Artemis

[radjoy]

I've just started the beauty myth, if you have any more recommendations of books on feminism i would love to hear it!

How are you enjoying it? Feel free to message me and we can chat about it!

Letters From A War Zone holds a special place in my heart for being my first radfem book, SCUM Manifesto for being my second. Read the SCUM manifesto once like "this is a powerful satire exposing how men talk about women, and have talked about women throughout all of history". and then read it once more like “this is the undisputed truth”.

Who Cooked The Last Supper? will CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!! transformative. visionary. will totally back up your misandry and also make you so so proud to be a woman aka the creators of all culture and innovation.

Delusions of Gender is really good at breaking down how children are socialized from birth to believe in gender differences, and was one of the books that got me interested in radical feminism in a sociology class.

A Womb of One's Own is a short at-home abortion guide that I think everyone should read, regardless of whether or not you're pregnant. Jane Doe imagines a world where women are in complete control of their reproductive power, and it's incredibly empowering to know how abortion works.

Ain't I A Woman is a book that I think is really important for white feminists to read to look at the pitfalls of the feminist movement and to see how we can make sure feminism is supporting all our sisters, plus has a lot of really good historical information on black feminists. A good jumping off point to learn about historical black feminists - I read this & did follow-up research while I still had access to a university library, and tragically did not save a lot of pdfs, but if you can, there were some amazing stories I learned about, like Elizabeth Kaye/Key.

Invisible Women for wonderful and insanity-inducing science about how our lives are put at risk from male-as-default attitudes.

It Is Obscene which is an essay, not a book, but I think Chimamanda's talent for succinct, potent writing really manages to drive the point home. I think radfems should read this so we know what we're dealing with - truthfully, some people have just figured out that the best way to bully people nowadays is to fake a concern for the most oppressed members of society, and anything they contribute towards ending misogyny/racism is not driven by compassion. Honestly all of Chimamanda’s work is wonderful.

[dieunrasiertebirkenstocktrgrn]

[eve-was-framed]

very annoyed that I was taught that women wanted to right to work “to be equal to men” and not because they were desperate to be able to support themselves financially rather than relying entirely on men who treated them so badly that they had to take horse tranquilizers just to get through the day

[eve-was-framed]

thinking about when a very attractive young woman wearing a home depot uniform posted a completely normal selfie on her twitter and then when it blew up men were immediately asking “when’s the OF dropping??” and when she said “I would never make an OF” a bunch of OF creators were upset about it and acted like this woman not wanting to do it was a personal insult toward them

the way everyone felt so fucking comfortable trying to push and guilt this woman into joining OF is just another reminder that if even one woman has a price tag, the rest of us will just be seen as products that haven’t been put on the market yet

[long-leggged-socialist]

So some fuck ass mom posted on tiktok about her 14 y.o CHILD getting a Brazilian wax/waxing on her body bc it’s “hygienic” (she obv didn’t post the it actually getting done but I digress).The woman who re-posted the video onto twt is having to argue with brain dead women who say “ITS HER CHOICE” and saying she’s a weirdo for being concerned and that they don’t have a problem with a child getting waxed more so than the mom posting the video to begin with, as if we can’t fucking multitask. I think I’m officially black pilled I’m so serious.

No wonder why women fall for the dumb shit men do bc y’all are working with room temp IQs and ZERO critical thinking. The funniest part is when the consequences of not being critical end up happening the feminist who’ve been telling y’all to think more than two seconds will be blamed/“why aren’t so called radfems talking about this!!” And then it fades bc no one wants to read anything or make actual change, I don’t even think a toddler getting lip filler will make y’all use your fucking brain for once.

Y’all are on your own I can’t deal with this shit anymore. The fact that women are fine with the bar being in hell and are allowing these men to get them pregnant when roe v wade has been overturned tells me everything I need to know. We can argue internalized misogyny till the cows come home but the bottom line is that there’s a fuck ton of y’all that don’t wanna be saved and frankly speaking, I don’t wanna save your annoying asses either.

Women should be outraged, should be disgusted and repulsed by the way we’re being stripped of our rights and sense of self not just in legislation but personhood via these traps they’re setting for girls. Robbing them of their youth and innocence bc of the porn addicted moid goblins they go to school with and societies penchant for pedophilia towards girls.

But nah, instead yall break your backs to say “LETS NOT DEMONIZE ALL MEN” after hearing about a horrific tragedy inflicted upon a woman after someone’s comments “I fucking hate men.”Like I’ve said before men don’t have to lift a finger to keep patriarchy alive and running when women get on their knees for free lmao.

[eve-was-framed]

they’re calling it “ending generational trauma” as if teaching your young daughter that she has to be as hairless as a newborn baby for the rest of her life is some kind of new revolutionary thing

blackpilling beyond words

[madfemradfem]

they're saying it's hygiene!! it's the fucking opposite! I'm literally seething can people stop abusing their daughters for one goddamn minute

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[i-cant-sing]

This is for people of Israel/anyone who supports Israel/anyone who wants to stay "neutral" about this genocide, remember that this is how your fav "defenders/heroes/government servants are supposed to be responsible" are talking about innocent Palestinians civilians:

If you choose not to speak on this matter, if you choose to not speak up for Palestinians, then be well assured, 100% guaranteed that what's happening in Palestine can (and will if you let Israel get away with MASS MURDER) also just as easily happen to you, and then there will be other people who would stay "neutral" and silent on this matter.

If you think that the reason you're not taking sides is because you don't really know the situation that well, then EDUCATE yourself. It is your responsibility, as a fucking human, to do your research to stop and prevent such atrocities from being committed.

(I know, I FUCKING KNOW I have at least a few dozen followers from Israel/support Israel/ZIONISTS who are reading this and I know that your eyes may be blind, but your hearts aren't. Don't be a hypocrite, and don't be ignorant)

[chrisdornerfanclub]

Israeli official calls for 'doomsday' nuclear strike on Gaza that will 'shake Middle East'

[pxlestine]

[ahuara-deactivated20250412]

every single country that has voiced support for israel's "self defense", every single politician, anchor, news outlet, zionist, and person baying for the blood of palestinians is complicit in genocide. (Oct. 17) a hospital was purposefully bombed today, killing 500 people (the death toll bound to climb as reports come in), and israel says "hamas" as a paper-thin flimsy excuse to justify murdering doctors, patients, and everyone sheltering there. western media pieces of shit will say "major loss of civilian life" in the face of real-time genocide like it was simply an unfortunate incident or natural disaster. like isarel didn't deliberately murder human beings. israeli historian and genocide scholar said this a textbook case of genocide. and the west still does nothing, and worse than nothing: aiding and generating propaganda to justify it. COMPLICIT. COMPLICIT IN AND PARTY TO GENOCIDE.

[vakarians-babe-archive]

there’s something so insane about people who used to love putting “free Palestine” in their bio now deciding they have pearls in need of clutching. how did you think Palestine was going to be freed? did you think that if we all wrote “free Palestine” in our blog titles the world would just say oh you know what, our bad? did you think if Palestinians protested really, really peacefully, that Netanyahu would be moved? did you think that essays about decolonization published in the neoliberal academy would do the trick?

or did you simply expect Palestinians to wait? to wait and watch every day as their loved ones are killed because they step out of line? as the journalists and medics are shot around them? as Israel commits war crimes against them and the world does nothing? raining white phosphorous down on an open-air prison where the exits are controlled, closed, bombed out? as the Sabra and Shatila massacres are forgotten and repeated and forgotten and repeated and forgotten and repeated in an endless cycle?

when you wrote “free Palestine” in your bio, what did you think it meant?

[whjwiwowpwlsskwjwbwbkwkwlwnw]

i hate how prostitution advocates act like there is no objective state of abuse. they ask the victims, do you feel abused? and when they say no, they call it a day and say its not their business.

if you see a man hit his wife, and you ask her, are you okay? and she says yes, would you stop caring? say well, if most battered wives stay with their husbands, if most abused women stay with their partner, the abusers shouldnt be punished?

ive talked about this before on my old blog, but prostitution follows similar patterns as abusive relationships: in those, women stay due to dependency (the kids, shared home, joint bank account, lack of safety net etc), just like prostitutes (family dependent on them, living in the brothel, sole provider, lack of options, etc); or the cycle of abuse and amends, apologies and gestures of love after the abuse, which in prostitution is the payment.

using your money to get others to perform the sexual acts you want disregarding their own desires and boundaries is abuse. prostitution advocates are not advocating for women‘s agency, they are advocating for men legally abusing impoverished women and other marginalised people who are the majority of prostitutes.

focussing on the woman‘s choice is a gateway to victim-blaming: if she voluntarily entered prostitution, she knew what she was getting into. if she gets traumatised, that‘s on her. „why is she staying with her abusive partner? why is she defending him after everything he‘s done to her?“ sounds the same to me as „why does she stay in prostitution and even defends it if it‘s so bad?“ and the conclusion: it cant be that bad then. none of my business. and the abusers keep getting away with it

[kiefbowl]

sometimes I forget that the thing that truly radicalized me was my psychology and marriage class which I took on a whim as an elective and that like you weren’t all there with me. I assume every woman I meet was in class with me I want to be like “remember the statistics? the radicalizing statistics?” unfortunately, no they weren’t there with me lol

[the-widow-hazard]

Do you still have your notes/slides?

[kiefbowl]

oh lordy no. this would be over 10 years ago now which is crazy to think about

to everyone asking for the stats, the main takeaway is: men tend to be happier than women when married, tend to be happier married, and women tend to have no change to less happiness after marriage, and tend to be happier after divorce than men. White men are the most happiest once married. Men love being married. The longer men are married, the happier they are, which is not a trend for women. Men are also most likely to get married after a marriage ends in divorce or death, and are far more likely to marry within two years after a marriage end (white men in particular). Men also tend to not get married again if they don’t get married within two years of a marriage ending. Men are SPRINTING to the alter, and if they don’t they can’t land a woman. I can’t remember what we actually discussed about it in class verbatim, but it left an impression that men desperately, desperately need wives so much so that if they don’t have one their life falls apart so fast they can’t get one. Men are angry, miserable, and frankly boring without their wives, and their homes and relationships are in shambles. Men rely so heavily on their wives to be their number one best friend, despite their total devoted loyalty to their bros, that they fail at conversation and thinking without them. Men get angry when their wives leave them and suddenly they have to do menial housework because 1) they’re not good at it and 2) they spent their lives belittling it as “easy” making the “not good at it” worse, but instead of self reflection they just feel as if they’re not being given what they’re owed as a man (hence the SPRINTING to the alter). imagine your spouse dying and you’re married not even 24 months later. like really think about it, all the steps from meeting to dating to Dating to engagement and wedding planning - that’s how desperate men are to have wives, and so many of them fail to get married again if they don’t do it in that turn around.

One of the number one predictors of marriage dissatisfaction is the first born being a girl. Divorce is financial ruin for women in ways that men don’t even statistically compare, and divorced women are still statistically happier than married women. Women gain majority of custody of their children at such high rates because fathers literally don’t want custody. When father’s ask for custody, they usually get it. In fact, children add to the financial burden for women that men do not shoulder in divorce. ADDITIONALLY, there is a significant number of men who ask for custody specifically because they know it hurts their wives, they know court is expensive and a nuisance and they know that their wives will be the primary parent so shuttling them around to their dad’s house just adds to their childcare burden. Across the country, fathers are overwhelming in arrears on their child support and mothers are not.

Every single “joke” about women begging for marriage and men begrudgingly being dragged into it is a LIE and it’s male propaganda. Men fucking LOVE being married, they can’t live without women. 

[radhyena-deactivated20250210]

Q slur discourse is happening on Twitter again so here’s how I’ve always thought of “why is queer a slur but not gay! Gay was a way bigger insult when I was growing up!”

I compare it to the words “Girl” and “Bitch”

Because girl has been used as an insult by men for years. “You throw like a girl” “stop acting like a girl” “you’re being such a girl” and the reason why it’s an insult to them is because they’re misogynists who think girls are lesser. Because the word girl doesn’t actually have a negative definition. If you were to call say to a girl “you’re a girl”, that isn’t an insult, just a statement of fact. Girl doesn’t suddenly become a slur just because people use it as such.

But bitch? That’s always going to be a problem. Calling someone a bitch is always an insult because the very definition of calling someone basically a female dog, is insulting.

Gay is used as an insult because STRAIGHT people are homophobic. Because they don’t want to be gay or even to be seen as gay. It’s an insult to homosexuals to use gay as an insult because you’re implying there is something bad about being gay.

But queer is like bitch. The very definition of it is insulting.

Girl and gay being used as insults is insulting to people because they devalue girls and gay people, not because those words are inherently wrong. But queer and bitch were made to insult our communities.

That’s why queer is a slur and gay is not.

[inv3rt-deactivated20240728]

rape is a greater moral crime than murder

[stellalunazul]

tags by @ratgirlgenius2

[xrgl]

i hate body positivity-or the current movement at least. it could have been 'no, not everyone is beautiful, but you don't owe society beauty'. instead it is 'EVERYONE is beautiful :)))' because beauty is the most valuable asset in a woman

not that everyone doesn't deserve to feel confident it's just annoying that even when women don't fit beauty standards they are reassured that they are still gorgeous actually because god forbid you be a girl and not pretty

[thornybushybrambles-deactivated]

This is such a specific group to criticize, but I have no respect or faith in leftist vegan dudes who are pro porn and pro sex work. Motherfucker, how are you going to be out here acknowledging that the commodification of living beings is ALWAYS WRONG NO MATTER WHAT, and will ALWAYS LEAD TO EXPLOITATION NO MATTER WHAT and then act as though prostitution and pornography are okay because, consent?????? You are out here with the fucking “muh uncle’s farm” excuse with your “but muh ethical cam girl” literally fuck you, get the fuck out of here with your palpable hypocrisy.

Do they not understand or simply don’t care how “oh but the cow is treated really nicely when we use her body and exploit her reproductive system” is DIRECTLY PARALLELED BY “oh but the prostitute is treated really nicely when we use her body and exploit her reproductive system” HOW. DO YOU HAVE LESS EMPATHY. FOR HUMAN WOMEN. I can’t…..

[femsolid]

"A man rose at the back of the hall with a pencil and paper in his hand. "You say that over 2000 women are raped every day in this country. I did some quick figuring. That makes about 40,000 a day worldwide." Significant pause. Then he exploded: "That's the number of children who starve to death every day! Think about that!" And he plopped down in his seat with a smug, duty-done look on his face. At that point, another man, encouraged by his colleague's outspokenness and impeccable logic, arose and pointed out that no matter how bad incest is (he called it "child abuse" since he was apparently unable to face the implications of "incest"), he was furious at my saying that what happens to females in incest is far worse than anything that happens to men in wars. How could I be so insensitive? How do I think he'd felt, leaving the blasted bodies of his buddies strewn all over Vietnam's battlefields? Didn't I have any conception that men were being tortured even as we sat there, in El Salvador, for instance?

What they were saying to me was very clear. As long as any male, anywhere is suffering, women are selfish to mention that they are suffering, too.

I'm sure neither of those men realized the woman-hatred behind their feeling that everything and everyone should come before women. I pointed out quietly that in every country where children are starving, women are starving also. In every country where men are being tortured, women are being tortured also. I was insensitive enough to point out that Vietnam is also strewn with the blasted bodies of women, and that many, many of those bodies were not simply blown up, but were also sexually abused-raped, gang raped, used up in prostitution, tortured. No matter when or where or what men suffer, women's suffering is on some totally different, more exquisite, plane.

But no one wants to hear that women are suffering. Men's ordeals are recounted and described and depicted in every conceivable way in every medium on earth, and have been from earliest history. We are always asked and expected to look at and listen to and understand and sympathize with men's pain and suffering, and we have always done it, all of us, men and women. But women's agony at the hands of men must never be revealed. If women steadfastly and courageously began to tell the truth and would not stop, would not be co-opted, would not become afraid, the truth of our enslavement would be undeniable, and the jig would be up.

That this might indeed happen is terrifying to most people. It would stand the whole world on its head. This is why any time women say, "Look at what is happening to us!" someone invariably rises up on the spot (as patriarchy has trained us all so well to do) and shouts, in order to divert us, to frighten us, to remind us of our vulnerability and danger: "But what about men?"

I explained to the distraught man whose buddies lie in fragments all over the corpse of Vietnam: ''You are performing this function here tonight. May I interrupt this well-rehearsed performance to point out that we have given men 5000 years of undivided attention." (Is it any wonder they have remained spoiled little boys?) As Pauline Bart points out: "We are not allowed, even now, to speak of women's suffering without someone saying, 'and men, too,' although we have always spoken of men's suffering without adding 'and women, too!'" Patriarchy has worked hard to make women's experience appear so trivial and so invisible that it is inconceivable to most people that we warrant any attention at all. Otherwise, it would not be so maddening to them to have to listen for a whole hour to a speech about women, though they listen willingly day after day, year after year, to talks by and about men. For many hundreds of years they have heard about nothing but men: their wars, their ideas, their art, their politics, their science, their blah, blah, blah, ad nauseam."

- Going Out of Our Minds by Sonia Johnson