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Abortion is a woman's right. Would you argue that someone who has threadworms should let the worms live in their body because they'll die without a host? No. No you wouldn't. So why would you argue that a fetus gets to suck a woman's nutrients out of her and force its way out of her body and potentially kill her? It is a natural right of all living beings to eject a parasite, just because it has the capability of becoming a concious lifeform does not negate that fact.
At the moment you make a critique of patriarchy suddenly all men are black brown disabled mentally ill poor immigrant queer refugee polyamorous diabetic toothless from a developing country and all women are white rich warlord 1stworlders
Queer theory is so funny to me as African because I'll see all these people in the western countries trying to assign meanings to clothes and to pronouns and to parts of their personalities, they'll believe that changing their clothes or their pronouns or their language or their behavior will exempt them from misogyny. And while I understand that it is a condition of the System to keep us all separated, I can't help but bristle at the racism behind this all.
If any of these liberals had bothered to read, they would know that there exists many many communities indigenous to Africa whose languages don't have gendered pronouns, where clothing rules are different. Where men and women dressed the same, where the rules of nudity are different. Where men are effeminate. And in most, if not all of these communities, misogyny will still be rampant.
My community used to allow female to female marriages but all those women were still circumcised. My language does not have "she" or "he" but that did not save any of us from misogyny. My friend's community doesn't even have gendered slurs and she still had to run away when she was 11 so that she wouldn't be circumcised. There is no solution other than uprooting the whole system. Creating more categories does nothing.
if the Hunger Games were real you know you'd have liberals saying things like "it's so cool how the Hunger Games allow anybody a chance to win, it's so democratic" and "it's great to have some District 12 representation amongst the winners of the Hunger Games" and "we need to make sure that young girls receive just as much Hunger Games combat training as young boys #feminism"
I log into Instagram only very rarely. There's an account that would show on my feed every time, and for the most part they posted videos against ICE and police violence, but now they've been posting explicitly antisemitic content. They'd say it's antizionism, but don't be fooled. It's just the same old antisemitism, but wearing a new coat. I don't even remember following that account, but it turned out I was, so I think it might have been bought.
It's fascinating really, how antisemitism became so common in leftist spaces, showing people don't really believe, or even understand what they preach. I feel like humanity is doomed.
you can only think women are being discriminatory and bigoted for refusing to have sex with a certain demographic if you believe that her body is a public resource that someone can wrongfully be denied access to - a facility that everybody should be allowed to use at will.
Heads up, this is a terf post
Claiming that it’s “terfy” to exercise sexual boundaries is an extremely dangerous (not to mention downright misogynist) claim
Believing that anyone can have “incorrect” sexual boundaries is rape culture
It’s literally a post about not wanting to have sex/date/interact with trans women because they’re “all secretly predators” thinly veiled as an anti rape culture post, pretending otherwise makes it seem like you never took a basic English class
If you think anyone is obligated to give you romantic and sexual attention you ARE a predator.
Funny how trans women weren’t mentioned even once
I remember how in the 2010s we were finally starting to talk about how MOC, poor men, disabled men, etc. weaponise their marginalisation to pressure women to have sex with them, so I genuinely didn’t only think about TIMs. Hit dogs really do holler.
Reblog if you are a human rights extremist who believes that all humans are equal and has no sense of loyalty to nation states.
this is the core of why some women defend beauty standards - if they’re deconstructed even a little they have to face how much money/time they’ve sunk into them. it also exposes how untrue “i did it for myself” really is - if that was true, you wouldn’t be upset that other bodies are being uplifted
both "overpopulation" and "low birth rate" fearmongering are racist and xenophobic bullshit btw
I've discussed this before, but the issue with limited resources isn't that we have too many people overall, but that certain people use way more of the resources than others. "overpopulation" fears tend to be directed at countries with large populations like india and china, but per capita, those people use very few resources. americans use much, much more resources (not just per capita, but overall) despite having a fraction of the population that other countries have. not just “undeveloped” countries; americans use twice as much energy per capita as the british despite both countries having high standards of living. what this tells us is that the number of people doesn't matter so much as the distribution does. it's blaming poor nonwhite people for a crisis that a tiny percentage of people are actually responsible for.
fears of "low birth rates," on the other hand, are never actually about low birth rates in general, because overall there isn't a drop in birth rate: the global population continues to grow, not shrink. it's about too few of the "right" kind of people being born: white people (if you’re a white nationalist), Christians (if you’re a Christian nationalist), intelligent people (if you buy into Idiocracy-style eugenics), etc.
I would further argue that the fear of low birth rates from a practical/economical standpoint ("who will care for our aging population?" "what happens if there are more people drawing from social security than are contributing?" etc., etc.) is falling victim to the classic blunder of assuming that the 1950s were normal and how things had always been, and not the convergence of a bunch of different factors that are unlikely to be repeated. the baby boom was not normal. we are never going to have enough people to replace every boomer unless we get them from other countries through immigration.
tl;dr: if I see one more reddit thread or tumblr post with any population-related bullshit I am going to go apeshit.
I would argue that the world is indeed overpopulated, not because I have a problem with the ethnicity of the growing population, but mainly because high birth rates directly correlate with women not having reproductive rights, or much in terms of rights for that matter. A second thing, is that just because there are resources, doesn't mean it's not at a high cost to nature. "Who's going to take care of the elderly population" is only an issue because we have such a horrible lifestyle that we age very poorly, at the same time we spend our lives fairly isolated.
But yeah, it's been years since I've noticed that "overpopulation" and "low birth rates" discourses are being used depending on the subject at focus.
banning trans women from the olympics is bad because they’re banning trans women from the olympics. full stop. really nothing else needs to be added to this sentence. it’s discriminatory and wrong to ban trans women from the olympics, and it would be regardless of how this might effect some cis women. why is every post about this focused on the cis women, instead of how alarmingly transmisogynistic this is?
trans women were not banned from the olympics. all males were banned from the female category. trans women are still absolutely welcome to compete in the male category, the category in line with their sex. this is how every athlete who wishes to compete in the olympics will be treated, regardless of identity or trans status.
they have not been wrongfully discriminated against and banned for their internal identity. the olypmics possess no mind-reading machines that can test for internal trans identity. they have been banned from the female category, on the basis of their maleness, which is easily testable, measurable, and tangible with a cheek swab.
lefties will say the best thing for sex workers is to open brothels and legalize it and then when you point out how countries that have brothels have high rates of sex trafficking and rape, they have genuinely nothing to say in return. unless its to center themselves and say that their barista job is basically the same as rape
Imagine saying this while using twitter, owned by none other than elon musk. Yet another example that they do not care about what they preach, they just want to shit on women
If I hear another person say that people can change sex because of clownfish or whatever I'm gonna start talking about how women should be able to eat their children because of lions, hamsters, spiders, etc etc
I’m going to talk about how women should eat their male partners because praying mantises do it.
A meaningful and horrible example of global interconnectedness is that the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire caused starvation across the Pale of Settlement because the dead, even the youngest girls, were supporting up to several entire families each. Young girls sewing button holes all day were pillars the families and communities they left and were never seen that way until they died and thousands starved. And from that angle, every teenage factory worker in New York was like a tiny Medici in their collective contribution to Jewish, and Sicilian and Irish culture.
women cannot and should not risk it, not even once or twice. its truly terrifying
somehow missed this but omg, these teenage/early-20s young women, strangled ONCE A WEEK??
notice how women never ever get the "what if they're neurodivergent" treatment ever. where were the "before you call that woman in distress a karen, consider she might be having an autistic meltdown!" posts.
