[tra-archive]

Just watched a Ted talk where a woman talked about her experience in a religious cult and just…wow.

The parts about child abuse (“spare the rod” BS) and convincing children they’re evil were horrific enough. But the part that stuck out to me was when the woman said she (as a 6 year old) excitedly showed her grandpa her school report that said “she has strong leadership skills” and the grandpa read it out loud to 500 members of the community. She thought he was doing it because he was proud, but that asshole said in front of everyone “we don’t want women like you.”

I can’t stop replaying the “we don’t want women like you” part in my head. Women and girls are expected to be submissive, obedient pets to the men in their lives. There’s just something about a grandfather saying that to his own little granddaughter that’s giving me chills all over.

In case anyone’s interested:

[rad-babe]

This is a New Zealand based cult called Gloriavale. This women has done a few different interviews on YouTube talking about her time there.

[heterorealism]

[idgafanymoretbh-deactivated2025]

"I own you"

Notice how these monsters often wait until marriage to trap a woman so she can't leave as easily ? And then when they abuse you, you get "you should've picked better" from others as if scrotes don't lie about their intentions for YEARS

[niiwa-angel]

That's a common abuser tactic. It's also why it's so fucking hard for women to leave their abusers. Because they wait until you're invested and it's hard/impossible to separate yourself from them and then they show their true colours.

For some women, their abusers only take off the mask when they move in together.

For others, it's right after marriage.

For others, it's during the first pregnancy.

There is so much thought that abusers put into trapping their victims and that's why I will stand by the fact that domestic abusers cannot be rehabilitated the way an addict can. This isn't mindless, it's well thought out and carefully planned.

[rad-babe]

I am currently pregnant. Every appointment I have I am asked if I’m safe at home. My midwife was very explicit that they ask at every single appointment because it is the most vulnerable time of a women’s life for DV. I knew it was a thing but didn’t realise how bad it is.

[failfemme]

uh oh this pronunciation of polycules is gonna stick in my head for a long while

[johnpauljones]

it’s “believe all victims” until your lame white man blorbo who writes shitty books gets exposed as a predator. then suddenly it’s a right wing conspiracy actually

[unsentimentaltranslator]

It's been a long time since it was "believe all victims" with this crowd *cough* D*pp.

[catchymemes]

[rad-babe]

I got blocked by this account. Not all women apparently

[rad-babe]

Radfems(especially those who found radical feminism on tumblr): did you find radical feminism through ‘hate reading’ other radical feminist blogs?

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 29, 2023

[n-yks]

Percy jackson fans stay winning

[sapphistryyy]

Percy Jackson was always better than Harry Potter...

[appropriately-inappropriate]

Isn’t that the series that had Medusa fall in love with her rapist? Yikes.

[bwiththel]

Rick riordan? This is the hill we’re going to die on? Man who cosies up to and recommends the work of serial domestic abusers?

Edit, actually this is super fitting. Jk Rowling is a survivor of domestic abuse while Rick appears to be ignoring or glorifying it, and of course he’s the one everyone’s sucking up to.

[radlymona-deactivated20230319]

Remember that:

a ) if not Harry Potter’s phenomenal success, Percy Jackson should would not exist. Interest in children’s lit was almost non existent before HP.

b) While PJO is still an admittedly fine middle-school aged novel series, Heroes of Olympus is a shit series. Blood of Olympus has one the worst endings of all time, something literally agreed upon by the fan base when it came out. Trials of Olympus has never been widely read because of how bad it is. Pretending that he’s suddenly a great author is nonsensical.

c ) Riordan’s idea of diversity is writing shallow and stereotypical POC characters, who are nowhere as well developed as previous white ones. Leo Valdez, a 15 year old latino calls his (3000 year old) girlfriend mamacita.

d) Riordan uses Greco-Roman mythology as his basis for his series…and never once includes a main or even supporting ethnically Greek character despite setting his story in New York, which has one of the biggest Greek diasporas in the world.

e ) In-verse, major wars are blamed by conflicts between Demi-gods. The civil war is actually being the Greek and Roman camps. World War II was the result of the children of the Big Three fighting and Hitler was the son of Hades. In real-life Greece suffered immensely from WWII, with over 200,000 casualties from famine and almost its entire Jewish population killed in the Holocaust.

[iotaaurigae]

Adding onto B:

The Harry Potter series is the best selling book series of all time, selling over 600 million copies. Sorcerer’s Stone is one of the best selling books of all time, for fuck’s sake. Seven books, eight movies, eight video games, hell, even a theme park. There’s a modified version of Quidditch as a real sport, and there have even been a few species of organisms named with references to her books.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians has sold 180 million copies, with the series having five books total. Movies based on the first two books were released in the early 2010s, with a third movie never actually coming. There’s a Disney TV series being planned out now, set to release next year.

But sure, tell me how Rick Riordan was better than JK Rowling all along.

(And now that me presenting information factually and as unbiased as possible is out of the way, I would like to say that, in reference to the Percy Jackson TV series: series are where good ideas go to die.)

[athenawasamerf]

JKR is leagues above Rick Riordan. Her work is so much more refined, so much more complex and multi-layered, and SO MUCH more influential. There’s no way to compare them artistically or based on impact. The Percy Jackson books were fine, I even liked them a lot in middle school. In fact, my friends and I had a nickname system for each other based on the books (and mine was wise girl/Athena, hence this blog name), but we largely dropped it after that. It’s just not as impactful or important, the writing is very childish (it’s a children’s book series, so fair enough), and it doesn’t carry any deeper meaning or life lessons that keep you coming back to the books with fresh eyes as you age. It’s very much high-end fast food, while HP is a gourmet 7-course meal. There’s just no comparison 🤷🏻‍♀️

[rad-babe]

I have an entire tag called ‘anti-rick riordan’ talking about this exact stuff!

[rad-babe]

Radfems(especially those who found radical feminism on tumblr): did you find radical feminism through ‘hate reading’ other radical feminist blogs?

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 29, 2023

[badmath]

Looking at the tags and replies from my previous poll, it looks like a lot of people imagined various animals, so here's an updated poll. Bonus points for everyone who specifies exactly what they imagined in the tags/replies!

When you were a child, did you imagine a person/animal/thing running alongside your car? If so, what was it?

a real animal - flying

a real animal - non-flying

a fictional animal (e.g. Sonic the hedgehog, a unicorn, etc.)

an imaginary animal of your own invention

a real person (e.g. yourself, a celebrity, someone you knew, etc.)

a fictional person (e.g. Spider-man, Tarzan, etc.)

an imaginary person

multiple of these options

something else

seriously, what the FUCK are you talking about??

Voting ended onApr 30, 2023

[farm-lesbian]

how fucking hard is it to organize your terf blocklist alphabetically.

[rad-babe]

Radfems(especially those who found radical feminism on tumblr): did you find radical feminism through ‘hate reading’ other radical feminist blogs?

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 29, 2023

[rad-babe]

Radfems: where in the world!

Asia

Europe

Africa

North America

South America

Oceania

Voting ended onApr 23, 2023

Where do we all live?

Obligatory please reblog for more answers!

[rad-babe]

How old where you when you ‘found’ radical feminism?

Under 15

15-20

20-25

25-30

35-40

40+

Voting ended onApr 23, 2023

For curiosity sake! Please reblog if you answer so more people see this :)

[rad-babe]

I've just been scrolling through your blog for a bit and was hoping to ask some questions that come from a spot of genuine curiosity. Do you feel like feminist is like an umbrella term that includes most people that call themselves feminists? Would you be for the legalization and regulation of sex work so that things become more "above the board" and maybe be safer? Are you okay with paid pornography "from the source" like OF vs sketchy free porn? Do you feel like you mostly align with "libfems" when it comes to ideology or do you feel like they have a totally different mindset? Just curious on some different perspectives than my own.

Hi Anon, sorry I took so long!

I don’t think ‘feminism’ is an umbrella term because I don’t think you can just say ‘oh I’m a feminist’ and then do nothing to support women - or fight for things that harm women. I think in order to be a feminist you have to actually be for the liberation of women and work towards it (to what ever extent you can even it’s just your personal life/women around you).

I live in a county where sex work is legal. It doesn’t make it safer. We have a SW union, who fights to keep stats hidden and does little to help those in the industry. I support the Nordic model, and I support everyone who is in the industry (aside from like, the people in charge if that makes sense). I don’t think SW is ever liberating or a thing women go into on their own free will.

Im anti all p**n. ‘Homemade’ doesn’t get rid of the the risks such as the women/girl not knowing it’s been published. There’s been to many stories from OF of girls being pimped. Plus the whole ‘OF lifestyle’ is being sold as glamorous and amazing to young girls. It also doesn’t change the issues around men and po*n. I don’t think it can ever be feminist nor does it have a place in a society where women are like, respected in any way.

I agree with libfems on a few things (pro abortion for example) but as a whole I see our ‘brands of feminism’ as entirely different. I see a lot of libfem ideas as either anti-women or what I’d say a 14 year old should be thinking (I can do anything, girls are cool, girl power etc).

I also don’t like the ‘us vs them’ mentality in any situation so I’ll never say that I completely disagree with one group of another because we’ll have common ground somewhere. Even if it is tiny haha

Hope that answers what you wanted answered! Feel free to ask any follow ups or message me if you want clarification:)

[rad-babe]

You seem intelligent, well informed on topics, and very kind 💜

❤️❤️❤️

[deathology]

reblog if you want anonymous opinions of you

[humanloving]

pls pls