[bichaotic]

I don’t remember where I saw the post, but someone once made a very good point about how reproductive autonomy is not tied to one’s genetic relationship to the fetus.

If I, a woman, donate eggs for another woman, who then has them fertilized by her partner’s sperm, I have no say in whether or not she chooses to terminate that pregnancy later on after implantation. Yes, I would be that child’s biological mother, but it isn’t my body that will go through the process of pregnancy, and therefore my input would be irrelevant.

So far no dude I told this to has been able to justify why they thought they, as the father, should have a say in what their hypothetically-pregnant partner chooses to do.

Nature did not distribute the reproductive burden equally between men and women and our legislation on reproductive issues needs to take this into account.

[oatmealtrash]

“Nature did not distribute the reproductive burden equally between men and women and our legislation on reproductive issues needs to take this into account.”

YES!!

[arterialtrees]

-Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things

[cruiseorbecruised-deactivated20]

Day Without Art began on December 1st 1989 as a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis

[pure]

I wish i could find this one article written in I believe the 90’s that went under the radar on abortion. The author said that the “life” arguments are basically useless on either side and what actually matters is that humans shouldn’t have a right to use other human bodies as a resource without consent no matter how alive or sentient they are, even if they’re on the brink of death you have the right to deny them access to you. It probably was too radical for pro-choice activists back in those days but like…that’s the most robust arguement lol so we need 2 being that back and dead the pontifications and splitting hairs about “life” in my honest onion

[pure]

I found it. Actually, it was written in the 70’s. She was way ahead of the curve.

The article is ‘A Defense of Abortion’ by Judith Jarvis Thomson. Essential reading!

http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm

[reproductivejusticeandliberty]

If you’re on the fence about abortion, read this. Even if you’re a dedicated pro-choicer, read this. It is what made me unapologetically pro-choice, honestly. -V

[ladylazarus33-deactivated202103]

Just some controversial hot takes for y’all:

1. Womanhood is inherently traumatizing  2. Realizing that womanhood is inherently traumatizing and attempting to distance and liberate yourself from the patriarchy and heteronormativity can make you feel hopeless and depressed when you realize how fucked the world around you is - which can lead to more trauma  3. A deeply rooted, intense fear of men and hatred for a male centric society can make discerning your own sexual orientation is extremely difficult and painful

[invertprivileges]

“Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships. It is as if our oppression were cast in lava eons ago and now it is granite, and each individual woman is buried inside the stone. Women try to survive inside the stone, buried in it. Women say, I like this stone, its weight is not too heavy for me. Women defend the stone by saying that it protects them from rain and wind and fire. Women say, all I have ever known is this stone, what is there without it?

For some women, being buried in the stone is unbearable. They want to move freely. They exert all their strength to claw away at the hard rock that encases them. They rip their fingernails, bruise their fists, tear the skin on their hands until it is raw and bleeding. They rip their lips open on the rock, and break their teeth, and choke on the granite as it crumbles into their mouths. Many women die in this desperate, solitary battle against the stone.

But what if the impulse to freedom were to be born in all of the women buried in the stone? What if the material of the rock itself had become so saturated with the stinking smell of women’s rotting bodies, the accumulated stench of thousands of years of decay and death, that no woman could contain her repulsion? What would those women do if, finally, they did want to be free?I think that they would study the stone. 

I think that they would use every mental and physical faculty available to them to analyze the stone, its structure, its qualities, its nature, its chemical composition, its density, the physical laws which determine its properties. They would try to discover where it was eroded, what substances could decompose it, what kind of pressure was required to shatter it.

This investigation would require absolute rigor and honesty. Any lie that they told themselves about the nature of the stone would impede their liberation. Any lie that they told themselves about their own condition inside the stone would perpetuate the very situation that had become intolerable to them.”

― Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

[tejuina]

I think what’s attractive about liberal feminism is that it gives women the illusion that empowerment is a choice, that they can make individual choices that will help them combat the individual instances of misogyny they encounter.

radical feminism, on the other hand, seems disempowering from a distance because it acknowledges sexism on a systemic level and recognizes that women cannot choose to not be oppressed. it’s unattractive because, at first glance, it makes women feel powerless and completely impotent standing as individuals against such a huge system that has survived for thousands of years.

I’m not going to romanticize radical feminism and tell women they’ll eventually get over the crushing weight of knowing how pervasive and evil the patriarchy is. what I want them to know is that the burden, whether or not they realize they’re carrying it, is heavy, but standing with other women helps us realize we’re not standing alone, and together women have and will continue fighting for real liberation.

[probablyaterf]

THIS

[lavendermuseums]

Putting to Rest "Why Doesn't She Just Leave?"

This reaction speaks to the core of the problem and the erroneous belief that an abused woman has agency — a capacity to exert power — in her relationship, when just the opposite is true.

From research, we know that psychologically abused women score lower on self-efficacy, which is how empowered a woman feels to have influence over her life, than women who are not abused.

Women with controlling partners experience a slow, insidious, and nearly invisible condition of coercion that entraps them in their intimate relationships. So well hidden, this entrapment can go undetected even by the woman herself.

Being unaware of what is taking place, women naturally minimize and deny the problems with their intimate partners. It’s behavior so embedded in our culture and social expectations that women don’t see it or have words for it. 

At the same time, a woman’s experience costs her a loss of self-esteem and trust in her own perception — making it all the more difficult to see the truth.

Psychological Abuse Entraps

A controlling partner seeks to overpower by using psychological abuse tactics that coerce and persuade his partner to his way of thinking. 

Keep reading

[vladtheunfollower]

this is just what having sex with a man who doesn’t give a shit about you is like 

[cliteralviolence]

This is preferring to get to know someone really well before you fuck, which is normal, but not knowing it’s normal because you live in a hypersexualized society.

Sex-posi movement: you’re part of the problem.

[madness-narrative]

“To hold traumatic reality in consciousness requires a social context that affirms and protects the victim and that joins victim and witness in a common alliance. For the individual victim, this social context is created by relationships with friends, lovers, and family. For the larger society, the social context is created by political movements that give voice to the disempowered.”

— Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery

[heythisiscrozileftthesiteagain]

Advertisers in 2008: love 👏 is 👏 love 👏 buy 👏 our 👏 cosmetics

Advertisers in 2018: gender 👏 is 👏 fluid 👏 buy 👏 our 👏 cosmetics

[yourstrulymyself]

This might be the best costume I’ve seen this year.

oc: She wanted to be her Grandma for Halloween🎃🎃👻

[17mul]

Best costume ever ❤️👌🏿😎

[whereimfeminine]

Rose Mallinger, who was killed at the Tree of Life Synagogue yesterday, was 97 years old. 97 years. She lived through the Holocaust, was on this earth, a young woman as 6 million Jewish people were killed for being Jewish. Spent her whole life surrounded by people who looked at the atrocities of the Holocaust and said “never again.” Lived 97 years and died at the hands of a gunman who killed her for being Jewish. 

[lesbophobes-deactivated20220907]

my childhood homes with female ancestors overhead

[clingy-cult-deactivated20190506]

trans people deserve rights (because they are literally human beings) and trans activism shouldnt step on womens rights are two compatible beliefs.

[heyhosers]

vines y’all have been sleeping on aka vines i haven’t seen in comps but still make me happy

[darkestelemental616]

I’VE NEVER SEEN THAT ASL ONE BEFORE DOES ANYONE HAVE A LINK TO THAT BY ITSELF?

[laundryandtaxes]

This whole thing (picture me waving my hand here) about how paranoid it makes men to hear so many women discuss their experiences having been sexually assaulted is disgusting and pathetic. If it makes you half as paranoid as women are on the train scanning to make sure there are enough people in the car to protect her in case of assault from some grabby piece of shit, half as paranoid as women on the walk home with keys stuck between two fingers for stabbing, half as paranoid as women texting friends before a date to ensure someone knows their location, half as paranoid as women walking under viaducts with too few people under them, half as paranoid as girls keeping their legs shut tight in case of pedophiles in public, half as paranoid as girls hiding menstrual products from their parents so they don’t force them into new responsibilities or restrictions, half as paranoid as women taping down their nipples in the winter to prevent men staring at her chest in public, then GOOD! Then you swallow it and you sit with it and you sit with the fear and the shame for a few months, and if it just makes poor you too anxious about going on a date, as women have been for years and years and years, then go kill crawl into a hole and die for all I care. The nerve! To create a world which makes women wildly terrified left and right of being subject to some violence or some indignity and then to complain that them talking about it makes your feelings hurt!

[tom-spanks]

remember when u were like 11 and the only thing u wanted was a lava lamp

[scumfuckus]

[yiffpunk]

[heatseekingbehavior]