i do not tolerate it!

seventeen, bi, rad-aligned, really cool girl, mixed race, south african,

[radfem06]

radfem06

i would like to start of by saying that i would love any type of discourse. as long as you remain respectful, we can talk about anything you’d like. regardless of whether i agree with you or not, by nature, i am a person who values the opinions of others if they are substantiated with reason.

disclaimer; supporting a statement someone has made does not mean i support with their views over all nor agree with anything they think or say outside of that specific statement.

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who am i

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a feminist. i am a feminist, maybe radical-aligned, however, i do hold opinions that those on the more radical side may not, or maybe even those in the middle, on the right, who knows.

- i do not support men’s rights. this men’s rights movement is completely and utterly bullshit, and i explain my reasoning further in this post.

- i love evil women. i am an evil woman, even. the love quinn-amy dunne type of girls are welcome here; i support you.

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a scholar. i am homeschooled right now with dreams of becoming an astrophysicist — or a diplomat, but i lean toward physics in the stars. i love writing, i have dreams of being an author, and i have many pieces i am working on, but it’s not something i’ll put all my eggs in one basket for.

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a woman. above all else, i am a woman. i will do everything in my power to protect women, to empower women on the basis that they are women, and to help women achieve their dreams, no matter how big or how small my difference will be, i will leave one.

[radfem06]

can’t find it now but a few weeks ago i saw quite a few people celebrating that jkr could go to jail for five years based on what she said about khelif, but these are the same people who are prison abolitionists and believe rapists can be rehabilitated. hm. is it possible you just do not care about women?

[annoyingradfem-deactivated20240]

In any job you can sue the person giving you a service for malpractice/negligence if something didn't go well during the service and it's their fault:

Someone can sue a lawyer if it's their fault their client loses the trial, or if they refuse to object when it's necessary, causing their client to lose the trial;

Someone can sue a plumber if they refuse to fix ulterior damage they might have caused and still demand money for a failed work;

The average worker can't just withdraw consent from doing their job. Why? because that's what they do for a living. They get paid for it.

Now, if you agree that "sex work is real work" and it's just like any other job, why shouldn't prostitutes be sued for withdrawing consent or doing a "performance" that didn't satisfy the customer enough? BECAUSE BEING ABLE TO SUE FOR THAT, WOULD MEAN LEGALIZING RAPE, QUITE LITERALLY.

No matter how you feel about prostitution, it's VERY dangerous to just see it as a regular job, because THAT'S the slippery slope we are already encountering in places like Australia, where prostitutes can get sued for an "unsatisfying performance" OR "withdrawing consent".

[ninilovesmusic]

porn is shit

i was remembering a conversation i had not so long ago with a male acquaintance. we were talking about pornography, and we both have the same view on it regarding that it's unhealthy. however, not even once did he mention the sexual explotation of women in the porn industry, how it revolves around male pleasure, depicts male genitalia as an instrument of harm and distorted the experience of intimacy. no, he only talked about how it was quick dopamine and thus resulted in male depression because they now felt the need to jack off every five seconds. because it's "unhealthy" for men and promotes unrealistic standards on THEIR bodies. and not just him, but every man i've seen talking about porn addiction almost always talks about how it affects THEIR intimacy. a proof of how they see the biggest issue as collateral damage because they're not afffected by it

[femalesdoitbetter]

everybody ganster until i say that my feminism includes only females because females are the only of the two sexes being historically oppressed. men in dresses are not and never will experience real sexism.

everybody gangster until i say that once we start letting transgender identified males into female spaces (ie: rape shelters, bathrooms, changing rooms, saunas) then soon all males will be welcome, whether they have good intentions or not.

everybody ganster until i have the most lukewarm feminist take on transgenderism that was widely accepted before men found out they could get away with hate crimes against women by pretending to be one of us.

[sapphsorrows]

the barbie movie and the culture around it was the ultimate libfem wet dream. shallow performative girlboss feminism that provided a brief feeling of change without any actual change.

[the-living-radfem-tribunal]

*long over-generalized speech about oppression and patriarchy that isn’t even the Sparknotes of feminism*

Libfem audience:

[gendercriticalthinking]

I think you guys are just jealous that an imperfect wishy-washy-could-have-been-more-feminist movie is doing a better job at getting girls and women interested in feminism and supporting each other than your angry tumblr posts tbh

[whjwiwowpwlsskwjwbwbkwkwlwnw]

it did? i havent noticed the feminist movement gaining any momentum since barbie. also whats the point of getting women and girls into liberal feminism when we already have enough girlboss ultras. and of course a million dollar movie will get more attention than a tumblr post? what is this

[chamomilechaos1999]

Yeah I don't think a film in which the main female character apologises to the main male character after he brainwashes her friends, steals her house, and tries to amend the constitution to cement patriarchy is getting girls interested in any kind of feminism worth their time

[rslashrats]

i hate that this is on “bad two sentence horror” because its actually good

[hairtusk]

Andrea Dworkin, 'Pornography', from Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1981)

[misandristmiku]

"Men aren't allowed to cry 🥺🥺" ok so fucking do it anyway? You're not allowed to rape either yet here you fucking are. Why are you obeying this rule and not the other one?

[cholulafem-deactivated20240514]

it's up to men to challenge their own fucking patriarchy, but instead they just blame women and bitch about how lonely they are

[redberryterf]

instead of uterus havers or birthing bodies you could call us the divine creators of conscious life

[sapphsorrows]

trans is an inherently spiritual belief. you believe that somehow, in an unfalsifiable way, you were born the wrong gender. i don't have to believe that. i have freedom of religion, and therefore freedom from religion. i am an atheist. i don't believe in god. i don't believe in weird spiritual gender woo. expecting me to refer to your spiritual gender instead of your biological sex is like expecting me to pray to your god and getting mad when i don't. sorry not sorry <3 i only care about material reality.

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

there was a tiktok I made a while ago basically saying "your abusive ex boyfriend is more likely a misogynist than a narcissist" and while most people agreed some said I was victim blaming(?) and that I couldn't know what their ex is like, and while obviously I don't, every fucking person describing their narcissistic ex is describing a typical misogynist. ask yourself, is this behavior you associate with narcissism directed at women or does he treat his male friends the same way? is his general functioning in life impaired?

many people don't seem to know this, but a mental disorder is NOT based on symptoms alone, it's based on how much the symptoms actually impair you in daily life. most people could look at a list of mental disorder symptoms and identify either themselves or someone else with them. as far as a narcissistic personality, we all know people who appear more self absorbed than others, but this is typically subclinical narcissism (presence of narcissistic traits without significant impairment of functioning) which is not a disorder. there is also a misunderstanding of what npd is. a narcissist is not a supervillain invincible to emotion. npd is a defensive reaction to trauma that lead to deep insecurity and fear of being seen as weak or vulnerable. so narcissists aren't actually "in love with themselves" at all and often are diagnosed when seeking help for other issues such as substance abuse resulting from their struggles.

this focus a lot of abused women in online pop psychology have on narcissism is particularly concerning because it completely glosses over misogyny which is literally a huge factor in violence against women. people really only know misogyny as a surface level thing. they don't know it can lead to family annihilation, for example, and is one reason most family annihilations are committed by the husband. it's always "this man is a sociopath" "this man is a narcissist" when the man's behavior is driven by ideology. I am so fucking tired of everything being tied to mental illness and left at that. you know what this leads to? courts "fixing" abusive men by...giving them anger management therapy. guess what? it doesn't fucking do anything because the problem isn't mental instability leading to anger, it's targeted, purposeful abuse. we are getting nowhere

[radfem06]

people who coddle men of colour in order to appear super woke and anti-racist are so stupid. right, because rape and FGM only happen in the west. it’s not at all helpful to women of colour to try convince us our men don’t hurt us. stop it. this is why women of colour are more as risk for domestic violence, because you pretend being black, hispanic, etc outweighs being a man.

[shedwarf]

when liberals say "real feminism" what they mean is playground-level egalitarianism. "I believe woman are equal to men," cool yeah true but what about worldwide female oppression. how are you going to contribute to achieving this world where men and women are equal. just saying it doesn't make it true. it's the equivalent of saying "I don’t see color," like how does that help anyone. it doesn't. it actually actively contributes to a people's oppression when you make it invisible and pretend it doesn't exist.

[museumofferedophelia]

"let men be soft and gentle" - No one's stopping them babe, they don't want to be.

It's frustrating that this line of thinking is addressed almost exclusively towards women, as well. Like women are the ones encouraging men to act like aggressive subhuman apes, when, in truth, men actually want to live out their secretly loving, benevolent nature. That they don't want to be arrogant and condescending and macho, but it's those mean women who force them to be. They're "not allowed" to be gentle.

Otherwise, it seems to blame the patriarchy. Like the "patriarchy" is some big, mystical, supernatural force that can compel men to commit atrocities that go against their conscience and ethos, rather than a structure created and perpetuated by men for their own benefit.

No one's stopping men from being soft and gentle. The reason they generally aren't is because they see greater benefit in subjugating women.

[potatopancakegirl-deactivated20]

I think it's so funny how people will bring up men's mental health issues to feminists like it's something we need to deal with. If you really cared about that issue you would work to solve it yourself instead of bringing it to feminists like we have any reason to care.

Feminism is a movement led by women for women it's not that fucking hard to understand

[radfem06]

it’s literally not our job. same thing when june rolls around and men cry it’s supposed to be men’s mental health month but is overshadowed by pride; i hate to break it to you, but if you need some kind of notoriety to bring up an issue, you don’t care as much as you think you do! and who causes men’s mental health issues, i wonder?

[soft-petrichor-deactivated20210]