Salvation in Evil

Not so evil opinions & reflections

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If your ship isnt canon, write fanfiction where it is

If you hate how a show is going, write fanfiction where its better

If you wish a character was treated better by creators/fandom, write fanfiction where they are

Create in the face of disappointment; don’t get dragged into the muck of hate mail and endless salt.

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                    Discover Radical Feminism                  

Radical Feminism:

Authors, Theorists, Ideologues:

Sheila Jeffreys

Janice Raymond

Gail Dines

Catharine MacKinnon

Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin has a lot of gender critical and anti-porn books. Bell Hooks is also a black woman who has written a lot of books, and her book Ain’t I A Woman deals specifically with the intersections of misogyny and racism. This page (http://radfemresource.tumblr.com/resources) also has numerous sources.

Hope this helps!

On systematic male against female violence:

Femicide: The Politics of Woman Killing (Anthology) , http://www.dianarussell.com/f/femicde%28small%29.pdf

THE ORIGIN AND IMPORTANCE OF THE TERM FEMICIDE

December 2011, written by Diana E.H Russell, Ph.D

Femicide – The Power of a Name

The Rise of Femicide: Can Naming a Deadly Crime Help Prevent It?, by  Aaron Schulman. The New Republic. December 29, 2010

On the issues that pornography presents feminists and ways we can challenge them:

Making Violence Sexy (Anthology), http://www.dianarussell.com/f/makingviolencesexy%28smaller%29.pdf

On the psychological and behavioral consequences of pornography consumption:

Ph.D Diana E. H. Russell, “Pornography & Rape: A Causal Model”. Vol. 9, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), Published by: International Society of Political Psychology.

Exposure to Pornography As a Cause of Child Sexual Victimization

Stolen Innocence: The Damaging Effects of Child Pornography- On and Off the Internet

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/VAW02/mod2-6b.htm

The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality, and Relationships (2007/2008), http://www.antipornography.org/Price_of_Pleasure_doc.html (Warning: censored nudity but some of the content remains graphic and disturbing. Potentially triggering).

Pornography FAQ (http://catwa.org.au/?q=node/67 ):

How is pornography related to prostitution?

Pornography and prostitution are often thought of as completely separate entities. In many parts of the world, this is even reflected in law where pornography and prostitution hold very different positions; pornography is often privileged as a form of ‘representation’. Pornography, however, is filmed prostitution. Both pornography and prostitution involve the sexual use of women in exchange for money. Often, the only difference between the two is the presence of a camera. Pornography can also be seen to increase the legitimacy of prostitution, by depicting the commercial sexual exploitation of women as entertaining, glamorous and acceptable. In addition, pornography is frequently used by pimps to ‘season’ or train women for prostitution and in a rather cyclical relationship, women used in prostitution are often also used in pornography.

Shouldn’t pornography be protected as free speech?

It is important to note that pornography is not speech but rather filmed acts of prostitution. Pornography is not merely the representation of sex acts, but involves the filming of real sex acts, performed by real people. Arguing that pornography is speech, ignores the realities of how pornography is actually produced and also ignores the harm to women that pornography both generates and reinforces.

Read: Only Words, by Catharine MacKinnon Isn’t porn just harmless sex?

There is no such thing as harmless pornography. Many people believe pornography to simply be sex between ‘consenting adults’ rather than understanding pornography as a multi-billion dollar industry. Pornography is not ‘just sex’, it is a particular construction of sex which involves the commercial sexual exploitation of women for the purpose of men’s sexual pleasure. Pornography harms both the women who are directly abused in the making of it, and also women as a group more generally. It promotes a model of sexuality which is incompatible with women’s equality.“[P]ornography plays an important part in contributing to sexual violence against women and to sex discrimination and sex inequality” - Catherine Itzin Pornography: Women violence and civil liberties. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 (p. 1).

Isn’t pornography a good sexual outlet for men?

The idea that pornography creates a useful sexual release for men, assumes that men have uncontrollable sexual ‘urges’ which require an outlet. It also assumes that pornography use is acceptable and healthy. Neither is the case. Pornography use is harmful to the women used in creating it, and pornography creates and reinforces harmful ideas about women, sex and sexuality; for example, that women enjoy or welcome unwanted sexual contact and sexual assault. Rather than reducing the likelihood that men will act out, it creates a culture in which women are increasingly objectified and viewed as commodities. Such a culture helps to fuel, rather than prevent, acts of sexual violence.

Doesn’t opposing pornography make you a prude?

Many people assume that the only reason to oppose pornography is because you find it personally ‘offensive’ or are ‘anti-sex’. Opposing pornography means that you oppose abusive sexual practices that harm women, not that you must oppose all sex. Nor does opposing pornography have to be about arguing that its content personally offends you. From a feminist perspective, it is not necessarily explicitness or the depiction of sex which is the problem with pornography. It is not about offence and decency, but about harm. “What is objectionable about pornography…is its abusive and degrading portrayal of females and female sexuality, not its sexual content or explicitness” – Diana Russell Dangerous relationships: Pornography, misogyny, and rape. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998 (p. 5).

What is pornification?

Pornification, sometimes referred to as pornographication or ‘raunch culture’ is the increasing distribution and acceptance of pornography as well as the fragmenting and blurring of pornography and pornographic imagery into popular culture. Pornography and pornographic imagery are infiltrating popular music videos, outdoor advertising, fashion and art to name but a few. While pornographication is sometimes viewed as simply the increasing acceptance of sexual themes in media, it is actually the promotion of a particular model of sex which is harmful to women. The mainstreaming of this type of pornographic sexuality which fundamentally objectifies women, is already harming the development of young women and girls. The American Psychological Association, for example, has linked the rise of this unhealthy model of sexuality to increases in mental health problems such as eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression. See: Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls (2007). Available from:http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/sexualization.

Legalisation of Prostitution

Brothels without Walls: The Escort Sector as a Problem for the Legalization of Prostitution, bySheila Jeffreys 2010

What Happens When Prostitution Becomes Work? An Update on Legalisation of Prostitution in Australia. A paper by Mary Sullivan, 2005  (CATWA)  

Submission to New Zealand Parliament, CATWA 2003

Prostitution Culture: Legalised Brothel Prostitution in Victoria, Australia  Sheila Jeffreys 2002. Talk given at Swedish Ministry of Gender Equality Seminar on the Effect of Legalisation of Prostitution. Stockholm, 6 November 2002.

The Legalisation of Prostitution: A failed social experiment, by Sheila Jeffreys

Legalising Prostitution is not the Answer: The example of Victoria, Australia by Mary Sullivan and Sheila Jeffreys

Trafficking

Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (2000) (Known as the Palermo Protocol)

A Guide to the UN Trafficking Protocol (2001)

Sex Trafficking and Human Rights

Marriage Trafficking  

Pornography and Pornification  

The global industry of pornography is growing rapidly. The business of pornography is now worth in excess of $57 billion worldwide. More than $10 billion is generated in the United States alone. Pornography is an industry which, like prostitution, makes its ever increasing profits from the sexual exploitation of women and girls. Women in both the pornography and prostitution industries suffer abuse and violence. Despite this grim reality, tolerance for pornography is increasing in Australia and many other Western nations. Through the ‘mainstreaming of pornography’ or ‘pornification,’ pornographic imagery and even pornography itself are gaining legitimacy and a degree of glamour and cultural chic. Porn stars are becoming household names, advertising mimics pornographic conventions and poses, and Playboy is not just a magazine but a global brand that markets everything from clothing to stationery. The mainstreaming of pornography is also changing our conceptions of sexuality. Women are increasingly becoming required to perform sex acts straight from pornography in their everyday heterosexual relationships, and the pornographic model of sexuality is harming girls’ and women’s concepts of self. As pornography continues to become more prominent and pornographic imagery becomes more ‘mainstreamed’ we become accustomed to living in a pornified world in which it is acceptable that women and girls can be bought and sold.

Boyle, Karen (ed). (2010). Everyday Pornography. Oxford: Routledge.

Dines, Gail. (2010). Pornland: How Porn has Highjacked our Sexuality. Melbourne: Spinifex Press.

Dines, Gail & Jensen, Robert & Russo, Ann. (1998). Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality. New York: Routledge.

Dworkin, Andrea. (1979) Men Possessing Women. New York: Pedigree Books.

Long, Julia. (2012). Anti-Porn: The resurgence of Anti-Pornography Feminism. Zed Books.

Tankard Reist, Melinda & Bray, Abigail (eds) (2011). Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry. Melbourne: Spinifex Press.

Tyler, Meagan (2011). Selling Sex Short: The Pornographic and Sexological Construction of Women’s Sexuality in the West. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Strip Clubs

Read CATWA’s indepth report on strip clubs in Victoria (2010).

The sex industry and business practice: An obstacle to women’s equality, by Sheila Jeffreys 2010

Jul 2014: Business women suffer discrimination because of the male executive culture of strip club visits.

Jul 2014: Executive director of UN Women Australia calls for zero tolerance of strip club visits

Dec 2010: ABC radio interview with Sheila Jeffreys on ’Why strip clubs are harmful to women and the community’. Includes transcript

Dec 2010: Corporate functions and Christmas parties at strip clubs

On the feminist activist struggles against woman-battering, rape, misogyny (Right Wing and Left Wing), gendered oppression, hatred of lesbians, prostitution, pornography, societal stockholm syndrome, female-only spaces and more.:

Letters from a War Zone, by Andrea Dworkin

Our Blood, by Andrea Dworkin

Right-Wing Women, by Andrea Dworkin

Pornography: Andrea Dworkin (1991) - Documentary

Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by Andrea Dworkin

http://radfem.org/dworkin/

Against Our Will, Susan Brownmiller

Femininity, by Susan Brownmiller

Rape In Marriage, Diana Russell

Women-Only Spaces: An Alternative To Patriarchy, by Jennie Ruby

Exploring the Value of Women-Only Space, by Kya Ogyn

Women, Health and the Politics of Fat, Amy Winter, in Rain And Thunder, Autumn Equinox 2003,   No. 20

Free Space: A Perspective on the Small Group in Women’s Liberation by Pamela Allen 1970 Download PDF

Loving to Survive: Sexual Terror, Men’s Violence, and Women’s Lives by Dee Graham, Roberta Rigsby, Edna Rawlings 1995 Download PDF

Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism by Somer Brodribb 1992 Download PDF

A deafening silence: Hidden violence against women and children by Patrizia Romito (translation by Janet Eastwood) 2008 Download PDF

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis 2003 Download PDF

Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice by John Stoltenberg 2000 2nd Ed. Download PDF

I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde ed by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall 2011 Download PDF

Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation ed by Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Angela Davis 2005 Download PDF

Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West by Sheila Jeffreys 2005 Download PDF

The Spinster and Her Enemies by Sheila Jeffreys 1997 Download PDF

The Lesbian Heresy by Sheila Jeffreys 1993 Download PDF

The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade by Sheila Jeffreys 2008 Download PDF

The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism Edited by Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond. 1990 Download Full PDF (5MB)

Liberalism and the Death of Feminism, Catharine A. MacKinnon (PDF)

Sexology and Antifeminism, Sheila Jeffreys (PDF)

Woman-Hating Right and Left, Andrea Dworkin (PDF)

Taking Our Eyes Off the Guys, Sonia Johnson (PDF)

Family Matters, Ann Jones (PDF)

Confronting the Liberal Lies About Prostitution, Evelina Giobbe (PDF)

The New Reproductive Technologies, Gena Corea (PDF)

Mothers on Trial: Custody and the “Baby M” Case, Phyllis Chesler (PDF)

Sexual and Reproductive Liberalism, Janice G. Raymond (PDF)

In the Best Interest of the Sperm: The Pregnancy of Judge Sorkow, Pauline B. Bart (PDF)

Abortion and Pornography: The Sexual Liberals’ “Gotcha” Against Women’s Equality, Twiss Butler (PDF)

When Women Defend Pornography, Dorchen Leidholdt (PDF)

Eroticizing Women’s Subordination, Sheila Jeffreys (PDF)

Resistance, Andrea Dworkin (PDF)

Sex Resistance in Heterosexual Arrangements, A Southern Women’s Writing Collective (PDF)

Toward a Feminist Praxis of Sexuality, Wendy Stock (PDF)

Sexual Liberalism and Survivors of Sexual Abuse, Valerie Heller (PDF)

The Many Faces of Backlash, Florence Rush (PDF)

Liberals, Libertarianism, and the Liberal Arts Establishment, Susanne Kappeler (PDF)

You Can’t Fight Homophobia and Protect the Pornographers at the Same Time—An Analysis of What Went Wrong in Hardwick, John Stoltenberg (PDF)

A View from Another Country, Susan G. Cole (PDF)

Women and Civil Liberties, Kathleen A. Lahey (PDF)

Be-Witching: Re-Calling the Archimagical Powers of Women, Mary Daly (PDF)

Not a Sentimental Journey: Women’s Friendships, Janice G. Raymond (PDF)

Femicide Fetishize female vulnerability Handmaidens of the patriarchy Harm reduction/refusal to name the agent Joke’s on women Male bonding over misogyny Male entitlement Mansplaining/women’s perspective is wrong Necrophilia Normalize abuse/neglect Normalize porn/prostitution PIV-centric narrative — Goal is to “land a man” — Normalize exaggerated/simulated female pleasure — Normalize reproductive stress and pain — Pathologize menstruation — Pathologize older women and menopause/fetishize female youth — Rape and rape culture Pornify girl children/infantilize adult women Primacy of the nuclear family Reversal Support patriarchal institutions (medicine/religion/law) Woman as “useful object”

Crimes Against Women: The Proceedings of the International Tribunal

On the feminist analysis of beauty standards and oppressive femininity: Beauty & Misogyny, by Sheila Jeffreys

On the feminist analysis of queer theory:

Gender Hurts, by Sheila Jeffreys

Unpacking Queer Politics Download PDF,

LibFem vs. RadFem views on Gender

On the feminist analysis of the sex industrial complex:

The Industrial Vagina Download PDF,

Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry. (Anthology),

Accounting for Pornography, Prostitution, and Patriarchy. by Pala Molisa, PhD student,

Women, Lesbians, and Prostitution: A Workingclass Dyke Speaks Out Against Buying Women for Sex, by Toby Summer, in Lesbian Culture: An Anthology, Julia Penelope and Susan Wolfe,  eds

Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, Christine   Stark and Rebecca Whisnant, eds.

Sex critical & Kink critical text:

Against Sadomasochism (Anthology)

Ten Lies About Sadomasochism, by Melissa Farley

Unleashing Feminism: Critiquing  Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties, by Irene Reti, ed.

How Orgasm Politics Has Hijacked the Women’s Movement, by Sheila Jeffreys

Intercourse, by Andrea Dworkin

Theological feminist criticism:

Beyond God The Father, by Mary Daly (1974)

Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, Mary Daly

The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe, Marija Gimbutas

Woman, Church and State, Matilda Joslyn Gage

The Women’s Bible, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Pure Lust, Mary Daly

On the feminist criticism of sexual liberalism:

“The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism” Anthology, (1987, edited 1990), http://radfem.org/the-sexual-liberals/

Incest: The Great Incest War: Introduction to The Secret Trauma

Making an Issue of Incest, Louise Armstrong (PDF)

Activism:

Lone Radical Feminist Actions

Best Strategies to Advance the Global Struggle Against Femicide

Feminists Threaten Larry Flynt: My Personal Contribution

Bin the Bunny. This is an anti-pornography campaign from London. It began in response the opening of a Playboy shop in 2007.

Object. A UK group committed to challenging the objectification of women.

No Porn Northampton. This site, based in USA, contains information about campaigns and many papers and resources relating to pornography.

Routes Out. This is a Glasgow based organisation founded to help women exit prostitution.

Turn Off the Red Light An Irish organisation working for an end to prostitution and sex trafficking in Ireland. It advocates the adoption of the Nordic Model.

Feminist Coalition Against Prostitution A UK coalition who believe that prostitution is male violence against women and are working to achieve Swedish style legislation. The site contains many useful links and resources.

Abolicion de la Prostitucion. This web site, in Spanish, was set up by a group of 77 women’s organisations to fight prostitution in that country.

Centre for Women’s Human Rights. This Korean feminist organistion was established in 2005.

The Polaris Project. Anti Trafficking organisation with a focus in Japan and USA

Websites with other resources (video clips, documentaries, quotes, articles, essays, interviews, graphics, etc): http://www.antipornography.org http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/ https://radicalhubarchives.wordpress.com/radfem-101/ http://www.feminist-reprise.org/fembib.html

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Ever wanted to read a feminist text that you’ve heard about online but not known where to find a copy? I know I have! I obviously don’t agree with everything here or endorse the positions of every woman here, but this is a great masterpost imo because of how many links to free PDFs it has! Read and form your own opinions! Access to women’s education for all women!

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Great resource!

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This adorable little robot is designed to make sure its photosynthesising passenger is well taken care of. It moves towards brighter light if it needs, or hides in the shade to keep cool. When in the light, it rotates to make sure the plant gets plenty of light. It even likes to play with humans.

Oh, and apparently, it gets antsy when it’s thirsty.

The robot is actually an art project called “Sharing Human Technology with Plants” by a roboticist named Sun Tianqi. It’s made from a modified version of a Vincross HEXA robot, and in his own words, it’s purpose is “to explore the relationship between living beings and robots.”

I don’t care if it’s silly. I want one.

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I hate it... why it gotta move and look like a spider?

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https://pjmedia.com/trending/man-named-tiffany-dominating-womens-pro-volleyball-brazil/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

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http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/03/07/transgender-activist-trial-oakland-triple-murder/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

[celtyradfem]

He murdered a lesbian couple and their son. This has to count as a hate crime.

This is the same guy that was a apart of Camp Trans (a group of trans males that would stalk the perimeters of the Michigan Women’s Music Festival with weapons to scare female attendees)

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Amanda Nguyen changed how the US handles sexual assaults

State Department official Amanda Nguyen drove forward the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act after fighting not to have her own rape kit destroyed

The Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act (was signed)

draws from legal rights that already exist in patchwork form in different states across the county. 

It requires steps to ensure that people who have been sexually assaulted have access to a trained sexual assault counselor and comprehensive information about victims’ legal options. 

For individuals who submit to a rape kit, the bill would give them the right to know the location of the evidence, whether the kit has been tested, and the test results.

The bill guarantees these rights whether or not the person reports the crime to law enforcement or agrees to press charges.

It also creates a task force to examine how well the changes are implemented, to include representatives from diverse communities and advocacy backgrounds.

THANK YOU for BRAVE #LAVENDER sisters like AMANDA NGUYEN

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Gee I sure do love being a cryptid.  

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This but legit, the stuff the person in the car is saying is so true tbh

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I don’t understand how is any of what the featureless strawman characters saying unreasonable or even hurtful lol. How sensitive do you have to believe that gays, women, and common sense oppressing you? 

[lesbian-lizards]

Lmao okay but if the strawman characters were drawn with as much detail as the main character I would have assumed this was made by a gender critical person.

They’re all good points.

Headcanoning one gay character in a same-sex relationship as the opposite sex instead, then proceeding to write and drawn fan art and fanfics where they have a lot of PiV sex or the “trans guy” one gets knocked up? That’s literally just genderswapping to make a gay ship straight and splashing on some rainbow paint so no one will call you out on it. (And if you’re in any fandom with a popular “mlm” ship you HAVE seen this).

The second one is also a bit of an issue in fandom nowadays. I mean who can forget the “trans Mulan” discourse? GNC =/= trans.

The last one is presented as “wrong” because it’s coming from the strawman character but the words are still true. I went through it, as did so many other women. Internalized misogyny/homophobia can be incredibly difficult to overcome, to the point where you just wish the world would see you as a bit more “normal” (”male as norm” fallacy, or in the case of lesbians wanting to be seen and accepted as a straight man: both are possible end goals of transition, both rooted in self-hate).

It’s also interesting that the strawmen are female-coded, while the MC is ftm. 

[femalefallout]

Wait this was supposed to be on the green shirts side? The strawmen are very reasonable lfmao.

[kittiesatemypronouns]

I know! I had exactly the same reaction.

[auntiewanda]

Like, right, I don’t get how any of these are supposed to be demonized? When there’s a rare canonical gay romance or a semi-canonical gay romance in a game’s love interest choices the genderhair crowd will inevitably turn one of them “trans” in some way, rendering it an opposite sex pairing. 

And I’ve noticed it especially with male pairings. I’m not mentioning the fandom, but I’ve seen one canonically bisexual male character who is often paired with several other male characters consistently transed. But only in m/m pairings. Which makes them straight pairings. Never seen a transed version of this character paired with a female character. Which is telling. 

(and of course there’s a hefty dose of using the trans thing to write “mpreg” and it never seems to not be fetishized)

Or you know the whole trend of saying Buttercup from the Powerpuff Girls is totes a transboy. Like that isn’t misogynistic? Like that’s saying a girl can’t be tough and crude and like “masculine” things and still be a girl? Even though the message of the show is they’re the “perfect little girls” and young tomboys could use that support.

Like is this comic about this person coming to the tough realization that these messages are correct? I honestly can’t see what they’re getting at otherwise. 

The last one is presented as “wrong” because it’s coming from the strawman character but the words are still true.

@lesbian-lizards I also get the feeling from the context that the last person is supposed to be a parent. So their text being given spooky black balloons and their face crossed out has disturbing implications of how the author feels toward them. Probably exactly because she (I’m assuming mother) says reasonable , difficult truths things like that.

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Things that are actually empowering to women and girls:

1. Physicality

becoming physically stronger empowers us. exercising your body not only makes your body stronger and more powerful, but it brings discipline and helps you connect with your body instead of disconnect. 

being able to physically be at a location is empowering. feminists should be fighting to make all places accessible to disabled women.

disabled women should also have access to any type of exercises and physical therapy they can do. i would especially like to see more public pools having more physical therapy programs. swimming is a great way to exercise for strength while not putting any gravitational or impact on your body

2. Knowledge

Knowledge is empowering. having knowledge about how our own bodies work is empowering. women and girls who are.knowledgeable are not easily misled. in this vein, learning how to properly debate arguments and think critically about yours and others words and beliefs is empowering. having the ability to trust yourself comes with gaining knowledge.

3. Access to Fulfilling Work.

work that feeds our love and passion is empowering. workplaces with atmospheres where everyone is happy and excited to work with women are empowering. workplaces free from sexual attacks empower women. women stimulating their minds and souls is empowering. women doing the work they find stimulating gives us a sense of purpose.

many women of all different walks of life have a high propensity for art. charging them with female representation in media will empower us all by putting forth the huge diversity that women display as human beings with full experiences and lives and stories to tell.

evidence shows that the least depressed cohort of women are the ones who work and who are financially independent, not the married housewives.

4. Reproductive and Sexual Rights.

women having control over our own.reproduction is empowering. women having orgasms and thinking about our own pleasure during sex is empowering. women accepting their own physical form and refusing to be disrespected by men who find them unacceptable because of their physical form is empowering. women refusing intercourse if it does nothing for their pleasure or they dont want to take the risk is empowering. women not being forced to sell their own bodies is empowering. women having control over OUR OWN BODIES is freedom.

Things that are NOT empowering to girls and women:

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I am No ARTEEST, but I’m going to save this for my future reference. Thanks. 

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What

[alethiomancer]

I’m so tired this made perfect sense for like 45 seconds

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Its backk

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Ben is a Hoe! ....heck

[anotherfrenchwarrior]

Russian fairy tales :

Tale of the Dead Tsarevna and the Seven Bogatyrs (1951)

The Scarlet Flower (1952)

The Snow Maiden (1952)

Sister Alenushka and Brother Ivanushka (1953)

The Magic Bird (1953)

The Twelve Months (1956)

The Snow Queen (1957)

Vasilisa the Beautiful (1977)

[transgender-harms-women]

28 July, 2014 ~ Sarah Ditum 

Pay attention, if you’re not already neck-deep in the gender wars of online feminism. TERF is an acronym for “Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist” that its users claim is applied purely descriptively. Critics of the term point out that it is not used neutrally, but in all cases pejoratively: TERF is a curse word used solely against women, a version of “bitch” that liberals can feel OK saying. “TERFs” are charged with inciting and inflicting violence against transgender people, despite the fact that violence against transgender people, like all violence, is overwhelmingly committed by men and not by feminists of any stripe.

The definition of TERF is extraordinarily loose: what one is supposed to be excluding trans people from is never identified. To state that male and female bodies exist can be enough to win the TERF label; to state that the division of sex is the foundation of sexual oppression is more than sufficient. (If your observations of reality have led you to believe that sexual dimorphism in humans is both real and socially relevant, you may be confused to learn that acknowledging this is now deemed evidence of bigotry in some quarters.)  It is also a highly toxic definition to apply to someone, both because of the intimation of violence, and because there is a hefty taboo within the left at large against “excluding” anyone.

Vague in meaning, powerful in effect – two qualities which combine to mean that the word TERF is incredibly handy for anyone who wishes to stop women from discussing our oppression as women, by men. (Who wants to stop women discussing our oppression by men? Usually men, of course.) It is a thought-stopper extraordinaire. Here’s an example. This morning, I tweeted the following in response to a discussion about domestic violence I heard on the Today Programme:

Lindy West – brilliant, funny Jezebel writer Lindy West, wrote that hilarious thing about SATC2 – retweeted it. Great! My small act of feminism has been shared by a writer with a following thousands of times greater than my own, surely the revolution in sexual consciousness is just around the corner, etc etc. But wait! A man has something to say: 

Note that this is his response to a feminist sharing a comment by another feminist about domestic violence. Not solidarity against male violence, not horror at the fact that a woman has been killed by male violence every 2.3 days in the UK this year, but concern that the person speaking (in this case, me) is somehow unclean. Don’t worry though, he’s not entirely lacking in self-awareness. He knows it’s not really his place – as a man – to tell a woman what she should and shouldn’t say, even though he’s just, um, told a woman what she should and shouldn’t say. His disavowals aside, the word “TERF” does its work:

Am I a TERF? West didn’t have the time to check: avoiding any association with a tainted form of feminism took precedence over sharing a message about domestic violence. And she acted perfectly rationally in this: to associate herself with me, even by merely RTing a statement she agreed with, could be enough to make her a “known TERF” in turn and lead to her being similarly denounced in public. But note the end result of this: a feminist has withdrawn support for another feminist speaking against male violence, because a man told her to.

This is what the word TERF does. This is why it is misogynist’s dream, and this is why – if you’re a feminist or even if you simply see yourself as not-anti-feminist – you should never trust it and never, never use it against other women.

Support organisations countering violence against women

NIA Ending Violence

Women’s Aid

Southall Black Sisters

Refuge

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Unpopular opinion

Stop saying Latinx.

Even Spanish speakers can’t pronounce it.

Spanish is a gendered language, you literally cannot “gender neutralize” Espanol. The masculine ending IS the gender neutral form of any word.

It’s extremely self entitled to believe you can suddenly start changing gendered languages, when there is ALREADY gender neutral endings in said languages.

It’s disrespect, because you must not understand these languages if you think it’s such a great idea. IT’S NOT.

Latinx is not the gender neutral ending. Latino is. Mexicano is.

Would you seriously walk up to a Spanish speaker and say “Ellxs son divertidxs, ¿verdad?” When talking about a mixed group of boys and girls.

No, because you’d look so, so stupid, if not confuse the Spanish speaker and also have a VERY hard time pronouncing that.

Stop it.

[pronounrespecter]

imagine guilting a group full of underprivileged immigrants who dont have enough money or time to give a fuck abt your attack helicopter genders into calling themselves latinks

[lecisbian-deactivated20250918]

Transactivists: Safe space means you HAVE to let us in neener neener!

Also Transactivists: no, this is our space keep out

[sadfemradfem]

also this. I couldn’t find the 1-star reviews though? like I kept looking on their facebook, their yelp, their google reviews and I couldn’t find shit. maybe they got deleted somehow but literally all i could find was a single review that said “not lesbian friendly”

so yeah, i haven’t been able to find this supposed harassment anywhere. 

[pronounrespecter]

you ever look at a place and just know that you’ll find pubes and dick cheese in your food