#FEMINIST

[profeminist]

"Stop worrying about whether Black women know you’re a safe white woman to be around, and start making sure white women know you’re not a safe person to be racist around."

Source: https://www.threads.net/@asuiterclarke/post/DCFdDw8Ta4D

[butchtuxedosam]

I know it felt hopeless for so long but I think women are starting to wake up as a class.

I wonder if the reason why women, even those who call themselves feminists, don't let go of sexist things in their lives like makeup, shaving, uncomfortable clothing and shoes, misogynistic media, even religion, is because most of them think they live a useless little life that has no influence on other people.

Does anyone remember Tumblr feminism from ten years ago that was about being a good role model for other women? The second it was replaced with pro-porn, pro-kink, pro-beauty industry, pro-plastic surgery, pro-religion "feminism" it was over, it became "who cares, as long as I like it". "Influencer", instead of being about speaking up about personal values and societal change, became synonymous with promoting weight loss products to insecure people.

In my experience, when I showed up at school or work without makeup, without a bra, with hairy armpits and legs, without even saying anything about it, several women would follow. When a popular, very dolled up student in my school admitted that she envied me, I told her that I would have her back. So she stopped wearing heels, even makeup, and started wearing sneakers and jeans. My niece is growing up knowing that women wear all sorts of colors and clothes, have body hair, can have short hair, don't have to worry about their appearance, and hopefully, when the outside world inevitably teaches her that "beauty is pain" or even that beauty matters, she will laugh in their face.

(Speaking of laughing in someone's face, a muslim (male) college classmate said after the Charlie Hebdo massacre that "people can spit on [his] mother, but they cannot make fun of the prophet", causing quiet tension and anger in a classroom with a female-majority, until a woman yelled back "your mom is the one who gave birth to you, dumbass!!" All the women laughed and he never dared saying misogynistic nonsense like this to us again.)

Every time one woman rejects sexist standards, she gives other women the courage to do the same, she makes girls understand that those standards are not natural, they can be free. That's why, once I rejected all of this, I never went back. (I didn't even do it because of feminism, I just valued practicality and comfort more than obedience and conformity.)

Governments and billionaires are shaking in their boots because women have less and less children. The makeup and lingerie industries have to change because way less women have been wearing makeup and bras during lockdowns. When we are honest and firm about what we want and reject what we don't like, that influences women around us and that influences society, that's how change is made!

[sanctuaryroses]

I love the confidence middle aged women oftentimes have. You talk to them and they have that warm confident smile, they’re so unbothered by what anyone else thinks, they shut down men trying to talk over them in seconds and they do it like it’s no issue. They find solutions to whatever problem so frickin fast. Aging isn’t bad, there’s experience and confidence that comes with getting older. Patriarchal thinking and beauty standards kinda pale in comparison to that.

Why be miserable over the idea of aging if you know it truly can be a good thing just cuz society told you men will think ur less pretty? Your life is worth more than being pretty in the eyes of ppl you can’t even stand.

[unavailableapple]

I wore a dress recently (rare occurrence for me) and one of my friends was like, “Honey you look great but would you like some tips on shaving your legs?” And I explained to her that I don’t really like shaving my legs so I just don’t do it. And she asked if that’s why I usually wear pants and I said no I wear whatever is comfortable to me, shaved legs or not. And it was like I literally blew her mind.

This is what I mean when I say you should have empathy for women with internalized misogyny. I don’t mean having empathy for women who are abusive to you for being a woman. I mean empathy for women who genuinely don’t know that what they’re saying is sexist. I don’t think my friend even knew it was sexist of her to say that at all, she probably just thought it was a little rude (sometimes, when you’re close with someone, it’s okay to be a little rude because you know you love each other). These ideas were not things she had previously been exposed to at all. Instead of telling her to kill herself for having internalized misogyny, WHICH ALL WOMEN HAVE, I introduced her to feminist ideas. And you know what? I’ve noticed she stopped shaving her arm pits recently. And she hasn’t said anything about my legs again. 🤷‍♀️

[deathtokillian]

Nick Fuentes got doxxed and is worried about his safety. Well what was he wearing? Did he try saying no?

[mxjackparker]

Bernadett ‘Betty’ Szabo was a 19 year old sex worker who was murdered in 2009, in her workroom in the Red Light District in Amsterdam.

In a demonstration of the police's total lack of respect for both living and dead sex workers, police have put up a hologram of her in one of the windows in the Red Light District - with her blowing on the window and writing "help" on the glass, supposedly to help resolve her unsolved murder case.

Betty deserves justice. She also deserves not to have a depiction of her in a bra and shorts in the same area she was killed, immortalized begging for her life, next to sex workers who are currently working in that exact area.

This will not lead to information on her killer, 15 years after her murder which it is highly likely happened at the hands of a tourist (the police admit this) and without witnesses.

The reason the police have put up this hologram is transparently not for Betty's benefit, but to deter clients from paying for sex. Potential clients will see the police advertisement, be freaked out, and be less likely to pay for sex. This will lower these sex workers' incomes, as well as making them more afraid with the ghoulish reminder of the danger that clients and whorephobic individuals pose. Those working in the Red Light District see how they'll be viewed in death - their body continuing to be shown, without their consent, for shock value and to get eyes on an advertisement by the police.

I debated whether to share this at all, but given how many large publications have shared the images and covered the story it seems worthwhile to share it again in the name of calling out the horror of this.

Put yourself in her shoes. Imagine how you'd feel if this is what your memory was reduced to. Imagine how you'd feel knowing that your son, who was taken into foster care after your death at only 3 months old, will see this? Imagine how you'd feel knowing that people like you, making their living the same way, will be taunted by the police about the danger they're in whilst those same police fail to protect them. Imagine how you'd feel knowing that the police will out you as a sex worker to the whole fucking world after you're killed?

Betty deserved better than this.

Sex workers deserve better than this.

[sanctuaryroses]

Do you ever just look at a man, and you can feel the sexism coming out of his pores just by the way he looks at you, the way he holds himself, the way he interprets you and the words you say? Like, you dont need to talk politics with him at all to know. Its all over him. Its how much space he takes up, its the little side-jabs at his sisters, or female friends. Its the way his eyes widen in suprise if you tell him you have interests that take up braincells, its the way he fakes it and tries to hide his sexism when he tries to win your sympathy. Its so disgusting. I see men like this all over the place, and I .. just feel actually disgusted. I hate it even more when they think thats what makes them attractive, cause its.. more like the opposite. I hate men who are so convinced theyre the pinnacle of creation, but theyre more like the garbage that we want to get rid of, that somehow we cant.

[starvingwound]

“She’s just like me fr”

[profeminist]

"Men, what are you doing about the other men saying things like "Your body, my choice?"

What will you do when you see it? Will you call it out? Will you confront it? Will you stop your best friend from saying it? Will you stop being friends with them?

Don't be passive in this. Don't laugh it off. Don't excuse it as a joke.

It's not a joke. It is a threat."

Source: https://www.threads.net/@adhdruids/post/DCFoauQvB5r/men-what-are-you-doing-about-the-other-men-saying-things-like-your-body-my-choic

[unavailableapple]

Being a misandrist cured my eating disorder because every time I start to have disordered eating thoughts again I’m like, “Wait… who wants me to feel bad about myself? MEN” and then I eat!

[jasondamien93]

💯💙

[redsquarecore]

the idea that men will accept feminism if feminists are nice is simply false.

if you were actually interested in stopping misogyny you wouldn't blame women, you'd blame sexist men and/or institutions which promote misogyny.

it's not feminism->makes men sexist, it's men being sexist->makes feminism

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[liberaljane]

Being disabled shouldn't equal being poor.

Abolish the sub-minimum wage, increase income caps for disability assistance, and establish universal basic income.

digital illustration of a disabled nonbinary person with leg braces. They have a green mullet and are wearing a black t-shirt, purple cargo pants, green chunky heels and a green belt. There's text that reads, 'being disabled shouldn't equal being poor.'

[grrrls-against-the-patriarchy]

IMPORTANT!!!

I’ve only seen like one person talk about this and it’s super important that this gets out there

Multiple punk symbols and sayings have been added to the FBI’s domestic terrorism guide

Things included are

The symbol for anarchy

ACAB and 1312

The three arrows pointing down in a circle

Eat the rich

Those are a few but it also mentions anything anti-fascist and anti capitalist

So if you live in the US please be careful

[bebs-art-gallery]

Female Rage in Paintings

Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi | Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist by Caravaggio | Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio | Jael and Sisera by Alessandro Turchi | Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Louis Finson | Jael slays Sisera by Ottavio Vannini | Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by Orazio Gentileschi | La Douce Résistance by Michel Garnier | Timoclea Kills the Captain of Alexander the Great by Elisabetti Sirani | Untitled by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal | Salome Bearing the Head of Saint John the Baptist by an unknown copyist after c. 1631, originated from Guido Reni