philia

[veritablevent]

you can't girlboss your way out of the humiliation of performing femininity. miniskirts are supposed to humble you by having you stay alert to them riding up and exposing you. high heels are supposed to humble you by having you move carefully, wary of twisting an ankle (or stumbling and exposing yourself). make-up is supposed to humble you by having you control your feeding and resting habits, lest you smudge it. there's sexualization imbedded in them. they are SUPPOSED to embarrass you, because the ultimate titillation is the assertion of control over you. you can't desex them.

[andreadworkinq]

Pain is an essential part of the grooming process, and that is not accidental. Plucking the eyebrows, shaving under the arms, wearing a girdle, learning to walk in high-heeled shoes, having one’s nose fixed, straightening or curling one’s hair—these things hurt. The pain, of course, teaches an important lesson: no price is too great, no process too repulsive, no operation too painful for the woman who would be beautiful. The tolerance of pain and the romanticization of that tolerance begins here, in preadolescence, in socialization, and serves to prepare women for lives of childbearing, self-abnegation, and husband-pleasing.

Andrea Dworkin, Last Days at Hot Slit

[fem-scum]

I hate so bad when men of color act like they’re more oppressed than women as a class, or like white women created patriarchy. You are the patriarchy.

Like you, you set that system up. African men in their own countries practiced child marriage and polygamy long before Europeans darkened that doorstep. Cases of multiple child brides cooking and cleaning for one man, doing all the domestic and reproductive labor were common in many African tribes pre colonialism.

As a black woman whose experienced firsthand the misogyny black men wield over their communities I hate the noble savage trope men of color are painted with.

Even now, black American men are responsible for the incredibly high femicide rate of black women, who are 6x more likely to be killed than their white counterparts.

[stuckinapril]

being born lonely is so fucking suffocating bc you feel like no matter who you do or who you’re with deep down you’re just not palatable to other people. something about you is so inherently other and nothing can ever dispel that. and it haunts you w every social situation you walk into but you just have to be okay w it for the rest of your life

[yorickish-deactivated20230903]

the soyjak is a highly advanced psychosocial technology on the level of christ's forgiveness or the joint stock corporation. clear evidence of objective progress in this "fuzzy" area of technology -- if you brought the soyjak back to the early modern period you could use it to attain great power and wealth

[uroko]

urban plants

[harpyhormones]

if you take gross failwomen and draw them as generic anime hotties u are doing a disservice to the gross failwoman community

[minmos]

[r4mi404]

the holy autism trinity

[femsolid]

What if a rape was reported like terrorism?  "Good Evening. This is the 6 o'clock news. First, this breaking story. This week thousands of innocent women were brutally raped and abused all over the UK. Women who were just going about their day, going to work, looking after their children, exercising and sleeping in their beds - all targeted and attacked. The Prime Minister has given a statement today committing millions of pounds in resources to stop the abuse and murder of women at the hands of men and has convened an emergency meeting with top officials to understand what went wrong. She finished her speech by saying that women must be able to go about their daily lives without fear of violence and death. Women should not have to change the way they live to stay safe. The public and celebrities from all over the world shared their hurt and condolences on social media. The families are all receiving the very best support at this difficult time. We will be following this story all week, as more and more women are named as victims of rape and male violence - stay with us for live updates throughout the night."

And what if terrorism was reported like a rape?  (You could argue here, there wouldn't be a report. But for arguments sake, let's pretend the media actually does report rape...)

"Good evening. This is the six o'clock news and tonight we have a number of headlines including the return of Garden Force, the latest from Love Island, a report on terrorism, and we go live to the BAFTAs!

A new report on terrorism has shown that at least 3 people per week are being murdered by terrorists and thousands per year, possibly in the region of 700,000, are being attacked by terrorists. Experts have been commenting on the new report with many saying that terrorism is a lot better than it used to be and the stats are only going up because people feel more confident to report it to the police thanks to the brilliant work of police forces to raise awareness of terrorism. A new charity which specialises in terrorism prevention has given a list of terrorist-proofing strategies to vulnerable potential victims and research has been commissioned into exploring what vulnerabilities lead to people being attacked by terrorists. One expert explained that people can stay safe by rarely leaving their house, working from home, never using public transport, never going abroad, always wearing bullet proof vests and never going to large public events of any kind. Pro-terrorist groups have started a campaign called #NotAllTerrorists to put pressure on the anti-terrorist groups to stop talking about terrorism. And next up, Garden Force is set to return to our screens next year!"

What if rape was reported like terrorism?

And what if terrorism was reported like rape?

[catchymemes]

[noncompliantbi-deactivated20241]

And we do not owe them playing along with their delusions and fetishes. As long as men who call themselves women stay out of women's single sex spaces, and altered heterosexual people stop trying coercively rape LGB people, I'm good. They should probably also stop amputating and injecting children and making them life-long medical patients but that's outside my purview.

[sapphsorrows]

I think it's fucking disgusting how trans identified males say "well women who can't have children are still viewed as women" as if infertile women haven't been viewed by men as sinful and shameful for being "barren" for most of history. you didn't give a fuck about these women until you could use them as a shield against people who call you out for going into the women's restroom as a man.

[melancholypilled]

The abrahamic god is a male power fantasy and I refuse to worship an omnipotent being who treats 50% of his most important creations as inferior, naturally evil beings who’s only value is their virginity, something that most women don’t have a say in within traditional religious societies.

[daloy-politsey]

[vexingwoman]

If you hear the words “adult human female” and YOU interpret that as being nothing more than a baby making machine, YOU are the misogynist.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

a sane feminist: women are female regardless of looks or personality, we should be fighting against gender ro-

a moron: FEMALE? YOU MEAN BLEEDERS? BREEDERS?! WORTHLESS FUCKHOLES? WALKING PUSSIES WITH NO BRAIN DESIGNED TO SHIT OUT BABIES FOR A HUSBAND? GOD YOU'RE SO MISOGYNIST!!!!!!!!

[sichorean]

isn't it so interesting that when a man says he's a woman we have to agree without question

but when a woman doesn't want men in her private spaces she is forced to graphically explain any incidences of past trauma in order to not be framed as a bigot

isn't that so weird that a male has to be respected and believed but a female has to publicly detail her trauma