#liberal women

[thebillyengland]

It’s so great that he wins against women in a women competition as they cheer for their own destruction. 

This is what feminism has given us.

You did this to yourselves, ladies. 

[ex-foster]

[the-myrna-loy-blog]

I believe in liberality of thought and have no time for any kind of totalitarianism - be it right or left.

~ Myrna Loy

[entityinahumanbody]

women often discuss this falsely conceived notion that is perpetuated by men against us; said proposal being that a bond is formed on the conditions of a woman's degree of agreeability. naturally, the sentiment is dated and condemnable, but I've come to find that despite our collective disapproval of such an idea, we as women subconsciously nurture it among each other. we create rivalries within our own selves over the basis of whether or not we can find common ground with each other and are constantly ready to bash and patronize our like counterparts upon the birth of a conflict.

I notice that we are up to swiftly and enthusiastically abandon one another over differing viewpoints that aren't even necessarily harmful, just particularly controversial and requiring different sources of ammunition. it's disheartening to know that what we will not receive from men and therefore promise to gift each other: generosity & true compassion, is utterly diminishing before our very own eyes. not to mention that males thrive on the rifts created between women, deriving sexual and aesthetic pleasures from the idea that not even WE can find community between each other.

quite obviously, even male and female politicians, & our potential elected officials alike profit off of our divisiveness & proceed to feed the error of shame, rather than teaching genuine understanding & unity within specific groups, regardless of opposing stances, on EVERY side of the debate. there is no exception, no terrific outlier as long as this fire is fueled. it'd simply be naive to think otherwise.

fellow women, please let us do better for ourselves. we already have an excessively difficult time navigating society due to its inherently misogynistic structure - so why create MORE unnecessary tension & feud among our own cluster? we should all be endorsing the acts of genuinely listening, and being exceptionally considerate of one another.

[thisisnotmyhomeplanet]

[timaeuslover001]

And then they post stuff like this too😂😂😂😂

Do you honestly think Muslim women are allies to the western liberal women cause? 😂😂

Not only do they think that they make better wives, but they also don’t believe in liberal women’s of female female rights?😂😂😂

[theanxiousbookdevourer]

A Collection of My Favorite Parenthetical Asides in Disco Elysium:

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

[mysharona1987]

[the-myrna-loy-blog]

Happy Birthday Dear Myrna!

BOTD - 2 August 1905

“I’m a Democrat. I don’t know what I am anymore! I’m a radical. As I get older I get more radical.”

—

Myrna Loy at age 67

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[ash-tea]

Happy International Women's day y'all

[erebusvincent]

[zegalba]

"Women at the Palestine Liberation Organization training camp learn with Al-Fatah. Location: Jordan."

Photographed by Leif Skoogfors (1968)

[radykalny-feminizm]

This is sick on so many levels

[mysharona1987]

Mike Pence to JD Vance:

[qurbanjaan]

My experience and personal view on veiling as someone who grew up under a Burqa

When I was born, my father didn’t want me because I was a girl. When a girl is born, she isn’t cherished like a boy. Your life is received as a deadweight (note: I’m not saying this is something that happens every single time, just most of them) and a disappointment by the family. When your first breath comes in, the honor is on your shoulders.

My parents were so disappointed they gave me up to my aunt and uncle until I was one year old. When I was three, my father tried to sell/promise me into marriage. My grandmother, his mother, was the one who intervened and stopped him from doing it.

As I grew up, I noticed clear differences between me and girls from less conservative families, but everything was relatively normal until I hit nine years old. When it happened, I suddenly stopped traveling with my parents, stopped being able to leave the curtains open, couldn’t wear the clothes I used to wear even though I was still a child… as I grew older and older, the restrictions increased as my uncle and my father said I was becoming a beautiful woman and “I would be a problem for their family”.

Then, when I noticed, I wasn’t allowed to appear on windows, get packages from the mailman, go out in the yard, have a phone, stay alone in my room, talk to men (even if it was something as trivial as buying groceries), going out alone, needing to looking down when men walk past you, stay in your room when there’s visitors and don’t make a noise so they can’t hear you, not speak too loudly either, not share your name… the list is endless.

And, when you grow up inside a such conservative, traditional and religious family, your only future is disappearing. Along with having no voice and no face, servitude is as inescapable as death.

When you’re under a piece of cloth, you become faceless, you have no identity of your own. Outside the house, you’re a ghost. Inside the house, you’re a servant. You have no choice over yourself. This is your identity, a servant ghost who’s screams people pretend not to hear.

To a certain level, when you try to reflect on it, the veiling can be comforting. Being invisible can be comforting, no one sees you, you don’t need to worry about a thing. You can hide all your thoughts and most shameful actions from the daylight and no one is going to find out about them. But, when you are under the veil, your identity becomes something only you know about. To the rest of the world, you don’t exist, you’re not human. The veil will slowly dehumanize you, you will start fading away and there’s nothing you can do about it because how can someone attribute a face to a piece of fabric with a mesh on eye level?

And don’t fool yourself, the longer you keep your veil on, the harder the expectations will be. You may only need to cover now, but in some time, they will ask you why are your toes showing and why are you not hiding your hands behind the veil too, and why are you even outside your house? You should be home, protecting your family’s honor, you’re disgracing your family, go home.

And you may think “I’m invisible to the outside world but in my house I’m irreplaceable”, are you? How irreplaceable will you be when a younger, better wife comes in and the only safety you may have is the idea that your children will grow up to take care of you? How would someone possibly feel bad for you when you are nothing but a black trashbag? If you become a beggar, how will they see the suffering on your face if it will be covered and hidden away from the world?

I can’t be hypocritical and say that I don’t feel a sense of security under the veil, but it’s a false sense of security. When the time for your death comes, you won’t have your name on your grave, you won’t have a face. All you will ever have been is a servant, invisible to the outside world, with no God above to wonder “what about her?”. How dear are you inside those walls?