Maestra Guisera

I am Fire, I am Death

[garrdenyia]

"The public censure of women as if we are rabid because we speak without apology about the world in which we live is a strategy of threat that usually works. Men often react to women’s words— speaking and writing— as if they were acts of violence; sometimes men react to women’s words with violence. So we lower our voices. Women whisper. Women apologize. Women shut up. Women trivialize what we know. Women shrink. Women pull back. Most women have experienced enough dominance from men— control, violence, insult, contempt— that no threat seems empty."

— Andrea Dworkin

[mewwon]

the vivid sensory-memory of sucking water out of a washcloth as a child

[thentheysaidburnher]

Women are not things to purchase or become

[mini-wrants]

The thing that’s always missing from the “women didn’t fight for the right to work they were already working they fought to get paid” is that many women also very much wanted to work.

Women wanted to be lawyers and engineers and chemists. They wanted to use their brains in challenging and interesting ways. They wanted to get the satisfaction from solving problems and inventing new shit and getting attention for it.

I know not everyone is born with intellectual curiosity or drive or determination but some people are and many of those people are women.

[h4nifah]

almost everything men say they love about their culture is actually reliant on the labour of women. that’s why it’s so easy for them to feel proud and protective over it. taking care of elders and not putting them in care homes? the care is always done almost exclusively by female family members. the yummy traditional food? cooked by women. the fun events and gatherings? organised and hosted by the women. men love taking credit for their culture but in reality they barely participate in the actual hard work, they just get to sit back and enjoy all the benefits of it. it’s a scam 🤷🏻‍♀️

[atwoodsfemalefantasy]

women are the creators of culture forever and always. who created the stories the told to their children? came up with the songs they sang? who invented those recipes? how many times has innovative art or music or writing been stolen from women by men? hairstyles? women. fashion? maybe the companies are run by men, but it's still women driving innovation. events and gatherings? women. who's making those traditions happen? women.

it's always been women.

[yapoholics-anonymous]

if, for society to continue on, women must be subjugated, then it is not "humanity" that benefits. it's is men.

if women are required/forced to be: pregnant, or subservient to men, to allow for a "family structure" and a birth rate that allows for the continuation of society, then this subjugation does not benefit all of humanity; it benefits men at the direct expense of women.

[tenbees]

i keep fighting this feeling that as long as i’m single i don’t really have anything of value to say about being a lesbian, because what would i know about loving women? but i really think this solitude, being single for years and being forced to develop self sufficiency, becoming an island because no one else is like you, are all defining parts of the lesbian experience that have nothing to do with romantic relationships. like, my only relationship was in college and i know a lot of bi women whose only romantic experience with a woman was in college; now, though, they’re all married to men and preparing for children, while i’m…. still by myself, preparing for a future in which i’m potentially always alone. the loneliness feels just as central to the lesbian experience as being with a woman. a lot of being a lesbian is about feeling like you were dropped on an alien planet with flaws and inconsistencies that are only visible to you. and i don’t need to be in a relationship for the way i experience the world to be worth talking about.

[redstonedust]

if vampires existed in real life i think there would be shady companies advertising "organic blood" sourced from "willing donors" who are coincidentally all poor people being paid like $5 per blood donation. and like haughty vegan vampires who only drink a synthetic blood drink thats brewed in a way thats actively worse for the enviroment. and radical traditionalist vampires who go on tiktok and claim that true alpha chads have to drain and kill people and anyone who leaves their victims alive is a liberal cuck. enter the world of hypothetical insufferable vampire politics with me.

[gracecode]

The only way to win in this society as a woman is by refusing to play the game. Once you step into the game, despite your best attempts you won't ever be able to bend the rules to your benefit. The game here being association with males. the layout of this society has been the same for centuries and it's naive of a woman to assume she can take the same steps as the women that came before and end up in a better place. Any woman with a smidge of intelligence will refuse to play the game that was built to defeat her.

And this is something you can never convince another woman about, either they understand it by instinct and refuse to participate, or they never get it. You can't explain how unfair the game is to someone who does not mind losing.

[seagullgal]

I think a lot of people have only a surface level understanding of bodily autonomy. I've talked to people who are pro surrogacy and pro sex industry because they think women should be able to do what they want with their bodies, including sell them. But under that model, you're selling away your own bodily autonomy. You cannot be fully in control of yourself while under financial coercion. You can't have the choice to end a surrogate pregnancy at any time when you rely on that money to get by, and the same for women in the sex industry. You cannot consent to sex when the alternative is not having enough money to pay rent. The buying and selling of bodily functions is a removal of autonomy, not an expression of it.

[deadfish-inabarrel]

"The buying and selling of bodily functions is a removal of autonomy, not an expression of it."

[autistobrat]

absolutely hate it when I wake up tired like what the fuck did I lie unconscious for

[gayeilgeoir]

I don’t love my period, but I’m pretty thankful for it. To have a monthly reminder that I’m not pregnant, not underrating and healthy enough that my body can prioritise reproduction, It is useful. While inconvenient and painful, I don’t hate it, it’s quite helpful to know what’s going on in my body

[enchantingcheesecakepersona]

Reminds me of this^

[dworkin-dork]

Your uterus is actively screening against pregnancy, demanding that you only implant if an embryo is healthy enough to possibly make it. That's why your uterine lining is so thick. Your body does not view pregnancy as the end goal at all times - it still makes mistakes, and contraception is important and life-saving, but it is so freeing to realize that your body does not yearn for pregnancy. Your body desires survival. Your survival.

[tordenvejr]

the only way to get what you want is to be brave enough to move towards it. if there is a willingness to be momentarily uncomfortable in order to live the life that calls from your heart then fear loses much of its claim over you and your decisions

[spamloaf]

Woman: does absolutely nothing to change her appearance. Leaves it alone; forgets all about it.

Everyone: So we noticed you're trying very hard to look like a man,

[dreichsmirr]

As a woman in a fair few male dominated spaces, nothing annoys me more than seeing men come into a female dominated space like 'oh I'm so scared, I'm so worried. Is there space here for little old me? Will you welcome the smol bean that is me?"

Because 90% of the time they're just attention seeking and also a woman can't do that in a male space because it would count against her immediately. Women in male professions/hobbies have to bravado everything. You know you're not welcome, and you have to force them to even give you a chance, and they fight you at every step.

If I turned up to my motorcycle school with the "I'm a nervous widdle baby pls validate me" attitude that men turn up to our crafting group with, then they wouldn't have let me in the door.

Women can't show any weakness, men get to act like fucking babies and receive fawning compliments and welcomes.

[frankherbertsdune]

It's so funny to me that Mary Shelley, her husband, John Polidori, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story and she wrote fucking Frankenstein. Imagine losing a competition that badly. Imagine just doing a silly little competition with your friend and she basically invents a new genre and creates one of the most famous characters in fiction. Imagine being proud of your little story and then she shares one that people will still read every day in 200 years. Imagine doing a writing competition with your wife and she becomes so recognizable that you'll always be known as Mary Shelley's husband

[buriwnwjfkrnekx]

“Make up isn’t about men! It’s for me!”

Make up is how we assure men they’re the default. Every default setting is reserved for men. Everything default in humans is the boy version of things now. A resting face is male. A smile is female. Textured skin is male. Flawless skin is female. Small, normal eyes are male. Big eyes are female. Colorless lips are male. Colored lips are female. Bushy eyebrows are male. Shaped eyebrows are female. Plain clothing is male. Pants are male. Good quality is male. Cotton is male. Covered up is male. Costumes are female. Skirts are female. Poor quality is female. Polyester is female. Naked is female.

Responsive is male. Quiet is female. Alive is male. Inanimate is female. Active is male. Passive is female. Curious is male. Stupid is female. Wanting is male. Desire-less is female. Self interested is male. Discontented from self is female.

Everything about masculinity can be summed up as “what is normal and neutral for all humans.”

Everything about femininity can be summed up as “marking women as ‘other’”

The entire point of gendered differences is to mark men as the default. Their thoughts, feelings, perspectives, health symptoms, needs, perceptions, and priorities are the default. Even when a woman recounts a story a man wasn’t present for, his account of it is seen as more reliable. Because he is who we default to. She is “other.” Toilet paper is provided because it’s needed by men. It’s default. Pads and tampons, just as important, are luxury or personal items. If anything, annoying to have to see because they don’t represent the default state. The presence of something female that doesn’t please a man is seen as something out of place that needs to be cleaned up and removed to restore life to its default, male state.

Make up isn’t about beauty. It’s about men hating the idea of women being as naturally occurring as they are, and having a right to our own realities. It’s deeper than looking pretty. It’s deeper than sex. It isn’t about whether your make up is natural looking, either.

When a man says he likes a natural looking woman, he means, “Textured skin and dullness and natural eyebrows are MEN’S THING a woman who has those is broken.”

It doesn’t matter if you’re a goth or you’re typically feminine. The point is that you don’t resemble the men.

In countries where a veil is required for women, does it matter if her hijab is kind of ugly? Is that the point? No. Most women aren’t wearing luxury fabrics or brand new hijabs. They’re wearing whatever they have. The point is that they are identifiable as female so men can treat them differently and not accidentally like equal humans.

When women aren’t required to wear dresses anymore, we start being required to wear make up. We are always required to do SOMETHING. Look at the Elf on a Shelf type dolls where they put lipstick on the girl ones. No matter what, the boy version of things is always the natural, unchanged, normal default. And if they make a girl version it’s that. There’s an elf. And there’s a girl elf. We are a spin off of men. That’s how they see us.

[gynocchi]

There is No Unmarked Woman.