Liberation

22. Female. Sociology/Law. Atheist. Radical analysis & personal blog.

[thatadult]

I used to think environmental feminism was the whitest most Birkenstock organic oatmeal exclusive “goofy white feminist” thing ever. Then one day my professor told me about how it’s a reproductive justice issue that like ¼ Black kids in a neighborhood in the south Bronx have asthma because there’s a giant power plant / waste center thing by where they live or something. And the environmental standards are so low that it affects their health and livelihood etc. and it literally changed my entire life lol. then I thought about the garment industry and environmental waste from that and how it affects those making the clothes. and I thought about who those creative garment workers are!!!!!!!!! And why their work is undervalued and the implications etc. and how this is actually in every facet of my life and not just like white woman ignoring the lives and issues of PoC to pick up bottles on the beach. Like this is serious. It’s just life changing really to realize how shallow and goofy I was being avoiding these issues.

Or rather, not connecting them properly to have a comprehensive understanding of how injustices relevant to me are connected to the environment and preservation of the integrity of these environmental systems?

[hobs-birb]

[laurierrose]

the right calls male violence tradition and the left calls male violence freedom

[gender-critical-appspot]

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/21/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-nothing-to-apologise-for-transgender-women?__twitter_impression=true

[modern-politics111]

Most Trump voters don’t want a woman president in their lifetime, poll finds

Around 60 per cent of Donald Trump voters said they did not hope to see a female US president in their lifetime, according to a new poll. While 63 per cent of those who voted Republican in 2016 said they thought it was likely they would live to see a woman lead the country, only 40 per cent of them said they actually wanted this to happen.

[radicalsolidarity]

can anyone give me specifics on how ‘cis’ women have privilege over trans women?

[gothicstripper]

I can safely use the restroom of my gender without the fear of being harassed or ridiculed.

[radicalsolidarity]

cis women have been harrassed out of women’s bathrooms for being gnc/male looking, just like transwomen have. except cis women genuinely have a right to be there.

[gothicstripper]

How often does that happen though? Are there any statistics on that? And any one identifying as a woman has a right to be there. By that logic intersex people don’t have as much of a right as stereotypically female individuals.

[radicalsolidarity]

i don’t have statistic on it, no but it does happen unfortunately. cis men who are gnc/feminine presenting have also been harrassed from men’s bathrooms. anyone who deviates from what a typical male/female looks like will most likely have difficuluties in public bathrooms.

also, intersex people are still male or female, they aren’t some mysterious third sex so yeah intersex females have a right to be in the women’s bathroom.

[gothicstripper]

Without a statistic it’s kind of hard to believe that particular situations happens more than trans people being harassed - which is a well documented phenomenon

[radicalsolidarity]

even so, this one partcular point doesn’t automatically prove that cis women have “cis privilege”

[gothicstripper]

Except it literally does. It’s one privilege we have. Where is the confusion?

[nerdystripper]

Trans women are more likely to kill themselves, more likely to be homeless, more likely to be murdered, more likely to be raped. The list goes on and on….

[radicalsolidarity]

do you have any sources to prove that?

[nerdystripper]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Trans+women+more+likely

[radicalsolidarity]

it doesn’t link to anything.

[nada-mal]

Trans men are more likely to attempt suicide.

Overall, males are more likely to commit suicide than females, but white trans women have a significantly lower rate of suicide compared to trans women of other races. Unfortunately, these statistics were not broken down between same-sex and opposite-sex attracted trans women.

Trans men are more likely to live in poverty than trans women. Trans women make up the highest economic bracket. There are no trans men equivalents to  Martine Rothblatt (the highest paid woman CEO, certainly privileged over the average woman in achieving business success in the early 90s as a man) or billionaire Lieutenant Colonel Jennifer Pritzker (who retired from the Army before women could officially serve fully in combat).

Indigenous and black women are more likely to be murdered. (But males are more likely to be murdered than females.) Disabled women are more likely to be sexually assaulted. Trans men report childhood sexual abuse at a higher rate. Again, your statistics do not take into account significant racial disparities, as well as the role of sexual orientation in increasing the individual risks of trans women, which still does not compare to women across the board.

You didn’t have any sources because you’re wrong.

@gothstripper is also incorrect because ridicule is not an example of an advantage women have over males who choose not to use the restroom with urinals. Women in the United States fought to implement public restrooms for women, then to lower the higher cost of women’s pay toilets in the 1970s, then for workplaces to offer adequate facilities to the increased number of female employees. In the U.S. Capitol building, female Senators didn’t get their own restroom until 2010. This doesn’t even cover the struggle to integrate women’s restrooms either. In other countries, notably India, the lack of options leaves women vulnerable to sexual assault, a credible risk.

Trans women have their own issues, but women do not hold privilege over them. Reverse sexism doesn’t exist. Males who identify as women have vastly different experiences among themselves and do not face a greater struggle to be seen as women than women go through without the choice in how we’re treated as women. We can start as early as gestation in documenting male privilege, when mothers aware they’re having sons eat more during their pregnancy, and the fathers are more involved than when they’re having daughters. 

[invaderxan]

Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.

Reblog to save a life?

[inqilabi]

Men do not have the same associations with sex as women do, and they never will. Even a non-traditional socialization in men will not change this in the current society. At worst, men have performance anxiety and fear rejection, and that is it. That is the extent of their fucking woes. They don’t associate sex with disgust, lack of purity, or violation of their bodies. They don’t grow up thinking it’s something taken from them or something done to them. They aren’t afraid of being used for it, being used as a tool. They don’t grow up knowing that the images of them, their parts and their orifices are masturbated to, each time more degrading and violent than the last. This allows them to have a casual non-chalant approach to sex devoid of these additional emotional repercussions that come with engaging in it for us. They don’t grow up fearful to death of sex. They’re simply not afraid.

[pussy-lemonade]

You’re a treasure

[phalloid-destroyer-deactivated2]

[hidetothink]

Gender is all fun and games until you’re actually a woman

[closet-keys]

Michelle Wolf: *makes jokes about how Sarah Huckabee Sanders is an unapologetic liar and implies she’s a traitor to other women comparable to a fiction character who helps indoctrinate other women into a hyper-misogynist dystopian society*

Men who so deeply objectify women that they cannot fathom a joke involving a woman going deeper than comments on her appearance: Wow did that bitch just call another woman ugly??? So much for the tolerant left

[laurierrose]

if biological sex were not immediately and accurately discernible for nearly all human beings, sexism would not exist (no one would know who to oppress or privilege on the basis of their sex) and neither would transphobic violence (no one could be targeted based on their performance of the gender role of the opposite sex)

[ithelpstodream]

[gay-converse-boy-deactivated202]

@literally every male politics and atheist YouTuber.

[rapeculturerealities]

Boys Benefit From Having Girls In Their Classes, But Not The Other Way Around

A new study from scientists at Utrecht University, published in the journal School Effectiveness & School Education, has shed new light on the argument — and their discoveries indicate that boys benefit educationally from having girls around. But does the practice of going co-ed help girls, too? The evidence on that side is a lot less clear.

The Utrecht study looked at 281,095 students from 10,425 co-ed schools who’d answered a 2009 survey called PISA (the Program for International Student Assessment), a global education study held by the OECD, or Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, one of the biggest global economic organizations on the planet. The PISA asks 15-year-olds around the world in 33 of the OECD’s member countries various questions about their academic performance, study environment, families and other questions. So this is a pretty global look at the state of co-education and how it affects learning, and the results show that, for boys at least, it’s a good idea to have more girls around.

In schools with more than 60 percent girls, boys saw better reading scores if they were at a school with that ratio. The Utrecht scientists were controlling for a bunch of variables, from school resources to race to the education of parents and teachers, and the results were only really explained by one thing: more girls. Boys were far worse at reading if they were in a school with under 60 percent girls.

“Boys particularly seemed to be positively affected by a high proportion of female students in a school,” the scientists wrote — and added that this isn’t actually a new discovery. A 2004 study found that having girls around shifted the study cultures of schools, encouraging better habits in boys. “Girls possibly set a more successful learning climate in the schools and classrooms, to which boys were more susceptible,” the Utrecht study suggests. But do boys inspire better habits in girls?

The Utrecht data says that there actually doesn’t seem to be much advantage for girls to be around boys in terms of academic performance. And that’s backed up by other evidence. A study done in the UK in 2016 found that 16-year-old girls in same-sex state schools (what we in the U.S. call public schools, as opposed to private ones that require fees) did better in important high school exams than those at co-ed schools. And the effects remained the same once you took things like socioeconomic status or whether or not a school was selective. And a study in 2017 that looked at the final few years of Korean high schools as they shifted from single-gender to mixed gender found that the results weren’t good for girls. As their classes shifted from 100 percent girls to about 50 percent girls, the performance of the Korean female high school students decreased, while the performance of the boys didn’t really shift at all.

[stitchingatthecircuitboard]

“Ask any woman & she’ll tell you why Eve bit / into that apple. Why she chose the universe instead / of you.”

— Topaz Winters, from “Witch in Red,” published in heather press (via lifeinpoetry)

[h0odrich]

[vladtheunfollower]

interacting with a man

[closet-keys]

[herkind]

Another advice for girls and young women: love and sex is supposed to be fun, happy and make your life better. If it’s not, if it’s making you miserable, if it’s making you love yourself less, if it’s making you doubt yourself, and if you feel like you have to sacrifice yourself or put up with things you don’t want to, you are absolutely entitled to throw it out from your life. In fact, you should, because your life is so, so valuable and you have the right to be happy. Being a girl does not mean having to accept misery and pain, even if that’s what we’re often taught. You are allowed to decide what comes into your life. Let it be happy and beautiful.