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JC / delightful man hating feminist / proud member of the cherry slush club / this is a sideblog i follow from my main! A Womb Of One's Own

[radjoy]

I've just started the beauty myth, if you have any more recommendations of books on feminism i would love to hear it!

How are you enjoying it? Feel free to message me and we can chat about it!

Letters From A War Zone holds a special place in my heart for being my first radfem book, SCUM Manifesto for being my second. Read the SCUM manifesto once like "this is a powerful satire exposing how men talk about women, and have talked about women throughout all of history". and then read it once more like “this is the undisputed truth”.

Who Cooked The Last Supper? will CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!! transformative. visionary. will totally back up your misandry and also make you so so proud to be a woman aka the creators of all culture and innovation.

Delusions of Gender is really good at breaking down how children are socialized from birth to believe in gender differences, and was one of the books that got me interested in radical feminism in a sociology class.

A Womb of One's Own is a short at-home abortion guide that I think everyone should read, regardless of whether or not you're pregnant. Jane Doe imagines a world where women are in complete control of their reproductive power, and it's incredibly empowering to know how abortion works.

Ain't I A Woman is a book that I think is really important for white feminists to read to look at the pitfalls of the feminist movement and to see how we can make sure feminism is supporting all our sisters, plus has a lot of really good historical information on black feminists. A good jumping off point to learn about historical black feminists - I read this & did follow-up research while I still had access to a university library, and tragically did not save a lot of pdfs, but if you can, there were some amazing stories I learned about, like Elizabeth Kaye/Key.

Invisible Women for wonderful and insanity-inducing science about how our lives are put at risk from male-as-default attitudes.

It Is Obscene which is an essay, not a book, but I think Chimamanda's talent for succinct, potent writing really manages to drive the point home. I think radfems should read this so we know what we're dealing with - truthfully, some people have just figured out that the best way to bully people nowadays is to fake a concern for the most oppressed members of society, and anything they contribute towards ending misogyny/racism is not driven by compassion. Honestly all of Chimamanda’s work is wonderful.

[log6]

must be hard not being liked by women but it's lowkey always something wrong with the men that say that cause women will date anyone I've seen it I've fought it to no avail

[kiefbowl]

"men aren't allowed to express their feelings" is actually the number one factor that set feminism back, not makeup or smut books or whatever. women all over think they're doing a service to mental health by acknowledging men are suffering & stoic to the point people will be like "men punch walls because they can't express themselves" I think he did express himself there by punching the wall which is bad and you can be angry at him and judge him for it

[cherrycherub2222]

Not all men? I'm losing confidence in this idea

The Epstein files tell us who men really are - maybe we should believe them.

no comment. Except KAM2026.

[prodigalwitch]

"You can argue that these ways of speaking about women and abusing them are just a niche preserve of the superrich, but that argument simply doesn’t wash. What is more likely to be true is that the superrich have an wealth-based immunity that facilitates these behaviours that your average man in the street does not. For the same reason, your average man in the street, in his fifties or sixties, is unlikely to hook up with a twenty five year old. A superrich man almost always will. What this tells me is not that these two men are different - both would much prefer the twenty five year old - but only the superrich man has the funds and the access to facilitate his desires."

[coremilk]

① Does anti-AFAB-oppression exist* as a distinct axis of oppression (which does not target trans people AMAB, but does target both cis women and trans people AFAB)? ② Were you AFAB? ③ Are you trans?

*(That is to say "should it be used as a framework for analysis?")

Please select your answer carefully.

① No. (∄ Anti-AFAB-oppression)　　② No. (I was not AFAB)　　③ No. (I'm not trans)

① No. (∄ Anti-AFAB-oppression)　　② No. (I was not AFAB)　　③ Yes. (I'm trans)

① No. (∄ Anti-AFAB-oppression)　　② Yes. (I was AFAB)　　③ No. (I'm not trans)

① No. (∄ Anti-AFAB-oppression)　　② Yes. (I was AFAB)　　③ Yes. (I'm trans)

① Yes. (∃ Anti-AFAB-oppression)　　② No. (I was not AFAB)　　③ No. (I'm not trans)

① Yes. (∃ Anti-AFAB-oppression)　　② No. (I was not AFAB)　　③ Yes. (I'm trans)

① Yes. (∃ Anti-AFAB-oppression)　　② Yes. (I was AFAB)　　③ No. (I'm not trans)

① Yes. (∃ Anti-AFAB-oppression)　　② Yes. (I was AFAB)　　③ Yes. (I'm trans)

See results

Voting ended onNov 20, 2025

Since this poll by @trans-exchange, which was added to one of my posts, was phrased in a way that conspicuously fails to detect people who hold the belief that trans women (not AFAB) are spared from being targeted by a distinct axis of "anti-AFAB-oppression" when that axis of oppression is not referred to as "misogyny", I'm making this poll as a complement.

I prefer to force this point rather than leaving it ambiguous.

[coremilk]

Compiled from the raw numbers of the poll results:

The rest of the numbers (656 participants of 713 total votes):

All participants (656): 　　　Yes: 37.3% (245)　　　No: 62.7% (411) All people AFAB (343): 　　　Yes: 56.3% (193)　　　No: 43.7% (150) All people ￢AFAB (313): 　　　Yes: 16.6% (52)　　　No: 83.4% (261) All people ￢trans (66): 　　　Yes: 57.6% (38)　　　No: 42.4% (28) ￢trans, AFAB (52): 　　　Yes: 55.8% (29)　　　No: 44.2% (23) ￢trans, ￢AFAB (14): 　　　Yes: 64.3% (9)　　　No: 35.7% (5)

This poll was made in response to @trans-exchange adding a poll to this post asking whether trans women and trans men respectively were oppressed by misogyny.

(As this data is based on a convenience sample, the results should not be taken to have external validity.)

The wording of the question was attempting to ask if the concept of "sex-based oppression" (in a specifically trans exclusionary formulation, as understood by TERF ideology) should be used as a framework for analysis.

[marbleguard]

this is one of the best posts I’ve ever seen. The community polled itself, and the results straight from the horse’s mouth are so enlightening. Male people do not believe female oppression exists, while the majority of female people of course know that female oppression exists. I bet if you ran this same poll with “cis” women and men, you would get similar results, with men stating female oppression isn’t real and the women arguing that it is.

if you are a trans man or afab NB person, really think about these results, and what they suggest.

[queen-mayhem]

Oh wow. Many thoughts.

Men think sex-based oppression isn't real, shocker. I like when they say it out loud, though.

The trans movement as a whole believes sex-based oppression is not real. Shocker. I like when they say it out loud, though.

The notes of this post are absolutely seething about these "terf-adjacent transmascs" who "lack solidarity with transfems" because they acknowledge the existence of sex-based oppression.

There are full-blown batshit insane struggle sessions going on in the notes of this post, falling largely into the categories of "AFAB people are evil" and "Convoluted language arguments, because this post comes way too close to acknowledging that TW are male and TM are female so the language must get more obscure."

[diabloii]

yes i can

[log6]

must be hard not being liked by women but it's lowkey always something wrong with the men that say that cause women will date anyone I've seen it I've fought it to no avail

[goodluckbabe13]

“Not everyone has to be a feminist” actually no. Maybe this is a little to radical for you, but the reason why I don’t like Sabrina Carpenters album cover IS because it’s not feminist. I’m done pretending that’s a little misogyny is okay. You are either for women or your against them, and if you’re a woman who is constantly rejecting feminism I don’t have time to pander to your little feelings.

[volach-deactivated20230326]

Sex buyers kys

[plum-soup]

“Sex buyers” ok girl…

[rantithesis]

This actually isn’t the state treating sex workers like criminals. This is the state treating sex workers like contractors. This is the natural consequence of legalized prostitution and just one of many legal pitfalls opened up by doing so. This is what “sex work is work” literally means under our legal framework. When sex is work it is legalized as work and therefore prosecuted as work and compelled as work. This is exactly why informed feminists are opposed to legalization of prostitution - there is no ethical framework for “sex work” under capitalism or under any legal system currently in existence

[radjoy]

I just saw this tiktok of this guy going around to all his teammates and asking them “what’s the meanest thing a girl’s ever said to you?”

and all their responses were sort of snarky and funny, like one guy said he was still waiting for her to respond, and one girl had told her ex she was going to miss his dog more than him, and another guy got told his tattoos were “performative”.

and I was like… you could never do that with women. the meanest thing a guy ever said to me? “Fucking psycho bitch” after I pulled a gun on him, after he’d stopped his car next to me when I was walking along an isolated road, demanded I get inside, and then got out to physically force me inside. The meanest thing a guy ever said to my sister? “If you tell anyone, I’ll kill your whole family”, after molesting her repeatedly, for 4 years, starting at age 11. He would later say another mean thing to her, “whore”, after he was acquitted, before she’d even graduated high school.

Lmao!!! Isn’t that so funny!!!!! Don’t you think we’ll go viral on tiktok??? I had to threaten lethal force to keep a guy from dragging me into his car and my sister had to record a video deposition on her rape trial before she could see an R-rated movie by herself!!!!!!! but I’m so sorry to hear that girl didn’t respond to your messages sir!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! probably you should kill yourself about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[weary4u]

Basically no one successfully manages to live their ideals all the time but if you don't even strive towards doing so or acknowledge doing so as a legitimate goal, then those are not your ideals 🤩

[marbleguard]

🥳🎉🍾

[wulfsbaiine]

I met this guy in 2017 and watched him pick out the youngest possible women present to accompany him on his arm and presumably to his bedroom. Many of the more experienced women present spoke openly to me about how he was a piece of shit (obviously). He sunk billions of his exploitation porn money into funding Zionist lobbying in the US. He also owned My Free Cams AKA MFC, one of the largest camming platforms out there. Sometimes nature serves its own justice.

[diamond-heiress-deactivated2018]

So Apparently Male Authors Have Been Making Their Wives Do All The Typing

Come on, fellas. Let's get it together.

It’s incredible how much women do behind the scenes. I know a realtor who relies strongly on his girlfriend’s charisma, beauty and personality to gain clients.

[sixth-light]

I’ve just been reading The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel, about the Harvard women who supported the bulk of astronomy research there over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While many of them did receive public and academic credit as well as pay - although the university always resisted making any of them faculty until the 1950s - almost all the male astronomers featured were married to accomplished women in their own right, many of them scientists, and you can bet their husbands weren’t putting them on all their papers. 

Which has bled into the modern academic world, where many people are expected to do what was essentially a two-person job (filled by male academic + wife) by themselves, or while married to someone else trying to do the same thing. The lack of acknowledgement of women’s work fucks everybody over. 

[angualupin]

#people who want a return to the mythical prior era #when women did not work #do not want women to stop working #they want them to stop getting credit and pay for it

[orriculum]

This reminds me of how early film history, it was always the male director’s wife who did the editing of the films, because the cutting and connecting of film strips was considered a lot like sewing. Of course, anyone who knows anything about film and editing can tell you it changes how good a movie is very easily.

Don’t believe me? Look at the differences between the famous Jaws as the public’s release of it (insisted upon by the female editor) and spielberg, the male director’s version of it (missing basic suspense methods, shows the phony shark too much, etc). Same goes for almost every tarantino film. Editing makes or breaks a film and even today, you can bet your socks editing “the invisible art” was pioneered and is still pushed by women.

[smallswingshoes]

^^^^^^ This is so true! And once film editing began to be recognized as an actual art form, women were shoved out of the editing room so that men could be artistic or whatever.

Also Tarantino referred to his favorite editor as being kind of like his mom or something and I swear to god the more I see of him, the less I like him.

[squeeful]

The “female editor” for Jaws was Verna Hellman Fields, who cut many other notable films, including American Graffiti along with Marcia Lucas.

Tarantino’s “favorite editor” was Sally JoAnne Menke who edited all of Tarantino’s films until she died.

Because naming and credit is important, especially when you’re talking about women not getting credit and recognition of their work as named individuals.

If you want to know more about women in early filmmaking (emphasis American) and the sociology of how different roles were divided, gendered, and re-gendered in the first decades, I highly recommend Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood by Karen Ward Mahar.  

There are a number of other books to follow that, but it’s 2am and I’m tired so hit me up later for them.

[beautytruthandstrangeness]

You know what happens when women type? They EDIT. It is a service they are expected to provide invisibly - not to let a mistake or imperfection show to their husband’s audience, but also not to intrude upon his sense that this is all his ideas and his labor. Wives are the unacknowledged story and script doctors, and often co-authors for so many supposedly male-authored works.

Also, I second Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood. Mahar was my history prof for three or four courses and she is incredibly knowledgeable and engaging. 

[lettucefem]

I think one of the most insidious things about our current era of patriarchy is how much we are bombarded with women who appear to choose their own objectification, enjoying their own objectification and selling it as confidence and fun. The message being that any discomfort with patriarchy is prudish and unfeminine and underconfident. That this discomfort must come from our own ugliness and shame, something to hide and be insecure about, and that criticism of objectification is criticism of women ourselves. That we’re jealous and mean. Men are almost completely taken out of the picture- as executives, as photographers, as directors and consumers of our bodies and sexuality. The objectification of women is done by women, to women, and any repercussions will fall onto women. We are entirely self contained whilst men are free to watch from outside and consume our sexuality regardless.

[gracklesong]

When your bioessentialist genderfluidity threatens to turn a cyclist into road paste

[kiefbowl]

[lobotomy-lady]

genuinely speechless about neil gaiman putting out an article claiming that him being outed as a heinous sexual predator with dozens of victims was a strategic, organized smear campaign orchestrated by Big Terf (jkr, also named a few others) & claiming his first accuser just made the whole SA story up just to ruin his career bc he is pro-trans...god grant this man 10000 years of medieval torture

[abortionado]

Every time you try to talk to a man about misogyny he’s like “well what about the terrible things men do to each other because they hate women so much? Huh? What’s feminism going to do about that???”

[abortionado]

In a post-Roe America you genuinely could not pay me to GAF that you all are making fun of each other for crying lmfao that is not my problem in the slightest