I guess it's about time I make another intro post, as I just realized that I still had my temp post pinned from back in July. Oops.
As you may have guessed from my blog name, this is my 5th attempt at a blog. Others have been wiped, shadowbanned, or outright banned.
I'm an undergraduate student pursuing a degree in social sciences. I won't get too specific, as my program is a bit niche. I have a minor in feminism.
I can be rough around the edges at times because I am passionate about my beliefs. A few things you need to know if you're gonna interact with me:
I am a radical feminist.
I am a gender abolitionist.
I believe feminism is a movement by and for women. Men cannot be feminists. Some feminists think they can be allies, but to be frank, I doubt it. Feminism is not about catering to men, it is about female liberation.
I am anti-sex industry (therefore anti-porn).
I am anti-beauty industry. This includes anything women are socially pressured into purchasing or doing in order to fit in. Ex: makeup, hair styling, shaving, most skincare products, impractical clothing, etc.
I believe bitch, cunt, slut, whore, pussy, etc are misogynistic slurs and should be treated as such.
If you disagree with me on any of this, it isn't pointless to argue at all. I'll hear you out. Anons are on as well.
That's pretty much all you need to know about me to understand my perspective on certain issues. The rest can fit in my bio.
This is where the intellectual dishonesty of TRAs truly reaches unforeseen lows.
Adult human female is a meaningless term, because no one knows what an adult is, nor what a female is, and I suppose no one knows what a human being is either? Words don’t actually have any meaning. Except, of course, for the ones this woman is concocting in order to communicate with me right now. How convenient for her. Never have so many people collectively decided that being stupid is clever.
I need people to stop glorifying the 4B movement in Korea, from a Western (white) perspective. Stop it.
If you are blissfully unaware of this (having not been on TikTok) - in theory, it makes sense.
No sex with men, no dating men, no child rearing with men, and no marriage with men.
But. BUT.
Feminists in Korea are problematic AF. I know this from both personal experience (having been on the receiving end of their ire online) and everything I've read about them, in Korean.
I see all these white TikTokers (and even some in the Korean diaspora) fawning over how "we" in the US need this and, no.
If your feminism is transphobic, hates gay men, hates men in general, that's not the feminism I'd endorse.
Why is Korean feminism transphobic? In 2020, Korean feminists ACTIVELY CAMPAIGNED AGAINST a woman who was accepted to Sookmyung University. An all womens' university.
But she was a woman, you say. What could be their problem?
According to Korean feminists, they didn't want a "man" in their space.
Because she is a trans woman.
This is not unusual for Korean feminists.
Having lived there for 5 years, to some extent, I understand their anger against misogyny. But if you are truly against the toxic patriarchy that exists in Korea, you must also help dismantle military conscription because that is where a lot of men become radicalized, bullied, etc etc and "grow up" to be the most toxic form of men seen on this earth.
But Korean feminists don't give AF about that and in fact, I've read a lot of them express that it's good for men to suffer.
Guess what? That view is internalized misogyny and toxic patriarchy, too.
And I don't want to hear it about the movement being so "young". Korean women have stepped up to the plate before in our history. We are capable of better than this fucking nonsense. It's a bunch of transphobic, gay hating radicals that have hijacked what was supposed to be about social justice.
WOMAD (link is to the Wikipedia article, not their site) and Megalia are the two sites they stem from. It is the most toxic group of people I've ever had the displeasure to encounter online. Any form of criticism is, at best, ignored and worst - I've been "called out" for being Korean-American, and therefore, to "butt out" of "Korean issues". Amongst other bullying I've personally received. And yes, not just on forums but on public articles that I've commented on.
I know it's a catchy title and it appeals in theory but please, please do not glorify these transphobes and TERFs. They don't deserve your attention.
Lmfaoooo. Imagine complaining about a movement, inspired & rooted by radical feminism, and one of the complains is “4B hates men”
Well… duh? Do you think the 4B movement (no dating, no marriage, no sex, no child-bearing WITH MALES*) is because they love men? No.
The fact you’re more upset about ‘transphobia’ and homophobia (from a website that doesn’t represent all 4B woman at all???) than you are with the reasons as to WHY the 4B movement is happening in the first place (Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault / Rape, Domestic Abuse, Femicide, Harsh Female Stereotypes & Expectations, LITERALLY SK ELECTING A MISOGYNIST) is…really telling.
Here is an article about 4B & Homosexuality (specifically about Lesbian) …
What do u think about the arguments of the brains on transgender people? I have seen that the standard response is "brain sex is not a thing". But I have seen that there is a great discussion between scientists about this and there are proofs that brains between men and women are different in some little ways. I also see this through autism lens, because I'm autistic and females are underdiagnosed and there is a discussion about it too: socialization or brain differences that make more easy the masking and faking neurotypical behaviour.
But of course, even if the brain argument is correct, I don't see how transition is the logical next step to take then. Like, is ur brain, u can take therapy and be gender nonconforming if that's the case anyway. Brain can be trained due to neuroplasticity and kids with gender dysphoria can be treated in a way to become more comfortable in their bodies.
Sorry for my poor english, I'm chilean.
Hi, thank you for your question. Don't worry, English isn't my first language either.
So, this is hard to answer. The short answer is that no, brain sex isn't real. If brain sex is not real, then trans-identified males cannot be born with a "female brain." I feel like this has been retired as an argument for transgenderism, as it's not only a nebulous concept but also goes against the concept that you can identify as anything you want (ie: no biological component to gender).
The long answer is that it's complicated. We don't know enough about the brain to fully understand which part does what, let alone what minute differences there may or may not be between the functioning of a male and a female brain. It's been proven that men and women use different parts of the brain to process the same information, so while there are no structural differences, there could be functional differences that we simply don't know about yet.
@woman-for-women has an excellent post about brain sex here (archive), and I'll use the sources she links as references for my next points. Go check out her posts, seriously, she's incredibly thorough and condenses difficult subjects into easy-to-digest infographics.
I'll first go over brain sex, why it's not real / not proven, and consequently why a male having a "female brain" is impossible. This turned out to be very long, so more under the cut.
In my opinion: the myth that males and females behave differently because of innate differences in brain structure comes from 2 things:
Logic / Common sense. If you present a man with a stressful situation, he will not react the same way a woman would. In our everyday lives, it's easy to assume that men and women are simply wired differently, since we have unique behaviours and thought patterns. Contrary to popular belief, most of this doesn't stem from innate biological differences, but rather from gendered socialization. It's hard for us to gauge what portion of our gendered differences is nature (innate) and which portion is nurture (socialization).
Anecdotal evidence and misconceptions about brain function. In the 18th century, it was discovered that a woman's brain weighs on average 5 oz lighter than a man's. This would lead the general public to assume that, since a woman's brain is smaller, this has an impact on her overall intelligence, which is not true.
Assumptions are often made in the general public and even in neuroscience when it comes to which part of the brain does what based on preexisting notions of what a man is and what a woman is. The study I just showed, for instance, was misconstrued in order to strengthen sex-based stereotypes.
What a surprise, my personal interpretation of my results just coincidentally happened to match gendered stereotypes that I was taught. How bizarre.
In all seriousness, this study and its methods have been ripped to shreds by people much smarter than I.
"As Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered Brain and outspoken critic of neurosexism shows, the hunt for proof of women’s inferiority has more recently elided into the hunt for proof of male–female ‘complementarity’. So, this line goes, women are not really less intelligent than men, just ‘different’ in a way that happens to coincide with biblical teachings and the status quo of gender roles. Thus, women’s brains are said to be wired for empathy and intuition, whereas male brains are supposed to be optimized for reason and action."
In reality, according to more recent studies with bigger sample sizes, men and women don't have significant differences in brain structure to conclusively say that brains are sexually dimorphic.
If you're a more visual person, here are the graphs from the first study, showing overall brain matter volumes and volumes for specific brain structures. The second study's visualizations are less easy to understand, as they're brain scans and brain tissue images.
These graphs are called bell curves, and they're used to demonstrate a distribution. Basically, the peak of the "bell" shape means that this is the most common value for a certain demographic, while the extremities are outliers or rarer values.
As you can see, "considerable distributional overlap" means that these bell curves are nearly identical in most brain structures. However, white matter, grey matter and total brain volume are different in men and women, with women in this study typically having lower numbers. This doesn't affect overall intelligence, as we saw earlier, or affect the overall proportional volumes of different brain structures. This is just a result of women having smaller skulls on average.
So, if there is so much overlap between the sexes, then why can't a male have a female brain? The graphs do have overlapping sections, don't they?
The thing is, brain structure is nearly identical in both sexes. Therefore, there is no typically "female" or "male" brain, but rather "unique mosaics of features" which aren't uniquely male or female.
A good analogy that woman-for-women gives is this: if a man's height is closer to an average woman's height, does that mean this man is now a woman? No, he is a short male. Being in the overlap of this graph doesn't mean that you aren't a part of your own bell curve.
This is a complex topic that was very interesting to look into. If you have more questions about this, feel free to send another ask or look into the sources:
Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic (archive)
The human hippocampus is not sexually-dimorphic: Meta-analysis of structural MRI volumes (archive)
Sex Differences in the Adult Human Brain: Evidence from 5216 UK Biobank Participants (archive)
Delusions of gender: How our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference. (archive)
need TIFs to understand that it is not supposed to be condescending when we call them female.
"oooh terfs harm trans men too because they don't see us as the manly capable strong men we are! they see us as naïve weak [implication: inferior] women who can't make decisions and can do no wrong!"
radfems do not view females as the inferior sex; drawing the conclusion that we mean to insult you by calling you female comes entirely from your internalized misogyny.
Every female centered tag goes through this atleast once a year and it's so fucking frustrating. Fuck men and fuck the dumb trans identified men especially
This has little to do with the actual game, so this should be understandable to anyone! I wanted to share this.
If you don’t know what ‘headless women art’ is, it refers to a trend in which women are depicted without heads in art and decorations. This disproportionately affects women and the excuse is generally that it is body-positive, but the feminist argument is that is dehumanizing and normalizes women as unthinking objects. Here are some examples via @thatsonemorbidcorvid :
Now she has many examples in drawings and paintings, but in my collection, I sticked to objects- which I find more creepy, less defensible, with less male counterparts.
In the Sims 4, you can build houses. You can create and download custom objects for your game, and you can download houses which have these custom objects. I’m not sure about the actual, official game, but when you download custom, fan-made content- this stuff is EVERYWHERE. Recently, I’ve been obsessing over looking at different buildings people have made for the game, but I got so tired of seeing this type of art that I started to collect it. I have counted examples of men vs women. Using the same standard of what counts as headless art, I found 22 men and 117 women- still a considerable amount of men, but as a trend heavily geared towards women. There were a few that are debatable, usually because it was unclear whether male or female. There were some that I debated counting because while technically having a face, they still felt as if they could count- but to keep it simple, I didn’t. When it comes to headless people in art such a paintings and drawings, I found it to be pretty equal, and didn’t count any towards the count. I noticed that women are usually more sexualized in general art such as this, however. For fairness, I will add that busts and sculptures that were just heads, it appeared to be mostly men, which could be argued is also dehumanizing/ornamentive. However, for the most part, these men were given expressions and a face. And when it came to full-body sculptures, it appeared equal as well.
Anyways, behold… headless women art.
There are a bunch of duplicates in my count, the same objects used multiple times. I found about ~18 unique headless women and about ~7 unique men- it’s a bit hard to tell the exact number though. For the men, 3 of the 7 showed up only once, 3 showed up two times, and the other object made up all the other appearances of headless men.
Notice how similar the in-game objects look like the actual ones- I think some of them might be modeled after real-life art too.
Now, here are some the men.
9/22 times a man appears, a woman does, as well. Either because they are placed together, or because they are part of the same object, like in the second photo above.
Out of the 7 headless male pieces, at least 3 looked less like they were intended to be placed in a house as-is and more like very old objects, such as the one below. But to be fair, these only showed up a couple times.
I considered not adding to the main count ones were museum objects or in art workshops, things that may not be finished or “complete” but did so anyway. There were a couple of those for male and female. Here is one such.
Here is one that I wasn’t sure about including or not.
This photo is a bit blurry, and I couldn’t in good conscience count it- maybe most people would, as it’s a humanoid shape more female in appearance than male, but the quality isn’t good and there’s enough room for doubt. I wanted to be sure I was fair. There’s a bunch of tinier things next to it that could also be headless art but are even harder to make out.
These figures appear to be breasts, but again, room for doubt. I’m honestly not sure the intention, but if you want to add them to the count, it appeared 6 times.
These weird legs showed up twice. Honestly, they’re very close to being counted.
Now, this does show a bit of face, but since it’s still somewhat covered and degrading in nature, I considered adding it. It showed up thrice The problem is that I don’t think I saved photos whenever I saw similar things for men, and so can’t accurately count. To be clear, I don’t think I saw anything for men that was the same as this or similar, but there were some that had only half a face. Here is one example that was next to a headless women.
There is the male-looking face with plants coming out of it, which I saw quite a few times. There were a couple like that for women, but the question is, if I count the lamp women, do I count this? The main difference is he has eyes, and most of his head is there, giving him individuality, so can’t really be classified as headless. I can’t count these, but I can say there wasn’t really an equivalent for men other than the weird object I showed before with a man and a woman, that could be interpreted as a lamp I suppose.
There’s also whatever this is supposed to be, which I saw twice. A less obsessive person would probably count it, I didn’t. At first I thought it had breasts, but it might be eyes.
I will also note that I saw plenty of headless mannequins and silhouettes, virtually all coded female, but didn’t count those.
Here’s some other… interesting things.
Does she have a head? Yes. But is this objectifying? Also yes. And again, there were plenty of male fall-body statues, as well as female, but those were dignifying and artistic in nature. But among these types of high-art, modern objects like this, where you have to wonder the point, all I remember are female. They all appear in an unnatural manner. There are a few male-looking heads as well, however-
Here’s what I would consider the closest alternative for men. You can even see the second photo has much of their face missing, as much as the women with the lamp head! Is this as dehumanizing? You decide. There were a few statues of women that were just heads, but none as big and not as many that had missing pieces like this.
None of this is in the final count, but it’s something I found interesting to think about. The last 3 pictures were all made by the same person, but I’ve seen stuff like this used in buildings from other people. I didn’t save everything like this, so I can’t compare or count how many appeared, this was just a couple I remember.
Anyways, that’s it! I thought it was super crazy. When I decided to start counting, I thought it would take a while to find any headless women art but it didn’t, at all. Most of what I have screenshots of is the more realistic style of building, because that’s what I prefer, but near the end I started looking more into styles that match the original games graphics. There was probably a higher ratio of men to women when compared to the other style, but still more women in general. This is a plague for real.
ANYWAY headless art spam because I couldn’t include all the pictures I wanted
They love headless women so much they had to put two by their bedside
Just what you want when you eat! Two beautiful views!
This is in the same house with all the male heads- so don’t worry they got headless women too!
Just… so tasteful!
Just sitting there among the rest of the decor!
But that’s okay since here’s some men too! Even though it’s basically the same headless man over and over again, so clearly the demand isn’t high, and he’s with a women half the time…
a comprehensive list of everything Pliny the Elder had to say about periods
Pliny's first century encyclopaedia, Natural History, had an entire section on periods. and literally everything he had to say about menstruation was incorrect.
if you take off your clothes while menstruating , it can stop whirlwinds, lightning and storms at sea
but it will also kill young plants and vines such as ivy and rue
on the plus side, if you walk barefoot through a field while menstruating, it will cause all the bugs to fall off the crops
don't do this too early in the morning or it'll kill all the crops too
don't touch beehives when menstruating, or the bees will leave
avoid period sex with during an eclipse because that'll straight up kill the guy
"matters of a most dreadful and unutterable nature" (worse than the above)
laundry will turn black while you're boiling it
cooking or doing the dishes will make the pans greasy and smelly
touching a razor will blunt it
looking in the mirror will tarnish it
but dw if you stare at the back of the mirror for a bit it will go back to normal
being near a dog while menstruating will drive it mad
touching pregnant horses will cause them to immediately miscarry
if it's your first period, even *looking* at the horse will make it miscarry
on the plus side, this property of period blood means you can mix it into contraceptives to make them more powerful
anything purple that you touch will immediately become dull
literally
even the ash from burned fabric which touched menstrual blood will make your purples fade
in Judea, specifically Judea, menstrual blood can cut the flow of bitumen
even swords made of steel can't do that
relieves gout when spread on it
mix with rosewater and apply to the temples to soothe a headache
mix with wool of a black sheep to cure malaria
put on a cloth and wear in your clothes to cure rabies
yes that directly contradicts the mad dogs thing
he wasn't consistent at all
smear on someone after an epileptic seizure to revive them
touch facial sores or boils to cure them
neutralise spells by evil wizards
simply smear menstrual blood on the doorframe and the curse is gone
luckily all of this can be averted with one weird trick: carry a red mullet fish with you, always
you can read Pliny's menstruation chapter in its entirety here.
This ‘non-binary’ male twitter user has been stinking up my fyp recently.
Isn’t it crazy that ‘leftist’ misogynists love to yap about how bad bioessentialism is when that’s literally the basis for their misogyny?
This is the same man who claimed sex work would still exist in a socialist utopian society and anyone who suggests otherwise is a SWERF..
God forbid women mention bioessentialism when talking about their own oppression. You oppress someone on the basis of their biology - they are obviously going to fear you based on YOUR biology. No one cares that you’re non-binary
Once again TRA trying to forbid biology entering the conversation about sexism. Because they’re so desperate to distance themselves from being male in order to mask blatent misogyny.
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.
