TERFs Posting About FGM, Breast Ironing, Femicide, Honor Killings, The Violent Oppression Of Afghani

i always think about that study where they had adults hold a baby, and when they were told the baby was a girl the adults said she was cute and small, and when they were told the baby was a boy they said he was big and strong. they rated the baby’s ability to do things and tendency towards certain toys differently. they even held the baby differently. (x) or when they rated the baby’s physical ability to do various tasks such as climbing up a slope differently, (x) & when they measured how much parents told their girl children vs. their boy children to be careful and stop being so rowdy (x), & when they measured how often girls and boys were told to be quiet. (x) this was, obviously, all unconscious behavior in the adults. they’re not all like, raving sexists who outspokenly believe that women can’t do stuff or that girls really should just be quieter, be more still than boys. like its not even counting the direct, actual messages, its just literally how every single person in your entire life treats you, and if asked they would probably deny that its even because you’re a girl. how the fuck am i supposed to believe this doesn’t affect a child’s development when its literally constant throughout the entire process 

"is it authoritarian and problematic to ban the steam game about torturing and raping your hypothetical mom"

crazy how every time a female character gets cliche misogynistic writing we have to explain to people again that fictional characters are not real and do not choose things for themselves.

People be like, “Oh, you’re reducing womanhood to just having a vagina.”

And I’m like... yeah....

The fact I was born with a vulva was the entire baseline of the sexism I faced growing up and still face every day.

It’s not some abstract identity or feeling. It’s the brutal, physical reality that shaped how the world treated me from day one.

So don’t tell me womanhood isn’t tied to the body when that body has been the frontline of every fight I’ve had to survive.

I love my body, if I’m being honest: Like, thank you for carrying me through all this kind of love.

But it’s also just a body. It’s weird. It leaks. It gets sore. It’s lopsided and unpredictable at times, my back hurts a lot.

Because it’s human, my vessel, not my whole story.

But unfortunately, outside factors have tried to disrupt that and tried to make me distrust this body.

Tried to convince me it was too much, too little, too wrong, too dangerous, too female.

They taught me to flinch at my reflection and to see my body as something to fix, cover, offer, or hide.

All because I have a vulva.

A vagina.

Labia.

Ovaries.

A uterus.

Tubes.

Mammary glands.

That’s all it took.

Not my words. Not my thoughts. Not my heart or how I treat people.

Just the fact that I was born in this body with these parts and suddenly the world decided what I deserved.

Pain. Shame. Control. Violation. Comparison. Dismissal.

They built entire systems to punish me for being born with organs I didn’t choose.

And then had the audacity to tell me I was reducing womanhood by naming the body they’ve spent centuries trying to control.

So yeah I’m a woman because I have a vagina.

Deal with it 💋

I love to see the general public finally waking tf up

Guess what group has been talking about all these things for years and was demonized, shamed and threatend for it 🤔

You are either 13 or extremely stupid.

Sex is why women are opressed

Gender is how

In honor of Reddit deleting r/GenderCritical

If you Google "India rape news" these are the top articles that show up (they're all from today btw). And these are just the reported cases.

According to a report, 99% of sexual assault cases against Indian women go unreported.

Indian women are subjected to the worst kind of abuse by men. Misogyny is so deeply rooted here that honestly, I don’t think there’s any hope for us.

And the truth is, nothing we do matters. I could read all the feminist literature in the world, I could make endless lists of everything that’s wrong with this country, I could create space for women online and offline - but men would still continue to hurt us.

And my main issue is with men. Especially with the ones who understand exactly what’s wrong and still choose silence. The ones who laugh off their friends' remarks towards women, ignore how their fathers treat their mothers, and think they’re somehow better just because they’ve “never abused a woman.”

Their silence is our abuse. Their refusal to speak is our abuse.

And then there are women who’ve internalised misogyny so deeply, they defend and uphold the very systems that destroy us. That’s our abuse too.

And as a woman who doesn’t have the privilege to leave this country, I will continue to bear this abuse because I have no choice.

as a fujoshi understander, as some of you may know, i have an answer for this. it’s because traditional yaoi isn’t about gay people or gay culture, really. i do not subscribe to the notion that they generally fetishize gay people. i believe this is a grave misunderstanding. traditional yaoi is an experiment involving the removal of the female victim from the sexual regime of heterosexuality, so that women feel more comfortable eroticizing said regime. they are negotiating their place in a patriarchal sexual culture. if they can be accused of “fetishizing” anything, it is heterosexuality. if you find heterosexual norms hot, then yes, homophobia is compatible with that desire. they’re putting two men in a heterosexual relationship. they’re creating a fantasy where men are sexually subordinate to the oppressors of women, and the limitations of said regime remain intact. it is both subversive and regressive.