[gracecode]

ever see a family that has a shitload of children and all of them are girls except one and that one boy is definitely the youngest. fills me with rage every single time

[its-terf-or-nothin]

It just goes to show how little men care about their girlfriend/wife that they treat her like cattle or a cat or dog breeder and force her to have children over and over again until they get the “perfect” offspring. Men are vile.

[feral--bog--witch]

My favourite thing to do is to tell men that by the time your son has grandchildren, your male genetic dna is so messed up that they will have difficulties tracing it back to you. You will, genetically, cease to exist upon the linear time line.

But their wife? Her genetic markers will be in her son, and his female children. And it will clearly show that she was his mother and their grandmother. It will show that her mother was there, and her grandmother, and her great grand mother.

The only time a man's genetic line succeeds is when he has daughters because everything important for tracing genetics is in the X chromosome. If he doesn't have daughters, he doesn't pass on anything with meaning and even then, its his mother's genetics that are passed down. He has nothing else of value but to be a stepping stone for his mother's genetics.

[kindradical]

Got any sources? I didn't know that and I'd love to read more

[feral--bog--witch]

Here you go!

This is just one source for why mtDNA is better.

Its because its more stable, doesn't degrade, and is very prevalent to all cells. And you get more information from it. The Y chromosomal dna is in the nuclear DNA and it degrades over the generations really quickly, even over time outside of the body. Where as the maternal DNA, mtDNA, stays stable for literally centuries!

A lot of the time they disregard nuclear dna entirely because its so unstable. They test just the mtDNA. And for a father or a grandfather, that's their mother's DNA!

Its one of my favourite genetic facts.

That isn't even to state the the Y chromosome itself is degraded and had lost of 97% of all its genetic material due to the degrading of it's cells as it evolved.

[unsubconscious]

Elena Wuest (German, b. 1977) ‘Beyond’, 2025 Oil on canvas, 80 x 60cm

[unusual-suspects]

x

[vilelithium]

𝔠𝔬𝔫𝔧𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤

𝔵𝔵

[rosieandthemoon]

Tararua Forest, New Zealand

[weltenwellen]

Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

[loveletters2myself]

less artificial intelligence and more ancestral knowledge please.

[leech-mother]

˖.𖤓 ݁٠࣪˖˚⋆

[pjharvey]

i don’t understand how neil gaiman intellectual properties still trend on here so regularly he literally trafficked women. like it’s not even a discourse thing or a “he’s problematic” thing he was “cancelled” for human trafficking. he repeatedly isolated women, usually his or his ex-wife’s fans, with no support system for the purpose of raping them while they were dependent on him for income and housing. that’s human trafficking

[pure]

patriarchy is the longest enduring form of subjugation that exists. we need to start saying capitalism exists because of male supremacy. we need to start saying white supremacy exists because of male supremacy. #They like to lie about the order of events to downplay the ideology that unites them all.

[pure]

one thing the sea of machine-translated international feminist tweets has taught me is that none of our insights are limited to just one nation. i was actually shocked to see how similar so many of us are. men and their sympathizers have spent years lying, saying “feminism is for white women,” “feminism is western,” “feminism is only for the truly oppressed third world masses,” etc. men need us to believe the lie that we live in totally separate worlds so they can enforce their brotherhood of nations through our subjugation. men and their sympathizers have to dissuade us from seeing and speaking to each other because women’s solidarity has the potential to cause an extreme disruption to the property claims they enforce on us. the desire for women’s subjugation exists across all spheres of society, and no one race, nor one class, nor one nation is exempt.

while a number of femicide cases against black women are in the news cycle…i’ve seen rhetoric ramp up about how uncontrollable and misbehaved we are, because we emasculate black men by resisting the property claims they’re entitled to as men. a tweet comes to mind where women all over the world report the same thing: when a man can’t control women in his “own” ethnic group, he calls another ethnic group of women more desirable based on their perceived submissive behavior. we are all living under the same male supremacist structures, and we are all subject to the same bag of trickery. we must match the ferocity of our insights with tangible political organization, mobilization and solidarity.

[mosstrades]

one thing i'll say about Project Hail Mary is that nobody had warned me about the Gracias a la Vida needledrop in the middle of the movie and it felt like getting punched straight in the chest. immediate tears. i'm really happy it'll make more people maybe look into it and find out about Violeta Parra, and her deeply beautiful, deeply bittersweet work, and the way her life's story colors it. She's one of the most important figures of Chilean folklore, and one of the artists most dear to my heart. I remember learning about her in school as a child, and the profound impact it had on me.

This song in specific is a lovely choice for the film's themes and the moment it was placed in was really beautiful and moving. I wanted to share why, but I think anyone who's seen the movie and reads the lyrics/listens to the song will understand.

She was also a painter and a textile artist.

Here's some of her work and the full english lyrics translated by yours truly, because I'm unsatisfied with the translations I found online:

Thank you to life Which has given me so much It gave me two bright stars, that when I open them I perfectly distinguish black from white And in the high sky, its starry background And among the crowds The man that I love

Thank you to life Which has given me so much It gave me hearing Which in all its breadth Records night and day Crickets and canaries Hammers, turbines, barks Downpours And the tender voice of my beloved

Thank you to life Which has given me so much It gave me sound, and the alphabet And with it the words I think and declare Mother, friend, brother, and light illuminating The path of the soul of the one I Love

Thank you to life Which has given me so much It gave me the stride Of my tired feet With them I walked Through cities and puddles Beaches and deserts, mountains And plains And your house, your street And your yard

Thank you to life, which has given me so much It gave me the heart, which rattles its frame When I look at the fruit of the human brain When I see the good so far from the bad When I see the depths in your clear eyes

Thank you to life, which has given me so much It has given me laughter and has given me weeping That way I distinguish joy from pain The two materials that make up my song And the song of you all, which is the same song And the song of everyone which is my own song

Thank you to life, which has given me so much.

[weltenwellen]

Dreams in April Traci Brimhall

[downtothemarrow]

Béa Henri

[bevsi]

this is the core of why some women defend beauty standards - if they’re deconstructed even a little they have to face how much money/time they’ve sunk into them. it also exposes how untrue “i did it for myself” really is - if that was true, you wouldn’t be upset that other bodies are being uplifted

[weltenwellen]

Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”, Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

[z0ruas]

"There is no such thing as a partial liberation. No one can be 'economically free' while sexually repressed and bifurcated; no one can be 'sexually liberated' while an economic slave... Freedom is all or nothing. And there is no freedom for males, of any class or color or ethnic group, while the female remains unfree."

- Monica Sjöö, Barbara Mor: "The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth"

[totalwomanvictorynewsletter]

Proposals are now OPEN until 4/22 for Total Woman Victory Volume 2 Issue 3: Our Earth, Ourselves! Submit short stories, informative or argumentative articles, poetry, book reviews, interviews, art, and more at totalwomanvictory.com/submit. Be sure to check out our section on contributor/visual arts expectations for more information on contributing! “Our Earth, Ourselves” unearths the inextricability of the oppression of women and the destruction of the earth. Oceans, nations, and even Earth itself are commonly referred to with female terms—from “Mother Nature” to “Mother India”—while extractivism, resource depletion, biospheric pollution, and the conquest of land mirror the male conquest of female bodies.  Consumerism—including booming industries such as meat, makeup, fashion, and technology—is connected to the subjugation of women. Imperialism exacerbates both female oppression and Earth’s destruction, deeply tying Third World women to their environment. Over time, scientific data has vindicated ecofeminists who drew these connections decades prior. This issue further concerns female food insecurity, consequences of AI, denial of land and territorial displacement, exploitation of land laborers, the slave trade, and more. How does the destruction of our Earth affect our very bodies?