the straight ahead in a sideways glance @veraslonim - Tumblr Blog

The epstein files thing is like ultimate proof that nobody gives a fuck about women. The richest most powerful men in the world committed unforgivable crimes against humanity, but because women and girls were the majority of the victims, it's okay and not worth talking about to the extent that it needs to be talked abt.

All the men on that list need to get the death penalty but since they are men and the victims are women nothing will ever happen to them

#10000 percent #people aren't talking about it nearly enough #misogyny #violence against women #epstein files

girlfishes

you’re not a real feminist if you don’t piss off both the left and the right

#100 percent #feminism #radical feminism

capricorn-season

#she's great #jkr

womyn-inherits-the-earth-deacti

joins tumblr to pass time

becomes a radical feminist

genderisareligion

Happy IWD please note how many notes this post from 2014 has from back when being a radical feminist wasn’t a cardinal sin on par with Nazism

barbievspredator

Happy International Women’s Day!

lovelycranium

Happy international women’s day!

#international women's day #iwd #radical feminism #radfem

tolerateit

#1000000 percent!!!#i hear people say this kind of thing all the time #that the only reason they read is to escape reality #or pretend they can be someone else (ie mentally stable or whatever)#just say you read because you like reading #no need to have all these weird complicated answers for it #reading #books

hmsindecision

I hope one day you realize how horrid bigotry is, and can look back on these days with shame and embarrassment, but also with pride how one became a better person. When the people who want to oppress us are done with trans people they'll go after bisexuality next, then lesbians and gays, then women. We need to stand together or they will push us back into the 1700s.

In order to become an adult you need to release this “us vs. them”, black and white, dichotomous vision of the world. It doesn’t exist. There is no cohesive “they” that I must bond with any ally I can in order to resist.

Do you really think that I have gone any period of time without suffering from systemic homophobia and misogyny? Do you really think that I am sitting from a place of privilege looking down at people who are “one rung below me on the oppression ladder”? What a childish way of thinking.

A large proportion of the homophobia and misogyny that I have experienced has been from people who identified themselves as on the left, as trans, and whose values in some ways align with my own. That really sucks. It really sucks that I have been verbally berated and called slurs by both conservatives and trans people alike. Those who believe that performatively being homophobic or anti-lesbian to me have varied values, religions, creed, and political beliefs. They are a deeply heterozygous group. People approaching my short haired wife to ask her for her pronouns and therefore implying that she is improperly signaling womanhood are the most frequent gender police I encounter.

Why is it that I must accept things like being called names for being exclusively same sex attracted? Why should I accept that because other people have been targeted by the same people who have targeted me?

Why is it my womanly duty to provide solidarity with people who tell me I deserve to be raped, beaten, my career destroyed, my friendships rescinded…. Because I don’t ascribe to their philosophical beliefs? I don’t believe in gender as a framework to be upheld. I hold gender in the same regard as capitalism or the divine right of kings. It is a system of oppression designed to place men over women. It has had loopholes in many societies, mostly to create a third sex for homosexual men. It operates differently in different societies. But I think it’s anti-woman and anti-human. To ask me to believe that someone has an inborn gender identity/gendered spirit is like asking me to believe that corporations are people, that God chose a king, or that the world is flat. There is simply no evidence for that to be true, because it would require there to be something that makes us men or women beyond biology.

There is not. Non-biological differences between men and women are purely socialized. If it isn’t inscribed on the X or Y chromosomes, it’s something you were taught. The clothes you wear, the way you act, the things you like, they are all influenced by the society you live in. The associations of colors, toys, interests, and other things to our sex assignation is partially arbitrary and party about subjugation. Women aren’t born loving makeup any more than serfs are born loving to serve.

I believe everyone should express their vision of themselves as they please. I hate the micro labels that are now applied to all aspects of appearance because people cannot conceive of human difference. I think that even things which I consider anti-self and anti-human can be things which adults do to themselves. If you need surgery or pills, then it isn’t about identity, it’s about fantasy. I understand the necessity of fantasy in an oppressive system.

But gender isn’t just a source of oppression against women. It is also fuel to create and sustain oppressors. That is part of why the anti-feminism of the trans movement feels so comfortable to people raised in patriarchy (all of us). Because the idea that we all have a muliplicity of gender identities is also about absolving men of thousands of years of terrorism and oppression against us XX chromosome havers. Why should I assume my oppressor has good intentions because of their clothing? Because they got surgery? Does that make a trans woman any safer than any other male under patriarchy? Or is that just a safe illusion so you don’t have to deal with the reality?

Even your trajectory in this ask—you think they started with trans people, then bi people are next? How are they going to go after bi people without going after gay people? Unless you mean just angry social opinions as opposed to systemic oppression? Then women last? Literally what fucking planet do you live on? I’m assuming you are American based on… this ask lmao… but…

They have already come for women. Abortion is illegal in many places. Rape is such a constant that we can’t even meaningfully address it. Teen girls are killing themselves over male violence just into puberty. Famous rapists and abusers are constantly fawned over. In my state, DV services are so taxed with women that last year they turned down over 50,000 asks for shelter in the statewide network.

50,000.

And my local LGBTQ community center has a ban of events that say they are for lesbians, or even AFAB people. Did you ever think that maybe *you* need to start showing some solidarity?

When it comes down to it, men always, always choose each other.

I’m doing the most radical thing I can think of, and choosing women every time.

I don’t hate you. But you sure are good at falling for propoganda. Are you wasting your time fighting feminists because it’s easier to attack women than to stand up to your oppressors?

I’m very proud of myself and the woman that I am, and the activism I do (which.. is not on tumblr). I hope you can find the things that make you deeply proud of yourself as an individual, and that you live in accordance with your own values.

#hell yes #this is so good #gender #gender ideology #trans cult

harry-potter-source

Happy 60th Birthday to the genius J.K. Rowling.

#queen #jkr #hbd

my-feminine-rage

sometimes I really do snap myself back into perspective with the realization that I'm a very small fraction of women in the world who have these freedoms in 2024

#yes #hope and despair #simultaneously

wowbright

Friendly reminder that you're not required to publicly take sides in any geopolitical conflict you don't understand.

minyardlumberyard

tags too good to leave in tags @hyperrbolic-orange

anxiette

also way too valuable to leave in tags! from @carolinanadeau

#yes this #so tired of people saying silence is complicity #or you'll be on the wrong side of history if you don't speak up #or whatever #there is so much complexity in the world that can't be summed up in a meme or a video on social media #so don't try to make me do it

aizenat

If you remove the desire to have children from your “must do/life accomplishment” list, I’m realizing how much slower life can be as a result. Like you don’t have to rush to find someone to settle down with or have your life in order by 25 if having kids before x age isn’t a concern.

No wonder we’re all rushing when there’s this time limit.

If you stop planning for children, you have all the time in the world to get your degree, get your license, fall in love, make mistakes, etc. I’m just now realizing how this pressure to have kids is at the core of youth obsession, the aging out of women from certain spaces (especially beauty/aspirational type spaces), and just the overall timeline obsession we have.

If you take kids out of the equation, there are no timelines. Just lives to live. Childfree isn’t just a choice some women make; it’s true freedom from everything our society tells us to prioritize and how to live. Literally none of it matters when having children is never your goal.

#yes!!!#my life has changed pace in such an incredible way #i never wanted kids anyway but i got a bisalp and it was literally lifechanging #just knowing that's never a threat on my mind

majchic

A legal fighting fund for women protecting their sex-based rights

boudicasdaughter

i just love her so much

#incredible!!!#jkr #women #sex-based rights

nightshadeenthusiast

They have Zero critical thinking skills

#lol i still get this all the time #“you know that's a conservative view right?”#on what fucking planet are these “conservative” views

kittyit

#women #memorial day #feminism

odd-birdie

feministblr i have to talk about adriana smith, the woman who is declared brain dead and yet being kept alive by the state of georgia because she is pregnant.

i am certain i don't need to tell you that this is so many levels of horrid, but beyond reproductive freedom, beyond bodily autonomy - and both of those things are critical - this is such an offense to human (and specifically female) life. it is the ultimate reduction of female existence to the capability to bear children. adriana smith is not able to consent to this - she isn't able to consent to anything at all. her family wants her to pass peacefully and mourn her as she was in life, not as an incubator being held hostage by the state. if she were a man, she would be considered legally dead under georgia law - but they are willing to warp even the definition of life to exploit a black woman as an object for the state.

A hospital is using a breathing tube and other measures to keep a brain-dead Georgia woman's body functioning because she is pregnant.

pumpkincurryelote

If you are brain dead, you are not alive. There's not a person in there anymore. She is now a mechanized corpse.

#unbelievably fucked up #on so many levels #forced birth #this shit is maliciously cruel and evil and they know it #“pro-life” my ass

greenishness

As part of her social media detox this girl on YouTube made herself do one hour of understimulating tasks every day and she just counted rice for 60 minutes straight because its no different from doomscrolling in terms of wasted time

greenishness

When I say this changed my life. Every time I'm on my phone I ask myself Is this different from counting rice for one hour ? and if the answer is no I go find something else to do. It works well because it's not about conforming to productivity standards or about moralizing digital hobbies it's just an honest reflection on whether tomorrow I will be glad I spent my time this way and then acting accordingly. The rice paradigm

#i actually love this #what a brilliant idea #social media is a scourge #and yes i get the irony