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[ongakunotenshi]

~ This is the most adorable thing ever ~

[hatepageforgod]

i understand why radfems are seen as miserable because it’s pretty miserable to notice misogyny in everything. being intolerant of it makes you unable to participate in many things. no i haven’t seen that popular movie. or the new crime show. i need two fingers to count how many of my favorite artists as a young girl turned out to be abusers or enablers. i won’t separate the art from the artist. i don’t want to hear my friend talk about her anime. it’s gross. i don’t want to go to a party or club where i can get in free because im the product. or where i get rejected because im not “pretty enough” to be a product. i dont want to go to a frat party or be friendly with the males in them. even if they seem to be “woke” because the institution is rooted in patriarchal white supremacy. no, i actually think your dark romance is disgusting and indulges in the same violent sexuality you claim to hate about porn and men. and no i dont want to support your onlyfans or hear about the men you claim to have power over because they give you money due to your beauty and willingness to please them. i will tell you every red flag i hear about your boyfriend when you speak of him. and his friends. i WILL tell you that the horror films you love so much sexualize violence against women. i will tell you your favorite artist is an abuser. or that they pander to the male gaze while claiming to do so as satire. and i don’t want to have to bite my tongue either. i don’t want to not share the truth because it makes you uncomfortable. i will call your favorite things misogynistic if they are. and honestly, the misery doesn’t come from noticing these things for what they are. it comes from the fact that others don’t seem to, and if they do, they look past it. that’s what’s miserable about it.

[megamiussy]

(source: sonnysons777)

[chronicowboy]

baby snoopy this, baby clifford that, baby gromit blah blah blah. what about baby kermit???????

[chronicowboy]

[imethimwheniwasavirgin]

Radical Feminist Reading Masterpost

This is a list of books I want to read on the subject of radical feminism. It’s definitely a long journey since many of these books can be difficult to make it through, but I wanted to share this list for anyone else interested.

Let me know if there are any broken links.

Keep reading

[aliesafenlock]

Looks like there are some Cabaret fans here, so I found my programme of Roundabout Theatre Company's production I saw many years ago.

This Broadway revival was was based on the 1993 London production, directed by Sam Mendes, and performed at Club 54!

The main cast were:

Alan Cumming as the Emcee

Natasha Richardson as Sally Bowles

John Benjamin Hickey as Cliff Bradshaw

Mary Louise Wilson as Fräulein Schneider

Ron Rifkin as Herr Schultz

[ahumanbeena]

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

[shwetanarayan-deactivated202504]

so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor,  and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.

[isaacsapphire]

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

[small-witch-big-hat]

You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brain’s foibles can cause.

[mindfulwrath]

The final chapter in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink (2005) describes this in detail.

What you don’t usually hear about when discussing this blind audition process is that after the blind auditions were implemented, when women had gotten many positions in the orchestra, men no longer saw being a member as prestigious and the salaries for the entire orchestra dropped.