radfem sideblog

[scumbhag]

[scumbhag]

[suedonym]

“I ended up leaving quickly because I was scared of her having a bf.” So you agree that men and women are different in terms of physical strength, and men are more likely to be more violent and aggressive 🙂

[evvergreen]

don't date men who watch porn. like that's absolutely a deal breaker. in the last like 3+ months if he's watched porn, absolutely not.

and only if he acknowledges how it harms women, don't date a man who stopped for his own sake because he'll go back for his own sake, too.

do not date men who don't see women as people. do not date men who don't see porn as one of the worst most pervasive violently misogynistic evil forces on the planet. for women's sake, not his.

[paperlunamoth]

Thank you Abigail Thorn, aka PhilosophyTube, for setting in motion my eventual peaking when you said, with complete seriousness, "I am in fact of the female sex," when right up until that moment I had thought that all trans people were willing to acknowledge that you can't literally change your sex, and that no trans people were genuinely claiming otherwise. With one statement you caused me to start questioning everything I hadn't thought to question about the ideology being promoted by the trans movement. You truly helped this viewer to think more philosophically and critically in her daily life, which is exactly what you set out to do. Congratulations and thank you so much.

[vladscastle-deactivated20231022]

In recent decades the beauty practices required of women and girls have become more and more invasive of the body. They require cutting, the shedding of blood and the placing of foreign objects under the flesh and skin. The degree of brutality involved is rather different from that of the 1960s and 1970s when the feminist critique of beauty practices was formed. At that time the creation of “beauty” was mostly confined to the surface of the body. Breast implants, for instance, have become a socially accepted aspect of beauty practices in American culture in the intervening period (Haiken, 1997). This practice is a severe form of mutilation of women’s bodies. However, it is a practice that fits the rules of beauty as required under male dominance, and is thus not regarded with horror 

Beauty and Misogyny, Sheila Jeffreys

[the-many-facets-of-folly]

This man brings the receipts against the school board.

[melohde]

A woman in her natural state of body (that is with no make-up, without shaving, etc) is not masculine.

[pleadianbabydoll-deactivated202]

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[suedonym]

[burningtheroots]

Honestly, this has been pointed out before but I feel like it needs more emphasis than ever right now:

Why are women expected to include men in their movements? Why do movements for female liberation and against sex-based oppression have to cater to and be made palatable for men? Why do they literally have to center them?

You wouldn’t be okay with including white people in movements for black people and other ethnicities, e.g. Black Lives Matter.

You wouldn’t be okay with including heterosexual people in movements for LGBT+ people, e.g. Gay Pride.

You wouldn’t be okay with including rich people in movements for poor people, or with including neurotypical and non-disabled in movements for mentally/physically disabled people.

And guess what? RIGHTFULLY SO. These movements are for the oppressed groups, not for the oppressor groups.

So obviously, movements for women — like feminism — shouldn’t include men, but rather acknowledge them as our oppressors. Men as a sex class are an oppressor class, and every single one of them benefits from male privilege just like every white person benefits from white privilege and every straight person benefits from straight privilege.

This is one of the main reasons I left liberal feminism behind.

[thequeenmatilda]

This is so important. The ONLY reason to involve men is to decenter women. Recently, it seems impossible to even TALK about patriarchal attitudes, their consequences, etc without someone having to bring up “what about mennnn” or “women can do bad things too”

It’s a silencing tactic as well as a way to appeal to female socialization to put men first and ourselves on the back burner. We need to fight this attitude with everything we have at all turns because it is extremely damaging to those young girls and women who are hearing it and are trying to rectify it with their lived experiences. It’s society wide gaslighting essentially.

[the-rad-menace]

My feminism is for all women. It's for lesbians, bi, and straight women. It's for women who have sex, including those who have sex with men, and for women who are celibate. It's for mothers, women who need abortions, women who've had abortions, and women who have never been and never will be pregnant. It's for women of every economic class, every race, every religion, and every political persuasion. Period.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

- Audre Lorde

[loveislikearoach2000-deactivate]

Would you rather spend time with a tif or a theybie?

[suedonym]

TIFs are the lesser of two evils because they’re more likely to be gender critical but both still have a gender identity

[heterophobicdyke-deactivated202]

which topic do you find your feminism gravitating towards most?

trans/gender critical

critique of the sex industry

critique of capitalism/classism

disability advocacy

lesbian-specific issues

WOC-specific issues

anti-beauty industry/standards

other (please add in the tags)

Voting ended onJul 8, 2023

please reblog this so we can see where most feminist energy is going!

[haggishlyhagging]

To many men, each aborted pregnancy is the killing of a son—and he is the son killed. His mother would have killed him if she had had the choice. These men have a peculiarly retroactive and abstract sense of murder: if she had had a choice, I would not have been born—which is murder. The male ego, which refuses to believe in its own death, now pushes backward, before birth. I was once a fertilized egg; therefore to abort a fertilized egg is to kill me. Women keep abortions secret because they are afraid of the hysteria of men confronted with what they regard as the specter of their own extinction. If you had your way, men say to feminists, my mother would have aborted me. Killed me. ". . . I was born out of wedlock (and against the advice that my mother received from her doctor)," Jesse Jackson writes in fervent opposition to abortion, "and therefore abortion is a personal issue for me." The woman's responsibility to the fertilized egg is imaginatively and with great conviction construed to be her relation to the adult male. At the very least, she must not murder him; nor should she outrage his existence by an assertion of her separateness from him, her distinctness, her importance as a person independent of him.

-Andrea Dworkin, Right Wing Women

[thegynocrat-deactivated20170306]

The Womanist – Vol. 2, Issue 1 – Fall 1989

from the “pro-choice” abortion issue.

[neopetdestroyer]

[swagging-back-to]

this osunds like the movie of all time

[neopetdestroyer]

Yes, but look how in love Freddy and Mark look in that picture.

[mithliya]

i don’t see a difference, love is love 👍🏾

[suedonym]

@aftonfamilyvalues

[haggishlyhagging]

The increase in illiteracy among the urban poor in the United States is consonant with a new rise in overt racism and contempt for the poor. The illiteracy is programmed into the system: an intelligent child can go to school and not be taught how to read or write. When the educational system abandons reading and writing for particular subgroups, it abandons human dignity for those groups: it becomes strictly custodial, keeping the animals penned in; it does not bring human life to human beings.

Cross-culturally, girls and women are the illiterates, with two thirds of the world's illiterates women and the rate rising steadily. Girls need husbands, not books. Girls need houses or shacks to keep clean, or street corners to stand on, not the wide world in which to roam. Refusal to give the tool of literacy is refusal to give access to the world. If she can make her own fire, read a book herself, write a letter or a record of her thoughts or an essay or a story, it will be harder to get her to tolerate the unwanted fuck, to bear the unwanted children, to see him as life and life through him. She might get ideas. But even worse, she might know the value of the ideas she gets. She must not know that ideas have value, only that being fucked and reproducing are her value.

-Andrea Dworkin, Right Wing Women

[oddwomen]

TIME (December 4, 1989)

[she-is-ovarit]

It's concerning that this is now an LGB and women's issue now, but I really encourage people to begin purchasing USB drives or external hard drives and saving digital research on things such as gay & lesbian history, screenshots of tweets that might be important, homosexual and bisexual research, women's history, radical feminist books or PDFs, and really just anything that is at risk of being "corrected" by gender ideology or made inaccessible by academic publishers.

We need to save these things in a hard copy format as opposed to just using internet archive or taking Sci-hub for granted, because these organizations are experiencing heavy lawsuits. Additionally, it's becoming common for LGB and gender nonconformity history and research to be "rewritten" by gender ideologists. Actually, this is even true for past research and history on transvestism and transsexualism, too, in addition to things such as sex dysphoria, etc.

I bought three 64GB USBs for just $25. If you can't afford an external hardrive, buy some different colored USBs and start building your own library. We need to preserve this information and decentralize it as much as possible. It's worrisome enough that we rely on digital archives this much just generally, especially with the advent of AI and government and corporate attempts to eliminate data privacy and control.

This is a women's rights issue and an LGB issue now.