#Feminismo

[yeast-infection-enthusiast]

I literally feel like a teacher writing a huge ❓ on a student's paper everytime I go to protests lately. Why are we gathered at a prolife contra protest and you have a sign with "LGBT education in schools" written on it. Why are you shouting an environmentalist slogan. This is a pro choice protest. Why are you fragmenting the group with unrelated topics? Are you a fed? Why does every protest lately have to be a buy one get one free type of event? Why is it that when our reproductive rights are threatened we feel the need to also bring up barely related topics and take away the focus from the problem at hand?

[angerfemme]

𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎

Sylvia Plath.

[radmyalgic]

The Hymen Myth and Why It's a Total Lie

Let's talk about the whole "hymen as a freshness seal" myth. You wanna know how much of a lie the "you’re supposed to bleed your first time" or "the hymen is proof of virginity" is?

I had something called an imperforated hymen. Yup, it's a real condition. Look it up. Mine wasn’t completely sealed (i can't believe some people still think this is the norm like, how would we even menstruate. Anyway), it was "microperforated," but it still made my periods super painful and sex unbelievably worse. I bled, like, a lot the first times i had penetration, until I finally went to a gynecologist and learnt what was actually going on :') I had to get surgery. Yeah, SURGERY. General anesthesia, an incision, sutures, antibiotics—the whole deal. Apparently, it’s not even that uncommon of a procedure (nowadays obvs), they told me it's totally routine.

What’s actually supposed to happen is that as you grow older, your hymen becomes more elastic as you reach FULL —focus on COMPLETE– sexual maturity. And once you body is ready, you should be able to have pain-free sex. Easy peasy.

Here’s the thing: the hymen is elastic. Its purpose is NOT to be "broken" (seriously, how impractical would that be?), but to prevent infections during infancy. This means that, in my case, it could even 1 stretch every time, which was what originated the pain or 2 yeah, be torn by force. During history, as you can probably guess, option number 2 was the most common one, with its consequential bleeding.

So, if it is obviously not the norm, where does the idea of "bleeding during your first time" come from? Well, mostly rape. Women were routinely raped their first time, which lead to tearing and, thus, bleeding. (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2214.2007.00818_7.x thanks @deadfish-inabarrel for the link, super interesting article)

So, if something hurts during penetration, INCLUDING YOUR FIRST TIME, stop immediately. Something’s wrong!!! You don’t have to endure it. Even if it were natural (spoiler: it’s not), you don’t have to go through it if you don’t want to.

And the most important part—get this ingrained in your brain, and make you all the younger girls you know understand: Pain. During. Sex. Is. Not. Normal.

[radicalgraff]

“Let the patriarchy burn, not our forests!”

Poster seen in Oaxaca, Mexico.

[redditreceipts]

WAAAHAHAHHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I DID NOT BELIEVE THAT GUYS LIKE THAT EXISTED "she kept herself afloat since she was 18 with her Etsy shop, graduated her masters, goes to a language class, writes a book (her third one), has a Youtube channel and goes swimming three times a week AND PAYS OFF THIS STUPID BABY'S DEBT

I hope she kicked him out and took found someone who actually values her lol (no seriously, I admire her)

[depoesiaypoetas]

Rosario Castellanos

[sorata-ayumi]

Rugrats (1991 - 2004)

[yeast-infection-enthusiast]

[redditreceipts]

para mis hermanas hispanohablantes

(translation: cosas de mujer = woman things, and down in the left corner of the right side of the poster, there is a bubble saying "me siento mujer", which translates to "I feel like a woman")

[beingstorm]

Soy mujer. y un entrañable calor me abriga cuando el mundo me golpea. es el calor de las otras mujeres, de aquellas que hicieron de la vida este rincón sensible, luchador, de piel suave y corazón guerrero.

—Alejandra Pizarnik