Let's move to Herland

My whole life is a trigger warning/Old enough to know better/Critical of everything. "I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is a male-dominated society based on the oppression of women. I am merely pointing out in what ways it is better for women. " -Phyllis Chesler

[gluten-free-pussy]

The older I get the more fiercely protective I get of younger girls. I was heading into work yesterday and I saw that 12 year old (I mentioned her before, the one who wore makeup) talking to this older man. She’s normally really bubbly but she looked a little more subdued talking to him so I go over and loudly say “Hey sweetheart, who’s this?” And the guys just glares at me and she says “oh um his name is Justin.” And I’m like “Hi Justin, how do you know her?” And he gets nervous and is like “I just saw her jogging and thought I’d give her pointers.” So I just kinda tilted my head and looked at him for a minute. He literally asked me “are you a cop or something? I haven’t done anything wrong.” So I took her to the McDonald’s near by, bought her something and had a talk about not talking to strangers. Low key I’m debating the next time I see her parents (they drop her off at the gym and leave her there for hours) to maybe have a talk with them or something. Idk if it’s my place tho

[gluten-free-pussy]

Just to add because some messaged me saying that I was being a nosey bitch: so a woman who used to go to my gym (and my same university. Like I used to see her at my job and on campus) actually went missing not far from my intersection (literally a 5 min walk away from the major intersection) on may 10 and they found her body literally last week (June 19). Everyone has been on high alert lately so when I saw this random dude talking to this little girl, my brain immediately went into defence panic mode. So yeah call me nosey if you want

[parttimepup]

This world could use more nosey b*tches.

[cocksmasher69]

I’ll stop being a nosey bitch when males stop being predators

[monarda-fistulosa-deactivated20]

Always be a nosy bitch where young girls are concerned. Always be a nosy bitch where creepy old men are concerned

[infiniteoddball]

I am always a nosey bitch at a bar and that will never change. I saw this dude harassing a girl. I mean, would not leave her alone type shit. So I walked up, gave her a hug and helped her to get out of that situation. This is something I have done more than once and won’t hesitate to do again. Always be a nosey bitch and protect thy sister.

[informative-feminist]

I’d rather go down as a nosy bitch than someone who failed to protect children from predators. 

[biracialbisexualradfem-blog]

I’d much rather be known as a nosy bitch that can’t keep her mouth shut then let old men prey on young children/teens/anyone

[cecaeliawitch]

the guy who called op a nosy bitch is a predator, i have absolutely no doubt. why else would he be so invested in normalizing adult men trying to get little girls by themselves?

[gynaecocentrictheory-blog]

I will die a nosy bitch before I stand by and let some man prey on a girl.

[gynaecocentrictheory-blog]

"When humans say “God” we automatically think and express this belief in a male language . . . it is important to create again, a female language; and then possibly one day we will be able to integrate our stories again."

-Jayne Marie DeMente, Why Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality

[welcome-to-alice-in-hell]

-Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders

[kreolemami]

men claim to want ‘a smart woman’ until i pull up with a IQ to qualify for mensa and start questioning their opinions on politics while reading oncology medical journals at 2 a.m as a pass time.

John Carney said, “successful men date less successful women not because they want ‘women to be dumb’ but rather because they want ‘someone who prioritizes their life in a way that’s compatible with how you prioritize yours.‘” so basically men want someone who prioritizes dinner before having a professional career.

like so many women get divorced and have no idea who they are outside of being someone’s wife and frankly, it’s shocking and sad.

there’s a british study where researchers asked 121 participants about their views on intelligent women. not smart, but intelligent. and the findings showed that females with high intelligence in male/female relationships were always seen as problematic. the woman’s intellect was problematic but the man’s intellect was always viewed as ‘desirable’.

there was a time when only (white) men were allowed to go to college, now the demographic with the most degrees is (black) women. women are getting smarter and smarter, and yet men aren’t getting more supportive. [males] aren’t willing to accept second place in the “bread-winning competition” and this is one reason for the increase mid to late 30s marriages; women either settle or stay single.

ladies, you can be 4’11 and be so small and so skinny you cannot rip paper. but these men find out you have a PhD in Quantum Physics and work for Columbia’s Physics department, they only see a threat. you don’t need muscles and a 40 inch dick.

statistically, the most intelligent women are not polarizing about it, yet the majority of the male population assumes we are. they assume intelligent woman will correct them, upstage them, out-do them, and by God-forbid, make them feel worthless. and they fear this because this is how they make us feel.

stop saying you like intelligent women, when in reality you want the bare minimum to qualify for basic intelligence. what you really want is a docile, timid, meek, and easy to manipulate woman that stays home. what y’all claim to want is someone with five degrees that speaks seven languages and. there’s nothing wrong with either, but men still lie. and regardless of how intelligent, physically fit, quiet, and attractive a woman is, men will always seek after the lesser self-insured woman before honestly and truly admiring the woman he knows you are a want and not a necessity.

[exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti]

There’s more to Radical Feminism than being against pornography and prostitution (e.g.: sex trade abolitionism).

There’s more to Radical Feminism than being against pornography and prostitution (e.g.: sex trade abolitionism).

Radical Feminism has politics on ending capitalism, analyzing and criticizing surrogacy, criticizing [heterosexual] marriage and marriage as an institution, examining patrilineage and challenging it, challenging [patriarchal] religion(s), advocating for and developing a [womon’s] spirituality, criticizing and ending [compulsory] heterosexuality (e.g.: challenging and ending heterosexism and ending heteropatriarchy), examining sexuality and sexual relations (e.g.: sex critical, sex negative, PIV-critical and anti-PIV, political celibacy, heterosexual celibacy, kink critical, anti-BDSM), being against gender (e.g.: being gender critical, supporting gender abolitionism, advocating against gendered socialization also known as sex-role socialization or sex-based socialization, being against queer theory), supporting female solidarity, sisterhood, and feminist consciousness-raising (e.g.: female-only safe spaces like womon’s crisis centres and shelters, female-only CR-groups and events, remembering and promoting the fact that Radical Feminism is strictly a female-centered/gynocentric, female-focused, male-exclusionary Feminism, ending girl-hate/womon-hate and internalized misogyny, decentering maleness in our lives, language, and in praxis), fighting for reproductive rights and reproductive justice (e.g.: access to safe, legal, abortions and voluntary sterilization while being against forced abortions and forced sterilizations), politicizing and examining mothering and child-bearing and child-rearing (e.g.: “the cult of motherhood”, childfree politics, midwifery), politicizing female domesticity (e.g.: “the cult of domesticity”, or “the cult of true womanhood”), criticizing and ending [compulsory] femininity, examining the role of the beauty industries in upholding gendered and racialized oppressions just as we already do with the sex industries/sex trade, incorporating, at least aspects or elements of: Disability Feminism, Womanism, Lesbian Feminism, etc – integrating an understanding of double oppressions (or double jeopardy), triple oppressions (triple jeopardy), multiple oppressions, and intersectionality as it initially relates with the systems of racism and sexism oppressing the lives of women of color, particularly black womon.

Radical Feminism has a lengthy, complicated, contentious and intellectually enlightening and inspiring herstory and also has a very resourceful range of political critiques that provides insights about the world in which we womon are oppressed in. You don’t have to agree with everything you research related to Radical Feminism, most don’t and certain areas of our politics require critique and clarification so that we can gain more grounds for unity as womon wanting to liberate societies from male supremacy and female oppression/sex-based oppression/gendered oppression, white supremacy and racism, heterosexism and homophobia, class oppression and the ending of capitalism and [neo-]colonialism, and other systems, structures, and institutions of oppression.

There’s a lot more to being a Radical Feminist than being a sex industries abolitionist.

Avoiding other areas of Radical Feminist politics can result in a sort of confusion in which womon will claim to be Radical Feminist while rejecting key values and core tenets, such as supporting womon’s access to legal abortions.

Radical Feminism is not conservatism and although one or two RadFem stances may appeal to some conservative womon, it is their misunderstanding of what it means to be a RadFem that makes them misappropriate the politics, which further confuses others as to what our intentions and politics really are.

And there’s a lot to learn and realize and this is not even all of it.

[radfemblack]

✊🏾

[tofuboots]

“Part of what defines Cox’s experience of gender is, as she says, that black women and trans women are not seen as beautiful. They can be, and often are, hyper-sexualized — and in seeing Cox as overly sexual, and only sexual, Murphy participates in that stereotype. But while they can be sexual things, trans women and black women are not allowed to be glamorous or lovable.”

Playboy published a really great article about the ridiculousness of TERFS. I’m rather shocked. Because, I don’t know if you heard me, but Playboy published an article defending TWOC against TERFs with pretty solid arguments. 

[nb-pvndv]

This isn’t all that surprising, honestly? Playboy has done a lot of historic things, including hosting the first desegregated tv show. The publication, despite its content, has always been on the side of right. 

[celtyradfem]

No playboy has been on the side of misogyny and so is Laverne Cox. Nothing about this is progressive. Also the desegregated tv show was about objectifying women of colour so don’t pretend that they did for anti racist reasons. Playboy was originally made to be a high class prostitution ring and has has a long history of abusing women profit and has even been caught using under age girls and trafficked women (most of the major porn companies have so it is no surprise).

This is a part of a misogynist campaign against Meghan Murphy (runs Feminist Current) because she is anti sex industry and has influence on her blog. The sex industry hates her because she reports on their corruption and abuses and people listen to her. That is the real motivation behind this bullshit.

[getoffmyastroturf]

^^^^^^^^ You are ALWAYS on point. I ❤️ you

[landmerbabe-deactivated20190210]

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[radscumblr]

“the publication has always been on the side of right” only if you define “right” as the objectification and commodification of women.  As a feminist, that sounds deeply, deeply wrong to me.  How can you call yourself a feminist and claim otherwise?

Stop lauding pornographers as progressives when they prove time and time again that they fucking HATE women.  When playboy is on your side you are doing feminism wrong.  There are no two ways about it. 

[exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti]

Hugh Hefner is a gross abusive rapist PIMP.

How the Playmate bunnies are treated in the Playboy Mansion is awful. The racism that Gloria Steinem witnessed when she went undercover as a Playboy bunny is evidence of that (Black playmate bunnies were called, “Negro Girls” and “Chocolate Bunnies”. Racial fetishization isn’t feminist).

Here’s some more anti-feminism by Playboy:

Pro-rape images from Playboy magazine (TRIGGER WARNING):

Playboy is as anti-feminist as it fucking gets! Hugh Hefner is blatantly anti-feminist, in his own words in 1984.

Playboy is also pro-woman beating:

“In 1999, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reported that a Romanian edition of Playboy magazine published an article “How to Beat your Wife without Leaving Prints.” In the article were descriptions of the kind of tools to use (e.g., sticks and washing machine drive belts) and how best to hold the woman down to make the beating easier. “The author, who remained unidentified, advised that any screams of pain would be bogus and that the wife would want to be beaten again. The article closed by wishing the reader a harmonious marriage.” (Loue, 2001, p. 26). While women’s groups in Romania objected, their complaints were dismissed. Proponents argued that the article was a joke, and the women were taking the issue too seriously.” —  Parrot, Andrea & Cummings, Nina. Forsaken Females: The Global Brutalization of Women. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2006, (p. 27)

The fact that liberal “feminists” and queer and trans activists are falling for this anti-feminist dump in the guise of giving a damn about women and transwomen goes to show how in deep they are with misogynists.

Also, there are many different factions and branches of feminism. Transfeminism can accommodate transwomen. They don’t need to try to insist on having a space in Radical Feminism (which specifically advocates as a movement by and for female-bodied people since RadFems define “women” as a sex class/ biologically sex-based definition).

I mean, for crying out loud, Playboy has published CHILD PORNOGRAPHY!

“In 1975 Playboy Press published nude photographs of 10-year-old Brooke Shields. The photographer, who took them with parental consent, described his subject as ‘the first prepubescent sex symbol in the world’ and prints of his portraits soon became highly sought after and very expensive.“  — Ian O’Donnell & Claire Milner Child Pornography: Crime, Computers & Society

To quote the woman being smeared by this trash publication:

“If you believe you are fighting the power while propping up Playboy Enterprises as the true voice of feminism, you’ve already lost. If you believe a porn empire is ever going to fight for marginalized women you have not only lost the fight, but you’ve thrown women to the dogs in the process. All that is won in these misguided attacks is more power and profit for capitalist patriarchy — a system consistently ignored by American mainstream feminists who prefer to believe that empowerment exists solely in the eye of the beholder and on a case-to-case basis. Congratulations, the backlash is here and its name is feminism.” - On ‘corporate feminism’ and the appropriation of the women’s movement 

[flowerlygirls]

i mean if you make hugh hefner out to be some kind of feminist icon how far have you really sunken…

[yesterdaysprint]

“A woman owes it to her sex to get a revolver and kill such a brute as this man proved himself to be,” continued the judge

[mediamattersforamerica]

Hell of a contrast: What Fox News is telling their viewers about Trump’s family separation vs. the horrifying truth about what’s really going on.

[feministism]

some TEA by iwritefeminism

[existentiallyanxious]

EXACTLY

[pothead-paisan]

if 99% of mass shootings were being committed by women, I GUARANTEE there would be discussion panels on every major news network about whether it was safe to be allowing women to own guns.

When 99% of shootings are done by men, though, no one’s allowed to mention the extremely obvious common denominator to all of these tragedies without being called a crazy fringe feminist 🙄

[feministism]

[antilla-dean]

Now that The Land is in safe hands, what's next? I don't know if anything like Michfest could survive in today's volatile political enviorment

THIS IS A LONG POST.  A BIT ANGRY.  A BIT ACCUSATORY.  OPEN TO FEEDBACK AND REACTIONS, BUT PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS FIRST.

So…Michigan ended two years ago.  TWO YEARS.  So that was “today’s political environment.”   And two years ago?  I worked with @redressalert (it was her idea) to make sure that young women would come to that last Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival to EXPERIENCE THAT WORLD.  To know that women’s spaces are here and are life saving.  So that, in a later time, they would remember, to paraphrase Sappho.  And at least one hundred came.  I met @shamelesslyunladylike and many others and it was amazing.

Michigan survived as long as it did because women vehemently said no.  They said no.  They said it loudly and over and over and over again.  In the face of unrelenting pressure and haterade.  But we fought to hold our line despite the shaming.

The Land may be in “safe hands” (i’m not even sure what that means), but women are still battling to keep it.  The not-for-profit that bought it owes 1.2 million dollars on it.  So now?  It may be in “safe hands” but a steadfast group of amazing amazons are BATTLING TO KEEP IT.  Every day.  Without PAID STAFF.

When I was in my 20s?  We were facing AIDS as our normal (and I mean skeletal, lesion covered people dying on the street from AIDS, AIDS) and a rampant cultural homophobia.  And then women started the Lesbian Avengers and fought dyke phobia–which was thick.  Thick.  Everywhere.  In spite of that, we loved ourselves and each other.  We showed up and out against the bullshit we got from gay men and straight men and from folks trying to shame lesbians in so many ways.  It was scary and sometimes dangerous, but we looked each other in the eye, and gathered in a room every Tuesday at 6 and we organized and created and were public and fought.  Even if there were only 10 of us.

So let me ask this…

How many young women have signed up to be on WWTLC’s mailing list?  How many young women have banned together to create in person (NOT ONLINE) fundraisers to keep the Land?  how many young women have submitted applications to hold events for young feminists on the Land?  how many young women have donated 5 dollars?  two dollars?  How many have proactively done something to make that Land available to young women and girls forever?  

One of the problems I am seeing is that a lot of YOUNGER WOMEN aren’t fighting for themselves as dykes.  Not against anyone:  other rad fems and trans folks, I am not seeing young women fighting for THEMSELVES as lesbians.  They aren’t acknowledging themselves as worthy and powerful and sexy.  I don’t see young women starting their own dyke-based things.  I don’t see you coming together as a voice for each other.  All the under 30s in my life are calling themselves queer.  All of the under 30s aren’t saying they want to be with BUTCHES, not trans guys.  All of the under 30s in my life are not shouting about the power of the pussy.  I don’t see young women coming forward to fight for their own SPACES the way we fought for ours in the early 90s (google the Clit Club).  I don’t see young women at the forefront saying this is BULLSHIT and nope.  I don’t see young women organizing in person, face to face, on the ground, creating new ground troops on this.  

I know y’all are going THROUGH IT.  I know that.  I see that.  I am not ignoring that.  But every generation has gone through some serious shit.  Every generation.  You aren’t new or different.  For real.  The question is how did you stand up to fight it?  We’ve been told that no one gives a shit about women and dykes.  What are we doing to stand up for being a DYKE?  When do you stop caring about what other people think and stand for what you are?  So here’s some super passive things you can do to fight for women’s space (actual women’s space):

Join WWTLC’s FB group (look up we want the land coalition)

Join WWTLC’s mailing list

On “Giving Tuesday,” that’s November 28, starting at 8 AM, the Gates Foundation is giving away $2,000,000 by MATCHING individual fundraisers on Facebook (up to $50,000 per organization) until that $2,000,000 runs out.  It is a race for funding.  If every woman on here who follows me held a $1,000 fundraiser and raised it from family and friends (that is 100 people giving 10 bucks each) starting at 8 am, you could collectively raise $100,000 for WWTLC which would basically make it possible for them to meet their April land payment of $180,000.  You want women’s space?  Here’s how you can help fight to get it:

• CREATE YOUR OWN FACEBOOK FUNDRAISER ON NOVEMBER 28— go to https://www.facebook.com/fundraisers/— click on Raise Money; — type in “Purple,” — choose “Purple—Human Services, Lansing MI” (the fiscal sponsor for WWTLC)— fill out the form— Tell your friends why women’s space on The Land is important to you

• SHARE WITH ALL YOUR FRIENDS!

All donations to Facebook fundraisers for Purple can be matched• on GIVING TUESDAY, NOV. 28, beginning at 8 a.m. EST (this is important! it is a race and people need to start giving at 8 am ON THE NOSE)• up to $1000 per fundraiser• up to $50,000 total for Purple/WWLTC• until $2M in matching funds from the Gates’ is claimed

And if you are in Brooklyn or near it?  On December 3, come to a fundraiser for WWTLC.  Come be in women’s space.  Dance.  Listen to female musicians and poets and comics lay it DOWN (this one and this one and this one and this one).  Make sure your deaf friends know it is going to be ASL interpreted.  That the space is accessible for those in wheelchairs.  Can’t afford the expensive ticket?  Pay $20 for the DJ at 9. Can’t afford that?  Ask on the FB page if there are any other options to attend.  

But fight.  Not each other.  No matter how annoying.  Don’t punch sideways and down.  Please.  Open your throats up and punch UP.  You may lose people in your life, but are they really your tribe?  Are they the people who hold you?  Who you love?  Who love you?  Bad and good?  You may lose, but you will gain others who are here for YOU.  Who love women.  Who love women’s community.  Who are dyke-based and dyke-focused.  But you can’t have it unless you don’t make the space for her to emerge.  You have to struggle to earn something good.

A 19-year old started a dyke festival in 1976, when those words were ABSURD and women still needed their husband’s permission to get a credit card.  Yes, y’all have it hard, but it has always been thus.  

The question is what are you going to do now.  

[furiousgoldfish]

terrifying your own child into submission makes you an abuser.

watching your child cry and screaming at them to stop and invalidating their pain and reasons for crying makes you an abuser.

staring at your child in disgust and contempt after they displease you makes you an abuser.

threatening to your child to take away their basic resources if they don’t give you exactly what you want makes you an abuser.

forcing your child to feel ashamed for not living up to your ideals makes you an abuser.

using slurs, hateful names and insults on your own child without any regard to what it does to their mental health makes you an abuser.

forcing your child to chase impossible expectations and making them feel like they’re worthless for not achieving them makes you an abuser.

acting like your child is a burden and a waste of space and blaming their illness/disability/depression on it makes you an abuser.

behaving like your child will never amount to anything and isn’t worth any resources and nurturing makes you an abuser.

making your child feel like they’re never good enough makes you an abuser.

if your child’s heart is hurting because they know no matter what they do and how hard they try they will always be a failure in your eyes, you are an abuser.

if your child can’t look at themselves without self hatred because they had to look at themselves from your perspective and all they saw is disgust and hatred, you’re an abuser.

If your child is struggling to believe they have the right to live and to be cared and loved, if they can’t stop hearing your hateful voice putting them down and using their every action to prove they’re worthless, you’re an abuser.

If you watched your child in pain and assured them they deserved it, you’re an abuser.

If your child can’t love themselves from how badly you hated them, you’re an abuser.

[marauders4evr]

Listen I know that it’s the 2018-way to immediately compare every single American government corruption to the Nazis but uh, you actually don’t need to do an international comparison when trying to show the horrors of separating children from their families and putting them in “camps”.

Turns out America did that too:

(The above are pictures from Japanese Internment Camps in WWII, located right here in America. More info on the subject: x )

In fact, they did it more than once:

(The above are pictures of German-Americans who were also detained in American states. More info: x )

In fact, they did it a lot:

(The above are photos from the American Native-American “boarding schools” which separated Native American children from their families so that they could be brainwashed into embracing the white “Christian” American way. More info: x )

So when you see these appalling images in the news:

don’t start comparing America to WWII Germany.

Start comparing America to America.

Because we’ve always done this and, as long as we can get away with it, we always will.

[thepowerofblackwomen]

When Black Women's Stories Of Sexual Abuse Are Excluded From The National Narrative

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Karen Attiah, The Washington Post global opinions editor, about women of color in the #MeToo movement.

The recent cultural reckoning over sexual assault and harassment has highlighted the dangers women face in workplaces throughout Hollywood, media organizations and in public office. The growing number of accusations has put a spotlight on high-profile men’s abuse of power, many times with white men being accused by white women. But what about stories from women of color?

Karen Attiah, The Washington Post’s global opinions editor, tells NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro the current conversation surrounding sexual harassment largely excludes women of color who are victims.

Attiah points to the numerous accusations against musical artist R. Kelly. The claims against the 50-year-old R&B singer span a number of years and range from illegal underage relationships, child pornography and most recently, holding women against their will.

“When these accusations against these powerful white men … came to light, it really again reminded me that we haven’t been talking about some of these figures who are in our popular culture that have been accused of preying on women for decades,” Attiah says.

She says a number of factors contribute to the apparent lack of national discussion about the R. Kelly accusations: His music has become a mainstay in black culture, many women accusing him aren’t high-profile or powerful celebrities - and many of those women are black.

“Part of it, unfortunately, has to do with whether or not we see black women and girls as worthy of care and worthy of protection,” Attiah says. “Unfortunately, it’s hard not to think that if his victims were wealthy white women, that we would be including R. Kelly in these conversations that we’re having right now about sexual abuse and exploitation.”

On conversations about accusations against R. Kelly within the black community

I mean, I hear of course both men and women who say you know what, “He’s gotta go, this guy is a monster, we can’t allow this to be happening.” And then I also just find this sense of, “Well, we need to wait for all the facts.” And so it’s kind of unfortunate to hear that from the black community. So it’s hard to kind of demand that the mainstream media and community stand up for the victims when it seems like the black community, our community, is not always willing to do that, ourselves.

On what happens when women of color do speak up about sexual harassment

You know, it’s really interesting because I think of Lupita Nyong'o’s New York Times article where she talks about her encounter with Harvey Weinstein, and it was one of the more moving and very well-written accounts of what it was like to have to deal with a man who was powerful yet charming yet fearsome. And it struck me that … it was her account that Weinstein or his team forcefully pushed back on. Not only is there a sense of we’re excluded from the narrative, but even when prominent members of our community are in the narrative, that we’re the ones whose stories are pushed back upon. We’re the ones who are lying.

On including more women in the #MeToo movement

I think one thing about the #MeToo movement, a lot of it has been seemingly confined to, I would say, white collar professional jobs. So, if we’re wanting to include more women, we need to also be talking about the abuses that go on in sectors like restaurant workers, domestic help … Because again, what ties all of this together, regardless of income, regardless of status, regardless of color, really, is about the abuse of power. So, women of color who already have harder barriers in those professional circles, I think we absolutely do need to pay more attention to their stories, and part of that will be for us to start listening and to start taking women of color seriously.

[mind--master]

Men don’t understand that saying “[this franchise] now has a/an additional female main character? Another studio caving in to the feminist agenda” is actually a perfect example of why feminism is still needed because women are considered so unequal that their mere acknowledgement of existence in media is considered an “agenda” instead of just a normal thing (like a male lead is). 

[parthenogenon]

This is messy, but:

“If there’s 17 percent women, the men in the group think it’s 50-50,” she told NPR. “And if there’s 33 percent women, the men perceive that as there being more women in the room than men.” 

“Despite the widespread belief that women talk more than men, most of the available evidence suggests just the opposite. When women and men are together, it is the men who talk most. [In] sixty-three studies [w]omen talked more than men in only two studies.” Which is to say, men talked more than women in sixty-one studies. “… in one hundred public seminars. In [ninety-three], men dominated the discussion time“ “men asked almost two-thirds of the questions during the discussion”  “ In a wide range of communities, from kindergarten through primary, secondary and tertiary education, the same pattern recurs – males dominate classroom talk.“ etc. etc. etc.

Here’s a quote from another Tumblr post with more on the subject:

The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.

You know what’s interesting? I didn’t mean to go in this direction, but that post also has some numbers:

… men perceived the discussion as being “equal” when women talked only 15% of the time, and the discussion as being dominated by women if they talked only 30% of the time.

Isn’t that neat?

15% & 17% = fair female presence

30% & 33% = raging ocean of moonblood

Isn’t that neat.

I wonder if there’s more data out there like that?

And I wonder if that shows up in stories?

Like, one female character in five, that’s 20%. That’s a LOT of UNMALE! That’s just slightly more than EQUAL - hence men’s FAIR and JUST upset at the inclusion of even one woman in A N Y T H I N G .

Two in five? That “additional female character”? That’s 40%! That’s like ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY MANPERCENT of unman in a group of men! That’s OUTRAGEOUS.

Anyways.

Women’s existence is too much for men.

That’s how JOHNSON’S® Baby Soft the male ego is.

Women exist, and men can’t even.

Men can’t anything. Cuz they’re defective and they suck.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[emotionalempowerer-blog]

 She deserves shaming.. Fascism is at play here in America, we must resist in every civil peaceful way

[sauvamente]

Fascism cannot be met with peace you must crush fascism and fascists at every turn they do not deserve peace they deserve fierce retribution, consequence and reckoning

[layingdownsomebatfeets-deactiva]

That fucking picture breaks my heart every time I see it. They took their shoelaces! What in the jesus fuck is happening. Everyone involved needs to be on trial. You can’t be arresting babies one day and just living your life as normal the next.