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[bettedavisgf]

girls with headaches… why is nobody talking about this

[shinhati]

[radbelinda]

my bf yesterday as we passed a rheumatology hospital: it's weird how rheumatology is a whole area of medicine where we just don't really have great treatments available

me: i bet it's because women are more impacted by it

him: oh really?

me: i literally have no idea, i'm just guessing

later:

every. single. time.

[woman-incarnate-deactivated2023]

[butch-reidentified]

Every fucking time I say something like this I get treated like a ~crazy paranoid feminazi~ but I'm always right

[tauforged]

why does one of these gummi worms have LEGS

[tauforged]

he’s evolving??!???!

[uumumuu]

Hnngh.. ceature

[tauforged]

MY GOD…. THE CREATURE

[just-shower-thoughts]

If Barbie was a real person, she most likely would have an Onlyfans, in order to afford her luxury lifestyle

[eschatologica-anthophilya-deact]

redditors be like: women can’t have financial success without selling their bodies to me

[hieronymouscock]

men will be like what could a woman possibly have to offer that anyone would want besides her body

[sexysnakegirl-deactivated202105]

men b like: this doctor lawyer astronaut fashion designer is clearly selling pussy

[radgoblin]

The average monthly income on only fans is $180.

Also, while looking that up, I found a reddit thread that makes me want to burn the entire world to ashes.

The advice these people gave is, “Why don’t you try to appeal to pedophiles?” Or, “Share it on Facebook so every creepy classmate, coworker, and touchy uncle can subscribe!”

[theaquaticlifewithstevezissou]

something that no one asked for but I still think is necessary: some of my favorite letterboxd lists

[theaquaticlifewithstevezissou]

for some reason this post is blowing up again, so here are some other great letterboxd lists

[anarch0possum]

how did you forget the BEST ONE

[gluten-free-pussy]

I was high off my ass last night and had this dream where I was in this dense ass forest and sitting there was a tall woman. She was so tall I couldn’t see her face but she was wearing gold and I was like “uh…hi?” And she said “I made you, do you know that?” And I nodded and she was like “I hear your thoughts. Why do you hate my creation? Why do you try to destroy yourself? I made you perfect as you are. Please don’t break my heart”. Then she started crying and it flooded and I woke up with fucking heart palpitations like what does it Mean™️????

[animution11]

[royalhans]

polar opposite of this post

[hrmsketches]

inspiration struck and would not let me go until i drew this

edit: you can now get this comic as a print!

[disillusionedmonster]

i read your bikini post- and while I agree that the industry does promote revealing clothing, there are things like one-pieces and bikini bottoms that look like shorts. Chances are these girls were comfortable wearing these clothes but uncomfortable with all the judgement from you and others.

Honestly, the way you phrased that whole post made it seem like you never grew out of the 'I'm not like other girls' phase. By going to a teacher and critisising them for indulging in clothes they enjoy and happen to be feminine, you made yourself part of the problem.

Mate, you didn't read the post close enough. Men create these clothes, which are uncomfortable and impractical, then use propaganda through the media, as well as controlling stock, to make these clothes the only option. I'm criticising both men, and the people like you who bend over backwards to draw attention away from men's deliberate actions by instead focusing on the individual feelings of women and girls, in order to derail conversations about misogyny in the fashion industry. 

Also, as you have rightly pointed out, 'girls'. Some of these girls were as young as 12. So, please do tell me why the fuck they are being sold and told to wear revealing clothing that was specifically made by men to sexualise the female form. I don't care if they felt confident in their bikinis. I care about the systematic sexualisation of girls and women, through the clothing which has been designed and made by men to allow them to have visual access to women and girls' (children's) bodies. 

You might be comfortable trapping yourself and other women in the cage created by men, but I am not. Choice feminism is a waste of space because the feelings of the individual do not outweigh the oppression of women as a class. Thanks for proving my point. 

[alittleheartandruh]

When Khaled Hosseini wrote “a man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.” I had to stop, put the book down and breathe because never had a sentence knocked the breath out of me like that did.

[sagunrana]

And when he wrote, “Learn this once and learn it well, my daughter:  Like a compass needle always points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman.”

[femclasscirce]

So for those of you who don't know, there was a march today in France (07.03.2021) led by radfems, prostitution survivors and abolitionists. The aim of that march was to denounce prostitution as violence against women.

The women of the march were physically and verbally assaulted by protestors. Graffitis were made saying "help a trans person, kill a terf". They hit women, tore down their signs, threw eggs at them.

If I hadn't already peaked, watching a bunch of TRAs and "queers" throwing eggs at Marguerite Stern and prostitution survivors from behind a trans flag - and laughing gleefully when one hit its mark - would've done the trick.

I'm at utter loss for words. Imagine hating women that much. Imagine physically grabbing and hurting women because they are fighting back against a form of their oppression. Imagine hating prostitution survivors who bravely speak out. (Bet these are the same people who keep shouting "listen to sex workers11!!11")

I am so angry I can barely put it in words. Fuck these people. I support Marguerite and every brave woman who was out there today. They deserve the goddamn world.

[olyoil2-deactivated20250812]

lookit this tik tok

[feministism]

[trareceipts]

First rule of misogyny: women are responsible for what men do.

[fingerlickinbutch-deactivated20]

Notice it says better mom, not dad or even parent

[ibrayeet]

Today in History: December 14. The Bush shoeing incident

[xhba]

Happy bush shoeing anniversary :-) ❤️🎉

[ririthereader]

I have had this queued since December 15th.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[pseudophan]

ted cruz’s silence right now is deafening 

[ink-poisoning]

i have to stop finding things out this way

[licensed-radfem-deactivated2023]

I found this on reddit and it made me sick. This poor woman is describing some seriously not normal complications and her boyfriend and OBGYN (confirmed male in the comments) are treating her like a stupid child. I'm so worried for this poor woman.

[lettingitoutabit-deactivated202]

She needs a new doctor (and a new bf)

she needs to be seeing an obgyn that actually gives a shit about her health and quality of life

and then yeah maybe there wouldn't be money wasted on a doctor but this money is being wasted by a shit doctor not a woman who clearly has troubling health issues and pain

[bitterbadfem-harpy]

I want to break the bones in this man's skull with a hammer.

[it-is-the-female-federal]

Another reason why males should not be obgyns

[emmascorner-deactivated20210606]

This one honestly pisses me off. Just another example of how TRAs reinforce gender roles.

Apparently the lady criticizing this trans woman forgot to ‘look like a woman’. What, because she’s not made of plastic like you?

Just another man telling women how they should present themselves.

[bigandstronk]

The way men equate looking like a Barbie doll to being a woman lmao. Nigga tf are we “gatekeeping”? Our chromosomes that you’ll never have? Our uterus that you’ll never have? Our sex based oppression you decided to opt into by looking like a porn star by injecting yourself with chemicals, caking on more makeup than a drag queen, and getting a weave? I don’t have to do anything to be a woman other than exist, because woman is a biological reality not a style, feeling, or spectrum 🥴 Why is this simple concept so difficult for these blow up doll males to understand? Woman doesn’t mean fuckable to men, woman is a state of being.

[mishonne]

This is what he looks like without the filters 🤣🤣🤣

[lesbihonest-art]

His voice 😬😬 it sounds like his nose is blocked and he is STRUGGLING to keep it up at that pitch.

All this plastic and he'll still never achieve what women are simply by existing.

[powerfem]

His body looks so off...plastic surgery is evil, preying on people's insecurities

[joaniecash-deactivated20230309]

Why do his hips look like that?

[inqilabi]

Whenever I see people deny the relationship between porn and misogyny, I think about how Dr. Donnerstein, who is perhaps one of the last researchers to have been able to conduct experimental research on porn before it was curtailed for its potential harm by ethics boards, stated that the relationship between porn and subsequent aggression towards women is much stronger statistically than the relationship between smoking and lung cancer.

I remember that when researchers first established a causal link between smoking and lung cancer in the 1950s, AMA rejected it and said it was correlational only. AMA was being funded by the tobacco industry. The 1985 AMA president also happened to owned a farm where tobacco was grown [1]. Today rejecting that smoking causes lung cancer would be denial of empirical knowledge.

And yet, despite the abundance of empirical evidence on the harm of porn, people are still in denial. Forget establishing a causal relationship, people are unwilling to admit that there is even a correlation.

Donnerstein actually had to create sexually explicit material that was not violent for his experimental studies. He said that he could not find any material that was non-violent, didn’t have unequal power between the man & the woman, and where the woman was not depicted enjoying the violence against her. This was in the 1980s so imagine the porn of today. Donnerstein also testified at a civil rights antipornography ordinance that the findings from early experimental studies on porn were so compelling that research ethic boards restricted them and required that the male subject population be below the normal range of aggressive traits [2]:

 The National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation and our own subjects committee will not allow us to take hostile males and expose them to this type of material because of the risk to the community. They obviously know something some of us do not.

When people regurgitate that ‘catharsis’ theory saying that women find catharsis in watching porn or participating in bdsm, I think about this testimony from Dr. Pauline Bart on how social scientists refer to an established learning model when studying general violence. But pull stuff from thin air when that violence is against women, i.e., that violence is porn:

There were two [reports] that came out the same time, one on violence and one on pornography. The one on violence was based on ordinary learning theory, which is a substantial theoretical perspective inside psychology. And the theory is, the more you see, the more you do. 

The one on pornography, however, came out with a different explanation, the catharsis model, which was, the more you see, the less you do …. [T]here is absolutely no data for the last analysis

[radmeow]

Men are more related to male chimpanzees than human females.

[baby-feminist]

we been knew

[loatheeverythingmale]

well that explains some things

[parthenogenon]

tfw living in a world of copy machines seeking equality with little slips of paper, each a little more degraded than the last

[parthenogenon]

Copy machines from the perspective of men, anyways.

Females can differ from each other almost as much as they do from males in the behavior of many genes at the heart of sexual identity, researchers said.

“Literally every one of the females we looked at had a different genetic story,” said Duke University genetics expert Huntington Willard, who co-wrote the study. “It is not just a little bit of variation.”

[...]

All told, men and women may differ by as much as 2% of their entire genetic inheritance, greater than the hereditary gap between humankind and its closest relative -- the chimpanzee.

“In essence,” Willard said, “there is not one human genome, but two -- male and female.”

[...]

Until now, researchers considered the shuffle of sex chromosomes at conception a simple matter of genetic roulette.

The chromosomes that dictate sexual development are mixed and matched in predictable combinations: A female inherits one X chromosome from each parent; a male inherits an X chromosome from his mother and a Y chromosome from his father.

To avoid any toxic effect from double sets of X genes, female cells randomly choose one copy of the X chromosome and silence it -- or so scientists had believed.

The new analysis found that the second X chromosome was not a silent partner. As many as 25% of its genes are active, serving as blueprints to make necessary proteins.

To investigate this variation, Carrel and Willard isolated cells from 40 women and measured the activity of hundreds of genes to see whether those on the second X chromosome were active or silent.

Although those extra genes were supposed to be turned off, they found that about 15% of them in all female cells were still active, or in the terminology of genetics, “expressed.” In some women, up to an additional 10% of those X-linked genes showed varying patterns of activity.

“This is 200 to 300 genes that are expressed up to twice as much as in a male or some other females,” Willard said. “This is a huge number.”

Researchers were surprised that they found so many unexpected differences in the behavior of the one sex chromosome that men and women share.

Though there is dramatic variation in the activation of genes on the X chromosomes that women inherit, there is none among those in men, the researchers reported.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-17-sci-xchromosome17-story.html

Just one of the many reasons to stop worrying about men. As above so below, micro is macro, etc. Pay attention and you’ll see the way this echoes throughout society, culture, etc.

If we’ve tried it with men once, we’ve tried it with men a thousand times. Observe the result, and move on.

You all know the saying about insanity? About trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results? Nevermind being the same thing over and over.

It’s in working with women, for women, among women, to women[’s goals], from women[’s perspective], etc. that you will have a chance for something besides action, reaction, reaction, reaction. A chance for real experimentation, creativity, novelty, ingenuity, growth, etc.

Try, for a litte bit, to stop fussing about men. You don’t even have to fuss about other women, you can start with just yourself.

You can always get back to men later. They’ll still be there, same as ever.

[hugewoman]

@finnishrogueradfem also provided some exceptional comments on this post as well, very much worth reading

[parthenogenon]

https://finnishrogueradfem.tumblr.com/post/625805115904966656/it-works-the-other-way-around-too-though-human