[laurierrose]

a man will hold a gun to your head and be like “if men and women are so equal why am i holding a gun to your head 😂”

[anaukeya3]

I'm against men in women's sports for obvious reasons, but I hate the way men who are also against it are obsessed with that one Serena Williams quote where she was asked if she could play that one really good male player and she said something like "I would lose 6-0, 6-0".

I mean, yeah, men have more explosive strength and speed, so it wouldn't be a fair match, but it grinds my teeth how giddy men are to hear a top female athlete admit her biological "inferiority" (in their eyes). My dad brings that quote up all the time. Sure, we're different, but we're not lesser. Why do we always have to compare good female athletes to male athletes anyways? They do this in pro running too, which drives me crazy. "She's fast enough to run with the boys!" Bro, shut up. Men are not women's measures of success.

[pineapplecake555]

“Men brag that they are better at sport they invented based on their male specific advantages.”

That would be like if all sports were designed around a female level of flexibility and by women for women. And then 100 years later men tried to play them too and women were like “wow men suck at sports”

[laurierrose]

could you even imagine the first time males mansplained creation to women… “actually, we are NOT here because of an endless chain of mothers like you giving birth going back eons in time. uhhhhh no … not at all. it really started when my bro this all powerful dude who lives in the sky made the first man and then a dumb woman who was TOTALLY inferior to him. yeah it’s surprising but legit. the wind told me when i was jerking off down by the river. i can’t prove any of this but if you don’t believe me i’ll kill you”

[destructrice-deactivated2024120]

This post is cool because, according to my biology textbook, until very late in the development of science, men actually thought babies didn’t even share their mother’s bloodline, only their father’s. I mean, how much do you have to twist your percepction to come up with this

[sapphoicqueen]

What the fuck, it’s in the mom’s tummy

[heringstuff]

They basically thought that the sperm contained a full human being and the womb was just the place where it grew.

[omnivore-odyssey]

Men have always overestimated their own importance.

[getoffmyastroturf]

“Men have always overestimated their own importance.”!!!!!!!!

[hereforanepilogue]

for real guys look up the concept of women as ‘empty vessels’…john locke believed it, & art historians for a long time believed that women were incapable of creativity (usually founded on being empty vessels)

[laurierrose]

i remember reading a victorian novel that mentioned that women inherently lack the masculine power of creation/creativity and you just put that into an entirely new and weighty context

[certifiednastycitrusfreak]

my mother believed until like, last year that children get the father’s name because the child has only the father’s blood

it never occurred to her that women made the entire world.

[radmenace]

“of woman born” by adrienne rich covers all this

[goblinous]

Men: taking credit for women’s work since basically forever.

[sshawn-sspenstar]

lmao jk rowling slander in the first psych novel (a mind is a terrible thing to read by william rabkin)

mind you this was written in 2009

[pineapplecake555]

It was literally illegal to include LGB characters in children’s novels in the UK at the time she was writing.

Her saying Dumbledore was gay made people SO MAD when it happened and was a huge boost to the LGB community.

Again,

It was literally illegal to include LGB characters in children’s novels in the UK at the time she was writing.

[kanelia]

Male writers are sour because of Rowling's popularity part 53728.

The audacity they have to make fun of her writing and characters when every one of them writes female characters like this: "She had just turned 16, her firm recently blossomed breasts fit perfectly into his hands, she was beautiful but wanted fuck the protagonist called Steve the Mediocre, she wore thightly fitted pants that made her behind jiggle when she walked down the street boobily".

[twentysevenlions-deactivated202]

Why couldn’t we make the Dr. Seuss books a conversation? A teaching moment? How can we learn from mistakes or examine history if we keep trying to rewrite it or erase it?

[kiefbowl]

What happened?

[mycroft-valentine]

@kiefbowl Dr. Seuss wrote very little of his actual books, most were written by his wife with him receiving full credit. When she became deathly ill, he had an affair. When she discovered the affair, she killed herself rather than let it come into the public eye, so Seuss could marry his mistress without scandal, which he did. In her suicide note, she wrote something to the effect of “I am too old and enmeshed in everything you are to live without you.”

So yeah

[deadlysunlight]

one more evil man who stole his wifes work and killed her

[coochiequeens]

“Helen Marion Palmer Geisel (September 16, 1898 – October 23, 1967), known professionally as Helen Palmer, was an American children’s writer, editor, and philanthropist. She was also the Founder and Vice President of Beginner Books, and was married to fellow writer Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, from 1927 until her death. 

Her best-known books include Do You Know What I’m Going to Do Next Saturday?, I Was Kissed by a Seal at the Zoo, Why I Built the Boogle House, and A Fish Out Of Water.”

Since March 2 is Dr Seuss day let’s make September 16 Helen Palmer day to honor her and other women who’s creative works were claimed by men

[omgitsburning]

Full offense but if y’all think that different hormone levels *actually change your sex* then you think that female humans with PCOS are actually a little bit male. Which is ludicrous.

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

And, funnily enough, women with PCOS still don't produce anywhere near as much testosterone as 'low testosterone males:'

Females with high testosterone have between 1.5 - 2 nmol/L. Females with high testosterone have an increased risk of obesity, cancer, and other health problems, which I'd take as a pretty firm indication that women shouldn't be fed the lie that changing their hormones will change their sex.

Males with DSDs can have testosterone levels as low as about 5 nmol/L - still more than double the high female rate.

Males without DSDs have between 13-20 nmol/L - at least six times the high female rate. Males with low testosterone suffer various health problems: they get lethargic when they're below 15 nmol/L, they gain weight when they're below 12 nmol/L, they suffer low mood when they're below 10 nmol/L, and they experience erectile dysfunction when they're below 8 nmol/L - all of which are still substantially higher than the high female rate!

I think it's a consequence of scientific illiteracy: they're so determined to ignore the body that they forget that they forget that ovaries and testes only produce so much of each hormone, and that increasing or reducing the level of the hormones can have very serious consequences for a person's health.

[hunter-0f-artemis]

if you go knocking on enough doors asking for the devil, eventually he will answer. I've found it's an actual belief of these types of people to believe and insist that PCOS is a DSD/intersex disorder and all women with PCOS are actually intersex. if you go looking in the right corners of the internet, you'll find people who are very serious about PCOS = intersex and argue for it and make social media infographics about it.

[cowgirlgirl2002]

Women played a significant role in the domestication of dogs, and their close relationships with the animals were key to the process. Wolves are less aggressive and weary of women due to their smaller size and their voice unlike men who hunt them.

Dogs accompanied women while they gathered food and plants.

Women were primarily responsible for rearing and training dogs for guarding, attacking and finding. Women gave dogs names and treated them as family. Researchers from Washington State University analyzed data from 144 traditional societies and found that women were key to domesticating dogs.

The role of women in the domestication of dogs is often understated, but without their close relationships with these animals, it's unlikely that they would have been domesticated. While men were out hunting, women were able to form bonds with these animals that increased the strength of the domestication process.

Women's History Month: The Historical Role of Women In The Domesticati

It might be common to hear the phrase "man's best friend" when referencing dogs, but is this saying historically accurate? Recent studies ac

Women influenced coevolution of dogs and humans

Man's best friend might actually belong to a woman.

[cowgirlgirl2002]

Women played a significant role in the domestication of dogs, and their close relationships with the animals were key to the process. Wolves are less aggressive and weary of women due to their smaller size and their voice unlike men who hunt them.

Dogs accompanied women while they gathered food and plants.

Women were primarily responsible for rearing and training dogs for guarding, attacking and finding. Women gave dogs names and treated them as family. Researchers from Washington State University analyzed data from 144 traditional societies and found that women were key to domesticating dogs.

The role of women in the domestication of dogs is often understated, but without their close relationships with these animals, it's unlikely that they would have been domesticated. While men were out hunting, women were able to form bonds with these animals that increased the strength of the domestication process.

Women's History Month: The Historical Role of Women In The Domesticati

It might be common to hear the phrase "man's best friend" when referencing dogs, but is this saying historically accurate? Recent studies ac

Women influenced coevolution of dogs and humans

Man's best friend might actually belong to a woman.

[rabiesofficial]

[dapperprincess]

You cant tell if women sharing stories of what happened to them with the genders reversed is some sort of joke or if it’s something you would label a hate movement? Inch resting

[fisewalafel]

“women used to marry young and have a lot of children” VS “men used to marry women when they were still little girls and force them to be pregnant and give birth their whole life”.

“in the past women didn’t get education” VS “in the past, men stopped women from getting education and excluded them from all cultural spheres”.

“muslim women must wear hijab” VS “muslim men force muslim women wear hijab”.

“in this country, abortion is illegal” VS “men in this country made women getting abortion illegal”.

women’s oppression doesn’t happen by itself. women’s oppression isn’t passive. there is an oppressor class that actively chooses to oppress women, and the oppressor class is MEN.

[breathetoseethetruth]

Icon for centuries!

[avicecaro]

i want to shake many young women and say you can grow in private. and what i mean by that is that you don’t have to publicly self-flagellate when you don’t know something or when you say something a little insensitive or whatever else. you don’t have to report your Bad Thoughts and Ignorance to the crowd who waits to judge you. you do not have to pay penance. you do not have to issue public statements. nothing more is gained from burying yourself in shame than you could gain by thinking “oh i don’t know about this” and looking it up real quick, or thinking “hm, that wasn’t how i want to behave, i’ll do different next time” and then moving on with your life. no need to choke yourself with it.

[wizardbreasts]

i am always the bitch who's like. that's actually not true :) your brain does not stop developing at 25 or ever :) love languages can be a useful vocabulary but is not real :) a lot of the personality disorders you villainize are responses to immense pain and fear :) stop trying to sort the complexity of human experience into HARRY POTTER HOUSES pleaseee think critically abt what u are being told and who's telling u this. why would someone want u to believe that u aren't fully capable of decision making until 25? psych has been a tool to oppress since it was created, don't buy into it!

[aiddiwnfkekf-deactivated2024120]

i want to grab every woman on earth by the shoulders and shake her gently and look her in the eyes and tell her to never ever ever EVER be in a relationship with a man who watches porn. don't even be FRIENDS with a man who watches porn. those aren't human beings

[vvvvvvvvvvvvv1-deactivated20260]

a woman could literally be wearing a shirt that says “have sex with me right now, I’m not even joking, I want to fuck you” and she would still have the right to decline sex to any guy that approached her

[vvvvvvvvvvvvv1-deactivated20260]

a woman could literally have just finished having sex with all other 8 billion people on earth, and she would still have the right to say no to the last remaining man!!!

[cute-rotten-girl]

its insane to be that really fucking basic shit like "women should be able to choose what they wanna do because theyre humans" is a hot take you have to explain to people slowly so they dont lose their minds

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

A woman could intentionally, maliciously tease a man, lead him on, pretend she really wants to have sex with him, and then say no at the last minute, and not tactfully, and he would still be a thousand times worse than she is as a person if he raped her.

The strawman "cocktease" of a woman men make up in their heads is at worst a jerk. Rape is a disproportionate and monstrous response, even if she was what men say, and the vast majority of the time she isn't.

[babulya-yaga]

as if leading someone on is nearly compatible in genuine evilness to the actual unforgivable crime

[poetrylesbian]

so many of the "i only use chat gpt for ___" excuses are concerning because people use it in place of learning basic, valuable skills.

you don't need chat gpt to write professional sounding emails for you, there are many many guides on the internet and with a bit of practise you can learn to write them yourself. a very important skill for a professional to have, and some of the basic rules will carry over into irl conversations!

you don't need chat gpt to be a "more detailed search engine", because you're robbing yourself of the chance to learn how to find and filter information on the internet and evaluate the credibility of sources. which is a VITAL skill. plus, chat gpt is notorious for being wrong?

if you use it to write essays, you're taking away your ability to hone your research skills, your writing skills, your critical thinking skills. your ability to create persuasive arguments!

and for most of the other reasons people use chat gpt, there are non-ai websites for that! for maths, wolfram alpha. for figuring out what you can cook with the ingredients you have there's supercook and the like. for creating routines, there's about a million apps!

whatever you "only" use chatgpt for i promise there are better websites out there that you don't have to worry will produce complete bullshit???? and destroy the environment???

[honeyblankets]

everything beautiful in this world is vagina shaped… orchids and lillies and oysters and strawberries and figs and kiwis and vaginas <3 <3 <3

[honeyblankets]

cherries and sea shells and oranges and tulips and pomegranates… mother nature i’m your biggest fan