If You Google "India Rape News" These Are The Top Articles That Show Up (they're All From Today Btw).

imagine if poc made white people positivity posts the way women do about men

I was watching a documentary called the “State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith”. It’s about a woman who killed her rapist (who, at the time of his slaying, had her brother in a chokehold). Something in it stuck with me.

When the prosecutor was speaking to her, he asked something along the line of, “Did the [perpetrator] have any visible weapons on him?”

She responded with, “His hands.”

Then he asks again, “Did the [perpetrator] have any-“”

She interrupts him and says, “His penis.”

He speaks again and then she says, “His mouth.”

It just stuck with me because…it’s so right. Men’s hands, especially men’s penises, their mouths, their whole bodies, are weapons, especially towards women. Men are significantly stronger than women physically and yeah, that matters. A woman has no or very little chance of physically defending herself against a male without a weapon, and even that’s very risky depending on the laws in your country. Men use their bodies to hit women, punch women, slap women, rape women, violate women in ways almost incomparable to when used against other men.

Considering how men view women, how they view themselves, how they view masculinity, how they view sex, women and girls have every right to be cautious around men and “picky” about the ones they have in their lives.

it's crazy how normalized misogyny is like you find out a man doesn't believe women are people capable of equitable rational thought and logic reasoning as men and you're considered weird if you express discomfort associating with him

they say they love insects but they hate wasps and mosquitoes

Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. (ETA: Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.)

Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here and here .

bitch is a slur cunt is a slur and I think men should face the same level of scrutiny for saying those words as any other slur

Fortunately not, but it’s good to have hopes and dreams. Hold onto those. I’m sure you don’t have much else.

“You will never be a woman” lmao it’s nice to be affirmed as a trans man. Transphobia failed successfully