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@radicallyfemalepositive
"there's a pattern of more trans women than trans men in politics and people still don't clearly understand why this pattern occurs" because they're men. literally the same fucking pattern this entire class is analyzing in the first place? who holds women back from politics? men. done. didn't even need to conduct a research survey into it, many have proven it time and time again.
"i have a good male gynecologist" don't care + what motivated him into that field + male doctors are worse in general + allowing men into these professions attracts perverts and i'd rather have 0 perverts than many perverts for the sake of a few "good" male gynecologist's feelings + "good" male gynecologists don't exist
Women’s reproductive capabilities put women at unique risk for harm that men cannot and will not ever experience. If someone merely pointing this out enrages you you are a misogynist. If you don’t think this should ever be said you are a misogynist.
Especially in times of conflict and even more so during genocides. Mass sterilization almost exclusively happens to women. Genocidal rape only happens to women. Like this actually matters.
So like how an ICE whistleblower revealed on September 15, 2020 that detention officers were performing medically unnecessary hysterectomies on female migrants in government detention?
everybody! if you just say "okay stupid" at dumb takes you see online without actually interacting with it... your life will be much more peaceful I promise
not sorry but i would rather every porn actress and prostitute that enjoys what they do have to get a new job than one single person be trafficked or raped again and i will never change my mind
I don’t remember where I saw the post, but someone once made a very good point about how reproductive autonomy is not tied to one’s genetic relationship to the fetus.
If I, a woman, donate eggs for another woman, who then has them fertilized by her partner’s sperm, I have no say in whether or not she chooses to terminate that pregnancy later on after implantation. Yes, I would be that child’s biological mother, but it isn’t my body that will go through the process of pregnancy, and therefore my input would be irrelevant.
So far no dude I told this to has been able to justify why they thought they, as the father, should have a say in what their hypothetically-pregnant partner chooses to do.
Nature did not distribute the reproductive burden equally between men and women and our legislation on reproductive issues needs to take this into account.
a small reminder to questioning people that it’s okay to read opinions you don’t agree with. there’s nothing immoral about reading and considering what other people have to say. taking in information and learning is not in itself a transgression and your beliefs won’t be shaken by reading things unless you do, in fact, think that they are accurate, which is okay and you should be free to explore that further without anyone breathing down your neck.
anyone who attempts to make you believe that you can’t read things said by certain people is trying to control you, because they know that alternative opinions could cause some people to stray from being under the influence of their own group, and they don’t care about these individuals’ well-being at all, only their own status and how many people will uncritically listen to everything they say.
it’s always okay to question. there’s nothing you aren’t allowed to think about.
Stop calling lesbians queer
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I hope gnc little girls know that their options are not "become a man" or "grow out of it". They can go from a gnc girl to a gnc woman. That's an option, too.
@omnivore-odyssey making an important addition in the tags
A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when she was forced to have it removed.
A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when, just two years after getting it, she was forced to have it removed due to the company that made it going bankrupt.
Specifically, because she couldn't afford to buy the implant from the company. They basically took her implant back to recoup their losses. This is what happens when you privatize healthcare and health research. The group providing her with this implant should not have been able to go bankrupt in the first place, let alone repossess her implant to pay off their debts.
This is what disabled people mean when we say that cyberpunk horror is just a reality for us. This woman was literally forced to undergo a surgery because she couldn't pay to keep the implant already inside her brain. How long till companies start repossessing pacemakers and transplants?
The OBSESSION with identity is so crazy like the view that when you do something it immediately becomes part of your identity and all the parts of you have to click together to become “person who wakes up early” or “person who reads” no you can literally just do something without restructuring your whole performance of personhood around it. I don’t know what to tell you except that you will never be able to have an entirely unfractured view of yourself or that you will be able to rationalize all the complex parts of yourself into the phrase “person who x” like you should just be doing things without performing them. Or aestheticizing them. Just try different things on and keep what works for you. Otherwise you will never learn and grow!
And the men who died because the woman defended herself.
It takes so much for me to actually believe when men say they’ve been a victim of domestic abuse and they didnt deserve it.
I was with a guy that beat me all the fucking time and I didn’t do jack shit about it until one day I exploded. I literally blacked out and beat the living shit out of a man well over twice the size of me. So what does he do? He calls the cops of course! I never once thought of calling the cops on him all the times he laid a hand on me, or all the times he left bruises, no I wouldn’t do that! I was in jail for a day, was on probation for a year, and I would fucking do it in a heartbeat again.
The disgusting thing? He got so much fucking sympathy! Everyone fucking felt bad for him! So I deal with bruises for months which I made sure people wouldn’t see because I just fucking plastered on the foundation, and he walks around at work with a knot on his head and people ask him if hes ok? That’s why even when I see a man that has been attacked, especially by a woman, I don’t feel bad for him because he probably deserved it. You don’t know the full story, don’t act like you do.
^ abuse isn’t just about who beat someone up once. Abuse is about one partner who feels entitled to control another, and who will use abusive tactics, including intimidation and violence, to do so. According to Lundy Bancroft, one of the world’s foremost experts on domestic violence, most men who claim to have been abused are actually abusers themselves who are lying to get allies. This is a perfect example. If a guy claims abuse - ask his partner for her side of the story. Chances are, he was the abuser, not her.
If you haven’t read “Why Does He Do That?” yet, pick up a copy. Share it with every woman you know. It could save a life. Or if she’s already out, it could help her heal. That’s what it did for me, and now I have information to help me avoid getting in the same trap in the future.
If you look at studies on domestic abuse such as the crime survey of England and Wales, it will always overwhelmingly show that women experience domestic abuse far more than men do, and men are the vast majority of perpetrators. Anyone who denies this is either wilfully ignorant or straight up stupid
Seeing someone you follow reblog one or two posts about women’s rights: hell yeah
Seeing someone you follow reblog six or seven posts about women’s rights: red flag red flag red flag red flag-
supporting women's rights is a red flag?
“your feminism can be a quaint hobby but don’t go taking it seriously as a political movement or we’re going to have a problem”
26 Before And Afters That Show The Transformative Power Of Makeup
She looks so much better in the first picture it is indeed transformative when a woman takes off makeup 💞
Frankly I don’t care which photo looks better. Irrelevant. The real question is: what qualities of her face without makeup NEEDED transformation? The headline implies an improvement has been made. Moreover, it implies an objective improvement. That’s usually the purpose of “before and after” photos. It’s implied that the before state needed improvement and that the after state is preferable. As the kids say on tumblr, there’s a lot to unpack here but let’s just throw away the entire suitcase.
I can TOUCH my face. I can rub my eyes, scratch my nose, rub my temples when I’m tired, I can blow my nose and eat and exist without having to worry that my mask might smudge. The relief is overwhelming.
The other day, I tried to explain to my boyfriend what it was like to wear a full face of makeup every day - constantly having the thought in the back of your mind to not touch, rub, etc. - and he couldn't fathom it. "I would forget immediately," he said. I asked him how well he could focus on other tasks if he also had to be constantly worrying if his makeup looked good, "I couldn't, I don't know how women can!" 'How' indeed. He used to really like the makeup I did when we first started dating (dramatic goth type stuff, it took forever), but as I stopped wearing it, he realized what a waste of time, money, mental effort makeup is. Not wearing makeup means more time to chill or cuddle in bed, not worrying about getting lipstick all over him or anything like that.
Reblogging this post again with this comment because it’s such a good point. Women are often trained as little girls to be overly aware of how we look, because we are evaluated based on our appearance and are constantly surveilled and objectified. This causes us to have that secondary over-awareness of our appearance that Margaret Atwood referred to as “you are your own voyeur.”
This is incredibly distracting, and actually makes people worse at tasks in general, due to self-consciousness. There have been studies showing this, on how people do worse on tasks when they are overly aware of other people watching them, or they have the perception that they’re being evaluated based on their appearance or stereotype bias while they are doing a separate task unrelated to appearance. One example I’m remembering in particular I believe was about women doing worse on a math test when they were made to wear a swimsuit during it. Because they were self-conscious and overly aware of their appearance, they could not focus on the task at hand and did not do as well as they did when they were wearing their normal clothes. The discomfort of self consciousness was a distraction from their ability to accomplish the task with the same ease and success they would have had without that self consciousness. Now extrapolate that to every circumstance in which a woman or girl has been made to feel self-conscious due to stereotypes or due to judgments about her appearance, and how that impacts her literal ability to accomplish the task with as much success as she would have if she was not being treated that way.
I think about all of the times that I did worse on something because I was being stereotyped or objectified, and how many things I avoid doing because I don’t want to be objectified. Could I have been a successful athlete or hobby athlete if I had not been treated so horrifically when I started developing as a child? Could I have done better in my math classes if I wasn’t being treated with stereotype threat? I know I avoid riding my bike to this day and my bike sits unused because I know the kind of sexual harassment that I would get when I ride a bike and men can tell that I’m female and therefore harass-able.
What have women in the comments said that they avoid or are constantly doing because of make up use? They are avoiding swimming and athletics, camping and circumstances in which they won’t have a place to wash their face, they are checking their make up constantly and trying not to mess it up during the day. They are spending an hour in the morning on makeup and varying amounts of money per month. How much of the time is that either removing their ability to do some thing they might enjoy or distracting them from tasks that they are trying to do throughout the day? And this doesn’t just apply to grown women of course, it also applies to teenage and preteen girls and even younger than that.
