Liberate Women And Children 🐚🕊️

Arab/ Atheist/ Radical Feminist/ exmuslim (the links only show the full content on tumblr app 🤍) anti-islam tag my art/poetry asks

[radfemsiren]

🤍A basic rundown of my beliefs as a radical feminist 🤍

(I don’t represent every radical feminist, but these are usually the standard opinions you’ll find of many radfems. Hate or disagree with them, that’s fine! But know the truth of who I am and what I stand for beforehand)

- there are 2 sexes, the male sex is oppressing the female sex

- femicide, rape, child sex abuse, hijab laws, female genital mutilation, domestic labor, trafficking, war crimes, revenge porn, prostitution… women and girls around the world are being exploited, tortured, and killed because of this oppression, and it must end.

- female oppression is sex based oppression, meaning a woman can’t just identify out of her oppression (for example hijab laws)

- sex is biological and an immutable truth, gender is a social construct

- gender should be done away with because gender roles are male supremacist and result in women and girls being stereotyped, dehumanized, barred from education, safety, bodily autonomy, etc.

- defining women with anything other than biology is misogynistic and relies on stereotypes

- the biological differences between men and women must be acknowledged in order to effectively end patriarchal oppression

- radical feminism is getting to the root of female oppression (radical -> root)

- misandry is not real and is just an extension of misogyny (for example, “men are told not to cry!” Yes because women are seen as inferior and any trait associated with us is seen as degrading/emasculating for men. This is why there is no female equivalent to emasculation.)

- all current religions are patriarchal and made by men to exploit and control women

- access to abortion is a human right and should never be threatened, women are the creators of life and deserve to gatekeep it, as well as exercise full autonomy over our own bodies

- Using sexist gender roles to define yourself is giving these misogynistic stereotypes power (wearing makeup or dresses doesn’t make anyone less or more of a woman, this is misogyny)

- the beauty industry is patriarchal and exploits women, our bodies and our money

- sex work is not work, it’s always exploitation (consent can not be bought)

- the porn industry is patriarchal and relies on trafficking, coercion, and rape to function. It also conditions its watchers to be aroused by violence against women, and results in more real life consequences for women and girls

- women’s spaces and institutions must be protected. Women’s safety is more important than catering to male feelings

- marriage is a patriarchal institution made to exploit the domestic labor of women for her entire life

- BDSM/kink are patriarchal and only center the pleasure and well being of men.

- hookup culture is patriarchal and the risk to reward is not worth it for women to engage in it

- gender ideology is patriarchal and is a direct hindrance to female liberation (we can’t define ourselves or our oppressors, we can’t create spaces away from our oppressors, we can’t create laws and policy based on these definitions, people who are gender non conforming / have gender dysphoria are pressured to alter their bodies to conform to a rigid standard and become lifelong medical patients, etc)

- choice feminism and liberal feminism caters to conforming to patriarchal standards and institutions, and refuses to examine why women make choices under patriarchy

- women of color face oppression on the axis of our sex and race, men of color only face oppression on the axis of their race

- non white patriarchal institutions must be criticized: a mullah is just as dangerous to the liberation of women as a pastor is

- women should decenter the men in their lives just as men have done with women. That means prioritizing us! Engaging in women’s media, art, stories, fostering female communities and support networks, uplifting and empowering their sisters around the world

- being a radical feminist means consistently taking radical action, big or small, we all can do it! Go support a female artist, go donate menstrual products to a shelter, go tell off a man when you see him making a woman uncomfortable. We all can make a difference!

…My feminism focuses on criticism of Islam and middle eastern patriarchy, but there are radfems with many focuses/passions… some in eco feminism, some on uplifting Romani women, black women, neurodivergent women, women with disabilities, prostituted women… some are passionate about women’s sports, women’s art, women’s writing, women’s history, lesbian and bisexual women’s stories… everyone has their passion on here, so before you come to attack, just check out my blog and click around at the different profiles on this corner of the internet…. maybe we might not be the terrible witches you thought us to be. Or maybe we are, but witches are awesome so who cares lol

[cupcakesandmisandry]

[msgradschooltomedschoolby30-dea]

[amirmeavid]

I mourn for the rebellious masc 'girl' in every movie, who grow out of her manliness and becomes some asshole's domesticated wife. I mourn for her short untameable hair, which she was always running a hand through in those old photos. I see the way her fingers linger as she goes through the album with her young daughter, forcing a laugh at who she 'used' to be.

T would have saved him.

[dhakcjshkvjbd]

this is the perfect example of the way both types of genderists - both conservatives and TRAs - expect masc/GNC girls to change themselves to become gender conforming.

conservatives want us to become feminine. TRA’s want us to take testosterone and identify as men. both are uncomfortable with a woman being permanently gender nonconforming. both expect her to eventually alter herself in some way to turn into either a feminine woman or a masculine man. her existence as a GNC woman makes them think that she has yet to choose a side, so both have hopes of converting her.

EDIT: according to their bio OP is only 16, so please don’t be too harsh with them over this post

[radfemsiren]

“Be feminine or be a man” being the new progressive take is so crazy bruh

[tall]

[preposterousblasphemy]

[kkoffin]

if what the Taliban is doing to women was happening instead to a minority racial group, especially if the oppressors were white, i’m just saying, there would be A LOT more outrage.

there would be encampments, huge protests, everything you see with palestine but probably a hundred times more extreme. We’d be listing the stage of genocide this is, and calling it a second holocaust.

I mean IMAGINE a certain racial group’s voice is made illegal in public, and they have to wear a HUGE, ridiculous, uncomfortable garment like that. They aren’t allowed to leave the house without an (oppressor) escort. Banned from education or employment. No protections from violence and rape, basically less than an animal in law. IMAGINE IF ALL THAT HAPPENED TO A MINORITY RACIAL GROUP. this IS what’s happening to women.

But it’s just women and it’s just their culture so there’s nothing we can really do, who cares. Maybe we’ll do a march or two, and maybe we’ll post about it on twitter, make a few articles. But it’s just women.

[dein-wille-geschehe]

[laurierrose]

the reality of it isn’t bearable for us either. when you are actually doing this you do have to think about it as work and more importantly, a way of cheating the system and coming out on top. if you can’t do this you will crumble psychologically. it’s why i’ve always needed to save being actively critical for the time i would take off work. or microdose little bits of honest reflection when i get too fed up.

and you don’t have to leave middle class neighborhoods to see these things… in the upscale corporate club chain in affluent cities where i’ve worked i have seen girls crying on the phone to their pimp asking to come home (seared into my memory forever), teenage girls pimped out by managers making 6 figures a year off them, homeless girls going home with customers to have a place to sleep, girls ODing in the dressing room, girls crying about SA in the dressing room while the manager ushers the rest of us back to work because “she’s taking his biggest hustlers off the floor”

sex work rhetoric is necessary for sex workers to get through the night but for civilians it’s simply so they do not have to acknowledge what this really is—horror. extreme, callous cruelty. it’s to sanitize and dismiss it. because you do not have to go so far as the overseas brothel in taken… it happens right here.

[sespursongles-deactivated201906]

That article where a law professor argues that battered women are morally entitled to kill their abusers has an interesting quote: “ Men can kill women with their bare hands, and they do. Women almost never kill men that way. They can’t. […] While very few women kill abusive men who are asleep or passed out, it’s “unfair” to charge them with first degree murder, Sheehy argues. “It’s not fair to characterize it as the most heinous form of murder, because it may be their own route to survival. ” There have probably been feminist analyses of this already, but it’s worth discussing how the concept of self-defence, especially in domestic violence cases, was designed by men to benefit men. In my country at least, your attack is only considered “legitimate self-defence” if it is a) necessary, b) immediate, c) proportionate. A concept of self-defence that only applies if you hurt or kill someone while they are attacking you, and if you hurt or kill them using the same weapons as them (your bare hands, if that’s what they are using) only benefits people who are likely to be attacked by people of similar size and physical strength, and is utterly useless to women.

When a bigger, stronger male beats up his much smaller wife, it’s almost impossible for her to kill him in self-defence (immediately and proportionately ie with nothing but her fists), and yet it’s the scenario through which she can hope to be acquitted or get a light sentence. That’s not a coincidence. The other two scenarios (and she will be despised if she picks either) are for her to  1) kill him later (when he can’t use his physical advantage, eg when he’s asleep or has his back turned on her), but it won’t be self-defence because it won’t be immediate. (In the Jacqueline Sauvage case, one of the main arguments against her was that she shot her husband in the back at a time when he wasn’t actively beating her up) 2) use a weapon, but it won’t be self-defence because it won’t be proportionate. Obviously this condition also benefits men, because when a woman gets punched by her husband and she punches him back, it’s seen as a proportionate response but it shouldn’t be, because her punch (typically) won’t do nearly as much damage as his. Anything else she does (like use a weapon) to try and hurt him as much as he hurt her will be considered a disproportionate response and will mean it wasn’t self-defence.

The idea that killing your abuser in a honest face-to-face fight with your bare hands is honourable and forgivable, but killing your abuser in any other way is shameful and wrong, utterly benefits men and protects men. It’s also why poison was historically reviled as a ‘female weapon’ and as the most cowardly way to kill someone. Poison has been described as “a great equalizer” - no wonder men hated it. Men have always hated, and will keep hating, shaming, and outlawing, any form of attack through which women can compensate our disadvantage in strength and size, and they will keep praising as the only valid method of self-defence, the method that presents the smallest risk of being effectively used by women against them.

[cyberpunknoire]

Holy fucking shit

[kittiesatemypronouns]

I love this analysis. It’s very sound.

[butch-reidentified]

if she responds “proportionately” then it’s “mutual abuse” anyway

[mostevilfujo]

influencers actively trying to convince young women to aspire to unemployment and servitude is literally so sinister

[dailyautophagy]

it is possible that employment and freedom is not as fulfilling as making and raising a child

[ghibliradfem-deactivated2025070]

bro did u really just say “freedom” is not as fulfilling 💀

[radfemsiren]

UGHHHHH I cant find the post on here that talks about how we have such high standards for female authors that we haven’t been able to have our own consistent female literature, while all the great classics by male authors, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc all believed women were inferior animals, and no one cares. Doesn’t anyone know what post I’m talking about? I’ve been looking for it all day 😭 I’ve seen it on radblr so many times

[crossingopenground]

HI I FOUND IT

[radfemsiren]

THANK YOU ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[pibin]

“If a movement declares that a man can define what it means to be a woman based on his feelings, but a woman cannot define being a woman based on her material reality, then it is a movement for the interests of men.”

—Tasia Aránguez

[mrhealyourgirl]

Bible said be a hater

[radfemsiren]

Letterboxd user wrote the Bible

[forwomenbiwomen]

Starting to get convinced that Baldoni really is the feminist player in this whole situation. He seems to have become a feminist ally through recovering from a porn addiction, which is the main way men become feminist allies today. It’s a very plausible progression. It’s pretty clear to me that this lawsuit is really more a Ryan Reynolds vs Justin Baldoni lawsuit. Ryan, by all accounts seems like a horrible, controlling, patriarchal man. The stories of sexual harassment don’t seem to pan out in the footage, and it’s seems to be Reynolds wants to paint Baldoni as a hypocrite as a way to attack his credibility. I can’t imagine a scenario that would make a controlling man more jealous and full of rage than his wife doing sex scenes with a soft nice feminist art guy. The attempt to change “It Ends with Us” from a domestic violence narrative to a chic flick tracks with someone who is particularly defensive about the topic. Could be wrong. Will wait and see.

Ok..... I think I'd rather believe a woman over any man any day. I think the team Baldoni is using has a track record of doing the exact same shit to other women. I think if it were just Baldoni v Reynolds, I wouldn't give a shit, but this is about Blake and her being harassed. I think it doesn't matter whether it looked like she liked it. I think Baldoni is not a "soft nice feminist art guy." I believe her.

[radfemsiren]

This is a troll, they’ve been copy pasting this from Hannah’s twitter account to multiple radfem blogs

They sent me one too, don’t engage!

[girlcherrys]

Deer caught on cam

[g1rluninterruptedd]

men are so good at being dumb. i wish i could be this delusional and stupid sometimes 🫤

[belleschippedcup]

the way people speak about radfems is so funny. They acknowledge the trauma that comes from living in the patriarchy but are still angry radfems have the audacity to show signs of it & try to do something about it.

[sweetbunnytears]

[kosmogrl]

every day I wake up and it’s fucking january