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Jasmine, 27,Vegan, Lesbian, Radfem, this is my radfem focused sideblog 👍

[radsheep27]

[maleexclusionaryrighteousfemale]

[ronedob-deactivated20220805]

"i use queer because it fits me better than any other label!!" you use queer because unfortunately for you, "gay", "lesbian" and "bisexual" are specific terms with concrete meanings that do not apply to your reality but you still want to feel like you're special and unique and not just another "boring" straight so you call yourself queer because you know it's a bullshit word with no real meaning which means nobody can really prove or disprove that it applies to you so now everyone has to tolerate your presence in spaces that were originally meant for same-sex attracted people. hope this helps

[thefemaleterrorist]

[thepoliticalnoteboo1deac]

[radsheep27]

Hate all the BS gender woowoo (and using a slur to describe same sex attracted people) in the article below the graphic, but the graphic itself illustrates an important issue. 

[lecisbian-deactivated20250918]

[angelic-apple]

Bored. Radfem ask game <3

🤝 What introduced you to radical feminism?

📩 Do you remember your first anon hate?

🥰 Fave thing about the radblr community?

🙄 Least fave thing about the radblr community?

💣 Are you ex- or detrans?

😞 Are you dysphoric?

🤫 Unpopular terf opinion?

🤩 Name a woman who inspires you and why?

💅 Do you wear make-up or shave?

👙 Sex work is work, true or false? Why?

🖤 Top 3 worst things a man has said to you?

❤️ Top 3 best things a woman has said to you?

😶 How's your relationship with your mother?

👸🏼 Do you literally hate trans people sooo much and want them to die violently? Do you personally kill trans women?

😈 A feminist sin?

🌈 Your feelings about the q*eer community?

🚷 Have you defeated the system and been named in a terf block list?

😬 Worst trend you've seen online?

🎨 What's your favourite color?

👤 The most cryptic woman you've ever met?

💪 Are you gender critical?

🤬 What's your opinion on those old buzz feed videos from way back, where women did "experiments" where they sat in public transport and man spreaded.

🐱 Do you think men belong in- or outside?

🍦 Fave snack and yummy beverage?

⚔️ Truscum/transmed?

🔫 What's your opinion on the "war' between tras and radfems? Do you think it's productive?

🐶 Your feelings on the word 'bitch'?

🤣 Worst comeback a tra has made to you while they thought they just served the biggest burn of the century?

👨‍⚕️ Have you felt discriminated against or unsafe, haven't been taken seriously or been groped a little too much when trying to seek medical help?

🎭 What's the best piece of media you've enjoyed recently?

🧓 How long has it been since you peaked?

📚 Any books to recommend?

😍 First girl crush?

🚫 Have you been termed before?

👌 What are your favourite hobbies?

🎮 Videogames yay or nay?

🤦‍♀️ Did you use to be a tra or a mra?

🤢 Radical feminism is white feminism. Are you a privileged whitey too?

💕 Fave mutual? <3

👀 Fave radblr blog you follow?

[takealookatyourlife]

It’s so fucked up that women are so universally dismissed and hated in society that nearly every single woman goes through a phase (if not a lifetime) of thinking she isn’t like other women purely because she has rational thoughts, hobbies, feelings, and needs.

[rad-chocho]

that same internalized misogyny that made girls think “I’m not like other girls” has evolved, now it makes them think “I’m not a girl”

[parttimepup]

So I was back in Mandarin class and the teacher let us know that in ancient times sometimes they wouldn’t even give their girl children names. Their attitude was why bother getting attached to her when she’s just going to grow up and belong to someone else? She doesn’t need her own identity because she is the property of her future husband. If they needed to refer to a woman they would say that’s Wang’s wife. In the same way you would say oh, that’s Wang’s car or Wang’s house. Let’s remember that we give names to dogs, horses, ships and buildings but some human women don’t deserve such recognition. She also touched on sex-selective abortion for a bit and it was all in all a pretty sad discussion today.

I was really moved but it felt like everyone else didn’t care or thought that stuff doesn’t matter because it doesn’t happen anymore. And yet even now women’s identities are being erased when they get married. Their personal history and family ties are untraceable because they are “adopted” into their husbands family. It’s disgusting and I hate that its so nomalized and I hate that even women’s names are not our own. We might as well never have been given names in the first place.

[old-school-butch]

This effect also disrupts our relationships. Try finding old friends from high school or your second cousin. They are gone and renamed, lost to you.

[girl-unashamed]

Common throughout history, unfortunately. Women in ancient Rome often weren’t given names beyond their family names; if you needed to differentiate between sisters, you’d often just say “Cornelia the younger / the elder” or even just give them numbers. Their husbands would address them, in private, by the feminine form of their own names (eg. if you married Julius then he’d call you Julia).

A lot of people think the effect has disappeared today, because women typically have less common names than men - a higher fraction of men are named the absolute most popular names like John or Jack whereas women are more spread out over different names.

But it’s really noticeable how often parents give their male children meaningful names - they’ll have a historically important namesake, or be named after a great grandfather, or have a traditional name with a meaning their parents liked. That’s why the common names tend to be common. The names given to female children are chosen because they’re “pretty” names, because their parents just liked the way it sounded, or are even just nouns / adjectives like “Lily”, “Hope” or “Summer”. They emphasise that the role of the female child is to be a pretty ornament, not to achieve meaningful things or inherit anything from a namesake.

They’re often very infantilising - sure it’s cute when you have a two year old named “Poppy” or “Precious” but she’s going to have to grow up and put that name on her CV. They very often use the diminutive -ie / -y suffix (Millie, Tilly, Becky, Georgie, Katy / Katie), which is typically used to indicate something small and cute and which many women have to obfuscate in order to construct anything that sounds like a professional identity. (I know a Katie who is pretending her name is Katherine, even though it’s legally Katie, just so people won’t think she’s being inappropriately informal in a business context.)

They also highlight just how much ageism is directed at women and how much women have to struggle to keep up with fashion, even in something as basic as their names. A traditional male name like “Joseph” or “Edward” or “James” or “Luke” is fine no matter how many centuries it’s been popular for. An off cycle name might be unusual, but that isn’t a bad thing. But dare give a girl a name that was popular too long ago - “Dorothy” or “Mary” or “Dawn” or “Gertrude” - and she’ll be ruthlessly bullied in school for it because it’s a “old lady name for grandmothers”. Don’t you know those names are ugly now, undesirable, associated with old wrinkled women who aren’t sexy? You need a young, new, sexy name like Ava or Madison or Olivia - keeping in mind of course that those will be “ugly” too when your daughter gets old.

The tendency of feminine names to emphasise beauty - and occasionally sexuality, which can be somewhat inappropriate considering the kid has to grow up with that name - is taken to an extreme if you look at porn stars’ stage names, which are all things like Scarlet or Rose or Desiree or Ravyn. Femininity, taken to an extreme, always ends up being about sexual availability.

And when women do try and give their daughters unique names, so they’ll be memorable even if their surname changes, the Daily Mail runs spots to make fun of names like Nevaeh or Unique or Evylyn because apparently that’s chavvy. And maybe it is! I’m not a fan of replacing all vowels with y either! But wow, there are just no good options for women.

And of course the moment you put a recognisably female name on your CV you become less employable, your qualifications worth less. But if you have a gender ambiguous name, you’re punished for being gnc. Good fucking luck out there.

It’s kind of a small thing, next to all the rape and mutilation and career discrimination and all the generally horrible things happening to women. But it’s just… nothing is okay, nothing is equal, no part of the world has actually been completely fixed yet. Even our names are yet another thing we need feminism help improve.

[old-school-butch]

Reblogging for this fine addition

[vou-duvidar]

Ah, language/literature analysis! How I love and hate you. Great addiction tho. Thank you!

[thatkindoffeminist]

One of my mates has an old fashioned legal name which they don’t go by. While she likes the name because it has meaning to her, she’s said that most people think it’s a weird simply because it’s so old fashioned.

When it was popular what were the most popular boys names? Joseph, Robert, John, William, etc. Have they become old fashioned suddenly? Of course not.

Is there any part of a woman’s life which isn’t just a trend?

[discosunfish]

Modern feminists rarely reckon with the true immensity of the legacy of men’s subordination of us. This is the kind of thing I mean. Modern feminists are frequently in total denial about the fact that we were all of us property until, relatively speaking, a few seconds ago.

[bubblegum-pwussay]

People treat single moms like trash and single dads like some kind of a hero

[the-conquest-of-shred]

Because the bar is so low for dads that the bare minimum of care is incredible but mums are just expected to be doing that work

[littletinydoom]

Because single moms “made bad choices” and ended up “stuck with a kid” and it’s treated like a punishment that they deserve (as though another human being is a punishment). And the implication is that a dad has every right to choose not to take care of his children and if he does, it’s treated like he’s going above and beyond and making a huge sacrifice 

[radbian-deactivated20230423]

This reminds me of this post I saw on reddit from a teen who got his ex girlfriend pregnant on

He assumed she wouldn’t be able to go to college because “it’s going to be super tough with a kid” but didn’t think twice about not going to college himself. They both have a kid. But it’s her responsibility?

This is what men don’t get. Because women give birth we are assumed to be the sole/primary caretakers. We don’t get a choice; men get to decide when it’s convenient to be a dad.

[getoffmyastroturf]

men get to decide when it’s convenient to be a dad.

men get to decide when it’s convenient to be a dad.

men get to decide when it’s convenient to be a dad.

men get to decide when it’s convenient to be a dad.

[spearmint-milkshake]

Women are also seen as entirely responsible for falling pregnant and raising the child, until the topic of abortion comes up, then it’s “what about the father’s rights?? It’s his child too! The father should have an equal say in what happens to his child!!”

[evil-terf-hands]

Oof

[xx-fadingaway-xx]

men dont do anything but expect everything 

[phalloid-destroyer-deactivated2]

men are so fucking entitled

[kittiesatemypronouns]

This comment just hits me in the face: “He assumed she wouldn’t be able to go to college because “it’s going to be super tough with a kid” but didn’t think twice about not going to college himself. They both have a kid. But it’s her responsibility?”

[greyshadowquestionsbeing]

Another weird thing is how, when it comes to dating, single mothers  are so often told how they’re having kids will put men off, how dangerous it is for them to date, told that it will confuse the kids and you have to be careful and that you can’t replace their dad, people give advice on how to check our potential partners or even friends, single mothers are often told that it’s selfish and to wait until the kids are older. Many women with a partner are told not to leave them when they’re being abused because then they’ll be alone and no one will want to be with a single mother. Now, some of these concerns are genuine and I’m glad more places are giving parents the ability to make checks, but it’s pretty much the opposite for single fathers. 

I saw it with my own father years ago (man knew how to milk the dad image), I see it now, they’re encouraged to seek out new women partners, told how much women will them as responsible and caring and nurturing and so on, told that they have needs as well and the kids will understand and welcome in another mother-figure if theirs isn’t around, and so on. 

For her, kids are a punishment she should deny herself for, for him, it’s a reward and he should be rewarded for caring for them. 

[auntiewanda]

And then of course even though women naturally have all of the reproductive labor and most of these men dump primary care on the women they impregnated MRAs will cling to the fact women most often get full custody because of this like its systemic oppression against them.

[antiporn-activist]

“[UCLA psychologist Neil Malamuth] found that between 16 percent and 20 percent of male students said they’d commit rape if they could be certain of getting away with it. That’s at least one in six. When he used the phrase ‘force a woman to have sex’ instead of ‘rape’, the percentage jumped to between 36 percent and 44 percent—that means for nearly two out of every five guys, the key deterrent seems to be the fear of getting caught.”

— this is one of the most terrifying yet unsurprising paragraphs I’ve ever read (via wmilam)

[eyecloud9-deactivated20260327]

this is why men are TERRIFIED of “false rape allegations” and often sympathize with the rapist

[c0rpseductor]

every time someone’s like “so MEN think they can be SEXIST? what if we EMASCULATED THEM? haha! not so Manly getting pegged or wearing a skirt or being a homosexual or whatever now are you?? girl power!” i want to hit them over the head with like. any book. using misogyny as a weapon against men does not solve misogyny use your fucking brainnnn

[c0rpseductor]

like oh so your snappy response to the idea of women being treated as lesser is to imply that being like a woman is humiliating? Did you secure the likes? Did you get the engagement?

[gender-critical-analytical]

To every radfem and gender critical woman on this site: bless you. I see you out there, making posts and dismantling nonsensical arguments from TRAs only for them to just keep repeating the same shit. I see you getting threats and seeing other women get the same treatment, but you keep on going anyways. I see how bold you are, and I applaud you. I see you on posts on my dash and I know that you’re all so deeply brave and pushing against the shitstorm. I see you making well though out arguments and making some absolutely hilarious memes. I see you, fighting the fight and not backing down, and I want you to know that I respect you, and I’m proud to be a part of this community.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

The term ‘working woman’ [is] a tautology. There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work.

-Invisible Women

[http-m2]

I’m sorry but holy fuck what??? I don’t need to say anything on this, it’s fucked. I hate men and I hate the way woman have been socialised to think this is okay.

[mdayfsed]

This is the most offensive evil bullshit goddamn I loathe these men with my entire being how fucking dare you good grief!!!

FGM? Breast ironing? Foot binding? Femicide? Incest? Rape? Legally enforced gender roles???

Pornography, plastic surgery, the sexualization of girl children, illiteracy, the wage gap, fashion, makeup, being barred from education, being barred from holding a job, being barred from spending money, being barred from controlling your own body, being barred from medical care, being taught that your only purpose in life is to serve men all of it that is all female oppression it happens to females in order to keep them oppressed and controlled by men and it works.

Has nothing to do with the fact that infertile women exist and everything to do with the fact that we live in a misogynistic patriarchal world. Women are seen as inherently inferior to men and have been subjugated for men’s pleasure and desire for thousands of years all based on their extremely obvious anatomical differences

[radkindoffeminist]

What world are they living in whereby people’s fertility is on display and so people are able to judge women on it?

Infertile women are not somehow free of misogyny, regardless of how open we are about our conditions. We are called broken or worthless or less of a woman because of our infertility. People expect us to be willing to go to extreme lengths in order to bare children, regardless of the trauma it causes us or the risks of treatment, because that’s what’s expected of us.

As you said OP: women are taught that they exist to serve men, which includes baring their children. But infertile women cannot fulfil that role. They cannot serve men as desired. And this random twitter user think that makes us exempt from misogyny?

[pillarsalt]