[werewolfetone]

"You can't object to drag without being called homophobic & conservative these days!!!" that's because objecting to drag is homophobic & conservative lmao

[opabiniawillreturn-deactivated2]

no it's not? I don't like misogynistic parodies of women

[werewolfetone]

Okay cool you still sound like my conservative catholic granny by saying that

[opabiniawillreturn-deactivated2]

if your conservative Catholic granny says misogyny is bad then I agree with her. my beliefs aren't based on who agrees with them, I'm not an ideological purist

[marmorada]

I love how liberals like this have just no fucking ability to analyze the content of anything, just vague pattern recognition fed to them through their preferred outlets and adhered to like a quasireligious dogma. You could paint black stripes on a white horse and convince them it’s a zebra.

[is-this-really--life]

Men are pigs.

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

[tyrannosaurus-sock]

Here’s the link to the studies because that’s kind of important to this: https://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/mythcommunication-its-not-that-they-dont-understand-they-just-dont-like-the-answer/

[ressourcesprostitution]

[tilthat]

TIL that the Soviet Army raped over 2,000,000 German women after defeating Nazi Germany - an estimated 240,000 died in connection with the rapes. Antony Beevor describes it as the “greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history”

via reddit.com

[crashoutcannibal]

“According to Antony Beevor, revenge was not the only reason for the frequent rapes; but the Soviet troops’ feeling of entitlement to all types of spoils of war, including women, was an important factor as well. Beevor exemplifies this with his discovery that Soviet troops also raped Soviet and Polish girls and women that were liberated from Nazi concentration camps as well as those who were held for forced labour at farms and factories.”

[misery-chickk]

In wars, men win or lose, but women are always collateral damage.

[shychili]

when pro-porn people tell me porn is “a great way to safely explore your sexual fantasies”, i immediately know they enjoy perverted shit because why else would the only place to allow you to safely explore your sexuality be inside the boundaries of pornographic film consumption? if your ‘preferences’ in bed risk putting either your partner or yourself in potential danger then you’re an abuser or an abuse victim respectively.

[researchgate]

and so are the ones "starring" in the pornographic material

[did-you-know]

You can buy vagina-shaped confetti. Each of the sparkly pieces is shaped like boobs, a vulva, or ovaries and a uterus. It’s called Clitter. Source Source 2

[xyzxyzxyzlsmajdnakdbskehjls]

Anyone else smell grass? no? might just be the terf

[infinitypt2-deactivated20180325]

Funny how this made no mention of women, just of anatomy, yet you somehow made the leap that vaginas=terf.

[bedhed]

I love how if this was a bunch of little penises it would just be some fun novelty item. Genderists are so fucking regressive. Once again, women aren’t allowed to even fucking acknowledge our bodies

[theradicalbutch]

I’ve literally seen dick straws, cups, lamps, posters, statues, shower curtains, glitter, planters, sculptures, coat racks, cakes, balloons, etc. But yeah, I guess one item based on female anatomy is problematic 🙄

[ladyshinga]

anti-choice people really cannot hear themselves

[sundazesun]

[aaafeminist]

[lavendeerlesbian]

How progressive.

[disillusionedmonster]

"In a rebel way" as if we aren't actively speaking out against misogyny. Something that has become so ingrained in society that a group of men have redefined women to opt into our oppression. Are we not labelled worse than Nazis and fascists simply because we won't bend to the will of men? Because we refuse to participate in the popular religion created to uphold gender roles and demolish women's and LGB people's rights? Not even mentioning that the og post ignores the origins of the word "radical". Same old misogyny hidden behind a stolen rainbow flag.

[friendlymathematician]

"rebel" has now been redefined to mean "all governments and corporations stand behind you as you demand everyone around you cater to your fragile self-image"

[calico-crittr-deactivated202305]

[redstatefeminist666-deactivated]

Why the hell is rape a crime where no priors lets you off easy? It's not a property crime. It's not something you can come up with an excuse for. You don't say "Well, they've never murdered anyone before." Why should we care that he's never done it before (or gotten caught, at least)? He's done it now.

[moonstonetombstone]

[kronkk]

men are so stupid and ugly and disgusting little bottom feeding sorry excuses for human beings mustaches on women are sexy they're divine they're hot as fuck men are ridiculous they lack any taste they're monstrous mutant little freaks with 2 inch brains I should kill this man with my bare hands strangle him with the braided hairs of all the little mustaches women have waxed or shaved over the years because of fucks like him

[vegradfem]

It’s not about men caring about these things, it’s about them manipulating women to feel bad about these things, it’s a control mechanism to make them feel powerful. Men will manipulate women to care about their looks and to base their value on male approval as a tactic to control.

Men will neg women they’re attracted to, due to their victim narrative that it’s worse to be ignored, that being nice to women “makes their head too big.”

Never believe a word a man says to you, they are liars and manipulators.

I can’t imagine anyone being bothered by a little peach fuzz. Sounds made up.

The only thing to be angry about here is the entitled attitude, the belief that their opinion matters and they determine our worth and value, and place it in our looks.

[zombierightsadvocate]

I can’t get over the fact that this thing looks like this and yet still has the shriveled unwashed balls to comment on women’s hair.

[rainbowsnviolets-deactivated202]

One of their things is making “Light hearted fun” of features of the women around them. I had this done to me about my breasts, my nose, my ass, my weight and my freckles. It’s small comments like the one in the tiktok or small “cute” “jokes” like “your nose looks kinda sad aw lol”. But over and over and over and over again. I told all of this to one of my male friends who said that he actually did this intentionally to girls when he was a teenager and into his early 20s. He said that it’s a tactic to keep women small. When a woman is too concerned about how she looks to a guy, she won’t think about how stupid or ugly that guy actually is. When you convince her that she is below you but you love her DESPITE her nose, breasts, body hair etc, you become like a god. She won’t see any flaw in you or your behaviour because all she is focussed on is finally pleasing you with her looks/behaviour. It’s basically: “You are a little bit ugly and I am pointing that out every day so you know that the entire world notices this too. Now that you know that you are ugly and that the entire world knows, you are thankful that I still find your ugly features kinda cute. You are thankful that at least I am honest with you and loving you despite all of your many flaws. You will never question my behaviour or my looks because then you would risk losing the only person who is kind enough to like you like you are. I will also point out sometimes how pretty something or someone else is, so that you will develop a fear of losing me, the only person who is kind enough to like you. This will keep you busy being pretty/perfect to me and, again, keep you from questioning me. You will also do everything I want from you, including sexual things you don’t like because, again, you can’t risk losing me, the only person who likes you despite of your many flaws” If this sounds extreme, it isn’t. I don’t think that many men are doing this intentionally (like... actually rationally planning this out) but that doesn’t make it any better. And men who don’t do this actively are still profitting off of other men doing this. Imagine that guy ditches his girlfriend after doing this to her for a few years. Any mediocre dude who wants a mother substitute will look like a god AND a romantic hero compared to that previous asshole.

[radicalcoffeeclub]

"When a woman is too concerned about how she looks to a guy, she won't think about how stupid or ugly that guy actually is." THIS!! It is so revolutionary on a personal level to switch your perspective, to stop seeing yourself as something others look at and instead starting to fully inhabit your own body, to go from object to subject, to open your own eyes and start seeing for yourself.

[omnivore-odyssey]

So this is the post that got me to grow out my ‘stache. I never did before because it wasn’t enough to be anything more than patchy, but I’m working on it. I got about a quarter inch of growth now. I go back and forth on the rest of my body hair, because sometimes I find it physically uncomfortable, but I never shaved my mustache for any physical comfort related reason, so now I get to keep it permanently and see how much it grows!

[sunfortune]

i was just thinking literally how sexy game of thrones fall from grace was. it was so close to being adult harry potter for years to come with the houses assigned as personalities, themed weddings etc etc and the nostalgia after it ended would’ve exacerbated all that just like it did hp but it died a terrible awful death as it deserved. peace and love on planet earth <33333

[xxx-yangyang]

game of thrones had rape and incest, how is it the adult Harry Potter. Harry Potter was actually good 😐

[foxfrolic]

"actually good"??? with the slave race? The literal slave race that were "happy" to be slaves? The antisemitic caricature goblins? The allegory for gay men that was predatory beasts? The countless other issues that I cannot even name? Not even accounting for the author's current TERF-ass politics?

Yeah I think GoT was par for the course for adult Harry Potter, at least GoT paved the way for Elden Ring so it might even have a touch more worth and merit

[joannerowlingwashere]

@fletchinder Girl, you are TWENTY-EIGHT. What the hell happened.

Anyways:

The "slave race that is happy to be slaves" is a commentary on the kind of Stockholm syndrome populations experience when they've been literally conditioned to think their oppression is normal. Poor people defending capitalism, “traditional” women who defend the patriarchy (or prostitutes who love their pimps), etc. Dobby, who is treated worse than shit, eventually escapes from that mindset. Also, the Elves being unwilling to cooperate with Hermione serves her characterisation because it forces her to learn that any political fight requires subtility, you can't just barge in and impose your ideas, not exactly a useless lesson considering how half of the internet behaves these days.

The Goblins were never an "antisemitic caricature", this is a deliberately malicious interpretation aimed to artificially create controversy to undermine JKR's opinions. JKR has been praised by Jewish associations for standing up repeatedly against antisemitism, including when it crops up in her own political camp (the left). The HP books are arguably a metaphor for WW2 and Voldemort is basically wizard Hitler.

Same shit for "an allegory for gay men". The only thing JKR has ever said about lycanthropy in the books was that it served as an allegory for diseases like the HIV, never homosexuality. This aspect of Lupin's character is used to condemn the attitude of people who discriminate based on someone's disease despite treatment existing. Even if you wanted to argue that the "gay" interpretation is "valid", Greyback purposefully infecting others with lycanthropy resembles the real phenomenon of seropositive men who infect other men for fetishistic reasons. It's not homophobic to allude to an issue of which OTHER gay men are the first victims and have to be vigilant about. But none of this matters to evaluate Rowling's morality because as far as we know she intended none of this particular interpretation. Her defense of gay people in REAL life speaks for itself.

Which makes a nice transition for the last point, her "TERF" politics. "TERF" these days has become an insult for women who refuse to sleep with men no matter how they identify, or women who stand up for lesbians like JKR. Good for her, and shame on you for failing to see that she's right, and being complicit in homophobia hiding behind liberal language.

[porchpirate]

i understand your first three points and anyone who has read these books knows that you're correct -- i'm moreso interested in your last point.

i'm not sure what you're trying to say... can you elaborate a little more, please?

[joannerowlingwashere]

@sourgodis Certainly. People denigrate JK Rowling's character and make up entirely ridiculous reasons as to why her writing is bad/bigoted because she asserts the necessity of sex based rights for women, and defends lesbians who are being told that not giving penis a go is transphobic as "girldick" is "basically like a strap." (Ditto for gay men being told they should try a "trans man's front hole".)

Furthermore, Rowling offered a platform to feminists and whistleblowers to speak up about the concerning increase of very young, vulnerable girls with a history of mental illness and/or abuse, who had started to identify as men. I cannot empathise this enough: she did it because no big news outlet (especially none of her political family, the left) was willing to do their job and investigate this topic seriously. The "trans industry" is a very lucrative one, considering that medical transition make people lifelong patients, and that gender identity is mostly expressed through buying stuff, so it's no mystery why so many people are willing to close their eyes on its less savoury implications, even when it targets kids who have no idea what they're giving up when they decide to cut off their breasts or their penis. As evidenced by the many heart-wrenching testimonies from detransitioners, whose perspective JKR also contributed to put in the spotlight, when trans charities and the surgeons who had operated on them were all too happy to dismiss and silence them.

As far as i'm concerned, Rowling is a bloody hero. She could have kept her thoughts to herself and live with her millions, but instead she willingly gave a kick in a very nasty hornet nest because she actually cares about women, kids, homosexuals, and the vulnerable in general, more than she does about her popularity ratings.

[cat-pilled]

"you wouldnt misgender a cis person for being a bad person" most cis people dont give a fuck about being misgendered because they know sex is real and someones words dont change material reality..... and often misgendering cis people stems from misogyny too as a way to degrade people ie "you hit like a girl"

[sapphos-catpanions]

i can’t wait for “misgender” to be retired as the political doubespeak it always was.

i’ve DISgendered myself. i don’t have one anymore. i have a sex, and a personality.

some of my classmates call me “sir,” or “they,” because they’re normie men, and they don’t know. i don’t have time to correct them while we are trying to get a lab practical done, so i simply laugh it off. it’s no reflection on me. i know what kind of animal i am, and so does my doctor, and so do my loved ones.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

also, people have “misgendered people for being bad” for ages, especially to gay people, calling lesbians “mannish” and asking gay men “who’s the woman?” Words like tomboy and sissy, are common and they’re a direct result of stereotypes superseding the reality that personality has nothing to do with biology.

[daught-er]

this.