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Gender Critical

Unnamed post (gender non-conformity) [LINK WORKS]

Unnamed post (satire) [LINK WORKS]

‘‘Brain sex masterpost’‘ 1 [LINK WORKS]

‘‘Deconstructing the ‘‘brain sex theory’‘ (’‘Brain sex masterpost’‘ 2) [LINK WORKS]

‘‘Open letter to transgender activists’‘ [LINK WORKS]

‘‘Critiques on gender identity’‘ [LINK WORKS]

Unnamed post (defining womanhood) [LINK WORKS]

Unnamed post (pronouns) [LINK BROKEN]

‘‘25 Questions for Transgender Activists’‘ [VIDEO ARCHIVE]

Unnamed post (gender neutral language) [LINK WORKS]

Unnamed post (’’gender euphoria’’) [LINK WORKS]

Unnamed post (self-identification) [LINK WORKS]

Gender Dysphoria

‘‘Gender Dysphoria in children’‘ [LINK WORKS]

‘‘Autogynephilia: Subvariants and Etiology’‘ [LINK WORKS]

‘‘Autogynephilia: Misconceptions Addressed’‘ [LINK WORKS]

‘‘The HSTS versus the AGP’‘ [LINK WORKS]

‘‘Sexuality, Gender Dysphoria, and Autogynephilia’‘ [LINK WORKS]

Feminism

‘‘Political Lesbianism’‘ 1 [LINK WORKS]

‘‘Compulsory Heterosexuality’‘ (’‘Political Lesbianism’‘ 2) [LINK BROKEN]

‘‘Critiques of body positivity’‘ 1 [LINK WORKS]

‘‘Critiques of body positivity’‘ 2 [LINK BROKEN]

‘‘Men want non-consensual porn’‘ (’‘Critiques of pornography’‘ 1) [LINK WORKS]

Unnamed post (religion) [LINK WORKS]

‘‘Anti-prostitution masterpost’‘ 1 [LINK BROKEN]

‘‘Cotton ceiling masterpost’‘ [LINK BROKEN]

Unnamed post (beauty standards) [LINK WORKS]

Misc.

‘‘Critiques of neo-atheism’‘ [LINK WORKS]

‘‘Islamophobia’‘ [LINK BROKEN]

‘‘Critiques of veganism’‘ 1 [LINK WORKS]

‘‘Critiques of veganism’‘ 2 [LINK WORKS]

‘‘Debunking Myths about Jewish History’‘ [LINK WORKS]

#reference #archive #ref #sources #juno speaks #girlsfrommars #resources #gender critical #op is a terf

woman-respecter

maybe the reason you are dismissed as conspiratorial and antisemitic is because you are!

like yes, sept 5 was about israel related topics, i will give you that one. the brutalist primarily takes place in america but does have characters make aliyah. emilia perez apparently had a character get surgery in tlv and that’s it. so i guessss if you’re particularly conspiracy brained you could make this argument. nevermind that the brutalist has been in development since 2018, five years before this current war began. but ok.

but a real pain? a movie about jewish americans on a jewish history trip in eastern europe that never mentions israel afaik? methinks you just have trouble with stories about jews in general if you’re calling that propaganda…what’s the word for people who feel that way about jews? oh right, antisemites.

and don’t even get me started on lee. this claim isn’t antisemitic so much as it is downright bizarre. i have never heard of this movie but it seems to be a sept 2023 (note that that is before oct 2023) british ww2 movie about an american (non-jewish) journalist that doesn’t seem to even focus on the holocaust much? like how are you drawing the conclusion that that is pro-israeli propoganda? this person’s brain must be more worm-eaten than rfk…

homochadensistm

"as a Lebanese person whos family fought Zionism" explains so much, because this type of limbless brainrot can only be caused by a specific brand of beepers

wild-eyedsoutherngirl

Me in college to the then current tumblr gender discourse: yeah! Pizza rolls over gender roles! Anyone can wear any color! Just be yourself without worrying about gender roles!

Me at 33 to the current tumblr gender discourse:

kiefbowl

What about amateur porn or drawn erotica?

"amateur porn" is mostly a marketing term. it's meant to convey an idea that the porn is "homemade." but what stops people from just producing and marketing content that looks like that? especially since the idea has been pushed successfully that this is "more ethical porn." That is capitalism 101 - find a market you aren't capturing, make them a product they'll buy.

Even in the event it's not actually a production by a studio, you cannot verify that the porn you're watching is not a woman in an abusive relationship with a pimp. Boyfriends become pimps all the time. I think people have this idea that pimps are caricatures that pop out of the ground organically and fully formed, like some sort of mythological "bad guy," and don't stop to think that any opportunistic man (or woman) can become a pimp easily by just having access to a vulnerable woman. If someone enjoys porn, I think it's easy and worthwhile for them to have a disconnect between what "real abusers" do and what happens in a mythical porn setting that's more convenient to imagine. Yet do you need to look far to find examples of couples either A) joking how much money they could make if the wife would get on OF B) fighting because the husband wants the wife to get on OF to increase their revenue and she doesn't or C) just flat out admitting the wife is on OF and how much money it brings to the table? Besides the fact that in any one of these situations, this could be a covert marketing tactic by OF working with a couple, but even if it's not...why believe in scenario C that the husband is just some good guy and this is just some normal situation they fell into? The difference between scenario C and a pimp is what? They're being public about it by framing it a certain way? Well if that makes the public normalize it, why wouldn't "real" pimps just take that lead and do the same? My point is that there is no distinction: a man (whether it's a stranger, a friend, a dad, a husband, a boyfriend) exerting control over a woman by making her perform sexual acts for his own profit is a pimp, and I don't see why we should trust the way he frames it publicly, even if he says "I'm just a progressive husband who isn't jealous and loves that my wife shakes ass online for our family" or whatever gets people to go "cool! I will not questions this."

I'm sure you're asking in good faith anon, so this isn't directed specifically at you, but often when porn watchers are engaging in debate about porn, they'll start bringing up things like 'drawn erotica' as if it's some sort of gotcha. To me, it's so revealing how little they care about the arguments presented about the harms of the porn industry because yes, obviously drawn erotica is different than filming real humans having sex. It also reveals some sort of assumed bias that the person presenting objections to porn without appealing to religious morality or puritanical ideas about sex are somehow being deceitful, because once "victimless porn" is brought up, they'll be unable to lie and their true nature will be reveal because they'll have some thinly veiled excuses about how drawn porn is obviously just as bad, because it's so sexy! Drawings of people having sex or being naked and sexual are not above criticism in how they replicate harmful ideas about sex, sexuality, and gender - but they also aren't literal forms of violence against real people. So, it's irrelevant to the discussion of vulnerable people being pushed into porn to perform sexual acts against their will to a point of ruination. If someone feels comfortable continuing to watch and masturbate to after it's been explained to them, I don't see why any thoughts I have on erotic written or drawn or otherwise really matters. They can't be convinced through that avenue, they are probably willing to take whatever thread they can pull on to justify their consumption and to assuage their conscience over watching porn. That to me signifies a porn addiction, because even a casual viewer of porn who's never come across any anti-porn arguments knows they can live without porn, knows they don't need to defend it tooth and nail, and will not play stupid about comparisons to real people having sex on film/enacting violence on each other to erotic drawings.

At the end of the day, re: erotica, I would need to take each thing of media in it's own right and judge it for itself (like all film, books, and art). If it simply replicates pornographic images, i.e. the film language of porn that I take issue with vis a vis misogyny and violence against women, then yeah I'm going to have a problem with it. Not because it's sexual, but because it's content is disagreeable to me in that is misogynistic. The scale for that is going to be sliding - the difference between a causal representation of unexamined gender dynamics and extremely violent CSAM is huge. I don't take issues with people finding, say, mild 18th century drawings titillating as much as I take issues with people acting entitled to violent images as if their masturbation depends on it and they're entitled to masturbate to whatever they want. Why? I masturbate to my imagination all the time. It's literally the easiest and most natural thing to do. If someone can't, it's probably because they're addicted to porn. If desperate poor women being pushed into drugs to continue making porn that becomes increasingly violent doesn't stop someone, then maybe I should ask them to get angry at porn for altering their brain so badly. That's how desperate people sound when they say they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel in the face of facts about violence, poverty, suicide, and abuse.

mymy4442

I just read that Donald Trump and his circus took down a website called reproductiverights.gov

This was a website to help women learn about their reproductive rights in the US and to find health care.

This is absolutely disgusting so I’ll share in this post some resources in case you need them:

Links to websites of groups that study or provide information about contraception and birth control.

Browse resources for accessing abortion care: find providers, get information and advice, access abortion funds, legal advocacy and more.

Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill op

The National Abortion Federation (NAF) is the professional association of abortion providers in North America. We believe that women should

Call our legal Helpline if you or someone you know has been arrested or is being investigated for an abortion or pregnancy loss.

Resources Archives - Center for Reproductive Rights

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn

capricorn-season

fangorn-forest

scientists are in labs right now creating the thinnest and worst material known to mankind so they can make women’s clothing

gendercritics

wokies: you are not immune to propaganda

also wokies: porn is ACTING, women love to be violently fucked on camera by men they met 30 minutes prior, nothing bad ever happens in the porn industry and if bad things do happen it’s an isolated incident. they even say at the end of the video that they consented! i am very smart

ryujins-shoulders-deactivated20

Don't forget, media has the power to shape your worldview, but not porn !!!

flintenweib

some random cartoon is problematic for having no demisexual aromantic representation but the way porn portrays women, poc, teens, lgbt people is perfectly fine

antiporn-activist

I love all three of you

anti-porn-unicorn

OnlyFans star Lily Phillips documented sleeping with over 100 men in one day in a new documentary and has plans for a larger goal in the nex

I don’t even know what else I can say anymore. This is self harm. She talks about dissociating during it. She’s traumatizing herself and men adore it. Because porn isn’t sex, it’s just misogyny.

terffanypollard

I saw this article posted on Facebook. It was full of nothing but men laughing at her.

freak-nation

pineapplecake555

Middle aged man notices that regressive stereotypes play a huge role in gender ideology and when he sees a woman that fails to be sufficiently feminine he asks for pronouns. The fact that “sufficiently feminine” for gender ideologues is identical to the standards for middle aged men is of no concern.

Misogynist idiots rejoice that sexist man can single out GNC appearance in women!

fizzle-wizz13

95% of women in prostitution want to leave, but can't because they don't have things such as financial means, healthcare, housing, treatment for addiction, or job training.

this is not a 'choice', and it is not 'empowering'.

there is no consent when a woman is fearing for her life.

capricorn-season

vegantinatalist

Yet more demonstration on how any rights gained, can again be lost.

Never let your guard down, don't assume the future will be better, and DO NOT PROCREATE.

r2x2

moth-grrrl-mavis

Abandonware should be public domain

tricksterlamb

hey there, i'm currently working on a feminist website and i'm looking for the help of other women to give their feedback, their opinions, and advice/expertise. the site is not published yet but it is in the development stage, and i would really like as much help as i can get as i have big plans for it and what it sets out to accomplish.

this is a website that aims to promote activism, raise class consciousness, support women of all backgrounds, organize events, share resources, and build community. there is a serious lack of infrastructure in feminist spaces and having us all shouting into the void on social media is antithetical to true feminist action. this website aims to act as a hub for ALL the wonderful resources the women on here post on their blogs, for ease-of-access and the sake of decentralization. this website also seeks to mitigate the amount of discourse and in-fighting within the community in favor of encouraging direct action, change, and connection.

please interact with this post or send me a message if you:

are tired of social media interfaces and would be interested in meeting with other feminists, online and in-person

create feminist art, zines, music, media, graphics, etc.

would be interested in participating in or conducting a workshop for feminist consciousness raising or skill building

know back-end coding

would be interested in contributing whatever you can to a project like this

do not hesitate to ask questions about the project, and reblogs for visibility are very much appreciated.

thanks for reading!

certaintraveler75

I would loveeee to meet up with more people irl and figure out how we can support women directly.

sapphicgem

hi, i know you’ve made a few posts about kpop in the past and you push help for south korean women. yesterday a freshly 19 year old kpop idol gaeun from the group ‘madein’ came out about her sa story, stating that her CEO groped her, assaulted her and kissed her without consent. she only just turned 19 so this would have been happening between the ages of 17-18, and she also started training under his control as an early teen. i hope radblr can pick up on this story as it has only been passed around in the kpop community and we all know how terrible laws are for female victims in korea, and i am scared that anti-feminist korean men will try to hurt gaeun for speaking out.

hey! sorry it took me a couple days to get around to this. i definitely have been hearing a lot about this situation :(

this is gaeun oh (오가은) from MADEIN, a new group that just debuted a few months ago. the group is under 143 ent.

this is one of the CEOs of the company, yong-hak lee (이용학). i couldn’t find too many pics of him online, and every single article that talks about this case says “143 ent CEO” rather than his name. SAY HIS NAME.

very recently, gaeun made a statement to the press about being sexually assaulted by this man. below is the segment of her talking about it + translation. originally her identity was private, but not long after this segment she cleared her social medias and dropped out of the group. the company is also claiming that gaeun “initiated” the assault and are victim blaming her.

this is the response the company gave after the news segment broke. they are dodging responsibility, blaming the victim, and are facing a lot of backlash.

just yesterday, they announced that gaeun will be leaving the group. i’m happy she is free from that horrible company, but i’m appalled at the lack of accountability and am concerned for the other girls still under their control.

a lot of people have also been questioning the CEO’s previous actions after this news. one instance is this interview clip of one of the other members, miyu, saying that the CEO often “confesses his love for her” by telling her “miyu, daisuki (i love you). you know that right?”. this is played off as a joke in the clip as she asks the CEO to limit his confessions instead of doing it “every day”, but the behavior is questionable regardless.

it should also be noted that miyu is japanese, and the idea of confessing to a japanese girl by saying “daisuki” is fetishized by some korean men. (i’ve added a twitter link to the clip because tumblr won’t let me add multiple videos to a post).

x.com

this article also highlights other questionable behavior; apparently the CEO often brings the members to “late-night movies” and punishes them for not complying. he has also threatened them not to speak about this issue.

he clearly has a pattern of pedophilia and abuse of power. he needs to be taken down. i doubt this case will ever make trial under korean law, but we can at least put enough pressure on him that he quits the company and the k-pop industry entirely.

you can tweet them at @GTMNY143. there are also some petitions, but i doubt they will do much unless you are residing in korea. just don’t stop speaking about this issue, and stop listening to all music produced by this company if you do listen to them (MADEIN, iKON, limelight).

kittie0o-deactivated20250523

i’m not afraid to say that many cultures are deeply rooted in misogyny, including my own. im half nigerian and there’s an expectation that women kneel before men and elders, sit in the kitchen while the men talk, and serve the men before anyone else. perhaps it’s why i’m so distant from my dad’s side, i won’t kneel before anyone

killallxys2-deactivated20250216

It's all cultures tbh. Wherever there is a male, there is misogyny.

niiwa-angel

@killallxys2 but there are certainly different levels of misogyny and I think acknowledging that is part of going forward. Western women face less forceful misogyny than women in North Africa or the Middle East. It's an expectation that little girls will receive the same education as little boys in Western society, same schools, same teachers, same curriculum, everything. Little girls in western societies aren't being held down while their clitorises are cut off. Little girls in Western society are raised with the expectation that they will have a career one day, little girls in places like Nigeria aren't. Average age of marriage for a woman in North America is 28. In most North African countries, it's late teens or very early twenties. In the Middle East, it's 18.

Saying all cultures are misogynistic is absolutely true, but they aren't on the same level. We in the West can both recognize that there is more work to do towards female equality while also recognizing that we have it better than women in developing nations.

kittie0o-deactivated20250523

exactly! for example, fgm is insanely widespread in places like somalia where it’s estimated that near enough to 98% of women aged 15-49 have undergone fgm. that doesn’t discredit how prevalent misogyny is in other countries however in historically traditional or overtly religious cultures, women are insanely mistreated. again, in nigeria (where my father is from), 43% of girls are married before 18. luckily, my father thinks that to be an archaic practice however it’s still his belief that i should be married and he should be the one to plan my wedding. he also thinks there should be a bride price.

women everywhere experience misogyny and persecution however i don’t see women in non-western culture advocated for enough !!

selkie-on-land

THIS !!! 👆

musingsunderstarlight

@niiwa-angel everything OP has said is right, but I find it odd that you chose to talk at length about the West on a post that didn't even mention the West at all. Technically, her wording in the original post could be more accurate. She said “many cultures are deeply rooted in misogyny” which implies that there are some that are not. The more accurate way to put it is that many cultural practices and beliefs are deeply rooted in misogyny, and the problem is that many cultures continue to engage in these overtly misogynistic practices that lead to unique challenges for female liberation as a result. Cultures are not stagnant objects. They evolve and shift throughout time, and not just in linear fashion.

All patriarchal societies have misogynistic cultures by default, yes even the West, otherwise you wouldn’t have nearly a hundred men in one locality in France frothing at the opportunity to rape a possibly dead woman. The only reason why women were able to achieve the equalities you listed—some of which were achieved fairly recently and others which have not yet been achieved entirely—is because women happened to succeed in fighting for laws that helped secure their financial and reproductive autonomy which resulted in some degree of liberation from male control, most of which in the U.S. men are now fighting to reverse.

So what does this comparing and ranking of “levels” accomplish exactly? Was that goal accomplished by you singing praises about the West on a post that was meant to call attention to misogynistic practices in Nigeria through another woman’s own experiences? Do we need to compare these practices to the West or other cultures at all in order to give them the attention they deserve?

Also, you were one of the people here defending redberryterf when she was making racist and hateful jokes. Clearly your beliefs on sexism and racism have you led to believe that racist jokes are justified, and you are therefore not the best person to be talking about this issue and your call to acknowledge both sides rings hollow. And the fact that you so casually used the term “female equality” here is telling as well, because I do not want “female equality” with men—I want female liberation.

OP, I hope you know I don’t agree with killallxys2 speaking over you like that, as I believe it’s important for users like you to share your experiences with misogyny from outside the West, but I just felt the need to say something as the user who appears to be defending you has displayed a pattern of blatantly racist comments before.

I hope you continue sharing your experiences with misogyny and sexism in your own culture and don’t mind that I offered some of my own two cents. You’re right that we need more women uplifting us and amplifying our voices, but unfortunately some "radfems" on here will use us an opportunity to make dismissive comments about the misogyny we face from Western men to promote racist propaganda.

Bottom line is, women from every culture face unique challenges to their liberation, and this is a worthy discussion all on its own.

niiwa-angel

@musingsunderstarlight my point is that a lot of radical feminists will bring up misogyny in the West because, if you have access to something like reliable Internet connection, you are more likely to live in the West and therefore, have a skewed view of how misogyny in cultures like Africa and Asia can really look.

Also, at the time when I wrote this, there had been a few posts going around trying to compare the misogyny in places like South Korea to the misogyny in Afghanistan, and while both are obviously horrific, they are not on the same level. I was trying to bring up that we can acknowledge the misogyny in more "progressive" places like Canada, the UK, South Korea, and the US while also acknowledging that us women living there have a lot of privilege compared to our sisters living in rural India, Somalia, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia. My response wasn't meant to "sing praises" about the West, it was to point out that those of us who grew up with the expectation that we would know day have drivers licenses, careers, and access to education are not experiencing the same level of oppression as little girls denied education, financial freedom, and the ability to control their medical care/intervention.

niiwa-angel

Furthermore, in acknowledging that women in places like rural India, Somalia, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia face more intense oppression than women in western countries also means acknowledging that the men in those countries perpetrate a more intense level of misogyny than the men in western countries.

The men who have been brought up in places like India and China, where there is such a heavy preference for sons that there are villages with no women because of female infanticide, are going to inherit those views on women. The men in Sub-Sahara Africa who will not send their daughters to school because they don't believe in education girls are going to raise their sons with those morals as well. Yemen, India, Pakistan, and Somalia are ranked as some of the worst places for women and there are travel advisories for women warning them to be very careful there. There are videos of Egyptian men flocking female travelers and trying to drag them off. These things don't happen in Canada, USA, the UK, and Denmark.

And when men from regressive countries move to the West, they don't always leave their misogynistic values behind. Many of them still expect to be treated better than their female counterparts, they speak horribly to flight attendants or nurses. They will grab women on the street or follow girls home. The UK has issues with grooming gangs from Migrants.

And this isn't to say that Canada or the UK are perfect, God knows they aren't. But I, as a woman in Canada, am safer on my streets than the women in India or Nigeria. And it's not because of wildlife or natural disasters, it's the men.

avicecaro

hate that the conversation around women’s clothing is always modesty vs immodesty, when these are male-created concepts. “oh that shows skin that’s what men want” “oh that hides skin that’s what men want” i don’t care. men want control. is it comfortable and is it practical? thick, dark, heavy fabric is not safe in hot weather, nor does it allow you to get vitamin d. inadequate coverage in the name of fashion is not safe in cold weather. i don’t care if this pleases men or pisses them off. if your mode of transport is foot, bike, or horse, pants are more practical. if your lifestyle asks for none of that, you may find a skirt more comfortable. many types of fashion force you to constantly monitor yourself — never comfortable or practical. clothing or shoes that damage your ribs, ankles, lungs — never comfortable or practical. i do not care what men want, nor do i care what men don’t want. comfortable. practical. we are animals.

avicecaro

men of all cultures and politics and creeds assume that the female body is a sexual object which exists to tempt men, and so from this inherently flawed principle they determine either that they and other men are entitled to viewing that which they lust for, or that a woman trying to retain her honor will cover herself [often these beliefs are held simultaneously, as they stem from the same root]. however if we begin from the principle that the female body — if it can be said to be “for” anything — exists to facilitate our interaction with the world [moving place to place, holding each other, eating food, performing skills] then it naturally follows that our clothing, first and foremost, should not inhibit this objective. instead, it should be comfortable to wear, and practical for its purpose, regardless of men’s feelings either way. and in my opinion this is the only productive way to approach the issue at all.

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