Gen z is not exceptional. Large swaths of gen z propagated Facebook-uncle tier misinformation to smear Amber Read for speaking out about their favorite pirate actor. People are convinced âdeadass no cap on godâ is âtiktok speakâ and not butchered AAVE. Many are already starting to define themselves as a generation of work ethic and meritocracy, unlike those whiny debt-riddled millennials. Itâs becoming humiliatingly clear that this generation is not exceptional, itâs not radical just by virtue of being young (and we wonât be young forever), and itâs not going to fix everything âonce the boomers die out.â We are speedrunning the stereotypical âhippie to Reagan voterâ trajectory of the boomers, whose counterculture at the time frankly puts ours to shame. So are you going to put in the work, or are you going to gloat about being young and special and then shit yourself when you turn thirty?
Contrary to belief, gen z does not rule the world most of them just live life in an echo chamber to feel better about themselves and their little life.
Also, early gen zs are already starting their 20s, for if any of you needed a clear reminder you are not going to stay a teen forever and ever.
please stop dating / marrying / having sex with males who consistently prove that they are less than worthless pieces of garbage. youâre their maids or a sexually convenient burden. she is right the bar for osa women is so low and on top of that their narcissistic boyfriends have abused and manipulated their way into keeping a relationship for their benefit since the beginning.
she asked the dudes girlfriends the same question and here are their replies. please stop giving these men who donât give 2 shits about you access to yourself
some of you girlies on here will be like omg i can't believe that nonbinary girl really thinks her boyfriend respects her gender đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł girl he's just saying what you want to hear to get laid!! anyways did you guys know that my boyfriend doesn't watch porn? he says it's because he thinks women are people too đđđ
not to derail or anything but being a prostitute has really destroyed my last hope in men. most of them want to re-enact what theyâve seen in porn. deepthroat, runny mascara, crying, throwing up, anal, as hard as possible etc. you think this has nothing to do with your boyfriend? most of my clients are in a relationship with a woman or have been at some point. theyâre not some lonely losers, they have a well-paying job, friends, family ⊠thereâs estimates (no reliable numbers tho) that there are 1 million men buying sex in germany daily. thatâs your male teachers, coworkers, professors, maybe even your best friend, your cousin, your uncle ⊠you think that has nothing to do with your boyfriend? i have to laugh
this is the scariest part because if i think about it i wouldnt suspect any male i know of this. neither would any female friends suspect their male partners/friends/relatives/aquaintances of doing this. but it has to be someone. with so many men who pay prostitutes, how big are the chances that you actually dont know a single guy who has done it before?
white american libs really really hate latinas so much they'd rather ignore our realities and everything we say and pretend we live the same things and issues that they do
In case you needed any more evidence that the trans rights activist movement is insane, maybe this failed âInterview with a TERFâ will do it for you. It tells young people that they never need to have difficult discussions that might make them uncomfortable â they can just complain of their feelings being hurt & have any further conversation censored. Note especially how a few commenters even said Olivia was expressing interesting, good talking points, but that simply didnât matter because they didnât want to hear or engage with it. They voted for this, it was clearly signposted in case they didnât want to read it: some say they even felt bad for reading it & shouldnât have, but rather than taking responsibility for their action of choosing to read it, they instead say itâs a reason it shouldnât be up in the first place. Truly a toxic, close-minded movement.
I can post the interview if anybody wants, but Iâve linked to the original thread if you want to read it there.
What always gets me is the âitâs actually sinister that theyâre calm and logicalâ. Like, we get that y'all think weâre evil and irrational, but you canât just look at us being kind and gentle and be like âactually, this is secretly violentâ.
These ppl need severe mental evaluation stat. Theyâre not well. This is what happens when you realize someone is right and your weak ideologies are being threatened.
These âtrans rights activistsâ and other people who have latched onto the movement have wrecked it entirely for trans people who are not behaving this way and just want to function in their lives. The âterfâ nonsense, the insecurity, itâs so so toxic to young people.
Yeah. I am deeply protective of the trans people in my life because this movement has cast them out of their own spaces, erased them, stolen their words and descriptions, called them TERFs (even if theyâre transwomen themselves), etc. They experience such a painful isolation because of this cult they want no part of. They turned to transition as a last resort to treat sex dysphoria, not because they âšïžfelt like the opposite sexâšïž or âhad girlbrainâ or were too tomboyish or liked stealing their sisterâs underwear and dressing up in it in the mirror. They donât even want to call themselves trans because the association is so unrelatable and humiliating to them. They have absolutely no one who can truly relate to them and their experiences. Itâs heartbreaking
Why is wanting face and leg shaving a sign of âreally being a womanâ and not a sign of being âa man who wants to look this wayâ likeâŠ? My legs are hairy. Some women (who are female) have beards of different strength. Yes the beard one is a secondary sex characteristic â unlike having leg hair which is 100% the normal state of just about every woman â but itâs secondary, not primary.
Anyway if your sex is male, no feeling, no depersonalization or other delusion or identity crisis, no body mod, no clothes, no hairstyle, no facial hair or body hair preference, makes you a woman. Gnc men â you are not women. You are welcome to exist with shaven legs and skirt that goes spinny and whatever you want. You are not welcome to claim woman is an âgender identityâ â what amounts to a style preference for about 90% of it, as illustrated here, and is always sexist whatever it is â and not a material state of being an adult female Homo sapien. Or rather, believe and claim away, but donât demand we share your faith system or delusional mind state (itâs ok and not shameful to have delusions â please donât misinterpret me. It is not ok to want to make it illegal or socially impossible to question them).
Gender is a product and tool of a sexist homophobic culture. Nothing more, nothing less. Abolish it.
A man finds oppressive female beauty standards arousing, THIS MEANS IâM A WOMAN!
No, it means youâve seen too much porn and you think women are naturally hairless like dolphins because your brain has rotted away. And yeah, smooth skin feels nice sometimes, but has JACK-ALL to do with being female.
Itâs a fetish. Hairless legs are not inherently female or feminine. Dudes are welcome to waste their time and money on sexist companies and pink tax products to shave but it doesnât mean anything except you like shaving. Women arenât born with a biological desire to shave our whole bodies from the eyebrows down. You sexist douchebag ugh
maybe it's because in my country/culture lesbians have never used these terms, but something about the femme and butch labels feels off (especially the femme one for obvious reasons) (I appreciate the butch label because it entails gender non-conformity etc) I've heard English speaking lesbians defend that these terms have nothing to do with gender roles, but I haven't fully comprehended that yet so I'd be lying if I said I agree with them. however, I don't want to offend or disrespect lesbians who feel connected to these labels so I avoid the topic. maybe there's nothing wrong with them and I simply don't get it
A shocking statistic has emerged, which reveals suicide has overtaken maternal mortality as the biggest killer of young women in the world. Nisha Lilia Diu asks the experts why this is happening - and how we failed to notice
Towards the end of last year, a shocking statistic appeared deep in the pages of a World Health Organisation report. It was this: suicide has become the leading killer of teenage girls, worldwide.
More girls aged between 15 and 19 die from self-harm than from road accidents, diseases or complications of pregnancy.
For years, child-bearing was thought to cause the most deaths in this age group. But at some point in the last decade or so â statistics were last collected on this scale in 2000 - suicide took over. And, according to the WHOâs revised data for 2000, it had already just inched its way ahead of maternal mortality at the turn of the millennium.
Yet, somehow, we didnât notice.
I heard the statistic from Sarah Degnan Kambou, President of theInternational Centre for Research on Women (ICRW), at a Gates Foundation breakfast last month.
Most of my fellow guests worked in the fields of global womenâs rights or female health. Yet they were as stunned as I was to hear it.
âIâm not quite sure why we havenât realised this before,â says Suzanne Petroni, a senior director at ICRW. âMaternal mortality has come down so much, which is fantastic,â she says.
Thatâs a major factor behind the fall in the overall death rate for 15-19 year old girls from 137.4 deaths per 100,000 girls in 2000 to 112.6 today. Itâs an amazing achievement.
And it has allowed the spotlight to fall, finally, on what has actually been the biggest killer all along: suicide.
The report looks at six global regions. In Europe, it is the number one killer of teenage girls. In Africa, itâs not even in the top five, âbecause maternal deaths and HIV are so high,â says Petroni.
But in every region of the world, other than Africa, suicide is one of the top three causes of death for 15 to 19 year old girls. (For boys, the leading killer globally is road injury).
Itâs particularly shocking given that suicide is notoriously underreported.
âWe donât really know the extent of the problem,â says Roseanne Pearce, a Senior Supervisor at Childline in the UK. âBecause the coroner often wonât record it as suicide. Sometimes thatâs at the familyâs request, and sometimes itâs simply to protect the familyâs feelings.â
In countries where stigma is particularly high, suicides are even less likely to be recorded than they are in the UK. And the poorest countries in the WHOâs report have very patchy data on births and deaths at all, let alone reliable detail on what caused those deaths.
In South East Asia, the problem is acute: self-harm kills three times more teenage girls than anything else. (The Eastern Mediterranean, which includes Pakistan and the Middle East, has the second highest rate.)
Professor Vikram Patel, a psychiatrist who was recently featured in Timemagazineâs 100 Most Influential People for his work in global mental health, is blunt in his diagnosis:
âThe most probable reason is gender discrimination. Young womenâs lives [in South East Asia] are very different from young menâs lives in almost every way.â
The male suicide rate in this age group is 21.41 per 100,000, compared with 27.82 for girls.
This is the age at which girls may be taken out of school and forced to devote themselves to domestic responsibilities, forgetting all other abilities or ambitions. Hitting puberty can mean no longer being allowed to socialise outside the home. Sometimes it can mean no longer being allowed out of the home at all. And, sometimes, it can mean forced marriage.
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Rhea (not her real name) is 17 and has attempted suicide twice. âPorn was everywhere in my school,â she says. Her boyfriend Andy became âobsessed with itâ.
Sheâd âmade it clear,â she says, that she âwasnât ready to have sex,â but one evening he sexually assaulted her in a park. The assaults became routine. Rhea did nothing.
âThe constant talk about porn had made me feel like what was happening was normal,â she says. She uses that word repeatedly to describe her attitude towards Andyâs assaults: normal.
âI felt trapped, like everyone thought it was normal and I had to go along with it if I wanted to be accepted.â The pressure to conform to these perceived expectations was so great that, eventually, Rhea says, âI felt like there was no way out.â She tried to kill herself.
âThe suicide attempt rate for young women in the UK is extremely high,â says Prof Patel. He believes âsexual pressureâ is a significant factor in their unhappiness.
Roseanne Pearce agrees, adding that âsexting is another big issue among our callers. Girls become desperate, even suicidal, because theyâve sent a picture and itâs been posted online.â
There is also relentless pressure on Western girls look a certain way: to be thin and sexy. The boys at Rheaâs school constantly compared the girlsâ bodies to women they saw in porn films, almost always negatively.
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But, he says, âgroups that have less powerâ tend to be most vulnerable - suicide rates are consistently higher among the unemployed, and the economically or socially marginalised.
Young women in parts of the Middle East and South East Asia are some of the most disempowered and marginalised people in the world.
Even in the West, adolescence is a time when girls feel their choices become restricted: that they must look and behave in certain ways to be accepted.
âGender is a pervasive global issue,â says Prof Patel. And, as weâre somewhat belatedly realising, the consequences can be fatal.â
this one especially is getting me like imagine thinking of this comic, drawing it, and writing in the dialogue and coming the conclusion that the vaguely female gray blob is the INCORRECT one here?
Women of America, are you awake yet? Do you still believe youâre a citizen of this country?
Are you still swallowing that comforting lie that your eyeliner can kill a man? Did you know the suffragettes used bombs?
We have been watching the erosion of womenâs rights for the last decade like a tide going out at sea. Have you? Are you getting cold in the shadow of this tsunami with your eyes closed, or are you brave enough to see it for what it is?
We do not have the same rights as men. We canât speak of our abuse without getting sued - 1st amendment. We canât stand our ground with guns against men without longer and harsher sentences - 2nd amendment. We donât have control over our own bodies. Weâre financially punished and educationally stilted from cradle to grave.
Forget the fantasy of empowerment. Lose your comfort with reality. Get a grip and get angry. Do you know what power is? It isnât clothes and makeup and subservience in hope of scraps. It isnât how confident you feel today. Itâs the ability to enact change on your life, the lives of others, and the world. Itâs land, money, knowledge, political office, and bodily autonomy.
Itâs the ability to CHOOSE which pregnancies come to term. Do you truly grasp the weight of that power? How restricting reproductive rights operates as a fundamental baseline for patriarchy? Nature granted that power to women. Itâs our choice. Not theirs.
We have to advocate for ourselves. We have to fight for ourselves and each other. We have to take lessons from our foremothers 50 years ago. The men with real power sure as hell will never do it for us. The men with real power identify with the throttled fetus, not the woman. The men with real power are complaining about low birth rates.
Abortion bans = sex kills. Women will die and it might be you.
You do not owe your partner(s) sex. I mostly see this passed around in the asexual community, and it absolutely needs emphasis there, but this applies to anyone of any orientation. You never owe your partner(s) sex under any circumstance.
If your sex drive or libido is lower than your partnerâs, you may feel obligated to âkeep upâ with them to make them happy. But you have a right to say no, or not be in the mood, or be too tired, or just not want to right now. Your partner(s) should respect your right to say no and your bodily autonomy.
If your partner(s) try to harass, manipulate, or coerce you into having sex when you say no, theyâre an asshole. Having said yes in the past does not mean you can never say no. It is not your responsibility or obligation to provide sex. You do not need to violate your own boundaries to make someone else happy. Your partner(s) should respect your right to say no, and if they donât, they donât deserve you.
Your body belongs to you, and you decide whatâs best for your sexual health. Happy Pride
Oh my God it's like the internet never learns. Allow me to copy-paste from the last time I saw something like this:
"I've said it before and I'll say it again - the trick to disabling shit like this is to make your bogus calls indistinguishable from real ones. Don't do cursed images and memes, do fake names and classes that never existed. Force them to waste ten minutes for every call you make, hunting down something that sounds real but ultimately yields no fruit. A cursed image takes two seconds to close, but a well-constructed phoney tip can take quite some time - time that is in turn taken away from pursuing actual tipoffs. Get enough people doing that, and suddenly they either burn their whole day chasing people who don't exist, or they start to ignore legit tips in case they're also bogus. And THAT'S how you kill a tip line."
Reminder: do not sign up for rallys/protests, do not hit "interested" or "going" on Facebook events for protests or rally, leave your phone at home and buy a burner for emergencies, cover your face and any identifying marks. You do not want the police to be able to place you there in any capacity. The police are not your friend. At this point, they're your enemy.
They no longer have to read you your Miranda rights. If you are stopped or arrested by police, the most important thing you can do is ask for an attorney and stay quiet. You can memories your rights down below, but staying silent is also an option. Do not answer any questions, do not respond to them at all.
If you are going to a riskier event (i.e. more potential for police intervention) bring lots of water, and heat resistant gloves. There is a high chance they will throw tear gas at you. You can douse it with water or throw it away from the crowd with the gloves.
Do not engage any pro lifers you come across. The police are looking for any sign to engage. Do not yell at them, do not touch them, stay a good distance away.
Make sure at least one good friend/family member knows where you are and has the numbers for local jails and hospitals. Keep emergency contacts on you (but not visible).
I do, however, highly recommend taking with you at least a disposable phone or something that allows you being able to communicate with someone. One of the things that are always important in protests here in latin america is to tell your family or somebody you trust about your whereabouts and communicate with them in any case. other recommendations from here are to write in permanent marker in an arm or something vital info like name, an emergency contact, blood type, info like that in case of an emergency. wear black, cover your faces, go comfortable in clothes and shoes.
also, don't be fed up pacifist bs. spray paint monuments and edifications. burn things. break windows, kick doors. that's the way they have listened over here. maybe that'll help you too.
A friend on my fb feed asked a question about T. They wanted to know what kind of emotional changes one experienced on T. What I found most disturbing was that a few people on T said they felt âsmarterâ. How could this even be possible?? I read these comments yesterday and Iâm still annoyed by them. So, how does taking T increase ones IQ? Iâm calling bulls#%t on this one.
Smarter is bullshit. But I can imagine that T makes you worry less, and also be more confident in a certain way (also because in this society people tend to question menâs statements less than womenâs); therefore one could maybe âfeel smarterâ? Just because you care less about being wrong and so do the people around you.
âIn a now-famous study, psychologists at the University of Berlin falsely told participants that they had been selected to participate in a series of tests âto measure the ability to put oneself in someone elseâs positionâ - a fabrication devised to avoid confounding factors in their real study on gender identity priming. They prepared a text describing a day in the life of a âstereotypical womanâ who takes care of her family, works part time, and is insightful, helpful, and agreeable. They also prepared an equivalently-structured text outlining the activities of a stereotypical manly man who is tough, risk-taking, and does weight training after work. Subjects were randomly given one of the two texts, and then asked: âIf you were the person described in the text, which adjectives would you use to describe yourself?â
Soon after participants described themselves with either the male- or female-associated traits, they were asked to take a mental rotation test presented as independent of the first part of the study, supposedly to measure their personal spatial aptitude. On this mental rotation test, women who were âprimedâ with the female identity scored an average of 3.86 on the exercise, compared to the female-primed malesâ average of 5.14. Okay, expected. But then when primed with the male text, women scored an average of 5.49, while men scored 5.53.â
So it actually makes a lot of sense that testosterone would make you perform certain cognitive tasks better if it also made you see yourself as more male đ
Much like women will trust their dogs but not their instincts when it comes to men, it appears that women who take testosterone give themselves permission to take credit for their intelligence.
Thatâs female socialization in a nutshell: trusting external stimuli instead of our own instincts.
Testosterone made me more confident (and thus better at my job) less depressed, and less anxious, or so I thought, but Iâve been off T since September and I havenât changed back to fearful or depressed, and my job performance is still climbing.
It wasnât the hormones, it was âdemandingâ the respect that men are given and continuing to do so that made me feel better.
This is why a study desperately needs to be undertaken to see if hormones actually effect people any more than a placebo. All these women identifying as men saying testosterone makes them smarter and all these men identifying as women saying estrogen makes them worse at math are just operating on the sexism that is making them desire to identify as the opposite sex in the first place.
I swear I spent my life listening to my straight friends tell me about how sex is a chore for them, they never orgasm unless on their own or with a toy, or trying to convince themselves and me that the sex is great because their dude put his mouth on their pussy for a grand total of three minutesâŠÂ
And now that feminists are suggesting a PIV sex strive not just as an act of protest but also to protect yourself from an unwanted pregnancy that you might not safely and legally end anymore in some US states, youâd think we are suggesting women rip their own faces off and suddenly PIV sex is the very first brick of their pyramid of needs.Â
What is it, really? Is it really the PIV sex? Or is it the fear of realising your dude is, in fact, just some mediocre dude who will throw a massive tantrum and/or leave you (or worse) because getting his noodle wet is more important to him than your life?Â
Solidarity to my straight and non-female exclusionary bisexual sisters, but for the love of fuck please put yourself first for once. If he leaves he leaves, whatâs the point of building a future with someone who cares about sex (sorry: the specific kind of sex thatâs more pleasurable for him than you) more than about your health?Â
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