[end0parasite]

emoji kitchen is lowkey beautiful guys…

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[illustratus]

Joan of Arc wearing armour and mounted upon a horse at the head of her troops

by Jules Prater

[officialweatherwax]

I think the thing that bothers me most about “terfs don’t understand biology” is that even if it’s true that sex is more complicated than sperm-producers and egg-producers, that division is still the basis of patriarchy. The ones with the penises decided to oppress and abuse the ones with vaginas and uteruses, whatever you want to call those two categories (though historically they have been called “men” and “women” respectively).Crying when radical feminists say so is just shooting the messenger.

[doingitatmybirthdaydinner]

I HAAAATTE when people say “I don’t care what someone has in their pants”. It implies that homosexuals (and heterosexuals) CARE about genitals. I don’t CARE about vaginas, I’m not a freelance amateur gynecologist. I just have found that throughout my entire life, I’ve only been sexually attracted to people with vaginas (this type of person used to be referred to as a woman). I’m not like “oohh I’m so attracted to this guy, buuuutt he has a penis which isn’t my preference”, I just am not attracted to men in the first place. I don’t CARE about if people have penises or vaginas, I am just not ATTRACTED to penis people. The word “care” makes it seem more like a dating preference rather than an immutable sexual orientation. like a straight girl might say “oohh he’s so hot but wait, what does he do for work because I care about what career my potential boyfriend has” or “ooh he looks so cute on instagram and he looks tall which is good bc height is important to me”. it isn’t like that, I literally physically cannot be attracted to males.

and saying that pansexuality is about “accepting everyone” is really backhanded too. There are plenty of very kind, warm, open-hearted, accepting homosexuals out there I’m sure, although I’m not one myself and can’t profess to know many. But I’m sure they exist! accepting people is not the same as accepting them into your bed or finding them sexually attractive

[gnc-centric]

accepting people is not the same as accepting them into your bed or finding them sexually attractive

[aguas-ucia]

[minouminouminou]

It's crazy how resistant the left, as a generalisation, is to acknowledging sexism. The richest, whitest, straightest, most able-bodied, most gender-conforming woman is still subject to sexism and I think a lot of leftist men would rather die than admit it.

[minouminouminou]

I think there is a real resentment simmering under the surface, this idea that women have been cynically exploiting claims of sexism and have become too privileged, that exists in a lot of leftist spaces that no one wants to admit to themselves. And I think a lot of women have really internalised that and will jump at the chance to push the bad women under the bus to soothe their own guilt and self-loathing. It's sad in younger women and fucking annoying in older ones.

[thehorseshoetheorist]

My biggest takeaway from Invisible Women is you cannot read it and maintain the delusion that women are oppressed on the basis of gender rather than sex.

Medication, crash test dummies, office temperature - these things affect you on the basis of your sex, and claiming a different gender doesn't change any of it, nor does it challenge the systems and structures that are built to put women at a disadvantage. If every woman on earth woke up tomorrow and realized they were non-binary or trans men, they would still be at a significant disadvantage compared to men.

We have to fight female oppression on the basis of sex, or all we'll do is change the label for which half of the population is default and which is afterthought without any actual change.

[transwimmin]

maybe this is niche complaint but why do men always mock and diminish the way that women work out? i saw a video the other day about a guy who went to his girlfriend's pilates class because he always talked about how easy pilates was and oops! he learned it's actually hard! these gym bros just love to assume that pilates or yoga or really any women-centered fitness activity is automatically easy and it bothers me SOOO much.

and the whole "middle aged women will do anything but lift weights" trend but it was literally just making fun of like. zumba classes. or jazzercise. yeah some of the classes were a little silly but why are we hating on these women for pursuing their fitness journeys the way they want to? why does it bother you so much?

idk men who exercise just have SUCH a superiority complex especially in regards to activities that women enjoy and it pisses me off to no end. "women will do anything but lift weights" how about "men will do anything but expand their narrow view of exercise to include anything that doesn't require a bench"

[friendlymathematician]

it's something she does which doesn't directly unambiguously benefit the males in her life. she's not going to jazzercise for her husband's sake. she's not serving her kids by going to a mini trampoline exercise class. she's just having fun with other women, and males can't stand women having having fun on their own or doing something for themselves.

[fernstream]

“Lesbians love lesbians, so some lesbian energy and focus is not accessible to men. But how is this manhating? After all, heterosexual men are not considered manhaters nor heterosexual women, womenhaters. So why are lesbians as a group perceived as manhaters? To hate someone is to direct energy toward them, albeit negative energy, to maintain an aggressive connection. So how is lesbian denial of energy to men such an aggression? When is a withdrawal an attack? A withdrawal of something is an attack on someone only if that which is withdrawn is considered essential to that person’s health, well-being, or survival. Thus if I gathered men in a room and withdrew air from that room, my withdrawal would be considered an attack. Or again, if I withheld food from men, my actions would be an attack. The lesbian withdrawal of energy from men must, therefore, be considered an attack because the fathers regard female energy as vital to men’s health, well-being, survival. And such energy is apparently so vital to men that women are not to be allowed to realize there are other than heterosexual ways of being in the world. When actual lesbians insist on being perceived, when we can no longer be ignored, we are used to scare women into line, lest they become monsters like us.”

— Sarah Lucia Hoagland, Lesbian Ethics, p.5

[lesbofuturism]

The whole issue with men of color making posts being like, “I didn’t set the patriarchal system up!” is that they’re so focused on white women that they are completely erasing women of color from these conversations. Because if they had to include women of color into these conversations, they’d have to acknowledge that yes, they are oppressors. If they don’t think any deeper and just keep defaulting to ‘white women’, they dodge accountability.

[pillarsalts]

make a pokemons team with me

[bennybraindeadbeatrice]

[ferrethaver]

these are all my favorite team staples i've used over the years

[radicalhorses]

horse

[butchpeace]

Also strict male and female categories are sexist inventions. Nature doesn't give a fuck what you personally think should be considered female or male. Most of life is what humans consider intersex. Humans aren't binary only stupid people who don't understand biology or evolution think humans are binary.

Hell not even quantum field theory has a strict view of reality. Particles like protons and electrons can change from one to another. Nothing in life is as strict as stupid baby brain male female categories.

I'll treat it like any other religion. Unnecessary cope.

Unfortunately for your theory, the vast majority of people are not intersex. Most people are born with typical male (xy) or female (xx) traits and develop normally with no biological or medical difference in their genitalia or hormone levels.

This means that most people are born experiencing either male or female socialization, and experiencing misogyny based on being of the female sex.

Even when a woman does have higher testosterone levels naturally for whatever reason, we are still seen as female and still subject to societal misogyny. On top of that we also experience stigma and discrimination on the basis of our masculinization and/or orientation. Believing that "everyone is intersex" doesn't make the actual real life experience of sex-based oppression any less real.

You don't have to agree with the way I think about things, and I don't have to agree with yours, but I think it's important for everyone to stay grounded in reality.

It's no skin off my back if you can't acknowledge basic facts about your body. I just hope that you take care of it, because it's the only one you have. And because it's not male, and that actually really matters in a medical context.

[zombiifem]

your biological sex is defined by whether you produce eggs or sperm. humans (which are a species that sexually reproduces and does not have traits of sequential or simultaneous hermaphroditism) either produce eggs or sperm, when healthy and unaltered. intersex conditions may affect your reproductive ability and development, but humans cannot a) produce both eggs and sperm, b) switch production between eggs and sperm, and c) produce something “inbetween” an egg and sperm.

some people mistakenly think that the presence of ovotesticular tissue found in some people means humans are a hermaphroditic species; this is not true, because for functional hermaphroditism to exist, the organism needs four, fully functional gonads-- humans only have two, even in cases like these. and, when the ovotestes do produce gametes, they only produce either sperm or ova, not both.

some might also draw the conclusion that, due to the existence of ovotesticular tissue, a third sex/third gamete exists. this is not true because, in order for a third sex or third gamete to exist, the ovotestes would need to produce something, which they do not. ovotestes, when they are functional (which is rare), still only produce sperm or ova (though the production of sperm is incredibly rare and has only been proven to happen twice).

we determine the sex of people with intersex condition by going off of what gamete they would have produced should their sexual development gone according to plan; the presence of mutations or sexual disorders does not create new sexes.

what anon might be thinking of is secondary sexual traits or sexual phenotypes. any male or female can have (essentially) any sexual phenotype; it is just that females are more likely to have female phenotypes, and males male phenotypes. phenotypes do not determine your sex or sexual reproduction, even if they might hint towards one or the other.

@woman-for-women made an incredible 30 page infographic about intersex condition and the definition of sex if anon (or anyone else) wants to educate themselves: https://www.tumblr.com/woman-for-women/718526988335382528/sex-binary-and-intersex-master-post?source=share

[loserdogma]

I haven’t been able to get over the grief of all human history being held back by the subjugation of women and I actually don’t think I will. Could you even imagine. Thousands of years of recorded history and women have only just (not everywhere and not fully) been able to really get the opportunities that led to the men of history we all know now. Everyone knows Socrates but so few know Aspasia. The amount of philosophy, technology, theory, and humanity lost due to the oppression of women is a genuine travesty. I think of it all the time; how many geniuses were confined to the home? How many Albert Einstein’s were forced to be wives and mothers? How much of human history is corroded by the subjugation of women? All of it?

[lesbiskammerat]

fine..if you insist

[radicalhorses]

[queer-as-city-folk]

The dictionary continues to not account for gay people

[evenlesssentimentaltranslator]

Gay men never should have been allowed to build their culture around a word that means “the female genital organs” and “(usually disparaging + obscene) woman” in the first place so fuck accounting for that behaviour.

[horsesarecreatures]

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