Raven

Woman who is considered “to loud and annoying” ♀ lesbian ♀ radfem ♀ anti porn ♀ anti-prostitution ♀ anti beauty industry ♀ pro LGB ♀ pro separatism ♀ pro choice ♀anti kinks ♀

[r4dfemlesbian]

I just wanted to make a quick introduction to my Blog, I don’t know how active I’ll be on here yet.

My hobby’s are mostly creative things like drawing, playing guitar and crocheting. I’m a very spiritual person and also practice witchcraft. Also I loooove being out in nature <3

Another thing I wanted to say is that I mostly reblog posts I find informativ and that help me with learning more about things I’m interested in and identify with. I also reblog fandom stuff sometimes but very rarely.

I’m not 100% sure about some of my opinions and standpoints yet but I know that I’m very much not a big fan of men and that I also very much identify with the term radical feminist

I’m overall really nice as long as you’re nice to me and not completely unlogical <3

[seagullgal]

To make a world where straight women aren't consistently ending up with horrible men, we need to make a world where they aren't afraid to end up single. Where it is clear that lifelong celibacy is the preferable option a lot of (or even most) of the time. A lot of straight women don't want to end up in a big house all by themselves, or have to raise kids all by themselves, so I think we need form more communities of women intentionally living together apart from men.

[bloodstuddedpearl]

i am against the sex industry as a whole. Women in my country are kidnapped in first grade, sold to brothels. Generation of uneducated women impregnated by their "customers" with no way to get an abortion have to watch their 14 year old daughters get pimped for survival. Lineage of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters selling themselves out of necessity. Drugged up girls and women beaten and raped in brothels, starved if they refuse "customers". Women and girls in brothels not getting any money. Women and girls all across the world sold, beaten, raped, killed, and forced to humiliate themselves for males. I do not care for the handful millionaires of onlyfans. I dont care about the privileged women who do onlyfans. I care for the forgotten women. The tortured women.

[dzdndcnfsd]

Fuck plastic surgery.

Fuck anti aging products.

Fuck "beauty" filters.

Fuck living uncomfortably for the sake of looking good.

Natural aging is beautiful and I will die on this hill.

[whjwiwowpwlsskwjwbwbkwkwlwnw]

isolating this very important note. homelessness and prostitution are linked in more than one way.

first of all, homeless women and youth are seen by many men as unprotected game. not only are homeless women and youth at an insanely high risk of sexual abuse and assault, they also get „offered“ regularly by random men that they will pay them for sexual „favors“. a homeless woman i know said this happened to her almost daily when she was living on the streets, men even asking her to go to the nearest backalley for a blowjob. she always declined, she said thats the last bit of humanity she has left. but it says a lot about the mind of the male sex buyer. for example, both homeless youth (male or female) and homeless women get offered to stay with men if they have sex with them.

both homelessness and prostitution are linked to a high risk of rape and either already having substance issues when entering or developing them because of it, and having faced abuse prior to losing/escaping housing or entering the sex industry.

both are notoriously difficult to exit, and the longer youre in it, the more difficult it gets. and the more numb you become to the hardship, mistreatment, abuse and assault you face.

men enforce a constant stream of new prostitutes by abusing girls and women as their partners, family or caretakers which makes them leave home. living on the street, theres not many options to ensure your survival: stealing, begging, or… prostitution. and since youre unwashed and got nowhere to go, men will use your desperation to save money; to abuse you for as much as they pay for a meal and a drink.

both homelessness and prostitution have a high prevalence of mental illness. mental illness can make it difficult to hold down a regular job, which makes women land on the streets and/or enter prostitution because sex buyers dont give a shit about your mental state as long as youre sexually available.

you cant be anti-capitalist and pro-prostitution.

prostitution advocates would put homeless women in a brothel before judging male sex buyers who exploit them because „the issue is the unsafe work environment and lack of regulations, not prostitution itself“. i can see (and im sure this has happened before) prostitution advocates praising brothel owners for taking in homeless women, giving them housing and a job, and after all, the homeless woman consented, and who are we to judge how she deals with her situation, right?

[womenvoices]

Standing up for your rights and safety is not disrespectful.

If a person identifies as trans, that honestly has nothing to do with me. I don’t think it’s truly possible, I think the ideology does more harm than good, and I think there are better ways to cope with gender dysphoria; however, it’s a free country and no matter how much I dislike it sometimes, people can and should be able to express themselves however they want.

I won’t tell a trans person how to live their life. I won’t argue with them about their own feelings and identity no matter how strongly I feel. That would be disrespectful.

Standing up for my rights and integrity as a woman ISN’T disrespectful, though.

To better articulate what I’m trying to say, I will list some examples:

Not letting a trans kid sit at the same lunch table as you and your friends just because they’re trans is mean. Asking a trans person to change in the locker room that corresponds to their biological sex is not mean. That is standing up for your right to a single-sex space.

Denying a transgender person service at an establishment because they are trans is wrong. That’s discrimination. Not permitting a transgender athlete to compete in the sports league/team that doesn’t correlate with their biological sex is not discrimination, though. That is simply reinforcing fairness, safety, and the integrity of said sports league/team.

A homeless shelter denying help to a transgender person because they’re transgender is cruel. A single sex shelter denying access to someone of the opposite sex and directing them towards a place that can help them isn’t cruel. That’s just protecting the inhabitants of said single sex shelter.

Bullying and harassing a transgender person is always condemnable. Expressing how you feel about a situation that affects you and makes you uncomfortable and saying things that are scientifically accurate is justified.

As humans, we all need to treat each other with kindness, but that does not mean that we need to let people walk over us and invalidate our rights and feelings.

[hadesoftheladies]

why you should have hope for separatism:

-this is one of the first times in history where women en masse are educated and (are expected to) participate in the working class which means now more than ever women are better equipped to take care of their own financial needs (even with all the tradwife influencers, not many women will be able to convert because house-wifery is strictly limited to the upper-class, which is shrinking more and more, so most women will always have to work anyways, and most women see this! even the ones that joke about being housewives/strippers are serious about their careers!)

-separatism is mostly non-action. it is strategic non-interaction with men or male media which makes it extremely accessible and easy to replicate across cultures. it removes women from exploitative relationships with men. this means the only thing you need to do to convince women to become separatists is attack the idea that their lives will be unfulfilled without men. and more women and girls are embracing that culture simply because of their experiences (and access to education)!

-late stage capitalism and the rise of blatant misogyny men display is radicalizing women. which means more and more women are open to living together and raising children together romantically/platonically. (literally every woman i've talked to who's unmarried lives with their parents or wants to live with women because men are genuinely an unattractive option--thank you men for showing your asses <3)

-the internet and globalization positions women from all over the world to share their experiences (and we have many shared experiences), which means consciousness-raising has never been faster or easier or more powerful!

-men and boys are failing and dropping out of school way more than women and girls which means that women and girls are on the way to dominating academia and relevant industries! women will make up more of the skilled workers in future job markets which means that women who are educated now will likely be better off and more pursued financially than men. women's influence in society is increasing! think about it. as much as male violence is increasing, male literacy and competence and skill is DECREASING (even nepotism or sexism will not be enough to fix that problem because hiring men will still result in profit losses and other financial inconveniences). in short, male culture is killing men!

-resistance to pornography and understanding the evils of pornography are also increasing. awareness of male violence is increasing!

please read more literature on separatist strategies and don't think whatever is happening on tiktok/IG is how all women think. most women irl are not stupid enough to trade in their jobs for prostitution because women don't actually want that. many women i've talked to in real life also don't want children (in these conditions or at all)! they aren't radfems but they still have self-preservation instincts and intelligence!

there is literally so many ways we can use the current sociopolitical climate to our advantage. it is too early to give up. like wayyyy to fucking early.

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Why is a woman's worth decided by her relationship to a man?

[dworkinsdaughter]

If men were held to Women’s standards in the workplace;

Joe, your tone is not melodic and high pitched enough. Do you not care about your job?

Peter, I noticed you never arrange any cakes for people’s birthday. Are you always this anti-social? Are you not a team player?

John, you’ve worn that same shirt for a week now, it’s sloppy and making us think you are unorganised. Please maintain a professional appearance at all times.

David, you look tired. No concealer today? Freshen up before work would you. We want to appeal to our customers.

Andrew, please make sure Jennifer has a coffee every morning. She is busy

Brad, you’re being a bit aggressive with our customer. Be sure to always ask how they are first before asking for payment. What are you? A bulldog?

Feel free to add more from your own life

[wit-witch]

yes, you can dump him for watching porn, that’s 100% valid

[thepeacepigeon]

The 4B Movement: How South Korean women are leaving the patriarchy behind 

(Getty Images)

In 2016, a 34-year-old man named Kim Sung-min waited inside a unisex restroom outside exit 10 of Gangnam Station, Seoul South Korea. Six different men came and exited through the restroom over the span of an hour, until a 23-year-old woman entered, and Kim proceeded to stab and kill her with a 12-inch-long sushi knife. In court, Kim stated, “I did it because women have always ignored me.” Kim’s actions and thoughts are not out of the ordinary amongst Korean men—violence against women is extremely common in South Korea. 

(BBC)

South Korea has a long record of female subjugation. Between 1953 and 2021, abortion was illegal in almost all circumstances, and current law allows a woman to get an abortion only if she has consent from a male relative or her boyfriend/husband/partner. A 2015 South Korean government survey revealed that almost 80% of women had been sexually harassed at work. A survey released by The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family found that 57.8 percent of women felt vulnerable to misogynistic violence. Digital crime and sexual harassment are extremely common— “molka”, up-skirt photos, and secret cameras hidden in restrooms are rampant, so much so that any cellphone purchased in South Korea has a mandatory chime when photos are taken. The World Economic Forum’s 2022 Global Gender Gap Index ranks South Korea at number 99 out of 146 countries for gender equality. Legislation actively works against women trying to report sexual assault. Men accused of stalking or harassment can “ask” their victims to drop charges, and in 2022 a man murdered his former colleague after she refused to drop charges against him for stalking her since 2019. South Korea has the highest gender pay gap of all the OECD countries—the top wealthiest 37 countries, globally, with women earning on average a third less than men. These alarming statistics have come years after the “Gangnam Station” murder, and South Korean women continue to be targeted for their gender.

(Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images)

Despite Kim’s own testimony, government authorities explicitly denied the misogynistic motive, and the prosecution announced that the case was not being investigated as a hate crime. Kim was eventually sentenced to 30 years in prison. In response to the murder, women took to the streets outside Gangnam station and the surrounding areas in protest. The women, many of whom had never considered themselves feminists or activists, but the nature of the crime and the misogynistic motivation, as well as the court's refusal to acknowledge it, outranged them. The murder incited intense debates about misogyny within the country, and the gender inequities women faced both socially and economically. Five months after the murder, Cho Nam-Joo’s novel Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 was published. The book devastatingly details an everyday woman’s daily experiences of nonstop sexism, inequality, and misogyny in contemporary South Korea, and served as another enraging eye-opener that would develop into what would become known as the 4B Movement. 

The four B’s (or “Four No’s”) of the movement represent the four major components that women of the movement are rejecting; Bisekseu (sex), Bichulsan (child-bearing), Biyeonae, (dating) and Bihon (marriage). South Korean feminists define the 4B movement not as a fight against the patriarchy, but a complete step away from it— leaving it behind. In 2017, the Escape the Corset campaign swept across the country. The word “corset” is used by Korean feminists as a metaphor for the societal mechanisms that control and repress women, for example, the extreme and toxic beauty standards. Both 4B and Escape the Corset condemn and reject the influence that beauty holds within every aspect of South Korean life. Pioneers such as feminist author Cho Nam-Joo, and photographer Jeon Bo-ra, who photographed women who shaved their heads in rebellion. Social media has played a large role in the 4B movement, with bloggers and beauty influencers like Lina Bae speaking up against unattainable beauty standards and societal pressures, and Summer Lee who was inspired to cut her hair, throw away her hyperfeminine clothes, and post pictures of herself without makeup. 

(Jean Chung/Getty Images)

Despite increasing conversation on women’s rights, feminism is still considered a taboo, contentious, or even “dirty” word for many South Koreans. It is often associated with “man-hating” and perceived as overly aggressive. The country's current president Yoon Suk-yeol has promised to close down the South Korean Ministry of Gender Equility and Family, and any other organizations that fund or support women and victims of sexual violence, claiming they “treat men like potential sex criminals”. A January 2023 article in the South Korean newspaper The Sisa Times reported that 65% of women in the country do not want children, 42% do not want to get married, and over 80% of those cite domestic violence as their key reason. As a result, concerns regarding the rising average population age and declining birth rate in South Korea have increased greatly. The country's birth rate is less than one per woman as of 2021, and the country saw less than 200,000 marriages. In recent years, the South Korean government has commissioned a number of soap operas and reality TV shows to promote an idyllic view of romantic heterosexual love, and to encourage marriage and reproduction. 

(Yonhap)

The 4B movement and Escape the Corset campaign have had a tremendous impact on the way young South Korean women view the countries cultural grip on women’s appearances and lives. Between 2015-2016 and 2017-2018, Korean women spent over 5 billion Korean Won less on beauty products and cosmetic surgeries, instead investing their money in cars and choosing independence over objectification. The movement is calling for boycotts of any business that uses sexist advertising, and encouraging women to eat at women-owned restaurants, drink in women-owned bars, and shop at women-owned stores—women’s money goes into the pockets of other women. Women’s universities have also been on the rise in South Korea, with most cities housing one or several women-only institutions. Similarly, women’s only spaces have begun to expand, women’s parking spots closer to entrances and exits in parking garages, women’s only hotel floors and common rooms, and women’s only subway cars. These spaces allow feminism to spread and flourish, and give Korean women the ability to find community with other women without the interference of men. 

(Ian Baldessari/CityLab)

Since 2016, Exit 10 of Gangnam Station has become a symbolic site for South Korean feminism. The South Korean feminist movement developed out of particularly misogynist conditions within their country. The 4B movement represents a radical way that women have sought to create an online and offline world devoid of men—rather than engaging in arguments and altercations, they simply refuse to interact with men in every aspect of their lives. These actions have had a profound impact on the functionality of South Korean society and have opened an uncloseable door too the discussion of women’s rights. 

McCurry, Justin. “Calls for Stalking Law Overhaul in South Korea as Woman’s Murder Shocks Nation.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 23 Sept. 2022, www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/23/calls-for-stalking-law-overhaul-in-south-korea-as-womans-shocks-nation.

Teehan, Katie. “What Is the 4B Movement?” Service95, 16 Apr. 2024, www.service95.com/4b-movement-explainer/.

Izaakson , Jen, and Tae Kyung Kim. “The South Korean Women’s Movement: ‘We Are Not Flowers, We Are a Fire.’” Feminist Current, 16 June 2020, www.feministcurrent.com/2020/06/15/the-south-korean-womens-movement-we-are-not-flowers-we-are-a-fire/.

Lee, Min Joo. “Why so Many South Korean Women Are Refusing to Date, Marry or Have Kids.” Yahoo! News, Yahoo!, 15 May 2023, news.yahoo.com/why-many-south-korean-women-123250959.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHmBVorK4v6bdzwcJMRyRdXkKtzUlpQYWn5Ot-BPzs-YRNNZFW5JBwC65OTaPrRImn3F3G56r0gfNydadUzlQtPS61hOi6uggk_OkwZqqvLvS-YN4HbPrpwKvK9_7g0e9yqu9fiRRvOVJkGRv__L7AZGoYtfHVxjKLLPDi9DI2fu.

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[woman-eternal]

I don’t even have a problem in theory with the “reclaim femininity” thing, if by that you mean that girls should be encouraged to separate themselves from the male gaze, delight in their natural beauty, and take up hobbies that are often dismissed by men (art, poetry, reading literature, knitting, recreational cooking, etc). Like just reclaim the wonderful unique subjectivity that belongs to you as a woman, that same precious subjectivity which is denied to you when you’re forced to live your entire life around what men find hawt.

But that’s just not what the reclaim femininity “movement” is talking about. All the articles are about how to wear skirts and expensive perfumes that will make men like you more. It’s still about men. To them “reclaim femininity” doesn’t mean we should let women be real, flesh-and-blood women instead of objects. It means “let women be objects uwu”.

[mikasasrippedtoenail]

Calling Lesbians' attraction to vaginas a mere genital "preference" erases the sheer violence behind corrective rape of millions of sapphic women. I do not just "dislike" dick, I am physically uncable of being attracted to it. My allure to the female genitilia is not a choice, it's my biological reality. Dismissal of same-sex attraction as a choice reinforces the homophobic ideology that attractions can be altered and also paves the way for discrimination. One cannot opt out of their sexuality, they are always born with it.

[butch-reidentified]

and it's NOTHING but pure homophobic/lesbophobic BIGOTRY to assert that lesbians being actively attracted to female anatomy and incapable of attraction to male anatomy means that we:

are attracted to and/or want to sleep with EVERY woman just because she has the type of anatomy we're attracted to

would be attracted to or satisfied with a "disembodied vagina," something I've actually seen TRAs say. I've even seen "why don't you just date a fleshlight or whatever?" which legitimately haunts me

are reducing her to a "walking, talking vagina" (as I've heard multiple times)

are fetishizing vulva (if I were you I'd check the definition of paraphilia/fetish before embarrassing myself further as it explicitly does not apply to interest in specific genitals - plus, attraction and sexual obsession are not the same thing at all)

should be able and willing to be with the opposite sex as long as they've had "bottom surgery"/ignore all the things about "neovaginas" that are "off" in order to prove our inclusivity or whatever. this is STILL just a reworked form of CONVERSION THERAPY.

Lesbians do not owe any male any attempt at attraction, romance, or intimacy, no matter what changes he's made to his body.

[opabiniawillreturn-deactivated2]

this is gonna be a bit of a ramble but the best way to get comfortable with your naked body is to exist in it. take every chance you get to be naked. eating, sleeping, doing chores, etc. while naked will let you experience your body outside of how people view it.

you'll quickly find that the rolls, wrinkles, dips, and marks are just how your body exists in its natural state. you'll stop noticing your stomach rolls when you lean forward, you'll stop worrying about how your thighs spread out when you sit down, you won't think about your stretch marks showing, etc because you've seen it all! you've learned subconsciously that your body just does those things

simply existing in your natural state will help you with your insecurities so much, I promise you. it takes time, especially if you're more insecure than others, but it will do so much for you to actually practice body neutrality alongside advocating for it.

[cryptogamist]

This is Meredith Emerson.

At age 24, Meredith was hiking in a popular section of the Appalachian Trail when she was abducted and eventually murdered by a waste of oxygen not worth naming. 

Her decapitated body was eventually found in a forest, and her head was recovered several weeks later many miles away. 

The reason I’m sharing this story is because I want you all to know that in 2010, two years after she was killed, Hustler magazine put in an open records request, a legal tool meant to allow citizens access to government records, with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to receive copies of the photos of the crime scene and of her autopsy.

Put another way: a woman was tragically, violently, murdered by a man, and then other men tried to sell the photos of her naked, dismembered, dead body as porn.

How have the men behind this inhumane, vampiric, woman-hating industry managed to rehabilitate its image so successfully? This was 10 years ago, well within living memory of most millennials. 

I can’t comprehend how someone could convince themselves there is anything but deep, violent, sexualised hatred women at the core of porn.

[sexisdisgusting]

those "gender euphoria" "stories" that are written like fanfictions are always like

"Today i was at walmart and there was a mean crotchety old BITCH of a lady who called me "sir" and then this really beefy, hunky, sexy guy who i hope is into dicks, please let him be gay, came to my RESCUE and said

"excuse me maam but this clearly female creature is the most beautiful specimen i have ever seen and SHE looks exactly like whatever specific anime character SHE kins maybe you should learn to not be a bigot"

and omg i just- 😭😭 faith in humanity restored

women arent our allies, men are! thank you men!!!! ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️"

and the replies will be full of shit like

"omg this is so empowering and this really happened im so happy for you"

"tbh i HAVE noticed men having better allyship than women 😅😅 cant stand those fucking bitches"

"Wow i need this to happen to me"

[maledepravityarchive]

I don't think men who consume porn should be allowed on juries (for trials on sex crimes). If a woman who has been raped is "too biased" for cases involving sexual assault, then a man who gains sexual pleasure from violent, degrading, humiliating, misogynistic content that's been PROVEN to reduce empathy in men towards women who've been raped (and women in general) and leads them to believe victim blaming myths about women and sexual violence (ex. being hurt turns women on, women unconsciously want to be raped and put themselves in situations where they're likely to be hurt, rape is not that traumatizing and easy to get over, etc.) are also too biased.