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[disillusionedmonster]

I wish people would understand that I don't have a gender; I have a sex. I am not agender, or any of that other stuff, because I don't subscribe to the belief system that makes agender possible. I am not cisgendered because I hate the gender that comes with being a woman, and I would never choose to identity with that. The use of cis just makes victim blaming easier. It suggests that women who don't transition choose the gender stereotypes that come with being of the female sex. My clothes and personality are not some big statement. They are just me existing as a women who likes certain things. I hate hyperindividualism.

[theeleanorvance]

learning about breasts as baby feeders and male attractors made them appear to be my enemies. learning about my uterus as an organ dedicated to creating and growing a fetus made it appear to be my enemy. i had parts of my body that opposed my own will–where i didn’t want children, my breasts and uterus did. where i was a lesbian, my breasts grew against my will to attract men, and my uterus wanted fertilization. of course i hated them! of course i wanted to cut off and destroy the parts of my body that opposed the innate nature of my brain!

how evil, that little girls are taught that their bodies “want” anything but their own survival and happiness. my breasts store fat that will help me survive disease and famine. my uterus regulates my hormones, keeping me healthy. i could use them to grow and nurture a child if i wanted to do so–but they aren’t trying to push me to do anything. they’re just helping me stay alive! my brain, my uterus, my breasts, and every other part of my body are a team, all working for me, according to my wishes and goals. no part of myself is my enemy.

[drachenstochter]

your breasts don’t just store fat, they’re also a critical part of your endocrine system! don’t believe the male propaganda, sisters, they’re not just useless sacks of fat on your chest or whatever the hell they’re spouting this week. No part of you is useless, no part of you exists for males.

[spidergwen-real-notclickbait]

WHAT WAS THE TRANSPHOBIC CONTENT!?!?

[xxriverdaughterxx]

but of course they'll leave the strippers and prostitutes in

[katradfordisback]

isn't it funny how feminists got death threats and incessant harrasment for taking about misogyny in video games (remember gamer gate?) yet GTA decided to take out whatever little "transphobia" there was so quickly. Really goes to show that women have no power in society, and trans rights is a male-led and male-beneficiary movement.

[shitpostinguniverse]

[impossiblyobscure]

Prostitution is illegal because it has the potential to give women ownership of their sexuality and there’s no way that can be allowed.

[adataraxia]

i wouldn’t call an industry with an 85% rape rate “ownership of women’s sexuality”

[thegendercritic]

Not forgetting that: 

Women and girls represent 98 per cent of the estimated 4.5 million forced into sexual exploitation

That an estimated 2 million children are exploited every year in the global commercial sex trade

Oh and also: 

75% of women involved in prostitution started as children. 

74% of women cite poverty as the primary motivator for entering prostitution (Melrose 2002).

Up to 70% of women in prostitution spent time in care, 45% report sexual abuse and 85% physical abuse within their families (Home Office 2006).

Up to 95% of women in prostitution are problematic drug users, including around 78% heroin users and rising numbers of crack cocaine addicts (Home Office 2004).  

More than half of UK women in prostitution have been raped and/or seriously sexually assaulted. At least three quarters have been physically assaulted (Home Office 2004).

68% of women in prostitution meet the criteria for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the same range as torture victims and combat veterans undergoing treatment (Ramsey et al 1993).

The mortality rate for women in prostitution in London suffer is 12 times the national average (Home Office 2004).

A global study of prostitution found that 9 out of 10 women in prostitution would like to exit if they could (Farley, 2003).

(Original source: Prostitution - The Facts)

[89584957294589425-deactivated20]

The original post is so fucking stupid I’m sitting here dumbfounded at how stupid it is. Like if you so much as bothered to figure out what groups of women are in the sex industry or how often punters rape and abuse prostituted women, you wouldn’t think to post something so stupid as if it were a thought worth being shared. The OP also mentioned women specifically, suggesting that they are aware that prostitution is very much gendered, but they didn’t think it worthy to note that no one expects men to rent their bodies to strangers in order to “own their sexuality.”

The real reason prostitution is illegal is that men blame and punish women for men’s violence against them. That’s why you can be a child sex trafficking victim charged with “sexual misconduct” while the hundreds or thousands of men who raped and abused you got away scot free.

[spookyterf]

Hey OP, if prostitution is so empowering, why aren’t there more male prostitutes? 

[rtglm]

Also OP, why arent ~*you*~ a prostitute?

[ddrvbiblgigb]

How is it ownership of women’s bodies if men are the ones buying and raping them? Like they have been for centuries?

[femsolid]

If you think prostitution = women taking control of their sexuality then it means you truly believe the essence of female sexuality is in pleasing and serving men.

Prostitution is not illegal everywhere btw.

Let’s take a look at Switzerland for example.

This ad is for a brothel and offers you to buy the best “mouthes” for Christmas.

Does that look like a threat to male supremacy to you ?

The last review posted on Google about this place is from an unsatisfied customer (rapist) who says the women in the brothel were all romanian (= human trafficking) and he had to fight to get a french “girl”. He also complains about the fact that all the women seemed unhappy and uninterested.

I guess they don’t know how empowered and lucky they are. You tell them. Please. I’d like to see that.

[butterflyy-goddess]

Trans women are socialized as trans women. So that kind of ruins your whole “female socialization is necessary to be a woman” excuse for trans exclusion

…..what

Ok let’s process this for a moment. Trans women are “assigned male at birth” right? Biologically male ? Otherwise how would they be trans women?

And socialization — as it pertains to gender — refers to the different ways in which boys and girls are socialized. i.e. the messages they receive which tell them what proper behavior is for boys and girls. The thing with socialization is, it’s not how you feel on the inside. It’s how society perceives you. That perception dictates what messages you learn and how you’re treated. For example, it’s very similar with race. If you’re white passing you are perceived as white and that changes how society interacts with you.

So if you’re born male, you learn the messages associated with that sex. Biological women absorb the messages associated with their sex. This is simply a fact. There are many many articles and papers about this topic. You can easily google it. Here’s one if you are incapable of doing so:

https://www2.lehigh.edu/news/the-impacts-of-gender-role-socialization-on-health-and-culture

The Impacts of Gender Role Socialization on Health and Culture

Christopher Liang and Nicole L. Johnson explore how socialized gender roles can impact men’s and women’s health, contribute to rape culture

I’m going to note here that Dr. Johnson specifically studies gender and LGBT issues. This has nothing to do with radfeminism. Male and female socialization is just a reality you all need to accept.

What I believe, and other radfems are free to comment and add their own thoughts and beliefs, is that this male socialization doesn’t go away when men “transition” AND they also do not go through female socialization which is a rather essential part of being female. Passing or not — this socialization begins the moment the doctor says girl or boy. No amount of surgery or “girly” clothes is ever going to change that simple fact.

And I really hope you can get over it.

[leninthesixth]

are we gonna do this "actually Amber Heard was the abuser" shit every two months until we die like is that it

[leninthesixth]

what do you all gain from defending a 55 year old man who was getting drunk and assaulting people in public even before Amber Heard was born? Depp is not only a violent asshole but also a creep who dated Winona Ryder when she was 17 and he was 26 and then Kate Moss when she was 20 and he was 31. Do you dumbasses really think if there was substantial proof of alleged abuse Amber Heard perpetuated Depp's lawyers wouldn't have used it to avoid paying a 7 million dollar alimony? (all of which Heard donated to charity by the way) Johnny Depp is near bankruptcy and he is trying to get his money back and you dumbass woke genzennials are helping him in his smearing campaign for free

[wtf-fishbones]

She literally fucking ADMITTED that she lied about it like please use google

[leninthesixth]

Ok let me use Google

It seems the news about Heard admitting to lying hasn't made headlines, there are, once again, only claims by Johnny Depp and his lawyers. And then the news about Amber Heard's recordings which are out of context snippets.

And then there's this about Heard lying under oath:

I couldn't find an in depth analysis of it's reliability, but The Blast is a gossip site found by a former TMZ employee which says a lot. I couldn't find the document mentioned on there, It may have been removed. Long story short she didn't admit to lying, Johnny Depp's legal team accused her of lying.

You have to asses the information after using Google, but that requires a brain and we all know your brain cell count is in the negatives 😌

[ms-gay-frogs]

didn't Depp and his pals talk about wanting to burn her and rape her body? that is clearly victim behaviour huh ...

[the-land-of-women]

@biologicallyangry

[medusadeservedmore]

I really don't understand how there are people out here pretending he's innocent when the texts with him and Paul Bettany talking about killing and raping Amber are there for anyone to read

[r-u-s-s-i-a-deactivated20230204]

Ekaterina Kachura-Falileeva (1886-1948)

[dworkinsdaughter]

I don’t think there is a legal concept of theft when it’s women taking men’s things. Men have stolen absolutely everything from women, from our art to our potential to our safety to our lives to our name to our.... ad nauseam.

Basically what I’m saying is. We should steal from men. Have an opportunistic theft kind of mindset.

[dykeshitonly-deactivated2023093]

no, but actually

[fipindustries]

Someday we will have a cartoon show where the cat is male and the dog is female but the world is not ready for that yet

[chronicdharma]

[cervinelich]

this is why its depressing to work in a pharmacy.

[iatrogenic]

I was definitely a profit killer when I worked in a pharmacy (which honestly was my favorite job in the entire world, but it was short-lived and nowadays you can’t work at a pharmacy like that, it’s all tied in with corporate retail and no one should ever trust me with a cash register ever). It was not, however, actually a profit killer for the pharmacy, just for the drug companies, so no one cared. These days I do medical billing, which means I actually bill OUT from hospitals so I’m mostly spending my professional time taking money away from insurance companies. 

I will now impart all of my profit killing resources onto you, in case you don’t know them. I think most of you know them, now. But just in case you don’t.

THIS IS US-CENTRIC. I’M SORRY. 

1. GoodRx - this thing has an app now, so you can look up the best places to get your expensive medicines at the lowest possible prices without insurance on the go, and you no longer have to print coupons because you can just hand over your phone or tablet. Times have changed for the better with GoodRx. Definitely use it before trying to fill your scrip, because it will tell you the best place to go. (You can do that on the website, too.)

2. NeedyMeds - Needymeds is basically the clearinghouse of drug payment assistance. They have their own discount cards, but also connections to many patient assistance programs run by drug companies themselves. They are good assistance programs, too.

3. Ask your county - This is not a link. This is a pro tip. Most county social services will have pharmacy discount programs for people with no and/or shitty pharmaceutical coverage. You can often just find them hanging around at social services offices; you can just pick one up and walk off with it. 

4. Ordering online - There are a few safe online pharmacies. I keep a little database in a text file on my computer. Most of them are courtesy of CFS forums, my mother or voidbat, so a lot of that is a hat tip to other people, but if you’re in need of a place to get a drug without a prescription … first I’ll make sure you 100% know what you’re doing for safety reasons and then I’m happy to turn over a link. 

5. Healthfinder - A government resource that helps find patient assistance programs in your area. This might also point out the convenient county card thing. RxHope is something a lot of people get pointed to via Healthfinder that’s a good program.

6. Mental Health America - Keeps a list of their best PAPs for psychiatric medications, which can be some of the most expensive and a lot of pharmacy plans don’t cover them at all. 

[forevrdreamingofbetterthings]

This is so important ppl.

Signal boost the shit out of it!

[dynastylnoire]

Booooooooooooooooooost

[dysfunctionalqueer]

Good Rx Saved my family a hundred dollars a month while I was getting signed up for CHIP seriously it’s a life savor especially for ridiculously expensive drugs like abilify

[motivation-gems]

Useful info, friends! ;)

[quietborderlineinfo]

Since many of our followers are on medications, I feel like this would be an important resource. -Luna

[will-work-for-spoons]

Also! Some drug companies have patient assistance programs where they send you the drug for FREE if you are uninsured, or if your insurance doesn’t cover that drug.

Do a Google search for “patient assistant programs” + (your med), or search the manufacturers website. Sometimes the info is online; other times you have to call.

Even some of the big name pharma companies have this. It’s certainly not all companies, or all meds, but it is worth a shot.

Before Obamacare, I lost insurance and couldn’t pay for my mood stabilizers (kiiiiinda important to have those when you’re bipolar.) I was on generic Lamictal, but I went to the official Lamictal website, filled out a form with a valid prescription, and they mailed my meds to me every month for free.

If you know anything about bipolar disease, you know that that was a literal life saver. Patient assistance programs ftw!

[comtessedebussy]

This is so important given the recent vote to repeal Obamacare. And the cartoon above is so on point They’re literally voting to kill people. Literally.

[thebibliosphere]

Some of my meds are no longer going to be partially covered by my ridiculously expensive private insurance. I just used the GoodRX website to look it up, and I can either spend $40 at Target to pay for one of them out of pocket–per month–, or I can get it at Sams Club for $4. No that is not a typo. The drug I need to take every single day to keep my allergies from spiraling out of control (yay auto-immune bullshit) is literally ten times cheaper at Sams Club. Holy shit.

[fancyladssnacks]

Signal boost for my US buds

[puraiuddo]

I was also a profit killer at CVS, until they banned the employees from providing any discount codes and threw away all of our discount cards and then told us that all we were allowed to do was to tell customers that they could look for their own. ☺️

They were especially adamant about enforcing this new policy at my store which was: (1) the only 24hr pharmacy within 20 miles (2) geographically right between 2 popular ERs (3) criminally understaffed (4) at the center of a notoriously Portuguese city and (5) had minimal, if any, translators to communicate to the populace that they could find discount cards.

CVS is also well known on the above mentioned apps for being the most expensive place to buy uninsured medicine.

Needless to say, I quit.

DON’T USE CVS AND PLEASE USE DISCOUNT CARDS.

[angrybutchrights-deactivated202]

we can’t even talk about how lesbians have been persecuted in history without TW making it about them. they expect us to change our language to dehumanize lesbians so trans women don’t get their feelings hurt lmao.

[unrealunearths]

jot that down

[sepulchretide]

you post a lot about women

[shaftking]

When I say I’m pro choice I mean that I am okay with abortion being used as a necessary medical intervention in order to save the life of the mother in a situation in which the fetus is not viable and may potentially or definitely kill her if carried to term or if the fetus has already been confirmed as miscarried.

I do not support abortion as a completely unregulated “solution” to any unwanted pregnancy that is essentially treated as a birth control method.

It should be used in specific circumstances only and not be used in a way that can be abused by irresponsible women or abusive partners or caretakers.

[lavenderfeminist]

then you’re not pro-choice, bud

[opisaterf]

even conservatives commonly make exceptions for rape/incest/health, u are literally just an antichoicer

[shaftking]

Being pro choice with certain limitations doesn’t make someone less pro choice.

Pro choice literally just means the advocacy of the legalizing of abortion and there are multiple different stances within the group.

[opisaterf]

honey just get a grip. you sound like a republican, you’re not pro-choice

[yaoifem]

if you want to limit a woman’s right to abortion in any way, shape, or form you’re not pro-choice… lol. it’s okay to admit your truth, stick by your stance if you’re already speaking with your chest - you’re not pro-choice.

[919273019274747-deactivated2024]

Johnny Depp fans are obsessed with reminding you women can be abusive too. Well little did you know “hot” guys can be violent alcoholics too