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What I post here:
Topics on feminism. Specifically, a perspective that may differ from popular Western or online views, reflecting the approach to feminism in my region, which you might not be familiar with. So don’t expect me to fit your idea of a perfect feminist.
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tumblr user that can't read: "um OBVIOUSLY pornography isn't why boys are misogynistic" -pornography's connection with misogyny and sexual violence
txttletale is a known antiblack* illiterate fool on here so I am not surprised to see her reblogging some dumb bullshit at all but this is so profoundly stupid as to come off as parody.
those who get heavily defensive of pornography are genuinely physically incapable of reading comprehension and any form of analysis. 2k notes on a repost of some moron's worthless bleating. to agree with this post you are required to believe that
there is anyone this person is talking about who genuinely believes that misogyny is solely pornography's fault (lack of reading comprehension of any pornography-critical or anti-pornography belief) and
as a result those critical of pornography are incapable of connecting pornography and wider societal misogyny
this is a strawman you can only create if you do not engage with whatever it is you are attempting to criticise (in this case a blanket refusal to engage with anything connecting pornography use with misogyny) while still professing you are Better with Better Politics than those you criticise. this seems like a general symptom of these people being unable (open the schools!) and unwilling (skill issue!) to read anything they believe they will disagree with out of what I can only presume is a fear of seeing their not at all unique branch of pornography-enabled misogyny analysed and explained by relatively normal people.
we live in a world where pornography and the acts it depicts are so mainstream that a girl was stangled by a boy her age unprompted during her first kiss. boys are asking for advice on "safe" strangulation as part of sexual education. the phenomenon is so widespread that men have entire fetishes for early pornography introduction, which is a well-known grooming tactic used by those grooming children online and offline (and is one to remember when you see pedophiles on here talking about how #youthlib they are for wanting to ensure children can access pornography).
we know there is a link between emerging sexual violence in young people and violent pornography, directly connecting violent pornography consumption to violence against women and girls, even amongst adolescents. we know how much pornography is violent. we know that consumption of pornography has a negative effect on young people. in the UK the majority of young people today report first viewing pornography between the ages of 9 and 13, with some reporting even lower. we know that pornography is a recognised contributing factor in many, many modern cases of child-on-child sexual abuse. at least these people would never advocate against stopping children from accessing pornographoh wait!
and if you want some extra baffling stupid from the notes of said post:
"it's so confusing that people who say this thing that is bad PROBABLY had this thing they say is bad happen to them??" I wonder what these people may be feeling that makes them think that their adolescent introduction to pornography was bad? could basic logical thinking help us here? 🤔 alas there is no curing you. guillotine!
but wow, what a surprise that catblanker got banned for that addition in the main post. I wonder what she's posting now?
transfem with an interest in "youth liberation" with pedophilic incestuous fetishes? fish found in ocean! if she's white we get bingo!
these people try to make out pornography critical stances as being solely Exodus Cry level religious threats and not—divorced from current pornography-critical thoughts that have made it into the mainstream from a child safeguarding perspective—pretty mainstream feminist thought going into the 90s. I can only assume because these people imagine that all feminism is third wave "women do what you want** forever and it's feminist 😍" feminism: watered down for mass adoption without kicking up too much of a fuss, perfectly aligning with a status quo where women are sexually available for consumption in all forms, where wider movements for sex and kink positivity have rotted people's brains so thoroughly that "what if kinks aren't immune to criticism" gets these people sending gore and rape threats at the sight of an uppity woman.
from that same post:
note the equivocacy of pornography with sexual education here. to these people pornography does not exist as an industry that profits off of the exploitation of women and girls daily, that allowed for the hosting of and profiting from videos of the rapes of women and girls, that kept hosting the videos of the rapes of women and girls even when they pleaded for them to be taken down. it does not exist as a vehicle for violence against women to be normalised, for men and boys to use as reference when they demand that women and girls push their boundaries and do acts more and more extreme and insist that they accept sexual violence for the sake of sexual gratification through kink. to these people pornography is as regular and "valid" as a full curriculum of research-based sexual education because so thoroughly are their morals attached to what excites their genitalia that they literally cannot conceive of what actual healthy non-exploitative sexual education for children looks like, and that pornography does not form part of that.
the average "youthlib" Woke Pedophile on here has more in common with Children of God/The Family International and their foundational systemic child grooming than they would with anyone actually working to ensure that children are protected from sexual exploitation, like those doing the research in many of the papers and reports I've linked to here.
tl;dr
"pornography is misogynistic, is a symptom of misogynist society, and also helps worsen misogyny in boys" "so you think boys are only misogynistic because of porn?"
*"um saying we shouldn't co-opt the phrase used to highlight general silence after black women are murdered is tone policing" and then framing the black woman that told you this is nonsense with citations as a mean evil TERF harassing you because the mean darkies I mean black TERFs are coming for you and you're so defenseless 🥺 is antiblack btw. just so you never forget that. we all remember that and I will not let people forget you are a snivelling little racist.
**as long as it is in line with what men already like: wear that makeup keep yourself hairless (childlike) be sexually available always lack boundaries have no agency and looove it 😍😍😍
It’s been a year volo. Unblock me and follow my account.
That's kind of impossible to do if you're anon isn't it.
Just message me with whatever alt you used to make this ask.
It only makes sense to be pro-trans and anti-prostitution.
There are a disproportionate amount of trans women who are prostituted compared to cis women. We know that women do this to support themselves, however that does not mean that this was a freely made “choice”. When the other option is starvation, the concept of “agency” is an illusion that is peddled by capitalism. Women should not be told that the trauma of repeated paid rape can be reduced down to “choice”.
The sexualisation of trans women, with the equation of women’s sexual abuse and exploitation as practiced prostitution, makes trans-positive and prostitution-critical positions seem in tension.
Once examined through the feminist critique of sexualised misogyny, one is unable to see these positions as contrary to one another. Many trans people are sexually violated in institutionalised forms and discriminated against based on sex and gender in both the labour market and health care.
To break this down: there are feminists who are anti-trans and anti-prostitution, on the other there are pro-trans and pro-prostitution. Both sides fail to recognise how their analysis supports positions they reject:
Pro-trans and pro-prostitution feminists believe that being trans is not chosen and therefore dignified and legally protectable, while incorrectly arguing that prostitution is chosen and therefore dignified and should be legalised.
When doing this they ignore that prostitution is a key institution of sex inequality, that is male dominance thriving off depravation of real choices.
Trans people challenge this very same sex inequality, especially in the “natural basis” of sex inequality. They are swimming upstream against social currents, however limited their options. While prostituted people of all genders are swept downstream by lack of choices. Both groups suffer the unequal harms of violations at the hands of a bigoted world. This world must change.
It boggles my mind how much of the mainstream LGBT movement is so uncritically accepting of the porn industry.
The amount of sheer misogyny on 80%+ of the most popular porn videos is well documented already, but delve a little deeper and you'll find many, many examples of blatant lesbophobia, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia too. People have gotten fired for being 10% as bigoted in the workplace but in porn it's just considered fine and dandy because... I don't even know why because.
disappointed that I found out you're christian i thought you were cool. religious people can't be feminist let alone a radical feminist who believes in dismantling patriarchy instead of reforming it the core teachings themselves are deeply problematic, i have no idea how you think patriarchy should be dismantled yet religions as patriarchy's most successful project should stay, viewed through individual's interpretative lens, and be reformed. should you feel any cognitive dissonance?
Galatians 3:28 tho, that’s the radfem dream
idk, when i mentioned being Christian last i think i said something about imagining Jesus as a trans guy - my Christianity is not really something that most Christians would recognize as Christianity
most of the fucked up misogyny of the New Testament is those letters of Paul and the raving misogynist who lied and said he was Paul. i don’t truck with Paul or the pseudo-Paul
the church i’d be going to had i not worked every Sunday for the past three years is the kind that has more women in leadership than men, works with the homeless shelter for gay kids
like, i’m in no way a literalist. i read the Bible as a series of historical documents grappling with some of the divine, not gods words on paper
and my beliefs are more that God was imperfect. that it took God incarnating on earth - something they’ve probably done multiple other times to learn to be a better person. that perhaps Jesus Christ was a person who “mantled” God, allowed him to experience the life and sacrifice of a politically active Jew who *saw* how fucked Roman occupation was
that His lesson was sometimes that you have to lay down your life for what you believe in, that you might have to suffer (crucifixion as brutal as it is) to make the world a better place
i also have hope. i want to make Kierkegaard’s infinite movement - i want to step off the cliff and trust that it’ll all be okay. that Justice will be done, that the meek will inherit the earth. im a Universalist - i think His gift was too powerful to be rejected
this is the Christ i love
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
sometimes i suspect God made me trans to make me a feminist. to make me experience misogyny, to inspire me to dedicate so much of my time to fighting it
Anon criticise the core teaching itself as being problematic, and that it can't be fixed by infinitely reinterpreting it individually. Then you proceed to answer them with your reinterpretation of god?
Galatians 3:28 was written by Paul. The same guy who told women to remain silent in churches (1 Corinthians 14:34-35) and instructed women to learn in quietness and full submission, and not to assume authority over men (1 Timothy 2:11-12).
No amount of you reinterpreting god as imperfect and Jesus Christ as a trans man will ever make Christianity itself not male-centric with women's subordination baked into the very core. Reforming a fundamentally broken system is not a thing. You dismantle it and replace it with something else if you need to. Progressive people need to all abandon patriarchal religions and stop giving them legitimacy and stop allowing them to adapt their bigotry to a more palatable languages.
Paul didn’t write Timothy, which is the worst of the lot
now i don’t like Paul, imho he was part of the ways the Romans defanged the revolutionary nature of the new religion - i’ll offer the apologia that Paul in Corinthians was speaking to a specific church, where there was a specific problem with certain women there (because that’s the context of all of the letters, just some guy giving churches advice. i know it’s not as historically favored a hypothesis today, but the idea that maybe the early church was supposed to be being run by Peter and James, Jesus’s brother, and mayhaps the road to Damascus was more of a political realization….)
but i personally take the epistles to be just that, letters by some guy who i dont particularly like or agree with but he does have one or two bangers
what is the “core teaching” of Christianity? Catholics, Protestants and Eastern Orthodox are often not even consistent *within* their own groups
it’s really more that Christianity is one of those imperfect frameworks humans have made to deal with understanding the divine. i absolutely do not disagree that the framework has almost always been constructed in a way harmful to women, but i think the foundation of the framework can be dug out and used for something beautiful
the idea of God choosing to walk among us and suffering, the call to take up your own cross and follow Him, these are compelling and can be taken independently of later history. i’m not going to blame Jesus for what people did in His name
idk, just have people have argued with me on here about using the term “radfem,” that it has been so poisoned that it’s not worth saving, i think Christianity can be similarly saved. IRL - i often try to galvanize Christians to act like Christians just as i try to galvanize “feminists” to act like “feminists” on here
to parody Confucius, i want my “Christians to act like Christians, feminists to act like feminists” because i think that would straighten a lot of shit out
Okay, yeah Paul didn't write Timothy. You got me, old man. On your point about radical feminism: yes the term has been poisoned but that's it. The core idea hasn't change, that women will liberated once we dismantled patriarchy. Christianity on the other hand, doesn't need the same kind of poison because the rot is exactly in the teachings. If feminists act like feminists, we will focus on issues that are important for women's liberation. If christians act like christians, then the women should be submissive. Like, what?
But more importantly, you didn't answer how you marry the idea of "dismantling patriarchy" and "keep patriarchal religions".
OP: "I've seen lion dancing and dragon dancing before, but this is the first time I've seen realistic lobsters fighting clams."
disappointed that I found out you're christian i thought you were cool. religious people can't be feminist let alone a radical feminist who believes in dismantling patriarchy instead of reforming it the core teachings themselves are deeply problematic, i have no idea how you think patriarchy should be dismantled yet religions as patriarchy's most successful project should stay, viewed through individual's interpretative lens, and be reformed. should you feel any cognitive dissonance?
Galatians 3:28 tho, that’s the radfem dream
idk, when i mentioned being Christian last i think i said something about imagining Jesus as a trans guy - my Christianity is not really something that most Christians would recognize as Christianity
most of the fucked up misogyny of the New Testament is those letters of Paul and the raving misogynist who lied and said he was Paul. i don’t truck with Paul or the pseudo-Paul
the church i’d be going to had i not worked every Sunday for the past three years is the kind that has more women in leadership than men, works with the homeless shelter for gay kids
like, i’m in no way a literalist. i read the Bible as a series of historical documents grappling with some of the divine, not gods words on paper
and my beliefs are more that God was imperfect. that it took God incarnating on earth - something they’ve probably done multiple other times to learn to be a better person. that perhaps Jesus Christ was a person who “mantled” God, allowed him to experience the life and sacrifice of a politically active Jew who *saw* how fucked Roman occupation was
that His lesson was sometimes that you have to lay down your life for what you believe in, that you might have to suffer (crucifixion as brutal as it is) to make the world a better place
i also have hope. i want to make Kierkegaard’s infinite movement - i want to step off the cliff and trust that it’ll all be okay. that Justice will be done, that the meek will inherit the earth. im a Universalist - i think His gift was too powerful to be rejected
this is the Christ i love
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
sometimes i suspect God made me trans to make me a feminist. to make me experience misogyny, to inspire me to dedicate so much of my time to fighting it
Anon criticise the core teaching itself as being problematic, and that it can't be fixed by infinitely reinterpreting it individually. Then you proceed to answer them with your reinterpretation of god?
Galatians 3:28 was written by Paul. The same guy who told women to remain silent in churches (1 Corinthians 14:34-35) and instructed women to learn in quietness and full submission, and not to assume authority over men (1 Timothy 2:11-12).
No amount of you reinterpreting god as imperfect and Jesus Christ as a trans man will ever make Christianity itself not male-centric with women's subordination baked into the very core. Reforming a fundamentally broken system is not a thing. You dismantle it and replace it with something else if you need to. Progressive people need to all abandon patriarchal religions and stop giving them legitimacy and stop allowing them to adapt their bigotry to a more palatable languages.
I want to rewrite my article on separatism, at the time it was the second thing I wrote and I think I could have done much better. Thats okay, part of writing substacks (maybe the biggest part) is just improving my own writing. But re the last reblog: a problem that happens with separatists is they seem to not understand male behavior at all. And then they will tell women that interact with men that they are delusional and brainwashed...
I dont like comparisons between radfems and incels but it is true that belonging and being active in niche groups online will result in confusion about how people interact and behave irl....
Your idea of female separatism is clearly online exclusive. Who doesn't know about who? Why are you in feminist space when you're not a feminist at all (and dare I say, male supremacist?). Your obsession with pseudoscience such as evopsych tells me everything about your "feminism".
You being anti terf and saying this is rlly funny lol
But technically, I'm not a terf
Right. You're not feminist at all so calling you FART (feminist appropriating radical transphobe) is more accurate.
it's so crazy that people just talk in other languages. and i don't even think thats a white american thing to say. like i bet there's a thai woman rn thinking "ประณาม ผู้คนแค่พูดภาษาฟินแลนด์"
Хүмүүс польшоор ярьдаг нь үнэхээр солиотой.
a lot is talked about famous men who were/are abusers but many times their victims are seen as numbers or just "the victim". i think it's important to highlight the brave women who spoke out and survived these crimes.
dylan farrow is a writer and advocate for survivors of sexual abuse. she has published two YA books, "hush" and it's sequel "veil". you can find her as realdylanfarrow on twitter and instagram. her abuser is woody allen.
virginia giuffre is an advocate for victims of sex trafficking. she created a non-profit organization for survivors based in the US under the name "speak out, act, reclaim" (SOAR). you can find her on instagram as virginia.giuffre.7. one of her abusers was jeffrey epstein.
lauren sivan is a reporter and actress. she has worked for broadcasts such as Fox, ESPN and NBC. she appeared in the movie taken 3. you can find her on instagram as idiotsivan. her abuser is harvey weinstein.
andrea constand was a basketball player, having played for canada's national team. now she is an advocate for mental health and environmentalism. you can find her on instagram as andreaconstand (she's also a psychedelic support therapist. independently of how i feel about that, inform yourself before signing up for anything). her abuser is bill cosby.
melissa schuman is a singer and advocate for sexual assault survivors. she was a member of the girl group "dream". you can find her on instagram as themelissaschuman. her abuser is nick carter.
pam dawber is an actress and producer. she was a huge part of the world of 80's sitcoms in the U.S. she is also talented at singing, showcasing said talents during the filming of different tv shows. the man who sexually harrassed her was robin williams.
monica lewinsky is an activist against cyberbullying and has a master's degree in psychology. you can find her on instagram as monica_lewinsky. in her early 20s she was coerced into a sexual relationship with bill clinton, who abused his power as president to harass her.
cassie ventura is a famous singer, dancer, actress and model. you can find her on instagram as cassie. the man who raped and assaulted her is sean "diddy" comes.
elizabeth jean carrol is a writer, journalist and advice columnist. she had a colum in elle magazine that lasted three decades named "ask e. jean", in which she discussed themes of feminism and sex. many of her writings about womanhood, sports, true crime and more can be found online. she was sexually abused by donald trump.
bobbie phillips is an animal advocate, actress and martial artist, known for performing her own stunts and fighting scenes. during her 20s and 30s she was also a swimsuit model. the man who sexually assaulted her is les moonves.
eliza dushku is an actress, producer, activist and voice actress. she is also the ceo of "boston diva productions" and recently has become a certified therapist. dushku is a director of THRIVE-Gulu organization, dedicated to helping survivors of war. she was sexually harrassed by michael weatherly.
thelma fardin is an actress, singer and activist. she started her acting and singing career as a child and continues acting till this day. some of her most popular works include "patito feo" and "consentidos". fardin’s acting/singing career extends from film, to tv, to theater. in 2018 she became a member of the "Colectivo Actrices Argentinas", a collective that advocates for women’s rights and socioeconomic reforms in her country. you can find her on instagram as soythelmafardin. she was raped by juan darthés.
wendy riss gatsiounis is screenwriter, tv writer and producer. she is better known for being the writer of the tv shows "the killing" and "reign", as well as a producer for "genius" on National Geographic. she was sexually harassed by dustin hoffman.
kim saeron was a model and actress. she started her career as a child and had big roles both on tv and film, as well as popular model gigs and advertisement. some of her most known works are "a girl at my door", "secret healer" and "bloodhounds". you can look at her, now set as memorialized, account on instagram by the username ron_sae. she was groomed and abused by kim soohyun.
delia dueñas, who went by "pepsi paloma", was an actress, dancer and model. she was discovered when she was a teen and introduced to the industry who sexualized her. she was gangraped by two of the "sotto brothers": vic sotto and joey de leon.
amanda white is a producer. she worked in "good will hunting" and produced "i'm still here", "kill theory" and "the people speak". in 2008 she became a partner and producer in iam8bit, a video game publisher and artist collective company. she was sexually harassed by casey affleck.
tippi hedren is a former model, actress and animal rights activist. some of her most popular works include "the birds", "marnie" and "roar". hedren also worked as a voice actress for two different batman animated series. she is the founder of the Shambala Preserve, a wild animal sanctuary. she was mentally abused on set and sexually harassed by alfred hitchcock.
Oh, so being a girl is something you can just drop once it starts being hard? Must be nice.
That feels like an unfair read of the post. To me this reads like detransitioning as an attempt to get back into the closet or trying to make yourself invisible in relatively hostile environment. It doesn't necessarily mean the dysphoria itself is resolved.
I want to make something really clear that I think Anti-Choice people have failed to understand that Pro Choicers definitely saw coming.
An exception for Rape, Life of the Mother, and Incest mean nothing when you have to prove it in a court of law, or get a team of lawyers and judges to sign off on it which can take weeks or even months.
Weeks a person dying hasn't got. Women are now dying. Actually dying. Because hospitals legally could not save their lives until they could wake up a judge and get their lawyers, and another sides lawyers awake and up and figured out if it was actually necessary or not. All people with no understanding of medicine, and no attatchment to the person suffering who simply doesn't want to die.
There's a lot more I could cover, like the increase in illegal abortion, abortion tourism, the massive increase in infant abandonment... but I'm going to leave it here.
People are dying. People who should be alive. Who would be alive if abortion was legal and the hospital could have simply treated their patient without waiting for a dozen men with no medical experience in another building to decide if their patient actually needs treatment or not. And yes they do have to wait. Because if they don't they get charged with murder for trying to save a life.
Your policies are killing people. Not theoretical people. Not fetuses with no conscious thought or pain. Adults with lives. Teenagers with a whole life ahead of them. Mothers with children who need them. Real people with conscious thought, with fear, with pain. People who meet every definition of personhood.
Abortion is morally neutral and women should have access to it at all times for all reasons under any circumstances including the simple decision to not be pregnant and not procreate.
I want to rewrite my article on separatism, at the time it was the second thing I wrote and I think I could have done much better. Thats okay, part of writing substacks (maybe the biggest part) is just improving my own writing. But re the last reblog: a problem that happens with separatists is they seem to not understand male behavior at all. And then they will tell women that interact with men that they are delusional and brainwashed...
I dont like comparisons between radfems and incels but it is true that belonging and being active in niche groups online will result in confusion about how people interact and behave irl....
Your idea of female separatism is clearly online exclusive. Who doesn't know about who? Why are you in feminist space when you're not a feminist at all (and dare I say, male supremacist?). Your obsession with pseudoscience such as evopsych tells me everything about your "feminism".
"Men’s homosociality is something that must be kept in check. Across the anthropological record, societies where men spent more time with women and children had less violent, more kind, men. And it’s not only a psychological change, men in the presence of women and children undergo a physiological response... Advocating as feminist praxis that would make men more antisocial and misogynistic does not seem to me in women’s best interests."
"Separatism encourages women to withdraw from society and positions of power, to give up cultural capita... Separatism in this form is a rebranding of nunhood"
Why separatism is not a means to lower misogyny
Quite controversial on radblr, my two cents. Take it or leave it, but I hope you at least find it interesting. I included some anthropology stuff I don't think most radfems are aware of, on tumblr at least
This whole article ultimately arguing for women's primary social role as regulating, pacifying, or servicing men for societal stability. This argument conflicts with feminism at foundational level. Not to mention evopsych is highly contested area of study many researchers regard as pseudoscience. I'm not surprised to find out once again TERFs are not feminists.
donate ten dollars to Women Helping Women, reblog this post with the little email truncate w/out your name or any identifying information, and two presidents
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Not interested in presidential yaoi, but I'm reblogging for visibility, as dead as my blog is. Will be donating as well, thank you for sharing.
