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I struggle to understand. If we take your ideology to it's logical conclusion, and create a world that conforms perfectly to your ideals, we have a world where ALL the women live in one place, and the men are either dead or confined to their own area, right? What happens after that? Within 80 years you're all dead. in a wholly separate society, where women have finally escaped the tyranny of men, the human race dies out. What are we missing here?

Here we go again with the "women must be impregnated! Check mate feminists! You will never be free, you need the sperm!"

We don't. Deal with it.

I will not remain under men's tyranny just to make sure my genes keep spreading. And I care more about the women living and breathing right now than about people who don't even exist.

So yes if I could free all women and girls right now at the cost of human extinction I would do it without a second thought. Our species' longevity is not worth the daily murders, tortures and rapes that women face. Why should we sacrifice ourselves?

By the way what you described is not a world that conforms perfectly to my ideals. It's just a world in which women try to be free after centuries of terrorism.

Anyway, the human species will be lucky to survive another 80 years. And not because of separatism but because of capitalism and the patriarchy. Maybe you should focus more on that if you are concerned about our survival. Less monitoring of women's uteri and more anti-capitalism please.

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really think u should all read invisible women like we should consider this a foundational feminist text on the level of de beauvoir and dworkin

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It is genuinely mind-boggling how many radical feminists defend religion when not a single religious text is actually compatible with feminism. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all consider women to be inferior to men and instruct them to submit to men, according to their holy books. Worshipping and believing in the Abrahamic god is completely antithetical to the foundation of radical feminism.

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i feel like a very basic and very critical part of being a radfem is not wearing makeup (at least not consistently), not shaving, and not getting plastic surgery.

And not because of any ideological purity reasons either. I just think we owe it to the women who got arrested for wearing pants. Would it have been more convenient for Emma Snodgrass to put on a dress each day instead of getting arrested eight separate times for wearing pants?? Probably!! And even in the end she was forced back into skirts!!! But because she did her part, now I can wear pants without anyone batting an eye about it.

I am maybe not going to be alive when walking around with a bare face and normal armpits and legs is going to be as normal as women wearing pants is now. But I hope my granddaughters and great granddaughters will be able to walk around with normal legs and and faces look at my college photos and think how weird it was that my legs were bald and my lips were red! We all have to pitch in to fight for the women of tomorrow!

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Hurray now it’s gonna be harder for women to win awards

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truly do not get it when other lesbians are like "i don't understand why so many lesbians are manhaters when being a lesbian isn't about hating men it's about loving women" sis it's not my problem you can't multitask

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feminism is a female-only space

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remember when twitter tried to convince everyone that Susan B Anthony was racist when in reality she was an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society and was a part of the Underground Railroad ☠️

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Celibacy is so powerful. Liberal feminism doesn't want you to know this because it's men pulling the strings behind the curtain, but it's so powerful.

Having EXTREMELY high standards and being a perfectionist when it comes to partners is one of the most self empowering things you can do. Our bodily autonomy is threatened on a daily basis, you can take control back by not allowing anyone who is not up to your extreme standards to touch you.

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Not sure if this has been posted yet but it's an article on jkr in The Times

It's behind a paywall so I'll share screenshots in a reblog

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Men will see any subculture and be like “I can use this to have sex with teenagers”.

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If you're looking for a good article A Socialist, Feminist, and Transgender Analysis of "Sex Work" is very insightful.

Here's a link: https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/a-socialist-feminist-and-transgender-analysis-of-sex-work-b08aaf1ee4ab

this is sooo good thank you for showing me, i tried to read it all and managed most of it, then skipped over the rest.

“My name is Esperanza and I am a socialist, a feminist, a transgender Latina woman, and a survivor of the sex trade. I am writing to you as comrades in the struggle for socialism and as sisters who have presumably shared the experience of being prostitutes. I prefer the term “prostitute” to “sex worker” because the latter is too vague to describe my experiences. “Sex worker” can include porn actors, cam girls, sugar babies, strippers, prostitutes, and others.”

”In the transgender community prostitution is glamorized. In a world where trans women of color are murdered by men of our own race and class with impunity, where men will fuck us in private but act like they never knew us in public, where we are rejected from jobs, housing, and cut-off from our families and communities, I understand why prostitution made us feel powerful. In many ways, being a prostitute is a complete rejection of all we’ve been through: fuck the man that won’t hold my hand in public, I’ll charge him instead. Fuck my family for rejecting me, fuck that job for firing me, I don’t need them anymore. The whole world can reject me and it doesn’t matter because I could make it on my own. Not to mention, for those of us not independently wealthy, usually our only option for transition related medical care is through prostitution — whether we like it or not.

But the reality of being a transgender prostitute was not so simple. What started out as empowering in my mind quickly became a trap I couldn’t escape. The longer in the trade, the harder it is to leave. I’ve been raped more times than I can count.”

“There is evidence that nations which have decriminalized or legalized pimps and johns do not see a decrease in violence against prostituted women, but an increase.”

“Workers can organize unions to fight their boss, slaves can only organize violent insurrections or escape their slave masters. There is a long history of documentation that pimps brand their women like slaves, utilize coercive and deceptive tactics to target children to traffick them, and enact the worst forms of violence to maintain control over the women, mostly women of color, that they prostitute. You cannot organize your pimp; you can only kill or escape him.

Pimps and johns do not see us as human. Take the words of one pimp: “Women are sitting on a gold mine — they got something between their legs that’s like a commodity.” This commodification doesn’t stop there, there are entire websites devoted to slicing women up by body part, function, appearance, and level of service to value her based on the ratings of johns. To deny that this sort of female dismemberment does not discipline the male psyche to dismember all of his potential sexual partners — to judge and value them based on their component parts — is to be entirely ignorant as to how culture works.”

”To think that you could end imperialism and the sex trafficking it produces through building power with unions (which is idealistic considering there is no “boss” in the traditional sense) is truly fantasy. This is part of the problem of the term “sex work.”

“I am asking you to correct your stance on the global sex trade, start proceedings to reverse Resolution #53, and denounce your unprincipled support of johns and pimps over proletarian and colonized women across the globe.

JOHNS AND PIMPS ARE CLASS ENEMIES.

ABOLITION NOW.”

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Alright now hang on. Maybe we are being rather harsh things like this takes time. But really it’s as the saying goes if you have nothing nice to say say nothing at all. I get that you don’t feel the same way we do but just ignore it then ignore us then. I mean I’d rather you listen but if you truly feel you are right then ignore tell us we’re toxic. Don’t say our genders are meaningless. Not when we die every day my our hand or someone else’s.

You don't die everyday. People who promote the gender theory for their own self gratification terrorized you into believing this. It's not true. The statistics that were used by these people concerned transgender prostituted individuals, who have a low life expectancy because of prostitution and homophobic hate crimes. Some "facts" about suicide were even straight-up invented.

You are fine, you are not at risk. But it's easy to manipulate you if you think your life is at risk. If I manage to convince you you're going to die, and that I have the cure, but that I will only give it to you if you listen to me, chances are you are going to listen and do as I say.

Feeling uncomfortable in your own body, being hurt by homophobic prejudice, feeling misunderstood, not accepted, rejected even, is already quite hard. I'm here telling you it will get better in due time, and that maybe you will need therapy, basically that getting better is long and not exactly easy. And then you have people who claim they have some kind of glittery panacea against sadness. That's called "gender", it comes with merchandise and a community of "friends" who all think you're amazing and brave, when before no one thought you were. Of course it's tempting!

But when you're finally hooked, here comes the guilt if you don't perform the dogma correctly, here come the insults, the threats. Here come the facts you're not supposed to question. You're still sad? You need hormones. Still sad after hormones? You need surgery. Still sad after surgery? Nobody cares. You want to detransition? You're excommunicated.

Then they turn you against your friends. Some people question your beliefs? Then you can't be friend with them anymore, they're "toxic". Your parents are worried about you? You can't trust your parents, they're "abusive" ! Lie to them, do what we tell you to do. Otherwise you'll probably end up dead, no pressure.

Laid out like this you must be able to see this is manipulation tactics.

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When I was in 6th grade a boy in my neighborhood used to corner me and tell me in great detail how he was going to stab me and then rape the wounds. He’s about to become a pediatrician and I want to vomit.

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“When you’re a trans woman you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody and if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you’re accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideas of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement. We trans women are made to teeter on this tightrope, not because we are transsexuals, but because we are women. This is the same double bind that forces teenage girls to negotiate their way between virgin and whore, that forces female politicians and business women to be agressive without being seen as a bitch, and to be feminine enough not to emasculate their alpha male colleagues, without being so girly as to undermine their own authority.”

— Julia Serano, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, p 28-9 (via goth-gallus)

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im going to bed for a week