feminists are rad

30, bisexual, radical feminist (gender critical, anti-porn, anti-beauty industry, etc.)

[lambdoctrines]

by ButterFaces

[juliesque04-deactivated20250806]

my fyp is beautifully curated

creds to @moidh8ter on tt

[eve-was-framed]

that case about that man drugging his wife, raping her and recruiting 72 men to rape her as well will always stick with me. 30% of men approached by the man offering to give them an opportunity to rape Gisèle turned him down, but 0% turned him in.

“natural protectors.” that’s what we’re supposed to believe men are. we are supposed to keep ourselves small and weak and helpless, perpetual damsels in distress, all so that some fictional big strong man can feel really good about himself if he protects us from a bad situation.

but if that’s true - if men really are biologically wired to feel a desire to protect people more physically vulnerable than them - how is it possible that you can get that many men to agree to rape a woman? how can the men who were approached to take part in it, but declined, not report him to the police?

how many of the men who took part in it have daughters, wives, sisters, mothers that they’ve hurt?

they get so fucking mad whenever we suggest we feel unsafe around them rather than protected, but they never have that same level of vitriol for the men who make it clear that they are our predators, not our protectors.

[2pen2wildfire]

Really hate that the queer community's response to the creation of a gender trinary (girl, boy, and nonbinary) was to... reinvent the binary. We just started grouping all genders into "masc/male-aligned" and "fem/female-aligned" and it's so fucking stupid. Even with the occasional allowance of "neutral/unaligned" it still maintains the binary as the standard. And then they don't let you use certain labels if you don't have the "right" gender alignment. The fuck.

[sapphsorrows]

here's an idea: keep sex, abolish gender. anyone can be anything, regardless of sex. anyone can do anything and dress however they want. you don't have to have surgery to change yourself. you can be as you are.

but protections for women remain. we fucking need them. because our sex makes us especially vulnerable to male violence.

[femalecel]

[angry-harpy]

But when WE acknowledge men generally feel like this, we’re evil misandrist feminazi terfs. 🙄 male suicide epidemic when???

[angry-harpy]

Bonus from the notes, basically repeating exactly what the original post said in case our silly immature lady brains couldn’t comprehend. We hear everything you idiots say loud and clear. We know what you think of us. Literally no misogynistic male has ever said something different or interesting or meaningful since the beginning of time. Why don’t you all just stop ‘putting up’ with us then and leave women the fuck alone if you despise us so much, dumbass cowards

[flowerlygirls]

men LOVE to think theyre stoic emotionally unaffected gods. until you tell them what YOU really think - then the killing spree begins.

as if it was "emotionally mature" to not care that a man you thought loved and cherished you actually finds you annoying and only stays for sex. not being affected by such a thorough betrayal would more accurately be described as psychopathic.

[medusa-strikes-back]

Men are so allergic to finding fault within themselves that they would characterize a woman's reaction to their misogynistic vitriol as hysterical immaturity before they would consider that what they are saying is horrific and would be considered hate speech if directed towards literally any other group.

[a-book-dragon]

You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences

Rather than distinctly male or female, the human brain is much more like the heart, kidneys and lungs – basically the same no matter the sex of the body it's in.

rb to make a biological essentialist mad <3

[trans--receipts]

obsessed with the ‘reblog to make a TERF mad’ people in the notes, how do you idiots STILL have no idea about the core tenants of radical feminism 😭

[thesinisterspinster]

They really dont. This actually supports what we have been saying

[meangirlpolitics]

The switch from the Paris Hilton era of beauty standards to the kardashian era of beauty standards gave me whiplash. It’s so fucked up that the expectations for women’s bodies change like clothing trends, but men have literally always had the same beauty standards basically. When I was 13, women were supposed to be stick thin and have no hips, and two years later we were supposed to be “slim thick” and it literally changes like every ten years. It’s an impossible game - if you were super hot in 2006, then it was physiologically impossibly for you to be super hot in 2016 because it required different fucking bone structure. All men are ever required to do to meet current beauty standards is be kinda tall (but wasn’t Tom cruise the “sexiest man alive” at one point?) and be in shape. Always. That’s it. A man who was considered hot a thousand years ago would still be hot! But women are supposed to radically change ourselves every decade, if we want to be beautiful. Fuck that.

[probablyaterf]

Flat ass jokes always baffle me. Like...having a big ass/wide hips was seen as SO unattractive when I was growing up. And now those same women who were hailed as the standard of beauty are mocked for the features that they were praised for just 10 years ago. I HATE IT

[subaruseventhsister]

And who exactly is especially vulnerable to not knowing what was happening just 10 years ago?

Preteen and teenage girls. They're the main targets.

[greenwire]

Women aren’t expected to change body types to conform to the new ideal, they’re supposed to disappear entirely and be replaced by younger women who do. Wouldn’t want girls to get the idea that life goes on after age 25.

[879372021566911-deactivated2021]

omg your comment really make me open my eyes...

[sichorean]

All through high school I got bullied for having big lips. Literally one of the nicknames I got was "seahorse". I leave school and suddenly everyone wants big lips, Angelina Jolie pout, lip fillers.

The system is rigged against women so badly that even if you're one of the extreme few that "win" - they make it so you can't win for very long. Either age or trends will make you no longer fit for media consumption.

[drbased]

They never do this with women. I've spent a lot of time around men and one thing I noticed is just how much they hype eachother up, and I used to enjoy the atmosphere until I started noticing something... off about this: they never do this with the women in their friendship group.

Women in the public eye never get to be legends, either. Female celebrities will never be keanu reeves, they'll never be snoop dogg, they'll never be bill nye the science guy, they'll never be chuck norris, they'll never be mr. rogers. They never get fun memes made about them. No female celebrity gets to be a lighthearted figure of pure wholesomeness; women are under perpetual scrutiny, and the moment they're ~~problematic~~ their reputation gets torn to shreds. They can have fans, even dedicated fans, but they never get that squeaky clean untouched memable 'legend' status, where they're just liked for being generally nice and cool.

It's one of those cultural double standards that goes under the radar. One of the insidious aspects of misogyny is how it's individualised; we live in a culture that's well-versed in finding excuses to hold women to a higher standards whilst pretending it's just a coincidence that it's never a woman who gets to be cool and memable.

'Cancel culture' was a pretty big blow for society at large because all these beloved male celebrities were getting found out to be abusers and rapists and pedophiles. And instead of recognising that there's not something inherent to maleness that means you get to be untouchable and pure, and maybe even having that level of privilege actively attracts morally reprehensible people, the mass response from men was to drop the pretence that they ever cared at all, and instead venerate unambiguously awful men like andrew tate.

[drbased]

@exponentialdecay *nods fervently*

[fillejondrette]

a lot of men really just seem to want to be able to victimize women without women getting upset about it. they'll say that women who take safety precautions have victim complexes, but then say the same thing about women who don't take those safety precautions. i saw this recently in the context of female travelers.

first, i saw a video of a woman demonstrating safety precautions to take on cruises, doing stuff like hooking things to her door to stop it from being opened, clipping the curtains shut, etc. personally, i don't feel the need to those things, and i feel like it's probably a diminishing returns situation- once you've done the obvious stuff like locking the door, any extra steps probably won't help you that much. but if it makes her sleep better, then there's no harm.

second, i saw a video of a woman talking about how she roadtripped in a foreign country with a couple of male travelers she met online. so the total opposite of the first woman, in the sense that she did something i think very few women would be willing to do.

the male comments on both videos were pretty similar, though. they both focused on women's so-called obsession with being victims. the first woman is paranoid, fixated on the idea of being a victim. one commenter wrote "me watching her do all this shit when i'm already hiding inside her room." the message is that women's precautions are silly and ultimately useless, if men really want to hurt us. comments on the second video contained a lot of assumptions that the second woman must have paid for her trip with sex. but many of the commenters were saying things like, "women will do things like this and cry victim, you wanted to be victimized." so they're acknowledging that being alone with random men is in fact dangerous for women. the second woman is a dumb slut who deserves what's coming to her.

i think men are, by and large, pretty aware of how men treat women. they acknowledge this with the argument that women need men to protect them (from other men). they treat male violence as a fact of nature that shouldn't reflect badly on men as a group, and shouldn't make women distrust men - except when a woman does trust men, no, that's wrong too. there's no correct way to behave that will make you a "good" victim, or a reasonable person, in their eyes, and i think that's the goal. if a woman's hurt, it's her fault. if she's afraid of getting hurt, it's her fault. the man is never the one at fault.

[vexingwoman]

men be like

[vuvaliniterf]

The real SkyNet will be a vengeful AI "girlfriend".

[thornybushybrambles-deactivated]

The more I think of myself as just another animal, the better I feel about my body. Yup I have breasts, I'm a sexually mature female human. A caribou does not feel bad that her antlers have grown in. I eat, I am an animal. No other animal on Earth feels shame at the thought of eating besides humans. A mouse does not worry if her face is asymmetrical, a lizard does not attempt to take up less space, a boar does not think about her body hair. Dysphoria can only ever exist within the confines of a human society. Who made you feel so bad you felt the need to self implode? A person? A collective? There's nothing noble or profound about self destruction, even single celled organisms want to live.

[g0dlessheathen]

This is the result of thousands of years of men learning how to psychologically dominate us in order to physically dominate us. Destruction and colonization of self

[mizandria]

when Simone de Beauvoir said that men don't respect women but rather respect other men through “their women”.... as in a man will act respectful towards a woman only if he has respect for her husband or her lover or her father.... (the same way you would respect that person's property or ideas or opinions or other things that aren't a human being)..... yeah.....

[mizandria]

when Marilyn Frye said this and it all started making sense in my head....

[redditreceipts]

So you agree? You agree that performing femininity is a chore and includes hour-long beauty sessions, while masculinity is just pure inaction and comfortable existence in one's body?

And you agree that to be considered a woman, a man has to put on pounds of make-up, while all a woman has to do to be considered a man is simply exist in her natural body?

And you agree that the whole idea of being recognised as your preferred gender rests in conforming to and reinforcing these discriminatory gender stereotypes?

[bichoplaza]

Every time you think about posting a man positivity post ask yourself if men do the same for women

[bichoplaza]

When was the last time you saw a man *unprompted* post on twitter or reddit how much women should be taken seriously? Or how women are worth more than their looks?

We're never getting out of the patriarchy if women in the women website are doing men's soft tummy posting when men have entire subreddits dedicated to getting off to women being abused.

Wake up. Men aren't willing to do 1/8th of what you do for them.

[zendayaimdb]

so let's talk about why i don't think men have genuinely-held political beliefs, and why i think men only pretend to possess morality when their ideology is socially or politically expedient.

pick an ideology, any ideology, and at its center you will find a man who implores, with his actions, to do as i say and not as i do.

you have strom thurmond, a lifelong white supremacist who had an entire second family with a black woman. you have black nationalist figures like louis farrakhan who teach that miscegenation is against the will of god, all while he has half-white children.

you have the men who run the catholic church and publicly guide morality in all things, all while secretly raping and tormenting children and paying to cover it up.

you have the men who rule the theocracies in the middle east who rail against the west and claim their holy texts demand the beheading of homosexuals and that women play a subservient role in society by practicing extreme "modesty". they do this all while fucking white american prostitutes, spending their wealth on western excess, and engaging in the oppression of their own people in a kind of autocratic capitalism that would make elon musk blush with envy.

and don't get me started on the anti-gay preachers and politicians who hire rent boys. we all know them.

you have men i used to admire, like noam chomsky, who speak publicly about the evils of capitalism and prostitution, all while associating with and defending rapists, traffickers, and industrialists in his personal life.

you have men like karl marx, who decried the manner by which labor is stolen by wealthy men, all while stealing the intellectual labor of his wife and refusing to give her credit for her ideas.

i am sure any number of male hypocrites popped into your own heads as you read this. i am actually hard-pressed to think of a single man who has been shown to be intellectually honest and ideologically sound in his intentions and his praxis.

i advise you to stop listening to men, and to stop following male-founded ideologies, because these dudes believe in nothing at all.

[zendayaimdb]

this post finally (😭) got some traction, so i'd like to add:

the point isn't that some female philosophers/activists are also bad. if you've ever read my blog, you'd know that i acknowledge women can be sex traitors, and often are. i acknowledge that more than many of you would prefer, in fact.

the point is that all major male figures involved in political philosophy are tied to a hypocritical abuse of power due to male socialization (i say through gritted teeth because i'm trying to be diplomatic, but i actually believe that men are just inherently evil). it's simple: as soon as a man receives any notoriety, any modicum of influence, he abuses his power.

that really matters for leftist figures, for obvious reasons.

[sichorean]

So tell me more about how women "manipulate the police and courts" and how "women lie about being abused and get believed and men get put in prison for 20 years over false accusations"

He set her on fire after she begged several police stations for help and nobody took her fears seriously

(Despite him having a history of violence, a history of mental health issues, and a court order telling him to stay away from her and her children, which he ignored, which are all warning signs that SHOULD have been listened to)

Tell me more about how totally innocent men get punished by this "unfair system"

[greenwire]

Andrea Dworkin once wrote, "You won’t ever know the worst that happened to Nicole Brown Simpson in her marriage, because she is dead and cannot tell you. And if she were alive, remember, you wouldn’t believe her." And that last sentence is true of every woman who died at the hands of her husband.

If you're a woman, the police are not set up to favor you. The courts are not set up to favor you. Men are not your protectors and they are not your providers. If you believe men's lies about these things, those men will laugh in your face and behind your back about what a fool you are to believe them.

[terfarchive]

“sex isn’t binary!” if sex weren’t binary, disorders of sex development wouldn’t be disorder. but guess what - they are! there are in fact adverse effects of DSDs that range from cosmetic concerns such as a webbed neck, fingers, or undescended testes to profound intellectual disability and premature death. if sex weren’t a binary, there would be no reason for DSDs to have an adverse effect on the human body - but they do.