Get to the hawbah

36 YO lesbian living in Boston. Sometimes writer, sometimes accountant, all the time dyke. Working on improving my mental health so you'll see depression posting on here in spades. I'm a lesbian / socialist feminist and am on at least one TERF list so at the risk of sounding like an edgelord, follow at your own risk. If you like reading entire essays in tagview, you've come to the right place. No porn or kink blogs.

[mmmthornton]

Disabled men benefit from misogyny. Black men benefit from misogyny. Poor men benefit from misogyny. Transitioned men, gay men, bisexual men, all benefit from misogyny.

Your father benefits from misogyny.

Your male friends benefit from misogyny.

Men that you love, care about, and believe in will always benefit from misogyny.

Your classmates, your mother, your friends, your enemies who are women will be victimized by misogyny.

Women that you hate, reject, and cast out will be victimized by misogyny.

This does not mean that feminism has to be for men you like. It exists to liberate women.

Disabled women, black women, poor women, transitioned women, lesbian and bi women, all benefit from from liberation which WILL include women you don't like. The movement is for them BEFORE it is for any single man.

[cisthoughtcrime]

they say ‘trans misogyny exempt’ because wording it as ‘female privilege’ is too overtly MRA

[conceptcreep-deactivated2023062]

[feministskeptic]

[professional-giver-uper]

Where are the women who protested in January?

This is not the first batch of hair found being smuggled at the borders. Many of the hair bundles do not meet the criteria for wig manufacturing. So who took this hair and from where?

The families of women who were given the bodies of their loved ones tell tales of horrors. Signs of torture, mutilated bodies, missing organs.

A lot of these women remain nameless and missing. Where are the Iranian women who protested during January 8 & 9?

[ryebreadgf]

the sexiest thing a woman can be is a cringe fujoshi with a very serious day job

[ryebreadgf]

fujoshis with serious day jobs have skills and competencies you can only dream of

[dogpuppy]

[the-rad-menace]

Anons tattling that a woman I've interacted with on Tumblr said x, y, z don't really work on me. I don't have to agree with everything a woman says to interact with her, and there are a lot of women on radblr who have views different from my own. I'll even interact with posts by women who I don't like very much as individuals because the post itself was good.

Sometimes the woman being tattled on has said something mean. Sometimes the woman has said something ignorant. But we're all going to be mean or ignorant at various points in our lives, and I think women ought to be a lot meaner than they generally are.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Important butterfly/moth raising observation for those interested: I remember hearing from someone/reading somewhere that whatever species of plant the caterpillar begins with is the only one it will eat. Of the three caterpillar species I have the most experience with (black swallowtail, American painted lady, and monarch butterfly), this just isn't true. As long as the plant species belongs to the host group (carrot family for black swallowtails, paper daisies for American ladies, and milkweeds for monarchs), they will eat it.

However, they do have preferences. Regardless of the first plant they eat, I have observed that black swallowtail caterpillars prefer dill and fennel most of all, parsley second. Queen Anne's lace they'll eat if it's all that's available, but they'll otherwise ignore it in favour of the others. And I have seen that monarch caterpillars seem to prefer common milkweed over butterflyweed, though again, they will eat it.

So don't worry if you want to raise a butterfly and have limited available plants that are the same species they started with. As long as you have ample access to at least one of their host plants they'll be fine. Even if it's not their favourite.

Now granted that factoid may be true of other butterfly/moth species, so maybe test first. For example, I don't know if red admirals or mourning cloaks or luna moths would refuse to eat a different species of host plant than the one they started with. I suspect not but I can't say for sure because I've never raised those. One day.

[sweetashe]

“My racist phase” your racist phase traumatized me. Your racist phase made me insecure about my skin and hair and nose. Your racist phase made me terrified of white people. Your racist phase was just a phase for you but it traumatized so many black kids. And yet you act like a victim. No amount of ‘I didn’t know’ will change that you fucking hurt people.

[knucklecurve]

filthy, filthy read

[mmmthornton]

It is so funny having a gay roommate who used to live in LA because there's an actor in a movie that's gotten pretty popular on Tumblr that he used to date and every time I see a gif set about it I remember the things he told me about the dude lol.

[radiant-spirit-guardians]

I want to show you something.

The TL:DR for those of you who want to skip my yapping session:

The two graphs I provided further down the post helped me visualise the bot harassment campaign a little better and I thought you'd like to see it too, just to put things into perspective a bit and truly highlight how fucking embarrassing, deranged, and criminal this whole thing is.

The graphs were taken from two low traffic posts of mine and the larger circles represent the bots. This circular pattern is usually filled with normal accounts in higher traffic posts, but in low traffic posts it's mostly comprised of Slinger's bots, which leads me to think that Slinger is targeting mostly low traffic, inoffensive posts now. Ladies, are you experiencing the same pattern or am I losing it?

Now, behold my rant...

I decided to do some digging, right. I don't keep up with the number of notes on my posts bc wtf would I do that on tumblr dot gov? I only check my notes to interact with you lovely ladies. But I was looking into the bot situation, trying to find a pattern or something across my posts, and sure enough a pattern emerged right before my eyes.

The first wave of bots last year targeted my higher traffic posts, which isn't saying much seeing how my blog is fairly low reach, but now the bots are targeting my inoffensive, low notes post.

A little disclaimer, the pattern on the graph you'll see in a bit is quite common because, again, our community is quite small and posts don't break containment that often, we're mostly rebloging from each other. That's not what I'm getting at, though my pet theory is that Slinger keeps an eye on a few of the bigger accounts and targets everyone those accounts interact with even if indirectly, but that's a different can of worms.

1. This one is from a post I tagged only with my personal tag. It was about Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games, leg hair, and the impact Suzanne Collins' writing had on me as a kid. This one surprised me because I actually took the time to check the larger circle this time, dot by dot, and all of the red circles represent a reblog that is no longer available, which I'm assuming are from bot accounts that no longer exist. Again...a fairly inoffensive post, all things considered.

2. This one is about ballet and Trans Identified Males insistence on invading female spaces. It's a more snarky than the others and tagged for the rest of radblr. After going through the dots on the post about Katniss, I felt curious about this one and checked it out as well. Same thing, all red circles represent unavailable reblogs. It's hard to tell where one dot ends and the next begins.

3. This is one from my happy birthday to Malala post. It triggered Slinger for some reason, me wishing Malala of all people a happy birthday. it's a somewhat recent one, I don't even think I tagged it for the broader community. The dots forming the big circle are mostly Slinger's bots. I didn't check each dot because I didn't feel like giving myself carpal tunnel syndrome.

4. This last one I did add some tags to and it is about the bot harassment campaign, so it makes sense that Slinger would choose to target it. I didn't check each dot because, again, I didn't feel like giving myself carpal tunnel syndrome.

I've posted the following screenshots before, but as you can see they were mostly under the posts I just mentioned, over and over again. Right now, I'm mostly getting bot action under the Malala post for some reason.

These threats don't affect me at all. I imagine they can be triggering for some of us, though, and that is a disturbing thought. And then there's the fact that Slinger has been sending rape and death threats to minors, which is a. fucking disgusting, and b. an actual crime. I'm not in the US and there's only so much I can do. I'm posting this to share what I found with you guys and to hopefully keep it as a record of what we've been subjected to for daring to advocate for women's rights.

[naturalhairhow101]

[sartorialadventure]

Laetitia Ky is an Ivorian feminist artist who creates elaborate sculptures using her own hair, wire, and thread to convey powerful messages about feminism, body positivity, Black beauty, and African heritage. Her intricate hair art, which can take the form of animals, objects, or abstract shapes, is influenced by traditional African hairstyles and serves as a platform for her activism and advocacy for women's rights. 

[lasalegarce]

Laetitia Ky is an extreme TERF who buddied up with Marguerite Stern, and with whom I had the displeasure to "talk" about gender theory (read: I tried to ask her about how she could reconcile afrofeminism and exclusion of our trans sisters, and she just insulted me).

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

You asked her to include men in her feminism, I’m not surprised she insulted you

[stellarblade]

anthy and utena would watch spongebob and utena would be like we are justtttt like patrick and spongebob cus im stupid and u do really weird things no one likes and have no ability to stand up to people but i still like you because you are my legal property :D and anthy would go ^_^ chuchu is just like gary of snail and they would do a canned laugh and it would cut outside to saionji practicing challenging utena to a duel in a squidward voice and then 20 episodes later wakaba woudl be talking to akio and hed do a perfect mister krabs laugh and shed go ? and he would be like Do you not think Bikini Bottom was a place where Adults Made The Rules? and walk away

[coolguycy]

When the illness you have causes symptoms

This isn’t the gif i was looking for but I’m kind of enamored by it. Die white boy

[wellitsinteresting]

this is what we mean when we say that now it’s literally impossible to talk about female oppression

[targetedknowledge]

[frankiesbullshit]

someone tell OP i did it, i spent about 3 hours on it

[mmmthornton]

feminists aren't the problem or the predators of trans people. its 2026, womens rights are nowhere to be seen, you have to be for real or you're gonna sound like a dipshit. Enough.