#and its not feminism to act like it is!
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It is clear to me that some radfems (usually trans-inclusive) can't help but take their deep -seated biological inferiority complex and turn it into "theory."
The Artificial Wombs conversion didn't bother me until they began to imply that the ability to give birth is what's "wrong" with women.
I'm just tired of seeing that the road to "neutrality" and "equality" in people's eyes requires female sacrifice.
Men don't have to chop their balls off or remove their prostate or become sterile for the cause, but women are advised to lose their breasts, their uterus, their fertility to work towards a world where sex-based oppression no longer exists.
Liberation is in giving women *back* their robbed humanity, not in removing female traits until there is nothing left for men to dehumanize.
#transhumanism#like its such bullshit#sterilization is not feminism#i do not want kids#but i refuse to believe that the only purpose of the body i was born into is to hold a child#and its not feminism to act like it is!#radical feminism#radfem#feminism#artificial wombs
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the barbie (2023) experience as an afab non binary person is just [reconnecting with your femininity and love for pink bc you couldnt when u were younger bc being too girly will get u made fun of] [feeling guilt bc u dont identify with being a girl but girlhood is so inherently beautiful and magical and no experience is truly like it] [healing the inner child in you by allowing yourself to enjoy dolls and pink and maximalism] [unapologetically letting yourself wear pink and be stereotypically girly in a society where being non binary means you have to be presenting androgynous 24/7] [getting your grown-up heart shattered and then put back together again by your inner child using sparkly glue over and over in the span of two hours] [realizing that no matter what you do you have somewhat experienced girlhood and it shaped you to be the person you are today and you will never get to erase that experience or truly disconnect yourself from it] [appreciating and understanding your mother in a way that you thought wasnt possible without experiecing motherhood]
#my brain has permanently been altered by the barbie movie#ALSO THE MOMMY ISSUES IN THE MOVIE GOD FUCKING DAMN#when barbie said that the old woman is beautiful it makes me not fear getting old anymore#it's just all this time i feel so guilty like nothing but guilt when i present myself as femme and act all feminine but then identify with#being enby#and when i vocally advocate for feminism and all that but theres a little voice in my head going#but youre not a part of that club anymore you left them#BUT I KNOW ITS NOT WITHIN MY CONTROL BC I DONT HAVE CONTROL OF MY GENDER AND HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT#barbie#barbie movie#barbie 2023#ken#margot robbie#ryan gosling#mine#queer#woah 1k?????#1k#2k
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they commodified feminism btw. thats whats up with barbie movie chappell roan charliexcx taylor swift. you guys are buying packaged white feminism
#feminism#intersectional feminism#listen i think women should be able to make whatever music they want to#charliexcx isnt doing anything really wrong herself as far as i know its that the “brat” label has become . really performative#just dont like how the people using those terms act
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just watched the barbie movie everyone was discoursing about last year and I can't help but feel like a lot of the problems in its execution could have been avoided if the kid character's arc had been about learning to embrace girly stuff as an act of rebellion against the adultification of teen girls while barbie went full butch transmasc
#deerchatter#i know why they didn't do that obvs the writers haven't a fucking clue what a feminism is and the bosses prefer it that way#but it's fun to think about what a good version of the premise could have looked like. there were interesting pieces on the board#the kid character could have been interesting if her arc had been about rejecting barbie bc of increasing awareness of the association#between femininity and weakness. but in wanting to gain respect she started acting and dressing like a young woman because she's at that age#where girls begin to be rewarded for being a more subdued and quote-unquote natural kind of feminine.#she could have become friends with barbie as a symbolic way to heal her inner child#meanwhile barbie takes the you-can-be-anything message to its logical extreme and decides what she wants to be is the one thing mattel will#never let her be: gender non-conforming#these 2 character arcs and where they intersect could have told the same story much better i think#emphasis on personal choice/growing up/social rebellion/embracing what will really make you happy#while also covering multiple ways to handle gendered expectations. pick out the parts you like or throw the whole gender out. both r good!#anyway i have to admit this movie was disappointing. i knew it wasn't gonna be woke but i thought it would still be a bit more fun ....#was hoping for a guilty pleasure kind of experience but even setting aside that hard thematic fumble it's underwhelming :(
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'Radical feminist' is a role you have to perform and actively work towards not a label you can identify into. Lest any of y'all have forgotten: we are meant to be examples to the women and girls around us that you can exist and have a fulfilling life while defying patriarchal teachings and practices.
#lily responds#I don't expect any of you to be perfect feminist. but there should be a few tenants you can name you uphold visibly and openly#some of y'all don't do shit but hang out on radbler and act like that makes you a radical feminist. honey that makes you an orbiter.#a supporter at best#I'm so tired of in action being defended as actual feminism just because y'all agree with a lot of the shit we say.#its okay to be an ally. we need allies. quit pretending like you deserve to be at the table when you've done none of the work to earn it#this isn't about the other drama I've commented on. this is about watching some of y'all defend never reading a bit of the literature or#doing a slightly challenging feminist action in your life. half of y'all won't even talk to your friends about radical feminism.#you're just not a feminist because you're not an activist. you're doing no actions
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Ok guys so this is gonna be a long one but Im going to talk about
Male apathy during pregnancy and post partum
Post partum mental distress
How the medical system fails women
How men should do their part
So I just saw a post by a man talking about how men downplay the process of reproduction, and yeah, duh - BUT I've come to a conclusion. There are two types of expectant/new father in this world: the type that treats his wife like a toy or the type that treats his wife like a cute pet and claps for her from the sidelines. "Yeah babe ur so strong" while not doing shit. So in this post, the guy is like "errrrr fellow males, did you know that the nutrients actually come from your wife's body?!?!" Like how is that not common knowledge? The uterus doesn't have little claw arms building a fetus. An embryo is created by a male and female, and that embryo attaches to the uterus and LEECHES from the female bloodstream.
He then he goes on to talk about how much blood we can lose during vaginal birth and c-sections, and Imma just say here and now that the medical system sucks ass. Yeah, birth sucks. Pregnancy sucks. But I kinda hate how people pass of a lot of the pain as a fact of life. The fact is that the medical system is vastly male, and males who put their poorly hidden fetishes into practices (I did veterinary science in highschool, and it was even prevalent there... vaginal speculums and artificial insem- 🤢) I'm sure we've all heard humans should stand to deliver a child. The high death statistic for women in childbirth (also explained by more black women dying than white), the lack of knowledge on the female body, and the priority of babies over women all tells me one thing: Birth is certainly painful, but it may be more dangerous than it should be. My honest opinion is that death rates exploded once men infiltrated our care due to their view of us as a vessel. Maybe if the medical system focused on helping us rather than letting a fetus escape its "flesh box", then we'd be somewhere.
And finally... he talked about post partum mental health... so I've been wanting to talk about this. It has recently become noticeable to me that human females have a hard time mentally after the birth of children meanwhile most animal females don't. Sure, there are cases where animals abandon offspring, but I chalk that up to not being prepared to care for offspring. Nature usually prioritizes an adult over a newborn. Also the abandonment of offspring is something I only really hear about in domesticated animals (and animals in zoos so environmental distress or lack of knowledge), of whom we have fucked over in so many ways through selective breeding. Shit even domestic bettas and angelfish, who are usually good parents, have this issue in domestication. But why is it that other animals don't have nearly as many post partum issues as humans. I'll say it, I believe post partum mental distress is largely due to societal dynamics. Sure, hormones are off, but the society we live in only fuels this. It's like when you're on your period. You feel off but it's more a loss of tolerance. The rise in estrogen near and after birth can cause you to already be a bit unbalanced, but let's add some situations onto it. You're going to be the primary caretaker because of modern male incompetence, then you're going to lose sleep which causes more instability, then you're expected to still cook and clean, and men in most countries don't get paternity (ohhhh I wanna tell yall a story about that so baddddd... its in the comments if ur up for it) so youre left alone with a screaming child while trying to heal and getting no sleep and probably not seeing the sun because youre busy and thats a major mood stabilizer (as someone with a mood disorder) all for the father to come home and play with the infant and pass it right back to you. And we haven't even gotten into the culture surrounding it. Women are expected to put on a loving maternal persona while fathers remain the same. For men being a father is prideful and gives you all these positive characteristics like strength... but for mothers your mind is deemed more simplistic, your identity is erased. People see pregnancy and motherhood as a performance and you are the lead actress. Youre treated differently, percieved differently, and thats fueled by bioessentialism. New moms do not feel more "loving" towards an infant than new fathers. Both secrete oxytocin, it comes with the monogamous, biparental animal package dumbass. Why would I be more loving towards something that sucks my boob off and ripped me open. So while I'm not trying to discredit post partum depression, I'm absolutely saying that societal issues are the pushing force. Im also pretty sure post partum statistics fluctuate based on country, and that in countries with paternity and a more equal dynamic have lower cases. But I'm not mentally stable enough myself to look into it, I know "trust me bro" type shit.
In conclusion 🤓 I'm tired of people seeing female pain and not finding ways to help it. The female body is strong, but it also needs care. You wouldn't expect a person with a broken leg to win a marathon. That's the whole reason males stay with females is to. Do. Their. Part. Idc if I'm picky, but literally, any talk on kids or pregnancy leaves me so dissatisfied. Expect men to start acting like an expectant father and partner during pregnancy. Your job is to comfort, provide, learn how to ease pains, provide emotional labor, drive and GO TO appointments (I think if it was even really "about life" they would look into male health too but that's a convo for another day), pay for appointments, be ready to help in case an emergency, so much more. Cuz it's always "don't drink while pregnant!" But how come the baby daddy can be at the bar with his friends? What if I go into labor? He needs to stay sober too I'm not his broodmare! The way men act like it has nothing to do with them because "well uhhhh I not carry a baby 🤷♂️" makes me so mad. As a new father too, they think "well man don't feed baby 🤤" like there isn't so much more. Imo, the man should be doing housework, taking care of the infant besides breastfeeding, and caring for a post partum partner. Even with breastfeeding, you can be involved. Take the infant when it's done eating, sit with your partner, provide company, and bond with your family. I've come to the conclusion that men don't want partners they want a collection. Men cannot accept that they have a weaker role while still being involved. Either he's big strong man or it's weak and my business. And the men that cheer from the side see it as "well she does most of it so that obviously means it's all her business but I'll just tell her she's soooooo strong" not like... telling other men how to do their job. Men are pathetic. Want credit for zero effort.
#radical feminism#abortion#feminism#pro choice#womens rights#sorry this shit is so long im so tired of men cumming in a woman and acting like its none of his business
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full offence but nobody is immune to propaganda so instead of shitting on somebody's attempt to educate themselves and be better, because you think "oh but i ALREADY knew the truth x years ago," how about you look in the mirror and think about that one time YOU fell for some bullshit too
#its always the people with the worst case of arrogance who act like this too so its pretty ironic actually#how you let the mainstream media convince you that no one can attone for their mistakes#obviously this is not about serious crimes like r*pe or m*rder#leftist politics#mental health#mental growth#growth#education#self awareness#self improvement#politics#history#social justice#feminism#intersectional feminism#tirf#trans inclusive feminism#disability rights#no one is free until we are all free
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you ever see something that makes you go "oh the feminism movement has been going backwards backwards"
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xmen first class to me is really funny because it kind of falls into the trope of so misogynistic its gay but with the age old pre existing already severely homoerotic relationship?? like they tack on a love interest for charles at the end and erik has some weird shit happening with mystique to make it Not Gay but theyve been gay. you are making prequel movies to the "divorced gay men lead leftist infighting; probably shouldve just done a bdsm scene instead of involving everyone else in their shit" movies. and they keep doing it. dofp is fantastic but it continues the mystique/erik plotline. apocalypse brings back moira AND gives erik a wife and child (who only exist to be killed). its never ending no homo for one of the most famously homoerotic duos in marvel while ALSO refusing to make their forced female love interests compelling in any sense. its incredible
#ramblings#i recently rewatched them all and the way the prequel timeline reduces mystique to a prop for the men to pass around...#im not going to act like the og movies were much better at feminism but its actually painful in thee prequel timeline#and they didnt try to no homo cherik as much. so#'what about dark phoenix' what about mystique dying as a plot device to get hank and erik moving#what about both raven & jean dying.#i like these movies btw#maybe not dark phoenix#but most of them
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you are not immune to terf propaganda 👁️
#please i cant take it anymore i cant take people on here acting like men are just naturally violent and women are just passive and all good#do you hear yourselves..............#im going to need people to sit out of discussions about patriarchy and feminism if you were educated about it viatumblr posts/tiktoks/tweet#its so frustrating i feel like everyone gets it wrong. we are never making it out
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This is what radical feminists do when you don't agree that 100% of men jerk off to rape.
@radfemih8men Care to fucking explain yourself? (edit: she did, in the comments. long story, she confirmed it and thinks two wrongs make a right)
>mentions the darknet. 100% needs to have her hard drive check out.
Anyways, report this convo to the police, saying this kind of thing to a 13 year old is actually a sex offense PURELY ON ITS OWN in a lot of places.
#nothing says projection more then reaching for threats of rape as somebody who claims all men fantasize about rape#she should just admit shes the one who gets off to rape#its ok#we don't kink shame.#until you try to cross the fantasy barrier like you have done#if she was a real feminist ally she wouldn't need a man do the raping for her#the patriarchy has got women feeling so helpless they can't even don a strap on to act out their violent fantasies#Anyways#ask any women into CNC how few men are actually conformable with it#also i am highly doxable once you connect me to my main username#your darknet thugs don't scare me#your hard drive does thou#feminism#rape threats#rapeculture#radblr#radical feminism#radical feminist safe#not really but i want to cloud the tags#white feminism#this is why i hate rad fems#androphobia#misandry#two wrongs don't make a right#mens rights#radfeminism#radfemblr#terfblr#proud misandrist
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Honestly I think it would do us all well to go back to kinda cringy feminism again for a little bit idk cause I think maybe for some people the discourse somehow circled back around to supporting sexism just rebranded or whatever so its more aesthetic
#personal#instead of progressing the discourse into idk more inclusion of women of color and trans women#it went in the direction of like glorifying women being stupid and romanticizing beauty standarts#also weird centering of men all over again in feminism and in general for some reason#remember in the early 2010s when emma watson was like obliterated for that 'he for she' campaign#because it prioritized men in feminist discourse and then thats the exact direction where things went later on (and where it is currently)#people care more abt like 'haha this is my golden retriever bf he drinks respect women juice!' than about actual women speaking abt feminis#like being a feminist isnt about social change and women prioritizing each other its abt how dudes are hot when they do the bare minimum!#also have you noticed the rise in lesbophobia both in the sense of persecution of lesbians themselves#and of lesbians relationships and culture which other wlw are also part of (its giving lavender menace)#and also remember how we had the me too movement and then immediately after#everyone still fell for a smear campaing against a victim of domestic abuse?#anyway i would really love to get back to basics of like women should support each other!#and beauty standarts overwhelmingly negatively affect women and girls!#and we still need to incentivize girls to seek out intellectual pursuits especially in STEM and leadership roles!#because we continue to be underpresented in those fields and the only way to enact change is to bring our perspectives to those areas#instead of asking politely for guys to throw us a bone!#also stop acting like its cringe to openly and vocally center and prioritize women in every sphere of our lives possible!#and also maybe go back to actively trying to do that! and considering that a good thing!??#because we're the ones who should have our backs most of all?? idk idk#also where are the teeth??#why is everyone so afraid of being angry now???#its like some people circled back to being afraid of being mistaken for man-hating or something#just for pointing out common sense aspects of oppression without adding an asterisk about how men suffer too!#i thought we all knew there is no such thing as reverse sexism!!!#idk!!!#and this isnt me condoning choice feminism many women are evil and actively work against their own interests#or antagonize other women to make themselves feel important such as terfs etc#but idk its like everyone internalized that 'well women can suck too' so hard that its become like#'*most* women suck and we dont even have to keep trying to empathize and prioritize each other and our issues anymore'
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i hate how most ppl in the raincode fandom feminizes (mostly makoto) and infantilizes makoto n yuma. and for some ppl, they do those two things , while ALSO sexualizing them. it fucking pisses me off
#idk how to word this (esp the feminization of makoto thing. i just cant find a proper word for it but it feels like it)#i cant fully translate it from my head but yeah#admittedly starting to dislike the character just because of the fanarts#mako barely gets content round here and if he does#its alwyas just him being sexualized. along with yuma#i cant fully explain it but they always make him act feminine#AGH IDK#rant rant rant#mina's yapfest
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Does anyone know... r there any menstrual tracking apps that don't have a lib pro-hypersexual "feminist" slant....... i am using Clue so far and idk it's not a huge deal but if I'm in a bad mood I don't wanna see any stupid stuff the paywalling and pro version begging are annoying too
I like having a visual calendar + cycle diagram, rough predictions, and compiled stats (avg cycle length and deviation), that's all really... fertility-related functions would be cool for when I get married. But it just makes me so so frustrated when reproductive health resources assume I'm sexually active + on contraceptives just because I'm an adult woman :/ instant seethe if u tell me unprompted to get checked for STDs or even bring up contraception.
#i am such a huge contraceptive hater its not even like “oh i gotta follow religious rules sigh” it just triggers me. donot mention them...#i have tolerated this app but it randomly had a pop-up saying “add your contraceptive method to track it ^_^” so im mad now. it must die#i also hate resources which slander uteri/ovaries/pregnancy and act like the female body is a negative thing#this one has been ok in that regard but some stuff out there is literally so disrespectful it's disgusting#btw i put “feminist” in quotes cause it's the mainstream conception of feminism but i think it's actually very bad for women#anyway women pls tell me how you track your cycles#my posts
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okay i think the people talking about how barbie is so important to young girls and has really deep lore are being a bit much
#its a fun frothy corporate product#there is really no need to intellectualize it or justify it as deeper than it is like just have fun w it who cares#but acting like the doll with the impossible physical ideals has actually been feminist in any meaningful way the whole time is silly like#its makeup feminism discourse all over again#its fine to like it!
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Weird how non lesbian lesbophobes project their own transmisogyny onto lesbians. They insist lesbians are terfs for not being attracted to men (not seeing or caring about how they're equating trans women to men in this sentiment) then the same non lesbians shit themselves and cry when they see butches, masc/gnc women or trans masc lesbians. All that to not reflect on their own transmisogyny, transphobia, internalized queerphobia, lesbophobia, and good old fashioned misogyny.
#they act like its all performative too#the 'all lesbians are political lesbians deliberately choosing to be lesbians cuz they hate men & r making bi women feel less than' mindset#+ 'butch lesbians/masculine women are NLOGS trying to gain masculine privilege(?) & get male approval(?). no its not for their own comfort'#'they think theyre superior to feminine women for deliberately rejecting femininity this is what internalized misogyny is hashtag feminism'#'theyre TERFs!!! also butches are uglyy eww im femme4femme onlyyy'#i think thats the mean lesbian boogeyman reduced to their bare essentials#or like the mean lesbian strawman#im not saying this type of lesbian has never existed...but its projected onto every lesbian at some point or another regardless#*also not saying this is only coming from feminine bisexual women this is a small example#of the lateral aggression between lesbians and non lesbians who experience misogyny#lesbian#lesbophobia#fk posting#lateral aggression#lgbt#lgbt discourse#transmisogyny#transphobia#am i even making sense im thinking about this cuz of 2 situations i was in recently ...#misogyny#sexism#butchphobia
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