radfem

20s, STEM, GNC woman Alive only in the dashboard | female solidarity

[tedcruzsradblr]

Yes it is I, Ted Cruz, Republican Texas Senator. As you all suspected conservative law makers ARE in cohoots with radfems on tumblr. I’m the group chats and everything. If you visit my office you’ll see the Venus symbol stickered everywhere

[andwhimsicality-deactivated2023]

I love it when lesbians talk about being sexually attracted to women. I love it when lesbians talk about boobs and curves and how sexy other women are. I love it when lesbians talk about their sex lives and talk about how fulfilling and satisfying lesbian sex is. It’s so wonderful to not be ashamed about being sexually attracted to women beacuse intimacy between women is just so beautiful!

[dont-eat-the-apple]

today i saw a photo of a woman with a tattoo on her abdomen: the skeleton of a baby, stretched across from hip to hip, reminiscent of a water color painting.

upon seeing it, i felt sorrow, as it looked like a memorial tattoo. (the photo came with no context, so i can only assume.)

the original poster accused it of being grotesque and creepy. in the comments below, someone chimed in that they wanted a tattoo of their own inspired by it, but for different reasons: as a transgender woman, their tattoo would symbolize never being able to have kids of their own.

at this, the original poster acquiesced: “oh, i guess there is one not grotesque interpretation.”

instantly, i felt furious. here were people picking apart the grief of a woman they never met, yet when a transgender woman said they wanted it, suddenly it was acceptable.

this is part of why i do not believe that transgender women will ever be able to understand the struggle of womanhood, no matter how fervently they claim to.

i see constant displays of their ignorance: the suggestion that they, too, feel ‘period pain’ and female hormonal cycles, or their insistence upon breastfeeding while swollen with artificial hormones, or the lamentation of their status as “infertile women” - as if the consequences of choosing to transition could possibly be compared to infertility through accident or unstoppable medical conditions.

it feels like watching children playing pretend, fueled by their imaginations into thinking they’re dinosaurs or pirates or fairies. but these are grown adults, believing that if they do X or do Y, that they can know what it is to be a woman as if they had been swaddled in pink from the day they were born.

what a luxury it would be, to arrive to womanhood so late in the game.

as biological women, we are haunted by our physical forms from the moment we take our first breaths: groomed to become broodmares and damned when we deviate for any reason (regardless of whether it was our choice or not), our bodies are the battleground we wage wars on, fighting desperately to protect our own autonomy.

we are not public property, though we are raised to believe the opposite. every inch of our flesh is considered an open forum where heated debate takes place; whether it’s about what we look like or what we do with ourselves, there is nowhere we can turn where people respect that our bodies are not vessels, but us, wholly and completely - and that we are the ultimate keepers of these temples.

there’s never a day that goes by that i forget that i’m female; not in the strangely fetishistic way that a man might describe me (such as my chest bouncing as i go down the stairs), but in that i am reminded of the limitations set upon me because of my sex. listing all the ways people consider being female a dead-end to anything but procreation would take too long.

even now as i write this, i have learned a new facet of my existence: if i were to memorialize the loss of my child, there would be people who might mock me for it - but only because i’m female. as it turns out, my birth sex is the difference between honorable suffering and being considered “cringey.”

yet here we are, with an entire subset of people on the outside, looking at the trauma and agony we inherit from our mothers and pass on to our daughters, looking at the cruelty strangers will levy at us even in our darkest moments, and saying: oh, i know what that’s like.

you don’t.

i respect the debilitating condition that is dysphoria, but this is not an excuse to piggyback off of the pain that we go through because of our bodies, or (god forbid) covet and envy us for it.

what’s worse? to say that you understand our lives better than we do, or to see our scars and trace your fingers across them while wishing they were yours?

it strikes me as voyeuristic and sadistic, to mourn a suffering you can never be exposed to - and it only ever seems to be out of desire to legitimize their own idea of womanhood, rather than coming from a place of attempted empathy.

i’m sure that seems a little cold, but i have no warmth for someone who sees a symbol of a woman’s agony and only focuses on how they could take it from her and fit it to their own life, regardless of how personal it was to her.

a symbol, i will state again, that was described as grotesque. this adjective was only revoked when the idea was applied to a transgender woman, as if this anonymous woman’s inherent female status made the original concept disgusting.

how could you see this obvious double standard and still think that our experiences are remotely equivalent? how could you not see the way that being female is such a crucial piece of this puzzle? how could you tell yourself that you could ever know what our lives are like?

our tears are not yours, our blood is not yours, our traumas and our heartaches and our struggles are not yours. no amount of wishful thinking or reframing things to resemble our experiences will ever make our lives yours.

the female experience is a distinctive one, and it shouldn’t be considered heresy to state this.

and it’s maddening to know that it’s such a shallow jealousy, an envy of our parts rather than our whole selves; wishing for our breasts and our wombs and our bodies while blithely ignorant to the realities we face because of them.

when i think of what womanhood looks like from the outside, i could see how one might want it, especially if you chop it up into bite-sized pieces with only the prettiest ones on display. if you never bother to look behind the curtain, it seems a lot nicer than it is.

but that’s not reality.

you covet our breasts, but don’t understand the pain that comes from having innocent body parts hyper-sexualized and banned from public spaces.

you covet our wombs, but don’t understand that we aren’t trusted to know what to do with them.

you covet our bodies, but don’t understand that we’re only ever seen as chattel and property because of them.

you covet our lives, but you don’t understand what we live through.

how’s that for grotesque?

[polish-lolita]

[lesbianp1lled]

I remember when lesbians were allowed to make jokes about not being able to get pregnant because of their sexuality without backlash

[intolitude]

[radfemme-rage]

the concept of lesbians who enjoy strap secretly wanting d*** is so disgusting, rapey and misogynistic

moids cannot be normal about sex. they literally build up entire strange worlds and complexes and revolve their entire being around it

fundamentally, enjoying strap just means a woman gets pleasure from g-spot stimulation, which, you know, female anatomy allows for and isn’t exclusive to her sexuality

it does not specifically mean women enjoy d***

funnily enough, most straight women don’t even enjoy penetration… and for many, i don’t think this has anything to do with them fundamentally disliking g-spot stimulation, but rather what the fuck PIV with a moid entails in reality under our misogynistic patriarchal rape culture 🤠🤠🤠

[tedcruzsradblr]

I hate this argument too bc I know women who HATE any penetration and also as a straight woman it’s not even the best act imo

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[sarahthecoat]

don't forget lateral and rotational movement too.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[rivercreature]

[cosmicretreat]

[strawberry-crocodile]

the thing about capitalism is that at a certain point a product reaches its maximum audience and cant really be improved (at least not while remaining profitable), but capitalism requires a product provide infinite growth, and at that point the only way to increase profits is to raise prices, cut corners, and in the case of services start adding advertisements. this is just how the system works.

[charyou-tree]

Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth.[1] Rent-seeking activities have negative effects on the rest of society. They result in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality,[2][3] risk of growing political bribery, and potential national decline.

The actual economic term for this parasitic behavior is "Rent Seeking", as in "charging you rent for things that didn't used to cost money just because we can."

[paintedpolarbear]

"The classic example of rent-seeking, according to Robert Shiller, is that of a property owner who installs a chain across a river that flows through their land and then hires a collector to charge passing boats a fee to lower the chain. There is nothing productive about the chain or the collector, nor do passing boats get anything in return. The owner has made no improvements to the river and is not adding value in any way, directly or indirectly, except for themselves. All they are doing is finding a way to obtain money from something that used to be free." obtain money links to the wikipedia article for Parasitism which might be the most brutal diss I've ever seen on wikipedia ever

[tedcruzsradblr]

I’m so fr here can someone explain why I simultaneously hate men and also want their affection? Having a hard time over here and open to advice

[tedcruzsradblr]

I can’t reply bc I’m shadowbanned but thank you @idontknowhowtofuckingread I get what you mean. I still my dad for example. But I hope there are men worthy of love and willing to love. It’s just been hard.

Even when I think I find a nice man he ends up being mean eventually. And I always wonder if this is a me thing or a them thing. Last guy really had no red flags and then just after a year they just started showing up. I just feel hopeless there are good men but knowing you know some who share love is hopeful.

[tedcruzsradblr]

I’m so fr here can someone explain why I simultaneously hate men and also want their affection? Having a hard time over here and open to advice

[pimpslaprickey]

i don't even have anything to say like i'm just sharing this without comment

[niiwa-angel]

Notice how he can't help but drag his children into it? This is why nobody trusts TIMs.

[kiefbowl]

partnered sexual activity should be mutually beneficial, mutually wanted, and mutually pleasurable. it should be free from harm and abuse. it should provide a feeling of satisfaction, joy, companionship, and relaxation. it should not feel like something to overcome, something to master, something to deliver, something to perform, or something to recover from. it should be done with someone worth being vulnerable and trusting with, it should be worth having that connection carry with you for the rest of your life. your sexual partners may come and go, you may not love them, or you may think you did, or you might just want to act on very intense feelings in the moment that are special then but in the light of day evaporates, and that's okay that's life, life is messy and untidy. But you'll remember this person, and you will share with them this memory, even if you fall out of touch, and so they should be worthy to you. Your body, your life, your memories, your pleasure, your future, your bared self...these should be special to share, this should be an important decision. don't let bad people trick you into thinking it's just a transaction and nothing more. don't let people use you as masturbation. you gain nothing from that.

[devilleworship]

saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?

ALSO

It's not as if this shit has been around SOOO LONG. We all existed JUST FINE before this shit became THE THING someone decided to shove in our face like...

[femanthropy]