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how leftists look at you when you don't believe in "rehabilitating" people who permanently altered another human beings life out of a sadistic sexual desire
More public executions would be a very strong deterrent to even having to have this conversation in the first place.
Yep, face the wall.
The switch from the Paris Hilton era of beauty standards to the kardashian era of beauty standards gave me whiplash. It’s so fucked up that the expectations for women’s bodies change like clothing trends, but men have literally always had the same beauty standards basically. When I was 13, women were supposed to be stick thin and have no hips, and two years later we were supposed to be “slim thick” and it literally changes like every ten years. It’s an impossible game - if you were super hot in 2006, then it was physiologically impossibly for you to be super hot in 2016 because it required different fucking bone structure. All men are ever required to do to meet current beauty standards is be kinda tall (but wasn’t Tom cruise the “sexiest man alive” at one point?) and be in shape. Always. That’s it. A man who was considered hot a thousand years ago would still be hot! But women are supposed to radically change ourselves every decade, if we want to be beautiful. Fuck that.
Flat ass jokes always baffle me. Like...having a big ass/wide hips was seen as SO unattractive when I was growing up. And now those same women who were hailed as the standard of beauty are mocked for the features that they were praised for just 10 years ago. I HATE IT
And who exactly is especially vulnerable to not knowing what was happening just 10 years ago?
Preteen and teenage girls. They're the main targets.
Women aren’t expected to change body types to conform to the new ideal, they’re supposed to disappear entirely and be replaced by younger women who do. Wouldn’t want girls to get the idea that life goes on after age 25.
omg your comment really make me open my eyes...
If the game is rigged against you, stop playing it.
isn’t it fascinating how women are socialised to care about aestheticism in literally every single aspect apart from when it comes to men?
of course there’s the obvious ones relating to her own appearance and other women’s: does gold or silver jewellery suit her? is her “colour palette” a winter or a summer? is lipstick shade #49 the perfect nude or does shade #51 suit her better? do her breasts look flattering in a sweetheart neckline or would a halter be better? would a turkey nose job suit her? how should she pose for this instagram photo? how does her body look in this nude?
and women’s conditioned flair for aestheticism bleeds over to every other aspect of her life too: the popularity of pinterest and tumblr among women and girls, her well-decorated bedroom and apartment (meanwhile just look at a male’s living space), her laying out the table and presenting the food perfectly for a nice dinner, or her constantly decorating her place with fresh flowers or changing up decor in line with the seasons, her gravitating towards characters that look “cute”, or her having visual hobbies like arts and crafts, knitting, gardening, jewellery making, pottery, baking, her carrying her polaroid camera everywhere
so, we’re somehow meant to believe males are “ViSuAL cReAtUrEs” when they’re visual about nothing beyond women and girls’ bodies, and were also meant to believe women are NOT visual creatures when it comes to men even though they’re visual about literally everything else?
it’s curious
"haha these alpha trad men really just have dom/sub kinks!" i know misogyny isn't real to a lot of you guys but did you know that some people just actually do genuinely think women are inferior creatures
"The male Left abandoned abortion rights for genuinely awful reasons: the boys were not getting laid; there was bitterness and anger against feminists for ending a movement (by withdrawing from it) that was both power and sex for the men; there was also the familiar callous indifference of the sexual exploiter--if he couldn't screw her she wasn't real.
The hope of the male Left is that the loss of abortion rights will drive women back into the ranks--even fear of losing might do that; and the male Left has done what it can to assure the loss. The Left has created a vacuum that the Right has expanded to fill--this the Left did by abandoning a just cause, by its decade of quietism, by its decade of sulking. But the Left has not just been an absence; it has been a presence, outraged at women's controlling their own bodies, outraged at women's organizing against sexual exploitation, which by definition means women also organizing against the sexual values of the Left. When feminist women have lost legal abortion altogether, leftist men expect them back--begging for help, properly chastened, ready to make a deal, ready to spread their legs again. On the Left, women will have abortion on male terms, as part of sexual liberation, or women will not have abortion except at risk of death."
- Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women (1983)
It’s very difficult to discuss atheism with a religious person and equally difficult to discuss lack of belief in gender with somebody who believes in gender. Because in both cases, the believers assume that you’re working within their belief system, when actually you don’t even believe in that system in the first place. And they can’t understand this. “But not believing in my god is believing something so therefore you have religious beliefs” and “but you too have a gender identity”…except no, I don’t, because I don’t believe in the system you believe in. I don’t live in the same internal world that you do, and you refuse to accept that.
Not to be a freak but why isn’t anyone into being.. gentle and not evil in bed
Also why is it that sex that isn’t wildly misogynistic or otherwise sadistic and borderline/actually abusive is immediately referred to as “boring”??? What does that say about you as a person?? What does that say about our society?? Also tmi but to be honest if things get too rough my body literally goes numb anyway. The lack of nuance in sensations is boring to me like the what fuck has porn done to people???? The definition of modern “exciting” sex is just beating someone and at least hinting at some sick parody of rape. Just because you have a boner doesn’t mean it’s any less fucked up.
In the 1980s, when many women were graduating with professional degrees, anger against women crackled the airwaves [popular culture recast tender, intimate sex as boring]. We saw a stupendous upsurge in violent sexual imagery in which the abused was female … In a world where both sexes’ guilt and angry fear surrounded the sense that women were getting out of control, the public quickly lost interest in ordinary unharmed nakedness. Presented as more compulsively engaging to the attention of men and, eventually, women, was imagery that played out anxieties from the sex war, reproducing the power inequality that recent social changes had questioned: male dominance, female submission. Female nakedness became inhuman, ‘perfected’ beyond familiarity, freakishly like a sculpture in plastic, and often degraded or violated.
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
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.
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.
i also believe that if female body was properly researched and women’s pain was taken seriously, no women would have periods lasting 2 weeks, periods they lose consciousness or vomit from, etc. there is no other normal human state where such symptoms are considered healthy and require zero treatment.
she is literally right
Swinging at the hornets nest here (the “sex work is work” crowd won’t like this one lol) but there was a post going around about like “if you work in hospitality and you think you see a sex worker, no you didn’t. Keep your mouth shut and let them make their money” is honestly sending me. As many of you know, one of my jobs is working front desk at a hotel and like no lads…we can’t “look the other way” at times. Yes, we know when the working girls check in (many are regulars who are open about it, plus after working their long enough you Know™️ when a woman is because you can clock the signs) and of course we can’t stop them but there are times when you literally have to say something. Here are a couple of instances that have happened on my shifts alone:
-I was checking in two girls and knew something was off and asked to see both their ID’s. Only one had a passport and her 18th birthday was literally a week ago. The other one handed me her high school student card. We had to call the police when their pimp came in and started making threats bc we refused to check them in.
-a sex worker checked in the night before and a housekeeper went into the room the next morning and found the woman in a bloody mess. There were chunks of human tissue scattered throughout the room (the housekeeper quit after that. Honestly, housekeepers are literally on the front lines of the bullshit but that’s another story)
-something about a “couple” was offfffffff at check in. The woman was standing with her hands behind her back, had her eyes glued to the floor, and wouldn’t answer questions despite her name being on the reservation. The man was answering for her. When I asked to see her ID, he hands it to me, and when I handed it to her, her arms were covered in bruises. We didn’t let them check in
-there are two properties and one of them has an agreement with a women’s shelter. I’ve checked in women into one property only to see them come in months later to the other property under the womens shelters’ reservation with bruises and broken limbs (many of whom are indigenous women).
So yeah bottom line: with the World Cup soon approaching, all of us -front desk, maintenance, housekeeping, the kitchen staff, sales, you name it all departments- have had to do extensive modules on clocking the signs of human trafficking. You can’t just look the other way because it can mean missing the underaged girl or preventing horrific violence. Yes we have our regulars and yes sometimes it is what it is but no you can’t just look the other way and let them “secure the bag” because I guarantee there’s a pimp in the lobby/parking lot who’s the one getting the bag at her expense.
"When you can't keep women out anymore, and you can't force them all to become secretaries or teachers because modern social politics demand that you at least pretend to support gender equality in the workplace, what can you do to keep women out of powerful positions in business? You can set them up to fail- or, to be more accurate, you set them up to fall.
It's called the glass cliff, and it's a phrase that was first coined in 2005 by University of Exeter researchers Michelle K. Ryan and S. Alexander Haslam. The research was inspired by an article in the Times (of London, not New York) that suggested women leaders have a negative impact on stock performance. Perhaps Ryan and Haslam smelled the whiff of bullshit coming from the page. They wondered if it was actually true that women brought doom and gloom to the businesses they led, or if there was some other reason why women were more likely to be found in leadership positions at troubled businesses.
They found that women were indeed more likely than men to be in leadership positions at distressed companies, but they also found that the problems were not the women's fault... These firms had shown months of decline and seemed at risk of failure prior to adding women to their boards.
When Allison Cook and Christy Glass at Utah State University followed up on this research by looking at US companies, they also discovered disturbing patterns impacting women and people of color in business: women and people of color were most likely to be placed at the head of a company when it was already at risk of failure; white men were less likely to accept leadership positions when companies were at risk of failure; and when women or people of color fail to quickly turn around the struggling company, they were most likely replaced with white men.
Women and people of color are often only given the opportunity to steer ships that white men have already rammed into icebergs. Then, when the ship sinks, the media reports that women make bad captains."
Chapter 5- Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo
When someone asks "what is a women?" from TRA's in feminist and gender based conversations, these days I've been seeing some feminists say it is not important and it's stupid to fight over it. Feminism, is a movement about liberating women, the female sex from patriarchy. No, you CANNOT protect a group of people without having a definition for that group of people.
Like for example, how the hell can we protect children without a proper definition of who children are? Some people could say it's under 18 or 16, some people could even say it's under 10, like how some islamic men claim girls are adults and fit for marriage after menstruating. Definitions are NECESSARY for protection.
It's pretty clear that women, the female sex is oppressed under the patriarchy. A women in Afghanistan can't opt in or out of her oppression as a trans identified male can. Since y'all now say the word women should be based on a social contruct or whatever, what are we supposed to call an adult human female then? Something that includes cis women, trans men, anyone on a female development path. Why does the original word have to change it's definition? Can't y'all at least make another word?
Also, under patriarchy, obviously other groups of people are also oppressed, for example gay men. Anyone who's gender non conforming basically. This does not mean they should be included in feminism, as trans identified males. Doesn't mean they deserve any less or whatever, as y'all claim radfems claim.
I've seen some of them realising that they still actually need a way to talk about sex and sex based oppression, while not giving up gender. their solution to this problem? women is the gender, AFAB is a sex. they try to come up with new words just to coddle men further, they cannot stop with the gender bullshit.
these people claim there is gender based oppression and sex based oppression, as in sex based is everything biology and organs related, while gender based is about social expectations. one thing i still don't understand is how they're going to fight gender based oppression by their definition. what is the goal? women don't need to be nurturing and beautiful*, then what do women need to be? if they don't need to be anything and the goal is to not have any social expectations about what woman is, then what is gender? if there is no right way to be a woman, there is no gender. if there is no gender, why do we need words to describe it? and why, specifically, do we need words that already exist to describe people of certain sex to change their meaning to people of certain gender?
* obviously should mention that gender is elusive, is it not? understanding of beauty changes from person to person, understanding of what woman should be also does.
The thing about this is that sculptures like these in art history were for the male gaze. Photoshop a phone to it and suddenly she’s seen as vain and conceited. That’s why I’m 100% for selfie culture because apparently men can gawk at women but when we realize how beautiful we are we’re suddenly full of ourselves…
Girls don’t let anyone tell you loving yourself is vanity.
“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.” ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing
(OP made her great post unrebloggable bc “the terfs got to it” 🙄)
libs comparing feminist anti-pornography beliefs to evangelical anti-pornography beliefs is so dumb because the evangelical approach is rooted in the idea that masturbation itself is a sin and a woman’s body belongs to her husband while the feminist approach is that a woman is not public property to be abused and raped on video for men to attain sexual gratification from. The feminist approach is ending the sex trade that provides victims to the pornography industry. These two beliefs are not similar when critical thinking is involved.
Germany: We've legalized prostitution! We take a cut of the money made from commercialized rape through taxes! We keep the lights on with rape money! That's not dystopian at all! Women are so free here! Yayyy
Meanwhile, there are thousands of women from my country and surrounding ones trafficked into this industry and specifically to Germany. Which I know not a soul amongst western libfems gives a tweedle about because they fetishize Eastern European women too (all those cringey trends were they dress up as caricatures of us, the "Slavic Stare", etc.) and think our natural state is to be hypersexualized and exploited.
