Feminism & Fandoms

"I am strong. I can run with the night and catch the dawn. I can kick a hole in the sky"

[runwiththenight-catchthedawn]

I think trans women pretending to get cramps might be the thing that irritates me the most.

“My body thinks it’s a woman now so it just says here you should be in pain once a month.”

Are you fucking dumb? Do you truly have NO understanding of how the reproductive system works? I shouldn’t be surprised, most men don’t.

It’s the most over simplified, bullshit stereotype. Women don’t just get random pains in our stomach as a result of estrogen. Our uterus contracts to expel the thickened uterine lining it prepared in case of pregnancy. When we don’t get pregnant, the body determines it doesn’t need that extra uterine lining and it contracts to expel it, that’s why you don’t get a period when you’re pregnant.

Men don’t have uteruses. Men don’t get period cramps. If you’re experiencing stomach pain as a result of your hormones, that’s a side effect of the medicine you’re on. You didn’t grow a uterus. The estrogen didn’t give you a period.

Stop trivializing women’s experiences. Shut the fuck up.

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

And what is more, what little evidence exists on the topic of women’s health generally indicates that severe period pains, particularly after one’s teen years, are indicative of disorders like endometriosis, adenomyosis, PCOS, and other pelvic issues. So they aren’t just mocking women in general, they’re particularly mocking women who are ill and/or disabled.

[ms-hells-bells]

actually, if these males taking estrogen are getting severe abdominal cramps and other issues, they should get checked out and not assume it’s a “normal woman thing teehee” because in extremely rare cases, men can get endometriosis, and it’s linked with increased estrogen through conditions like cirrhosis, obesity, and hormone therapy containing estrogen. men who had prostate cancer treated with drugs containing estrogen were several of the few cases. 

this is so incredibly rare that only around 20 men have been recorded as having it, but most doctors know little of endometriosis and fail to diagnose it in women, let alone men. i doubt most doctors know that men can get it. that combined with that massive increase in males transitioning has me concerned. there are so many side effects of transitioning that i doubt endometriosis is ever thought about. i wonder how many TIMs are walking around with endo-like tissue causing them severe pain or gastrointestinal issues and they just assume it’s the hormones or some other side effect of various parts of transitioning.

https://endometriosisnews.com/endometriosis-in-men/

[shayproxy]

I had a Male friend who transitioned and I shit you not, he literally told me that since he transitioned his period cramps were so hard to deal with, he was always craving chocolate, and always cried so much. Like imagine the shock and terror in my face at that moment as he tells me this sexist bullshit. Also, he stated that he told his BOSS that his period cramps were too bad and that is why he snapped at him. Can you imagine if a woman did that and got away with it? What the fuuuuuck.

[runwiththenight-catchthedawn]

I... there are no words. “Always craving chocolate.” Did they get their ideas on how to be a woman from romcoms? The male privilege is so evident in that post.

[runwiththenight-catchthedawn]

Althea Zoltaire, courtesy of AI because I have a hard time picturing the characters in my head 😅

[sespursongles-deactivated201906]

“Everyone has their own truth” is so intellectually lazy, it’s what Kajsa Ekis Ekman calls “liberal resignation” - you see it in a lot of other contexts, like debates about “sex work”, some women like it and some don’t and both are valid! some children are really trans and some are gay kids with homophobic parents and that’s fine! just let it be, don’t worry, let people figure it out for themselves, everyone has their own truth, which conveniently frees you from having to think deeper about the implications and consequences of the things you support, you can pretend to support everyone in every way and feel good about yourself without having to form a personal opinion or make any personal moral choices because that sounds scary.

[omgthatdress]

ily, menswear guy

[batsandboba]

just saw a single piece of paper drift past 50 feet in the air over buildings like a beautiful white bird

[wanchotheponcho]

Every day is a reason to celebrate 🥂🥳

[virtualgirladvance]

happy birthday alan!!!!

[wizardshark]

High level physics is so fucked up it's indistinguishable from epic level magic

[beansfrombeans]

has anybody seen my pet piece of paper. his name is walter he is very fragile but very adventurous. i should never have left the window open in my tenth story apartment

[gonzos-humansona]

Yesterday my little brother told me something very sweet and touching, that when he was a kid and had nightmares about monsters chasing him or whatever he would be able to end the nightmare by finding me in the dream and I would protect him by fighting off the zombies, or carrying him away. This is adorable, and makes me feel like the greatest older sibling in the world, but the hilarious thing is that when I was a kid I had nightmares of needing to save him from zombies and such. so many dreams where he was in trouble and I needed to save him. Like my nightmares began where his ended. Low key I think he mastered the ability to psychically transfer his nightmare to me as a child and I'm kind of annoyed with him.

[femmefascist]

telling young women and girls that they're gonna hit the wall and lose value as they age so no man will find them desirable once they turn 30 won't scare them into dating

calling older women "used up 304s", "damaged goods", "leftovers", and "old bitter hags" who are for "recreational use only" won't convince girls to get married while they're still young

hating single mothers and thinking they're all whores who let themselves go will only convince women to completely reject motherhood

telling girls that they're in their prime when they're 18 just creeps them out

telling girls that they need a man to protect them and provide for them while men continue to harass and assault them was always destined to backfire

bullying women and making 2016 blue haired feminist sjw jokes was never going to turn liberal women into antifeminists, it just pushes more women towards feminism

telling girls to keep their virginity for their future husband while expecting them to put out on the first date was obviously never gonna work

becoming a sex tourist and messing around with all the latinas, filipinas, and ladyboys you want doesn't upset american women, they simply don't care

obsessing over women dating chad or tyrone just makes you sound fucking gay

men and boys just keep doing everything they can to be as undesirable as possible. you cannot blame women for modern dating problems when men are openly terrible, pathetic, disgusting sex pests who believe they're entitled to have a young, hot, "debt free" virgin who cooks and cleans and has all the sons her man wants while he's jobless, watches porn, cheats, and neglects his family. many women don't want to give up everything just for some guy

[feministbirdcreature-deactivate]

Misogynists: “Old women are gross, ugly and worthless. As soon as you hit 25 I’m cheating on you with the 18 year old intern, bitch”

Separatists: “Ok, we’re not going to date you because you’re just going to cheat on us or leave us when we get old or sick.”

Misogynists: *surprised Pikachu face*

[womenarehuman]

Men told us who they are and now they're mad we listened to them. Make it make sense.

[aspiringxxspinster]

I love female separatism.

I love telling people, "no thanks, I don't read male authors" after they recommend a book to me. How many men do you know who only read male authors without even questioning it? How many men list a woman as their favorite author? Filmmaker? Musician? Artist? Athlete? Comedian? Philosopher?

I love telling the schedulers, "No male doctors, please" when making medical appointments. They're statistically proven to be less competent at their jobs. So many people act like "doctor" is a male noun because they don't see it as a woman's position. How many of your grandparents and parents didn't trust a "lady doctor?"

Men have been practicing male separatism for thousands of years without ever batting an eye. Don't let them tell you you're an extremist for tipping the scales in your own life. Center women. Push men out of your circle. Get them out of your space. Out of your head.

[mini-wrants]

A woman went viral for being turned down for a next interview for a role, she asks the recruiter what she did wrong, the recruiter tells her they were “concerned about her lack of effort in her appearance.”

She explains she wore a freshly ironed blazer with a collared top. Her nails were painted a professional beige. She got a blowout for her hair, so a professional style. She had on subdued gold earrings.

The only thing she wasn’t wearing was makeup; she states she really doesn’t wear makeup, and only had chapstick on, as her skin is sensitive. Her lawyer mother has already explained she has no legal case against the company for any type of gender-based discrimination.

Just in case anyone wants to ask why feminists still refer to the “pink tax” or rail against more and more elaborate makeup trends being pushed on girls and women.

Women being punished socially for not wearing makeup is still a feminist issue.

[mini-wrants]

Little girls being taught by TikTok at 10 and 12 that they have to have a “beat face” or a “snatched body” to be adequately feminine will go on to become recruiters and HR employees and managers in a decade.

We already know that women who don’t wear makeup are discriminated against in interviews. The next generation of interviewers were raised by Sephora and Ulta; it’s going to get worse, not better, unless there’s a concentrated campaign on breaking the connection between makeup+professionalism.

[mydefenseihavenone]

In this essay I will—

[grlreign]

there we go

[plodnik]

Fixed it for anyone that’s confused. ;)

[nansheonearth]

Graphic design is my passion. Fixed this for you.

Also love how this didn’t mention transwomen but this person saw “man” and was like, “there’s no other context for this, this must be about transwomen”

[runwiththenight-catchthedawn]

Being a baby radfem, I’m unfamiliar with a lot of lingo. I just googled “what is transmaxxing” and found this:

I want to vomit

[scenegirlshooter]

@terfism-unmasked

[runwiththenight-catchthedawn]

@scenegirlgore lol considering I openly admit to being a terf and consistently post radfem content, idk if you could say you “unmasked” me. More like pointed out the obvious..

[yenvengerberg]

LOVE (noun) a) affection and tenderness felt by lovers b) affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests c) warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion d) an assurance of affection

[angharadical]

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[lookataleaf3000]

Not to be That Guy but I do kind of think that the way postmodernist style thinking functions in academia is a psyop intended to undermine the left. In the 60s and 70s, all kinds of radicalism and action came from universities. Some universities built in that era were designed for police shutdowns during riots. But now it’s like… the way that people in humanities, social sciences etc, everyone who’s been encouraged into postmodernism, queer theory etc, ESPECIALLY those from pristigous schools, structure their thought is so… impossible to apply in any material way. Forget about radical meaning at the root, it’s more like radical meaning totally off the ground. Everything is like, a thought experiment, spoken about as if it’s reality. And they dominate leftist spaces– often having the class background or even just academic confidence to back up their strongly held beliefs, or even just the time to implement them. The closer you are to a liberal arts university, the more likely it is that the political groups around it are incredibly bogged down in identity and language that most people don’t understand, and an environment hostile to basic questioning and learning outside of adopting the lingo. It really effectively isolates the people in it AND isolates them from organizing effectively. Not to mention their conceptual frameworks are really removed from reality in the first place

If it wasn’t an actual psy op it worked just as well by itself lol

[jinxielynx]

Your post reminded me of this, which I remember reading ages ago on @lesbianseparatist:

So yeah people have been taking about this being off for more than thirty years.

[gothhabiba]

[Taking she social out of social constructionism–What is perhaps most fascinating about postmodern theory is that for all the talk about how things are socially constructed they forgot the implications of “social" in social construction. After their supposedly new insight that nearly everything is socially constructed, they do not advocate much for transformation at the social level, ie. for changes in institutions, social norms, social structures such as the family, etc. Instead there is mush attention to individual acts of transgression of conventional social norms as a way of highlighting that social norms are constructed and not natural or inevitable. This kind of rebellion in postmodernism is a very isolated activity—it consists of individuals taking it upon themselves to fight battles all alone. There is not an emphasis among postmodern theorists for building a critical mass of people united in a social movement which could begin to effect change at the social level. There is instead a very superficial understanding of how social forces work—a naive and libertarian emphasis on individual actions and choices as though the cumulative effect of each isolated individual choice or action will effect largescale social transformation. The net effect of such an atomization of individual activities serves to prevent rather than foster social change. The curious timing of postmodernism What is most interesting about postmodernism is not what postmodernists say about it, but how it functions in the real world (and I’m assuming there is one) in terms of social change. The effects of the intimidating and obfuscating writing style, of inhibiting generalisations and so the formation of commonalities between people, of ruling out binary thinking, and so eviscerating impassioned convictions, and of overemphasizing individual rather than collective action is to cream a multilayered system of disconnection, silencing, and disempowerment.

What is also interesting is the timing of the advent of postmodernist theory. As Somer Brodribb and Barbara Christian point out in Radically Speaking, postmodernism came into vogue in academia just when the voices of women and people of color began to assert significant presence there.

I suggest that postmodernism is nothing more than the new relativism and that relativistic theories emerge as a new line of defense when power structures are becoming threatened. It is a very insidious and crafty defense because it mouths the words of liberation while simultaneously transforming them into meaninglessness. The real agenda is masked in clever obfuscation— to preserve the status quo by rendering dissent meaningless and ineffective, unable to gather any social or political power. Notwithstanding postmodernism’s purported intention to deconstruct social norms and by so doing, make way for changes, its actual effect is to atomize peoples’ experiences, obliterate the potential for solidarity, silence articulate and forthright speech, and render passionate convictions meaningless. It leaves us unable to condemn anything as wrong or oppressive with clarity, certainty, or conviction. Furthermore, nearly all of the so-called insights of postmodernism are simply rehashed and depoliticized versions of radical feminist ideas. Postmodernism is a theory which denounces the act of theorizing, it is speech that silences voices, it is writing that stultifies and obscures, it is a position which advocates no position at all, it is a politics which refuses to take a stand on anything. And we must see the politics of that—it is a viper that women’s studies and English departments have nursed to their collective bosoms. It is a theory, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. It is a stealth theory that contains a virus which, once incorporated, explodes all possibility of impassioned righteous collective action for changing the conditions of our lives. by karla mantilla]

[faithandhustleandloveandhope]

I love when people I don’t know put a vibe I’ve been having but that I did not have the language to name into words because this is the literal truth especially in so called radical black organizing and it is actively harming marginalized black people, especially those who are coming into so called radical organizing from the hood that’s led by academics and those in the non profit sector.

[dworkinlover69-deactivated20210]

There are like, actual documents from the CIA where they talk about how spreading foucault’s ideas would be excellent to stop radicalism in the left. 

[runwiththenight-catchthedawn]

We see this in liberal feminism as the emphasis on the individual and “personal choice” supersedes the needs of the many and women lack any sense of class consciousness. The individualastic-and arguably, short-sightedness- of post modernism has stunted the ability of marganialized groups to critically analyze and name both the circumstances and the actors of their oppression as well as effectively organize and mobilize against such oppression. As mentioned above, situations must cease to be inspected within a personal vacuum and rather put into perspective from a societal lens.