#chimamanda ngozi adichiee

[severeprincesheep]

What is implied here is that Angelina Jolie and other sexy Hollywood stars are somehow not feminists.

Jolie is a career woman not a "sex object" and she has done very extensive humanitarian work. Anyone who thinks that a woman has to look like a man and forego being feminine in order to be equal to a man is sexist and anti-feminist.

Here are a few examples of feminists some of whom were literally murdered for their beliefs - but I guess in the eyes of a misogynist they too don't count because they wear lipstick.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichiee

Dolly Parton

Germaine Greer

Glenda Jackson

Hilary Mantel

Jess Phillips

JK Rowling

Jo Cox (murdered)

Kate Harris

Mahsa Amini (murdered)

Malala Yousafzai (nearly murdered)

Marie Lagouste

Marissa Blacklance (murdered)

Nusrat Jahan Rafi (murdered)

Rosie Duffield

Sabrina Chevannes

Shere Hite

Stephenie Meyer

Suzanne Moore

Vanessa Nakate

dear radfems,

i want to introduce you to Viyan Antar – a woman who fought against ISIS – and the controversy that followed after her death.

Born into a kurdish family, Antar married very young through a marriage arranged/forced by her family. After three months, she got divorced and joined the ranks of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) to fight for the emancipation of women from the hands of patriarchal oppression in the region.

Antar gained international attention in 2015 when a photojournalist took photos of her and described her as "the Kurdish Angelina Jolie". Many media sites recirculated the photos, turning it into news and also comparing her with Spanish actress Penélope Cruz.

On August 30, 2016, three ISIS suicide bombers drove cars filled with explosives towards the Kurdish front line. Antar and other YPJ fighters destroyed two of the cars but the third detonated close to Antar, killing her. Her death was announced on Facebook on August 31, saying she was "martyred in battle against Daesh [ISIS]".

After her death, news headlines announced "the Kurdish Angelina Jolie has died," emphasizing the physical resemblance between the two as much as her participation in the fight against ISIS. This was condemned by supporters of the Kurdish cause including other fighters. This is how the controversy started.

The media's treatment of her as a person was seen as demeaning by many Kurdish activists, especially given Antar's feminist leanings. Choman Kanaani, an activist and Kurdish fighter who repudiated the Western media's treatment of Antar, told the BBC that, "The entire philosophy of YPJ is to fight sexism and prevent using women as a sexual object". He added:

We want to give women their rightful place in society and for them to own their own destinies. Viyan died for these ideals. In the media, no-one talked about the ideals for which she gave her life, nor what Viyan achieved for women in Rojava in the past years when she joined YPG.

Agrin Senna, a YPJ commander also lambasted the comparison with Angelina Jolie and said all of the women fighters who had died and had refused to live under ISIS’ rule were equal.

Look at their pictures, they are all angels, all beautiful, you can’t pick one just because she looks like a Hollywood actress, Angelina Jolie or Julia Roberts.

They have nothing in common with them. They prefer to die rather than live under one of the most anti-women groups in the world.

Rest in Power, all the women who lost their lives during their fight against ISIS!

BERXWEDANA JÎYAN E!

[fuckyeahilike]

The first thing that fascist patriarchal regimes do is ban femininity:

Fascistic men want to deprive women of femininity because a well-groomed appearance is key to financial success, something the deny to women:

Feminists who cultivate femininity, some of whom have been murdered by men for their feminism:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichiee

Dolly Parton

Germaine Greer

Glenda Jackson

Hilary Mantel

Jess Phillips

JK Rowling

Jo Cox - murdered

Karen Davis, Youtube channel  You're Kidding Right

Kate Harris

Laetitia Ky

Mahsa Amini - Murdered

Malala Yousafzai - murder attempt

Marie Lagouste

Naomi Wolf

Nusrat Jahan Rafi -- murdered

Rose McGowan

Shere Hite

Stephenie Meyer

Sue Perkins

Suzanne Moore

Vanessa Nakate

Beauty culture is contributing to the surrogacy industry.

More and more wealthy women indulged in beauty culture are considering surrogacy their only option for childbearing. These are women who want to be mothers, want to have biological offspring, but don’t want to “ruin their bodies”. Instead, they’d pay to have IVF done with a surrogate mother as the baby machine.

Why is this so normalized? Women dehumanize our own! Beauty indulgers regard their bodies as decor, hoping the poorer women won’t hold as much value to their bodies/lives in exchange for a sum if money.

[fuckyeahilike]

Let’s do this again. Let’s take a look at some of the cowardly class traitor women who are too privileged or misogynist to let go of femininity. Here is a small sample of women who are beneath radical feminists’ high standards. Remember girls, you’re better than them because you don’t wear makeup.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichiee

Dolly Parton

Germaine Greer

Glenda Jackson

Hilary Mantel

Jess Phillips

JK Rowling

Jo Cox - murdered for being a feminist

Karen Davis - her youtube channel was deleted for being gender critical

Kate Harris

Laetitia Ky

Mahsa Amini - murdered for being a feminist

Malala Yousafzai - victim of attempted infanticide for wanting to get an education

Marie Lagouste

Marissa Blacklance - murdered for being a feminist

Naomi Wolf

Nusrat Jahan Rafi - murdered for being a feminist

Rose McGowan

Shere Hite

Stephenie Meyer

Sue Perkins

Suzanne Moore

Vanessa Nakate

So, who should I respect in the opinion of radical feminists? Well, Andrea Dworkin, who advocated for incest and bestiality.

They’re also great fans of Valerie Solanas, who tried to kill famous people so she could publicize her work. You see, these women didn’t wear makeup. That is how you know the values of a true feminist.

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!

[fuckyeahilike]

There speak the asexual, aromantic, heterophobic, separatist, misandrist, pick-me-girls of Radblr. Shall we take a look at some of the women they look down on for, uh, performing for men, i.e. for being feminine women? Let’s.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichiee

Dolly Parton

Germaine Greer

Glenda Jackson

Hilary Mantel

Jess Phillips

JK Rowling

Jo Cox (victim of femicide)

Karen Davis 

Kate Harris

Laetitia Ky

Mahsa Amini (victim of femicide)

Malala Yousafzai

Marie Lagouste

Marissa Blacklance

Naomi Wolf

Nusrat Jahan Rafi (victim of femicide)

Rose McGowan

Shere Hite

Stephenie Meyer

Sue Perkins

Suzanne Moore

Vanessa Nakate

Shut the fuck up

[fuckyeahilike]

Women who call themselves feminists but don’t let go of sexist things in their lives like makeup, shaving, uncomfortable clothing and shoes, even religion, because apparently most of them think they live a useless little life that has no influence on other people... with the exception of Nusrat Jahan Rafi, who is already dead, murdered for being a feminist:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichiee

Germaine Greer

JK Rowling

Karen Davis (you're kidding right youtube channel)

Kate Harris

Marie Lagouste

Naomi Wolf

Nusrat Jahan Rafi

Shere Hite

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!