Ardat Yakshi

God is a Womyn 🕊️ ☀️♊️🌙♎️⬆️♌️

[achillesinhighheels]

[biac-091299]

Boys begin wanting praise for the bare minimum mirroring of the work delegated to their female counterparts very early (~10 years old), much like their idolizing of the patriarch. The women around them affirm it, believing themselves lesser than a man in terms of being a model human being, for she is a man's wife, mother, sister, or daughter, before she is a life, a human. She does not care for the abuse the boy recycles unto her, it is just what men do.

[jeunefillerangee-deactivated202]

Men demanding anal sex from their female partners is a great example of their "sex as dominance" mentality. It's a type of sex that the vast majority of women hate, that can be excruciating painful and that anatomically cannot be pleasurable at all for them. And men know all that, and that's why they want it. That's their way of saying "sex is about me, pleasure is only for me." The state of heterosexual relationships is so depressing.

[basedandradpilled]

i used to get uncomfortable when people stared/commented on my body hair. now i just feel pity.

for the woman at the supermarket staring at me reaching for the top shelf, who told her husband i must have forgotten which aisle the razors are on. how trapped are you that not only are you offended by armpit hair, but feel the need to point it out to your husband/boyfriend to mock me. did she want him to know she would never be so disgusting? did she think i was entertaining?

to the little girl at the park who asked why my legs are hairy, she was definitely under 8, and she’s been brainwashed into thinking women should have hairless legs already.

i’m sure most women who don’t shave have tons of experiences like this, and that’s not my point. it’s just another small reminder that performative femininity has been so engrained into womanhood that women themselves tighten their shackles without a second thought, and are shocked upon seeing a woman who doesn’t do the same.

[basedandradpilled]

it was actually a cute moment omg. i just told her “my legs are hairy because when it grows there, i don’t like to shave it off” and she was like oh okay, just like beards :) and kept picking flowers with my brother

[bittermarching]

I've reblogged this already, but I love this addition. It just proves how valuable it is for little girls to see GNC women. Kids don't have a long lifetime of indoctrination hammered into their brain telling them that natural female body hair is disgusting, so it's much easier for them to understand that, yeah, it is just like a beard. It's just hair that you can simply choose not to remove.

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!

[diana-lostandfound]

A big part of the reason I don't want kids is simply that I don't think I would be a good parent. I'm short-tempered and can be vicious when I'm angry. I hate loud noises, repetitive noises, sticky sensations, and being touched when I'm not expecting it. I like getting drunk and high. I like doing things quickly and efficiently. I always have to be at least 15 minutes early to everything. I have horrible sleep as it is, and that's living alone and having a big comfy bed all to myself and never having to get up in the night unless I need to pee. I love being alone and doing things by myself.

Other people have always rushed to console me when I say this -- "you can learn to get good at it! I was the same way before I had kids!" But like. I don't want to change. I like my life and I like doing things the way I want to do them. In many ways I'm a lot like the woman who raised me, who I can best describe through the anecdote that she didn't let us have balloons on our birthdays because there was a chance they could pop and make a loud noise that would hurt her ears. I love her and I always will, but there was a lot of warmth and comfort I needed that she just wasn't able to give me and I know I would probably be the same way. It wasn't her choice to have to raise me. I get to make a choice that she didn't.

Women in particular are shamed for possessing the qualities I've listed above. It's seen as morally wrong for women to not be intrinsically nurturing, endlessly self-sacrificing, interminably patient. I get that we will be shamed a lot for admitting that we aren't. But I hope that those of us who lack those qualities can just accept that, because it's a terrible thing to bring an unwitting child into the world just to prove to the haters that you're not a cold mean b*tch.

[letters-from-x-deactivated20260]

A radical feminist’s reading list-

Classic

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 by Adrienne Rich

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

Fiction

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Salt Slow by Julia Armfield

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin

The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Gate to Woman’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper

History

Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici

The Living Goddesses by Marija Gimbutas

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women’s History of the World by Rosalind Miles

Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them by Dale Spender

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World by Rachel Swaby

Intersectional

Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

It’s Not About the Burqa by Mariam Khan (editor)

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga (editor) and Gloria Anzaldúa (editor)

Lesbian

Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective by Sheila Jeffreys

The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris

Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism by Suzanne Pharr

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich

Liberal vs. radical

Female Erasure: What You Need to Know about Gender Politics’ War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights by Ruth Barrett (editor)

End of Equality by Beatrix Campbell

Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap

Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 by Alice Echols

Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism by Sheila Jeffreys

Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism by Miranda Kiraly (editor) and Meagan Tyler (editor)

The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism by Dorchen Leidholdt (editor) and Janice G. Raymond (editor)

The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male by Janice G. Raymond

We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler

Pornography, prostitution, surrogacy & rape

Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller

Slavery Inc.: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking by Lydia Cacho

Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality by Gail Dines

Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self by Kajsa Ekis Ekman

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

Only Words by Catharine A. Mackinnon

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade by Janice G. Raymond

Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle Over Women’s Freedom by Janice G. Raymond

Psychology & trauma

Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Lewis Herman

Toward a New Psychology of Women by Jean Baker Miller

Theory

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin by Andrea Dworkin, Johanna Fateman (editor) and Amy Scholder (editor

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for a Feminist Revolution by Shulamith Firestone

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks

Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis by Robin Ruth Linden (editor), Darlene R. Pagano (editor), Diana E. H. Russell (editor) and Susan Leigh Star (editor)

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State by Catharine A. Mackinnon

The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman

Other

Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now by Jenny Brown

Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women’s Oppression by Christine Delphy

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery

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

Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. Mackinnon

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection by Janice G. Raymond

How to Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ

Man Made Language by Dale Spender

Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth by Marilyn Waring

[sundaebaekun]

Sign the Petition

Cancel "Haunting Adeline"

Yall will not going to convince me this rape movie helps SA survivors just an admit that you like rape fantasy and you don’t care about the well being of survivors which majority are WOMEN. Petition to cancel this disgusting movie from coming out if you a brain cells.

[sundaebaekun]

Sign the Petition

Cancel "Haunting Adeline"

Yall will not going to convince me this rape movie helps SA survivors just an admit that you like rape fantasy and you don’t care about the well being of survivors which majority are WOMEN. Petition to cancel this disgusting movie from coming out if you a brain cells.

[sisterofrage]

It's endlessly entertaining watching men perform what they think intelligence looks like--rattling off the names of Greek philosophers, drooling over the Roman empire, memorizing random bits of latin--while in the same breath showing umbearably poor comprehension skills and always lacking basic knowledge of the subjects they want to discuss.

[labryslesbian]

“masculine qualities“ and it’s just a black woman in a normal tshirt. being a misogynist homophobic groomer wasn’t enough, they decided to add racism in there too

[the-little-disnerd]

Toni Braxton First African American woman to play Belle on Broadway (1998-1999)

Keke Palmer First African American woman to play Cinderella on Broadway (2014-2015)

[ruuling]

I'm 100% on this colonization theory.

Males have colonized and destroyed the entire earth. They don't have the means yet to colonize space.

So what does that leave?

Women and womanhood.

This is why I'm anti-trans. Because this movement and ideology erases women. It erases our history, identity, and our bodies. It erases the language we use to fight for ourselves and each other. It erases the sacredness of being a woman.

I'm territorial and protective of womanhood and I will not apologize for that.

[cherrycolalime06]

sending dick pics in my inbox won’t make me an ally btw. I hope males get lonelier and more suicidal

[misandristwoman]

When women speak the truth about men we get silenced, ridiculed, and told we need therapy.

[icefemsanonymous]

Why is porn the only media category that's allowed to be as offensive as possible?

The level of racism and ableism in a lot of mainstream porn would (rightfully) upset most libfems if it was in any other category of media, but it's somehow okay just because it's porn? Why is porn immune to any criticisms of it's racist / homophobic / misogynistic / ableist content the way no other media category is?

There's a slave category of porn where black women are abused like slaves by white men, or black women are portrayed like savage beasts with no self control, or Asian women are portrayed as docile and submissive to the extreme and fetishized for it, or there's hijab porn specifically fetishizing women who wear a hijab, or or

This would (rightfully) cause a major outcry in any other category of media. "But its just a fantasy!" So is any other category of media that would (rightfully) be criticized for portraying such offensive and bigoted content. Why is porn above such criticism?

[g1rluninterruptedd]

“i lost everything but i still believe in god” i really hate that about religion. the worst travesties can happen to you and you’re still expected to worship a god who allegedly is in control of everything and therefore let that happen to you. let that sink in. that’s why i fucking hate religion. these stupid ass beliefs ask you to abandon critical thinking and accept things as they are. it’s absolutely fucking disgusting.

and i’m honestly starting to get grossed out having religious friends i can’t lie and i don’t know what to do.