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There’s more to Radical Feminism than being against pornography and prostitution (e.g.: sex trade abolitionism).

There’s more to Radical Feminism than being against pornography and prostitution (e.g.: sex trade abolitionism).

Radical Feminism has politics on ending capitalism, analyzing and criticizing surrogacy, criticizing [heterosexual] marriage and marriage as an institution, examining patrilineage and challenging it, challenging [patriarchal] religion(s), advocating for and developing a [womon’s] spirituality, criticizing and ending [compulsory] heterosexuality (e.g.: challenging and ending heterosexism and ending heteropatriarchy), examining sexuality and sexual relations (e.g.: sex critical, sex negative, PIV-critical and anti-PIV, political celibacy, heterosexual celibacy, kink critical, anti-BDSM), being against gender (e.g.: being gender critical, supporting gender abolitionism, advocating against gendered socialization also known as sex-role socialization or sex-based socialization, being against queer theory), supporting female solidarity, sisterhood, and feminist consciousness-raising (e.g.: female-only safe spaces like womon’s crisis centres and shelters, female-only CR-groups and events, remembering and promoting the fact that Radical Feminism is strictly a female-centered/gynocentric, female-focused, male-exclusionary Feminism, ending girl-hate/womon-hate and internalized misogyny, decentering maleness in our lives, language, and in praxis), fighting for reproductive rights and reproductive justice (e.g.: access to safe, legal, abortions and voluntary sterilization while being against forced abortions and forced sterilizations), politicizing and examining mothering and child-bearing and child-rearing (e.g.: “the cult of motherhood”, childfree politics, midwifery), politicizing female domesticity (e.g.: “the cult of domesticity”, or “the cult of true womanhood”), criticizing and ending [compulsory] femininity, examining the role of the beauty industries in upholding gendered and racialized oppressions just as we already do with the sex industries/sex trade, incorporating, at least aspects or elements of: Disability Feminism, Womanism, Lesbian Feminism, etc – integrating an understanding of double oppressions (or double jeopardy), triple oppressions (triple jeopardy), multiple oppressions, and intersectionality as it initially relates with the systems of racism and sexism oppressing the lives of women of color, particularly black womon.

Radical Feminism has a lengthy, complicated, contentious and intellectually enlightening and inspiring herstory and also has a very resourceful range of political critiques that provides insights about the world in which we womon are oppressed in. You don’t have to agree with everything you research related to Radical Feminism, most don’t and certain areas of our politics require critique and clarification so that we can gain more grounds for unity as womon wanting to liberate societies from male supremacy and female oppression/sex-based oppression/gendered oppression, white supremacy and racism, heterosexism and homophobia, class oppression and the ending of capitalism and [neo-]colonialism, and other systems, structures, and institutions of oppression.

There’s a lot more to being a Radical Feminist than being a sex industries abolitionist.

Avoiding other areas of Radical Feminist politics can result in a sort of confusion in which womon will claim to be Radical Feminist while rejecting key values and core tenets, such as supporting womon’s access to legal abortions.

Radical Feminism is not conservatism and although one or two RadFem stances may appeal to some conservative womon, it is their misunderstanding of what it means to be a RadFem that makes them misappropriate the politics, which further confuses others as to what our intentions and politics really are.

And there’s a lot to learn and realize and this is not even all of it.

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I don’t give a fuck about the male loneliness epidemic, go outside and make a friend instead of taking away our abortion rights.

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this year i was a top 0.0001% listener of Women.

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*hits feminist blunt*: I don't wanna ever see any praise for a man or the male sex. "There are good men out there who work hard on being good." And I'm a law abiding citizen, where is my fucking national award?

We'll be talking about the right to live as free people EVERYWHERE and you're praising a man for thinking rape is wrong? The bar is below the earth's crust. Liberation for all my sisters, not praise to some man for doing the bare fucking minimum. Decenter men from your frameworks pls.

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This is your reminder that women need over 22% body fat to create energy to function and be able to menstruate. We have organs outside of our ribcages that need to be surrounded by fat. We don't have the same bones, organs or muscle mass as men. Men don't know how women need to eat and they definitely should not dictate how our bodies need to look. There are alot of things biochemically that happen in the body when we eat food that male centered sciences haven't even been able to understand yet and we have hormones and cycles that we can't control. Just because you sexualise our bodies and body parts doesn't mean anything about us, it isn't in our control. Please men stop judging us, hating us, shaming us and sexualising us. We are the true human blueprint and to go against us you go against humanity 🥚

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one nude leak and a woman's reputation could potentially be destroyed but men could have a whole ass rape allegation and still be the president of the US.. never do l wanna hear y'all argue that gender inequality doesn't exist

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*hits feminist blunt*: wearing makeup isn't empowering, it's a mask of the patriarchy. It's so weird that you'll watch men and women at formal events and the men get to have their natural face with accents (fresh haircut/trim, maybe an eyebrow marked if they're "zesty") and a woman is only considered suitable for the event once she has 3 layers of clown makeup on. But yeah, makeup is empowering.

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males are having a mass mental breakdown on twitter bc a woman a posted a photo of herself with her PhD

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I want to participate in 6B but I have many transfeminine friends and I know a lot of 6B proponents are trans exclusionary. Its the one thing holding me back from full commitment - I'll never be seen as engaging in it if I maintain my friendships. I'm a lesbian so the "no sex with anyone who has a penis" thing is already a given, and I don't wear make up anyway because of autistic sensory issues. I'm basically already living the 6Bs outside of not cutting out my friends who are men or trans women. Its a weird place to be.

It sounds like a weird place to be for sure. Being stuck between an ideology you buy into and friends/acquaintances is never a great spot

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man hater (2019), pages 14 & 15 // full zine here

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Calling Lesbians' attraction to vaginas a mere genital "preference" erases the sheer violence behind corrective rape of millions of sapphic women. I do not just "dislike" dick, I am physically incapable of being attracted to it. My allure to the female genitilia is not a choice, it's my biological reality. Dismissal of same-sex attraction as a choice reinforces the homophobic ideology that attractions can be altered and also paves the way for discrimination. One cannot opt out of their sexuality, they are always born with it.

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i wish every woman could experience being in a true female only space at least once. a space away from men in a secluded area. cooking, eating, dancing, creating, swimming, existing only among women. no need for make up, clothing that’s not comfortable and practical, no bras, no shaving, no artificial femininity. if you wanna walk around naked you can be, no one’s gonna stare at you, no fear of a man sitting in the bush filming or masturbating. no body shaming or pointing out any part of your body. no pressure to look perfect. no need to look perfect. just existing and being enough, living without fear and in harmony with our bodies and nature.

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hello! you have an amazing blog & i adore it. i go to the usa’s #1 most liberal college, a “historically” women’s college in MA. i want to start putting up some feminist flyers, but i have to be careful not to be transphobic or i could get in actual trouble. i was thinking using the “decrease intensity, decrease duration, decrease how often” in regards to makeup/beauty stuff as a starting point. also maybe some flyers about how beauty culture isn’t anti capitalist (we have a lot of people here who are like “communist” but then say buying earrings is lesbian culture (???)). do you have any suggestions?

Hey, thanks so much! I love your goal, outreach though signs and stickers is a great idea. I think you have a good tactic by sticking to issues that are less likely to get you in trouble and disrupt your education. The "decrease intensity" one you came up with is really good. This Ovarit link has a few examples of some beauty culture focused stickers I think are pretty good, and the artist behind them: https://ovarit.com/o/Radfemmery/546589/feminist-stickers-by-52stations-on-tumblr. This second link also has stickers created by rad fem women: https://womyn.gumroad.com/.

I think your best bet to make an impact but stay on the down low is to stick with topics like beauty culture, anti porn, anti prostitution, etc that are controversial but less likely to get you in active trouble, especially if there's a precedent for that kind of thing. Tumblr has some good ideas for slogans too if you go through some of the radical feminist tags. Hope this is helpful!

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So I've taught college courses, and the really sad thing is that yes, they 100% still do that in college classes too. They think that any failure on their part is due to the instructor, and not because they wouldn't pay attention in class or do their assigned papers/work. It's mind boggling to see really.

But of course they still have lots of opinions they bring up in class, even if they didn't do the required readings that would confirm/deny their opinions

Men are genuinely so funny I suggested to a man that he do further reading on a certain topic that he didn't seem to understand and he said he would read whatever I typed for him and he shouldn't have to take a class to understand things

The genuine entitlement of men to think it's our job to spoon feed them everything, take 0 initiative to learn anything themselves, then still feel entitled to a place in a conversation they know nothing about is surreal.

Imagine walking into a class without taking the introduction course and then loudly complaining the whole time that you don't understand the class, and then, when the teacher gently suggests that you go back to the introduction, you say you shouldn't have to take the intro and still deserve to be in the normal class.

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Storyville - Defying the Cutting Season

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been illegal in Tanzania since 1998. But every year thousands of families still plan to have their daughters cut, an ordeal that could cost them their lives. The ‘Cutting Season’ takes place during the December school holidays.

During this time hundreds of girls are saved from FGM by the police, the government and the work of the Safe House. It is run by Rhobi Samwelly, who was herself a victim of FGM, and now, not only does she valiantly run the safe house but she also works with the local police to rescue and protect girls at risk while arresting the parents and cutters.

But they have a tough and dangerous job and old customs die hard. Men believe that girls must be cut to reduce promiscuity and cut girls command twice the bride price in cows as uncut girls. Girls like Rosie, just 12 years old, have had to make the most difficult choices of their young lives - run away from home, not knowing if they will ever see their families again, or submit to female genital mutilation and child marriage.

These brave and courageous young girls are fighting against a tradition that goes back thousands of years. They are standing up for their human rights and fighting for change in their community.

The Safe House is the one safe place they can escape to.

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BRITISH COMMUNIST PARTY SAYS SEX WORK ISN'T WORK

To be more specific, they say the mantra "sex work is work" should be retracted by trade unionists and society at large.

Some highlights:

Women and girls should be able to secure well-paid jobs, good housing and education without the need to prostitute themselves. Prostitution is not a genuine and free choice; it is a survival behaviour, mostly engaged in by working class women and girls who suffer economic disadvantage.

Prostitution is inherently violent and requires in and of itself the subjugation of women and girls – there is no form of work where this could ever be acceptable.

Health and safety regulation is impossible in the sex trade: in any occupation that involves exposure to bodily fluids workers wear masks, gloves, gowns, and goggles to protect themselves. Prostitutes can never benefit from these levels of protection because of the nature of prostitution.

Extreme levels of violence, rape, degradation, and humiliation cannot be regulated against as they are part and parcel of prostitution. Such levels of harm against workers in work would never be tolerated. Women in prostitution experience more physical and sexual violence that women on average. A study by Germany’s federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth reports that 41% of women in prostitution experience physical or sexual violence, or both, in the context of prostitution.

The sexual sadism that prostitutes are exposed to causes the type of physical internal injuries and psychological trauma that should never be accepted in the world of work.

The murder rate is particularly high in the sex trade. Prostitutes are almost nine times more likely to be killed than soldiers in combat. Legalisation of the sex trade does not protect the lives of prostitutes. Since Germany’s legalisation of the sex trade in 2022, there have been 85 homicides of prostituted persons committed by clients. In addition, there have been at least 49 attempted homicides.

Pregnancy and even multiple pregnancies are risks arising out of prostitution which have adverse implications for the woman herself, for children born out of prostitution, and for society itself. This should never be accepted as an overhead of “employment”.

The high levels of substance use necessary to enable prostitutes to cope with the abusive practices of the men who buy sex should never be tolerated in the world of work.

Alternating bolding for readability.

Highly suggest reading the whole thing!