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Intro post

Hey :) I’m a radfem who likes stuffed animals and baking. I’m 19. Not sure what else to put.

Anyways, here’s a list of the tags I use :)

#radblr and #radical feminism = pretty much everything on my blog that’s not a personal post

#radical feminist community = the above, but specifically posts that discuss community, solidarity, and/or friendship between radical feminists

#radical feminist theory = the above, but specifically posts that contain quotes of radical feminist books and/or points of radical feminist theory (such as anti-porn, gender criticism, etc)

#fishy’s feelings :) = posts that I like, are about me, or relate to my interests

#fishy’s feelings :( = posts that pertain to me in a sad/negative way and/or consist of me venting

#fishy’s feelings :)

stickandthorn

I’d die on the hill that “stranger danger” is a deeply unhelpful mentality to have. “Ooooh everyone is out to get me they’re all gonna perpetrate harm that’s actually more likely to come from someone I already know. I better never talk to anyone in my community who I don’t already know, just to be safe. I’m sure there are no other biases interwoven with this mentality” like oh my god human traffickers do not just randomly spawn in every parking lot. You don’t have to go solo hitchhiking across the country but you also don’t have to live in fear that every guy on the street is the knife man who’s gonna get you. Like have situational awareness, yeah. But most of the time the guy on the street is not knife man he’s actually just a guy on the street and he’s probably pretty chill, and you’re driving yourself crazy by living in a constant state of unnecessary fear.

stickandthorn

Like always safety comes first, especially if you’re in a marginalized group more likely to be targeted by random people around you. But that’s different from stranger danger. I might even say that stranger danger is something that contributes to marginalized groups getting targeted by random people. Which strangers do you find distrust worthy? Why? Does vague distrust justify harmful actions in the name of self defense? Stranger danger draws everyone away from more important issues of safety (underlying bigotries, systemic injustices, abuse in the home, etc) and towards an amorphous boogeyman that has no solution, because it’s not the real cause or culprit.

blacklesbianprincess

i have never in my life heard an adult or even teenager use “stranger danger”. it’s a motto for children to protect them from people who approach them whom they don’t know. it is so disingenuous to suggest that paranoia about public safety is unfounded. women especially are vilified for not being prepared in case of an attack, but if a woman is prepared, they’re paranoid and hate all men? i concede that most abuse is from someone you know. that doesn’t mean it’s completely useless or harmful to acknowledge the danger in being in public. every woman i know has a story about a public encounter with a man who disrespected or violated boundaries at the bare minimum. not naming the problem isn’t going to make it go away and dismissing real fear that is grounded in reality to suggest it’s a form of a systemic oppression is fucked up and intellectually dishonest

#radblr #radical feminism

evilbihet

if you support trans women in women’s sports then you never actually understood why women’s sports ever existed.

chemical-accident

How is it still so hard for people to accept that homosexuals are actually homosexual and that we can't just upgrade into the politically correct "hearts not parts" sexuality just because they decided that sex shouldn't matter? It's like they completely forgot why this community even exists.

I get that the majority of them are at best bisexual and can't actually relate to lesbians (and lesbians have always been a minority so it becomes very obvious why they suddenly forgot about us when there's a flood of non lesbians claiming that label and correcting us with their tumblr wisdom on what our community looked like and the history they never actually experienced) even then they just can't deal with us having boundaries and it's so weird.

They pretend to be progressive but act like every other creep who sees lesbians as a challenge because he thinks we're just playing hard to get. It's like they're trying to solve a riddle.

"ok fine you said lesbians aren't attracted to men but what about dick? Is that negotiable? What if I just told you I'm not a man and you pretend my dick is a strap? Can we meet somewhere in the middle? Come on you said no men and I just told you I'm not a man anymore, so where's the problem? What's wrong with you? Why do you hate me? Do you want me to die??"

"Ew are you attracted to genitals? Do you see people as walking genitals you freak?'

"Why is it so important if someone has a dick? What if you meet someone you like, would you reject them when you realize they have this really unimportant body part that you have some weird hangups over? Maybe you should work on that because that's not normal"

"nobody cares about your weird genital fetish, we don't need to know what you do in the bedroom, stop shoving it down our throats and keep it to yourself"

I'm genuinely concerned for young lesbians who will find online communities, read this manipulative homophobic bullshit and believe that there is something wrong with them for having boundaries and not being attracted to the opposite sex.

#radblr #gay not queer

sundazesun

the-butterwitch

They're strangely proficient at discerning what a woman is when they have to decide who, between JKR and Caitlyn Jenner, will get rape threats for declaring themselves against trans women in women's sports.

niiwa-angel

They always know who the woman is when they

Watch porn

Send rape threats

Call someone a bitch, cunt, whore, or breeder

What characteristics they want their HRT to give them

Know which shelters they want to be in

And look to date.

But somehow we're all bigots for recognizing the same thing.

labryslesbian

“stupid women, you don’t ACTUALLY have trauma if you were raped or assaulted by a man. it’s all made up to make ME feel bad. I’M the victim always. my self image and worth comes only from the validation of every woman alive and nothing they do can ever be less than worshipping me or else i’ll go off on them. now call me a woman and let me in your changing rooms or else YOU’RE the freak!!”

#radical feminism #radblr

radfem-alt-clothes

I thin most feminists, including in radfem spaces, feel the need to show themselves as oppressed for reasons other than being a woman. I'm not just a woman, I'm a gay woman. Or I'm a WOC. Or I'm autistic or disabled or jewish or ugly or poor this or that and like... a straight, white, young, rich and smoking hot woman is still oppressed because shocker! She's still a woman. I know a lot of radfems like to complain about oppression olympics in "queer" spaces but the second its in feminist ones, it's not an issue? Yeah, intersectionalism and all that but I think theres a difference between that and saying that your oppression is more real because you have it coming from multiple angles. All women are oppressed. You don't need to be hyper oppressed in order to have a view.

#radblr #radical feminism

honeyapplebutterfly

When one woman is killed every ten minutes, that’s normal.

When a few trans women are killed in a year, that’s genocide.

When it happens to female humans, it’s expected. When it happens to male humans, it’s a shocking tragedy.

#radblr #radical feminism

andro-genesis

Men be like: “Women have it easier because [men view women as sex objects], [men have low standards for sex] and they can [something men can do but choose not to].”

#radical feminism #radblr

seagullgal

"legalizing sex work will help sex workers!" quick name five countries where prostitution is legal and the impacts of that legalization on human trafficking in those places

#radical feminist theory #radblr #radical feminism

doingitatmybirthdaydinner

David Sedaris’s opinion on the word queer, and a few dumbass fucking idiot comments.

one and only smart comment:

these people want to be able to claim "weirdness" and "avant-garde-ness" without having to actually define whether they are gay or straight or bisexual (probably because they're straight). but thanks for once again lumping same-sex-attraction in with weirdness and unconventional lifestyles when gay activists worked for literal decades to say "hey, we're just like you, we're normal people who just happen to like the same sex". it's funny how all these people all calling david sedaris old, and saying he just doesn't get it. well maybe you're young, and YOU just don't get it. you don't get how queer was and is used as a derogatory slur especially towards gay men, and specifically used to call homosexuality WEIRD and STRANGE, and so maybe david is confused why suddenly non-gay people are adopting the word to call themselves weird and strange for being kinky or having threesomes. YOUUUUU don't it, he gets it more than you, you gen-z spicy straight queer. "maybe I don't want to invoke exactly who I have sex with" okay then don't come out?? don't come out as queer then...? you want to come out at queer, but not tell anyone who you have sex with. good plan. so you want the social cool point and oppression points without actually coming out of the closet, sorry but you can't have both. if you don't want people questioning who you have sex with, maybe don't mention your queerness. that's like announcing that you're a very pious religious person, and then when people ask what religion you practice, you're like "I don't want to invoke exactly what religion I practice". then maybe don't bring it up?? and claiming that david "doesn't want to make space for anyone else"... yeah maybe he doesn't want to make room for spicy straight polyamorous kinksters to be lumped together with him as a homosexual man.... I think that's pretty fair! inclusivity is not always good and positive. exclusivity is not inherently mean, problematic or evil. we don't have to make space for everyone. you can tell most of these people are not actually homosexual or bisexual, otherwise they wouldn't have felt called out by what david said. whatever, have fun with your threeway, but leave gays and lesbians out of it please.

#radical feminism #radblr #gay not queer #young lesbians

marcusbrutus

you know threating violence against women is still misogyny? right? even when it's against women you hate? you know when you say shit like "i wanna drag terfs out of the bathroom by the hair and curb stomp them" or "i hope republican women get raped and/or have an unwanted pregnancy so they can face the consequences of their actions" you're threating violence against specifically against women? and that's misogyny? you know that right?? right?? right??????

#radblr #radical feminism

girlnumbers

Males be like wtf I’m not violent I’m going to violently fucking murder you for saying that

rainbowfishyfem

I’m such a bad lesbian, I didn’t even make a pride post :( happy pride to the beautiful lesbians + bi girls of radblr!! 💜 sending you all a hug :)

rainbowfishyfem

also happy honorary pride to Natasha Lyonne bc I’m shocked she’s not a lesbian + also BIAC is my favorite movie (second ONLY to Lisa Frankenstein) + also I watched OITNB solely for her

I’m such a bad lesbian, I didn’t even make a pride post :( happy pride to the beautiful lesbians + bi girls of radblr!! 💜 sending you all a hug :)

#radblr #radical feminism #gay not queer #young lesbians #fishy’s feelings :)#radical feminist community

radfemme-rage

i’m so glad phrases like terf and swerf have lost all value and people are increasingly waking up to how this is just a way to silence any woman with a brain and some critical thinking

#radical feminism #radblr