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[glowing--ovaries-deactivated201]

yes tell me more about how watching a video called “teen slut gets ass fucked by man” doesn’t make you hate women, tell me more about how watching a video called “nasty whore gets what’s coming for her” doesn’t contribute to rape culture or alter your views on consent. tell me more about how porn doesn’t objectify, degrade and commodify women’s bodies when the only people in hetero porn getting physically and verbally abused are the women.

[theangryman]

Lawsuit accuses deputies at L.A. women's jail of sexual abuse, watching inmates shower

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of 38 current and former inmates in Los Angeles County’s women’s jail claims male staff watched them showe

[tswiftedits]

[hope-for-the-planet]

First-of-its-kind study definitively shows that conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss

A new study published online today, April 25, in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nat

From the article:

“If you look only at the trend of species declines, it would be easy to think that we’re failing to protect biodiversity, but you would not be looking at the full picture,” said Penny Langhammer, lead author of the study and Executive Vice President of Re:wild. “What we show with this paper is that conservation is, in fact, working to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It is clear that conservation must be prioritized and receive significant additional resources and political support globally, while we simultaneously address the systemic drivers of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable consumption and production.”

This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.

This shows that conservation efforts really work and money invested is put to very good use. Legally protecting endangered species really works, restoring habitat really works, removing endangered species really works, returning land to Indigenous communities works. All of the blood, sweat, and tears being poured into protecting the natural world has been making a real, big, tangible, difference on a global scale.

[jackalopiel]

people talk about manipulative radfem tactics to ~convert~ innocent young women but the thing that got me into radical feminism was literally meeting multiple trans women so

[radkindoffeminist]

They act like we’re this highly manipulative cult who goes around and grooms young women into supporting radfem theories and then you listen to why people found radical feminism/gender critical theory and they’re like ‘yeah, so I really did try to support it but then I saw it was misogynistic/I saw it was homophobic/I met multiple trans people/I saw inconsistencies in their logic/I was actively silence by a trans person or people about my experiences being female’

[taylor14firefly]

For me, I started to get into radical feminism specifically because I just read more classic feminist books, starting with Dworkin’s Right-Wing Women and over time allowed myself to commit “thought crimes” and read what gender critical writers had to say about the trans issue. Both of these things helped resolve the cognitive dissonance I kept having about the trans issue. Then I saw a male journalist compare Rowling’s sexual-assault resource center to a “white’s only orphanage,” and it was all over.

[radical-fire-vixen]

The breadth of impact male violence on women and transwomen is under reported, the violence perpetrated by transwomen against women is flat

holy crap, an article that actually says transwomen commit violence, and that women and girls are the targets

it’s like finding the holy grail, only better. AND, it was written by a transsexual male.

[thelaughingbird]

Huh. This is from 2015. It's interesting to me that most of the in depth, critical articles I see about the trans movement that have been written by trans people (especially those who predate the recent movement) seem to have cropped up somewhere around 2010-2015. They saw the changes in their community first, and tried to counter it or warn about it, but for some reason -- be it commercialization or issues of social contagion or whatever -- they were drowned out, not unlike Fred Sargeant, though he kept at it as visibly as possible (and paid for it :( ). Really strange dynamic.

[taylor14firefly]

Jennifer Bilek and Sue Donym have written a lot about the trans money machine, with Big Pharma and rich cross dressing men dumping a ton of money into this issue for over the past decade plus.

[dhaaruni]

We read Persepolis, and watched the adaptation, in the 10th grade, and it's stayed with me ever since. I'm eternally in awe of Marjane Satrapi's bravery and resilience, and may she rest in peace.

[angelichater]

i've noticed a lot of seemingly normal people's response to lots of trans related topics is, "well if they're not hurting people, i don't see the problem.." and then when you list the reasons that gender theory in action DOES, in fact, hurt people - women specifically - they never change their opinion anyway. it's so frustrating and blatant that when women's rights are at stake, average men don't see it as hurting anyone. if it doesn't impact men in the same way, does it impact anyone?

[valeriesolanasapologist]

When they say "It's not hurting anyone" but you tell them its hurting women and girls and they STILL DON'T THINK ITS REALLY HURTING ANYONE-

Then they basically just told you women and girls aren't considered people. REMEMBER THAT.

[mommy-issues-haver]

i think a lot of radfems get caught up in being gender critical not only because it seems so fundamental but because it’s a lot easier to be angry at gender culture than it is to spend all your time constantly hearing stories of women being abused, coerced, raped and murdered in the sex trade and then turn around and hear people advocate for sex work as something empowering and cool and fun

[unabombastic-deactivated2024070]

i think it's also because we've been making significant progress for decades and gender ideology put a stop to that by basically turning all of our potential fellow feminists into class traitors who think women are oppressed because of pronouns. because how can we properly fight for our sex based rights if no one believes we're oppressed on the basis of our sex in the first place

[taylor14firefly]

It’s not hyperbolic to say that the trans movement has done more to undermine women’s rights, when considering scale and timeline, than the Far Right. It took the latter half a century to get Roe, while the genderists in less than twenty years gutted Title IX, destroyed a generation of female class consciousness, and have normalized the erasure of sex in place of “gender” in fields like medicine and therapy, just as we were starting to normalize women’s health as its own speciality. They’ve colonized important second-wave institutions like dv shelters and rape support groups, in mind and sometimes literally. They’ve also undermined lesbian culture, community, and dating, and again, gutted class consciousness (in this case lesbian consciousness), while encouraging left-wing conversion therapy under the guise of gender transition.

Mridul Wadhwa, SACRO and the £1.4 million contract

Shocking new developments in the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Scandal

[thelasttime]

seeing so many people calling this album just fun and nothing more, and as someone who feels deeply connected to this album, i'd really like to offer an alternative impression:

something happens to a person when the rest of the world is constantly finding problems with you. whether you intend to or not, you make yourself smaller. usually subconsciously, but sometimes consciously, you cut out or tamp down on the pieces of you that they hated, until over enough time, there's not much left of you. because they all hated different things, created different wounds in different shapes. and then, you discover that it didn't even matter at all. the whole thing futile, because even the shell of you still isn't what they want and you've got nothing left to cut out of yourself for them. and there's a heartbreak there that's hard to describe, unless you've been there yourself (i'd actually never related to a taylor song on a personal level until I Hate It Here, which encompasses the emptiness fairly well. the idea of how you can only feel alive inside your own head).

while i know all of my own experiences that did this to me, taylor's can be easy to miss, despite the fact that she's put them in her music all along. not even mentioning all the bullying she went through prior to fame or all of the things that fans/haters/critics have said over the years, just about every man she's ever dated resented a different piece of her. john mayer, who she loved and idolized, turned out to just want a teenager to manipulate. jake laughed at her dreams, made sure she knew damn well he didn't think she was funny (think it gets three separate mentions on the red album?). high infidelity certainly suggests calvin didn't have great things to say about her, and how devastating that must have been after being so in awe that someone didn't hate her after a year together. every day we learn more about the things joe must've thought, and his resentment is clear.

ttpd ends up being more than romantic heartbreak, it's the slowly sinking realization that there's been a loss of self, while this album is a reclamation of self, alongside the death of ego. it's the undoing of trauma, now that there's a new lens to view it all through. it's the terrible associations with endearments, undone in honey. all the times people called her lame and cringe and annoying, undone in eldest daughter. the instinct to blame yourself for someone's unprovoked hatred, undone in actually romantic. the instinct to reflect your own pain back onto others, undone in cancelled. and a lot more (i could honestly go lyric by lyric on this, but i'll leave it there for now)

i have zero vested interest in travis specifically, but he showed her that she could actually do all of that. she could, as i saw someone else on tumblr phrase it, love being alive again, because it's almost impossible to truly love living when you're living as a shell. you only get glimpses of it, then. fleeting little moments.

so when i listen to showgirl, it genuinely feels like taylor said to me, "you could have this, too. the happiness that pours out of my voice. the freedom of self-acceptance. it's possible for you."

and my entire life has shifted since i heard that. my outlook is brighter, my anxiety lighter. it wasn't like a magic cure-all or anything, but for once in my life, i'm thinking that maybe i'm worth fighting for, even if it's my own poisonous instincts that i have to fight for it.

so it might be a silly little pop album to some people, but to me (and, as i think these interviews have shown, to taylor), it's a revelation.

wait i love this anon!! thank you for taking the time to write this out because i think it's a great explanation for how you can interpret the album. for me, my favorite thing about this album has been how she talks about creating your happiness and joy. in previous albums, it feels like she wishes for love to be a magical thing to descend upon her - almost like destiny (hence, "the prophecy"). but in this album she talks about how they make their own love and happiness - AND YOU CAN TOO!

also really love this: "you could have this, too. the happiness that pours out of my voice. the freedom of self-acceptance. it's possible for you."

[cages-boxes-hunters-foxes]

Taylor Swift's 'Spotify clause' is paying artists real money now

Taylor Swift's 2018 label contract provision tied to Spotify stock sales is triggering payouts, marking a major win in her fight for artists

Taylor Swift has spent years fighting for artists — first over streaming economics, then over ownership rights. One of the most consequential clauses she ever negotiated is now paying off.

The "Spotify deal" Swift secured as part of her 2018 contract with Universal Music Group (UMG) is coming through, according to the singer's team, triggering payouts to artists tied to profits from UMG's sale of its Spotify shares.

When Swift signed with UMG's Republic Records after leaving Big Machine Records in November 2018, she made one condition non-negotiable.

"As part of my new contract with Universal Music Group, I asked that any sale of their Spotify shares result in a distribution of money to their artists, non-recoupable," she posted back then in a handwritten-style note on her social media channels.

That final word — "non-recoupable" — is what makes the provision so significant.

In standard recording contracts, many artists are considered "unrecouped," meaning they have yet to pay back advances, recording budgets and other label expenses. In many cases, additional income streams are applied toward those balances instead of being paid directly.

Swift's clause prevents that.

By requiring Spotify equity proceeds to be distributed on a non-recoupable basis, the agreement ensures artists receive actual payouts regardless of whether they still owe money to the label. The funds cannot be used to offset existing balances. As UMG prepares to sell roughly half of its stake in Spotify, according to the company's first quarter earnings report in April 2026, artists will benefit from that deal.

This development is the latest chapter in Swift's evolving relationship with Spotify and the broader music industry.

She famously pulled her catalog from Spotify in 2014, criticizing low payouts and the impact of free, ad-supported tiers. In 2015, she publicly challenged Apple Music over its decision not to pay artists during free trial periods, prompting the company to reverse course within days. By 2017, she returned her catalog to Spotify as streaming became the industry's dominant force.

The once-rocky relationship has since transformed into one of the platform's biggest success stories. On April 23, 2026, Spotify named Taylor Swift its most globally streamed artist of all time as part of the platform's 20th anniversary celebration. She was also Spotify's Global Top Artist in both 2023 and 2024.

Her advocacy has extended beyond streaming and into ownership. On May 29, 2025, Swift published an almost 700-word letter announcing she had finally regained control of her first six master recordings. The singer-songwriter reflected on the broader industry impact of her yearslong fight.

"I'm extremely heartened by the conversations this saga reignited within my industry among artists and fans," she said. "Every time a new artist tells me they negotiated to own their master recordings in their record contract because of this fight, I'm reminded of how important it was for all of this to happen."

[majchic]

But how are you going to police it?

What’s the point in having laws prohibiting men from doing things to women if men are going to do them anyways?

[stanlunter]

The way they can't even imagine men to respect women's "no" yet still somehow deny these men are unsafe for women

[ladyothelakes]

Car/Crossed

Emma is a hopelessly romantic lesbian searching for "The One." When she gets into a fender-bender with a butch stranger, Jackie, then continues to run into the same woman again and again, Emma is convinced she's found her one. Paranoid Jackie comes to a different conclusion about the pattern of running into this strange woman.

This comic is now up on my new Ko-Fi for digital download! Go check it out and find out of these two idiots can make it work!

https://ko-fi.com/ladyothelakes

[mytearsrricochet]

happy pride month

[gloriousclio]

Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.

[measureformeasure]

I put the omen in women

[gayedmundo]

I think we should stop accusing real life people of queerbaiting just because you think you deserve a tell-all about their sexuality and personal relationships

[taylor14firefly]

#remember how dan and phil were accused of queerbaiting for years when they were actually just a closeted couple not ready to come out?#or how ppl got pissed at ariana for baiting and then when she said she likes girls ppl accused her of lying?#or how rita ora had to come out bc ppl accused her of baiting?#or how harry styles still gets accused of baiting despite repeatedly showing us he likes men?#its so annoying just let real people deal with their sexuality how they want (gayedmundo)