the female eats the male

Side Blog to gather receipts for real life radical feminism/gender critical discussions. Over 30. And yes, female octopuses do often eat the males after fertilization.

[kkoffin]

funny how being misogynistic but trans-inclusive is “a better way to hate” and when andrew tate said trans women are women i saw people saying it’s his “redemption arc”. meanwhile being feminist but not including trans identities is literally fascism and we literally need to brutalise, rape and kill the feminists involved

[ruthiepenn]

Thanks @_ibatullin_ildar_.

[radflag]

i swear, now that i’m in university and now that i’m a radfem i hate studying illuminism. when i wasn’t that aware of the hatred that men had and have towards women i was like: “oh wow the revolution cool” but now i’m like ... wow men are always opposing slavery except when it’s about women. this happens every time in history and that’s why i don’t believe in ideas about freedom and revolution when it comes from men.

[rad-octopus]

"Men are communist, socialist, or anarchist from the waist up" -Antonia García

[hugewoman]

Studying the enlightenment era as a woman is nothing short of depressing and disappointing.

All of those men who called themselves polymaths and geniuses, who had such well rounded educations in science and philosophy and government, who made networks of fellow scholars and intellectuals and were directly involved in growing literacy rates bc of the sheer volume of letters and pamphlets and books and treatises they published, who had a hand in society evolving and becoming curious, none of them gave a single solitary thought to women in an academic sense unless it was to espouse how foolish and inferior we are or that we are submissive and servile by nature.

(DON’T try and comment about Nicolas de Condorcet as a gotcha, I know he was an early male feminist but he was an extremely rare outlier)

Those men acted like they were god’s gifts to society, like they were brave heroes defying the church and the king and the institutions, pioneers on the frontier of scientific and mathematical and philosophical discovery, but the second they got called to task for sounding even marginally too anti-church or anti-monarchy in their writings they apologized and toed the line and wrote retractions or edited their manuscripts. They were only anti-monarchist until a sitting monarch sponsored them and took them in as favored members of their court. They were only anti-church until they actually upset the church and risked being jailed or executed for heresy.

Ultimately they were cowards and hypocrites. They called themselves humanists and abolitionists while owning slaves, they talked about how the church had it wrong but how there was obviously still some kind of divine creator, they talked about economics and poverty and the exploitations of labor but they were mostly lords and aristocrats themselves, they talked endlessly about the human condition and they didn’t bother to consider or consult the other 50% of the living humans on the planet alongside them.

None of them would have been able to produce the sheer amount of work and writing as they did if any of them had ever washed a single dish or cooked their own meals or did their own laundry. Their “genius” was literally only possible because of the uncredited labor of wives and servants who took care of them daily and allowed them to work nonstop. (PLEASE read who cooked the last supper by Rosalind Miles)

Some of them (I’m looking at you Jefferson and Voltaire 👀) went so far as to pat themselves on the back for being enlightened egalitarians while simultaneously writing literal examinations on what they believed was an objective inherent biological inferiority of black people

That type of cognitive dissonance is identical to the way liberals today will preach culture relativism while conveniently ignoring atrocities done to women and girls all over the world in the name of religion and faith. They’ll say in the same breath that circumcision is wrong but that female genital mutilation and child marriage are important cultural traditions that we can’t possibly ethically interfere with.

Modern men are so much closer to the mindsets and actions of their forefathers than they will ever realize or admit

[finnglas]

I keep seeing inspirational tradwife adjacent mass-manufactured art using the phrase Nevertheless, She Persisted, and every time I see this, I want to just like. Take a marker and footnote it to remind everyone that this phrase came from McConnell censuring Senator Elizabeth Warren who was speaking out against the confirmation of noted racist Jeff Sessions as the Attorney General in 2017.

So since that was almost 10 years ago and some people may not know or may not remember, I'm footnoting it here so every time Y'ALL see it in tradwife adjacent mass-manufactured fluff-feminist artwork, you too can remember that it doesn't reference just anything, it references a woman speaking up on behalf of vulnerable and endangered populations and being professionally rebuked for it--and persisting anyway. I think it matters.

[apologynics]

Being a crypto in academia/women’s studies specifically is so funny bc your department will release a statement saying NO TERFS!! and then at the same time be like wow your (very much radical feminist) point about (bioessentialism, socialization, etc.) is so insightful!

[radkindoffeminist]

People like 80-90% of radical feminist talking points when you don’t label them as radical feminist talking points. Why else do TRAs say that we’re dangerous and not to be engaged with or deeply manipulative with dozens of dog whistles? Because the majority of our talking points are completely reasonable and ‘normal’ feminist points, and once women realise that they peak.

[offshoreoilrig]

it's lowkey so cringe but i literally need a sense of duty and honor in my life

[rad-octopus]

I see the NYT games people are cowards

[rad-octopus]

it's fuck fascism friday

[anarchistsoup-blog1]

[lost-in-fumes]

if "29" is your idea of an older woman you have a flickering pale aura and you will not survive daylight saving time

[cineemaa]

women + cowboy hats in cinema

austin powers: international man of mystery (1997) gang of roses (2003) i still know what you did last summer (1998) the texas chainsaw massacre (2003) the quick and the dead (1995) urban cowboy (1980) showgirls (1995) gonzo girl (2023) hannie caulder (1971) bandidas (2006) bad girls (1994) el topo (1970) brokeback mountain (2005) biker boyz (2003) i believe in unicorns (2014) once upon a time in the west (1968) annie get your gun (1950) calamity jane (1953)

[11thfempachi]

conservative women are NOT fucking allies to gender critical cause even if they appear to be reasonable on the surface. women who will stand against abusive transgender males will side with regular ass cis male rapists pedophiles and wifebeaters ALWAYS. they do just hate trans people, simple as that

[11thfempachi]

Michelle duggar going crazy over trans women in changing rooms like she didn't raise and stand by a child rapist is ridiculous. these women LOOOVE pedophiles. they hate crossdressers

[stoertebaker]

“Group of women having a smoke, gelatin silver print, c. 1896”

[fossilmaniacbrick-deactivated20]

What I put on my tumblr is between me and god. And the legion of lesbians that follow me

[young-replica]

[laurierrose]

every woman on earth needs to get as ripped as possible

[de-dmendontr-pe]

i think we can all agree that (physically) hurting other people is bad. it's not exactly a wild concept. so now my question is: how can it be any less bad if someone sexually enjoys the hurting? isn't that even worse? doesn't that person pose an even greater danger to others? why should we not kink shame, what's the argument here? i don't care if any consent was given by the person getting hurt, i am solely talking about someone who enjoys hurting other people.