#Ruth Barrett

[haggishlyhagging]

Because I feel that I am a woman, therefore you must treat me as if I actually am, otherwise you are transphobic. As I insist on participating as a woman in your groups, gatherings, or spaces you also must forgo discussing anything about your female socialization, female anatomy, or female functions because it hurts my feelings. It hurts my feelings because I was neither socialized as a girl nor am I capable of experiencing what the female body experiences from cradle to grave. But if you speak about this I am then reminded that I am not female, and therefore not really a woman. My experience of feeling like a woman must not be invalidated by your experiences of being a woman, therefore I will shame you for being female, teach you in university to estrange your body from your mind, make your distinct physicality and oppression that is specific to your sex irrelevant in the laws of the land or anything that names our differences until there is only the mind. Now only how I think about your body is real. Mind over body. Mind over matter. Spirit over matter/mater/mother. A woman is anyone who says they are a woman. My word is now more real than your mitochondrial DNA. Accept that by my word, you really don't exist.

-Ruth Barrett, “Gyn-ocide Revisited” in Female Erasure

[crokitheloki]

I just. Second season of oc is so sad 😭 like sorry but they did a good job at making you feel for the Albanians, and Ruth Barrett and company did such a great job with the score reflecting that and I just. I miss organized crime man

everything about the season 2 score drives me insane it's so angsty but also sad and bittersweet and it fucking kills me everytime a Kathy motif shows up like that really just adds to the whole angsty sad bittersweet feeling 😭

like ok Ruth and Mark fuck it up I see you

[alintalzin]

My playlist for Silver in the Mouth, my Wild West fantasy wip.

[mars-aria]

Charlotte x Sidney | Sanditon OST

[frankdam]

még egy zene, ami rent-free módon megy a fejemben a legindokolatlanabb helyzetekben

[madame-r]

For me, one important aspect to enjoy a period drama - or any movie and tv show really - is the soundtrack. Here are my go to for this genre...

[taylor14firefly]

Do you have any specific book recommendations on that topic? That sounds fascinating and eerily parallel to the trans-identified male colonization that Ruth Barrett and other Dianic priestesses witnessed a decade ago, as documented in the anthology Female Erasure.

The whole thread topic also reminds me of this quote about the detriments of some internalizing the patriarch:

"When a woman views her action, her power, her dynamism as a “male” archetype within her, she on some level is denying her own power, potential, and ultimately ability to break free from the male supremacist matrix she’s been born into. After all, the patriarch is living within her. This is a dead-end for feminists looking to reclaim their spirituality."

—Terri Strange, 2014

If I see one more “femmine and masculine energy” post I’m going to LOSE IT.

Men are not “divine” or spiritual in any way. They are subhuman.

To be divine is to create, something only a woman can do

[haggishlyhagging]

Natalie Angier's research for her book, Woman: An Intimate Geography, confirms that "in the basic biological sense, the female is the physical prototype for an effective living being. Fetuses are pretty much primed to become female unless the female program is disrupted by gestational exposure to androgens." The Institute of Medicine study describes how our sex begins in the womb, and how the female is the primal matrix:

All human individuals—whether they have an XX, an XY, or an atypical sex chromosome combination—begin development from the same starting point. During early development the gonads of the fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female. After approximately 6 to 7 weeks of gestation, if the fetus is male, the expression of a gene on the Y chromosome induces changes that result in the development of the testes. In contrast, fetal ovarian secretions are not required for female sex differentiation.

David Crews, of the University of Texas, describes the female as "the ancestral sex, while the male is the derived sex." Angier writes, ". . . eggs are inherently female. So in thinking about mirrors into infinity, the link between mother and daughter, the nesting of eggs within woman within eggs, we can go a step further and see the continuity of the chromosomes. No maleness tints any part of us gals, no, not a molar drop or quantum." There is no maleness in female- XX people, literally, and the culturally ascribed gender categories of masculine and feminine are clearly invented. Thus, females have no "masculine" side, as Freud or Jung would have us believe. This is just patriarchal gender jargon within a patriarchal frame.

If you are female, you have XX chromosomes in every cell. This is reality, a fact, not a belief or opinion, not a theory, not a feeling.

-Ruth Barrett, "Eve Was ‘Framed’" in Female Erasure

[crokitheloki]

Listening to the organized crime season 2 score

I've been sleeping on this what the fuck???

also. I'm obsessed with the way Kathy motifs keep showing up it's gutting me

[ariatwang]

Mfw I open the Joni Mitchell songbook my stepsister got me for Christmas and see that Ruth Barrett did the dulcimer transcription???

[burnouts3s3]

A content creator I used to follow, Bob Chipman, Moviebob, tells voters to show up & vote Democrat in elections for SCOTUS. Bob grew up in a dying factory town and became a film Youtuber. Bob was right; President Trump picked Ginsburg's replacement thus overturning Roe v Wade.

President Trump was able to appoint 3 Supreme Court Justices to the Supreme Court: Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who helped overturned Roe v. Wade. It's very likely Trump will be re-elected and pick Justice Thomas' replacement.

Bob resents the idea of low voter turn out or voters choosing to vote Republican for the promise of manufacturing jobs since he grew up in a dying factory town, considering manufacturing jobs to be obsolete as opposed to getting skills in tech or entertainment.

Bob will vote in November 2024 for Kamala Harris for the sake of the Supreme Court. But given the current polling, it is very likely that Trump will be re-elected back into office to a Republican Senate allowing more confirmations of Trump picked Judges and Justices.

[youthchronical]

Justice Barrett May Have the Crucial Vote in Trump Cases

Justice Amy Coney Barrett is the junior member of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, having served just three full terms. But her vote may be decisive as the justices consider whether and how hard to push back against President Trump’s efforts to reshape American government. On Wednesday, for instance, she was the only one of the three justices appointed by Mr. Trump to vote against…

[themitrich]

Finally managed to finish my previous sketch :)