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[animentality]

[pinkradfem]

Jesus fucking christ the morons in the reblogs. She's obviously talking about it from a male perspective. She never said petite women can't feel sexy ir shit. She's saying that men who want to dominate smaller women are nonces. Is she right? Idk, up to you, but honestly I can see where she's coming from.

[kittyit]

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[pinkradfem]

I love how the pencil is still barely visible compared to the text.

[crypt-of-an-artist]

any radfem read manga/ but want to critque it ?

Like/reblog if you want to chat

[pinkradfem]

No greater pain than getting into a good manga and then it being filled with misogyny

[gnc-centric]

This essay by Gena Corea was first published in 1990 in:

The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism edited by Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice Raymond

[pinkradfem]

Need 2 read resources

[radsplain]

[lostangel2006]

[pinkgreenbreeze]

In a patriarchy, daughters are commodities.

(X)

[lesbore]

“let’s normalise shaving in women” i am going to tear you apart limb to limb so you’re writhing in pain and feed you to ducks

[throneofbrokenglass]

Yes yes yes!! 1000x this!

“Testosterone does not invent aggression, testosterone exaggerates pre-existing social patterns of aggression”

Edit: everyone on this post is asking some really good questions that I also have. I tried to find the research article this professor is referencing but everything is blocked behind paywalls🙃.

What I took away from this is that males are more predisposed to aggression because of testosterone But it’s the way that we have normalized violence against women in our society that causes a testosterone spike to be triggered when we set boundaries with them and tell them no. So basically men are taught that they are the dominant ones in the social hierarchy (compared to women) and since we have normalized violence against women in our society, women doing anything to upset that hierarchy triggers their testosterone and triggers their aggression. If we did not normalize VAW or have a gender hierarchy, then those things would not trigger a testosterone rush/aggression. I hope this makes sense. I don’t even know if it makes sense to me lol.

I also don’t know whether or not this could be generalized to humans (it might be unethical to replicate the study with human subjects). Also, Thank you to the people posting more resources! All in all, it would be ignorant to say that male aggression is purely biological or purely social. The good old “nature v.s nurture” debate. It’s for sure a combo of both. As a psych major this topic really interests me and I might email some of my professors about their thoughts on this.

[radfemfox4-deactivated20230703]

“Transitioning” Procedures Don’t Help Mental Health, Largest Dataset Shows

KEY TAKEAWAYS

The largest dataset on sex-reassignment procedures—both hormonal and surgical—reveals that such procedures do not bring the promised mental health benefits.

People who experience a gender identity conflict should be treated with respect and compassion. And they deserve to know the truth.

We need to find better, more humane, and effective responses to those who experience dysphoria.

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↓ More under the cut ↓

The study in question can be found here

Results: Compared with the general population, individuals with a gender incongruence diagnosis were about six times as likely to have had a mood and anxiety disorder health care visit, more than three times as likely to have received prescriptions for antidepressants and anxiolytics, and more than six times as likely to have been hospitalized after a suicide attempt. Years since initiating hormone treatment was not significantly related to likelihood of mental health treatment (adjusted odds ratio=1.01, 95% CI=0.98, 1.03). However, increased time since last gender-affirming surgery was associated with reduced mental health treatment (adjusted odds ratio=0.92, 95% CI=0.87, 0.98).

The conclusion of the study does not match the results, though.

In this first total population study of transgender individuals with a gender incongruence diagnosis, the longitudinal association between gender-affirming surgery and reduced likelihood of mental health treatment lends support to the decision to provide gender-affirming surgeries to transgender individuals who seek them.

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Academic critique of the study here

The study found no mental health benefits for hormonal interventions in this population. There is no effect of time since initiating hormone treatment on the likelihood of subsequently receiving mental health treatment.

The authors discuss a “linear decrease” in seeking subsequent mental health care that is simply not visible in the study’s graphs, where post-surgical mental health treatment hovers stably around 35 percent among those in their first nine years after surgery, and then drops to only 21 percent of those patients who are in their tenth (or higher) year since their last surgery.

However, only 19 total respondents reported their last surgery as having been completed 10 or more years ago. By contrast, 574 (out of 1,018 total) reported their last surgery as having been conducted less than two years ago. (Surgical treatment is clearly surging.)

This means that the apparently helpful overall effect of surgery is driven by this comparatively steep drop in mood/anxiety treatment among only 19 patients. By the math, that would seem to indicate that four out of these 19 Swedes (i.e., 21 percent) sought help in 2015 for mood/anxiety problems.

While the study reports the adjusted odds ratio of the overall effect of time since surgery (0.92), which I cannot replicate without having data access, you don’t need the data to calculate an unadjusted odds ratio from the information presented there. This can tell us the baseline effect of time since surgery on receiving mood and anxiety treatment, only without the controls (like age, income, etc.). Doing this reveals the fragility of the study’s key finding: if a mere three additional cases among these 19 had sought mental health treatment in 2015, there would appear to be no discernible overall effect of surgery on subsequent mental health. The study’s trumpeted conclusion may hinge on as few as three people in a data collection effort reaching 9.7 million Swedes, 2,679 of whom were diagnosed with gender incongruence and just over 1,000 of whom had gender-affirming surgery.

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My two cents:

Gender dysphoria is a serious mental illness. Rates of anxiety, depression and suicidality are much higher in these individuals compared to the general population. The lack of significant decrease in mental health disorders after hormone therapy and surgery should be an enormous red flag to healthcare providers and dysphoric individuals alike. We need to find a better solution.

[fairy25]

[rad-fem-zine]

Some pages from the second issue, on Medical Misogyny.

Credit : @colombedelapaix @joan-of-feminism @butch-reidentified @radfemverity @the-fury-of-a-goose @lookupmedicalmisogyny and Margaret Kathleen, Aesyn, L'Amazone Paris

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[woman-for-women]

woman-for-women Resource Navigation Masterpost (updated after every post; click here to see the current version)

Radical Feminism Sources/Studies Masterdoc

Feminism - Studies/Sources Masterdoc Project

Feminist Studies/Sources – Masterdoc Introduction 0 Acknowledgments 0 Document Revision History 0 Dysphoria/Dysphoric People 0 Rise in Refe

Radical Feminism Infographics [all infographics here]

- Prostitution [all infographics here]

What Percentage of People Want to Leave Prostitution?

Age of Entry into Prostitution

Rates of PTSD among Prostituted People

What Percentage of Prostituted People are Victims of Rape while Prostituting?

Prostitution & Racism in the West

- Pornography [all infographics here]

Pornography and Violence

The Relationship between Pornography and Sex Crimes

- Sex Trafficking [all infographics here]

Sex Trafficking Victims are Mostly Female

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞𓆝 𓆟 𓆞𓆝 𓆟 𓆞𓆝 𓆟 𓆞𓆝 𓆟 𓆞𓆝 𓆟 𓆞

Radical Feminism Ideas/Quotes as Images [all images here]

- Images of Quotes [all images here]

- Images of Radical Feminist Ideas [all images here]

[pinkradfem]

Read later

[friendshapedhole]

3/5/23

[queeranarchism]

(5 March 2023)

[harperhug]

All those people who say “I have nothing to hide” when others are worried about data collection, this is an example of how it can easily be turned on you in the near future. Laws change, and when they do, these companies already know your opinion on them so when you ultimately end up breaking those laws, they can easily provide evidence.

Hell, it doesn’t even have to be the future. We’ve all broken some law, even if it was just pirating a song. While you may be fine now, it can easily become a way to target people and add charges.

[pinkradfem]

Caroline Farrow, an English feminist and forum participant currently the target of bizarre vexatious litigation from TRAs, was arrested for posts on the forums Kiwifarms and Mumsnet not made by her.

[flesh-panopticon]

TERFs when they find out that hate speech and threats have consequences

[pinkradfem]

You're the ones who threaten to rape women. Surprisingly you guys never get arrested. Wonder why that is. Bottom line is this is the Internet, if you can't handle being told that you will never be a woman, when you will never be a woman, I shouldn't get arrested for it.

[c4nonball]

Ah. Love smart women