batshit genius scientist prophet goddess

jewslav radfem lesbian. 20s. proudly and happily childfree. ugly hairy lesbian lifestyle ftw 💜

[plexusuterovaginalis]

(banging pots and pans together) connect with other women irl!!!

i believe in real life activism. im on tumblr just to connect w fellow lesbians not to debate the begendered

i will never ever out you if you’re “crypto”. i don’t post about who follows me, i won’t publicly answer your ask if your blog isn’t explicitly radfem, etc

i refuse to put long posts with pictures of violent men and troons making rape threats on your dash. we both deserve better ladies

on the off chance that i do reblog any, pictures of men will be tagged with “men tw” because i fully support you in pursuing a male-free online experience

100% of my activism is focused on helping women.

you can always message me to chat about anything you’d like <3

cool stuff i have unique perspectives on and therefore will post about: medical misogyny, being childfree, life in an extremely homophobic environment + The Slavic Lesbian Experience, jewish stuff

[now-exiting-fuckability-deactiv]

Have you ever seen your dad excited about a female novelist? Have you ever had a boyfriend obsessed with a female musician? Have you ever had a brother/uncle/cousin/guy friend who had the same kind of energy for female Youtubers, Podcasters, or other creator as they do for any number of male creators?

If you took attraction out of the picture, is there a single man in your life who would be moved by the words and thoughts and art of women?

[thefutureisdyke-deactivated2018]

thank you to the women who refuse to wear makeup

thank you to the women who don’t own any high heels

thank you to the women who cut their hair short

thank you to the women who dress in comfortable, baggy clothes

thank you to the women who don’t shave and don’t hide it

thank you to the women who talk loudly and take up space

thank you to the women who eat what and how much they want in public

thank you to the women who sit boldly instead of with crossed legs

thank you to all the gnc women who make it easier for the women around them to fight the prison of femininity, too

[plexusuterovaginalis]

Separate/🚷: Are you a female separatist or a lesbian separatist, and to what extent?

thank you so much for the question!

i do firmly believe in separatism and will always support every woman's right to pursue it, to its fullest extent if possible. sadly, there's nothing even remotely similar to women's land or michfest or anything where i live :( so i practice what i've seen called "separatism lite" on here before- i try to live a women-focused life as much as possible. i prioritize women, foster friendships and connections with women, and engage in activism.

[maitakecat-deactivated20230212]

✨ Radblr ask meme ✨

Radfem/💇‍♀️: Are you a radfem, just radfem-adjacent, or just gender critical?

Peak/🌄: What was the first thing that peaked you, and when did you peak (not just specifically “peak trans,” but anything “peak patriarchy”)?

Everest/🏔️: What has been your worst subsequent peak?

Separate/🚷: Are you a female separatist or a lesbian separatist, and to what extent?

GNC/🥾: Are you GNC, and to what extent?

Orientation/🩲: Are you a lesbian, bisexual, or heterosexual?

Bi/🔺: If you’re bisexual, are you a febfem?

Hetero/👫: If you’re heterosexual, are you choosing to be celibate?

Picrew/👤: No more identifying information, make a picrew icon of yourself that doesn’t look like you.

Leg/🦵: Where does your leg hair start getting darker (above the knee, mid thigh, dark from the moment hip ends and thigh begins)?

Body/🔍: Do you have more/darker body hair on your left side, right side, or about equal on both sides?

Carnivora/🦊: Are you more of a cat person or a dog person?

Baby/👶: How do you feel about the baby plane (funny answers only)?

Natal/🤰: Pronatalism, antinatalism, or natalism neutral? 

-Fem/💻: Do you identify as a member of any of the -fem titles (factfem, nicefem, rudefem, etc)?

Animal/🦕: If you had to pick an animal to represent your blog, what would it be (catfems, you don’t have to answer cat)?

Labrys/🪓: If you’re a lesbian, how do you feel about the labrys (both the flag and the icon)?

Interest/😍: If you weren’t a radblr user, what would your blog be about?

Gender/💩: Here’s the link to get a random Wikipedia page. You now have a neogender based off of the page that was pulled up–what is it?

Feminist/🦸‍♀️: Are there any particular feminists or feminist groups you look up to?

Woman/🧑: For $0, name a woman.

Man/🧔: If you could kill one man (excluding politicians, billionaires, and those responsible for world tragedies), who would it be?

[laurierrose]

i know so many women who have implants and they nonchalantly tell me stuff like they can’t feel their nipples anymore or they can’t perform certain motions with their arms anymore or they had complications and had to spend several thousand dollars to get them fixed like oh my god and for what? it’s for nothing

[kittyit]

google search “mold inside breast implants” and prepare for your gorge to rise and your heart to break. cosmetic surgery is evil, cosmetic surgeons are evil.

[skeeteater-deactivated20220521]

i’m sure plenty of breast cancer survivors, trauma patients, wounded warriors, and battery victims would beg to differ with you on that statement

[kittyit]

surgery to “correct” differences of appearances/visual distinctions that are treated as ugly, shameful, disfiguring, or disgusting by patriarchy position surgeons as patriarchal, medicalized authority figures of who is ugly and abnormal enough to cut into. living with visual difference, especially visual difference that resulted because of trauma is extremely difficult in a world that hates & punishes you for it. i don’t blame women in general for wanting cosmetic surgery and i won’t deny that some cosmetic surgeries will make it easier for them to navigate an awful appearance based world. i blame cosmetic surgeons for breaking the Hippocratic oath. putting someone under anesthesia and cutting them, where there is always a risk of death, because you have the medial authority to say “you are ugly and i will fix it” is not doing no harm.

[destroyyourbinder]

I hate that breast cancer survivors in particular are trotted out as a “gotcha” example for why women ought not to criticize cosmetic surgery because in my experience breast cancer survivors often are some of the only women given any dignity whatsoever in being given information about the serious risks of breast surgery, and some of the few women for whom this decision is treated with any gravity. This isn’t to say that this is universal, and certainly women who have had cancer treatment- or prevention-related mastectomies are under tremendous pressure to “fix” their extremely stigmatized, newly atypical bodies; often reconstructive plastic surgeons are part of the suite of doctors performing cancer care and a woman may feel pressured to seek reconstruction just because it is an expected part of a cancer treatment sequence and part of showing her proper “recovery”. But woman-focused media, especially peer-created resource networks, about breast reconstruction are one of the few places where I have seen the risks and benefits of cosmetic surgery being discussed at all, and sometimes brutally and honestly weighed. Compare the materials on two very mainstream major American medical association websites: the American Cancer Society’s webpage on What to Expect After Breast Reconstruction and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons’ webpage on What are the Risks of Breast Augmentation?  Hint: there is more information in the “after” section alone of the ACS’s pages on considering breast reconstruction than in the entire ASPS material on breast augmentation surgery. If you’re still confused about the difference between material that respects a woman’s humanity and body autonomy and material that focuses on selling her a solution to the distress she has about her atypical appearance, i.e. material that is woman-focused versus material that is plastic surgeon-focused, compare also the ASPS website about breast reconstruction, which has videos about the “empowerment” of having a reconstruction-focused fashion show, but which does not contain factual information about what it actually feels like for a woman to undergo surgery for and then have breast implants after a mastectomy. The ASPS and The Plastic Surgery Foundation jointly sponsor a page promoting breast reconstruction which does mention some of the serious and life-altering risks of having reconstructive surgery and some of the permanent changes to a woman’s body that occur with mastectomy and various reconstructive techniques; however, the tone is patronizing, referring to surgical nerve damage as merely “unfortunate” and the benefits of surgery being named as “regained wholeness and femininity” and not having to wear a “cumbersome” prosthesis. (Permanent, irreversible nerve damage is less than cumbersome, apparently, even though it can cause severe and disabling chronic pain or other neuropathies, and is one of the most commonly lamented problems with both cancer-related mastectomies and cosmetic breast surgeries. No worries, though, there are plastic surgeons offering peripheral nerve surgery to stop you from feeling anything at all in your breasts should you experience this.) Respecting women who have been left with so-called disfiguring body changes after medical treatments or surviving accidents, disasters, or violence means respecting that there are medical risks to surgery, that full and total functional restoration of body parts is not technologically possible, and that cosmetic restoration usually actually comes with functional losses. It means recognizing that women may feel traumatized not only by what initially led to their bodies being abnormally altered (like cancer, a disaster, war, or domestic abuse) but that afterwards a woman must face an awful decision in how to deal with being reminded of this trauma through the cruel medium of others’ reactions, a decision that continues to put her suffering body on the line and one that others will condone (or not) based on the very same cruelties pushing her to a decision about surgery. It means at bottom seeing women as full human people with memories and histories who must continue to live in their bodies after a reconstructive surgery, both having experienced their initial trauma and whatever consequences surgery has had for them, neither of which can be erased by the fact that their bodies merely appear aesthetically more pleasing or “normal”. Women live in there, you know. As @kittyit notes there is something inherently frightening about dealing with an authority figure who believes “you are ugly and i will fix it”; any woman who wants reconstructive surgery has to pass through the literal gloved hands of someone who believes this and who makes a living from magnanimously rearranging the flesh of people that he or she has deemed to be both ugly enough to deserve fixing but also worthy of being restored to the dignity of appearing “normal”. The value judgments these doctors not only make as a matter of daily practice but that they literally profit from are terrifying. Like Kitty I don’t blame any woman (or otherwise female person) who seeks cosmetic surgery or who believes that they really did benefit in some way from it. If you spend a few minutes reading the very pink and very sponsored https://www.breastreconusa.org website it should be clear that it is the medical industries and doctors that are to blame here; they are not only exploiting women’s distress directly but trying to manufacture increased opportunities to be distressed, and trying to make it difficult for a woman to make the decision to handle her distress without surgery. Women deserve better. Vaguely referring to women who have undergone serious reconstructive surgery as if they simultaneously do not experience any of the negative consequences of these surgeries and what they do experience conveniently vindicates the existence of a predatory industry is disgusting. The female experience goes far beyond factoids and snippets that support the (male) interests of those already in power. I’m tired of female experience being a void that is filled up with projections and suppositions. There is a reality to cosmetic surgery and it is by and large women who have to live it.

[lesbian-archives]

Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening, 1994

[tradmidwestman]

[powerfem]

Then why do men do it? Why don't they want to be house husbands? Imagine being this stupid

[aftonfamilyvalues]

[visible relief as woman realizes finding a new job is much easier than a divorce and that by having her own income and assets she can live independently instead of being tied to and financially abused by a man trying to force her back into codependency for full control over her and who still views her as subservient even though she is doing the exact same work he is doing]

[cecaeliawitch]

"office wife" except my boss doesn't live in my home and expect me to fuck him and cook for him and make children for him that i have to raise for him.

[goodmorningmiles]

EVERY DYKE IS A HERO by GANG. 1990.

[parttimepup]

So I was back in Mandarin class and the teacher let us know that in ancient times sometimes they wouldn’t even give their girl children names. Their attitude was why bother getting attached to her when she’s just going to grow up and belong to someone else? She doesn’t need her own identity because she is the property of her future husband. If they needed to refer to a woman they would say that’s Wang’s wife. In the same way you would say oh, that’s Wang’s car or Wang’s house. Let’s remember that we give names to dogs, horses, ships and buildings but some human women don’t deserve such recognition. She also touched on sex-selective abortion for a bit and it was all in all a pretty sad discussion today.

I was really moved but it felt like everyone else didn’t care or thought that stuff doesn’t matter because it doesn’t happen anymore. And yet even now women’s identities are being erased when they get married. Their personal history and family ties are untraceable because they are “adopted” into their husbands family. It’s disgusting and I hate that its so nomalized and I hate that even women’s names are not our own. We might as well never have been given names in the first place.

[old-school-butch]

This effect also disrupts our relationships. Try finding old friends from high school or your second cousin. They are gone and renamed, lost to you.

[girl-unashamed]

Common throughout history, unfortunately. Women in ancient Rome often weren’t given names beyond their family names; if you needed to differentiate between sisters, you’d often just say “Cornelia the younger / the elder” or even just give them numbers. Their husbands would address them, in private, by the feminine form of their own names (eg. if you married Julius then he’d call you Julia).

A lot of people think the effect has disappeared today, because women typically have less common names than men - a higher fraction of men are named the absolute most popular names like John or Jack whereas women are more spread out over different names.

But it’s really noticeable how often parents give their male children meaningful names - they’ll have a historically important namesake, or be named after a great grandfather, or have a traditional name with a meaning their parents liked. That’s why the common names tend to be common. The names given to female children are chosen because they’re “pretty” names, because their parents just liked the way it sounded, or are even just nouns / adjectives like “Lily”, “Hope” or “Summer”. They emphasise that the role of the female child is to be a pretty ornament, not to achieve meaningful things or inherit anything from a namesake.

They’re often very infantilising - sure it’s cute when you have a two year old named “Poppy” or “Precious” but she’s going to have to grow up and put that name on her CV. They very often use the diminutive -ie / -y suffix (Millie, Tilly, Becky, Georgie, Katy / Katie), which is typically used to indicate something small and cute and which many women have to obfuscate in order to construct anything that sounds like a professional identity. (I know a Katie who is pretending her name is Katherine, even though it’s legally Katie, just so people won’t think she’s being inappropriately informal in a business context.)

They also highlight just how much ageism is directed at women and how much women have to struggle to keep up with fashion, even in something as basic as their names. A traditional male name like “Joseph” or “Edward” or “James” or “Luke” is fine no matter how many centuries it’s been popular for. An off cycle name might be unusual, but that isn’t a bad thing. But dare give a girl a name that was popular too long ago - “Dorothy” or “Mary” or “Dawn” or “Gertrude” - and she’ll be ruthlessly bullied in school for it because it’s a “old lady name for grandmothers”. Don’t you know those names are ugly now, undesirable, associated with old wrinkled women who aren’t sexy? You need a young, new, sexy name like Ava or Madison or Olivia - keeping in mind of course that those will be “ugly” too when your daughter gets old.

The tendency of feminine names to emphasise beauty - and occasionally sexuality, which can be somewhat inappropriate considering the kid has to grow up with that name - is taken to an extreme if you look at porn stars’ stage names, which are all things like Scarlet or Rose or Desiree or Ravyn. Femininity, taken to an extreme, always ends up being about sexual availability.

And when women do try and give their daughters unique names, so they’ll be memorable even if their surname changes, the Daily Mail runs spots to make fun of names like Nevaeh or Unique or Evylyn because apparently that’s chavvy. And maybe it is! I’m not a fan of replacing all vowels with y either! But wow, there are just no good options for women.

And of course the moment you put a recognisably female name on your CV you become less employable, your qualifications worth less. But if you have a gender ambiguous name, you’re punished for being gnc. Good fucking luck out there.

It’s kind of a small thing, next to all the rape and mutilation and career discrimination and all the generally horrible things happening to women. But it’s just… nothing is okay, nothing is equal, no part of the world has actually been completely fixed yet. Even our names are yet another thing we need feminism help improve.

[old-school-butch]

Reblogging for this fine addition

[vou-duvidar]

Ah, language/literature analysis! How I love and hate you. Great addiction tho. Thank you!

[thatkindoffeminist]

One of my mates has an old fashioned legal name which they don’t go by. While she likes the name because it has meaning to her, she’s said that most people think it’s a weird simply because it’s so old fashioned.

When it was popular what were the most popular boys names? Joseph, Robert, John, William, etc. Have they become old fashioned suddenly? Of course not.

Is there any part of a woman’s life which isn’t just a trend?

[discosunfish]

Modern feminists rarely reckon with the true immensity of the legacy of men’s subordination of us. This is the kind of thing I mean. Modern feminists are frequently in total denial about the fact that we were all of us property until, relatively speaking, a few seconds ago.

[labxratxking]

dykeing photography.

really happy with this one. dyke tat based on @/bratking666 on instagram (@bratvampgf )’s piece inspired by catherine opie.

photo reference and closeups in the reblogs.

[averagefairy]

you ever think about how men who enter female dominated spaces (male beauty youtubers) are adored and celebrated and welcomed and women who enter male dominated spaces (gaming, sports) are often verbally abused to the point of quitting the activity all together

[theliteraryarchitect]

Yes, yes I do.

[maurypovichofficial2]

people will look at a 25+ age LGBT person and say "what do you mean you're not interested in watching this very sanitized story about two 14 year olds having their first kiss and falling in love DO YALL WANT REPRESENTATION OR NOT 😡"

[senatortedcruz]

I think it whips ass when female athletes act cocky and talk shit 

[goodnighthorses]

We need more positivity for young women who dress like someone's grandpa. Papaw swag

[onyourfeetentertainment]

So inspired by this series “Picturing Women Farmers” by  Audra Mulkern.

Audra Mulkern writes and photographs “The Female Farmer Project” — a chronicle of in-depth stories about the rise of women working in agriculture across the country and around the world.

[femalepope]

Tumblr users love being like "I categorically refuse to read this feminist critic from the 1970s because her views are outdated and not intersectional enough. Anyway I am on my fifth reread of Aristotle's Politics"

[plexusuterovaginalis]

let’s be real, tumblr users aren’t reading artistotle either. they’re reading posts about how great Great Male Thinkers are, and about how evil Old Feminist Hags are, and they’re choosing to take them at face value