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„stop telling women how to have sex“ as a response to criticism of the sex industry is so funny like what do you think porn producers and sex buyers are doing?

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anyway I like julia cudney and bookborn and ellen brock and caroline winkler and bukola and mina le if you're looking for yt women to follow who are funny and active with channels that aren't huge but also not tiny who are just regular women shooting the shit with you or giving practical advice on their industry

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« Precise language surprises like a dancer's extra second of stillness in mid-air; word and experience come together in an irreproducible moment of epiphanic delight.

[...T]here is no question that precision is difficult to achieve. Imprecision is easier. Imprecision is available in a wide variety of attractive and user-friendly forms: clichés, abstractions and generalizations, jargon, passive constructions, hyperbole, sentimentality, and reassuring absolutes. Imprecision minimizes discomfort and creates a big, soft, hospitable place for all opinions; even the completely vacuous can find a welcome there. So the practice of precision not only requires attentiveness and effort; it may also require the courage to afflict the comfortable and, consequently, tolerate their resentment. »

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

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ea-nasir this ea-nasir that feh the best thing about the babylonians is all the clay women holding their tits

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i bring a real “the existsnce of many greek myths is important evidence for lack of personhood women had in classical society . life was to transition from familial property of the closest male relative, to the marital property of whichever man enacts sex upon them first” vibe to the queer-coded-modern-day-female-empowerment retelling that my peers don’t seem to appreciate

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How do they keep making later and later stages of late-capitalism

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Honestly, the term "Sex Strike" makes me feel deeply uncomfortable. You strike when you refuse to do your job. Labor that is your responsibility. "Sex Strike" implies that women are denying, gatekeeping something that men are owed. A woman isn't taking anything from men when she chooses not to have sex with them, so it shouldn't count as a strike even if she is doing it temporarily until situation improves. Anyone else?

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We have brothers, sons, lovers – but they can’t live here!’ The happy home shared by 26 women

With residents aged from 58 to 94, New Ground is the UK’s first cohousing community exclusively for older women. Setting it up was an 18-year battle – but with soaring numbers of people living alone, is this an idea whose time has come?

Chipping Barnet, a leafy suburb of north London, is an unlikely location for a feminist utopia. Yet it is here, at the top of the high street, past the Susi Earnshaw theatre school and the Joie de Vie patisserie, that you will find Britain’s first cohousing community exclusively for women over 50. The purpose-built development is entirely managed by the women who set it up as an alternative to living alone.

New Ground’s entrance, all glass and bold typography, could easily be mistaken for a co-working space, as could the common room I am ushered into. Everything is bright, airy and spotlessly clean. The walls are lined with sleek white bookcases and a cinema-grade TV screen. The only clue as to the residents’ demographic is an unfinished 1,000-piece jigsaw on a table overlooking the large garden.

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thanks so much for these!!

I know it’s odd to say, but we can’t really talk about how to liberate women until we know what a society where women are free looks like.   Like, you can’t know how to get there until you know where there is. 

and this is something lacking in all feminist writing i’ve read so far.  there’s an assumption that we all know what it is we’re working toward.   But it’s never defined or fleshed out.   I mean, most feminist writing don’t even explicitly state that we are working towards the emancipation of women, the liberation of  women.   And this is partly why we’ve fallen into the weaksauce concept of ‘equality’ with men.   

so, to know how to get there, we’ve gotta talk about what ‘there’ is.   What does the emancipation of women look like?  how does that affect the social organization?  the economic sphere?  the organization of labor?  the organizaiton of land?   

if the family unit is the instrument of the oppression of women, then what is the basic economic/social unit?  is it the neoliberal view of every man for himself?  is it the collectivist view of small communes with shared finances?   What economic/social model exactly best facilitates the freedom of women?  This needs to be broadly understood, so we know what the goal is, so we know how to best work towards it. 

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If you cannot prove that something you believe in exists, that is a fundamentally religious belief. There is nothing wrong with that, but you cross the line when you obligate other people to participate in and validate it at the risk of social ostracization if they fail to do so.

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And after a while you just stop. You stop watering your plants. You stop watching netflix. You stop reading. You stop replying to your friends as fast as you used to. You stop buying yourself nice things. You stop putting an effort into how you look. You stop taking care of yourself like you used to. You stop sleeping. You stop eating healthy foods. You stop petting your dog. You stop socializing.

You stop with everything. You find yourself sitting in your room for hours on end, without doing a single thing. Days feel like years. And you think you can’t do it for much longer.

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This is a reminder to:

Never mention a possible pregnancy/abortion to anyone, especially not through a social media app messaging service such as messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram DMs, Snapchat, etc.

Delete all period tracking apps and to start tracking using a planner or physical calendar

Book appointments for a form of birth control if possible, or to always carry condoms for yourself and other

Look into sterilization options if that is the route you want to go down (here is a list of 1000 doctors willing to sterilize you without a fight)

Protect your fellow person, protect the women in your life, the queer people, the disabled people, everyone will be affected by this

Form communities. Tell your people that you love them. Protect one another. Check in on one another. None of us are alone.

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what baffles me is that he doesn't even realise how stupid his point is when talking about white supremacy. yes, we are all socialised under white supremacy. but some of us are socialised as the supreme, and others are socialised as the inferior. or is he really arguing that there is no substancial difference in growing up white vs. growing up Black??

yes, we are all socialised under patriarchy. BUT YOU WERE SOCIALISED AS THE PATRIARCH omg are you really that stupid or are you pretending

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Men’s relationship to nature also has a phsyical and historical dimension, but the nature of their bodies and their biological role in reprodcution means that they have a qualitatively different experience than women.   Men cannot experience their bodies as productuve the way women can.  Men cannot be productive without external means, tools.   Therefore the male self-conception as a human—in being productive—is closely linked to the invention and control of technology. 

At the beginning of human existence, women’s interaction with nature, both their own and the wider Nature, was a reciprocal and social process.   They conceived of their own bodies as being productive and creative in the same way as they conceived of external nature as being productive and creative.   Even though they were using the produce of nature, this was not a relation of dominance or property, but rather of cooperation. Women were the inventors of social production and the creators of social relations, that is, the creators of society and history. 

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A greeting for negligent penpals and procrastinating authors. Postcard from my collection, 1911.