#itsamoidsworld

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This is female s3lf-h@rm

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Why does gEoRgE CLooNey get to write for the New York Times? Is he educated? A journalist? A political analyst? I mean I know he's married to a human rights lawyer, but he's not one. What the fuck. Why do rich celebrities get to insert themselves where they aren't qualified? I have opinions too. Can I be in the Times? Fuck.

(I even agree with his point in the op-ed, but make a damn social media post or something. You shouldn't be able to buy your way into a serious organization. Damn journalistic capture.)

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/12/29/india-rape-victim-dies-sexual-violence-proble/

OH LOOK. ONE OF THE REASONS RAPE IS SO COMMON IN INDIA IS BECAUSE OF LACK OF PUBLIC FEMALE SPACES, INCLUDING BATHROOMS. WHO KNEW?

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One debilitating consequence of the way in which the Native Caribbean has been locked into an ‘ethnographic present’ of 1492, divorced from 500 years of turbulent history, has been that the present Native population has usually been ignored: some seemingly authoritative accounts of the region even appear written in ignorance of the very existence of such a population. -Peter Hulme, 1993

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Males kidnap women and girls for literally looking for food.  Not bothering anyone.  Who’s the logical sex?

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Sociopath.

Like this woman legitimately looked at Aunt Lydia and thought: Career Goals.

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The Elder Pedestal in Native culture* is so damn toxic.

*I'm thinking from Canada down, though I'm not sure the levels and prevalence of it south of Brazil

These motherfuckers think they have the authority to speak on EVERY damn thing, even shit they don't know, but I would be wrong if I were to have a direct and honest discussion with them.

They could be saying some of the dumbest and most insulting shit and I'd have to be all "Yes, I understand. From my perspective, it's like this....blah blah blah" in a meek voice just because it's The Culture.

I understand respect for Elders. Truly, I do. But they're people. And they can be wrong. And they can be worse than wrong. But if I were to speak to them like any other adult on the street or in the room, it would be "disrespectful" even if it's not. Even if I know more.

A lot of these Elders aren't even fucking old. They're like in their 50s. And they're speaking out of their lanes. Speaking on stuff that would affect someone personally from a different walk of life that they don't understand or haven't studied, and don't have experience with, but because they say it, it's Law.

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As much as I kind of like this Pope (particularly in comparison to all the others), and as popular as he is, the fact that this is news in 2023 must serve as a reminder of how backward Catholicism and all other male religions are.

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With No Immediate Cause

Every 3 minutes a woman is beaten

Every 5 minutes a woman is raped

Every 10 minutes a li’l girl is molested

Yet I rode the subway today

I sat next to an old man

Who may have beaten his old wife

3 minutes ago

Or 3 days ago

Or 30 years ago

He might have sodomized his daughter

But I sat there

Cuz the young men on the train

Might beat some young women

Later in the day or tomorrow

I might not shut my door fast

Every 3 minutes it happens

Some woman’s innocence

Rushes to her cheeks

Pours from her mouth

Like the Betsy Wetsy dolls

Have been torn apart

Their mouths menses red and split

Every 3 minutes a shoulder is jammed through plaster and the oven door

Chairs pushed through the ribcage

Hot water or boiling sperm decorate her body

I rode the subway today

And bought a paper from a man

Who might have held his old lady onto a hot pressing iron

I don’t know

Maybe he catches li’l girls in the park

And rips open their behinds with steel rods

I can’t decide what he might have done

I only know

Every 3 minutes

Every 5 minutes

Every 10 minutes

So I bought the paper

Looking for the announcement

The discovery

Of the dismembered woman’s body

The victims have not all been identified

Today they are naked and dead

Refuse to testify

One girl out of 10’s not coherent

I took the coffee and spit it up

I found an announcement

Not the woman’s bloated body in the river

Floating

Not the child bleeding in the 59th Street corridor

Not the baby broken on the floor

There is some concern

That alleged battered women

Might start to murder

Their husbands and lovers

“With no immediate cause”

I spit up

I vomit

I am screaming

We all have immediate cause

Every 3 minutes

Every 5 minutes

Every 10 minutes

Every day

Women’s bodies

Are found in alleys and bedrooms

At the top of the stairs

Before I ride the subway

Buy a paper

Drink a coffee

I must know:

Have you hurt a woman today?

Did you beat a woman today?

Throw a child across the room?

Are the li’l girl’s panties

In your pocket?

Did you hurt a woman today?

I have to ask these obscene questions

The authorities require me to establish

Immediate cause

Every 3 minutes

Every 5 minutes

Every 10 minutes

Every day

-Ntozake Shange

Written out in a way that is easiest for me to read

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Op got me blocked for some damn reason but this is important so I’m putting it on my blog for me.

I'm actually quite disgusted by the current Disk

Horse that feminists cause the "no drag shows"

bill in Tennessee.

In the US in the last few years, women have lost

the right to an abortion, the Supreme Court

decreed birth control isn't real health care that

government can force insurance companies to

cover, every girl and her sister is joking about

starting an OnlyFans when they turn 18, women

faced massive losses in the workforce with

Covid 19 school and daycare closures, every

misogynist with a microphone is making money

telling men how to be better at negging women,

and a woman who was abused during her

marriage was made a public laughingstock for

months and now everytime a rape victim

comes forward the conversation turns to "she's

a fucking liar and deserves to be in prison for

ruining a beautiful man's life."

And you think feminists caused drag shows to

be banned. In a conservative state.

Ok.

Point me to even One Single Radical Feminist

on the Tennessee legislature. Point me to a

single radical feminist who's on a board of

education in the entire state. Show me a radical

feminist Governor, or Judge. Point me to a

single radical feminist in the entirety of US

congress, maybe you'll find one there, but I

doubt it.

I'm sorry but a tweet is not power. Having an

Instagram account is not legislative power.

Having a small tumblr circle of mutuals is not

power. Show me a radical feminist in power,

who has the ability to influence a bill in the

United States. I want to see her. I want you to

show me this radical feminist woman in the

United States who's drafting and passing these

bills.

I stand firm on this post. Radical feminists do

not have the power you ascribe to them. This is

the work of conservatives.

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Men gonna men.

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It’s so gross that all these children’s books about Hiawatha and the Haudenosaunee don’t mention Jigonhsasee

I just finished reading Hiawatha and the Peacemaker, and like most other children's books on the subject, Jigonhsasee, Mother of Nations, was not even mentioned.  Bruh she’s the one who co-founded the Nation.  Even in the author’s note, he mentions two men going journeying around the land to make peace between the 5 tribes.  He does mention “a clan mother” who plays a very small part, but that’s it.  She was the most important part of the founding of the confederation.  Men Stop Erasing Women and Taking Credit From Them Challenge.

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As of now, however, there is no women’s study program here. The development of such a program is essential to you as women. Systematic and rigorous study of woman’s place in this culture will make it possible for you to understand the world as it acts on and affects you. Without that study, you will leave here as I left Bennington—ignorant of what it means to be a woman in a patriarchal society—that is, in a society where women are systematically defined as inferior, where women are systematically despised.

Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood, 1976

And this speech was told for years before.  Now, in 2023, there are no Women’s Studies classes anymore.  Even when I was in undergrad, it was “Gender Studies”

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“Classless Animals”

I was at a garden today with my friends (all of whom, in this group South Asian or Latina) and we walked through a field to get closer to the flowers, and a middle-aged-verging-on-elderly white man screamed at us, “YOU’RE CRUSHING THE FLOWERS, YOU CLASSLESS ANIMALS.”

I couldn’t imagine having the confidence to screech insults at a group of people like that.  I wouldn’t even scream it at one person.  And the funny thing is, I wasn’t even angry.  I laughed and joked to my friends about how they’re my fellow classless animals.  Men will scream racist and dehumanizing things at groups of women and feel justified.

Like bro, it was a beautiful day out and we were in a lovely setting.  Maybe you should smile more.