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If you can respect a religious woman not wanting to do X around male people because her religion tells her to but you can’t respect a woman who doesn’t want to do X around male people of her own free will you respect religious misogyny more than women
- Angela Hamblin, Sex and Love: New thoughts on old contradictions
It’s so important to differentiate between things that are devalued because they are associated with women, and things that are associated with women because they’re actually degrading. For example, sewing or being a thorough cleaner are useful life skills, which get undervalued because they’re seen as “womens work” by sexists. However, going to insane lengths to meet a beauty standard like paying thousands for cosmetic surgery, or being choked during sex, are expectations put on women because they are actually degrading.
Do the women of radblr regularly contribute to charity by donating their money and/or volunteering their time? Maybe people can respond in the notes with their favorite organizations to support?
I regularly donate money
I regularly volunteer my time
I regularly donate and volunteer
I donate and/or volunteer but only occasionally
I would like to, but I don't have the time/money to spare
I would like to, but I don't know where or how
I chose not to donate or volunteer
Do the you regularly contribute to charity by donating your money and/or volunteering your time?
I regularly donate money
I regularly volunteer my time
I regularly donate and volunteer
I donate and/or volunteer but only occasionally
I would like to, but I don't have the time/money to spare
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I volunteer with my local public adult basic education in the English language classes and I love it! It's super fun and rewarding. The classes have a mix of people from all over the world, who are all motivated to learn and excited for any extra practice speaking with a native English speaker. It's so rewarding to see them learn and improve, and I believe has a big impact on their ability to integrate into our shared community, as well as access better jobs and opportunities for themselves and their families!
Definitely recommend contacting your local ABE program about volunteer opportunities if you're interested! I've done this in a few different cities now and they were all happy to have me.
I donate occasionally, but I'd really like to get some reoccurring donations set up - just need to figure out which organizations to choose which feels daunting.
in retrospect I should have been a lot meaner to that man.
I did a little searching - she posted this video herself to Instagram, has been posting for months leading up to the surgery and has identified as trans for at least a couple years, is 19, and a college student with no cognitive impairment. This video was taken off her instagram, reposted with no context, and is now circulating among conservatives and driving outrage.
So yeah I still think this is bad for the usual reasons but also let's not contribute to harassment of this individual or infantilization of disabled people.
Book Review: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles
I read this with my feminist book club in spring last year. (Although the book club fell apart a few chapters in - might this have been the book's fault? (it wasn't))
This book is "The Women's History of the World" as the subtitle puts it. The author endeavors to reframe commonly held beliefs about history to center women and remove the bias of (male) historians. She starts with prehistoric times and continues through to almost modern day.
Unfortunately, I absolutely hated this book and I'm shocked that it is recommended as often as it is. Within the first chapter, there was an anecdote that interested me, so I did some additional research and could find nothing that supported the author's assertions. As I continued reading, I kept researching little bits that struck my curiosity and multiple times discovered inaccuracies such as the author presenting myth or opinion as fact, misrepresenting sources, etc. to support her narrative.
For example, she describes an archeological rock carving as depicting a woman being attacked - I looked it up wanting to see pictures, and both personally would never have interpreted it that way and could find no where on the internet where anyone else had ever interpreted it that way. Perhaps Miles just had a different opinion, but she stated it like fact and didn't present any justification.
Another example, she cites Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin for the fact that the native people of Tierra del Fuego would resort to cannibalism of their women before they would eat their dogs. That immediately seems like racist falsehood, so I looked it up. It was supposed to have been said by two native boys who had previously been taken by the Europeans. Within the same chapter Darwin wrote that it was impossible to get reliable information from these hostages and elsewhere calls one of the boys a known liar, so any reader using this source should see the cannibalism is unlikely to be true, and any further research would find multiple more trustworthy sources saying that it is not. I have to consider Miles' choice to repeat this this "fact" either willful misrepresentation and racism, or incompetency.
There are more, but I also couldn't keep researching every factoid. I just lost my trust in what the author was reporting to me and took the whole book to be questionable.
Beyond that issue, I also found the structure of the book to be disjointed and confusing. It's roughly chronological, but also by theme, and I couldn't keep track of what was happening at the same time in different places. It's an insanely huge undertaking to look over the entirety of history, and yet somehow the book felt very repetitive. She writes with a casual ("witty" as reviews put it) voice that I found grating. The first half drags, it picks up in the middle, rushes through the last chapter, and then just - stops. No conclusion, no reflection, just an abrupt (but welcome) end.
I will caveat my negative experience with a few things. I've never been especially interested in history, in part because I don't like the ambiguity that comes from interpretation of artifacts and limited records. Since I don't read much history, I'm not sure if some of the things I didn't like are really more about the genre than this book specifically. Also, the book was written in 1988, so perhaps there are things that were fine at the time and are just out of date now - although it was reissued in 2001 and the opportunity to make updates was not taken.
In summary, I recommend this book to no one. I found it inaccurate, racist, and poorly structured. I acknowledge that maybe there is some merit here that I didn't fully appreciate. If you're someone who did like it, I'd love to hear why. As it is, the only way I can understand the success and praise of this book is that the concept is so strong - people really want to read the women's history of the world, and I'm not aware of any other book that attempts to deliver it. Perhaps though, it's not a concept that is possible to do well in the length of a single book.
remember dworkin's works are going to be republished this year? i saw a picture of the cover for pornography and it's the worst thing i've ever seen and precisely what i was worried about and im trying to look for it, it's so ugly and probably something andrea would hate
i really really don't like it. maybe it's marketing and it's supposed to shock me. but i find it a little unsettling. the one for woman hating has the same vibe. the one for right wing women is fine in my opinion
mm, yeah, not really a big fan of the UK edition covers.
overall i prefer the US edition covers, but i still kinda hate the cover for pornography
I hate the UK covers so much wtf
I don't care if they were going for shock value or trying to be unsettling or whatever I would not want those images anywhere on my bookshelf or in front of my eyes every time I pick up the book
The US cover for Pornography is bad too but I can understand why they chose it in the context of the other two
Another year as radfemreader and I think I posted exactly one book review lol. I also didn't read as many feminist books as I wanted to. Unfortunately feminist bookclub fell apart for most of the year (but it's coming back - if you're in MN and want to join a radfem bookclub hit me up) and I just struggle to pick up nonfiction on my own time. Maybe I'll go back through my 2024 reads and at least review the specifically feminist ones.
I love hearing about people's dreams. Please send me your dreams and I will interpret them for you I promise I'm good at it (although it's harder without the context from knowing you and about your life)
“if you even so much as make jokes about sex involving urine kill yourself” Genuine question, why?
Because the porn addiction is too deep and all the jokes normalising the next humiliating trend in porn videos are sick and I have a daughter coming into adolescence in a culture that's already telling young girls that it's normal to be strangled and gagged and hit during sex because those were all the trends in porn videos for the past fifteen years.
Therefore, if your sexuality is so rotted that all that's left is previously normalised porn trends, you are a danger to women and girls. Your jokes are telling people urinating on someone is normal sex and not a humiliation forced upon women and girls in the porn industry (and don't pretend there aren't actual minors in the industry if you think there aren't it's because you don't actually care about this subject you just want to feel like a progressive by spreading pimp propaganda). And if you've pavlov'd yourself into finding urine arousing, I don't know that there's any help for you. You should just kill yourself rather than perpetuate the normalisation of the torture and humiliation of women and girls.
Twenty years ago it was ejaculating on women's faces. Fifteen years ago it was anal. Ten years ago it was forcing women and girls to deepthroat until they puked. Five years ago it was strangulation. Now it's piss.
Do you not see it? The progression from one extremely humiliating act to the next once the novelty wears off? How men in their groping search for cheap dopamine hits have literally perverted the act of sexual intimacy? All that's being left is a series of often painful humiliation rituals perpetuated by men and boys against women and girls.
…but it’s just dark humor tho… right? oh ok.
This man just detailed which professions to choose if you want to assault women and how to assault them IN DETAIL… but as a jokey joke. so it’s okay, right?
Keep it critical, Keep it pushing !!!
His whole entire account is like this. Absolutely foul. And two men I follow on Instagram are following his account - instant block from me. One of them I hooked up with in college which makes me a bit sick to think about.
Well he's rumored to be dead so here's hoping - but of course he's been arrested for assaulting a woman - it's just harmless humor though, right?
I reported the account to Instagram and I'm confident they'll come back and say it doesn't violate any of their terms.
…but it’s just dark humor tho… right? oh ok.
This man just detailed which professions to choose if you want to assault women and how to assault them IN DETAIL… but as a jokey joke. so it’s okay, right?
Keep it critical, Keep it pushing !!!
His whole entire account is like this. Absolutely foul. And two men I follow on Instagram are following his account - instant block from me. One of them I hooked up with in college which makes me a bit sick to think about.
All y'all fuckers when you say you ain't gonna vote
on this trying day, let me remind you of one bright light that pierced the darkness during this hellish political landscape over the past decade
truly one of the funniest moments in American politics
the fact that I get aggressively advertised ai makes me think it is tanking idk
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Every time a woman says "I'm not going to vote" an angel loses its wings. 💔
Women fought tooth and nail for the right to vote! Voting means having a say, however small, in how your country is run. If you don't use your say, then you can count on being spoken over by the men who are getting out there and voting.
In the name of feminism and in honour of all the women who came before you, PLEASE exercise your right to vote! 🗳️
