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@rad-lesbian
“In 2020, feminism is as simple as buying the right products. It requires no thought, no critical analysis, and no changing any other behavior of your own. When everyone is a feminist, no one is. And the fallacy of empowerment basically stuck a whole generation of women with the idea that being hot is the same thing as being powerful, without realizing that if your power goes away as soon as men don’t want to fuck you anymore, it was never yours to begin with.”
- @kendallroy
women describing practices imposed on them at a young age and then reinforced by social pressure: I’m expressing my agency in doing this,
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.
"The buying and selling of bodily functions is a removal of autonomy, not an expression of it."
Just trying to understand because most of my friends are trans. Is your stance that women are only women if they have a vagina? Or rather, were born with one? Isn't that ... Pretty reductive towards women in general? I'm legit not trying to fight, just trying to wrap my head around it
So if I say that only people born with red hair are redheads is that reductive to redheads ?
If we did a survey on redheads but included people who dyed their hair orange to it, wouldn’t it be insulting to the specific lived experiences of redheads?
Also, why is it that only in transactivism you can choose to identify as an oppressed class at will ?
i'll never buy the "female celebrities (or frankly any woman) can reclaim/satirize sexual objectification by continuing to be sexy in a mostly conventional way" argument because it remains true that the most rebellious, most shocking, most truly subversive thing a woman in the public eye can do is simply exist in her natural body, i.e. stop wearing makeup, stop shaving every inch of her body, stop grooming her eyebrows, stop wearing uncomfortable clothing or any garment that requires tape or special undergarments or shape wear, stop wearing a bra, stop wearing high heels, stop getting cosmetic surgery. even just one of those things (all of which are acceptable for famous men to do), literally anything that implies a female body can and should just function as a body, is going to upset the masses 1000% more than any ~satirical~ sexy photoshoot ever could.
this is the men's vs women's outfits for the same 100m USATF competition. the men are wearing tight tank tops and shorts to the knee, the women are wearing pretty much bras and underwear. don't tell me this is about being aerodynamic. it's about sexualizing women. can you imagine if the men were wearing the women's outfits? they'd look stupid because we're so used to seeing women practically naked.
same sport. same year. same competition. look at the outfits.
tell me it's for moving easier.
same sport. same year. same competition. (also the women's one is also practically underwear with a see-through skirt that goes up all the time when skating)
Men’s Beach Volleyball:
Women’s Beach Volleyball:
The men’s and women’s gymnastics team posters, hanging side by side, at UC Berkeley.
It’s not just the uniforms and skin exposed (the men get to wear pants that cover their legs and feet and the women don’t, the women’s uniforms are glittery/sequined and the men’s are not) it’s also the posing (the men are just standing, the women are contorting their bodies into what I would guess are supposed to be enticing postures) and the styling (the women have their hair done and are all wearing makeup).
Yes, gymnastics is about flexibility, but it’s also about strength and athleticism. The men get to stand and thump their chests and chalk their hands. Why can’t the women do the same? Imagine if the men were posing like the women were. Wouldn’t it look ridiculous? Imagine now the men are also wearing glittery uniforms that show half their ass and leave their legs bare. The men are shaved and are all wearing makeup and hair gel in addition to the poses the women are doing, legs kicked high and quarter turns with arms flared. If you think that imagined image is degrading for the men’s team, then it is equally degrading for the women’s team too. You’re just used to women being degradeed.
hell yes
why don't you look at two women dancing and menstruating rock art by indigenous australians from the upper yule river, pilbara, western australia, and maybe you'll calm down .
nature is healing
im genuinely fatigued by male heroism in literature. no i do not want a "girl-coded" villain with floppy dark hair, i want an interesting FEMALE CHARACTER GOODDDAAMMNITTTT.
I want to see an eldest daughter fighting for her family's honor. I want to see a girl facing a moral dilemma prematurely, abandoned and decieved by everyone she trusted. I want to see her revolt at the betrayal of her superiors. I want a mother to see what a monster her child has become. becoming a fugitive from her own spawn. I want to see an old woman watch those she loves die because they did not heed her warnings. I want to see old prophetesses outsmart authorities and fight to stop the inevitable. i want a bunch of sisters braving the wild because they are the only hope of a small town. a pathetic heroine who only survives because of luck and charm. young girls with strong limbs because they're used to working in factories and farms, who can run far and leap over fallen trees. who can bat a ball and scale a wall. i want girl gangs, where teenage girls get up to no good until the consequences catch up to them, or not. i want socially awkward queens who lean on the advice of aunty-like advisors, be they witches or muggle. i want to see an older sister be betrayed by the brother she raised and it climaxes in a duel. i want to see the reverse, where the brother she raised becomes her second-in-command, strong and wise because of her and wouldn't betray her for the world. i want genius little girls that are kept in secret towers because of their prophetic dreams. who terrify kings because of their intellect. i want female spies and soldiers who are stupid and devoted. i want an arrogant heroine who gets caught up in a plot bigger than she can handle. a kind girl who inevitably breaks the world and destroys everything. i want her to be destined for doom and glory. I WANT HER TO SELF-DESTRUCT IN THE FACE OF HER OWN POWER. I WANT HER DREAMS AND HOPES FOR THE FUTURE TO INSPIRE A NATION TO CHANGE, ONLY FOR HER TO LEARN THE HARD TRUTH OF THE COST OF TRANSFORMATION. I WANT HER TO WRESTLE WITH THE ISOLATION THAT COMES FROM GREATNESS. TO DESIRE LOVE AND BE TOO SHREWD TO FALL FOR IT.
I AM SO FUCKING TIRED OF BOY ANGST YOU WILL NEVER BE AS DEEP, COMPLEX OR NUANCED AS A GIRL YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE HORRORS YOU'RE JUST A PARODY OF WOMEN'S LIVES GET OUT
When I was a little girl, I thought I should've been a boy. I didn't fit in with the other girls I knew and I didn't fit in with what I was told a girl was supposed to be like. Eventually, when I was 10 or so, I started thinking that I was a girl because I had the body of a girl. And as such, the other things people told me were clearly unnecessary to be a girl - they were all made up BS. That line of thought helped me with accepting myself for a very long time. But back then, I only knew of mainstream feminism, and as it's narrative quickly began to change around gender, I found myself trying to reconcile that old thinking with this new one about identification. I didn't want to be hateful or anything. I knew after all, how bad it was to feel like you couldn't be yourself due to your gender. But that old lightbulb moment I had as a kid, it stuck with me. I'd talk to an enby friend who explained it to me like, "I am nonbinary because I like feminine and masculine things", and all I could think was, "that is the most misogynistic thing I have ever heard". I'd read trans people talk about how stereotypes were good, actually. I saw a kids book about how a tomboy girl was actually a boy. All of that, while they still claimed that gender roles were bad. It was like I was going crazy. When I found radical feminism, and they viewed things in that same way, it was freeing. I didn't feel like I was doublethinking no more. I want to destroy gender roles, destroy gender itself. That doesn't mean biological sex will vanish. But the rest, the other "made up bullshit", it must go. (also I used my own boots to make this picture. It's one of my favorites I have made so far)
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Quentin Crisp in The Celluloid Closet | directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | from the book by Vito Russo | 1995
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few things annoy me more than those women on tiktok saying “feminism lied to me I work 24/7 and I’m still not happy” like ma’am feminism didn’t lie to you, capitalism lied to you and told you that making money is more important than developing hobbies and meaningful relationships.
you can’t blame feminism for your unhappiness with hustle culture, but you can blame feminism for that fact that you weren’t forced to marry a 45 year old man at age 11. you can also blame feminism for the fact that you’re allowed to wear pants, open a bank account, post your opinions online, vote, own a firearm, etc. place the blame where it actually needs to go rather than helping men try to take away every single basic human right women and girls have left please I’m begging
