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23 yrs /radical feminist

[rabiesofficial]

Reminder: Xylitol is very toxic to pets so if you decide to start using it, be careful around pets.

[dykemind]

WOMEN'S SALIVA PH IS NOT THE SAME AS MEN'S

[throneofbrokenglass]

Yes yes yes!! 1000x this!

“Testosterone does not invent aggression, testosterone exaggerates pre-existing social patterns of aggression”

Edit: everyone on this post is asking some really good questions that I also have. I tried to find the research article this professor is referencing but everything is blocked behind paywalls🙃.

What I took away from this is that males are more predisposed to aggression because of testosterone But it’s the way that we have normalized violence against women in our society that causes a testosterone spike to be triggered when we set boundaries with them and tell them no. So basically men are taught that they are the dominant ones in the social hierarchy (compared to women) and since we have normalized violence against women in our society, women doing anything to upset that hierarchy triggers their testosterone and triggers their aggression. If we did not normalize VAW or have a gender hierarchy, then those things would not trigger a testosterone rush/aggression. I hope this makes sense. I don’t even know if it makes sense to me lol.

I also don’t know whether or not this could be generalized to humans (it might be unethical to replicate the study with human subjects). Also, Thank you to the people posting more resources! All in all, it would be ignorant to say that male aggression is purely biological or purely social. The good old “nature v.s nurture” debate. It’s for sure a combo of both. As a psych major this topic really interests me and I might email some of my professors about their thoughts on this.

[theradtruthh]

putting this here to watch later

[thestickerwoman]

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[theradtruthh]

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[thestickerwoman]

Bathrooms are my favorite place to do my activism.

[buzzcutbulldyke]

Anyone pro-prostitution needs to read this book to understand what it is they're supporting. Anyone anti-prostitution needs to read this book to strengthen their position. Anyone undecided on prostitution needs to read this book for a deeper understanding of the topic. Part-memoir, part-sociological study, part-philosophy, this should be considered one of THE feminist texts on prostitution. She clearly did her research over the ten years it took her to write, weaving in quotes from other feminists (both formerly-prostituted and not) as well as statistics, which I always love. Her writing was engaging, the chapters were well-organized, the book had so many amazing quotes—I was constantly stopping to highlight a paragraph that perfectly encapsulated something that many would struggle to put into words. Even as someone who has been staunchly anti-prostitution for a while now, she brought up many things I hadn't known, or hadn't considered, or thought but didn't know for sure, or knew but couldn't summarize my thoughts on the matter. I can't recommend this book more. and it's only 320 pages, not particularly hefty.

[veganfairie]

i saw a farmer claim the cows they are raising for beef will never know fear or pain. since when is being killed at a slaughterhouse painless?????

[is-the-owl-video-cute-deactivat]

Since around 1958 or so in the US.

[hi-im-lugh]

Yeah....they've specifically designed it to where the cow will feel no pain. You can get in trouble if the cow suffers. Because that's cruel.

It's not just for cows either- most animals are killed in a way to ensure they feel the least pain and suffering.

[vegance]

animals suffer all the time in slaughterhouses and during the slaughter process.

captive bolt stunning is not always effective, different studies have found ~10-30% of cattle were stunned inadequately. this can result in them being stunned several times, or being partially or fully conscious while having their throat cut. there is also deliberierte cruelty to cows during the slaughter process.

one common stunning method for pigs is gas chambers. and during that time they show pain, fear and distress signs such as vocalizing, gasping or escape attempts. it can take them up to 60s to lose consciousness. you can find videos of the process. its not pleasant.

because of the speed of operations in slaughterhouses, the USDA estimated in 2013, that 1 million chicken and turkey were boiled alive, because stunning and killing methods had failed. the USDA was forced to publish records of slaughterhouse inspections (poultry slaughter). the humane league formatted them nicely in the addendum of this report. tw for animal cruelty and horrible working conditions. it also includes reports of workers treating the animals cruelly.

none of this is even talking about the transport of animals, handling of animals pre slaughter (electric prods, tail twisting etc.) or the horrible conditions that slaughterhouse workers endure.

and all of these things are becoming more difficult to report, since the usa have ramped up their ag gag laws in recent years, to prevent whisteblowers from releasing information.

[apple-pie-42]

Megan Newborough: Man watched porn after killing woman, jury told - BBC News

Megan Newborough: Man watched porn after killing woman, jury told

Ross McCullum says he viewed explicit material to relieve his stress after strangling his victim.

[acti-veg]

Bird flu: Free range turkey supplies hit by bird flu

About 600,000 birds have been culled or have died in the UK's worst avian flu outbreak.

Keeping and transporting millions of birds in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions is not only inhumane for the birds but a risk to human health as well. 600,00 individual lives snuffed out in the most brutal fashion, usually by suffocation, foam or gassing, which can sometimes take hours. This on top of the 10 million birds killed in the U.K. for Christmas alone. All this for what - Christmas dinner?

[unclefather]

[theglasscat]

this image is probably the most accurate visual representation of the United States education system

[traitspourtraits]

[radical-eve]

[gridbugged-deactivated20200707]

Source (x) (x)

[missreaddevil]

I want one.

[shinvermouthea]

thought that said angels, which is objectively cooler

[moonlace]

This post went from cyberpunk dystopia to fantasy revolution real quick

[fuzzymiraclebanana]

Holy shit take a look at some of the other things on that page that people have made. If the face bedazzling, the specific clothing patterns, the projector that gives you multifaces (like that one keanu reeves movie), or the other crazy masks aren’t a sign of a growing cyberpunk distopia era I don’t know what is.

I wish we didn’t have to live in any dystopian future but I would rather us slowly grow into a cyberpunk one rather than the shitty one we currently have…

[dashaibo]

"Porn rewires your brain with dopamine!"

So does chocolate

[lyewoter]

yes and you should reduce chocolate consumption also. eating copious amounts of chocolate to get that dopamine hit will also make you more depressed in the long run you braindead moron.

[bezosbaldhead-deactivated202007]

if I recall correctly, the chocolate/cacao industry is ALSO rife with corruption, abuse, and slavery so there ya go!!!

[mimmssyy]

Dasha with the retarded takes as always

[ddrvbiblgigb]

When you eat chocolate, does it give you an orgasm?

Stop equating things that simply do not correlate in the slighest.

The reason porn is so addictive is that your brain “rewards” you with an orgasm, ALOT more dopamine is being released than biting into some chocolate.

Brain scans have shown that a porn addicts brain and a cocaine user’s brain is basically the same.

Some addictions are inherently more debilitating than others and I’m sick of the people pretending that that isn’t the case.

[dashaibo]

Lady, I'm an alcoholic, trust me, having a wank is not the same as having a chemical addiction.

[ddrvbiblgigb]

“Having a wank” and “watching pornography while having a wank” are two completely separate things.

When you are watching pornography you’re conditioning your brain to become aroused by certain images/videos. And like alchohlism, the more you watch the more you want (the more you drink, the more you want). The more content you expose yourself to, the harder content you need to sought after to get the same amount of dopamine hit (orgasm).

If you brain is rewired to only be aroused by images of violence and abuse, how is that healthy? What does that mean when you have relationships with actual human beings if you objectify them constantly?

The Zilman and Bryant pornography study showed that when you continually objectify someone through the usage of pornography, the easier it is to accept violence against that person, because you don’t view them as a human being.

So not only from being addicted to porn is your brain rewired to only become aroused by certain triggers whether they be obscene, violent or disturbing, it also teaches your brain that (sexually) objectifying a human being becomes synonymous with arousal. Your humanity and empathy begins to dwindle.

Sexuality, being sexual, having sexual intercourse is not interchangeable with objectification and porn. They’re two separate entities yet pornography meshes them together as if they were.

[dashaibo]

The 1984 study done by a pair of Mormons that could never be replicated and was debunked numerous times since?

[ddrvbiblgigb]

Could never be replicated because it is not ethical to do so. However there have been numerous other scientific studies that still show the link between objectification and violence via pornography.

Thetruthaboutporn.org < there are a lot of studies on this site if you’re interested.

[knight-of-vengeance-deactivated]

Could not be replicated because it was based on bullshit. There, I fixed it for you.

[ddrvbiblgigb]

Oh dear. You are dense.

If you think it’s healthy watching copious amounts of hardcore extreme pornography, paid rape on tape, then you are stupid by default. I don’t make the rules. There. I fixed it for you.

[dashaibo]

Why do you guys always think all porn is extreme hardcore paid rape?

[ddrvbiblgigb]

I didn’t say that. I’m just going with what the majority of porn users consume.

Even if it isn’t “hardcore”, people are still being exploited, objectified and dehumanised for the sake of male gratification.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[rhoga]

Heart attacks symptoms are different for women. I recently learned this. 

[veggiebaker]

Everyone should know these things.

[131-di]

thanks to mainstream media and being unable to show breasts on TV, way too few people know about female signs of cardiac distress, and impending heart attacks. they only know about the “pain in the left arm” male symptom.

[mossflayer]

i had all these symptoms once and they sent me right to hospital

it was scary bc i didnt know these were the symptoms for female heart issues

[chevko]

Please, please, PLEASE, reblog this. i don’t know if I did save or called false alarm, with my boss’ life tonight. I felt I was being a bit paranoid, overreacting, but I told Mirage my thoughts and he, after reading over the article I showed him, immediately sprung into action and then shooed her off to the hospital. I don’t know if I did or not, but I knew she’d been super stressed. She’d off-handedly commented on her arm tingling and I asked her if she felt queasy on a hunch. I went to look at the symptoms and we went from there.

[francsforthememories]

Holy shit, I didn’t even think the symptoms would be different between men and women. This is so hugely important and I don’t understand why we aren’t taught this. 

[moonblossom]

One of the other symptoms that doesn’t get talked about , especially in women, is a “feeling of impending doom”. I am not even kidding, that is a legitimate diagnostic criteria. Please - if you are feeling any of these symptoms and a sudden onset of “Holy shit the world is ending” do not let anyone tell you it’s “just nerves” or “just heartburn” or something.

[babybluebanshee]

Keep these in mind ESPECIALLY IF YOU’VE GOT HEART DISEASE IN YOUR FAMILY!  So many more women die from heart attacks than because they don’t recognize the symptoms when they’re so different. Please stay safe and stay informed.

[theradtruthh]

This is scary because I feel like this everyday girl what is it.

[countess-radfem]

Men have had thousands of years to decide to stop hurting women. They’ve exhausted their chances. They have raped and killed and tortured on such a monumental scale that “not all men” stops meaning anything. You are but a kernel on a poisoned cob, sir.

[idontkniwanythgin]

[bebx]

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