her for some time. She was released after five days. Her phones, she was certain, were tapped. Her movements tracked.

She kept reporting.

The sustained pressure of the work eventually took its physical toll — stress-induced symptoms that included headaches, vision problems, and muscle paralysis forced her to step back briefly while her partners reorganized the campaign from outside Iran.

She recovered. She continued.

In 2009, following the disputed reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Amini was among the demonstrators beaten in the protests that swept Iran. She continued reporting — under pseudonyms, in the chaos. Then came the warning: police were questioning prisoners about her. She needed to leave.

She had been invited to a poetry festival in Sweden.

She took her daughter Ava and she went.

They did not come back.

Amini settled eventually in Norway, supported by the International Cities of Refuge Network — a program that protects writers facing state persecution. From exile, she continued her advocacy, published two books of Norwegian-language poetry, and kept doing what she had always done: making sure that the stories of girls and women the Iranian state wanted silenced were heard by the world instead.

She was awarded the Human Rights Watch Hellmann/Hammett Award in 2009 — the same year she fled. The Oxfam Novib/PEN Award in 2012. The Ord i Grenseland prize in 2014.

Asieh Amini picked up a pen in a country that punished women for existing outside the law's narrow definitions — and she used it, at enormous personal cost, to push against every wall that pen could reach.

The girl from Mazandaran who dreamed of becoming a painter and writer became something rarer and harder:

A witness who refused to look away.

And a voice that — no matter how many times the state tried to silence it — kept finding new ways to be heard.

medusas-daughter

In the case against Amber Heard, Depp's team went to great lengths to hide evidence against their client, they spent millions of dollars making sure it stays off the net, and his fans spent a shit ton of money afterwards to uncover that evidence in the greatest bamboozle I've ever seen in my short life. It would have been hilarious if it wasn't so tragic. They rode so hard for their childhood hero and paid so much money to get that hidden evidence uncovered only to find hospital records of every thing they said Amber Heard lied about. Meanwhile Amber Heard and her team barely had peanuts compared to the wealth of resources Depp had.

Baldoni's Team, which are the same people btw, aren't even doing that. Because they've learned that the people are frothing at the mouth waiting for the chance to rip a woman apart. They know that even with Blake's and her husband's billions of dollars, and Baldoni's far far lesser status than Depp, she's still just a woman. They don't even need to come up with a strategy or hide evidence or bribe judges. They just need one or two people to say "uhm that d list actor i saw on like one cw show and maybe heard about his podcast like once is like soooooo hot I'd also throw myself at him and then destroy my reputation my career my family my image and chances of future employment when he rejects me because I'm just a dumb blonde, an aging dumb blonde" and the Internet just runs with it. I am disgusted and so fucking disappointed.

The number of women who were told "that man isn't harassing you, you're projecting your little crush on him" or "he's not catcalling you he's giving you a compliment you're obviously fishing for and when he doesn't compliment you anymore you'll start crying because it will mean you're old and ugly" or "that man didn't rape you, you just regretted sleeping with him because it makes you a slut so you're crying rape to save face" is heartbreaking. I can say with certainty that every single one of us either knows one of these women or is one of these women.

And to all the pick mes going to war for Baldoni's ego while his team pops champagne for the easiest money they've ever made, you are either one of these women or you will be at some point in your life. Especially with the way the patriarchy is taking back control right now.

This is why I never liked dunking on girlbossism or imperfect feminists. Because the patriarchy used very valid criticisms to roll us all the way back to just hating women. Feminists were looking for a better way to do things. The rest were just hating on women.

"Blake Lively is the epitome of white feminism and girlboss feminism therefore I hate her and don't believe her when she's been abused" do you fucking hear yourself? Women don't owe you a perfect record of activism to be worthy of human decency.

Is Blake Lively a perfect self aware social justice warrior? No. Is she a victim who deserve justice? Yes.

Was Amber Heard the perfect victim who took every assault lying down then cried a single aesthetically pleasing tear before stoically forgiving her abuser and rapist and embracing him one last time because he's just a hurt man an she's the jezebel that pushed him to anger? No because she's fucking human and she did not deserve any of what was done to her during her marriage or after.

It is disgusting. And all the accounts tearing Blake Lively appart then complaining about Trump's presidency, I beg you to ask yourself why it has become so easy to discredit a woman. It's not a coincidence. It is sinister. And I am not exaggerating when I say it's an omen of a very dark future for women.

Celebrities have always been a microcosme of society. They're mirrors we project our beliefs on. And if the first thing people see when they look at the mountain of evidence against Baldoni is "an aging white woman trying to hide an emotional affair from her husband by ruining a poor hard working man's life" then the 1950s that the far right promised really are here.

metanarrates

all women should be more hairy and sweaty and eat more food and laugh more loudly. my stance as a feminist and also my stance as a lesbian pervert

bevsi

this is the core of why some women defend beauty standards - if they’re deconstructed even a little they have to face how much money/time they’ve sunk into them. it also exposes how untrue “i did it for myself” really is - if that was true, you wouldn’t be upset that other bodies are being uplifted

depsidase

blue-honeybee

The journalist that was assassinated was Daphne Caruana Galizia, she is, like me, Maltese. And the conspiracy to assassinate her involved The PRIME MINISTER OF MALTA as well as other people in his cabinet. There is a monument right across from the Maltese Courts of Law in Valletta. People set up a shrine to Daphne around the base of that monument. The intention is clear: every time a judge has to enter/exit the courts, they'll see her face and be reminded of the miscarriage of justice. People who support the (now ex) Prime Minister and his political party literally destroy the shrine every few months or so. It always comes back. Because you have to persist, even if it gets exhausting. So I say this as someone who was in some way or another directly affected by the result of people ignoring the Panama Papers... DON'T. LET. IT. HAPPEN. AGAIN. Fight like hell. Tear down entire governments if you need to. Protect the children. Protect the people. Take down the monsters that think they can hide in big palaces.

medievalistsnet

New Encyclopedia Highlights Medieval Women’s Writing Around the World

A major new reference work is aiming to reshape how medieval literature is taught and studied, by putting women’s writing—across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia—at the centre of the story.

Read here