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When you read Andrea Dworkin say she’s never been more afraid then when she was speaking to a group of lesbians that were pissed that she called herself one despite not being one that’s her literally admitting she’s lesbophobic. She wasn’t more afraid of speaking out against the men that rape, mutilate, murder, pimp, sex traffic, molest, or beat women and girls? Nope. It’s lesbians holding her accountable for her appropriation of an oppressed community that made her shake in her boots.

When you read bell hooks say that lesbian erotica shouldn’t be sexist against the penis because we all need to celebrate and cherish it she’s proving her lesbophobia.

I’m reading Mary Daly’s Gyn/Ecology right now and less than 30 pages in she says she doesn’t believe in homosexuality, that when she uses Lesbian with a capital L it’s about women identified women (the ‘correct’ usage) and when she uses it with a lower case l she’s talking about the “male-distorted version… women who relate genitally to women”. That’s worse than Dworkin comparing us nazis.

Why should I ‘separate the art from the artist’ when it comes to “older” or “published” or “brilliant” radical feminist women?  Why should I consider the fact that the foundation of the second wave was the silencing of lesbians and the theft of our culture a ‘disagreement’ and not a deal breaker?

Why should I not recognize that for all the great writing they’ve made they were the foremothers of the anti-lesbian identity politics bullshit we’re currently drowning in?

And when you hear about how there were REAL lesbians who had major issues with these women why is it that you can’t find any names? Any writings? Why were the most lesbophobic and appropriative radical feminists the most successful radical feminists? Why are successful radical feminist lesbians almost nonexistent? Doesn’t it seem odd to you when you consider that the movement was built and maintained by genuine lesbians?

Any lesbian that decides not to read works by women that hate, fear, silence, and deny her very existence isn’t ageist, she’s sparing herself the suffering that comes as a side effect of being part of a distinct oppressed class of women.

And here’s a thought. Why can’t older women learn from us? Maybe even admit they were wrong? They can give up Lesbian and take fucking wlw.

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I've now seen a million posts about the pedophile lyric and none about the settler or colonizer lyrics. even the title doesn't get analyzed. "the revolution is about to be televised!!!" well if a revolution is said on tv but no one hears it did it make a sound

who exactly do white people think kendrick is comparing drake to

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who exactly do white people think kendrick is comparing drake to

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"Muslim women experience gender apartheid. For that reason, I believe Muslim women should also experience race apartheid."

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In this YouTube video, the creator explains how neither white conservatives nor white liberals regard non-white people as human beings. The suffering of non-white people is simply "the cost of doing business."

In other words, the philosophy underpinning American conservatism and American liberalism is the same: white supremacy.

you don't even have to scratch the liberals any more dude they're just bleeding fascist all on their own

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It's so funny to see Zionists on here post "a tired Jew" and then when you go to their blog it's just page after page of them celebrating genocide and rejoicing at dead Palestinians.

I'm tired of YOU using MY religion to hide behind your fascist ideologies.

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Listen to me, this is very important.

Before you go to any protest, ask the following questions.

Who, specifically, organized this protest? Flyers and infographics should have names of organizations or social media handles attached, places where you can go to find out more about who they are and what their cause is. Be suspicious of anything that says "hey, protest here at this time!" with little to no other information.

What, specifically, are you protesting for? You need demands. These can start general and get more specific as protests go on. You don't need a 16-point policy recommendation from the jump, but you do need a unified cause, and the more specific the better. Vague protests against general badness should be avoided, as they are easily co-opted.

Are the people involved here experienced with this sort of thing? What is this organization? Have they existed for a long time? Do they have a history of affiliation with other, similar causes or groups? If it seems like a new, grassroots group, are they transparent about their leadership? Do those people have organizing bona fides? It's fair for organizers to be a little bit cagey about who's involved, especially in the current political climate. Organizations that seem to be shell games of "affiliates" without specific names and faces attached to leadership are not necessarily suspicious. A lot of left-wing groups operate this way. But always proceed with extreme caution. Do as much research as you can.

What, specifically, is the plan for this protest - and is it safe? Before you go, know if you're going to be marching or protesting outside a building or shutting down major roads. Figure out if this is a "legal" protest (with permits and planned police presence) or an "illegal" one. Especially if it's an illegal one, consider if the location or planned route is easily escaped from. If there is no plan - if the only information you can find is "show up here at a specific time" - be very, very cautious.

Astroturfed "protests" are a thing. They are designed to incite chaos, to justify state violence against dissidents, to turn the public against the protesters and their cause. Spontaneous grassroots word-of-mouth protests might be legitimate, at first. But they are very easily manipulated by outside forces, and that can be very dangerous. Sometimes, a legit organization will take up the mantle of leadership. Sometimes, a malicious actor will do that. You can't know ahead of time which one it will be.

I highly recommend finding progressive or left-wing organizations you trust and following them, rather than word of mouth on social media. Follow their socials, get on their mailing lists, and connect personally with local leadership if you can. There are networks between the groups and people who do these kinds of actions. Use that as your litmus test for safety. Most of the time, these protests will be attended by a hodgepodge of the "usual suspects." Socialist groups, progressive democrat organizations, special-interest groups for that particular cause, mutual aid organizations, etc. Pick a few that you trust - and if they're not involved, it's probably not a good idea to go.

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ngl it’s incredibly grating seeing all these liberal centrist outlets reporting about ICE raids and deportations when they didn’t give a shit about immigrants under biden

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You know, Valerie Solanas shooting Andy Warhol makes a lot more sense once you stop thinking of him as the stupid soup can guy and realize that Andy Warhol was a pornographer who helped push porn into the mainstream. I always heard it as some innocent artist getting shot but nah, he is credited with starting the “Golden Age of Porn” by many so I wish I could shoot him too lol

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Can you perhaps explain to me why this is? Disclaimer I am not American so there might be something about the American system I don't understand, but: Why is it democrats, when asked about things like universal health care, or enforcing gun laws, or forgiving student debt, tell people basically some politician version of "we're trying hard to do it." but make it seem as though it's difficult to do, or their hands are somehow tied while trying. Meanwhile Trump has been president for a little over a week and seemingly is just allowed to do whatever extreme thing he wants to action immediately and with no planning or forethought? Why is it democrats make everything seem hard to get across the finish line while Trump snaps his fingers and does what he pleases?

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to all of you who keep asking "why did my strategy of berating arab-americans--who make up less than 0.5% of the voting population--not work? 🤔😳"

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average male leftist:

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It's not progressive to say "women are oppressed so they should be brutalized in films for the sake of realism". Hate to break it to you, but most men are sadistic towards women, not empathetic. The male film director who recycles the violent pornography he’s consumed isn’t challenging anything. He's only desensitizing an entire audience to cruelty against women.

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“Women invented all the core technologies that made civilization possible. This isn’t some feminist myth; it’s what modern anthropologists believe. Women are thought to have invented pottery, basketmaking, weaving, textiles, horticulture, and agriculture. That’s right: without women’s inventions, we wouldn’t be able to carry things or store things or tie things up or go fishing or hunt with nets or haft a blade or wear clothes or grow our food or live in permanent settlements. Suck on that. Women have continued to be involved in the creation and advancement of civilization throughout history, whether you know it or not. Pick anything—a technology, a science, an art form, a school of thought—and start digging into the background. You’ll find women there, I guarantee, making critical contributions and often inventing the damn shit in the first place. Women have made those contributions in spite of astonishing hurdles. Hurdles like not being allowed to go to school. Hurdles like not being allowed to work in an office with men, or join a professional society, or walk on the street, or own property. Example: look up Lise Meitner some time. When she was born in 1878 it was illegal in Austria for girls to attend school past the age of 13. Once the laws finally eased up and she could go to university, she wasn’t allowed to study with the men. Then she got a research post but wasn’t allowed to use the lab on account of girl cooties. Her whole life was like this, but she still managed to discover nuclear fucking fission. Then the Nobel committee gave the prize to her junior male colleague and ignored her existence completely. Men in all patriarchal civilizations, including ours, have worked to downplay or deny women’s creative contributions. That’s because patriarchy is founded on the belief that women are breeding stock and men are the only people who can think. The easiest way for men to erase women’s contributions is to simply ignore that they happened. Because when you ignore something, it gets forgotten. People in the next generation don’t hear about it, and so they grow up thinking that no women have ever done anything. And then when women in their generation do stuff, they think ‘it’s a fluke, never happened before in the history of the world, ignore it.’ And so they ignore it, and it gets forgotten. And on and on and on. The New York Times article is a perfect illustration of this principle in action. Finally, and this is important: even those women who weren’t inventors and intellectuals, even those women who really did spend all their lives doing stereotypical “women’s work”—they also built this world. The mundane labor of life is what makes everything else possible. Before you can have scientists and engineers and artists, you have to have a whole bunch of people (and it’s usually women) to hold down the basics: to grow and harvest and cook the food, to provide clothes and shelter, to fetch the firewood and the water, to nurture and nurse, to tend and teach. Every single scrap of civilized inventing and dreaming and thinking rides on top of that foundation. Never forget that.”

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Violet Socks, Patriarchy in Action: The New York Times Rewrites History (via o1sv)

Reblogging again for that paragraph because that is the part we forget the most.

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Women’s work is the mother of invention

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so enraged still at the MULTIPLE radfem accounts that mocked palestinian genocide while simultaneously mourning the holocaust like the cognitive dissonance was on a scale I've never seen before. and the lying! omg! MULTIPLE accounts were making up statistics and "Hamas" quotes not even reported by the Israeli or American press. i would understand repeating lies told by mainstream media, but why would you SO ANGRILY pull shit out of your ass as if we don't also have access to the internet omg 😭 this is beyond "racism," this is a severe mental illness