[harrldan-deactivated20210712]

I think the worst thing about the pro sex work movement is the automatic assumption that any woman in prostitution or porn is consenting unless proven otherwise.

[antiporn-activist]

[gynocrattweetsandreceipts]

[cottaegecore]

“there are many children in afghanistan, but little childhood.” 

please consider donating/sharing this list of trusted organizations to help those in need. please add to the list as well.

women for afghan women 

afghan aid

sanitary products for displaced afghan women

[clementinieres]

Other links:

(National and international aid + direct aid)

Islamic relief

Rescue

children without borders and watan project

[woodwhittling]

ppl really hear about the concept of socialization and are like “but I am special and different”

[guerrillatech]

[bushcrafts]

It’s because women and girls are in more danger under the control of an insanely misogynistic group that regularly kills women for traveling alone, showing their faces in public, or going to school. Obviously Afghan men are also refugees, but don’t pretend the threats they face as a group are the same.

[ruletogether]

Please shut the fuck up oh my goooddd. This is some fucked up version of “male lives matter too”. Afghan women and girls face rape and sexual slavery, something that Afghan men not only will not face but they will be promised by the Taliban to keep them happy.

[ava-a-eq]

The Taliban is inherently a patriarchy so god forbid we want to protect the most vulnerable women first

No man is being forced to wear fabric over his face

No man is getting forced to marry an old dude at the age of 12

No man is getting acid thrown in his face for disobeying a husband

What an idiotic take

[anti-porn-unicorn]

We can’t save everyone right now so we have to save the most vulnerable first

[antiporn-activist]

[medusanevertalks]

“Frank found that an important reason for men to visit the clubs was that they provided a compensation for the decline in power that they experienced as their wives, partners and women workmates shed their subordination, began to compete with them and demanded equality. The strip clubs provided an antidote to the erosion of male dominance by institutionalizing the traditional hierarchy of gender relations. The men found everyday relationships with women ‘a source of pressure and expectations’ and described relations between women and men in general as being ‘strained’, as ‘confused’, or ‘tense’. One buyer referred to the ‘war between the sexes’. They sought respite from the problems of having to treat women as equals in the workplace too. One of Frank’s respondents, Philip, said that he was able to ‘let frustration out’, particularly about ‘this sexual harassment stuff going around these days, men need somewhere to go where they can say and act like they want’. Some buyers, Frank found, ‘desire to interact with women who were not “feminist,” and who still want… to interact with men in “more traditional” ways’. One of these traditional ways, it seems, is women’s unconditional servicing of male sexual demands.” 

— Sheila Jeffreys, The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade, 2008

[comrade-meow]

“We’re convinced that women feel good when they say “Hey, bitches!” to their friends, just as women accept saying “you guys” and “freshman”. But experiencing what we say or do as pleasurable does not make it harmless. As feminists taught us long ago, the personal is political; women who normalize “bitch” also normalize sexism. The pleasure they derive from using the term, whether as a female generic or as the old-fashioned putdown (”She’s a bitch!”) is an instance of false power (Kleinman et al. 2006). The person in the subordinate group may feel good about adopting an oppressive practice, but that feeling does not challenge an oppressive system.”

— Kleinman, Ezzell and Frost, Reclaiming Critical Analysis: The Social Harms of “Bitch”; 2009 (via medusanevertalks)

[radmeow]

[kronkk]

Before I say anything else, let me just make clear that I'm not so naive as to think I can change your mind. As a cis woman myself (you might not like this language, but bear with me), I understand full well your disdain for cis-men and the hell they've wrought upon women. I will readily admit that I am prejudiced against men, that I generally don't trust them and go out of my way to avoid them. That said, I understand (but do not condone) your doubts about trans-women, who you perceive as men. I get that. It isn't easy to believe and embrace people who you believe are your oppressors. I admittedly found your account through your Contrapoints ask. All I want to know is if you've listened - with an open mind - to the accounts of trans women who have taken the terrible effort to explain themselves? Contrapoints' Gender Critical video is an amazing example. I understand Terfs don't like the "trans women are women" slogan, and while I believe these words, I can see why. It feels... Reductive. Like it's missing something. But that's only because trans people are so tired of explaining themselves, especially when the interrogative party - be they Terfs, right-wingers - isn't listening. I'm not asking you to change your mind about being a terf, though of course I'd like that. I'm asking you to actually engage with the structured arguments of trans women, with empathy. Because even if you can't bring yourself to believe that they're women (women not like you, but women all the same), it would force you to confront that they are human, and that you can at least spare them the decency of using their pronouns. Thanks.

I have listened to "trans women". I spent the vast majority of my undergrad calling myself queer, even identified as non-binary, I was employed in the lgbt center on campus, I was the president and co-president of the "gsa" group on campus, I attended the trans group every week, I spent countless hours doing presentations on how to be a good ally to gay and trans people. I have a degree in women and gender studies. I was there, I was you, I screamed trans women are women, I organized a march for tdor.

I watched as our resources shifted. As the presentations I was required to do shifted. As my classes changed. I watched as I couldn't complain about my period with several other fellow natal women in the lgbt center without being taken aside and scolded after a TIM stormed off and complained to our director. I watched as our groups shifted our focus to trans people, who got so many protections on campus meanwhile I was being harassed in my dorms for being a lesbian.

I watched as I could no longer say "woman" in my women studies courses because it was 'exclusionary' even when we were discussing female genital mutilation. I watched as my fellow lesbians were told we were equivalent to nazis for not interacting with penis. I among at least 4 other women, both lesbian and bisexual, were sexually harassed by a TIM in the lgbt center and when we complained it was ignored. I listened to the "transwomen" there make fun of natal women. Hear how they talk about women, about how their hormones make them stupid, how they think it's so sexy to be catcalled. I watched as I began to see the same conversation therapy rhetoric I saw in the church.

I watched these people reduce womanhood to stereotypes. To makeup. To sitting with legs crossed. To a tone of voice. To "femme people".

I heard them talk about women like men do. That's why I am the way I am.

I watched a man I know with a lesbian fetish identify as nonbinary to try and date me and a friend of mine.

I have talked to "trans women"

I was friends with "trans women"

One day, I decided I was done watching. I was done standing by.

I will not liken them to women. Because they aren't. I will not feed rhe narcissism. I will not play into the idea that men can be women. Because they can't. They will never be. They will always see womanhood as a series of stereotypes. As a fetish. As a fun game. As nothing but parts.

Womens rights are being deteriorated. I will not stand by and watch.

It's not "decency" to use the pronouns they demand we use, it's bullshit, it's lies, and I will not feed into it.

Not when I am watching my rights and others be broken down and widdled away as a direct result of this "movement".

I am the way I am as a direct result of listening to "trans women".

And I am done watching.

[cunt-with-a-blunt-deactivated20]

okay some of y'all are leaning way too hard into some imperial "feminist" vibes re: afghan women and i thought people would enjoy reading from RAWA, Revolutionary Afghan Women's Association, which is an awesome women's org whose leader was assassinated a decade after it was formed

RAWA is constantly discussing both the Taliban/religious extremism AND us imperialism as major causes of male violence in their lives and advocate for an end to both

http://rawa.org/index.php

^^ this is their website

http://rawa.org/wom-view.htm

^^ this is a page on their website titled On the Situation of Afghan Women, which i screenshotted and will add hopefully right below this part of the post (it's been years and i still don't know how this app fucking works)

and!!!!!!!

http://rawa.org/help.htm

!!!!!!!!!this^^^!!!!!!!!!! link is their How To Help page (which will hopefully be updated in the coming days/weeks but is still relevant) which i will also attempt to include screenshots of below here:

any statement along the lines of "the US should have stayed longer" (even if you sandwich it with ""of coooourse we shouldn't have been there at all") is **not** helpful to afghan women because imperial forces are an active cause of male violence in their lives!! feminists in afghanistan have been consistently saying that women around the world can stand with them by opposing US and other imperial countries military and political involvement !

the amerikkkan government and military are founded on and organized around patriarchy, and both intensify male violence in anything they touch. women will never find liberation in these institutions!!!

[theresagooseinthemainframe]

Where are all the studies trying to get trans men to produce sperm? There are more trans men than women, surely their reproductive desires matter too? Their affirmation?

Where are the testicle transplants? Anyone wanna donate a seminal vesicle? Of course, we’d need to chop off a lot of penises. I’ll do it for free!

Or can we all just admit that men’s womb envy has gotten completely and utterly out of fucking control

[therearenogirlsontheinternets]

His reasoning (for letting the rapist of a 14 year old go free) was that there was only one victim, and he (the rapist) had no previous arrests.

[sisyphereantask]

So he’s let go because there’s only one victim….so how many victims does a rapist need to have before we actually punish him for being a rapist?

What is the process for having a judge disbarred? Then investigated….then arrested for the list of victims he most likely has….? Asking for a friend.

[lumberjackloverboy-moved]

Just saw a post abt lgbt city folk supporting rural lgbt kids that started with ‘listen up queers’ and I think that is the funniest fucking thing ever. I, a man who was spent half of my childhood in the rural south and bc of that hates the word, and the lgbt kids in my town who were called dirty queers and saw a gay kid beaten to death in 6th year, were just called ‘queers’ in the same breath as saying we need unique support from the community fhcjfjdjshshs

[lumberjackloverboy-moved]

I’m not saying that no one can use queer or anything like that, I’m just saying that if you’re gonna have a conversation about the specific kind of bigotry lgbt kids face in the rural south maybe don’t start by calling us a bunch of queers

[cheezits354-deactivated20201023]

The narrative that acts like feminists inappropriately insert their politics into everything while men mind their business is a farce. Men insert their politics and male agendas into jokes, television, journalism, children’s books and movies, toys, religion, social common sense, cultures, traditions, classrooms, the economy and the entire system of human living . The only difference is that the male has declared himself the voice of objectivity: going against men is challenging nature itself.

[louisevonsalome131629]

jk rowling: sex is real and you shouldn’t be fired for thinking that

liberal media: this might sound like an innocent statement, but it’s actually supporting the violent transphobe maya forstater

maya forstater: i will use preferred pronouns but i don’t believe that people can literally switch their biological sex

liberal media: this might sound like an innocent statement, but it’s actually supporting violently transphobic radical feminist ideology

radical feminist ideology: gender roles should be abolished because they oppress women, so claiming that conforming to women’s gender roles makes you a woman is counterproductive. while being gender non-conforming is great, it doesn’t change your sex

liberal media: this might sound 

[illalwaysbehere]

These are innocent, clear, direct statements. Liberals are the ones projecting meaning that isn’t there. It is not radical feminists fault you purposefully misinterpret everything they say. That is on YOU.

[louisevonsalome131629]

ya that’s exactly what my post is saying