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Saving Face (2012), acid attacks on women in Pakistan
Meanwhile, in America, feminists are complaining about how dress codes are oppressive.
You idiots have never experienced oppression, and pray you never do, because this is what it looks like.
As a South Asian American feminist, let me remind everyone that oppression is not a competition.
Just because we fight one type of sexism doesn’t mean we don’t care about other instances of sexism that don’t affect us directly in our day to day lives.
My heart goes out to this woman and the hundreds of other victims like her. I want to educate people about these kinds of incidents. I support organizations that help women like this.
You may think that dress code issues are trivial, but they are related to a larger issue of women’s bodily autonomy, which affects women’s health and safety.
So please, let’s try to bring awareness and bring about change instead of insulting entire groups of people because they are facing issues that are less scary than the one presented.
“oppression is not a competition”
thank you so much for this wording
Every time someone, usually a guy, complains about feminists not experiencing oppression, I can’t help but see what they are really trying to say.
“This is how men could be treating you, be grateful it’s only as bad as it is now.”
And that’s actually an attribute of abusers, I believe I read somewhere. To compare you to someone being treated worse and tell you you should be grateful you have it so good. It convinces the victim they should be silent in the face of their abuse.
It’s literally an abuse tactic.
Every time someone says something like, “You […] have never experienced oppression, and pray you never do, because this is what it looks like.” What they are saying is, “shut up, we could treat you worse if we wanted to.”
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but SeX WoRk iS WoRk and it makes women safer when it has government oversight, right?
anyone who seriously thinks having any government involved in the prostitution of women would make things better clearly doesn’t understand how misogynistic even the most “progressive” governments on earth are.
they will always side with the pimp, their laws will protect the pimps and the rapists over the women, it will not make women safer, ever. it is a fundamentally misogynistic industry designed to cater to the evil desires of the worst people on earth and none of us can know true liberation while the most vulnerable among us are for sale.
Reminds me of the German woman who lost her unemployment benefits for turning down a job at a brothel.
If sex work is work, they can require you to do it.
The bumble ads have me afraid. The birth rate talk has me afraid. Atwood warned us.
men go “haha white women fuck dogs” and then proceed to commit 86% of zoophilia crimes
something something Valerie solanas every purported masculine virtue is envy of the qualities of the female and every purported feminine vice is a projection of masculine shortcomings...
many such cases
When Daphne transforms into a bay tree, the moment is one of both horror and deliverance. She is no longer what she once was, but the metamorphosis frees her from the unwanted attention of Apollo. This duality of horror and emancipation sits, I think, at the core of female transformation. Within the horror genre (and arguably everywhere else), bodies read as female are always subject to pain, and to the threat of violation. Becoming something else—a tree, a freak, a monster—preempts this pain and reduces the risk of harm. It may even, if the transformation is the right one, allow you to cause harm in return.
Julia Armfield, On Body Horror and the Female Body
literally😔
how exactly are we destroying those things?
I will have to try to limit each category to four points so my post will publish.
Biological Reality:
Much like how Creationists argue against the foundational concept of evolution, gender ideology and the trans activists who believe in it scientifically deny primary knowledge that has existed as groundwork research for the last 20 years pertaining to sex determinism of the SRY gene in mammals (especially humans), and not understanding how disorders of sexual development work and are actually dependent upon what sex an individual is in their development. This is not just a destruction of biological reality, but also goes hand-in-hand with the destruction of gay rights, children's rights, and women's rights.
Gender evangelists who are trans activists encourage others around them to both perceive and utilize "pronouns" and other descriptive sex-based language pertaining to a metaphysical or subjective "feeling" of a masculine or feminine essence (or, neither) in referring to themselves and others. This also creates a system of linguistic imperialism and female erasure. For the last few hundred centuries prior to modern date, pronouns have been used in language to observe or identify an individual's sex.
Gender evangelists who are trans activists deny that there are any differences between "transwomen" and women, and such as the case was with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, attempt to "cancel" or socially, economically, and legally punish any women who claim there are these differences.
A subset of gender evangelists within trans activism who are male and identify as a woman push scientific disinformation that HRT provided to males for the intent on increasing their estrogen levels to "transition" gives them a menstrual cycle. The side-effects of HRT for trans-identifying males is not a period. Many also claim they experience PCOS or endometriosis when they are directly lacking the organs needed to have these conditions.
Trans activists place pressure on researchers to obfuscate scientific data by lumping trans-identifying people in with men and women who don't consider themselves as trans throughout different studies, in addition to attempting to lobby for things like being able to legally change sex on birth certificates or in crime statistics which makes scientific data collection and analysis inaccurate. This goes on to seriously impede women's rights and lesbian rights, too, as one of the unique hallmarks of the oppression of women is the vast majority of scientific research either focuses on men or lumps us in with them without considering sex a variable.
Women's Rights
The foundation of women's rights recognizes that males oppress female human beings on the axis of sex, creating a hierarchical system of complex social power dynamics, termed "gender oppression". This is not simply a posited idea, but a demonstrated pattern across several disciplines of research globally for several decades, including economics, psychology, sociology, biology, law, etc. Gender evangelists who are trans activists argue that instead there exists a "cist/trans" gender oppression on the axis of a subjective "gender identity". Thereby, female human beings who are "cis" are suddenly argued to be oppressors to trans-identifying males, creating a situation in which these trans-identifying male people who believe in gender ideology can suddenly cry reverse sexism. The "cis/trans" axis of "gender oppression" based on gender identity not only directly contradicts, but seeks to replace women's rights through denying the foundational understanding of sex-based oppression.
Gender evangelists who are trans activists lobby for sex-based spaces, resources, and organizations - such as sports teams, scholarships, women's orgs, dressing rooms, etc. - to "include" them as opposed to the creation of third spaces and categories. It is, at it's core, an anti-boundaries and anti women's rights movement. Women's organizations, dressing rooms, sports teams, scholarships, rape and domestic violence shelters, etc. were all things that women within the women's rights movements fought and are still fighting to establish and protect due to both sexism and sexual violence. There are so many examples of male violence and trans-identifying males going out of their way to violate sex-based organizations and spaces and committing violent crimes that it would be impossible to link them all, so you are welcome to peruse Ovarit's o/NametheProblem, o/SaveWomensSports, and o/GenderCritical circles without needing to make an account.
Gender ideologists who are trans activists and are claiming that "woman" is a social role are pushing a belief dependent upon sexist stereotypes, and not only is connected to the denial of biological reality but also further upholds patriarchy and sex-based oppression. Furthermore, a woman is not a "feeling".
Sexism and sex-based oppression even exists within the trans movement. Trans-identifying female people make headlines for being the first "men to chestfeed" while trans-identifying males make the headlines for entering in women's sports as a retirement plan and beating the shit out of female athletes. Trans-identifying males and ally activists regularly shut down trans-identifying female people for having "masc privilege". The vast majority of trans-identifying males keep their penis or don't even go on hormones, while more trans-identifying female people obtain double masectomies and are referred to gender identity clinics as minors. Mainstream trans-activism doesn't center trans-identifying female human beings just as it exiles and villainizes detrans individuals.
Women who disagree with you—JK Rowling, Chimimanda Adichi, Maya Forrester, any woman online or in person, etc.—are absolutely witch hunted and "terf-camped" while trans activists barely bat an eyelash at the men who speak out about gender ideology such as Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, etc. Moreover, I'm wondering exactly how many of you can even recite the names of the men who murder the ~30 trans-identifying people a year.
Child Safety
Do you really, really believe that children can consent to permanent and risky modification and removal of their sexual body parts when they are acknowledged to not be able to consent to sex, drinking, and other medical decisions? (click that link). Children are an oppressed and vulnerable group because they are still neurologically developing. There are no longitudinal studies on the effects of puberty blockers, HrT, and SrS procedures on kids. However, there currently is becoming a huge wave of "transitioned" children detransitioning and suing all of these doctors for medical malpractice. The link I provided is just a few. r/detrans on reddit has currently 54,000 subscribers to provide you with an idea, and here are pages of other articles.
Jazz Jenning's absolutely torturous form of sexual and medical abuse in which he was forced into "transitioning" because he adored his sister and picked up the wrong toys in his mother's eyes has even been filmed and televised as entertainment. Jazz's mother described on TV that if Jazz didn't continue to dilate when he left home for college, that she would dilate him herself. He also to this day struggles with intimacy and sexuality, making comments about "how effed up my vagina is" and even described to lack any sexual functioning at all by doctors due to the effects of the abuse and medical malpractice he has endured.
Even beyond this, trans-activists who are believers in gender ideology very frequently groom kids, creating child-like comics such as "Assigned Male", the "Genderbread person", "Gender Unicorn", and so on. There are many involved in "otherkin" or furry communities drawing a crossover of child-like cartoons in pornographic formats. For such a presumably small percentage of the population, there are many trans-identifying leaders within trans activism and every day individuals who are pedophiles.
Gay Rights
Arguing that sexual orientation is based on "gender identity" and "preferred pronouns" as opposed to sex, and calling homosexual people "genital fetishists" (much like how Christians label us as sexually deviant) for refusing to date trans-identifying people, is homophobia. I'm not even sure if I need to link examples as there are reciept blogs on radblr full of examples.
Gender ideologists are vehemently engaging in historical revisionism and falsely claiming that trans-identifying males are responsible for the liberation of gay people and gay pride. Fred Sargent, one of the four original founders of gay pride and Stonewall veteran, continues to argue against this erasure of gay history today.
Modern transgender "gender affirming care" is rooted in the Nazi medical sterilization of gay people. And just FYI, the modern idea pushed by gender ideology that trans people are "born in the wrong bodies" originally was spread by early conservative doctors in the 1960s onto who were originally overwhelmingly homosexual men, as they felt this was the only way this pool of patients could "live fulfilling heterosexual lives".
Trans-identifying, gender ideology-believing activists force-team themselves to the LGB movement when our goals, rights, protections, and axis of oppression is also sex based and has nothing to do with you or gender identity. Currently in Iran and I believe very recently elsewhere (Japan? I can't recall), it's legal to "gender transition" but a crime to marry the same sex. Gay people are being pressured to transition in order to secure protections to be in same-sex relationships.
The vast majority of gender dysphoric children have been demonstrated in scientific research to grow up as perfectly healthy, gay and lesbian adults. Gender ideology believing trans activists instead put pressure on gender dysphoric homosexual people into "considering whether you're trans" and "joking" about their friends who don't align with sex-based norms and roles as being "eggs".
Some trans activists have even taken the time to become mass shooters at gay clubs (such as the club Q Colorado shooter) and have murdered a lesbian couples and their son.
Common Sense
If I identify as a chicken nugget, does that make me a chicken nugget?
What about if I were to identify as a "biotranswoman"? Would that make me a transwoman? Biological women who haven't transitioned, don't experience gender dysphoria or euphoria, have XX chromosomes, and use she/her pronouns are transwomen too, after all. We should be centered in transwomen's rights, spaces, transactivism, and organizations. Our identity is being overshadowed and oppressed by transwomen. We are a subtype of transwomen who have no representation in media, politics, or human rights.
I really can go on, but to be frank, this post has taken long enough to write. There are thousands of women on Tumblr (including myself, sort of) who have crafted entire blogs, master posts, and elaborate tagging systems to answer your question; in addition to websites (such as kindrad.org, womenarehuman.com, Ovarit, etc.), detrans leaders such as Exulansic, and gay liberation groups (LGB Alliance).
"How exactly are we destroying these things?" Let us count the ways.
y’all can deadass blame Drew Afualo for me going full on terf and proud. i do NOT care anymore. how can you, as a cis woman, deadass get on the internet and say that you stand by the opinion that trans women have a “better and more beautiful understanding of womanhood than cis women do” and then call every cis woman a terf bitch who disagrees? it’s no shock to me that so many feminists and women are jumping ship. y’all continue to constantly go into spaces meant for women and throw misogyny in our faces. we can’t speak on sex based violence, our biology, our childhoods, pregnancy, periods, and now even our own womanhood without it being redefined, or us being told to shut up OR being called insecure or a “terf” / transphobic for recognizing that there are differences between trans and cis women. whether y’all like it or not biology and socialization play a huge part, a trans woman will NEVER understand womanhood from the perspective of a biological woman who was born and raised a female. that doesn’t meant they aren’t “women” but trying to pretend they have a “better understanding” of womanhood is flat out invalidating and misogynistic. period. why are we even comparing anyway? it’s like they are asking for a further divide. i could seriously rant about this forever, i even have screenshots, im just glad she blocked me or i would’ve been arguing in her comment section on tiktok for years. this was nothing but a great reminder as to why i keep my opinions on this topic to myself. i genuinely am so done dealing with braindead idiots like her who purposely dance around the point then fall back on misogynistic rhetoric to project this allyship persona. you’re NOT an ally to cis women: that’s for sure.
at least in nyc, for the price of one set of acrylic nails, you could instead go to the beach by subway every single saturday for the entire summer. alternatively you could go see three movies in the theater, or take yourself out for a couple cozy dinners, or cap off the workday with live jazz every night for an entire work week, or visit two or three medium sized museums. you could also just save it. sock it away for an emergency. or buy a weirdass vintage lamp or something. you have options, when it comes to treating yourself. nobodys saying you can't have fun. just think about what more you could do for the same damn price as crippling your hands costs. you'll be absolutely amazed at what you find.
Imagine a female democrat saying cutting carbs and sugar was so hard it would make her bomb paraguay. These guys would be moved to invent new misogynistic slurs
Prostitution happens when one person wants to have sex, and the other person does not. If both people wanted to have sex, no money would need to be exchanged. Men use money to override your no. They have total and complete control of the dynamic.
Most prostitution is drug addiction and trafficking. I don't seen anyone empowered there.
Sucking dick for heroin money because it's either that or be dopesick is so not empowering, it's not even funny.
Being dopesick while homeless is a death sentence. No place to rest, no food supply, no clean clothes, having to walk and walk to get free water. Being dopesick while homeless is quite literally not an option. So obviously you would choose prostitution but in that case, it's really not a choice. Is it?
was at the public pool yesterday and i kept looking around at all the women with fat and rolls and stretch marks and discolouration and cellulite and scars and thighs that bounce and bellies that jiggle and it's like wow. literally Everyone has these features that society is trying to convince us are evil and unnatural. idk it just really put things into perspective for me. highly recommend checking out your local public pool
All time great.
these are the people running reddit. these are the people banning feminism subs, lesbian subs, PMS/PMDD subs, endometriosis subs, PCOS subs, and more for "transphobia".
this is why female-only subreddits are only allowed when it involves women as the subject for men to consume and jerk off to: (usually violent) porn, or corrective rape against lesbians, or violent fantasies against women.
why the fuck are we not allowed to acknowledge reality when it's staring us right in the FACE??????? WAKE UP!!!! PATTERN RECOGNITION IS NOT BIGOTRY.