Danish Radish

~ old school feminism and also cats ~

[hedgehog-moss]

Forgive me for making yet another post about the French Revolution but one small detail that makes me laugh is when, as things started to go seriously wrong, one of Louis XVI's advisers tried to persuade him & Marie-Antoinette to get away from Paris and wait for things to calm down (the idea was "if you lay low and wait, the newly-created National Assembly will vote something stupid and lose popular support" which was a solid plan honestly.) But he was also like "whatever you do, DO NOT go East or South or people will think you'll get help from other monarchies to restore your power and that won't calm things down"

So the King was advised to flee to Normandy, which... is just a short ferry ride away from another monarchy. But that's completely different since it's England. To be fair to the English, the French monarchy had basically bankrupted itself a few years back to send millions in support of the American revolutionaries because it would be a shame not to take advantage of "perhaps the best opportunity for centuries to come to put England in its place" (actual quote by France's minister of Foreign Affairs in 1777)

—still I love the realistic approach of the King's adviser telling him, Sire you can't go near any of our borders rn, it'll escalate the situation, Parisians will know you're trying to get another country to help. Obviously you can go set up camp right across the sea from England though, that's fine since everyone knows the English wouldn't piss on us if we were on fire¹

¹ Perfidious Albion was like "aw no France is in turmoil and possibly weakened :) a shame :)" exactly like France re: them at the start of the US independence war ² they also thought well these backward french are finally following our glorious example and entering civilisation (parliamentary monarchy) ³ and only when the Girondins started being like "let's spread the French Revolution to the whole universe!!! or at least Belgium" did England finally decide "it's been a while since we last declared war on France actually" (but it was too late for Louis XVI) ⁴ That's not how footnotes work sorry. Trying to make my post look fancier

[quinntheestallion]

I’m now convinced that the misapplication of and distortion of social justice analysis is one of the most sophisticated and effective tools oppressors have at their disposal today.

Flooding the internet with sophisticated social analyses and letting unschooled, indisciplined teenagers play with them until they inevitably distort into some Frankenstein version of the original status quo was some kind of weapons grade psychological warfare.

Do you know how insane it is that what’s now considered standard analyses in halls of academia and advanced institutions all around the world was created from unresearched shit posts by barely literate teenagers on this very website?

It’s so funny but it’s not but it is.

[bichoplaza]

What fucks me up about the way people talk about radfems is that they'll always say something along the lines of "terfs believe being a woman is hell and the worst thing that can ever happen to you and that's all they talk about" because they're ignoring the fact that the main point of activism is pointing out the things women go through. How are we going to achieve anything if we don't tell people "hey, this is what we are going through. This is the full extent of misogyny"? Of course mainstream/liberal feminism doesn't touch much upon this, it's a watered down, palatable version of feminism. Don't think about the morality of prostitution or porn, don't think about how the industry works, be sex positive! Don't think about why you have to shave, it's selfcare! Embrace being a bimbo, a slut, a whore, a good wife, and don't think about how those behaviors and labels benefit the patriarchy, it's reclaiming!

Being a woman is hard. It sucks, that's a truth we can't just ignore, and we need to focus on that to change.

To clear the misconception, no, radfems don't believe womanhood is essentially martyrdom. Radical feminism hasn't only brought me a harsh (but needed) realization, it had also brought me joy. I'm learning to value my mother more than ever, I've learnt to accept the body she gave me, I've let go of fantasies and kinks that only harmed me, and I'm proud to be who I am for the first time since I can remember. I'm proud and confident because despite living in a world that was never meant for me, I keep on living, trying, sometimes succeeding, others falling down and getting up again

[3liza]

Bra Fitting Graphics

 

[3liza]

fyi

[megushie]

Hi okay the subreddit A Bra That Fits is an amazing resource. Like, truly incredible.

It’s overwhelming at first. It can be confusing. But everyone there is so willing to help and offer guidance and suggestions.

So if you need a bra, even if you think you know your size, go measure yourself using their tool.

[bulldyke-rider-deactivated20251]

In another universe, people are saying men were designed to work and then die because their body strength and small, quick and easy contributions to reproduction makes them ideal for being worked to death.

But I had to be born in the one where every variety of woman believes, in some form, men were built to overpower us.

Coulda been born into a world where men haul lumber and then we kill them off when they become useless, but instead, I was born into a world where even feminist women cry about not being as good at weightlifting.

Coulda been born into the world where women's bodies were seen as the centers of creation and men were seen as empty and incapable of creation. Coulda been born into the world where men are seen as existing for women, less valuable. The world where a man is killed for not giving his wife a daughter. The world where all gods are female, or a world with no gods because women are right there being the creator. Coulda been born into the world where man is divorced from God and has to go through his wife rather than the other way around because woman is closer to God in heaven by being God on earth. The one where women outliving men in harsh conditions is testament to the fact that it's better for men to die than use up our resources. The world where women are seen as natural leaders by leading their children. The world where lineage is purely matriarchal. The world where only the most fit and good looking men even get the chance to reproduce because male's role in reproduction is an expendable cheap resource, so you only need the most fit men. The world where women are choosing partners because of this. The world where men are the ones questioning their worth because their looks have been called to question for thousands of years, not ours. The world where women are described as "visual creatures" with our superior color vision to back it up.

Or I could've been born into an equal society where we don't get philosophical about muscle mass and pregnancy and small physical differences.

But no, had to be born not only into a world where men have warped the value of women, but also the world where like every woman buys into it and believes the bullshit.

[mini-wrants]

Abusive Men Describe the Benefits of Violence - Voice Male magazine

By Chuck Derry For many years, I facilitated courtmandated groups for men who batter. In the early 1980s we were concentrating on healthy re

One night I started the group by asking the men what they thought the benefits were of their violence. At first they all looked at each other (notably) and said, “There are no benefits.” This did not surprise me, as men who batter routinely deny their actions—as they deny their intents as well. So I said, “Well, there must be some benefits from the violence; otherwise why would you do it?” They looked at each other again and then one guy started admitting there were benefits, and then they all chimed in until the four-by-eight-foot blackboard I was writing their responses on was full.

Here is a list of the benefits they cited (until we ran out of space):

She’s scared and won’t go out and spend money

Get your way: go out

Respect

She won’t argue

Feeling superior: she’s accountable to me in terms of being somewhere on time: I decide

Keeps relationship going—she’s too scared to leave

Get the money

Get sex

Total control in decision making

Use money for drugs

Don’t have to change for her

Power

Decide where to go (as a couple)

Who to see

What to wear

Control the children

If she’s late, she won’t be again

Intimidation

She’s scared & can’t confront me

Can convince her she’s screwin’ up

She feels less worthy so defers to my needs and wants

She will look up to me and accept my decisions without an argument

Decide her social life—what she wears so you can keep your image by how she acts

She’s to blame for the battering

She’s an object

(I get) a robot babysitter, maid, sex, food

Ego booster

She tells me I’m great

Bragging rights

If she works—get her money

Get her to quit job so she can take care of house

Isolate her so friends can’t confront me

Decide how money is spent

“I’m breadwinner”

Buy the toys I want

Take time for myself

She has to depend on me if I break her stuff

I get to know everything

She’s a nurse-maid

She comforts me

Supper on the table

Invite friends over w/o her knowin’ = more work for her

No compromise = more freedom

Don’t have to listen to her complaints for not letting her know stuff

She works for me

I don’t have to help out

I don’t have to hang out with her or kids

Determine what values kids have—who they play with, what school they go to or getting to ignore the process—dictating what they “need” food, clothes, recreation, etc.

Dictate reality, etc.

Kids on my side against her

Kids do what I say

Mold kids/her so that they will help do what I should do

Keeps kids quiet about abuse

Don’t have to get up, take out garbage, watch kids, do dishes, get up at night with kids, do laundry, change diapers, clean house, bring kids to appointments or activities, mop floors, clean refrigerator, etc.

Answer to nobody

Do what you want, when you want to

Get to ignore/deny your history of violence and other irresponsible behavior

Get to write history

Get to determine future

Choose battles & what it will cost her

Proves your superiority

Win all the arguments

Don’t have to listen to her wishes, complaints, anger, fears, etc.

Make the rules then break them when you want

So she won’t get help against you for past beatings because she has no friends to support her and she is confused by my lies

Convince her she’s nuts

Convince her she’s unattractive

Convince her she’s to blame

Convince her she’s the problem

I can dump on her

Can use kids to “spy” on mom

Kids won’t tell mom what I did

Kids won’t disagree with me

Don’t have to talk to her

I’m king of the castle

Can make yourself scarce

Have someone to unload on

Have someone to bitch at

She won’t call police

Tell kids don’t have to listen to mom

Get her to drop charges

Get her to support me to her family, my family, cops, judge, SCIP, prosecutors, etc.

Get her to admit it’s her fault

The first time I did this exercise I looked at the blackboard and I thought, “Oh my God. Why would they give it up?” I then decided to ask the men: Why give it up? They then filled a two-by-two foot space on the blackboard with things like, “get arrested,” “divorce,” “get protection orders taken out against you,” “adult kids don’t invite you to their weddings,” “have to go to groups like this.” That was about it.

This was the first time I fully comprehended the necessity of a consistent coordinated community response through the criminal, civil, and family court systems which can mete out safe and effective interventions that hold men who batter accountable while preserving the safety of the women, girls, and boys they abuse. It was on that day that I realized if I had to choose between providing batterer groups for men who batter or a consistently effective criminal and civil/family court response to domestic violence, I would choose the criminal and civil/family court response every time. There are just too many benefits gained from this behavior.

[femsolid]

Who is feminism for? Probably not you. - The Post Millennial

If you exclude intergalactic space toads from your feminism, can you even call yourself a feminist? Probably not.

If feminism doesn’t include intergalactic space toads, then it’s not real feminism. And if it doesn’t include prostate owners who can’t get pregnant, mothers who donate semen, and people who are terrorized by hairdressers asking what their genitals look like, then, again, again, that’s not real feminism. If you exclude these groups, can you even call yourself a feminist? The answer is “no.” So who is feminism for?

Feminism is not for people who don’t centre lady dick; these people are not real feminists. There’s a reason the lady peens (those fantastic female phalluses) stand erect: it’s because they are meant to draw our attention, every last bit, like spires in the distance guiding us to liberation. If feminists stay focused on the phallus, their freedom remains in sight. Don’t forget this.

Who can be a feminist, you ask? Well, if your feminism doesn’t include ladies with hairy testicles, alien abductees, men who helm influential media companies, people who have blisters on their feet from breaking in new shoes, and those who oppose the Canadian seal hunt, then you are not a real feminist.

Are you confused yet? That’s okay. Feelings of confusion just mean that you’re queering the cis-supremacist-hetero-patriarchy inside your mind. This is hard emotional labour. Your confusion is valid and so are you.

Now, let’s talk about talking about feminism. If your feminist rhetoric doesn’t include clappy hands (emoticons only, always refrain from real life clapping to be inclusive of the neurodiverse) between every word, then No (CLAP) One (CLAP) Can (CLAP) Hear (CLAP) You (CLAP). Only bigots don’t clap between words because they secretly know they are bigots and don’t want to draw attention to what they have to say. Real feminists know this.

These are some words that constitute dog-whistles for anti-feminist hate speech: vagina; vulva; uterus; woman; mother; and biology. Watch out for these, feminists know they are bad words and won’t ever use them. Also watch out for AFABs (assigned females at birth) who reject their cis-ness. They are TERFs.

We all know there’s no cis in team, but did you also know that it’s feminism, not femiCISm? Everyone knows there’s no such thing as the “mythical biological female,” so let’s please make it illegal for uterus-havers to talk about their so-called biology. You know what word should have a “cis” in it? Bitch.

It’s 2020. We should all know better. We should do better.

If feminism doesn’t include people with gluten sensitivities, those who were born on February 29, and anyone who shaves a patch above their ear and dyes their hair blue, then who is it for? No, seriously. Do you know? I can’t remember.

[jacksmannequin]

was this a real musical

[weaver-z]

My girlfriend: Treat me like a princess :)

Me, tears in my eyes, hauling the guillotine out of storage: I’m sorry, honey, but for the good of my comrades and country, a monarchy cannot stand

[sakura-haruka]

#iconic

[benyw]

I should see this film.

[palestinianliberator]

TW for Rape & Racism

“Well, if you want “ethical” porn, just purchase it from the big studios who have contracts and do things the right way!!”

Yeah like the “big studios” who produce porn depicting American military men raping Arab and Muslim women? Where American women dress up in stereotypical garb and speak in some made-up accent while throwing out made-up “~~~Arabic sounding~~~” words? Or how about the big studios that produce porn where they have their performers dress to look as young as possible to be brutalized on screen? Or perhaps the big-studios that product porn that relies on racial tropes and stereotypes to the point that there’s an entire freaking production-line labeled “blacked”.

Or how about the recent spike in searches for “refugee porn”?

Here’s the recent trend for “Syrian Refugee Porn”:

Here’s the recent trend for “Refugee porn”

And here’s the trend results for “Muslim rape porn”

Notice the spike following 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq

There’s literally no argument that I will ever support in defense of this horrid, horrid industry, and there is no moral way to ever justify this industry because I am far more concerned with how it harms the countless, countless many than I am with how it provides opportunity for the few.

[emesani]

…………there’s refugee porn?

I shouldn’t be surprised, but the thought never crossed my mind. Wow.

[palestinianliberator]

There are literal pornographers scouring refugee camps looking for women willing to shoot porn for cash, and there are numerous productions that have acted out scenarios of American men offering shelter to Arab and Muslim women (portrayed by white actors, no less) in exchange for sex

And people bend over backwards to defend this industry

[xx-fadingaway-xx]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/27/women-syria-forced-exchange-sexual-favours-un-aid/

if you thought porn was bad enough they do it in real life as well

[radmenace]

us border rape porn exists as well (x)

i went to google the article and this came up:

and dont forget rape of immigrants/refugees is a real thing and has its own wikipedia page

[antiporn-activist]

this is what you support when you defend porn.

[errorschacha]

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[iamgandalfandgandalfmeansme]

[xamethyst-reignx]

I’ve been transitioning FTM for 6 years, on testosterone for a total of 3 years and 9 months, and testosterone completely damaged my body & life. While taking testosterone I experienced; - High blood pressure in hypertension stage one - Glaucoma developing from ocular hypertension (from hormone fluctuations) - Eye twitching/Dryness/Seeing spots & flashes - Intense back pain - Migraines (1-4 times a week) - Debilitating body aches - Sciatic leg pain that would wake me up - Chest pain/Shortness of breath/Heart flutters/Palpitations - Severe uterus cramping - Vaginal atrophy - Constant dizziness - Scalp soreness/tenderness from rapid hair loss - Face skin very oily - Sweating/Hot flash problems - Sleep apnea/Loud snoring/Choking in sleep - Difficulty swallowing/Choking when eating - Bladder retention with burning urination - Protein in my urine during pee tests - Rise in bad cholesterol on blood tests - Painful fibrocystic breast tissue - Full body paresthesia, especially in face/nose/arms/hands (this I hated most, as it caused extreme stress & fear) - Scary and upsetting dreams frequently - Huge increase in depression/suicidal urges and anxiety - Stopped being able to cry around 4 months on T - Had hard time feeling deep emotions/Felt very void/empty - Less emotional response towards situations and other people - Less inner dialogue/Shut off most internal chatter/thoughts - Aggressive (physically & verbally), assertive, argumentative personality (which is the opposite of me pre-T) - My personality and thought patterns changed uncontrollably *** My T levels were always perfect and spot on. I’ve had 72 hour heart monitor tests, breast ultrasounds, vaginal ultrasounds, MRI on my spine and brain, and many blood/urine/eye/full physical tests over the years to figure what is wrong with me. But everything has always come back saying I’m fine and its side effects from the testosterone. T was killing me, and desecrated my life. I literally couldn’t take it anymore. I’m 4 months off T at this point and I’m still suffering. This isn’t to discredit medical transition, but T was very dangerous to my body. It was hurting me in so many ways… ways I never imagined. More studies really need to be done on the side effects and harm that T can cause. I was always told, “testosterone won’t hurt you, it only raises your risks to a bio male level.” Well that was very untrue for me, as I’m sure AMAB people do no deal with all these issues, all at once. 

[00prettyboy]

i experienced several of these symptoms as well but ESPECIALLY the leg pain!! it was agonising, i could barely move or stand, and all i could think of that could be causing it was testosterone, since it seemed to get worse just after my shot - but there is no information whatsoever about this. i’d never heard of it before and the nurse who administered my shot hadn’t either, she didn’t think it could be related but since coming off T i haven’t experienced it again. we desperately need more research into the side effects of testonsterone on female bodies instead of just touting out that it “just” gives you the same risks as biological males.

[antiporn-activist]

one of the smartest things i’ve ever read

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

When women’s bodies are commodified, all of us are there for the taking.

[awesome-picz]

People Are Saying This Puppy Is A Hybrid Between A Cat And A Dog And It Has The Derpiest Expressions.

[nathleeng]

@karinrebloggardjur

[antiplondon]

https://twitter.com/tibby17/status/1194980719317131264

[women-choose-life]

'Star Wars' actor Mark Hamill's granddaughter born despite abortion demands

"Abortion will never be for me," the baby girl's mother continued, "as I found out when I went through the first surgical one that I had."

Source 2: https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/lifestyle/happened-mark-hamills-son-got-210000237.html?__twitter_impression=true

I tried to reblog the original post about this, but Tumblr said the post could not be reblogged.

[saint-ambrosef]

A former girlfriend of Mark’s son Nathan Hamill, Maegan Chen — who was pregnant with Nathan’s baby — claimed she was facing pressure from both Nathan and Mark to abort the baby. According to Chen, Nathan threatened to break up with her if she did not abort the baby, and Mark told her she “shouldn’t bring a child into the world that nobody wants.” 

Except the mother clearly wanted her child, and they didn’t, so the Hamills tried to bully her instead.

If this isn’t a prime example of abortion culture, I don’t know what is.

“’I shouldn’t have even let Nathan pressure me into taking the abortion pill, but I felt terrified at the thought of being abandoned while pregnant.’“

[kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021]

I’ve read this story elsewhere too, and it’s a pretty horrifying one, even if it’s got a happy ending. She did end up scheduling the abortion and a Planned Parenthood employee actually saved her daughter’s life. The nurse realized she was being coerced into it and helped her to fake proof that she’d had it, at which point Nathan made it clear that he still wasn’t interested in staying with her and she could see for a fact that the pressure to abort her daughter was about avoiding any financial responsibility and he’d never had any intention of staying with her.

[butmuhgains]

[17373859839]

That’s vile

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

This isn’t “abortion culture”, this is men. Men forcibly or carelessly impregnate women and then force them to carry babies they don’t want, or they force them to abort babies they do want. Both have been happening well before abortion was ever explicitly illegal, both happened while abortion was explicitly illegal, and it has continued after abortion was legalized. The problem isn’t and never has been abortion. The problem is men.

[cosimas-tattoo-deactivated20200]

You know mark hamill always got on my fucking nerves and I never understood why

[kallisti55-archives]

This isn’t abortion culture, this is coercion and attempting to control a woman’s reproductive choices. Or in plain words: misogyny.