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no U are not anyones “yandere girlfriend” you are a white girl with cat ear headphones who calls herself mizaki chan
This post makes people so angry op is in witness protection
So, I likely wouldn’t have said anything, but, the sentiment has popped up on my twitter timeline three times now in the past two weeks alone which is three times as many times as I’d prefer to have seen it without going looking for it, and I can’t keep using my friends and partner as a sounding board in dms. So. Here this will go, and hopefully help work out my feelings on the matter.
To be very blunt and to the point: I don’t greatly like the argument ‘no man should be a gynocologist’.
On the surface of the argument - it reads as what people who are making the argument *think* they’re saying. ‘I don’t want someone who cannot potentially empathize with my pain and issues and has a higher chance of being predatory/unsafe/dismissive/dishonest having access to me in a very personal and vulnerable environment. I would like my preferences to be understood and validated’ and that?
That is perfectly valid and completely understandable. You *should* be able to see the person who makes you feel most comfortable and heard when seeing a doctor! You deserve that right!
And the horror stories - they are horrific, and I believe them. To the people who disbelieve anyone would go through all that time and money for medical school just for the chance to hurt other people - it happens, and it’s real. Listen to the victims. Some people are dedicated to being evil.
But. All this is not the point I’m trying to make.
When you use terminology like ‘literally no man should ever be a gynocologist’ or ‘why would any man choose to be a gyno when he doesn’t understand what we go through?’ you are taking part in terf rhetoric, if not downright terf ideology, and bioessentialism.
Yes, yes you are. I have just stated above, you have the right to choose who you want to see for your medical issues and wellbeing. That’s not in question. If you don’t feel comfortable with one, then you should see someone you do feel comfortable with.
But perpetuating the narrative of ‘man = penis-having’ automatically in these arguments helps no one, and actively harms people like me.
An AFAB transmasc nonbinary person who has had to and will have to see a gynocologist for my health, who sees these word choices and feels passed over, and sometimes actively attacked.
Some times its just people being forgetful - and aren’t they very privileged to be so. Oher times, a transmasc individual like myself will point out this type of terfish language and get slapped down for it. Told they are invalidating women’s experiences, told to shut up, told we are hijacking the post. It’s sometimes just rude, and sometimes very revealing of what a lot of cis women think of trans folks.
I’m finding myself running out of steam for this post, because thinking about it for too long makes me tire and mad and sad and frustrated beyond measure.
So, to reiterate: If a doctor of any kind makes you feel hurt or hurts you, or even if you just don’t feel like they’re the right fit for your care, for any reason, you have the right to feel that way, and you have the right to seek someone else out. That is not what people are upset about. At least, not most people like me that I’ve seen on these posts.
But please don’t forget about us in your arguments when making them so black and white.
oh ok here I’ll help you out: males (amabs) (tma people) can’t be gynos. better?
How about going after the millions of men who have successfully kept millions of girls - two thirds of the world’s illiterate population - from accessing education? No? Only women who say ‘men shouldn’t be gynecologists’ on the internet, with zero law, zero religions, and zero governments to back up their opinion?
BY THE WAY, one hundred and four countries limit the career options of women. Where’s the thousand word posts decrying that? Seems kind of weird that OP cares more about telling women what is and is not problematic to type in a world where millions of girls aren’t allowed to access schooling and billions of women live in areas with actual laws preventing them from holding any job they want, but I’m not the self-crowned queen of unproblematic opinions so what do I know.
Shit, I thought this was going to be an insightful critique you know? Something I missed and someone was going to say something wise and insightful: a real ‘ohhh yyyyeah’ moment. And then it’s just “terf rhetoric” 🙄
I just feel so enraged? terfs/radfems have been upset at people using “womxn” for YEARS and now all of that gets blamed on us? Why is it so easy to convince all these people when literally for years I’ve seen that “womxn is used to support ALL women and be inclusive” with entire organizations using it too. It feels so upsetting to feel in this endless cycle of getting blamed for things we have pointed out is harmful for so long.
love the way that jk rowling being labelled a terf means that my family has to have an argument about whether it’s morally acceptable to watch the childrens movie that we already own, but when my family paid $30 to watch the live action mulan despite me repeatedly telling them that disney knowingly collaborated with and paid the government of the province where the uighur genocide was and still is being carried out, that was acceptable. i’m so tired.
My sister is boycotting any HP related stuff while buying almost exclusively from Amazon.
PCOS and endometriosis are barely studied despite the large number of women suffering from it, feminine hygiene products are still too expensive, girls are having to drop out of school in poor parts of the US and in their world countries cuz their period makes them miss too much of school, there still is a period stigma but you got the woke handmaiden brigade on Twitter calling feminists' preoccupation with menstruation immature and saying we're still stuck in the 8th grade 🙃
Period conversations is the quickest way to make me peak over and over again
The absolute western narcissism! The complete disregard for any woman not in their western self congratulatory masturbation circles! Can you believe this? These women are absolute enemies to female progression. They'd throw away all the advances that women have gained if it meant pleasing men.
This tweet makes me so fucking sick. I’ve been fucking bed bound writhing in pain for DAYS unable to eat or do anything because of my period and endo and apparently it’s fucking childish to talk about it
No the fuck it’s not!!!!! No one talking about it is why so many women SUFFER with the same pain I do because they think it’s normal and it’s ABSOLUTELY NOT
I used to volunteer for an org that made reusable pads for girls (and women as well) in other countries that didn’t have access to them and would miss a week of school every month (1 week a month = 12 weeks = 3 MONTHS OF SCHOOL A YEAR LESS THAN BOYS). One of the only ways they could get them pads previously? AFTER BEING RAPED BY MALE TEACHERS
How can something that so seriously affects the lives of quite literally BILLIONS of people be dismissed as a middle school obsession
I think I got booted from a feminist fb group for talking about period poverty. Commenters were saying it was “biological essentialist” and “white feminism” and shouldn’t be something feminism focused on
Literally most girls and women affected by period poverty are from the third world
Frankly at this point I'll start equating "white feminism" with "good feminism" and if that isn't fucked up
Pretty much.
"White feminism" used to be a useful phrase, as there was (and still is) a very real problem of White feminists disregarding the experiences and perspectives of women of color , but now it's been co-opted by misogynists to shut actual feminist discussion down.
Period poverty and mensturation stigma affects women and girls around the globe.
Thousands of girls around the globe cannot go to school because of it. Asian girls are left in huts in the middle of nowhere with little resources because of it. Women are seen as incompetent and over emotional because of it. The very mention of menstruation in a positive context brings misogynists of all kinds crawling out of the woodwork to give their unwanted, hateful opinions on it.
To shut down any discussion of menstruation and dismiss it as "white feminism" is not only misogynistic, it's racist.
To be clear I don't know or care when life begins or if abortion is murder because there isn't a single other context in which we harvest other peoples organs against their wishes as punishment or to save another life in society. Even if I personally punctured your lungs I could and would NEVER be expected to replace them with my working ones and die. Society decided refusing to use your own body to save a life, especially if it proves fatal to you, is not murder. So fuck them kids.
what misogynistic, woman erasing drama did i miss from the twitch community? also, whatever the fuck happened, i guess the fact that there was backlash and they retracted is a good sign.
yfv,jyvmhckyufkyufyku apparently they tried to use womxn to include trans women, which was literally until semi recently the demanded language (like, back in 2016-2017), but then got massive backlash because “it implies that woman doesn’t include trans women” these freaks can never be happy
they’re gaslighting and scapegoating us again. what fucking liars.
the cycle is eternal.
gender crowd invents something misogynistic —> it gets popular —> people see how misogynistic it is —> the thing the gender crowd invented gets blamed on “terfs.”
the term “womxn” was invented in the 2010s by libfems to explicitly include trans-identified people.
the cycle is so true. i’ve seen people say that we are the ones who use terms like ‘uterus owner’ because we’re obsessed with bioessentialism of course. it’s almost like …. they can just blame literally anything and everything on us and people will blindly believe in it because 1) the evil terfs are to blame for everything 2) they intentionally tell people not to interact with us or our theory so that it’s easy to make them believe anything about us.
I don’t get how people can read that New York Post article about a study showing men “have better sex” with “emotionally unstable women” and make jokes to the effect of “that’s why I’ll never get therapy” or “that’s why men love crazy girls”. Don’t you get it? Men THINK they have better sex with women who suffer from mental illnesses, trauma, depression and other forms of “emotional instability” because men are obsessed with domination, violence and their own pleasure and seek out women who are more easy to coerce, women without boundaries, women who accept pain and who these men can hurt and play around with and abuse and toss as garbage much more easily. It’s really not funny. It’s not something that makes these women (and I’m one of them) more cool or desirable. It’s all about men exploiting and using women. It’s all about degradation and humiliation. Men hate us and use us as tools and they prefer a tool that accepts anything or who won’t make any resistance. That’s what it’s about.
exactly, it’s another iteration of a manic pixie dream girl trope. a woman you can detach from and simplify: she is chaotic. I lose my mind every time I hear a man say “girls with daddy issues are so hot,” they don’t care about your wellbeing at ALL and sure as hell won’t help you heal. so much of this stems from degradation porn + media portraying sexy women as unstable and unpredictable. look at every action movie— women are either abused, obviously ill or both.
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Really? Because it’s trans-exclusive. You mean “non cis male” anatomy.
Disappointed.
i love how men are allowed to have their anatomy called “male anatomy” but women must call our anatomy “non cis male anatomy”
in case y'all were wondering if this movement was all about erasing any mention of femaleness.
Seriously, science defines reproductive organs as female reproductive organs or male reproductive organs, and it is literally impossible for a transgender woman to have the female reproductive organs pictured on the poster in her body. Until doctors figure out how to fully transplant reproductive organs, you are a transgender woman, not a transgender female.
I don’t think science should ever try to do that, cosmetic organ transplants sounds like hell and it would be hell for women’s rights
Can trans activists die please
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people will be like ‘wow i cant believe how much worse i look in this pic from \a decade ago, before i started a historically professional level of makeup routine and also taught myself basic photo manipulation and correction techniques that are now basically compulsory for all photos online. just goes to show youj the power of positiity and drinking enough water’
My mom works in the family court system and she calls me every fucking day about how men who rarely see their kids and deliberately shifted custody onto the mother and never put forth any documents asking to adjust the custody agreement will tell their new girlfriends or their coworkers or their friends about how their evil ex wife is keeping them from their children, to the point that sometimes the new girlfriend will write a letter to the judge and get one back about why the dad has NEVER EVER put any effort into seeing the kids more often, why he’s taking only half of the custody he’s entitled to, why he’s not the one writing the letter, etc. unfortunately men are liars. The mom can be begging the dad to see his children more often and he’ll be refusing while telling everyone around them how terrible she’s being. These men do not want to care for their kids, but they do want sympathy. They don’t want their kids around, cramping their style, requiring attention, but they DO want a sob story to tell dates. Don’t fall for it!
Yes yes yes!! I have heard the same from a coworker who discovered her ex husband had informed his office that she was keeping him from his kids, which infuriated her because he had made excuses to miss his last two weekends with them. Men are......evil.
So familiar. My dad always whined to his coworkers and friends about how he never saw us kids, but he's the one who chose to move to a DIFFERENT COUNTRY when I was 2 years old.
This is repulsive
Why is amazon treating its employees like teachers treat students
Because infantilizing your underpaid workers is the best strategy to instill feelings of inferiority and fear, while also encouraging them to want to please middle managers for better treatment while not actually improving their situation at all. Its very effective.
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Everybody needs to take a good, hard look at the history of West Virginia, so they can understand just how badly companies will sink their claws into your life, and how to stop them from doing it again.
We are really gonna replay the 1920s all over again
they’re treating them like 3rd graders… like “swag bucks” was the literal name for any classroom currency.