Battle Axe Bi Febfem, and proud Medusa apologist. Another Radical Feminist who is sick of male violence, liberal feminism, capitalism and gender fanaticism. I am anti-porn and prostitution. Just want to live my life in peace and protect women and girls around the world.
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"Many people still believe that the spread of transgender ideology represents a harmless fad, or a phase, or a problem of youth culture or social media, I've chosen to talk about the wider context and conditions that have allowed this ideology to take hold.
Transgenderism is a predatory, an authoritarian, neoliberal ideology, and one that couldn't take hold outside of the context of the rape culture that Steff described. I want to make this as clear as I can in ten minutes. My slideshow is just a series of books, my sources, and if you want to record them, go ahead.
So the first point to make about neoliberalism is that it's basically synonymous with globalization and with corporatization. It is not just a flawed economic policy, it is a corporate backlash against the political left and a tool of colonization. The 19th and 20th centuries saw the rise of a strong political left, indigenous Renaissance movements, workers unions, successful independent struggles that ousted colonizers, anti-war protests, and women's rights movements.
By the 1990's the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund had a response. They adopted policies that would reverse the progress these movements made. They began to hand out financial loans to governments only on the condition that they undergo what is euphemistically called âstructural adjustmentâ, a term to ponder in relation to this issue, for the benefit of multinational corporations.
This structural adjustment has three basic components. Firstly, governments have had to make natural resources, lands, and public infrastructure, available for purchase by foreign corporations. Secondly they are compelled to drastically cut back public spending on health, education, welfare, and social services. Lastly, regulations and legal protections that restrict corporate profiteering, like laws that protect workers from exploitation need to be removed.
This is neoliberalism: the commodification of nature and the removal and defunding of social services and protections, ramped up for the age of multinational corporations. Neoliberalism and its so-called structural adjustments are packaged with rhetoric about freedom. The story is that our so-called free marketâin which private sector employers face minimal barriers to profiteeringâfosters job and opportunity creation and a trickle-down effect that gradually enables the empowerment of the self-made individual or employee and choice for consumers.
In her book the Shock Doctrine, Noemi Klein points out that peopleâespecially people who have been fighting for centuries for true liberationâdon't actually take these sorts of reforms lying down, so alongside propaganda, disaster conditions have been crucial for imposing neoliberalism worldwide. That's why Klein calls neoliberalism disaster capitalism.
Structural adjustment often follows a state of emergency, a natural disaster, or a military invasion or coup. Multinationals and profiteers and agribusiness and tourism move in and benefit. And because women are made especially vulnerable when land is sold off and degraded, subsistence lifestyles are destroyed, wages drop and welfare and health care are harder to access.
One of the industries that has profited most from neoliberalisation is prostitution. The global sex trade lobby is extremely strong at the moment, and of course in a neoliberal climate, it sells us the idea that prostitution is a legitimate business and that pimps are just job creators, in an industry we are now supposed to call sex work, and perceive to be empowering for women as individuals, disregarding the factors of poverty, land theft, sexism, and rape.
Combine this with tourism and the internet and you have huge industries, and sex tourism, trafficking, and pornographyâone in ten websites are porn sites. The industry is worth more than the combined revenue of the top ten web technology companies. To encourage porn consumption, porn is also normalized through mainstream media. All of this fuels a climate, described by Steve earlier, a climate of male sexual entitlement, rape and violation, objectification, body hatred, dissociation, dysphoria, and anorexia.
These are the disaster conditions that transgender ideology exploits and that enable whole populations to buy into the idea that not only can women be bought and sold like products, but womanhood itself is a commodity to which men should be entitled. Transgenderism is a neoliberal ideology that treats the natural fact of biological sex itself as something to be plowed over and substituted with the cash crop of gender identity.
It is "empowering" for the individual to reject biological sex, and substitute it for a customized gender that expresses one's own essential tastes. Just like your clothes and shoes are meant to do, and even your car and your cell phone screen protector and your toothbrush.
The mindless mantra, âtrans women are womenâ, encapsulates both the ideology and attitudes of transgenderism and the neoliberal zeitgeist in three words. It implies the destruction of nature, of biology, of our own bodies, including through the radical mastectomies increasingly conducted on adolescent girls, mainly lesbians. It is based on the commodification of women and it leads to the removal of legal protections and social supports designated for women and based on sex. And using this mantra, âtrans women are womenâ like a threat, because if you don't accept it you're a âbigotâ, men are colonizing woman's hard-won spaces, organizations, movements, and safe houses, as well as lesbian culture.
This mantra is also having the effect of consolidating the domestication of the whole political leftâpeace groups, unions, socialist organizations like Anna describedâand assimilating them with the establishment as they ingest and then commit to and prioritize transgender mythology, purge feminists and independent critical thinkers from their ranks, and build stronger ties to the liberal political parties and big money, also promoting gender identity and funding the pride parades.
In this way the lie that trans women are women is the neoliberal answer to the myth of the resurrection within the Catholic Church. It is the one mad thing that you need to accept these days to demonstrate that, despite whatever else you believe in or work toward, you are ultimately willing to surrender your critical faculties and submit to power and to groupthink.
People would never buy the idea that men can get pregnant or that a lesbian can have a penis outside of the disaster conditions we feminists call ârape cultureâ. The conditions of male sexual entitlementâa woman being raped somewhere in the world every single second of the day, normalized porn objectification, dysphoria and body hatred.
In a culture that honored women, cared for children, and was grounded in the natural world, the spread of transgender ideology would not occur. Voltaireâs famous warning that 'those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities' is also pertinent.
Despite all these large-scale pop-up social movements taking place throughout the West at the moment, it is actually a dangerous and threatening climate. We live in a climate in which the absurdities of transgenderism are promoted so widely, while they cause such serious irreversible harm, and it's so taboo to question. Women who speak out now face ostracism, and losing their livelihoods at the hands of the very same people who are currently joining mass movements that claim to fight for the planet and for social justice.
But as Audrey Lorde famously said, âYour silence will not protect you.â So to women out there holding their tongues to stay safe I say, âWe're living in an era of rising authoritarianism, and this ideology is a key vehicle for it. You need to find your sisters. Now is the time to speak the truth where you canâin spite of those who will turn on you, who'll refuse to offer you solidarityâand find your sisters. We're here, we're healing, and finding our voices together, and we want you among us."
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my fyp is beautifully curated
creds to @moidh8ter on tt
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some bugs i drew hehe : ]
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TRIGGER WARNING: My therapist taught me something really important tonight about being a rape victim.
For months she and I have been talking about how weâre not gonna talk about The Thing and instead just talk about how I donât want to talk about The Thing and how talking about The Thing might help me start to heal from The Thing and actually get some sleep.
Anyway, tonight, I was finally able to describe to her what happened to me on that night last October. Itâs not the only time Iâve been hurt sexually but itâs the most recent and the most vivid and the one that I can still feel and hear and taste and see.
After I finished telling her she goes: âIâm sorry that happened to you.â And then she paused, shook her head, looked me in the eye and goes: âNo. Fuck that. Iâm sorry he did that to you.â
And thatâs how I realized that we always do this to rape victims. When we do recognize what happened to them - if we recognize what happened to them - we treat their pain and their trauma and the attack(s) theyâve endured like these things are separate from other people. Like the only one involved was the victim. Like there is no other party at play, no other party at fault. We say: Iâm sorry that happened to you and Iâm sorry you went through that and Iâm sorry you experienced that like these things happen in a vacuum or an abyss or a fucking hole.
But you know what? Fuck that. Rape doesnât happen in a vacuum. Rape involves an attacker. Rape involves another person. Rape involves someone who is violating and hurting and wronging the victim.
This didnât happen to me. It didnât happen in an abyss. It didnât happen by itself or on its own. He did this to me. He made a choice and he did this to me.
And it wasnât my fault. It. Wasnât. My. Fault.
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my other grounding technique is remembering that the earliest abolitionists & the earliest suffragists had no proof that the world would ever make possible what they fought for and indeed many of them did not live to see it come to pass. and yet they did not succumb to despair so it would be disrespectful to their memory to let it overtake me
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Can we start talking about the straight up misogynistic and degrading nature of pop these days?
Why is Addison Rae smacking her own butt with a hairbrush in the music video of Diet Pepsi? Why is Tate McRae getting violently arrested and shoved into a car while licking her lips and NAKED, by two fully clothed male cops in "its ok im ok"? Why is charli xcx splashing wine all over her boobs in "360"?
This has nothing to do with what they're singing about, it adds no deeper meaning and it certainly is not empowering. It's not original or creative, so why is pop getting more and more crude?
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If youâre having trouble with knowing whatâs truly empowering for women just ask yourself these questions.
- Does this benefit men in any way?
- Is it something thatâs forced onto women by the patriarchy?
- Are you confusing being empowered with personal enjoyment?
- Does this give women any real social, economic, political power as a class?
- Does this endanger a womanâs safety, mental health, and or comfort?
- Does it challenge the patriarchy?
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Trend iâm noticing looking for books with my little sister
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One feature I love about thriller and horror movies is that the husband is always an asshole. He dismisses his wifeâs fears as hysterical paranoia, refuses to believe his children seeing ghosts or demons, insists on staying or venturing into dangerous situations. Little by little his wifeâs trepidations and boundaries will be broken through, guaranteeing everyoneâs annihilation.
Itâs such an amazingly unintentional feminist critique of the nuclear familyâs structure. The man has the authority, and when all is well, women sit comfortably in this role. But when something is wrong, and danger is afoot, whether a home invasion, paranormal spirit, anything⌠the role is seen for the prison it is.
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I can just imagine saying âlobotomies are badâ in like 1949 and having someone say âyouâre wrong, the science is settled, lobotomies are the best way to treat mental illnessâ and guess what? In 1949 I might be the unpopular and socially wrong one. The person with the backwards, conservative thinking. That is the year that AntĂłnio Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for lobotomies.
Lobotomies are still bad, but a lot of people have now understood that itâs a deeply harmful and anti-human practice. It was often performed on women (60% of cases were women in the US, a study in Ontario put women patients at 72%) and on gay men. Societal mores have changed on what is psychiatrically appropriateâmany of these women were depressed and repressed housewives, or were not naturally submissive to their husbands and considered âcombativeâ.
Many lobotomies were called âice pick lobotomiesâ because they involved inserting an ice pick through the eye to sever the part of your brain that feels emotions. There were different techniques, largely dependent on which surgeon you saw. Norbert Wiener said in 1948, "Prefrontal lobotomy... has recently been having a certain vogue, probably not unconnected with the fact that it makes the custodial care of many patients easier. Let me remark in passing that killing them makes their custodial care still easier."
In 1944, the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease ran an article saying, âThe history of prefrontal lobotomy has been brief and stormy. Its course has been dotted with both violent opposition and with slavish, unquestioning acceptance."
Walter Freeman called the practice âsurgically induced childhoodââhe specialized in lobotomies and performed them until 1967, so he found this to be a good outcome. In fact, he worked on an âassembly lineâ process where he could lobotomies 20 people a day, and even did a surgical procedure face-off with another doctor in 1948 to compete in an operating theatre to show an audience of doctors that his technique was superior. The other professor was a professor at Yale, William Beecher Scoville, another famous lobotomist known for proliferating the procedure. They called it a miracle cure, and the gold standard for psychiatric treatment.
Scovilleâs most famous patient, Henry Molaison, was a 7-year old boy with epilepsy after a fall from his bike. Schiller couldnât find the problem, so he just destroyed all three regions of Henryâs temporal lobes. Afterwards, the surgeon noted memory loss âso severe as to prevent the patient from remembering the location of the rooms in which he lives, the names of his close associates, or even the way to the toilet or the urinal.â
Scovilleâs wife sought psychiatric care after her husband cheated on her and she had a breakdown. Her husband lobotomized her himself.
In the 1960s, when schizophrenia became a radicalized charged diagnosis that was often used against Black people, especially those involved in the civil rights struggle. Walter Freeman did several pushes to lobotomize Black people, including as young as five, for âhyperactive and aggressive behaviorâ.
The practice continued in some places until the 1980s. It was used to treat schizophrenia, affective disturbance (mood disorders and people reacting in non-mainstream ways like being an opinionated woman or gay), and OCD, chronic neurosis (anxiety), psychopathic disorders, and depression, among other things. You may notice the old names for these thingsâthings that we might not consider the same way now. Being gay was a mental disorder. Women who wanted independence or respect were often diagnosed. Not fulfilling your traditional societal role was a good way to end up institutionalized.
It was considered, at time of invention, to be an humane alternative to insulin comas and shock therapy (ECT). Many people considered it lifesaving and gold standard treatment for mental illness. Some reports believe that about a third of patients found the procedure beneficial. Others faced dementia, death, incontinence, inability to speak, paralysis, and other effects. Many people were unable to ever leave care again afterwards, though they were more complacent.
I donât think any scientist who tells you that science is settled is a good scientist. I think that treatments that target people who donât fit the mold of society, people who are countercultural, and people from marginalized groups should be especially criticized. Psychiatry is a very new field. Part of the phasing out of lobotomies had to do with the development of the first medications for psychiatric useâwhich in turn have had their own social, political, and ethical conundrums and misuse. Many could consider Valium (âmotherâs little helperâ) the spiritual successor to the lobotomy.
But in 1949, if I said lobotomies are badâI might have been met with âDo you hate mentally ill people?â âIt works great for most people!â âWithout it, she will just be depressed and kill herselfâ or âMy friend did it and all her problems seem better nowâ.
Lobotomies were bad the whole time.
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what super expensive indulgence would u get for urself if u suddenly came into a bunch of money?? assume all bills/mortgages paid, all friends helped: what treat are u buying just for u?? for me it would be a quilted lambskin chanel bag in iridescent pink
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