#warriorfemale

[imfemalewarrior]

Come and join my server! 

This is a safe space for everyone to gather, support, and advise each other on our fitness goals! Everyone is welcome, but the focus of this server is on women's fitness, and emphasizes martial arts for physical exercise! So bear that in mind as you interact with the server and its other members. 

 We are a body positive and body inclusive server, as fitness and exercise should be something that works for YOU and not something to try and force yourself into the narrow mold society sets forth for women! 

 We also have several bots to help moderate the server, one of which is pluralkit! 

Note: If you are already a member of this server please check your access; if you only see the About the Server category it means you did not read the new rules. If you want to regain access please read the rules and follow the instructions. 

-FemaleWarrior 

[name-exchange]

We have a new mod everyone: @foeyauic! 

[imfemalewarrior]

Virago means a Woman Warrior (pronounced veer-ah-go). Granted this is an archaic definition of the word. Today it has much more “negative” connotations, synonymous with other words for *ahem* difficult Women: shrew, dragon, vixen, witch, hellcat, she-devil, spitfire, hag, gorgon, fury, ogress, harpy, nag, battleaxe, old bag, old bat, cow, old cow, bitch. It’s adjective form is Viragine/Viraginity. 

I’ve seen all of these words slung at Women that make waves, Women who are bosses, and Women that fight for equality.

So, let’s reclaim this word for ourselves.

-FemaleWarrior

[imfemalewarrior]

I am sick of the body policing to which I am subjected as a Woman. 

My heritage is written in the hair on my lip, and in between my eyes, and on my legs and arms and back and belly and fingers and toes and everywhere I have it. The hair on top of my head is hair that is shared by my mother, and grandmother, and great grandmother, and great great grandmother, and on and on and on back to the first of us to ever live. The hair on my unibrow (that I was always encouraged to remove) connects me to my family that lived thousands of years ago in Ancient Greece, when unibrows were considered beautiful and desirable. I hope mine grows back in healthy and strong, for I want to be connected to those Women. Why am I encouraged to remove so much of my hair? To make myself more palatable? Smaller? To waste my time with its removal? Why am I considered dirty for having it? 

My appetite is called ‘the Greek belly’ on the island from where my family comes, why am I judged for eating enough food to satisfy myself and sustain me? 

The muscles I have developed from training in Martial Arts are the result of discipline and hard work and eating, and I will have to do a lot more of those things to see them grow bigger the way I want them to be. Why am I encouraged to try and use exercise as a way to lose weight and tone my muscles, to shrink myself smaller? 

I’m just frustrated and ranting about my own experiences; but, let’s make this a discussion. Women, what is your perspective on these topics? 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

[imfemalewarrior]

Alyssa Grube on TikTok

#lockdownchallenge #lockdowndance #kathak @mrmandypants I know I'm late to the party but I wanted to join in on the fun!

I made another tiktok video and I still have no idea what I'm doing.

-FemaleWarrior

[imfemalewarrior]

Reminder

@warriormale and I are real people running these blogs, as such we ask you to stop shipping us, stop commenting that you ship us on our posts, stop @ ing us when you comment on our posts that you ship us, and stop @ing us in your own posts about how you ship us. When you do this, it shows up in our notifications, and we have no choice but to see it. It makes us uncomfortable and feel disrespected. 

We are not comfortable with being shipped, especially with each other. Warriormale is married, and I am in a romantic relationship. 

-FemaleWarrior 

[imfemalewarrior]

Lately I have noticed TERFs coming into my ask box (on anon of course) or commenting on my posts or talking about me and saying that I shouldn’t use female for my username because I support, include, and accept Trans Women. 

Female applies to ALL Women. That includes Trans Women. I’m not going to let your bigotry take a word and twist it to mean something it doesn’t. 

This blog is for Women, and that means Trans Women are included. 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

[imfemalewarrior]

Consider donating your dead name to @name-exchange run by @thenonbinarywarrior, @itsdoctorreverendt-sizzle, @foeyauic, and myself.