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18+ side blog for the cancellable takes

[orcasoverxy]

I was rbing too much radfem content onto my fandom blog so here we are!

- 24

- lesbian

- big into zoology and etymology

- wants revenge

- mostly a vent blog, tws will be sporadic beware!

- follows from r————h

good faith questions and discussion are always welcomed!

[radfemme-rage]

one thing i find really exciting is that we’re among the first generation of women who never marry or have children, and with that comes a completely new blueprint

in past generations, virtually every woman was relegated to wife (slave) and mother (the most thankless job in the world) by 25

we’re going to be the first generation of women who can genuinely dedicate our lives to hobbies, travel, intellectual pursuits, meaningful careers, skill building, cultural immersion, fitness, volunteering and female friendships

it’s beautiful — imagine just how much women will be able to accomplish now that we can live life for ourselves, unburdened by marriage, motherhood and a patriarch in our homes controlling us or exploiting us domestically/sexually/mentally/emotionally

and, of course, we will keep fighting until all our sisters globally are freed

[dworkin-dork]

Female knowledge of objectification usually stops at a necessary but superficial understanding: beauty is rewarded and lack of beauty is punished. The punishments are understood as personal misfortune; they are not seem as systematic, institutional, or historical. Women do not understand that they are also punished through sexual use for being beautiful; and women do not understand the lengths to which men go to protect themselves and their society from contamination by ugly women who do not induce a lustful desire to punish, violate, or destroy, though men manage to punish, violate, or destroy these women anyway.

Andrea Dworkin

[sichorean]

"Language evolves"

Over 80% of English vocabulary comes from old French. However, when you look at the most commonly used words in English, you have to look well outside the top 100 before you find the first word that doesn't come from Old (pre Norman conquest) English.

This is because the most basic words, the ones we use most often and which describe the most fundamental concepts, tend to remain very stable over the long term.

You can see the evolution in the meanings of words such as "terrible", "awesome" and even "gay" in relatively recent history.

Generally, when the meaning of a word evolves, it is because we no longer have much use for the old meaning, or because the same word can have different meanings depending on the context, without causing confusion. (Take the word "sole", for example, which can mean a type of fish, the bottom of a shoe, or "only". Nobody is ordering sole in a restaurant and expecting to be served a shoe on a plate.)

None of this applies to the word "woman", which is about as basic as it gets. Both "woman" and "man" come from Old English and have been used consistently for over a millennium to mean, respectively, "adult female human" and "adult male human". These words haven't evolved because the original meanings are no longer relevant. We still need to be able to identify and distinguish between female people and male people as much as we ever did. Nor are they the type of words which can comfortably support different meanings.

If the word "woman" can mean either "female person" or "male person who identifies as the opposite sex", how are we supposed to understand which group of people we are discussing? And more to the point, "women" is a category word. In order for a category to exist, all the things or people in it need to have something in common. If what women have in common is being female, changing the definition to include male people makes it a meaningless word for a non-existent category of people with nothing in common.

So yes, "language evolves". But certain words do not, because our need for these words remains the same over time.

Until about 10 years ago everyone agreed that women are female people. Most people still do. And we definitely still need a word for female people that doesn't include male people.

If you redefine "women" to include male people then you no longer have a word that just means female people.

This isn’t the natural evolution of language. This is a rather Orwellian weaponisation of language, designed to prevent people whose beliefs are grounded in reality from being able to express those beliefs coherently, and to stop women as a whole from engaging in activism as a sex class. And that's why it must be resisted.

[honeyblankets]

one of the most despicable parts of male supremacy is the strategic refusal to acknowledge female oppression. you can never address a problem it nobody admits it exists. there is no guilty party if we ignore the problem.

you will watch the news and see story after story of a woman being killed by a man but no one will call it femicide. you will hear statistic after statistic about women being raped/assaulted/trafficked by men but no one will call it misogyny. you hear songs and watch shows where men are degrading and abusing women but nobody blinks. there’s a “male loneliness epidemic” narrative but not a “female suffering crisis” narrative.

[bushpropaganda]

shitty bush propaganda posters (part 1)

[maisiewilliams]

10 Female Written Short Stories Everyone Should Read

I have seen a post circulating for a while that lists 10 short stories everyone should read and, while these are great works, most of them are older and written by white men. I wanted to make a modern list that features fresh, fantastic and under represented voices. Enjoy!

1. A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri — A couple in a failing marriage share secrets during a blackout. 

2. Stone Animals by Kelly Link — A family moves into a haunted house.

3. Reeling for the Empire by Karen Russell — Women are sold by their families to a silk factory, where they are slowly transformed into human silkworms. 

4. Call My Name by Aimee Bender — A woman wearing a ball gown secretly auditions men on the subway. 

5. The Man on the Stairs by Miranda July — A woman wakes up to a noise on the stairs. 

6. Brownies by ZZ Packer — Rival Girl Scout troops are separated by race. 

7. City of My Dreams by Zsuzi Gartner — A woman works at a shop selling food-inspired soap and tries not to think about her past. 

8. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor — A family drives from Georgia to Florida, even though a serial killer is on the loose. 

9. Hitting Budapest by NoViolet Bulawayo — A group of children, led by a girl named Darling, travel to a rich neighborhood to steal guavas. 

10. You’re Ugly, Too by Lorrie Moore — A history professor flies to Manhattan to spend Halloween weekend with her younger sister.

[astrangewoman]

I LOVE THIS POST!!

I’d like to add:

11. Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor

12. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (this one is my favorite short story of all time)

13. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

14. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates

15. Désirée’s Baby by Kate Chopin

16. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

17. Impressions of an Indian Childhood by Zitkala-Ša

(I wanted to put little summaries for each of them, but I’m afraid I’d spoil the whole story if I did!)

[ellydash]

adding a few more! all by women of color, & the first four were published within the last few years

18. “My Dear You,” Rachel Khong — love, loss, & absurdity in the afterlife

19. “The Husband Stitch,” Carmen Maria Machado — a feminist retelling of the folklore story “The Green Ribbon”

20. “Inventory,” Carmen Maria Machado — one woman’s retrospective list of her life’s sexual encounters

21. “Boys Go to Jupiter,” Danielle Evans — what happens after a white college student poses for a photo in a Confederate flag bikini

22. “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” ZZ Packer — a Black woman attends Yale University

[izzychao]

oh i have some of these too! many are science-fiction or science-fantasy, because the woman in those genres are severely under-represented ! The first two authors are slightly older, but their works are so important in the development of the roles of women in scifi as a genre so!

23. “Those Who Walk Away from Omelas” and “Mountain Ways” by Ursula K. Le Guin — The first is a study of philosophical questions similar to the trolley problem, told in very loose form. The second is a science-fantasy story about two women navigating love and sexuality in their society’s polyamorous marriage rituals. But honestly you should read all of Le Guin’s short stories and novels, she’s amazing.

24. “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler — One of my all-time FAVORITE short stories, about a future where humans live alongside large insect-like aliens, and serve as hosts for their eggs and larval young. It’s gruesome, gory, unsettling, and honestly pretty horrific but it’s really wonderful–if you can handle horror in your stories I highly recommended it. Butler’s novels are also wonderful, please check them out if you can (not all of them are this unsettling)

25. “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi” by Pat Cadigan — A trans allegory in which future humans go through surgery to become invertebrate sea creatures (cephalopods and arthropods mostly) in order to better work in space. Wonderfully weird in so many ways.

26. “From the Lost Diary of Treefrog7” and “The Palm Tree Bandit” by Nnedi Okorafor — Lost Diary is a story about a woman and her husband exploring an alien jungle told through research log-style journal entries. Very much survival horror scifi. Palm Tree Bandit is told as a mother reciting a story to her daughter as she braids her hair, about her great-grandmother who started a kind of small revolution for women in Nigeria. Nnedi’s novels and other short stories, as well as her works within the comics industry, are all fantastic, so look into her more if you can!!!

[literaryformofthelastcentury]

I haven’t seen it yet on this post so I want to add probably my all-time favorite short story!

27. “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison — implicit racial biases analyzed through two girls’ stories as they grow up. Every paragraph is a new perspective on race and prejudice and it really makes you think.

[whenfatecollides]

Xena Warrior Princess 1.19 Altared States

[femalegothic]

Shut your mouth and open your legs

On challenging pornography in public

[hydrogeneportfolio]

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[sprinkledsalt]

Hm! I didn't know Hasan made multiple videos over an hour long joining in on the online torment of Amber Heard during the 2022 trial:

But I'm not surprised, considering that he "joked" that it's okay to rape Ivy college girls because they come from rich families, and he said that he doesn't care if terrorists raped women on 10/7. I think it's extremely bad that this man who clearly thinks violence against women is one big joke is considered a leader of leftist thought. It's an indictment of the morality of all of his supporters and how the left views misogyny in general.

[wistfulelfgirl-deactivated20231]

lesbian sex that looks like a big cartoon ball of dust with the occasional leg sticking out and i crawl out of it covered in lipstick kisses and get swiftly dragged back in

[blujaynoodles]

[evil-terf-hands]

When I told my ex boyfriend that I was against the sex industry and prostitution, his argument was to bring up one of his socially awkward “ugly” friends, and ask me “how ELSE is he ever supposed to get laid?”

That’s the thing about men when it comes to prostitution. They literally cannot fathom a world in which men aren’t entitled to sex. They can’t comprehend the idea that women’s lives and freedom is worth the price of men not getting sex. “Some guys will never get laid though!” I don’t… give a shit? Their dicks can rot and fall off for all I care.

[girlsmoonsandstars]

[evenlesssentimentaltranslator]

It is imperative that all women (including lesbians, as any gender critical lesbian can tell you) understand that these men’s sense of entitlement to our bodies is directly connected to their societal, if not straight up legal, entitlement to the bodies of prostituted women and girls. (This is something Dworkin mentioned in Right Wing Women!) Libfems keep throwing prostituted women under the bus and saying “go hire a prostitute” and even if that were an even remotely ethical thing to say, it is straight up feeding the very same sense of entitlement he feels toward other women. Sorry

[diana-lostandfound]

Men never worry if they look inappropriate in public btw. They don't think about if their ass sticking up when they bend over is reminding males around them of porn. They don't worry that their breasts are visible when they lean forward. They don't worry about looking crass by sitting with their legs spread. They don't worry about their belly pooching out when they slouch. They can wipe their eyes, scratch their face, scrub their face with their hands freely whenever they want without worrying about smudging their makeup.

They also don't know that women go through life auditing the position of our bodies and the position of our clothing on our bodies 24/7/365. An underrated but truly massive privilege/freedom.

My personal advice on how to get as much of this freedom as possible is to wear clothing marketed at men, don't shave, don't wear makeup, and have a comfortable and practical short haircut. Men will objectify you less in public, they'll leave you alone more in general, and also you can move much more comfortably.

[never-tell-me-what-to-do]

📢"they're blackpilled! " "that's blackpilled." "extra extra! this person is blackpilled!" I'm not blackpilled. but when I can get call "blackpilled" just for being a misandrist, a lesbian and pro 6b9t, i start to think this blackpill scare is on some radblr McCarthyism. there's like 20 of them in existence. and yet half of radblr flips their shit for them. Yet i dont see ya'll give a damn to the actually sexist men who make up half the population. it's a waste of fucking time for y'all to fear monger women into quitting separatism or accepting your patriarchal marriage rituals. you want to be crabs in a bucket and drag other women down with you that badly? I hear the biggest hypocrites say, "feminism is for all women, even the ones that struggle" and then turn around and call someone blackpilled for being a separatist like this is the red scare of the 60's. half of the women accused of being blackpilled are just separatists and lesbians. so its clearly some tactic to silence separatism by pretending that female liberation is somehow sexist with mental gymnastics. and that's some tra bullshit.

[indigo-invictus]

"She is blackpilled" = "op is a terf"

[33-vrt]

Being "blackpilled" is not a monolithic ideology where everyone believes the same thing or acts the same way. At the heart of it is perhaps a sense of pessimism and disillusionment (about the existential state of women and the world), but most aren't trying to harm anyone, debate, or convince anyone of anything. They're just venting on their own shit.

I can understand radfems taking issue with the name calling, but the focus on it feels like false moral outrage to derail from any valid points being made. I've seen women say the pettiest, most disrespectful shit to one another, but because they draw the line at misogynistic slurs, they believe their sentiments were said with grace and love.

And I think that is bullshit.

Like look, there's women on here who will openly say how much they love sucking dick, but if you simply repeat that exact thing back to them, suddenly you're in the wrong. Apparently it's misogynistic as a noun but not a verb.

[never-tell-me-what-to-do]

i will say that slurs against women are bad, but i have seen even more non blackpillers say them and nobody makes posts directed at them calling them out at all

i mean nearly a month ago i got in a small argument with a girl who made a post about calling out these women, and then people started reblogging her to redirect this criticism about blackpillers to separatists instead, not so subtly comparing them and the op agreed with these reblogs. that made me realize that most of the people criticizing blackpillers are just people converting their animosity towards separatism and redirecting it. it's a redirected attack at separatists which is weird bc separatists are not comparable to blackpillers at all. bc realistically, why can't you say "it's bad to say slurs" without villainizing women? a very small group of women, who have these slurs directed at them too. nothing that they do will be even comparable to the amount of men that use these slurs. but the fact that it's more wrong when one group of women does it then when the other says it is a redflag, bc realistically why can't you just say "nobody say this, this is bad"?

[girlnumbers]

Males be like wtf I’m not violent I’m going to violently fucking murder you for saying that

[fedupradfem]

Males be like I don't dismiss everything women say that is a factual inaccuracy like most things women say

[vladtheunfollower]

being a woman isn’t terrible…being a woman around men is terrible