#FEMALE LIBERATION AND EMPOWERMENT

[quillkiller]

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thank u for the tag @themuseoftheviolets 💕

rules: name one of your favorite book, season, movie, drink, color, animal, character, song, & hobby

book: the seven husbands of evelyn hugo / season: spring / film: happy together (wong kar-wai, 1997) / drink: ice coffee with vanilla flavor / color: pink / animal: rats / character: sun bak / song: that moon song by gregory alan isakov / hobby: going to the movies

im too sleepy and its 2am to tag people but please if we’re mutuals i want to know all of u so consider urself tagged<3

[munegirl]

I hope in 2024 lots of women leave their shitty husbands

[niiwa-angel]

I'm going to say something wildly unpopular in the Radfem community, but IDC, because I think it needs saying.

This little fantasy a lot of Radfems women have about whipping up a group of women, buying a plot of land, and living off it in the name of separatism is a fairytale at best and a dangerous endeavour at worst. My family lives off grid in rural Canada, it's no fucking picnic. First of all, it costs thousands of dollars for solar panels and they don't collect as much power as you'd think, especially in wooded areas. We put them on top of buildings and in fields for a reason and it's because if there are shadows across them, they don't get as much power. Winters are also hard because the days are shorter and the sun is weaker, so in most places, you'll be reliant on a generator for power in the winter.

Now I hear what you're saying "but Angel! We'll have wind turbines too!" Fantastic, and how are you going to maintain them? Those massive white ones you see in fields are out of most people's price ranges and the smaller ones are at risk of being damaged by debris during rough winds or a storm. Which is fine, if it's not your only power supply, but if you're dependent on it, that's a problem.

Now let's move on to other things, because that's important. How are you going to live off the land? Farm it? Raise animals? Hunt? How are you going to pay for the equipment you'll need to farm crops or butcher livestock? How are you going to feed the livestock? My family has goats and chickens, those mother fuckers eat A LOT and it isn't cheap. How are you going to pasteurize the milk you get from animals? What's your plan if your crop fails, how do you feed your group?

How about buildings? First of all, how do you plan to get permits to build? Just because you own the land doesn't mean you can do whatever you want on it, you need to talk to Conservation, Zoning, and your municipality before you break ground and that can take months or even years. How do you plan on getting the buildings up? Do you know how much heavy machinery costs to rent? Do you know how much building supplies cost? What's your plan if something goes wrong, because it can. Do you have the skills needed to operate the type of heavy machinery used in construction? Do you have the safety training to minimize the likelihood of someone getting hurt or killed?

How are you going to take care of yourselves? Remember, you won't be going forever, what happens when you physically can't work the fields anymore? What happens when you need regular treatment for your ailments? Farming and construction are hard jobs, they take a toll on the body. Do you go to the doctors outside of your group, or do you hope that the medical knowledge any members of your group brought with them 5, 10, 15 years ago is still accurate? That they still remember how to perform those treatments? How will you get equipment if you need it brought home, can your power grid even support it?

What are you going to do about sewage? The septic tank will get full eventually, who do you call to empty it? Can you afford to get it emptied with all the other expenses you have? What if your septic tank needs replacing? Who do you call to do that, can you afford to do it yourself? If you can do it yourself, what do you do with the broken tank?

What about money, how are you going to fund this operation, because that'll be a big one. If you want farmable land, you're going to need to buy land with fertile soil, which can be insanely expensive, then in top of it, you'll need seeds, fertilizer, farming equipment, fencing, storage containers like silos, and labour, none of which is cheap. And all of which needs to be purchased repeatedly, such as seeds and fertilizer, or needs to be maintained, such as silos and farm equipment. How do you plan on upholding those costs?

How do you ensure that your farming community doesn't just die out after 1 generation? How will you recruit new members? How can you make people want to come work for you? Can you afford to make it worth their while?

Listen, I understand wanting to build your own community and I'm not necessarily knocking that. What I am saying is, let's be realistic here. Trying to remove yourself completely from society is not a solution, not a long term one at least. If you want to empower yourself and other women, you need to actually fight to make a better society.

Get a degree in something useful, like chemistry, biology, social work, nursing, teaching, etc, and then volunteer with educational programs for girl children and adolescents. Take on female apprentices and teach them what you know! If you have a degree in something like Early Childhood Education and are working at or run a daycare, reach out to your local women's shelter and offer to take in some of the young children there, free of charge, so their mothers don't have to worry about childcare while job/house hunting. If you get a medical doctorate, do research on female specific illnesses, apply for study grants and make yourself heard!

If you work in Social Work, focus on women! Make women's only addiction recovery, homeless services, housing services, and long term care services! If you want to get a job in agriculture, do it, and then take on female apprentices! If you're in a trade, volunteer some of your time to women's shelters teaching women the basics of home maintenance and repair, as well as servicing the shelter. They often struggle for funding and if you'll redo their roof for the cost of materials, or can fix some plumbing issues, that takes a load of their plate! If you're in an office setting, team up with your fellow women and push for more wages and promotions, build each other up!

You will have to fight for these, and that's okay! Do you think the first Suffragettes just gave up when it got hard, hopped on a boat, and found an uninhabited island to make a commune on? NO! They stayed and they fought, and it was hard, and they were ridiculed and judged but because of them, women can vote today, we can own property!

Being a woman in society is hard but the solution is not to run off and live like pioneers with no sustainability! The solution is to dig out heels in, and push for a better society so that women tomorrow don't have to.

[darknessblackness]

Women in Afghanistan are being forbidden from speaking in public!

This is an insane development. Taliban is a group of psychopaths and what they are enforcing is NOT ISLAM!

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[thepersonalwords]

You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken.

Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

[catgirltoes]

Also I hate how there's so little feminist consciousness in the zeitgeist nowadays. Like for the mostpart people have a vague awareness that 'sexism bad' but there's so little ability to actually identify when things are sexist and why. There's so little recognition that misogyny is a genuine force of oppression. And what feminist consciousness does exist is utterly impotent, regardless of the form it takes.

[femmefatalevibe]

You're blog promotes "high value women" and what to do to be held in that regard, I didn't know you were for women sleeping around

Hi love! I believe that living a life that feels most authentic to you is the highest form of self-respect. The term "sleeping around" is fairly misogynistic. Having casual sex that you actually desire to have (with enthusiastic, mutual consent and protection) can be a form of self-love and exploration. Using sex as a tool to get validation from men or as a way to attempt to get someone to stick around/commit to a relationship is not the same as feeling sexually liberated. In my eyes, being a "high-value woman" is respecting yourself enough to live on your own terms – not conforming to deeply patriarchal standards. The definition of fulfilling sex is different for everyone. If you feel the most secure waiting for commitment, definitely embrace your celibate era (everyone should have at least one in their adult lives). If you enjoy more varied intimate encounters, you have every right to want to explore that unique thrill and pleasure. A woman's value is not determined by the number of men she chooses to sleep with, but rather by the intention behind each encounter. Let's let go of this puritanical notion. It's immature and harmful to our potential for self-discovery.

With all that being said, I still do believe that you should keep your sex life fairly discreet. It is best to discuss most encounters only with your closest, trusted friends and a therapist. Some people have the negative perception you described above, so I do believe that in our current society, it is in your best interest to not be too vocal about parts of your (very personal) life that could easily be judged and used against you.

Hope this clarifies my stance for you xx

[cerase11a]

New Kate Sharma oneshot is up ♥

[hellhoundofftheleash]

Cause I'm done with the sickness, done with the shame

Done with the business of living in pain

Liberate me, liberate me

Liberate me, liberate me

Done with the nightmare, living the dream

Done with the violence, living in peace

Liberate me, liberate me

Liberate me, liberate me

Living for today, liberate me

[hornywomen]

"Cute sexy girls this" and "tight pussy" that and obsession over fictional girls with big tits and smooth perfect skin and cutesy innocent attitudes.

I'm done with the male gaze. Show me some more disgusting, rancid, nasty female characters. Show me pussies that stink and armpits with long, thick hair. Show me monster women and ugly women and women who have violent and concerning urges.

Give me women's sexuality as a act and a desire, not something that happens to them. Show me women who attack you nastily and pierce you with their claws. Show me women oozing with piss and blood and pussy juice. I want scales and sharp teeth, I want women who eat roadkill.

Give me women who are monstrous and disgusting. And make this central to their femininity. Done being perfect and preyed upon.

[teanicolae]

Barbie Mini-Review: Sweet yet an Encapsulation of the Deficiencies of Pop-Feminism

Sweet, energetic, and entertaining, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is a delightfully camp blockbuster that I thoroughly enjoyed. The cinematography is excellent, the colour palette is perfect, and the actors are a treat. However, I did find its feminist thesis to be lacking. Although I acknowledge that the film is in itself a comedy which does not aim to solve social justice and functions primarily as entertainment, it still does construct a social, feminist commentary, which is why I found it fitting to utilise as a stimulus for analysing the deficiencies of pop-feminism culturally, as well as within myself.

Barbie offers its female characters the space and opportunity to muse on their condition and on the pains of being a woman, such as the contradictions of having to be extraordinary (attractive, successful, loving, kind, assertive) and yet contained, the ideal being achieving or conforming to a personal excellence that concomitantly is appeasing, controllable and tameable; yet never too much — not too powerful, nor too intimidating or destabilising. A message of: Shine, but do not shine too much.

In my personal journey, I have recently been reflecting on my self-punishing tendencies and on my self-images of having to always be kind, never angered or envious, and, while watching Barbie, I was moved listening to the monologues of the female characters, and saw more clearly how much of my own ruptures in my identity are the legacy of having been conditioned and socialised as female growing up.

“I’m just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie ourselves into knots so that people will like us.” America Ferrera as Gloria in Barbie.

The human condition is such that we all are continuously split and stretched within between who we think we should be and who we truly are. We perpetually hide, repress, contort, and harm ourselves to mould into ideals and images which we innocently construct by absorbing various messages from society, culture, history. The Barbies are given the chance to see through the mirage of constriction, the Kens are not (which, in part, saddened me), however, neither fully glimpse through into the ultimate bondage: that of the gendered self.

To successfully break through the suffering caused by female conditioning, a deconstruction of the very concept of femaleness as a rigid reality must ultimately occur — along with a deep dive into gender as a construct, both which are unfortunately glossed over in Barbie, and, on a greater scale, in pop-feminism. In my understanding, complete liberation cannot be achieved while still operating in the gender binary, which is to be dismantled within in order to open to freedom from all self-images, internal conflicts and constrictions.

Barbie both delighted me with its vibrancy, playfulness and beauty, and also reminded me that, as a woman myself, I must push through myself more for my liberation.

My arguments are based on the work of feminist philosophers such as Simone de Beauvoir (see: The Second Sex), as well as on the precepts of non-dual ‘Eastern’ philosophy.

[navramanan]

idk just my two cents on it

[feminist-bitches-only]

Remember when people were pissed about the pussy hats at the women’s march against Trump even though the hats were influenced by his literal grab em by the pussy statement? Why are female/afab women not allowed to display their position against female/afab discrimination and oppression without it being seen as a threat?

[failtosucceedlife-blog]

Women Empowerment: Breaking Chains and Barriers

Women Empowerment: Breaking Chains and Barriers Women empowerment is a critical issue that affects millions of women across the globe. It is a process that aims to promote gender equality, empower women, and ensure that their rights are protected. Empowering women involves enhancing their capacity to make decisions and control their lives. This article discusses the importance of women…

[femmefatalevibe]

Hiya💕 Why do some women warn other women off about their boyfriends but stay with him?

Hi love! Honestly, I believe it's because the patriarchy conditions women from birth to believe having a man in their life/male validation is their source of worth and success in life. So, for these women, a toxic man is better than no man at all. It's such a sad thing to watch, but certainly not uncommon.

Hope this helps xx

[littlefeather00]

Feminism is kind

Feminism is nuanced

Feminism is radical

Feminism is compassionate

Feminism is shifting power for the benefit of all especially the most marginalised

Feminism is both lived experiences and a body of work

Feminism is intersectional

Feminism is empathetic

Feminism values justified anger & holds space for it

Feminism is patient

Feminism is caring

Feminism values justice and equity

Feminism values cooperation

It’s hard to balance all of these in every situation. But we have to grapple with that, sit in the uncomfortability, but remember to always go back to the values & principles when we struggle

We won’t always get it “right”