[lavenderwinds-deactivated202509]

[butchpeace]

All I’m saying is, there’s a reason 90% of “trans lesbian” posts on tumblr are porn, thirstposting, and kink shit.

There’s a reason we don’t see all the “transbians” out at protests and marches for women’s rights.

There’s a reason they enjoy calling themselves and others “bitches”, and using misogynistic language towards themselves.

There’s a reason they so easily define themselves as lesbians, without any of the stigma or shame that we go through, and there’s a reason why they get angry when we don’t want them.

There’s a reason there’s so many more of them than “straight” trans women.

And there’s a reason they talk about violently harming women (and only women) who don’t agree with transition.

[vegfam]

TERF dog

[pusheen-the-radical]

TERF DOG

[radfem-suggestions]

give treats to your local TERF dog (with owner permission)

[girlmostlikely]

[redditreceipts]

trans women are not women and see women's pain and sexualisation as a mere tool to get their gender affirmed, example 7355

[maria-scariotes]

The biggest suffering of woman are just ideal scenarios to those trans males

[radfemmimi]

"just so you know the person you reblogged from is a terf/radfem."

[dressed2k1ll]

Book review: Goddesses, Whores, Wives & Slaves by Sarah B Pomeroy (1975)

10/10

This was impossible to put down. A fascinating and vibrant history of Ancient Greek and Roman Women: from all walks of life, using just about every resource available within art and archaeology and anthropology.

It’s also also very very well researched and informative with a HUGE bibliography and a great index and lots of notes for the nerdy (aka me) who has already highlighted the next set of books to chew on.

Overall she argues (and does so persuasively with a great deal of thought and objectivity) that Roman women seemed to have enjoyed a higher quality of life than the Ancient Greek women because of generally (especially in upper class households) having a more public-facing life, being slightly more protected by the pater familias model of the Roman household, and having slightly more social mobility.

However a shout out goes to the Amazons and their social model for living 🏹🏹🏹

If you’re curious about the roles of women in varying Hellenistic and classical contexts, this is a must-read.

Her final words are so interesting and prescient too: “Serious intellectual thought about women continued: Stoicism, the most popular of the Hellenistic and Roman philosophies, directed women’s energies to marriage and motherhood. The argumentation is brilliant and difficult to refute. And this rationalized confinement of women to the domestic sphere, as well as the systemization of anti-female thought by poets and philosophers, are two of the most devastating creations in the classical legacy” 😢💔

Also, if you’re upset by reading about things like sexual slavery and infanticide, it might not be the book for you.

Overall, it’s staying in my collection and I’ll definitely be referring to it again.

[venusmage]

Shout out to the cashier at Aldi that made me and my wife malfunction

[sceitmini]

[jigglypuffying-deactivated20220]

[requiemforthestars]

It really is true that people do not think women are able to be sarcastic, funny, insightful or metaphorical in some way. Everything a woman says must be meant 100% literally, her simple little mind incapable of anything else, therefore if a woman wears a t-shirt that says "we're the granddaughters of the witches that you weren't able to burn" she must mean that witches were a thing that literally existed and that she is literally descended from one of those women, instead of the other interpretation, which is that women who were targeted as witches were often wise women with knowledge of healing or something else that the Church found abhorrent, or women who defied norms in some way, or simply women who someone accused of witchcraft because they didn't like her, and that the modern feminist considers herself a spiritual successor of these women because she is also attempting to rebel against patriarchy.

The witch hunts were a crime of misogyny and femicide and they're a part of feminist and of women's history. I know people scoff at the idea that women are a group that is marginalized and that have something in common, but that is still true.

[radfemsiren]

Same vibes, misogyny vs “misandry”:

[meanevilandcruel]

It just proves to show that men’s worries with women are so minimal compared to women’s worries with men.

Oh, you’re sad because this girl slid in your DMs and she talked for 2 weeks and then dipped? Well I’m scared because this guy I was talking to for a week made a “joke” that they were gonna rape & impregnate me.

Oh you’re sad because you got divorced? I had to run away from my ex’s house because I was legitimately scared he was going to hurt or murder me.

Men are scared when their feelings of entitlement is challenged. Women are scared of what men do because men feel entitled.

[being-kindrad]

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. —Margaret Atwood

[butchfemmeculture]

Gender Troubles: The Butches

[the-end-of-the-chase]

As encapsulated so perfectly in Alison Bechdel’s ‘Fun Home’:

As a butch woman who was once a wee butch girl, I can attest to the sheer power of this.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

It really should make all women livid that we can’t walk safely at night in areas where there are no bears, no large cats, no wolves, no crocodiles, etc. just because some of the males of our own fucking species like hurting us and the rest of the males just shrug and are like “that’s life”. No, fuck you. Take out your trash or we’re bringing the wolves, bears, and cougars back in. At least they don’t discriminate and won’t rape and torture us.

[icefemsanonymous]

The relationship so many women have with sex is really sad and awful.

I'm thinking back to when I was younger, late teens / early 20's, and my friends found out that I'd never had casual sex. They wouldn't let up with relentlessly pressuring me into going to parties just to hookup with random fuckboys because they insisted that the fact that I'd never had a hookup meant that I was sexually repressed and "not really living" and "not really experiencing life". I said that I wasn't attracted to random fuckboys at parties, that they were ugly and they were assholes and would probably be rude and disrespectful anyway. They said it didn't matter, that 'every girl needs to have an asshole phase and experience some asshole guys' and insisted it would still be fun and a necessary experience that every woman must have. Many of these friends pressuring me into hooking up with random fuckboys at parties would hookup with guys they admitted they weren't even attracted to and didn't like, and afterwards on several occasions they would cry afterwards because the sex was so terrible and the guys were so disrespectful and terrible to them during the sexual encounter. But they still insisted that I was repressed because I wasn't going out and having these experiences myself.

I had several friends when I was younger who identified as asexual, but they were still going out and having hookups almost every weekend. They insisted they didn't even like sex and didn't crave it but were just going out and having sex with men they weren't even attracted to because it gave them validation and they said they liked making other people feel good and making other people happy. When I'd get upset and say that was awful and sad they would tell me I was repressed and a prude.

It's really disheartening the way women perceive themselves sexually, the way so many women don't even think of their own pleasure or desires but feel obligated to endure bad sex and terrible treatment from sexual partners, for what? For the male validation? Because liberal feminism told you that's empowering, to let strangers treat you like a fleshlight during an experience you've even admitted you don't like and don't want?

[secondlina]

Stray cats 🐈

[nowwesaidit]

“The body has been made so problematic for women that it has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit.”

—Adrienne Rich; “Of Woman Born”

[goblinous]

I've seen so many TIFs like this, it's like they want to be literally anything other than human, they hate their bodies so much.

You don't see TIMs IDing as the void or clouds or swirling galaxies or robots or bog bodies. It's just women who want to come apart at the seams, shed their physical forms, and float away. And somehow they think this is a totally healthy thing, and that it's based on personal identity and not shared experiences of girlhood and womanhood that make us want to go feral and tear ourselves apart and make ourselves insubstantial.

[femranged]

isn't this just like depersonalisation as a response to trauma? not an expert but seems similar to me

[forwomenbiwomen]

We deeply misunderstand how traumatic it can be to live as a female in this world. Genuinely.

If it could be traumatic to be black in a racist country, imagine how traumatic it is for basically your entire lineage to be treated worse than animals and to see no way out except for identity politics.

[radfemtiktok]