[radmatriarchy]

I told my coworker that I really wanted a baby girl, and she told me all about how raising a girl was so much harder. Because she had 3 boys and 1 girl, and her daughter wanted to be treated like her brothers. She told me all about how she forced her daughter to wear dresses, be pretty, wouldn’t let her cut her hair. She said that when the boys started to be involved in sports, that she did too. So she pushed her into dance classes. And as this went on, it was such a surreal moment. This is why we have so many unhappy, trans, nb teens on our hands. This poor girl.

[itisthefunpolice]

She wanted to be a person but was forced to be a decoration.

[radfemarchive-deactivated202304]

Gender obsessed parents be like: it is so hard to raise a daughter, it is so difficult to completely destroy her personality and then fill her up with vanity and sexism

[cantanopeshitthatwastaken]

girlhood is being treated like a bonsai tree

[mypowerourpower]

Girls are a fucking blessing and I’m always stunned that there are parents with girls who are too stupid to realize this.

[lezzyfeinberg]

very weird that leftist men are totally able to understand how escalating youtube algorithms can radicalize normal men into white supremacy, religious extremism and incel culture but not how escalating pornhub algorithms (with the added conditioning tool of orgasms!) can turn normal men into sadists. almost like they feel defensive in some way. 

[bisexuanal]

One of the most useful myths to supporting rape culture - I think - is the notion that men are simply confused about what consent means. Mainstream feminism has spent so much time finding different ways to explain consent, giving endless examples on what a “no” can look like and what doesn’t constitute consent but like. It’s all so ridiculous because it’s operating on the basis that it’s difficult to figure out if your partner is consenting. Which it’s not. And then rapists use the definitions of consent and the whole convo around consent to manipulate circumstances where the issue isn’t that they raped someone the issue is that it “wasn’t clear” that consent wasn’t given.

We have to stop infantilising men especially like I promise you your boyfriend can tell if you aren’t into the sex. It’s whether he cares or not. The guy at the club trying to fondle you knows you don’t like it. He doesn’t care.

I’m SO tired of the be all end all convo about rape being on consent. Its not a difficult concept to grasp and a lack of understanding consent is not why rape occurs.

[bihet-dragonize]

It's a very convenient distraction from the issue of men not caring about women's boundaries imo. Like it's easier to say "well we need to teach young boys consent for when they're older" and ignore the fact that these boys have already been taught that no one else's feelings matter more than their own, especially women's.

[februaryflora-deactivated201811]

my advice to women: scream more, wreak havoc, be ugly and gross, use the sword emojis

my advice to men: develop a sense of shame

[okay]

love this <3

[kitchenalia]

really is telling how one of the most basic things that gay people ask for—happiness, safety, and legal status in a relationship with the one you love—is something that is met with derision or mockery in the ‘lgbt community.’ it’s because it’s something that people who are just playing gay cannot connect with, and something that they don’t put a lot of stock in. that’s why you’ll see things like gay marriage put down as gay assimilation, and that’s why you’ll see the promotion of happy, healthy gay couples called homonormativity. it’s such a basic desire, and you can really just tell when someone who’s never dreamt of asking for it in their lives (i.e., straight people, asexual people). because they don’t need to and they don’t think that you should ask for it either

[kitchenalia]

it’s just hurtful. people who never had to contend with the idea that they could be denied services, jailed, beaten, killed, excommunicated from a church, or otherwise socially marginalized for a relationship are being allowed to define what is “useful” activism regarding relationships. people who never felt dirty and wrong and unnatural and against god for their childhood crushes get to say whatever they want under the umbrella ‘queer.’ which they claim not because it’s politically useful, but because it erases the line between who is same-sex attracted and who is not.

and yet they still have the audacity to say the dumbest lines. not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you. out of the mouth of a man who has only ever desired women. i hate it.

[brightephemera]

The current usage of “a few bad apples” bothers me.

A few bad apples spoil the barrel. If you put a rotting apple in with three dozen good ones, every adjacent apple will be rotting within days. “A few bad apples” does NOT mean “we have a good barrel but, oh well, sometimes bad things happen.” “A few bad apples” means “Our entire organism is rotting from the inside out, triggered by the actions of a few and perpetuated by the natural processing of the whole.” When you say “we had a few bad apples” your next words had BETTER be “we excised them, quickly and permanently, and checked the remaining ones to make sure they’re still good.”

This has been my rant, thank you.

[ihavealotoffeelings]

The full phrase as I’ve always heard it is “don’t let a few bad apples spoil the whole barrel”, which I guess people sometimes wrongly interpret as “so enjoy all the good apples in there and don’t be so darn picky about the bad ones” and not, y’know, “get the bad ones the heck out of there before the rot spreads”.

[the-real-ted-cruz]

*teen in a netflix original show voice* look, bro, your masculinity is being mad toxic right now

[199303-deactivated20201218]

were you a green day, my chemical romance, paramore, linkin park, simple plan or evanescence emo?

[freakoutgirl]

Visit Original Link

Moaning Lisa // Carrie (I Want a Girl)

Give me a Kim Deal, a Courtney Barnett! A Florence Welch, an Annie Clark! Give me an Ellen Page, an Ellen Degeneres! Give me, give me, give me a Carrie Brownstein! 

[gostaks]

how the fuck did all of those renaissance dilettantes learn so much crap? Like they spoke 3 languages and were foremost in several branches of science, plus they wrote poetry, played the violin, and were master artists? And they still had time to be gay? 

[vassraptor]

none of them ever did any laundry at all

[lettherebedragons]

The emotional and physical labor necessary to maintain the lifestyles of Renaissance and Enlightenment polymaths was shunted almost entirely to their uncredited servants, slaves, wives, and daughters. 

Whenever we compare ourselves to the ‘genius men’ of the past, and wonder why we fall so short, remember this: their intellectual capacity, energy, and freedom was because there was someone else washing the damn dishes.

[cheesyradfem]

Rosalind Miles’ “Who Cooked the Last Supper?” is about how women throughout history provided critical services so men could have leisure time.

[radfemblack]

Fuck

[oldmaninatee]

can’t believe thousands of you don’t believe women inherit trauma from our foremothers or face socioeconomic disadvantages……………..you all need to stop using “feminism” as a catch-all for social justice if the horror women experience for being women is an afterthought at best or literally non-existent in your activist priorities

[cishits]

How would you define male and female?

To me? They are meaningless. I cannot for the life of me fathom what they are and what they mean. 

[apparentlyevil-deactivated20150]

“Black women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see black women. White women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see women. White men wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see human beings.” — Michelle Haimoff.

The meaninglessness of biology in a world where female biology is overwhelmingly the target of anti-choice legislation, slavery, the withholding of education, forced/mandatory pregnancy, rape, murder, incest, paedophilia and mutilation, is a privilege that very few female human beings on this planet have access to. If you are able to say to biology, “you are meaningless” then you have no idea what it is like to be oppressed on the axis of biology, and ignoring it is a violent slap in the face of the women and girls all over the world who are oppressed on the basis of being born female. This cavalier attitude towards human biology and the behaviours that exist in response to it is dishonest, it is in denial, it is oppressive, and it is above all, misogynistic. It is also anti-intersectional, as it completely ignores how women of colour are further violated on the grounds of their biology. Saying that sexual biology is meaningless is on the same level of delusion as, “skin colour is meaningless” or “disability is meaningless” or “race is meaningless, I cannot for the life of me fathom it or what it means”. It is not meaningless. It is a biological reality, it is a group that people are born into and on this basis are subjected to horrific treatment that is specific to that particular group.

[unknowable-space]

Also, animal byproducts in medications are pretty much par for the course. So unless you are completely unmedicated, the argument is hypocritical anyway.

[trannosphere]

[totallyradicalblog-blog]

https://www.neavs.org/campaigns/humane-hormone-replacement-therapy

[auntiewanda]

I’m now curious what impact the hormones from a completely different species has on people’s health. 

[a-terf]

So….I thought the horse piss thing was a joke guys

[pussnbootz]

I didn’t know these unnecessary hormones were created through animal abuse, but I’m not surprised. 

[saint-butch-deactivated20210430]

Um, is this also true for HRT given to menopausal women? Bc that’s really fucked up

[terfkirby]

So basically if you’re pro hormone therapy but also vegan (or just anti animal cruelty), you’re really hypocritical

[unknowable-space]

So I looked into this, because I know there are a lot of different kinds of estrogen drugs, and I wanted all the facts. The drug mentioned here is conjugated estrogens, know by the brand name Premarin. The process of creating it is, as op describes, truly awful and definitely an example of animal abuse.

HOWEVER, Premarin just isn’t used very much anymore (and when it is, it’s primarily used for menopausal women). We have synthetic estrogen now, and that’s what’s used in most HRT and birth control medications. So while “horse piss injections” may seem like an easy “gotcha,” it’s just not very factual.

I feel like, as radical feminists, we need to be wary of accepting information like this at face value...

[sangredesirena78463748-deactiva]

calling living gay/bi ppl ‘queer’ when they don’t identify as such: gross

calling dead gay/bi ppl ‘queer’ when they lived during a period where queer was unambiguously a violent slur: morally reprehensible, abhorrent, disgusting, go directly to jail do not pass go do not collect $200

[kitchenalia]

we treat women like the most normal victims in the world

we’re okay with women living with the person most likely to kill them; we’re okay with making women co-parent, cohabitate, and cooperate with the person most likely to kill them

we’re okay with women bending over backwards to appease the person most likely to kill them. we’re okay with telling women to settle into being hurt and degraded and choked, because it’s fulfilling his needs, and never mind that him choking her strongly predicts his likelihood of killing her

then when women die, it’s just a sad fact of life. okay, a woman died. so what? they die all the time. it’s sad but not abnormal, and she wasn’t doing enough to protect herself anyway, and not all BDSM is like that anyway, and there are more important things to discuss

it’s more important to keep men happy than it is to protect women! it’s more important to talk about the sanctity of kink, the sanctity of dom’s ‘needs’ and feelings, the sanctity of keeping the peace, the sanctity of putting yourself in danger because putting yourself first is unbelievably selfish.

[vladtheunfollower]

what men don’t ever get is even if they sat in a room of women and said nothing (impossible scenario) their presence would affect the dynamics and women would police themselves and not be as free and productive as they otherwise could be