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Do not let the TRAs find out about that one Dar Williams song. The world will actually end

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Derealization Saturdays, my favorite days (Sarcasm)

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People reblog my stuff and it feels like they're riding their horse out to the next town a la Paul Revere to let people know some useless fact about me

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Please call this recession the Trump Slump.

We need to put Trump's name on this.

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whenever i feel bad about having smile lines or nasolabial folds i say out loud "some people get leukaemia when theyre six and never grow up" and it snaps me out of it literally instantly. Recommend trying this if you ever have similar thoughts.

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WOMEN'S SPACES ARE NOT REFUGEE CAMPS FOR SOCIALLY OUTCASTED MEN!!!!!!!

0 males belong in female spaces, i don't care how castrated they are

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i cant quit tumblr because i get good life advice from other maladjusted adults on here

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Born too late for Michfest and too early not to be cancelled for being sad about it

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Because women care. Sorry, that's the answer, lol.

Most social sciences have a much larger proportion of women than men (such as psychology, sociology, pedagogy etc). What do you think is the primary reason for this?

(I wanted to write options first but they were very long, so I thought an open-ended question would be better)

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Western women currently benefit from the advocacy and activism done by suffragettes to have sex-segregated washrooms, many women and girls don’t have that still. I’d even be happy with alternate methods of addressing women’s safety - like washroom attendants or secure, floor to ceiling doors instead of flimsy stalls. It frustrates me to no end that women’s desire for safety is not taken seriously.

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Out of pure morbid curiosity how does radblr feel about rpf discourse

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Tumblr I can't explain to you the extent to which I really don't think this is based on my likes

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Genuinely all I want in life is for this quarter rest to be on the other side of those sixteenth notes but noteflight hates gay people so that's not happening evidently

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Oliver Baez Bendorf, “Everything All at Once”

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According to Google Translate: "this is Yeltsin"

"Russians when they saw Yeltsin"

"womanhood is a spectrum" actually womanhood is a coordinate plane and it looks like this

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the doomerism spreading around radblr right now is actually dangerous. I’m so fucking tired of seeing blackpill, defeatist rhetoric on my dash.

“men will never let us go quietly” so? are we supposed to accept this?

there’s an extremist thinking of either we’re handmaidens or living on nudist female-only settlements and it’s divorced from reality.

but aside from the polarized thinking—my fundamental gripe about this talk is that it is literally endangering girls and women. THE WORST thing a woman or girl can do when it comes to protecting herself from men and boys is adopt a posture of weakness and complacency. gender—like the actual behavior of femininity—is fucking dangerous. yes men are dangerous. yes they retaliate when we resist. but our SAFEST BET IS STILL RESISTING. YOU AS A WOMAN OR GIRL ARE SAFER RESISTING THAN COMPLYING. you must signal disapproval and noncompliance as early and firmly as possible with men. that is one of the best ways to protect yourself. the second best way to protect yourself is with COMMUNITY.

it’s not rocket science. men fear your retaliation too. they fear miscalculating how easy you are to take on. men frequently need other men to boost their confidence in getting away with victimizing you. so the earlier you establish yourself as a wild card, the better.

you don’t have to do too much at first either. just refuse to laugh at their misogynistic joke if you don’t feel brave enough to call it out. refuse to respond to their nagging or bullying if you can. report them. share what you know with other girls. create community with them. SHOW DISAPPROVAL in anyway. tell their parents. family members. resist fawning.

I know it’s easier said than done, but it’s easier done when tried. start resisting small, but START RESISTING.

don’t wear makeup to the mall even if you feel like you have to wear it to the wedding. say you won’t watch that movie because it’s male supremacist nonsense and when people laugh uncomfortably or tease you, double down on how you’re dead ass and refuse to explain yourself beyond that. be a killjoy and a negative nancy and a party pooper. express pain when you are in pain, when he hits you, even if playfully. signal that you’re loud. that you’re ready to resist and not planning on coming quietly at any point. believe you can win, because plenty women have or we wouldn’t be here.

men’s transformation does not factor into whether we resist or not. we don’t resist merely to improve our lives as women but to save them in the first place. femininity is how we get punished. conformity is how we get weak and defenseless.

RESIST

it could fucking save your life

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