[ladyalienist]

Radical feminist sources masterpost

Discovering radical feminism masterposts:

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Radical feminist literature:

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Post 9 (newer and better!)

Other masterposts/useful sources

Post 1: sex trafficking sources

Post 2: prostitution sources from prostituted women

Post 3: anti porn resources + TRAs debunking

Post 4: anti porn masterpost

Post 5: Sue Donym's work

Post 6: sources on surrogacy

Post 7: resources about forced marriage

Post 8: sex is dichotomous with sources

Post 9: miscellaneous masterpost with a lot of great stuff

[To be updated every now and then]

[lilith-apologist]

recently graduated (yay me) so I should make a post about how gender ideology is ruining women's colleges at some point

[warriordykes-deactivated2023083]

please do!

[lilith-apologist]

First of all, we are not supposed to call it a "women's college," we have to call it a "historically women's college" to avoid offending TIFs. and boy are there a lot of TIFs. Most people I know from school at the very least use she/they. The women who ID as male are especially detrimental, as they do that thing where they compensate for their insecurity over gender by being misogynistic.

TIMs were relatively rare when I started, but are increasingly common. Many of them barely pass. They share rooms and bathrooms with us.

Gender ideology is rampant. Women's studies is now called "study of women and gender." On one of my first days, when all the professors told us first years about their classes I asked if any of these study of women and gender courses were specifically about women. The professor said that no they are not. In classes, clubs, and other aspects "q*eer and trans folks" are centered.

Obviously radical feminists who do speak up are subjected to horrible treatment. A friend simply posted on her insta story that it should be called a women's college (as opposed to a historically women's college) and she lost many friends and even had to fear for her safety. She told me that she almost got pushed down the stairs

This is just the tip of the iceberg but overall the sense of sisterhood, safety, and hardcore feminism has vanished. It was not the experience I was hoping for when I applied. My school used to produce many prominent feminist activists but now the feminism is watered down and put behind gender ideology. Its really sad what it has become.

All this being said, I would still encourage women to look into women's colleges, especially if you are a woman in STEM. Studies show that women learn better in single sex environments and despite many women ID'ing otherwise, the vast majority of students are still women. I was a STEM major and it was so much nicer to be surrounded by women in a setting that would usually be dominated by men. Additionally, many of the women's colleges in America (namely the seven sisters) are very prestigious, up there with the top co-ed liberal arts colleges so if you can get in and afford it definitely consider going!

[toddstool]

Would you move to a female separatist commune?

yes it's my goal in life

yes but i don't think i have the skills for it/won't be able to help

yes but i don't think i'd stay there forever

maybe but im worried the commune wouldn't work out

maybe if it's completely settled, like moving to a new neighborhood

maybe but im worried about fighting/racism/ableism/homophobia

maybe but it sounds too hard

no i want to be around men (have male child/husband/boyfriend/brother/father)

no I prefer city life/suburbia

no i don't think it's feasible

Voting ended onJun 5, 2023

if your answer isn't on here please elaborate in the tags :·) also i didn't have room for a "no but I'd vacation or visit there". and remember to check out and support already running female only villages/towns/communes!!

[antifantasygirl-deactivated2023]

ladies!!!! ladies…. i am disheartened by the lack of enthusiasm here…. it is not that crazy to imagine a cooperative female only living space ANYWHERE! in the city! the country! the suburbs….

i have lived in two urban co-op houses (one for students exclusively, the other just for anyone) and YES there is conflict and YES it is work! but let me tell you it was so MUCH easier both times than ANY of my other living situations (alone or with other people)…. and these were still both co-ed. the only problems I had or even witnessed with housemates were in the student co op which was Huge and also literally 99% of the problems were brought about by…. MEN duhhhh

we will have to have house meetings. we will have house rules. WE WILL HAVE CHORES YALL and you will APPRECIATE said chores. and EVERYONE needs to participate i mean EVERYONE and i know what you’re thinking babe… “but what if my anxiety????” you need to PARTICIPATE. like i said i’ve lived in co ops did I also mention i’ve spent Months in Rehab…. yes we all need to heal and community is healing!!! participation is healing… doing things you don’t want to for the good of everyone else is HEALING!!!!

MY personal view on a female only commune/co-op would be that men are not allowed to even ENTER except under special circumstances…. perhaps we can vote to allow a few Known and Safe Men in for a special event or what everrrr…. but that’s the thing ladies. we will be voting and meeting and cooperating. we can have DEMOCRACY not stupid American democracy but true, real, NON HIERARCHICAL democracy. matriarchal democracy. (seriously recommend googling the Inter Cooperative Council to read about what the longest-running co-ops in the country need to run their houses smoothly, if you are stuck thinking about the logistics of this kind of thing)

also please! stop worrying about if our potato crops will fail or if you’ll never see a man again (womp womp)… you can have communal living where everyone has a job in the Outside World. you can have communal living where you leave for weekends and spend it with a man of ur choice. you can also say fuck it, females only and we are moving to the plains and raising cattle. we can literally do it all the ways :) and i just need everyone to be EXCITED god damn it!

[there-are-4-lights]

Here come the new gender stereotypes, same as the old gender stereotypes | Victoria Smith | The Critic Magazine

They aren’t subversive or ironic; they’re just silly…

Read the whole thing!!!!

[radscumsylph]

amazing how men are offended by female-only spaces and events, which don’t negatively impact them in the slightest… fucking ridiculous lmao

[nansheonearth]

It does affect them negatively though. Anyone who’s been to a women’s only space, especially the ones that are for multiple days or larger that 100+ women, know that women leave those spaces healed and stronger. It’s a threat to patriarchy and their privilege. They’re not going to give that up without a fight.

[shamelesslyunladylike]

Women-only events make women realize how great it feels to have no men around. You don’t realize how much you center your life around men, their raping and their violence, until you’re free of them for a while. They’re not wrong to feel threatened, as a women-only space makes women realize we can do better without them.

[girlboss-enthusiast]

I WISH radical feminists were as organized as people on this site think we are.

[itisthefunpolice]

Feminist Separatism 101

Separatism is the political position that minority groups have a right to center themselves. This is key to class analysis and required for class based political activism.

The Three Facets of Feminist Separatism:

Female centered/exclusive groups

Female centered/exclusive spaces

Female centered/exclusive lives

Any woman or girl can apply any number of these to themselves and their community and benefit from them. All three in tandem, full separatism, is ideal, but most women of the world will only participate in separatism partially. However, even partial participation is still progress. By creating, promoting, protecting, and maintaining these three facets of separatism we can encourage more women and girls to detach themselves from patriarchy, both in a material and internal sense. This is key to female liberation.

Examples:

Feminist book clubs (groups)

Female only restrooms (spaces)

Exclusively seeing female doctors (life style)

There are also two branches of separatism: escapist separatism and activist separatism. Separatism as activism and separatism as escapism are functionally the same, but with different applications.

Separatism as activism is focused on the larger scale, the political function of separatism for the purposes of women’s liberation from patriarchy.

Separatism as escapism is focused on the smaller scale, the personal function of separatism to harbor women from patriarchy while it still exists.

Examples:

Creating space for women’s consciousness raising in order to rally women together (activism)

Creating space for women’s consciousness raising in order to support women going through similar experiences (escapism)

Separatism vs Segregation:

Separatism is the active and willing choice of an oppressed class to separate themselves in order to center themselves.

Segregation is a tool used by oppressor classes to forcibly separate the oppressed in order to ostracize, degrade, and control them.

Quick Definitions:

Separatism - An oppressed class of people centering themselves and separating from their oppressor either socially or politically.

Separatist - Someone from an oppressed class who strives to live their life by the principals of separatism.

Separatist Action - Doing acts that center one’s oppressed class, such as attending an exclusive group, creating an exclusive space, or making exclusive choices.

There are many ways to participate in separatism from the large scale, like female only communes, to the small scale, like using female language as the default. All separatist acts contribute towards the larger goal.

Find new (or old) and creative (or mundane) ways to practice separatism in your own life!

[itisthefunpolice]

Ways to Practice Separatism:

Join an all female class or hobby group

Join a local women’s sports team

Attend or participate in women’s sports events, high school, college, or professional

Learn about female culture throughout the world

Make your home a female only space

Only hire female contractors such as plumbers or electricians

Go to local women business owner meetings to learn about women lead jobs and businesses in your area

Learn about the female body

Donate money, time, or resources to women’s shelters

Support groups that work with homeless women and donate menstrual products such as disposable pads

Only see female nurses, doctors, and surgeons

Only read books by female authors

Learn about women in history

Listen to music by women

Make your language female default, “her/she”, “firewoman”, “womankind” etc

Help other women whenever possible

Join a female mentor program to help other women or girls

Avoid letting conversations center around men and male perspectives

Talk about separatism with other women

Learn a skill to share with other women

Promote female only spaces such as gyms

Dedicate more time to other women (without the presence of men), make a lady’s night

Create a female only group for you hobby or interest

Find out about what other women in your area are doing and support them

If you think of anything else add it in the reblogs bellow.

[sustainableseparatists]

Organize mutual aid networks for women

Op and I were talking about old traditions of women helping women, from church ladies assigning people to bring food to the sick and the women of my paternal grandparents’ village moving in with a new mother to take care of her, the baby, and the home while she recovers from childbirth. The women we can help the most are the ones closest to us. Anything which creates a support system around women is important. Domestic violence shelters started like this, but everything makes a difference, even all-female study groups in college. The latter is especially important in male-dominated majors where they try to isolate and force out the female students among them and we find strength in each other.

What you need is most likely what other women need. No matter how young we are or how little money we have, start there, working together.

[terfrezi]

wow, i never tjought abt the whole "bimbo" phenomenon this way wtf great video

[bergamotbarbie]

De-center men. That’s all the advice I can give. De-center males and focus on yourself. For the love of You.

[balkanradfem]

Holy practices and tradition that are okay and universally good:

making trees, forests, mountains, rivers, seas and springs holy places

protecting them and going there for special occasions

planting holy trees as a religious practice

making animals sacred and protected

promoting the communal instinct to help others who need help

solving the housing and starvation crisis

promoting peace

promoting the freedom of choice, human rights, healthy boundaries, freedom of thought, and survival resources and safety for everyone

meeting up to listen to stories and legends of the past, which come with wisdom and promote healthy morals and community

meeting up to sing together

celebrating life, freedom and happiness

creating art in celebration of life and happiness

connecting with cycles in nature, celebrating natural occurrences

acknowledging that women are the source of human life and that they have the sole right to make decisions over that sphere

rituals and decorations to cheer people up when the seasonal depression is up due to the lack of sunlight

Holy practices and traditions that are absolutely unacceptable:

promoting suffering, subservience, poverty, starvation, sacrifice and endless servitude as the only ‘correct’ and moral way to exist

rituals where everyone has to listen to a man speaking for an hour or longer

repeating stories where the moral is to submit, to give away your personality, identity, even friends and family, in order to serve ‘the greater good’, promotion of ‘don’t think, don’t doubt, don’t ask questions’, or, stories talking about the horrors that would happen to non-believers, where the goal is to terrorize children who ‘don’t believe enough’

promoting the depictions, statues and art, of suffering, body harm, slow and torturous death, glorifying such images as ‘holy’, celebrating torture and death in essence

promoting an idea that the only humans who are ‘pure and saint’ earned their sainthood by being brutally murdered or tortured

limiting what women can and cannot do, punishing and shaming women’s bodily functions, or telling them that certain body functions must be used for the sake of ‘god’ or cannot be intervened with because of ‘god’

shaming women’s normal and healthy feelings, emotions, urges, desires, sexuality and appearance

telling women that their rightful place is to be ‘property’ or ‘servants’ to the other half of population

suppressing women’s freedom of thought, women’s freedom of mind, women’s bodily autonomy, and the important decisions of her life

joining a man and a woman to live in an isolated private space where the man is in control of all major decisions, and the path of her life, while she gets to be in control of nothing

putting women’s sexuality under men’s control, allowing men to violate it or ignore it at their own will

telling women they’re responsible for male’s predatory and perverse urges, telling women to take steps to ‘prevent it’, in which the goal is to make men not accountable for their own actions, and women ashamed for being unable to control something beyond their control

making rape of women mandatory, or normal, or acceptable, or permitted or something that should in any world be going on

threatening women and children that god can ‘hear their thoughts’ and that they are to be punished if it goes against god’s ideals

encouraging people to bond and communicate with an imaginary ‘father figure’ who takes credit for the creation of human population (which women actually did), who then argues that women should suppress themselves and be convenient and pleasing to men if they want to reach the imaginary afterlife

promoting the beliefs of any book that men wrote

claiming to promote peace while having a history of religious wars and spreading the idea that people of all other religions are ‘less’ or ‘sinful’ or ‘needing to be saved (converted)’

putting men in charge of anything

equating male desires to god’s desires while female desires are condemned and punished

equating purity, innocence and value in women with inexperience with physical intimacy

punishing and shaming women both for accepting and refusing physical intimacy (if they accept they lose value and are seen as tainted, if they refuse they displeased the man who wanted it, she doesn’t get any agency and whether she wants it or not is irrelevant to religion, except if she does she’s sinful)

failing to promote well-being, satisfaction, health, freedom, human rights, bodily autonomy, natural rights to administrate or refuse to administrate a human life, and overall safety and happiness of women

[seeuspacelesbian-deactivated202]

the reason men want women to look so unnatural and bizzare, the reason they want them in layers and layers of makeup, insane amounts of surgery, completely covered and faceless and quiet, is that the less human you can make her, the more you can remove her from her natural state, the less guilt you feel for being a monster. If she is not human, what humanity do you need to treat her with?

[seeuspacelesbian-deactivated202]

i thought of this while watching the breadwinner, and watching the scene where Parvana’s mother is beaten in the street in her burqa— and even her eyes are covered by a mesh. and all i could think about was the experiments where people (largely men) would press a button to shock someone in a room over that they couldn’t see but they could hear. i know in that experiment part of it is that it was an authority telling them to do it, but i do have to think about how the scientists who conducted the experiments specifically made it so they couldn’t see the person they would believe they were harming. i really think that also plays a part in the dehumanization to a degree. when you remove the ability to see the pain you’re inflicting, or can obscure it, make it pretty or easy to cover it up, it becomes even easier for them (men) to inflict it. i think this can be as direct as these two examples or as subtle as the makeup or extreme as plastic surgery. anything to remove you from your basic state, to make you something separate from just how you would be. idk. maybe i’m overthinking it but it is something.

[female-malice]

This is the complete process of othering.

[kova-luu]

When I was younger, I really thought other women enjoyed the things I found uncomfortable and painful. The makeup, the hairstyles, the clothes, the forced smiles and laughter, the heels, the domestic and emotional labor. I wonder how many men go through an unconscious thought process like this: women freely choose to put themselves through this and that and seem to enjoy it, so they must be built differently than us, they must be built for pain. 

[ms-andrist96]

2:

Did you boyfriend ever try to push your head down on his cock during a BJ? Did he ever try to make you do anal? Did he coerce you into sex by saying he had blue balls? Did he ever put his hand around your throat because he saw it once in porn? Did he jerk off to women who didn’t look like you? Did you go along with it because you felt this was the only way in which sex could proceed? Because you felt empowered?

I think feminists who decry the anti porn movement need to get their heads out of the sand. Maybe 20 yrs ago when the hardest shit you could find on the internet was a grainy bootlegged copy of The Italian Stalion, porn use may have been a vice but not egregious. Not like it is today. Young women of today are facing a generation of men who grew up on ultra HD porn of every possible tag they could hope for. They’ve been watching REAL women be slapped, kicked, abused, and degraded on screen for upwards of a decade by the time they lose their virginity and pass the trauma onto another woman.

Personally, this has affected me in every relationship I have had since high school, even the last one which was almost perfect; where I almost married him. He was a caring boyfriend, he did everything and was everything to me. But— when I asked him what he wanted for his birthday, and he confessed, it’s like I wasn’t even in the 20th century as far as human rights abuse goes. He confessed he wanted to choke me, fuck me in the ass, to spit on me, ALL WHILE broadcasting porn on three screens he was going to drag into the bedroom. He wanted to hurt me while he watched other women get hurt.

I searched his phone later and found that he’d been on several subreddits dedicated to a new fetish, a fetish of porn itself. I won’t link them here but know that these men LIKE that porn hurts women, that they are hurting their partners, themselves, and perpetuating the actresses’ suffering. It is part of the appeal of porn to these men. The captions encouraged users to waste their lives looking at porn, to marry it, leave their wives and children over it, and commenters imagined a dystopian world where women of ALL ages are meant to be used. Where porn and violence is the everyday.

I ask any pro-porn feminist to reconcile the above information with their perspective. How can you? Don’t you know that in the 21st century, as women seek equal footing to men, that they will continue to supposedly “put us in our places” by reminding us that this is what they think of us? There is no engaging with a recovering addict at this end because they show their hand which is misogyny.

[femmesandhoney]

i think its really sad how many women and girls think they're boring. i think we get bored with ourselves because we know everything we love and hate and desire and fear and our habits and the brand of shampoo we buy and the music we're picking out first in a playlist and the colors we decorate with but no one else knows these things until they know you. you're a fascinating person to get to know to someone out there. to everyone else, you are unique in all ways. you can never really be a boring woman. you're always gonna surprise someone with something good or bad. we just live with ourselves all the fucking time until we think our lives are the most mundane thing on earth and everyone else must be more exciting we look at their hobbies and wonder why we don't have any (you do), we look at their style and wonder why ours feels dull (you see all your stuff every day), we think all our stories have been said and done and aren't interesting (only you can tell em, your unique perspective). and yet women and girls sit around all day sucked into a screen staring at everyone else wondering why they're the most boring person around. like look around baby girl no one will ever be able to look at you and read you in a split second and know everything about you. you're never gonna be boring as long as you're living life and embracing it and doing things that make you happy and filling your space and time with those things. women have rich lives in all ways as long as they do that.

[jackalopiel]

if you search “porn” right now, you will go to porn hub, and you will see, on that very first page, videos that are sexist, racist, incestuous, fetishising lesbians, paedophilic, etc. this is the mainstream porn. this is the surface. that is what most of 96% of men saw and decided to keep looking. I don’t say things I haven’t checked and so I looked and literally the first video on pornhub offered to me was a role play of a guy fucking his stepdaughter. In my country 99% of men have watched porn. just near every man you ever meet will have watched women degraded and humiliated and fetishised. and they enjoyed it.

[haggishlyhagging]

“If I were to differentiate between the radical feminist mind and the mind of the women's rights feminist (the one who responds with such alacrity to invitations to be a wallflower at the Old Boys' Club dance—anything to be allowed inside the door), I'd say that the women's rights-ists look at the pie of power and say, "This is basically a good pie; as good a pie as we're likely to get in this world, certainly better than the pie in most countries. The only trouble is that it hasn't been cut up equitably. So what we have to do is get bigger slices for women and minorities and all those who have had to make do for so long with such exceedingly slender slices."

What happens when we get bigger slices of the pie is chronicled briefly by Ellen Goodman in a column right after the 1984 election entitled "Sisterhood May Be Losing Out to Equality":

The question—What has happened to that always tenuous bond called sisterhood?—goes wider and deeper than any one election. There was a time, and not that long ago, when women began to focus on what they had in common, what they had suffered in common. There was a sense of community created out of this fresh awareness—out of anger, too, and a belief in change. A certain population of women thought of themselves as women first, and found some self-conscious assurance in the slogan, "Sisterhood is powerful."

Today much of that energy has been dispelled in the best possible way: by success. The head of steam from women has been dissipated by new opportunities . . .

Many professional women content themselves with the few crumbs they've been tossed. They have gained a little respect as professionals, and are afraid of tampering with a proven "success" formula. What patriarchy terms "success" for women, however, is our most fearful and frightening failure to establish another reality on this planet by determining to live by feminist values.

Radical feminists look at the women's rights-ists' pie of power model and say, "That pie is rotten! It will poison anyone who touches it. What we have to do is bake a whole new pie from a whole new recipe."

As Elizabeth Oakes Smith tried to make clear in her address to the Woman's Rights Convention in 1852:

My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?

What women have needed to do for well over a century is to wash the men and their value system right out of our hearts, to go out of our 5000-year-old minds.”

-Sonia Johnson, Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation

[herglowingheart]

yes let’s convince young women that actually you don’t want to work it’s too stressful you should just stay home and be in your divine feminine and let your man make the money. no you don’t need to think about your passions or desires or the future! let a man do all that … working is hard :( and boring -_- you’re a being of light you deserve to lounge around ALL day!! no work or education necessary!

[goodnighthorses]

I'm turning 4 tomorrow so i need to order retinol and vitamin c creams and anti aging ointments so i won't lose my youth and look 3 forever <- this is what you sound like being in your 20s saying shit about wrinkles online

[yellow-roses-white-lilies]

Twenties skincare is super important- you can keep your youthful skin if you’re smart (genetics play a role but so does how you treat your body) If you’re an idiot like I was, be prepared to spend a lot of money in your 30’s. I wish someone had sat me down and went over all of this with me:

20’s skincare- you need sunscreen anytime there’s sun exposure, getting a tan is asking for dark spots, uneven skin and wrinkles later in life (not to mention biopsies to test for skin cancer which means scars), use retinol at night as often as your skin can tolerate it (some people can’t use it daily- never use retinal before sun exposure), wash and moisturize your face twice daily (don’t forget your neck!), exfoliate delicately once a week, take a multivitamin, drink lots of water and learn to sleep on your back at a sight incline. If you notice wrinkles that stay after you relax your facial muscles, start Botox/Dysport/Xeomin. BE DELICATE with the skin under and around your eyes!!! Applying and removing makeup- be super gentle. Ditch the habit of rubbing your eyes, you’re stretching your skin and it will loose elasticity which will create hollows under your eyes and/or wrinkles.

[goodnighthorses]

Don’t give a shit

[vilinlith]

Someone seems bitter.

Basics of anti aging is the basics of health

1) adequate hydration

2) sun screen

3) not smoking

If that triggers you you suck

[goodnighthorses]

Didn't ask