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[mulattomochaccino]

I can NOT fucking believe i am watching this shit happen in real time.

Overnight I've watched the wiki page for 4B go from a single line of text describing it as a feminist movement and four more lines beneath it explaining the rules, to now it being a several paragraph screed about how it is a terf riddled, transphobic, transwomen hating movement made intentionally and with the sole purpose to stop women from having sex with transwomen.

The article editing history shows this all being done overnight. It also shows it mostly being done by a single user who INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH has been flagged multiple times for getting into editing wars on the CIRCUMCISION and FORESKIN wiki pages!!!! You cannot make this shit up!!

American women only briefly floated the idea that they shouldn't have sex with anyone that can get them pregnant in a time where pregnancy could be a death sentence and like fucking LIGHTNING these folks come out the gate to shut it down in every way possible.

[faunora-deactivated20241113]

I hate men so much

[marbleguard]

men are so desperate to undermine every attempt at women's solidarity, it's so transparent. Oh no, women coming together and talking about men's behavior and what they're going to do to resist, better slap 15 buzzwords on the wikipedia page to turn women around before they even look into it. And because many of the most popular information resources on the internet are run by these men, they get away with it. They sucessfully shape women's own narrative by controlling the information they can access. This is just another form of male terrorism.

I hope to god women start seeing through this soon.

[ohno-myfeefees]

Look at all the women guys.

[marbleguard]

great find, thank you for posting. Men from both sides of the political spectrum are scrambling to execute underhanded schemes to shut down a burgeoning feminist movement that scares them. Don't let them.

Also adding tags about wikipedia from @friendlymathematician

Places like reddit and wikipedia are where most average people go these days for information, and both are controlled by men, and not just normal men, but the most chronically-online men around. This all makes me think there needs to be some sort of alternate information source for women to talk to each other that avoids the channels overseen by men. The trouble is, the online ecosystem is so thoroughly dominated by men, and men are so overwhelmingly more well-versed in computer science (again because they made compsci education actively hostile to women) that I honestly don't know if this can exist in an online space. I'm increasingly getting the feeling that the only way forward is through analogue means, but knowledge on conducting that sort of grassroots low-tech activism has largely faded into obscurity, not to mention most young people are so attached to relying on the internet for all information that i don't know if enough people would even participate.

Does anyone have any thoughts? I think this is an issue that we hardly ever talk about but it's probably the #1 thing holding back modern widespread feminist movements (of which there are almost none, due to this problem). I really think we need to brainstorm and start thinking outside of the box.

[boudicasdaughter]

Godspeed to the people fighting in the wiki right now.

I encourage everyone to continue sending complaints in about these edits.

You can reach the wikipedia volunteer team at: [email protected]

Tell them how angry you are that they have such an issue with antifeminism in their ranks. Tell them they are actively performing MRA and they are misogynists. Tell them the women will turn on wikipedia next if we have to.

Im cutting family and friends out of my life, I have no issue boycotting a fucking website.

[genderisareligion]

[nerdy-walking-encyclopedia]

Sharing this post because we need to carry on sending complaints. As someone who edits Wikipedia from time to time, this all rings true.

Email. Complain. Make your voice heard.

[radfemmadoka]

This is fucking insane men are genuinely terrorists

[drachenstochter]

stop ceding the internet to males. Stop fucking throwing your hands in the air and giving up. You can learn to make burner emails and use VPNs and alt accounts. It literally is not hard, males can do it. Stop just giving up and assuming you're helplessly outmatched. You aren't. If some mouthbreathing male can manage to do it, you can do it better. There are tons of free compsci resources online. Stop acting so fucking spineless, holy shit. The screenshots in this thread are proof we can fight back, and they can't stamp out all of us.

Stop. Giving. Up. Stop pretending to be incapable. Grow a pair of ovaries, crack open a book, and stand the fuck up for yourself. Fight back!

[chadradfem]

Edinburgh rape crisis centre failed to protect women-only spaces

The centre unfairly dismissed a worker who believed victims should know the sex of staff who deal with their case.

Remember the case of Roz Adams, who was pushed out of her job at ERCC and took them to tribunal and won? Some more good news has come out of the review of ERCC’s services and found they were very much in the wrong to fail to provide women-only services

[chadradfem]

He has stepped down as CEO!!

Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre CEO stands down after report into failings

Mridul Wadhwa was found to have acted unprofessionally while CEO of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre.

[chadradfem]

Glosswitch is based once again

Rape crisis centre CEO resigns over failure to protect single-sex spaces

So the feminists — the terfs, the bigots, the bullies — were right. According to a report commissioned by Rape Crisis Scotland, Edinburgh Ra

[chadradfem]

Edinburgh rape crisis worker constructively dismissed to receive £70,000

The Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre must also publicly apologise to Roz Adams who was unlawfully dismissed over her gender-critical beliefs.

[mahamara]

‘I Live in a Lie’: Saudi Women Speak Up

Nearly 6,000 women responded to a Times call-out about their lives in a private, patriarchal society, expressing their fears, frustrations and ambitions.

“We’re not allowed to even go to the supermarket without permission or a companion, and that’s a simple thing on the huge, horrendous list of rules we have to follow.” — DOTOPS, 24

“The male guardianship makes my life like a hell!! We want to hang out with our friends, go and have lunch outside. I feel hopeless.” — JUJU19, 21

“I don’t mind taking my dad’s approval in things he should be a part of. These very strong social bonds you will never, ever understand.” — NOURA

These are three of the nearly 6,000 women from Saudi Arabia who wrote to The New York Times last week about their lives.

We had put a call-out on our website and on Twitter in conjunction with the publication of “Ladies First,” a Times documentary I directed about the first Saudi elections in which women were allowed to vote and run for local office.

Saudi Arabia is an incredibly private, patriarchal society. While I was making the film, many women were afraid to share their stories for fear of backlash from the male relatives who oversee all aspects of their lives as so-called guardians. We wanted to hear more about their fears, their frustrations, their ambitions.

Saudi Arabia has one of the world’s highest rates of Twitter use, and our posts rocketed around. We were overwhelmed by the outpouring.

Most of the responses focused on frustration over guardianship rules that force women to get permission from a male relative — a husband, father, brother or even son — to do things like attend college, travel abroad, marry the partner of their choice or seek medical attention. Some women talked about the pride they had in their culture and expressed great distrust of outsiders. But many of them shared a deep desire for change and echoed Juju19’s hopelessness.

There was an angry backlash under a Twitter hashtag using Arabic for “Don’t tell The New York Times.” And there was a backlash to the backlash: “#don’t_tell_theNewYork_times that if your father rapes you and you run away, then you will go to prison, and if they let you out, then they will send you back to him.”

A Life Restricted

“I got into an accident once in a taxi, and the ambulance refused to take me to the hospital until my male guardian arrived. I had lost a lot of blood. If he didn’t arrive that minute, I would’ve been dead by now.” — RULAA, 19 - Riyadh

“Every time I want to travel, I have to tell my teenage son to allow me.”

— SARAH, 42 - a doctor in Riyadh

“My sister went to a bookstore without taking permission from her husband, and when she returned, he beat her up without restraint.”

— AL QAHTANIYA, 28 - Riyadh

“The door of the school where I work is closed from early morning till noon. There is a man guarding the door. Even if a teacher is done with her classes, she cannot leave. Metal gates keep us as prisoners.” — MALAK, 44 - Riyadh

“I left the home and sought refuge with a human rights organization in Saudi. I told them about my problems with my father, and they were not able to do anything, and they advised me to go to the police to demand protection from my father. When I went to the police, my father had already informed them that I fled his home. I told the police everything, and they said that I did something wrong/committed a horrible crime in leaving the home of my father, and they placed me in prison!

“The first three days I spent in solitary, then they transferred me to the general ward. There were women there who committed crimes like killing and stealing.” — TYPICAL SAUDI GIRL, 23 - Riyadh

An Emotional Toll

“[My guardian] forbids visits to my female friends or going to shopping malls by myself. It is a complete and total isolation from all the joys in life.”

— MALAK, 28 - Abha

“It’s like I’m in handcuffs, and the society, the law, the people [are] against us. That’s why most women choose to marry in their early 20s as a way to escape, and guess what? The man she marries is no different from her brother or father.” — BASHAYR, 19 - Al-Hasa

“He won’t allow me to work, even though I need the money. He also doesn’t provide all my needs. I can’t recall the last time he cared about what I needed or wanted. He is married to four women and completely preoccupied with them, and he doesn’t allow me to travel with my mother. I suffer a lot, even in my social life. He controls it completely and doesn’t allow me to have friends over or go to them. He forces me to live according to his beliefs and his religion. I can’t show my true self. I live in a lie just so that I wouldn’t end up getting killed.” — DINA, 21 - Riyadh

“It’s suffocating. I’d rather kill myself than live with it. I hold on to the smallest hope I have that someday this will change.” — H41, 19 - Riyadh

A Future in Guardians’ Hands

“I’ve had to give up on a number of educational opportunities because he (my guardian) didn’t think a doctor needed a cultural exchange program or a symposium he didn’t understand. I’ve been trying to have him let me marry the man I love for the past two years.

“I’m in charge of people’s lives every day, but I can’t have my own life the way I want.” — A. M., 30 - a doctor in Jidda

“I had finally gotten a scholarship to get my master’s abroad. And it was my dream, which I waited and worked hard for, for many years, and I got the necessary grades. But because I would have no man — a so-called guardian — with me, my scholarship and travel were rejected. My guardian also forces me to cover my face, even though it should be a personal and religious freedom.”

— GHADAH, 27 - Riyadh

“I’m currently struggling with my father and trying to make him approve that I go to medical school. It’s my last year of high school, and I have no idea if he’s going to approve that or not. I have no idea what my future holds. My future is in this ignorant/sexist man’s hands, and I can’t do anything about it.”

— ANONYMOUS, 18 - Al-Qassim

[swedepea-therevival]

Men are monsters

[arakkne]

This made me sad to read... I know in my own experience as a gnc/butchy woman that people instantly assume I'm trans or non-binary. I get "they/them"-ed frequently, my pronouns asked multiple times by the same people (I assume because me saying "she/her" doesn't seem believable?), and have been told I look like a pre-T trans guy. Is it so unbelievable that a woman can reject femininity and still be a woman? Especially as a lesbian? This all smells like lesbophobia to me :/

[heartclef]

please please pay attention to what is happening to women in south korea. it was revealed that men had chat rooms where they share photos of women in their family while they groping them and were sexually harassing them and feminists in south korea on twt are asking to spread the word about the crimes done against the women in the country since the media in korea won’t report on it and a lot of international media isn’t covering these issues that have been coming up

[heartclef]

here's a thread on twt i found explaining the situation... they are also creating ai deep fakes with women and that's why a lot of korean women are telling other women to take down their sns so their photos can't be potentially used

[aloveofclaritea]

The sexual assault of women by their own brothers, sons, and fathers is part of the widespread deepfake incident that has been revealed through South Korean feminist investigation.

This issue was being completely ignored by the South Korean government and media but thanks to foreign news articles, they have started to pay attention.

However, South Korean journalists who are covering this are now being threatened with having deepfakes made of them.

Also, the government's "investigation" so far seems to consist of a survey asking students if they have committed a crime (used/shared deepfakes)

If there is going to be any justice or even a modicum of safety for young girls and women in South Korea this entire issue needs to remain in the public eye.

One way that we can help do that is by bringing this to the attention of news media in our own countries and sharing the articles. It helped to bring national attention to the case, and it can help to make sure it's not swept under the rug and forgotten about.

Another way we can help is by joining South Korean women on September 1st to ask the government to expel perpetrators from their schools and reveal their identities. If you are on Twitter please join this campaign to put pressure on the South Korean government to hold these monstrous men and boys accountable.

We can also report these Youtube accounts of men who make money off of harassing, mocking, and degrading women to their 100,000's of subscribers.

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When Korean women talk about this online they are constantly attacked and harassed and face the ever-present threat of being doxed and assaulted. We can help them bring global and national awareness to these horrifying crimes and help make sure women and girls are protected from these men who are so sure they will never face any consequences for their actions.

[hugewoman]

Master post about Korean feminist “Cat” who helped exposed a massive digital sex crime ring preying horiffically on women and girls

[basedterfysun]

I have worn my hair almost exclusively in braids simce childhood. When my mum was young, like 30s, she wore beautiful weaves, and her hair was styled nicer than Janet Jackson.

I thought I would have a weave when I got older, but I quickly realised that the best quality styles could only be achieved with human hair. I was extremely put off by the thought of wearing human hair extensions. I'd had extensions before, but they were always plastic like Barbie hair. As a child, I took a view about human hair extensions but didn't want to offend so many women.

I take issue with human hair extensions. Not donated hair wigs. But when women in Asia and Russia have their hair harvested.

When I went to look up the practice, every information page was provided by a wig company. They all claimed that hair is donated but avoided phrasing that would imply that their hair was donated. I found this information video from 2018.

Women with long hair are targeted,threatened, and encouraged to sell their hair for just a few dollars. These women are sold out by their own country to bring in and satisfy foreign demand in a multi-billion dollar industry.

Or they expolit people who ritually shave their hair at temples. Gathering it up off the floor to sell later. Can you imagine how many scalps that razer has scraped ? The infections these women will get.

Misogyny, exploitation, cultural appropriation.

So that you can be a baddie.

[haggishlyhagging]

Several years ago, I taught an upper-level extension course in a suburban high school. The students were mostly high school teachers, required by their school district to earn periodic graduate credit as a condition of continuing employment. None of the students was very young: Most were in their forties and fifties. Women outnumbered men by about two to one. The women, who tended on the average to be somewhat better students than the men, displayed far less confidence in their ability to master the material. I found this surprising, since the female teachers, authorities in their own classrooms, did the same work as the male teachers, had comparable seniority, similar educational credentials, and, I assume, pay equity. The school in which both men and women taught had an excellent reputation. There is nothing unique about the classroom I am about to describe: I have observed in other classrooms what I observed there. I select this particular class as an example because male and female students were mature and well-matched professionally and because their relationships seemed to be free of the sexual tensions and courtship games that sometimes complicate the relationships of younger men and women.

Though women were in the majority, they were noticeably quieter in class discussion than the men. The men engaged freely in classroom exchanges and seemed quite confident—in view of the quality of some of their remarks, over-confident. Women who did enter discussion spoke what linguists call "women's language": Their speech was marked by hesitations and false starts; they tended to introduce their comments with self-denigrating expressions (“You may think that this is a stupid question, but . . . “); they often used a questioning intonation which in effect turned a simple declarative sentence into a request for help or for affirmation from without; they used "lag" questions which had the same effect (“Camus's theme in The Myth of Sisyphus is the absurdity of human existence, isn't it?”) and excessive qualifiers (“Isn't it true that sometimes, maybe . . . “). This style of speaking, whatever its substance, communicates to listeners the speaker's lack of confidence in what she is saying, and this in turn damages her credibility.

In addition to their style of speech, I was struck by the way many female students behaved as they handed me their papers. They would offer heartfelt apologies and copious expressions of regret for the poor quality of their work—work which turned out, most of the time, to be quite good. While apologizing, a student would often press the edges of her manuscript together so as to make it literally smaller, holding the paper uncertainly somewhere in the air as if unsure whether she wanted to relinquish it at all. Typically, she would deliver the apology with head bowed, chest hollowed, and shoulders hunched slightly forward. The male students would stride over to the desk and put down their papers without comment.

Now every female student did not behave in this way all of the time. Nor is this all that the women communicated. To the casual observer, the atmosphere in the classroom was both relaxed and stimulating: Both men and women took an evident interest in the material and managed a lively exchange of ideas. But, like an organ-point that sounded faintly but persistently all term, something else was detectable too: It became clear to me that many women students were ashamed of their written work and ashamed to express their ideas in a straightforward and open manner. Indeed, it would not be unusual for a student just to say, "I'm really ashamed of this paper," while handing it to me. I have no doubt that these utterances were accurate reports of feeling. At the same time, I suspect that they were rituals of self-shaming undertaken in order to bear more easily a shaming they anticipated from me: An ordeal is often easier to endure if we can choose its time and place. These apologies served also to underscore the students' desire to do well in the course, hence, to get into my good books and, by arousing pity in me for such evident emotional distress, to soften my judgment of their work. Behind a facade of friendliness and informality, two very different dramas of relationship to the teacher were being enacted: The men regarded me as a rival or as an upstart who needed to prove herself; the women, as potentially a very punitive figure who needed to be placated and manipulated.

-Sandra Lee Bartky, Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression

[djuvlipen]

[fidnru]

Iraq plans to lower the marriage age for girls to nine: Here're the other proposed controversial changes

A proposed Iraqi bill aimed at lowering the legal marriage age for girls to 9 has ignited widespread opposition. Critics state it would incr

A proposed bill in Iraq's Parliament to lower the legal marriage age for girls to just nine years has triggered significant controversy. Introduced by the Iraq Justice Ministry, the bill aims to amend the Personal Status Law, which currently sets the minimum age for marriage at 18.

If enacted, the bill would allow girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 to marry. This change has raised concerns about increased child marriage and exploitation. Critics argue that it would reverse progress in women's rights and gender equality.

Human rights organizations, women's groups, and civil society activists have strongly opposed the bill. They warn it would negatively impact young girls' education, health, and well-being, leading to higher dropout rates, early pregnancies, and increased domestic violence. UNICEF reports that 28 percent of girls in Iraq are already married before 18.

"Passing this law would show a country moving backward, not forwards," said Sarah Sanbar, a researcher at Human Rights Watch.

The bill proposes allowing citizens to choose between religious authorities or civil judiciary for family matters. Critics fear this could erode rights related to inheritance, divorce, and child custody. The bill's proponents argue it would standardize Islamic law and protect young girls from "immoral relationships," but opponents believe this justification is flawed.

In late July, the parliament withdrew the proposed changes due to objections from many lawmakers. However, the bill reappeared in an August 4 session after gaining support from influential Shia blocs.

The draft bill stipulates that couples must choose between the Sunni or Shia sect for "all matters of personal status."

It specifies that in the event of a dispute between spouses about the doctrine under which their marriage contract was made, the contract will be considered valid under the husband's doctrine unless proven otherwise.

The proposed change would allow the Shiite and Sunni endowments to officiate marriages instead of the courts.

Additionally, the draft bill mandates that Shia and Sunni endowments present a "code of legal rulings" to the Iraqi Parliament within six months of the amendments being ratified.

The proposed amendment would reverse changes made by the 1959 legislation, which transferred family law authority from religious figures to the state judiciary. The new bill would reintroduce the option for applying religious rules, mainly from Shia and Sunni Islam, but does not address other religious or sectarian communities in Iraq.

[embracetheshipping]

[sordidamok]

Wow.

[goldheartedsky]

You should really listen to the WHOLE thing because this woman does not mince words

[radish-lesbian]

This is an amazing speech and more than worth of a watch. Anti-choice laws were never about the baby or any moral argument of the fetus’s existence. It is about control and dehumanization of women, period.

To the Republicans pushing these laws, we are not humans before all else— we are baby carrying machines that must live and die for that purpose. Women who are pregnant and in jail, depressed, dying of septic shock, or any other consequence of pregnancy, are easy to control and to exploit. This is not a side effect, this is the PURPOSE of abortion bans.

[drowsyjude]

Woman jailed after singing Amy Winehouse song without wearing a hijab

Iranian activists are raising awareness about what happened to her, using the hashtag '#FreeZara'.

[mindblowingscience]

More women in a STEM field leads people to label it as a 'soft science,' according to new research

When women make up more than 25% of graduate students in a discipline, men—and to a lesser extent women—become less interested in pursuing that discipline, and salaries tend to go down.

One factor that influences the use of the labels “soft science” or “hard science” is gender bias, according to recent research my colleagues and I conducted.

Women’s participation varies across STEM disciplines. While women have nearly reached gender parity in biomedical sciences, they still make up only about 18% of students receiving undergraduate degrees in computer science, for instance.

In a series of experiments, we varied the information study participants read about women’s representation in fields like chemistry, sociology and biomedical sciences. We then asked them to categorize these fields as either a “soft science” or a “hard science.”

Across studies, participants were consistently more likely to describe a discipline as a “soft science” when they’d been led to believe that proportionally more women worked in the field. Moreover, the “soft science” label led people to devalue these fields—describing them as less rigorous, less trustworthy and less deserving of federal research funding.

Continue Reading.

[rfreslist]

Ex-SNP equalities officer jailed for sexually assaulting six young adults

Trust in Scottish Government falls to lowest level recorded by survey

In 2022, it emerged that Downing had tweeted that he wanted to “beat the f*** out of some terfs and transphobes”. He also tweeted: “I f***ing hate terfs and transphobes with such a passion.”

[capricorn-season]

[soihaveamilliondraftsright]

My statistics database

Up to 1 in 10 men are serial rapists (2013 study, usa based)

Women are victims of 80% of sexual assault cases (2017-2022, england and wales)

Men are perpetrators in 98% of sexual assault cases (2017-2022, england and wales)

Men are perpetrators of 98% of mass shootings (1982-2023 december, usa based)

Men are suspects in 91% of homicides (2011-2022, england and wales)

Women are victims in 82% of domestic violence cases (2020, england and wales)

48% of transwomen (amabs) in usa prisons are there for sexual offences (2021, usa based)

59% of transwomen (amabs) in uk prisons are there for sexual offences, compared to the 16% of cis men (2021, uk based)

This database is always updating!

[genderisareligion]

Nearly half of women, girls ‘do not own their bodies’, UN says

UN says nearly half the women in 57 countries lack bodily autonomy, including in decisions over sex with partners.

"The report, titled My Body is My Own (PDF), looked at both women’s power to make their own decisions about their bodies and the extent to which countries’ laws support or interfered with that right.

In the 57 developing countries where data was available, the report found 45 percent of women were not fully empowered to make choices over healthcare, contraception, and whether or not to have sex. There were differences across regions: While 76 percent of women in eastern and southeastern Asian make their own decisions over their bodies, the figure is less than 50 percent in sub-Saharan Africa and in central and south Asia.

In some countries – Mali, Niger and Senegal – more than 90 percent of women are deprived of their bodily autonomy, the report said."

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

“In terms of laws that constrain women, the report found that 20 countries or territories worldwide have “marry-your-rapist” laws, where a rapist can escape criminal prosecution if he marries the woman or girl he raped, while 43 countries have no legislation addressing the issue of marital rape.

The report also said more than 30 countries across the world restrict women’s right to move around outside the home.

Separately, the UNFPA said despite constitutional guarantees of gender equality in many countries, on average, women enjoy just 75 percent of the legal rights of men.

And only 71 percent of countries guarantee access to overall maternity care, while only 75 percent ensure full, equal access to contraception.”

[rfreslist]

Victory for worker in rape centre gender row

Damning employment tribunal judgment slated Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre and found its chief executive was behind a ‘heresy hunt’ against a