The genuine french experience™

(also: ABOLISH GENDER)

[cookinguptales]

A lot of people are really scared and angry because of the results of the newest climate change reports — as they should be. But I’m already seeing a lot of posts and news reports like “HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING” and bizarrely enough, the answers are never like “weed out climate change deniers from your government, impose strict new rules for the corporations that are  creating most of the emissions, pour government resources into alternate forms of fuel, etc.” It’s always like “carpool to work!”

Look. Of course you should be working to reduce waste in your own life. But let’s not fucking pretend that consumers are the ones who made this mess. You know what another recent study found? Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. If the rest of us stopped ALL WASTE and fucking ascended to a higher plane of existence that no longer requires consumption of any kind, the world would still be absolutely fucked if those 100 companies keep on as they do.

I hate this personal responsibility model when it comes to conservation. By ignoring the actual source of the problem and focusing on individuals instead, guess who gets targeted? The absolute most vulnerable individuals on the planet. When people advocate personal responsibility, somehow they’re never talking about billionaires and their private jets. They’re creating straw bans that will make life more dangerous for people with disabilities. They’re shaming women for using disposable menstrual products. They’re criticizing the poor and destitute for using “wasteful” products because they’re all they can afford. They’re making vaguely eugenic statements about getting people in “third world countries” to stop ~breeding~ so much. It’s monstrous.

Stop shaming consumers for the sins of corporations and their powerful investors. Stop placing the blame at the feet of the people who already have the hardest time getting through life. Do something, and by “do something” I mean buy a reusable coffee cup on the way to fucking vote. Go to a protest. Call a representative. Demand accountability from the people who got us into this mess.

[beyonslayed]

It’s as good a time as any to remind everyone that these apocalyptic projections have been known by politicians and capitalists since the 70s. There are already numerous cases of indigenous populations losing their ancestral homelands to climate change. A significant portion of our global refugee crisis, it’s as bad as in the aftermath of WWII, can be attributed to climate change creating political crises as people fight over scarce resources. Puerto Rico a colony of the United States got devestated by two hurricanes last year. A few other islands in the Caribbean were razed to the ground from powerful storms. Seismic activity is increasing in the Caribbean. Temperatures are sweltering across the US. For a sizeable portion of humanity the 2030 date has been a reality, as the most progressive presidential candidate of the United States recently said it’s time to stop being civil with parties with against your interest

[favorite-aesthetic]

Space X Falcon 9 taking off above Downtown LA. Shot at 1 second interval!

This is how future looks.

[ondeprogressive-blog]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gxLrDXTLJw&index=14&list=RDbAX4sckx5l0

[northw0man-deactivated20201019]

Men are not entitled to biological offspring and this includes gay men.

[northw0man-deactivated20201019]

On that note, neither are wealthy women who want to use another woman’s womb to have her and her husband’s baby

[deadlyviolet]

Hearing gay men passively talk about how they are gonna have “their” kids from surrogate women like they are tools.

[tooiconic]

Are people actually mad about surrogate mothers now and people having kids this way??? Yes, they are still their kids. Just like an adopted child or step children, even if you didnt birth them, they can still be yours by love and parenting. With surrogates, there is DNA involved so it makes even sense.

WHY are we mad at people having children through surragotes? Are we all forgetting about infertile women here as well? These women who are surrogates offer to do this, get paid extremely well for the little bundle of joy they are providing for another family, and are very often a person close to the family. No one is viewing these women as tools, this is a process full of a lot of gratitude and love.

I honestly don’t understand what you’re all upset about.

[deadlyviolet]

First of all excuse my language since I’m not the best english speaker yet.

But my point is about the many abuses and the issues that surrogate mothers go through, its somehow similar to sex work. It’s turning similarly into a industry now targeting lower class women in developing countries, the mothers are used for their bodies just as would a sex worker be used for and the is a disregard about what the mother goes through and even the title of motherhood is stripped away because she is just a “surrogate”, so what happens if a women who was a surrogate had a change of heart when it came to the baby she gave birth to.

I’m not really the best person to describe this but I’ll link posts here when I find them that are more specific and effective in describing this.

About my post personally, I’m just surprised by how gay men (surprise, surprise, they are still men) talk about just wanting a baby from a surrogate just so passively without a second thought, and in my tags I even mention women. The way this all sounds is as if they are entitled to having a child and by so the pressures on women who are surrogates gets higher.

The whole thing about surrogate mothers is not all floral and easy win win for everyone, they are still women that are being targeted for their bodies and what follows is multiple abuses and lack of power of their bodies too.

[deadlyviolet]

Here are links of some posts and articles that can explain my point:

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/25/surrogacy-sweden-ban

https://brxsm.tumblr.com/post/128622700028/critics-of-surrogacy-are-called-conservative

https://brxsm.tumblr.com/post/172597974458/fredarose-the-women-who-give-birth-to-the

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2016/02/paid-surrogacy-makes-disadvantaged-women-walking-wombs-unacceptable

https://www.dailysignal.com/2014/08/08/surrogacy-can-create-victims/amp/

I think the first one explores it more, but that’s the observation around surrogacy: it removes the rights and options that women have about their bodies and the child that is born, it is could be seen as a form of prostitution (reproductive prostitution) as it goes parallel with it from targeting lower class women and women from developed countries and also it’s literally the utilization of women’s bodies, it also pushes the idea that having children is a right parallel to having sex being a right too.

[faewnry]

would toomoronic, for the love of god, shut the fuck up

[rad-itzel]

Same thing as in “sex work” (prostitution, porn, etc.): if it is such a free choice, show me one rich woman who has ever been a surrogate. Go on. I’ll wait.

(Poor women who became rich do not count; they have to make this choice while being rich.)

[freerenata-deactivated20180915]

[ondeprogressive-blog]

Thank you Whoopi

[gayasingay-deactivated20191031]

Understanding that gender is a social construct but then going on to identify as non binary is the biggest self drag

[theradicalresistance]

A man who has murdered and dismembered a woman, and who in jail writes pornographic novels about the female prison guards, will never be, can not be and should never be accepted as a woman. Kristoffer Johansson, you will always be a vile, disgusting and worthless piece of shit man, and women will never accept you as one of us. Because you’re not.

Men can not become women. Men can only hate us, fetischize us, violate us and appropriate us, and we will never accept their filthy fantasies and misogyny.

[shego420]

this MURDERER is writing fucking porn about female prison guards and they’re still keeping him in the prison?? people endanger women’s LIVES for men’s identities

[acrylicfem]

Tbh it’s absolutely disgusting when men refer to culturally mixed women as “good breeds” or “a sexy mix.” like we aren’t horses?? We’re not playthings or animals or “”””breeds”””” of anything. I know every Eastern/Northern European, Asian, African and middle eastern woman can agree.

[hwallsgf]

https://instagram.com/p/Bbbz7ehDapd/

[ondeprogressive-blog]

contemporain

[puzsy]

god I just saw someone on Twitter propose that it should be GB instead of LGB because, in their words, you’re either straight, gay, or bi. I get where they’re coming from but it’s really not fair or accurate to put male homosexuality and female homosexuality in the same category on like a sociological level because we really don’t share a cultural or historical background. the lesbian experience is inexorably linked with women’s history and misogyny through the ages and to try to blur the lines that distinguish lesbians from gay men isn’t progressive, it’s practically historical revisionism

[geopsych]

[justsomeantifas]

oh boy how soon are yall about to start blaming the poor and the marginalized for the country killing them because they couldn’t vote lol.

[4838385854948383885848383-deact]

men aren’t allowed to make those “respect women” memes sorry. shut up and wash your own laundry for once

[la-laborista-republiko]

[reina-rubia]

‘‘we need to tell men it’s okay to cry and show their feelings’‘ LMAOOOOO we need to tell men to stop killing and raping and beating women and watching porn holy shit y’all can fuck off with that ~male positivity~ bullshit, men are the OPRESSOR class in patriarchy we don’t need to hold their hands and coddle them like this

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

you can understand a country by seeing how it treats it’s poor

[oldrfb]

South Korea’s ‘take off the corset’ movement should inspire feminists everywhere towards radical action

Young women in South Korea calling themselves "beauty resisters" are fighting back against the powerful and incredibly profitable beauty and

Hey Seoul sisters 🙂

[jamausis]

Crop fields + wind = a sea of green