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hate that the conversation around women’s clothing is always modesty vs immodesty, when these are male-created concepts. “oh that shows skin that’s what men want” “oh that hides skin that’s what men want” i don’t care. men want control. is it comfortable and is it practical? thick, dark, heavy fabric is not safe in hot weather, nor does it allow you to get vitamin d. inadequate coverage in the name of fashion is not safe in cold weather. i don’t care if this pleases men or pisses them off. if your mode of transport is foot, bike, or horse, pants are more practical. if your lifestyle asks for none of that, you may find a skirt more comfortable. many types of fashion force you to constantly monitor yourself — never comfortable or practical. clothing or shoes that damage your ribs, ankles, lungs — never comfortable or practical. i do not care what men want, nor do i care what men don’t want. comfortable. practical. we are animals.
Men are so silly to me fr. They'll be like: "Who fights the wars?" As if that was some sort of gotcha. Like, not you buddy. Some men need to be told Playing Call of Duty or whatever the hell is not actually like going to war. These men are acting as if they had been on the beaches of Normandy themselves. No, the only thing you ever fought was progress.
What a powerful statement
my heart bleeds everyday for the afghan girls and women. they are housebound and have to cover themselves up from top to bottom because they have to "avoid temptation or seduction". they are not allowed to speak in public or appear in public because it is deemed "too intimate." the women can’t look at men. suicide rates have skyrocketed because women and girls would rather be dead than to be a women in afghanistan. it’s not a sin to be a women.
women and girls are denied access to healthcare because they cannot be treated by male doctors, yet they are also barred from education and, therefore, cannot become doctors themselves. shops in afghanistan are even forced to cover up female mannequins. little girls live in fear of becoming child brides, but they dream of being poets, they would kill to get education.
a woman was disqualified from the olympics because she spread the message "free afghan women" at her breakdance performance. there must always be a relative male by their side like women were dogs being treated by their owner, except dogs have more rights than the women suffering.
we must raise awareness, do not look away. these women deserve the opportunities and the human rights that EVERY person does. they are talented, creative and intelligent but men are so scared. scared of women. the taliban tries to erase women. i’m sick. remember: it’s not islam or "just their culture", it is the radical government that feels threatened by women. do not look away.
westerners who use the "just their culture" excuse to turn away from female enslavement, torture, and deprivation should be shot. genuinely. thank fuck nobody has said this to me irl bc it would be on sight.
you tell a bitch to keep their cat indoors and suddenly their town is the first in the world to have eradicated every viral, bacterial and parasitic disease, they invented completely harmless cars, dogs and predators dont exist either but somehow the native songbird population is fine since the cats in this place have lost the hunting instinct, there's no pollutants or toxic plants and human cruelty has ceased to exist. and mr mittens has a chip in his brain that will explode if he doesnt go outside 10 hours of the day
It is for this specific reason that I CANNOT post on our local Facebook group. Every few days there's a post from someone new that that is basically "has anyone seen our outdoor cat? 1.5 years old, usually comes home every day for dinner but we haven't seen him this week. Has someone thought him a stray and brought him inside? Just let him out, he knows where he lives!" and I have to shut the app down to prevent myself from responding .
We live in the country! We have coyotes you stupid asshole! Every night I can hear them in the trees across the street eviscerating rabbits, why do you think your cat can outsmart and outrun a whole pack of them? We also have cars! Parasites! Hawks! People who let their dogs free-roam on their property! People setting out poison! Crop spraying! Active cargo train tracks! If you don't want to be in this cycle of getting a new cat after the old one goes missing several times a year, THEN MAYBE KEEP YOUR CAT INDOORS! And if you don't want to or can't afford keeping your cat up to date on shots, getting it fixed or cleaning a litter box, you don't actually need to have a cat! You can just not have a cat! Nobody is forcing you to repeatedly get new free barn kittens to neglect, you can just get a pet that is more suitable to your circumstances or not have one at all!
Also, to add, because I saw this in the tags:
Farm cats are just as susceptible to being predated upon by coyotes and hawks, getting parasites and also rabies since they are direclty interacting with vermin. Their rates of actually catching and consuming mice are also up for debate.
If you desperately need to control vermin population in a farm scenario, you are better off getting and training a rat terrier who will hunt and kill vermin and bring them to you to be rewarded rather than eat them, are infinitely more trainable and have actual recall, and can be trained to leave smaller livestock like chickens alone the same way you train guardian breeds to not fuck with your chickens. You can also keep them indoors at night during coyote hours and let your guardian dog be in charge.
I know some rescues will adopt out working cats, usually ferals that will not do well indoors, but giving them a fancy title will not keep them safe. If they are outdoors, they're exactly as safe as any other outdoor cat in the area who doesn't have a job, which is to say not at all. Are they safer in the country than in the city where they are more likely to be pancake by a car, just by virtue of there being less traffic? Sure. But it's still not good for them, or your local songbird or turtle hatchling populations.
The really tricky part is that, no matter your viewpoint, there is no outcome where your outdoor cat isn’t negatively impacting the ecosystem. Even if you take good care of them otherwise, even if your area is ‘safe’, even if they’re a working cat.
terfs are incredible
> “it doesn’t matter if they consented, you’re a bad person if you get off to causing other people pain”
so you agree? you don’t actually care about consent and you just have moral standards for what people do? you don’t think their consent matters because they’re doing something you personally find gross? that’s what you’re saying there?
damn girl hows the christofascism taste
Consent has limits. Yes. That's why children can't drink alcohol even if they consent. That's why you can't kill someone even if they consent.
Also, let's not forget that you are arguing for men to cause pain to women.
It is neither safe nor sane to allow a man whose sexual violent fantasy includes harming his partner. BDSM allows these males to coerce women into consent so yeah the consent is meaningless in this case.
why don't we remove sex from the equation? imagine if a self harming person wants their friend to cut them. suppose the friend actually agrees and both parties are okay with it. does it become okay, or will you be concerned at why the person wants to self harm in the first place? won't it reinforce harmful ideas? won't you be horrified that the friend actually agreed to cut them?
this is so funny like yes i have moral standards for what people do ???? hello??? so should you?? you should have moral principles and if they are real and not just a thought experiment for you they will automatically also go for other people like thats how morals and ethics work bro
tras are incredible
>you can be a good person while getting off to beating women, pretend raping women, pretend pedophilia, pretend racism, etc. but if you're a lesbian who doesn't want to touch dick (aka a lesbian) you're a disgusting fetishist.
No other women are more dangerous than the ones that put male validation above all else…
I strongly believe that heterosexual marriage blinds women to the ways of men and turns women against each-other.
1. this is hypervigilance, a symptom of ptsd, possibly c-ptsd.
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so fortunately due to Gisele Pelicot’s rape case (the case where a husband drugged his wife and let over 70 men rape her) apparently the porn category “sleeping” is no longer allowed on pornhub
do you wanna know who’s mad about that? the “Sex work is work” crowd. they’re mad that videos of Gisele Pelicot and other women like her being raped can’t be uploaded to pornhub, because it’s going to “harm sex workers who make that kind of content.”
progress is being made on our side but trust and believe that these people will be here every step of the way to ensure that progress is as difficult as possible.
The 30% of men who turned down that French guy’s request to rape his wife are NOT innocent. Because absolutely 0% of those men turned him in. They were complicit in this horrific crime.
I think one of the things that fills me with rage the most is people who know that a woman is being abused (or about to be) but don’t speak up. This includes women too, because I’ve unfortunately seen women turn their backs on other women in situations like this. This has to stop. People need to speak the fuck up if they know something like this is going on.
Gisèle deserved so much better and I hope that man gets the shit beat out of him in prison.
this one also refutes the idea that's constantly pushed on us that fetishes are harmless. those males were all on the kind of website we are supposed to consider a harmless way of fantasising about "cnc", but 90 of them were willing to rape a woman and none of them reported it when it crossed into reality. rape kinks are not harmless. fantasies are not harmless.
those males were all on the kind of website we are supposed to consider a harmless way of fantasising about "cnc"
I find it rather ironic that the website in question (which had a reputation long before this story) was closed only last June because, apparently, some boys were using it to trap men into dates with teenage girls, only to go and beat the shit out of them, Hard Candy style.
Wait really?! Do you have a source for this?
Dix jeunes ont été interpellés par les gendarmes de Muret, après une série d'agressions crapuleuses au mois de juin 2024. Et des guet-apens
http://web.archive.org/web/20240625144801/https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/faits-divers/enquete-il-est-desormais-interdit-comment-le-site-coco-a-permis-prostitution-et-guets-apens-abcee928-2d41-11ef-9d8b-818edcab8630
There were several cases apparently, or maybe multiple strategies used by the same group - some making fake teenage boys profiles and targeting homosexual paedophiles, some with fake teenage girls or prostitutes (second article). I'm not surprised you weren't aware, that aspect of the story was barely reported on.
Thanks so much for the link! This is insane
Males reaction to women wearing skin tight pants and bras while playing an Olympic sport...
If you throw a fit over not getting to see random women's asses, you don't deserve a wife or girlfriend.
Would be interesting to do a study on this type of behavior.
See where the fatherless issue falls with respect to those who are comfortable expressing this sort of opinion
i'm feeling controversial today so here's another hot take. and before you type away at your keyboards, know that this is all coming from a south asian.
white leftists have got to stop acting like christianity is the only religion that deserves to be criticized and you cannot touch any other religion because that'd be racist and bigoted. because as an indian who's watching my country progress towards hindu nationalism, this attitude doesn't help at all.
white people see hinduism as this exotic brown religion that's so much more progressive but don't know the violence of the caste system, how it others a large portion of the population on the basis of caste, literally branding them as "untouchables". they teach us in school that this problem is a thing of the past but the caste system is still alive and shows itself in violent ways. and that's not even covering how non hindus are treated in the country. muslims especially are being killed, have their houses bulldozed, businesses destroyed, and are being denied housing, our fucking prime minister called them infiltrators and there's this fear among hindu extremists that they'll outnumber the hindus in the country. portraying hinduism as this exotic religion does a disservice to all those oppressed by the hindutva ideology
similarly, white people see buddhism as this hippie religion that's all about peace but have no idea how extremist buddhists in myanmar have been persecuting the rohingya muslims for years and drive them out of the country.
if anything portraying these religions as exotic hippie brown religions is a type of orientalism itself.
and also y'all have got to realize that just because christianity has institutional power in america doesn't mean there aren't parts of the world where they are persecuted on the basis of religion. yes karen from florida who cries christophobia because she sees rainbow sprinkles on a cake is stupid but christian oppression DOES exist in non western countries where they're a minority. pakistani christians get lynched almost on a daily basis over blasphemy accusations. just look up the case of asia bibi, a pakistani christian woman who was sentenced to death on blasphemy charges because of something she said when she was being denied water because it was "forbidden" for a christian and a muslim to drink from the same utensil and she'd made it unclean just by touching it (which is ALSO rooted in casteism and part of pakistani christians' oppression also comes from the fact that a lot of them are dalit but that's a whole other discussion). and that's just one christian group, this isn't even going into what copts, assyrians, armenians etc have faced and continue to face. saying that christians everywhere are privileged because of american christianity actually harms christian minorites in non western countries.
and one last thing because this post is getting too long: someone being anti america doesn't automatically mean they're the good guys. too many times i've been seeing westerners on twitter dot com praise the fucking taliban just because they hate america. yes, the same taliban who banned education for women, thinks women should be imprisomed at home, and consistently oppresses religious and ethnic minorities in afghanistan. yes, america's war on afghanistan was bad and they SHOULD be called out for their war crimes there. no, the taliban are still not the good guys. BOTH of them are bad. you cannot pretend to care about muslims and brown people if you praise the taliban. because guess what? most of their victims are BROWN MUSLIM WOMEN. but of course white libs who praise them don't rub their two braincells together to make that conclusion.
this post has gotten too long and i've just been rambling so the point of this post is: white "leftists" whose politics are primarily america centric should stop acting like criticism of ideologies like hindutva, buddhist extremism, and islamic extremism BY people affected by these ideologies is the same as racism or religious intolerance because that helps literally no one except the extremist bigots. also america is not the centre of the world, just because something isn't happening in america doesn't mean it isn't happening elsewhere
The plan of action is supporting ssa people and fighting against homophobia. Intersex individuals have stated they don’t feel comfortable being included in the lgb community. Being poc isn’t being lgb if they aren’t ssa.
adding the stripes also implies that POC aren't included in the original flag, which is blatantly untrue
I can’t speak for the entire intersex community, but in the entire time I’ve been involved in intersex circles, I’ve yet to see a single person give a damn about the intersex symbol on the “progress” flag being added or being cut off.
And why should we? Being conflated with trans people (specifically) has set our movement for better treatment back. Ending medically unnecessary cosmetic surgeries on minors is one of our primary demands.
Ummmmmmmm. Without all the added bullshit, is that not just the ORIGINAL FUCKING PRIDE FLAG?????