I Saw A Lesbian On A Terf List For Reblogging Period Art

Imo like we tried subversively gender neutral language, we had good intentions, but it didn’t work and it’s time to try something else. The assumption that ungendered/neutral subject=male and relationship=heterosexual is just too strong under a patriarchy. It didn’t take very long at all after everyone started using “partner” for strangers to start assuming I meant a boyfriend when I used it, and I know from outing myself every single day of my life that sometimes you can EXPLICITLY gender your partner and people will just unconsciously fit it into the paradigm theyre more comfortable with. In the case of my girlfriend’s very obviously feminine name, sometimes that’s hearing “Julian” or vocalizing surprise at, as one of her uber drivers put it, how Julia isn’t “a very gender congruent name” but they’ll do it, and they’ll say “he” back to you when you use she. You don’t make social gains by using mailperson if everyone assumes the mailperson is a man anyway, you have to actively challenge Male As Default. Mailwomen or bust tbh.

There are other women like you. There are other women who think the way you think, who feel the way you feel, who act the way you act. There always have been and there always will be. Womanhood isn’t whatever shallow archetype the world has tried to convince you that it is. It’s going to be okay.

The “Stupid Piece of Shit” episode of Bojack Horseman is EXACTLY what my internal monologue sounds like 24/7

“I don’t wanna know how much money I’ve spent”

That really got me. The amount of time, money, and energy women spend on their periods throughout their lives is not funny. It’s not cool.

The embarrassment we are made to feel about a biological process is not funny. Shopping for period products is made to be embarrassing. That’s not funny.

It’s not funny when you bleed through your pants and everyone makes it a problem. Or when the school nurse shames you for needing to ask for a pad again. Or when you go shopping with your dad and he has you go get the “woman stuff” on your own because it makes him uncomfortable. Or when he starts treating you different since you’re a woman now. Or when you’re encouraged to shove chemicals in your vagina so it’ll smell like flowers. Or when you’re slut shamed for using tampons. Or when you’re hygiene shamed for using pads. Or when cramps are physically debilitating. Or when that physical pain is mentally debilitating.

The list goes on and on. And none of it is funny.

Trans identified people expect “cis people” to have some crazy narcissistic love for their bodies. Like most people of any sex raised under patriarchy have weird shit with their bodies it doesn’t make you all special

Crying at the fact that it looks like Miles is growing up too fast and growing distant and pulling away from his family in the new trailer

#equality

I first time did a post about radfem and got bullied but y’all mfs won’t silence me. I will talk again and again and again till y’all will be sick of it. Stay tuned and hydrated 💋🫶

i wonder whats it like to be normal have aspirations and motivation and not hating every second of every day of ur life and thinking about things other than what drug to try next