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Here's an FGM survivor's response to that girl on TikTok who claimed "people focus on FGM so much because they want to tie women's oppression to genitalia so they can exclude transwomen."

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not to worry mutuals, I’ve recruited a halfling to detect any and all spike traps on your dashboard, just make sure not to scroll too fast so he has time to find them

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it deeply saddens me how easily people believe that the radical change they desire can be achieved through Not Doing something, e.g. not voting X, not voting at all, not leaving your house, etc.

humans are lazy, even the best of us, and when the discussion is so focused on what Not to do it's so easy and so tempting for a human brain to assume that you can do your honest part just by Not Doing the thing, even if in theory you agree that action is still necessary and complementary with Not Doing

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Referring to where you live most of the time

If you see this post before the 16th, reblog it. Gotta share to get more votes.

If you see this post after the 16th, check the notes for a followup poll and reblog that version instead.

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Not to sound like an individualistic asshole but maybe couples who want a village to help them raise their children should build that village with other like-minded people before they have the children instead of expecting female friends and relatives to automatically be there, especially the childfree ones.

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My Life Changed When I Discovered Peer-to-Peer File Sharing at Age 10 by heart__rot

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Acrylic on Canvas

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We make an even better trio. ↳ Doctor Odyssey

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1.01 Pilot

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they were really like

episode 6: the moral of the story is that hetero monogamous norms WILL kill you. here is the suicide hotline in case you have been afflicted by hetero monogamy

avery/max/tristan: okay 🫡 noted we won’t do that

episode 7: being your authentic self is fun and freeing and you may go through hard times but the people who love you will love you through it

max and tristan: well we WON’T be doing THAT. if I have good things in my life I might die

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synthetic snow - a comic about a far future ski competition that turns girls into snow.

what to say about this comic. i wish i hadn't made it, i'm not happy with it. i had a tendonitis flare up while working on this comic, in retrospect it was not worth push through that pain, i made it so much worse. i feel tingly pins and needles in my hand just looking at it. i suppose, after a year, i accept this comic. i don't hate it and i don't want to bury it forever.

anyway, thanks for reading!

-madeline❄️💖

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i think a better way to frame 4B is that it’s like quitting smoking. you make the choice to give up cigarettes, even if it’s hard, in order to enhance and extend your life. it’s not going to destroy the tobacco industry, but if enough people quit, it may seriously damage it. 4B is the exact same. you decenter men for your own quality of life, even you can’t singlehandedly topple the patriarchy in doing so.

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while we’re all publicly critiquing the “male loneliness” hysteria i want to mention that the “men’s mental health!!!” handwringing is a part of it. which is not to say that I am not empathetic to the mental health struggles of men as individuals. my wish is for everyone to have access to quality mental health care, and for people in the depths of mental illness to find support and get better.

But it’s frankly a disservice to women and everyone else to frame “men’s mental health” as a uniquely urgent social issue. I’m not going to unpack all of the statistics right now, but suffice to say men’s mental health issues are not inherently worse or more prevalent than anyone else’s. In fact, women suffer from depression at higher rates than men.

Yet women’s collective mental health does not generate mass concern or rhetorical pandering like that of men, because:

(1) our society at large does not encourage/reward collective empathy for women the way it does for men. conversely, efforts to talk about women’s issues are often treated as suspect and met with overwhelming anti-feminist backlash.

And (2) women’s mental health cannot be dredged up as an apolitical scapegoat for things like mass murder and sexual violence. because women as a group, despite suffering from equal or greater mental health struggles, do not commit those crimes at nearly the same rates as men. And when they do, no one is saying “but she was depressed” or “we should have been nicer to her” or “if only he hadn’t rejected her.”

And all this lip service to “men’s mental health” does not address or even attempt to address the explicit radical misogyny that these disaffected young men are embracing. because that would require a serious critique of systemic patriarchy and gender politics, which tends to unsettle the people who are invested in maintaining that system.

Anyway. It is extremely tiresome to see widespread patriarchal violence and resentment toward women’s social advancement dismissed with cries of “men need to be coddled more!!!”

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vehicular manslaughter chappell roan be like you can hit a hundred boys with cars

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I'm bored at work!!! Help me think of more ideas for this forklift safety sign

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running for president as a member of the American Fujoshi Party with a foolproof plan to address male loneliness