宽窄巷子

kuanzhaixiangzi = wide and narrow alleys, a scenic spot in my city

[the-eccentric-eclectic]

Hey kid, look at me.

I want you to T-pose. Turn your right thumb up and your left thumb doen and look at your right thumb. Move your arms up and down a bit until you feel a nerve running from your armpit to your palm. Now turn your right thumb down and your left thumb up, and look at your left thumb. Keep your chest facing forward and your shoulders back. Move your arms again until you feel that nerve again. Keep alternating between these two for a minute, or look at each thumb thirty times each.

Now sit down. Put your left hand firmly under your left buttock, palm down. Keep your shoulders back and put your right hand over the crown of your head, very gently pulling it to the right. Do this for thirty seconds, then do it again but with your right hand under your right buttock.

These are stretches for the nerves in your arms, and are very good for people who sit behind a computer a lot, or fibre artists, or you name it. Do them daily. They will hurt in the beginning, but keep doing them, even after the pain has gone, or it will return and you'll have to start all over.

[allyouknowisalie]

Sleeping elephants.

[blackpilljesus]

I saw this from the female separatism subreddit & the responses are some of the biggest reasons for separatism et al (or extinction if I'm being candid here). Moids cant be reformed they are fully aware of the hell they force women to live in. MaIe achievement & happiness is rooted in female exploitation & life. Their glory days are based on our horrific days. No amount of love, kindness or facts will change maIes and we cannot happily or even neutrally coexist with them.

Main points across answers:

Many want to experiment but not permanently be women

They dont want to be in constant danger or lose their autonomy at the hands of maIes for merely existing

They dont want to deal with childbirth (& periods)

They dont want to have to share spaces with species much stronger than them with ulterior motives

It makes me go crazy seeing people give moids benefit of doubt for their evil like "maIes just dont understand", "we need to teach maIes", or claiming that maIe violence is a result of maIes struggling with (expressing) their feelings. I get that women love maIes and it can be hard to imagine that people can intentionally be so evil but it is what it is. MaIes have no problems expressing themselves, abusing women is what maIes choose to do because they enjoy & benefit from it - that is their expression.

MaIes see the same news of women being abused, raped, and killed like we do except rather than be disheartened or alarmed they're either apathetic or satisfied. It isn't aliens that's committing GBV it's maIes & maIes have no problem reminding women of this when women anger them (such as rape threats & threatening women they'll end up on the news/true crime). The victim blaming, denial, and derailment of misogyny is part of the game to keep the system alive, they know the events occured & are a systemic occurence they just dont care. Hell not only do they not care, they rejoice in it or get off on it.

MaIes set up environments that work in their favour which simultaneously ensures that women will lose. They know women are set up to live in damn near impossible conditions for us. It's normalised for women to defenselessly share personal & private spaces with beings much more stronger than them with ulterior motives for us, it's trap. It's interesting how these moids aren't saying that they'll just cover up and *poof* harrassment gone, or they'll just pick a nice guy & they'll be okay. MaIes know the net negative they are towards women.

MaIes know that childbirth is a painful process & what do they do? Demand it happens and make it even MORE painful for women. MaIes that impregnate women do not love or care for them. Pregnancy itself is dangerous & sometimes lethal, often comes with a range of health issues, to cause someone to be in that condition especially in a environment where abortions are illegal is reckless & unloving. Now imagine how sinister & full of hatred one has to be to impregnate someone and abuse them on top of that. Many women risk their health & lives to reproduce with a Y and they get abused by said Y instead of being taken care of. Deranged.

Realising that maIes are aware of the evil they inflict is one of the things that radicalised me. It isn't a miscommunication or ignorance issue, their violence is intended. They want control. The cruelty is the point. Instead of wasting time & energy trying to change maIes or hope that they "understand" one day, focus on yourself & other women (who prioritise women). Moids aren't oblivious to female pain they enjoy it. A lot of women treat maIe evil like it's a mistake on maIes part but it's calculated terrorism. I know that this will go over many womens heads as they refuse to hold strong negative sentiments about moids as a collective so if you're not a woman like that, take this post as a sanity check. You aren't crazy, it isn't all in your head.

[fretami]

notice how many want things like orgasms, living longer naturally, being seen as less of a threat etc.

this doesnt even touch on how many men think being a woman is life on easy mode, cute, sweet, fun, poetic, pretty, cute, etc. and how many want a female body to own and look at and play with

many many men are jealous of women

[vexingwoman]

No male gynecologists

No male therapists

No male morticians

No male babysitters

No male veterinarians

No male anesthesiologists

No male surgeons

No male doctors

No male roommates

No male women’s prison guards

No male Uber/lift drivers

[rad-claid-plaid]

What a shock.

[rad-claid-plaid]

Of fucking course it got deleted between last night and now.

[rad-claid-plaid]

I commented on it being taken down and the OP messaged me. She got banned, and attributed it to the fact that half of the TwoX mods are male. That tracks.

[neopetdestroyer]

She got banned for this??? Geez. Here’s the link she posted

Sexual Assault Perpetrators’ Justifications for Their Actions: Relationships to Rape Supportive Attitudes, Incident Characteristics, and Fut

Perpetrators use rape supportive attitudes and sexual assault incident characteristics to justify forcing sex on their victims. Perpetrators

[landsccape]

[cassandwrath]

people of color don't have to make white people comfortable in their fight against racism. lgbt people don't have to make cishet people comfortable in their fight against homophobia. people with disabilities don't have to make able bodied people comfortable in their fight against ableism. FUCK THE OPPRESSORS!

...but women really shouldn't be so mean to men, i mean, they're hurt by the patriarchy too, not all men, have a heart, you fascist bitch :/

[vexingwoman]

[feminist-furby-freak]

I get so angry when I think about how we were just starting to have conversations abt medical misogyny and push for better medical research that includes women and then everyone decided that biological sexuality isn’t real and it’s bigoted to acknowledge it so we just moved on and still treat male bodies as the default and now we can’t even talk about women’s health.

[vexingwoman]

I saw a post about how “people” are ruining ai by using it to make child pornography.

why not be a little more specific? 99.3% of child pornography offenders are men and it’s still spoken about as something people do, not something men do. whats that one quote? men love male-as-default language until it’s used to describe pedophiles and murderers.

[feminist-furby-freak]

Thinking about when I was a freshwoman in college and a formerly incarcerated woman came to talk to my feminist theory class about how she believed in abolition but only for women's prisons. She spoke about how rare violent female criminals are, especially when you exclude abuse victims/self defense etc. She spoke about how many of her peers were broken and abused and needed help. She spoke about how isolating mixed-sex spaces for formerly incarcerated people were because so many of the men were openly threatening or misogynistic. She spoke about how complete abolition is unrealistic and impractical because of the epidemic of male violence. She had so many amazing hot takes that she would say without shame or hesitation. It really opened my eyes because I didn't think I was even allowed to think things like that. Anyway I hope she is doing well and I fully agree.

[pesmenos]

why is there such a stigma against wearing pads? like why is it that people who wear tampons are seen as ‘strong’ and ‘cool’? y’all know that someone people can’t wear them bc it hurts them or that they just don’t like them? stop making it seem like people who wear pads are childish and weak compared to those who wear tampons 

[postcardsfromtheoryland]

Ok kids buckle up because I know the answer to this question because I am a bitter, vindictive person.

So my first semester of PhD work in a musicology program involved this horrible class with a professor that wanted to suck the life out of all of his students by constantly belittling them. We had to write a short paper each week and present them conference-style and then he would tear us to shreds and do it all over again next week. The purpose of the class was supposedly to have us write papers about materials that hadn’t really been looked at by musicologists yet, and my class had music in advertisements. I was also the only woman in the class and the prof was lowkey sexist so I kept trying to do feminist topics without losing my entire will to live.

So we get to the end of the semester and I am just completely out of fucks, I have one paper left to write and I say fuck it, let’s write about pads and tampons, there must be something there, right? It turns out there IS something to be said there (and this gets back to OP’s question). Early pad and tampon commercials were very similar to each other; basically here’s a product to help you stay clean during your period. But around 1980, suddenly there’s public outcry and panic over tampons due to TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome). At that point no one really understood how TSS worked but they knew it had to do with tampons. So women freaked out and started switching to pads instead. Now the worst offender, Rely, was taken off the market and other tampon commercials got slapped with little warning signs like “This product could cause TSS” so women bought even fewer tampons. This is when the advertising strategies for the two products changed.

Pad advertisements were now about “cleanliness” and “purity” - they knew you couldn’t get TSS from pads and they were going to emphasize that fact. You’ve got women in white dresses with long hair slowly walking through fields of flowers with pastoral-y flutes in the background. And to fight back, tampon companies take it the complete opposite direction - they ignore TSS entirely and start showing businesswomen running to catch the subway, sporty women riding bikes, basically any sort either high-powered position or active woman showed up in these commercials with contemporary pop-song type music over the top. The clear intention was “yeah we know that these could cause TSS but they’re much better for your mobility, both physically and career-wise.”

I got done giving this paper and I look up to see my four male classmates and one male professor in varying shades of pale-ness and they just all sort of looked at me for a couple minutes without knowing how to respond. It’s one of the proudest moments of my PhD career so far.

Anyway the two products have been advertised basically the same ways ever since then. Now pads are much more comfortable and discreet, and we understand how TSS works and how to avoid it, but the commercial strategies are cemented. If you want to be a strong, on-the-go woman of COURSE you’ll wear a tampon because you don’t want to be one of those sissy ladies in the pastoral field of flowers over in pad-land, do you?

[monsteralias-deactivated2024012]

The whole "christian women who run a shelter do more for feminism than online radfems" icks me the wrong way. It is such an utilitarian way of seeing things because: bold of you to assume thr Christian woman isn't conditioning her help to women to conformity to christianism. Nuns in Ireland were infamously known for "helping single mothers" while trafficking irish children to wealthy English and American families.

As if humanitarian work wasn't one of the most effective ways evangelists capture people.

Feminist actions are feminists if they have feminist ideas and goals behing them. Just "helping" isn't enough. Without theory or a framework, then your actions are just palliatives.

Those christian women have an agenda: spread christianism.

theory and action are necessary to each other and you can't bypass either.

[kuanzhaixiangzi]

If you act in the interests of male power (Christianity for example) then you are not acting on behalf of women. You are helping men get more power and hiding their abuse of us. In other words you do not have women’s interests in mind and you are not a feminist.

[differentharmonywasteland]

[lensblr-network]

photo by differentharmonywasteland.tumblr.com

[naturalblue22]

the redditor is an incomplete tumblrina, a walking abortion aborted at the app store

[pinselwurm]

absolutely hostile to this “we must welcome the reddit users” nonsense, speak for yourself i’ve got a shotgun pointed at the door and grenades on deck.

the only reason this website is marginally habitable is because all the men fucked off after the prn ban GO BACK TO THE SEWERS

[letheane-deactivated20200121]

reblog to permanently delete and to ban all porn everywhere, and to ban and delete it forever.