[remove-the-veil]

“You can kill me as soon as you like, but you cannot stop the emancipation of women.”

— Táhirih (1817–1852)

[gnomebutch]

men can’t imagine a utopia where there’s not a subset of women they can sexually exploit

[shinhati]

go off

[haggishlyhagging]

The refusal, especially among liberals, to believe that pornography has any real relationship to sexual violence is astonishing. Liberals have always believed in the value and importance of education. But when it comes to pornography, we are asked to believe that nothing pornographic, whether written or visual, has an educative effect on anyone.

-Andrea Dworkin, Letters From a War Zone

[earlyh0minid]

men use ai more because they're more accustomed to the benefits and risks of having things done for them such that they take personal credit for labor they didn't perform.

[earlyh0minid]

one of my top most misunderstood posts lol

[fairycosmos]

IDK it pisses me off the way people act like murderers are some sort of great puzzle to be solved when 90% of the time its literally just a boring freak that hates women

[innerchildabortionclinic]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

I present my "stop viewing wives and children as property" strategy to crime preventers but they are unmoved

[sisterofrage]

On that note of permission: you don't need to convince men to believe you. You don't need to debate them. They are not the omnipotent judges of what is Correct or Incorrect. Your beliefs do not need to pass through their approval before you're allowed to believe them. This is another part of female socialization, the teaching that we must engage all debate and convince every male to agree with us before our opinions and experiences are valid. You do not need to prove anything to them.

[oldshrewsburyian]

I hope he dies! Let some god wipe him out!

The Iliad, Book 14, trans. Emily Wilson

[xcounterforcex]

The photos of Chinese sportswoman, track and field athlete Li Meizhen, where she finished a marathon despite of her periods was started unexpectedly, went viral again.

The episode took place back in 2024, when Li was competing in the Hengshui Lake Marathon. The athlete needed to complete two championship marathons that season to earn points for her team. When she was 5 miles from the finish line, Li’s period arrived. But rather than quitting the race to prevent visible stains, the runner powered through, aware that completing the marathon was much more important than getting some period blood on her clothes and legs.

“Thank you to everyone for your support and encouragement,” Li wrote on social media. “Honestly, I was afraid that people online would say, ‘Has she gone crazy? Why didn’t she withdraw when this happened?’ But by the time it happened, I’d already passed the 34-kilometre (about 21 miles) mark. It would have been a shame to withdraw from a championship race. If I withdrew, I would have had to run another full marathon. That’s why I was determined to finish, even if my time wasn’t great. Thank you for your concern, I’m okay and nothing serious happened.”

Li is far from the first marathon runner to deal with the unexpected start of her period on race day. In 2015, Kiran Gandhi decided to run the London Marathon without a pad or a tampon to avoid the risk of chafing or worse, toxic shock from a backup tampon. “To me, it made far more sense to do the race without any foreign objects in my body, take some Midol, and just run,” Gandhi wrote for TIME Magazine. “While I didn’t think this would be such a big deal, as I started to run, I realized it was. I realized that, while I had the freedom to reject my own shame that day, millions of people who menstruate around the world do not because of the stigma still associated with periods.”

Gandhi also stated, “While menstrual practices vary across different cultures, menstrual stigma is the global common thread. The menstrual cycle is the bedrock of the human race. Without it we wouldn’t exist. If we want to make the world a better place, we have to start combatting taboo now—and, in the process, make it easier for women and girls to access their fullest potential. The good news is that this is something we can actually win within our lifetime. The future is female.”

source of the text: https://mymodernmet.com/marathon-runner-period/

cr: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbGdZ1ljJCE/

[gnomebutch]

I’m so used to my echo chamber that I forget that most people freak out when you criticize makeup . saw a silly post from a woman who doesn’t usually wear it but needs to for a wedding and she was putting it on while complaining about being pressured to do full glam and calling the products silly names and everyone is calling her a pickme or saying that she’s misogynistic for making fun of makeup while also claiming that she’s somehow humblebraggingggg will we ever be truly free

[pissbataille]

Anne Carson, Norma Jean Baker of Troy

[sisterofrage]

On the note of reordering society, I really love Valerie Solanas' assertation that a male rebel or anarchist does not exist. Men cannot rebel against the system, only reorder it. Male "rebels" will still go and rape or abuse women--which is using power to hurt others, just like their own oppressors do. A male, especially one who rapes or abuses, cannot be an anarchist, because anarchy is inherently against power, and rape is the utmost way to use power to hurt someone. It is antithetical to anarchy.

No male rebel can exist because the "anarchist" male simply wants to replace the men on top, not eliminate those positions.

[eve-was-framed]

me 5 years from now hacking into the sex robot software and programming them to decapitate the men who purchased them

[loveridden1999]

when england lose, women bruise

[city-of-ladies]

Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire’s Upton Lovell Shaman was a woman

Exclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was male

"The Upton Lovell Shaman, a bronze age individual who has been depicted in museum exhibits as a bearded spiritual leader and metalworker, was female, an ancient DNA analysis has revealed.

The 4,000-year-old skeleton, along with the extensive collection of stone axes, metalworking tools and the remains of an elaborate ceremonial cloak found in the grave, is viewed as among the most significant bronze age burials in Britain.

The artefacts date to about 1,800BC, a time when the ability of metalworkers to transform lumps of rock into molten metal would have given them a special – possibly even spiritual – position in society. Such roles, many had assumed, would have been reserved for men, but this narrative has been turned on its head by the latest analysis."

[mariacallous]

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami, US Marshals Service tells AP

Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested by federal authorities Saturday in Miami, according to U.S. Marshals Service.