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rad-leaning and left-leaning feminist, this blogs purpose is to learn from and find community with other women
never forget to listen to the voices of other women/females, with different life experiences than yours
keep an eye on the global south
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beliefs under the cut:
“protect trans kids”
wait what about we abolish idea of gender and actually make society to be inclusive of all sorts of self expression without telling people they need to change themselves.. especially children.???
“When I was young, women were raped on the campus of a great university and the authorities responded by telling all the women students not to go out alone after dark or not to be out at all. Get in the house. (For women, confinement is always waiting to envelope you.) Some pranksters put up a poster announcing another remedy, that all men be excluded from campus after dark. It was an equally logical solution, but men were shocked at being asked to disappear, to lose their freedom to move and participate, all because of the violence of one man.”
— Rebecca Solnit, Grandmother Spider in Men Explain Things To Me and Other Essays
Statistically the biggest thing a man can do to protect his women is to not abuse them
WOW I AM INCREDIBLE. I AM MADE OF BLOOD AND ELECTRICITY AND I CHANGE THE WORLD ALL THE TIME. VERY COOL
leftist man with stalin icon here to talk about why you shouldn’t read any work written by feminists before 2009 because their views are problematic and outdated
We have officially reached a point where some people are so woke they dont think women can be oppressed.
I like tumblr because it's normal to be anonymous. No one expects you to post selfies or use your real name or share your location. The site itself doesn't require anything but the most basic info about you—no IDs, no government name, no (or very little) data collection. The algorithm is mostly chronological. Infinite scroll is not a thing because you can catch up to where you left off. The ads are less intrusive and usually amusing through sheer wackiness. Videos don't auto-play. The app is mostly functional. Honestly it's the best social media app out there.
psa: you dont have to hate trans people to be a terf. you can just. not want biological sex and women's rights to a single sex space to be erased. that's not hate. that's reality
Freaks tend to reason “sex is not inherently traumatizing, ergo molestation is not that bad. Just a perception thing.” I take the opposite perspective. I think sex is an inherently fraught, vulnerable, loaded experience. And it makes sense you need adult cognition and confidence to navigate it without repercussion. Even so, adults are fucked up by (ostensibly consensual!) sexual experiences all the time. Sex can be totally “consensual,” and still traumatizing. This doesn’t speak to the immature and undeveloped perspective of the victim. It speaks to the highly personal, vulnerable, fraught nature of sex itself in any capacity
If we can acknowledge that sexual assault is different than any other form of assault so much so that it requires its own name(rape), then we must understand that sex is different from any other action in society. This concept has to extend to jobs too meaning that sex work is inherently different from any other profession. This is the basis from which all anti porn and sex work arguments must stem.
I've had this in my drafts for like a week because i can't figure out how to make any productive point out of this but:
even though we all on radblr obviously agree with what you've said there are people out there who won't be convinced by this argument because there's people out here making the exact opposite one to claim that if sex is no different than flipping burguers then rape is not different than any other form of assault and it should be "deconstructed" or something
Another random information in female health is that female saliva is different from male saliva, with studies showing it tends to have a lower pH (more acidic), a lower flow rate, and differences in buffering capacity and protein content. These differences can be influenced by hormonal fluctuations and may impact oral health. most if not all toothpaste is strictly made for MEN, although packaging and companies do not release that information. This world is not for women no matter how many humans their birth.
The only reason forced pregnancy and forced birth is not considered against human rights is because women are not considered humans.
I’ve talked about this a lot but something that I think makes it painfully obvious that men see how horrific both rape and forced impregnation and birth are is the movie Alien (1979). Alien came right behind Roe v Wade, of the Hyde act, serious discussions on pregnancy discrimination, and Commonwealth v Pitchford, where a woman who gave herself an “illegal abortion” with knitting needles was put on trial for manslaughter. All this touches back on the fact that horror is very much tied to public fears and broader societal conversations.
In the making of Alien, H.R. Giger wanted the face hugger to be hermaphrodictic in appearance, but him and dir Ridley Scott both wanted the first victim of the alien to be a man because they knew a man being orally raped and impregnated then murdered by the ‘birth’ of that thing would be more shocking than if it was a woman. They know how horrifying it is. Which somehow makes it more sinister that when it’s women actually experiencing it that isn’t not seen as torture. A man being forcibly impregnated (yes with a monster but it’s a horror movie and that argument goes out the window when they specifically wanted a man as the victim to be more horrific) and killed by it is what made what is widely recognized as one of the best scifi horror films in existence.
They know how horrific it is, they just don’t care because it doesn’t happen to them and because they don’t see women as humans.
the post that goes "tumblr loves to subvert something thats already subverted and just end up with the thing again" is sadly what is being done on here among progressives about rape culture
Every time a sexist practice gets rebranded as "self-expression," women are expected to celebrate our own conditioning. Liberation isn't about finding new ways to decorate the cage. It's about questioning why the cage exists in the first place. If a practice overwhelmingly benefits patriarchal expectations while demanding women's time, money, pain, and energy, then maybe it's worth asking who that practice is really serving.
I wish there were studies on the actual damage men's torment does. The constant hyperawareness to prevent assault and the background noise of low-level stress from men "just teasing" or "just messing with" us cannot be healthy for our hearts. It hurts so much that they just LIKE to see us stressed and upset.
The other day I had a man openly admit to me that when I said I would not like a dick pic, it made him want to do it more. When I asked why, he responded "idk, just made me want to pick on you".
I don't care if it's nature or nurture anymore. I want to focus on the damage this constant awareness of danger does to women. I want to focus on how their constant need to fuck with us even in basic conversation leads to long term stress and damages women's confidence.
I hate to refer to a man on this and if anyone has other sources from female psychologists I would love them, but Dr. Gabor Maté, who is a very widely known psychologist believes that the reason why women get some diseases more often is because of the constant stress we're under, and how much we have to repress ourselves just to exist in this society. He's no feminist scholar, but even he can see the toll this takes on our bodies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taYVjQ0_ldA https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12535582/
To add to this: while men and women have similar or comparable rates of PTSD/CPTSD, the way that it is “developed” vary wildly.
Research has shown that men are far more likely to develop PTSD due to a standalone traumatic event compared to women who — as stated — are more likely to develop CPTSD due to prolonged traumatic events.
While different studies or papers will report slightly different numbers, all agree that women are more “tormented” by daily life than men and thus develop worse mental illness due to it. This study in particular even states that “cisgender women are 2 to 3 times more likely to develop PTSD and CPTSD than men, even when exposed to similar trauma types.”
TLDR; being a cis woman in the world is so traumatic we are 2 to 3 times more likely to develop PTSD than a man by simply living in the world with them.
Also why is there not more research done on male cruelty? Why do they do this shit? Why do groups of boys form together to do horrible things to women? Why is my local Target being tormented by a group of teenage boys yelling about sexual assault and rape in the children's section to the point that moms are afraid to go there with their kids? Why do they see innocent people and get glee out of tormenting them? I have never seen the sadistic glee of hurting other random people out of a fellow women like I frequently see in boys and men. Why are they like that?
three other posts I've reblogged with info on stuff like this:
male gaze under patriarchy changes the brain
objectification diminishes brain capacity
self-silencing is making women sick
females who hold radical feminist beliefs, unhinge yourself from identity politics. Do not swap out gender identity for “radfem identity” it’s a capitalist scam!!!!!
I’m seeing so many young girls come right out of the trans right activist pipeline into radical feminism (understandable!!!) treating it like it’s another “identity”. babes it’s an ideology - you can believe in it (parts of it) but it’s not who you are. You’ll burn out treating like an identity, just take a step back from treating online communities like a defining feature of the self.
i've said it before but i'll say it again, people coming out of religious indoctrination typically deconstruct the CONENT of their belief systems before they deconstruct the STRUCTURE of their belief systems
Any form of feminism should be recognized as a political belief system! And that political belief system should be supported by action! A belief system should never be an identity
