The New Testament scarcely mentions Mary. She is brought into the story mainly to emphasize Jesus's divine conception and birth. Her presence is noted once or twice, but little is made of it. In the centuries that followed, however, Mary was exalted to ever-higher positions of glory. She is the subject of many of our most famous and beautiful works of art. In light of what we have learned about the Goddesses of the ancient Near East, it is interesting that Mary is shown not only as the Madonna with her child, but standing on the crescent moon or with stars circling her head. She takes on many of the ancient Goddess symbols and is often painted as a larger-than-life figure. She is also shown being crowned Queen of Heaven, absorbing the title of the Goddess. It may be that the need of the people for a female deity was so great that the Christian Church might not have survived without the elevation of Mary to this exalted position. We need to look carefully, however, at just what aspects of the Goddess Mary was allowed to retain and what the results were in the lives of women.
Mary was taken up to heaven and seated with god the father and his divine son Jesus. She became the main intercessor between human beings and the divine. She was called Mother of God and Queen of Heaven, but she was not made a full-fledged member of the Godhead. The Church used her to satisfy the need for a female presence in Christianity but also to keep women in a subordinate position. Her purity as a virgin was exalted and women were taught to strive for that purity and to obey the divine (male) will. At the same time she is, of course, a mother, and women were taught to bear as many children as possible. But Mary did it while remaining a virgin; other women, in order to be mothers, must be tainted by sexuality. If they remain pure they cannot be like Mary the Mother; if they become mothers they cannot be like Mary the Virgin. No matter what they do they are guilty and inferior.
Mary's stance is: "Let it be to me according to your word." She is passive, obedient, and pure. She sits on a throne but has little power, certainly none of the power or independence of the earlier Goddesses or their free sexuality. Nevertheless, the doctrine of her virginity gave women a way out of the role of submissive wife and bearer of children. When the cult of Mary was at its height, thousands of women escaped into convents, communities of women. There they developed skills and talents in the arts and in the administration of large estates. Many abbesses wielded significant power and controlled sizable amounts of wealth.
It is interesting that, just as the veneration of Mary reached its height in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Protestant Reformation reasserted the dominance of the male divinities. One of Luther's major reforms was the closing of nunneries, and Mary is notably absent from all formulations of Protestant theology and ritual. Whereas Catholic women have suffered from their attempts to imitate an impossible model, Protestant women have had no exalted female model of any kind. Mary's presence has been used by the Catholic Church to reinforce the subordination of women, and her absence has been used by Protestantism to reinforce their insignificance.
I caught up with She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat (both the manga and the live-action drama) and it's so disappointing, at this point it's so infantilizing they're basically mocking lesbians đŤ
They tried so hard to sell their "asexual lesbians are super valid and real lesbians, it doesn't have to be romantic and passionate like in movies!!!" agenda that they accidentally recreated the Destiel confession meme đ
(This is supposed to be the face of Kasuga when she is super happy and in love with Nomoto, FYI.)
it's crazy how anti science they are. the belief that hrt changes a male to a female is as insane as believing water can turn to wine. like looney level shit
What the technician was trying to explain to this idiot male is that HE IS ANEMIC. Your blood does not change based on hormones. You do not literally become female. Biologically. The only reason these idiots think so is because 1000s of (pharma industry backed) sycophants and well-meaning but scientifically moronic allies keep insisting "transwomen are real women!" To the point where they think it means female. And nobody but mean women online tell the truth. I blame the medical industry for doing this to itself. Every single medical professional knows better, but won't say it. But I digress.
If you are anemic, you are not allowed to donate blood/plasma. Period. Full stop. End of story.
It's dangerous to you AND your blood is useless to give to anybody. It's like a balding man insisting that he has enough good hair to make a wig for a cancer patient.
Your blood sucks, bro.
Hemoglobin (the bits containing iron that attract and carry oxygen) values below 13.2 g/dl are considered anemia in males. The threshold is 11.6 gm/dl in females. Under these values means YOUR BLOOD IS NOT FUNCTIONING PROPERLY. *Your blood is sick*.
He should be far more worried about that than someone questioning his gender validation. If his blood was just under the minimum for females, he's even bigger trouble. But let's say he was at 12 gm/dl which is over the cutoff for females, but under males... it's still really unhealthy for females. You would be borderline, and it's up to the clinic's discretion to accept that donation at all. In any case, you need to assess your blood health.
The scientific illiteracy of the trans community is staggeringly high, and it is putting them in very unhealthy, possibly dangerous, situations. This male shouldn't have been so fixated his gender, but maybe been very concerned that no matter what his sex, his hemoglobin count is incredibly low. He is borderline anemic no matter what. 13 and under is considered "severe low". 7 or under is considered "dangerously low" and usually a reason for hospitalization. This idiot thinks HRT will make his blood cells better at carrying oxygen? When in fact, it's possible all those exogenous hormones are causing his RBCs to weaken (studies show this pattern in women who take HRT (estrogen/progesterone) for menopause and there are studies that also show increased testosterone-dependent RBC damage from exogenous HRT as well for females on male HRT) which makes anemia worse.
And...
In the case of blood donations, that mismatch can literally kill recipients. For example, a female donating plasma who calls herself male and is of any blood type other than AB, can cause TRALI, which is basically when your new blood causes extreme immune reaction to the body's own lungs. It can be fatal. It only happens with female plasma, from women who have carried a fetus to term. Anti-HLA antigens cannot be tested for in any blood except AB. But then, it is unlikely that the blood would be tested at all if she checked "male" on the form and nobody at the center questioned her birth sex. (They can, and occasionally do, do further screening on-site. Trans people have reported being asked to redo their intake forms where they put their legal gender instead of bio sex by employees after being asked birth sex.)
A transman could literally kill a male if she checked "male" on the intake form. I know we joke about killing all men here on radblr, but this is a real-world example of how sex can matter, even in the most unexpected ways. And this blasĂŠ approach to sex in the medical field now can have frightening consequences. Transmen also can develop erythrocytosis beyond even the levels of "cis" males. Their hemocrit levels are through the roof. This is also very bad (huge stroke and clot risk). At least most blood banks do screen out for that, iirc. Trans people should have to disclose their status and treatment regime. Other conditions do.
There is also the issue of the mostly unstudied effects that exogenous hormones can have on blood health. It's still a poorly studied area of hematology and transfusion care but studies are emerging of, for example, exogenous female hormone supplementation causing higher than normal hemolysis (aka red blood cells exploding/dying), which is terrible for transfusion recipients.
In general, there is more and more coming out that sex does matter in blood transfusions, but the mechanisms aren't clear and it's an area that is brand new. Of course, blood banks are freaking out and denying the findings of new studies are relevant.
And ER doctors generally don't check sex when hooking up transfusions either, just blood and antigen (Rh) type. The majority of transfusion reactions can be managed when caught in time, but it's the longterm outcomes that seem to be affected by sex. Most of these doctors are no longer in the picture by that point and would never be aware.
And, I will say, most blood banks do NOT ask about sex at birth anymore. There is a push from some organizations to change this back to force trans patients to acknowledge biological sex, not just legal gender. (The biggest issue imo is the medical establishment using sex and gender interchangeably.)
Just a little snippet:
A new study raises questions about potential dangers
It's amazing how quickly they abandon the whole "sex and gender are two different things, sex is biology and gender is social" talking point the moment those two concepts come into conflict with one another.
Disgruntled and confused porn users demanded the hard research data, so I went into the basement to find my dusty copy of Zillmann and Bryantâs book. It will take me a while to screenshot, caption, and post it all.
The two photos above reference a 1982 experiment which measured the effects of prolonged pornography consumption on test subjectsâ recommendations for rapist prison terms.
Male and female subjects were divided into three groups and exposed to either 6 regular films (control group), 3 regular films and 3 porn films (intermediate exposure), or 6 porn films (massive exposure).
Three weeks later, they took a variety of questionnaires and inventories. One asked them to recommend the prison sentence for a hypothetical rapist. The chart above shows the difference in what they recommended by group.Â
Conclusion: both men and women exposed to porn recommended reduced sentencing for rapists compared to those in the control group.
Consider that in 1982, watching 6 porn films was considered âmassive exposure.âÂ
Also consider whether the judge and or jury members deciding your rapistâs fate may have watched more than 6 or more porn films.
Source: Zillmann and Bryant, âPornography: Research Advances and Policy Considerations.â 1989
Fun fact, these guys and some of their colleagues in the 80s proved so conclusively that porn is harmful when used with research subjects thatâŚwait for itâŚthe research ethics boards wouldnât let anyone replicate their studies. Thatâs why there arenât any studies since the 80s where scientists purposely expose subjects to porn
Wow. So all I have to do is say something is super dangerous and shouldnât be studied and whatever I say goes from that point forward? Even trying to do research to prove or disprove it is ethically wrong at that point?
I can see zero issues with that and absolutely no way that kind of thing could be misused to push an agenda. Nope. None at all.
Love how you assume this study is biased because I only included a brief excerpt. I didnât post the whole study. I assure you the sample size is explained. I wonder if yâall would react this way about research on literally any other topic besides porn.
Anyway, the book I took this from is âPornography: research advances and policy considerationsâ. You can purchase it online. Or would you rather I send you the full pdf? Happy to further your education. Please supply your email.
2. You will not in fact be accessing any of my personal information, nor will you be willingly given that access.
3. Posting two pictures with some paywall bs when you could literally and easily post as many photos of that information as you like and then demanding people believe you?
Fuck yourself. People like me who would be willing to hear you out are never going to listen to you when you pull any of the above bullshit.
Also, all studies are biased you dumb shit. Whether because of the people conducting the study, the wording, the editors and/or publishers, the interests involved - there is always bias.
Ok fine, since youâre being so sweet to me, Iâll post them here. See how tiny they are? This is why I didnât create a post of them, nobody will read it. Iâd recommend downloading and zooming in. Enjoy!
@nadiasnewraine hereâs the last few. Happy to resume our argument once youâve read everything. Otherwise we wouldnât be on a level playing field.
An activist from SCUM, a French radfem activist group, crashed the red carpet at the Cannes festival to call-out surrogacy, often used and promoted by movie stars.
Btw she's the same one who did a similar act last year.
when i was in jail, my roommate in holding was a middle aged woman who was arrested for battery against her live-in boyfriend. she told me that it was a âmutualâ situation, that he hit her even worse, but they locked her up anyway because she was giving the cops attitude rather than acting like the perfect dv victim. of course i was dubious, since this was just a random person in jail, and at the time i knew little to nothing about domestic violence other than what i had experienced myself. we were released from jail at the same time, and when she got her phone back she had hundreds of missed calls and FaceTime requests, texts from the guy apologizing to her, love bombing type messagesâŚall the kinds of things a shitty ex would say to get you to stay in the relationship. fast forward a year later, when i was doing a research paper about domestic violence. i found a randomized study of hundreds of women who committed violence against men. the study showed that 92% of those women experienced violence themselves from the male partner first. more than half of the male partners had already spent time in prison for domestic violence against women, which is significant because usually only the worst types of abusers ever see prison time. a more recent study concluded that most of men affected by domestic violence had also been violent toward their partners themselves, confirming this existing research, and that their injuries (if any were sustained) were minor. the study showed photos of representative injuries of what looked like nail scratches on a manâs arm. a situation where a man is attacked, unprovoked, and as the primary victim by a female, is thus a statistical anomaly. of course, the response to this will be âbut men probably donât report abuse.â in general, domestic violence is extremely underreported across gender lines, but there is no research to suggest that there is a hidden epidemic of men not reporting grave incidents of violence. between 3 and 8%, depending on the study, is the average rate of reporting for both sexes. but if the men who do report are going to the hospital and calling the police for nail scratches, common sense would suggest they would go for black eyes and bone fractures and stab wounds.
Injuries are misleading too. A man once pinned me down and crushed my ribcage until I couldnât draw a breath to scream, and I was trying to pull him off of me by grabbing the back of his shirt or his hair or whatever I could reach. He eventually let go. When the cops arrived I told them exactly what happened, and they told me that he had visible scratches on his neck while I didnât have any visible injuries. So they said that I had zero chance of pressing charges, but they would allow him to press changes against me for assault if he wanted to.
That was a few years ago. This same man recently murdered a girl significantly younger than him because she broke up with him. When asked if they had ever seen any warning signs that he could be violent, those same cops said no.
Women tend to have longer fingernails. Weaker people need to resort to clawing and biting and hitting to try to escape a larger attacker, but bigger stronger people can do things that leave less obvious marks. The legal system supports violent men and punishes their female victims.
some advice especially for women who have male acquaintances (but it's just general)
i kinda hate to say this because i don't like to think that people have bad intentions most of the time, but imo if anyone has any kind of sensitive information about you, you should always have something on them too. just for good measure yk. an old friend i had an argument with (coincidentally the same TIM from my last post) threatened to spill something about me, so i gathered some old screenshots of him talking in depth about his mommy kink and just ominously sent them to him alongside a picture of his mom's Facebook. bro went real quiet after that đ
If I have any women following me who are in addiction recovery please be aware that men in NA and AA have a thing called â13th steppingâ where they try to sleep with vulnerable newcomers in early sobriety, and then if they do they will brag about it with other men in the group. There are also many cases of these men encouraging women to relapse.
and this isnât an uncommon fringe thing at all - it actually happened to me. when I went to a meeting for the second time a much older man approached me and asked if I needed a sponsor. I was very young at the time and naively said yes and agreed to exchange numbers. He seemed well-liked within the group so I thought he had good intentions. Fast forward a couple days and I was struggling with thoughts of relapsing so I texted him asking him to meet at a coffee shop near me and he said âsure but can we mess around first?â I was stunned at how disgusting it was and I never went to an NA group again after that.
Please only go to womenâs groups and if there are none near you, have a trusted friend drive you to and from meetings and get a female sponsor. Iâm sure you all already know that but I certainly didnât know how big of an issue this was when I was in early recovery.
The â13th stepâ is a perfect example of one of the things that bothers me most about misogynists - they completely lack the ability to form a sense of camaraderie with women who are in the exact same situation as them. I saw this man as an equal human being who was going through the same things that I was going through, and he saw me as nothing more than a sexual conquest. This is also true when it comes to war, poverty, natural disasters, mental illness, etc. misogynists are unable to see us as people who they can come together with to overcome adversity. their suffering is something to be taken seriously, our suffering is something to be taken advantage of for their own sexual enjoyment.
i want to clarify a common misconception: unemployment benefits in germany (despite all the bad things) do not get cut if the woman refuses to prostitute herself.
the agency for work will send people registered as unemployed who get benefits job ads, and if the affected person refuses to apply or take the job, their benefits can be cut. but brothel owners etc are not allowed to enter job ads to the agency for work registry! the agency does not connect women to prostitution.
here is an article (in german) explaining that a court ruled that the agency for work is not to get women into any kind of sex work.
the reasoning is that the prostituiertenschutzgesetz (prostitution protection law) which liberalised and legalised prostitution in germany is meant to protect women, not foster âbusinessâ.
you know i am very critical of germany especially in regards to prostitution but ive seen this misinformation circulating and wanted to set the record straight.
but there have also been cases where brothel owners registered job ads as âwaitressâ or something to lure women in since the job ads in the registry are not checked by the agency, anyone can put in an ad. but its not legal and if a woman refuses the job the benefits are not cut.
Men when women arenât just decorations to be stared at and can have eloquently expressed thoughts and feelings that are consistent with a movement aimed at protecting all female people
âFictitious womenâs fairness in sportsâ really hits the nail on the head.
Men donât view women as real, weâre not real people, so we donât have real hobbies and we donât engage in real sports or real leagues, and so âfictitious womenâs fairness in sportsâ is a perfect encapsulation of whatâs going on right now.
We donât exist to them. Weâre fake. Weâre the Other.
(Male) kids are real, and should be accommodated. Women are fake, and so fairness for women is fake, and doesnât need to be protected.
What a perfect explanation he gives here as to why he thinks males belong in womenâs sports.
FEMALE CHILDREN ARE REAL. They want to win, they want to have safe changing rooms, they want to have fair play.
Also: "Boys are watching violent porn on their smartphones then going on to attack girls, police have said, as new data showed children are now the biggest perpetrators of sexual abuse against other children." So maybe don't let male children into female children's locker rooms, even if the male children say they're girls now.
I don't actually know if he meant the women themselves are fictional, or that the fairness in sports is fictional/unachievable. Either way, it's a mask-off moment for his misogyny. *shrugs*
misogyny and how GNC women are treated in Romani culture
racism against Romani people in Poland
then you should look up Infamy (or Infamia), it's only 8 episode long, it's on Netflix and it's about a Romani teenage girl in Poland in 2023. It's very good, the creative team worked with Romani consultants, and although the main characters aren't played by Romani actors, the secondary and background characters are. You can also hear actual Romani language in some scenes!
It got barely any promotion and after the show was released, Romani male antiracist activists attacked it and tried to boycott the show, calling it racist because it criticizes Romani cultural misogyny. That show is so important because you barely see Romani protagonists in media; it is the first time a big platform, like Netflix, does something like that, while also being careful to consult Romani people and work with them; it discusses incredibly important issues that are usually invisible; but instead of hyping it up, those Romani males attacked it.
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