#feminist allies

[bulldogblues]

The bar for being considered feminist if you're male is absurdly low. Like... practically on the floor low. And ironically this is true for both the anti-feminist MRA crowd *and* many feminist women, and most people in between.

As a guy you can literally say the most anodyne shit like 'men aren't inherently better than women at [insert anything here]' or 'logic and emotion aren't gendered traits' or just not engage in misogynistic actions (not even 'call out', just not participate) and people will be convinced that's enough to call you feminist.

It's a tiny bit embarrassing really. Like calling someone a straight ally for saying 'I don't have any issues with gay people'...

[beanyowl]

also can I just say how hilarious I think it is that for once a male character gets the treatment of being hated and made out to be some horrible toxic bitch by the fandom simply for getting in the way of a popular queer ship

like props to tommy for joining those ranks

[antisextrade]

German Petition for the Nordic Model – Please Sign if You Can!

Hey everyone,

There’s a petition in Germany advocating for the Nordic Model. Currently, prostitution is legalized in Germany, and the petition calls for a change to the Nordic Model. The petition was initiated by Netzwerk Ella, a survivor-led initiative advocating for the abolition of prostitution.

If you have German citizenship or live in Germany, please consider signing the petition! It needs at least 30,000 signatures to be debated in the Bundestag (the German Parliament).

Here is the link: 

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/deutschland-muss-aussteigen-nordisches-modell-jetzt-2

Please share it with your german friends and relatives.

[selkie-on-land]

Exhibit n°87359 that gays aren't allies. First of all they are MEN 💀

[dancingdaffodils08]

akumatized villain: Give up Chat Noir! I have your girl!

Chat: She’s not my girl.

Villain: what?

Marinette, who isn’t dating him: what :(

Chat: She’s her own girl, she don’t belong to nobody.💅

[lastoneout]

stop trying to make the gender binary trans inclusive idc who you are it's never going to work!!!

[sunreys]

I want everyone to know that for a real actual grade in a real actual college course I wrote an essay attempting to classify mr. bonzo in existing scientific taxonomy and here are some real things I wrote in an academic paper about it

[antspaul]

they’re both doing lines off susies ass tonight

[potatojerboa]

said the old man

[jasondamien93]

😡😡😡

[talonpaw]

trying to be nonchalant and nonbinary but you have to buy pads from the store

[theevilfishywizard]

I know many of you, are just as SHOCKED and disappointed as I am that Willy Stampler, (self proclaimed ally) (Knows what hole women pee out of), has revealed himself to be SEXIST.

It's just... so disheartening. You can't trust ANY men these days. It's always the ones you never suspect. 😔😔😔

[coochiequeens]

“My bar has always been an inclusive bar,” she said. “Trans people should be respected and have rights, and lesbian women who are born female should also have a space for themselves.” “If the young woman said: I prefer women, then the trans woman was offended and cried transphobia. But this young woman is not transphobic, it’s just a matter of consent, she doesn’t like penises, since she’s a lesbian!”

A lesbian bar that has operated in Rennes, France for nearly a decade has been forced to close its doors following a disturbing swell of vandalism and death threats by trans activists. Orane Guéneau, the owner and manager of lesbian bar La Part des Anges, was publicly denounced as “transphobic” and accused of “misgendering” by critics.

Speaking with Ouest France, Guéneau said she made the decision to shut down the venue to protect her employees in response to increased aggression, both online and at her storefront. On April 14, four unnamed trans activists spray painted the menacing message “Fuck TERFs,” accompanied by a trans symbol, on the front door of the venue during activities that were aimed at opposing national pension reform.

“I have to close after the attack that we experienced,” Guéneau told Ouest France. “The window was tagged and a pane was broken, it was hyperviolent for employees and customers, and the bar was full.”

A few days before the acts of vandalism were committed, Guéneau made a book critical of trans activism available to her patrons. 

Titled When Girls Become Boys and written by Marie-Jo Bonnet, her detractors considered the act to be representative of her “coming out” as transphobic, and condemned her on social media. 

But the backlash was not limited to vandalism and social media condemnation, Guéneau also started to receive threatening messages scrawled on paper slipped under her door last month, some of which read: “Save a trans, commit suicide,” and “One bullet, one TERF.” 

Guéneau faced further harassment throughout the month of May when a local chapter of the French feminist organization Nous Toutes published a statement calling for their supporters to boycott the bar. 

“In Rennes or elsewhere: no feminism without trans people,” reads the call to action from Nous Toutes 35. “For several years, people from the Queer community have been denouncing attacks against them in a bar in Rennes: La Part des Anges. These recurring assaults are all the more problematic since this bar claims an identity as a lesbian and feminist bar.”

The statement continues: “Therefore, it’s important that this bar finally gets massively denounced. We would also like to call on the various political, activist or cultural organizations to stop organizing with this bar… transphobes have no place in our struggles.”

In response to the statement from Nous Toutes 35, Guéneau announced that she had filed a complaint for defamation, harassment and cyber-harassment.

Yet despite the claims of “transphobia,” Guéneau has said that her venue has always been accepting of people who claim to be transgender. 

“My bar has always been an inclusive bar,” she said. “Trans people should be respected and have rights, and lesbian women who are born female should also have a space for themselves.”

However, tensions have escalated over the past five years as Guéneau defended lesbian patrons who were being harassed by men who self-identified as women and attended the venue seeking sex.

On multiple occasions, Guéneau told Charlie Hebdo, trans-identified males came to the lesbian bar to flirt with same-sex attracted women. 

“If the young woman said: I prefer women, then the trans woman was offended and cried transphobia. But this young woman is not transphobic, it’s just a matter of consent, she doesn’t like penises, since she’s a lesbian!”

Women’s rights campaigner and founder of FemellisteMarguerite Stern shared her support for Guéneau, and questioned the accusations of “misgendering” leveled against her. Stern also placed blame for some of the harassment Guéneau endured in part on Nous Toutes for their public condemnation of the venue.

Nous Toutes, the liberal feminist group spearheading the harassment of the lesbian bar, has previously attacked causes they deemed to be “transphobic.”

In 2022, the group announced it would no longer provide data on domestic femicides due to concerns over the sex-based data being used by “transphobes.”

Nous Toutes had originally been founded to provide public insight into violence against women and girls in France, but launched into a social media war with another anti-femicide campaign group over transgenderism. 

After Féminicides Par Compagnons ou Ex accurately reported that no trans-identified males had been murdered by domestic violence in France in 6 years, Nous Toutes responded by suspending their release of any data related to the murder of women and girls in the nation, claiming that the information was “oppressive” and “otherwise illegal.”

Nous Toutes then convened to determine how to make their femicide data reporting more “inclusive,” floating strategies which included counting general transphobia as femicide.

Violence against women critical of gender ideology is a regular occurrence in France, with multiple instances of women being physically attacked for not accepting the concept that trans-identified males were “female” being recorded over the past two years.

Reduxx previously reported on violence breaking out at French pro-woman events deemed “transphobic,” including on International Women’s Day in 2021 and 2022 when a number of women were left with injuries from rampaging trans activists. 

In April of this year, a symposium intended to raise awareness of the plight of Afghan and Iranian women was abruptly postponed after trans activists threatened to violently ambush the event because of the presence of a gender critical speaker.

By Genevieve Gluck

Genevieve is the Co-Founder of Reduxx, and the outlet's Chief Investigative Journalist with a focused interest in pornography, sexual predators, and fetish subcultures. She is the creator of the podcast Women's Voices, which features news commentary and interviews regarding women's rights.

[gay-homophobic-lawyer-show]

Listening to an audiobook of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen for the second time, where Calista Flockhart narrates for the main character and I'm losing my grip on reality

[theperrylleluniverse]

her 👏 name 👏 is👏 millicent 👏

[21stcenturyschizoidfag]

this is taking me the fuck out