#manifest feminist

[uter-us]

radfem help !!

2 of my little cousins (14yrs and 15yrs) are both girls dating boys right now, and together we are coming up with a "dealbreaker list" of things they will never put up with from their bfs! and also we are including positives, like so they aren't just looking for the absence of bad things, but actual positive things

what do yall think are the most important things to add? (i put extra info in tags)

Thank you so much!!!

[theshiftingwitch]

I know this is mainly an LOA / shifting blog that I keep faceless and anonymous, but in real life I am a staunch feminist with so much burning rage in my veins. So think twice before coming into my inbox to shit on women because you think loa or shifting got a bad rep because of them! You think I'm going to sympathise with you while you throw around the word "female" like it's a curse and blame innocent creators for trying to have fun with their content, think again. I will burn you at the stake before I engage in your misogynistic bullshit. I get you're tired of misinformation but I will block you faster than you can blink for throwing that shit around.

Happy fucking shifting ❤️

[super-nova5045]

i think the reason oliver is such a compelling character - or at least to me, he is - is because in the end…he wins! he gets what he wants and comes out on top.

in this modern world everyone is a bit of an oliver. crippling social anxiety, awkward, booksmart, and later in the film mostly queer audiences STILL find themselves relating to oliver’s struggle of how to express a desire that is so unconventional, so disturbing, so queer. normally in shows like this - shows with stunning rich people and their stunning social skills - the social outcast remains a social outcast. the queercoded character does not get their happy ending and remains the perpetual butt of the joke.

but in saltburn? saltburn almost has a gone girl sort of ending in the way the supposed villain gets what they want in the end, and we’re rooting for them! we see a mostly unexplored perspective in cinema - the perspective of the outsider, of the freak, and we see just how awful these people - beautiful shiny upper class folk - are, and then this outsider, who has been patronised and placed on a pedestal and humiliated, gets his revenge and gets everything he desired in the end. and in a world where queer, different characters are killed off or side lined or made fun off for whom or what they desire, oliver stands out, because he gets what he desires and he makes the audience root for him while he’s doing it.

[nico-esoterica]

'Can I manifest a kpop idol?'

You mean that poor boy who gets 1/14th of a cut raging at League of Legends in a sweat soaked gamer chair? And waiting on overpriced takeout who's lonely and overworked af?

Yes, of course it is. Even if he's a multi millionaire, that gamer chair's still crooked and there's an open monster energy drink that's gone flat in the corner somewhere.

[droitsdesfemmes]

Manifestation féministe à Londres le 13 juin 1908, devant la bannière de Bath, Frances Balfour et Millicent Fawcett. Agence Rol.

[theeternalwombtarot]

The lack of advocacy for choice feminism and the practice of taking away women’s choices, rights and freedoms is exactly what led to the erasure of women’s reproductive rights in multiple US states and almost fully eclipsed them in others!!! The same people who put that in motion are the same people who told your female ancestors that they couldn’t wear pants, weren’t fit to work, and that their lives purpose didn’t include anything outside of child bearing and coddling and enabling a man. The lack of advocacy for choice feminism is the same thing that is still allowing honor killings to take place in areas of the world where it’s not socially accepted to allow women to make their own choices about Theo bodies, where they want to go, who they want to talk to, what they want to wear, etc. come on guys!!!! Come on!!!! let us lead our last two braincells that are still standing after a life lived full of processed junk in the direction of common sense and women's rights!!!

[lllakristos]

To all my fellows who tie their sense of self-worth with how productive or how considerably successful they are:

Not everybody thinks the same way you do. Some people don't even consider completing a single task yet they believe the world owes them everything.

Stop being harsh on yourself.

[marshmellowtea]

eyeing this post i have in the drafts like do i want to post this. will this get me angry anons

[gyudoll555]

Because the universe give me everything I want ! 🎀

[littlebydigital]

Opening possibilities of a new way of being.

[atopvisenyashill]

i feel bad creeping thru people’s blogs without following them right away but unfortunately i have accidentally followed so many people that seemed normal and turned out to be terfs so i always have to stalk someone’s blog for weeks before i follow now. if u see me all of a sudden liking all your posts for a specific, obscure character there’s a high chance i’ll start following you like a month from now lol

[thechronicmasochist]

I'm taking a class this term that's looking at Chicana feminism and activism and my instructor is so fucking smart and very cool and the other six kids in my class deserve to be hit with large sticks for talking over her all the time and making it so she can't give her fucking lectures on her dissertation topic.

[selfishgeneration]

SELFISH GENERATION https://www.instagram.com/selfish_generation/

[terven--godess]

I've developed so much fatigue over online radfem spaces to be honest, like yeah I still align with the politics and I don't think that'll ever really change, but I'm at a point where I can't get over the inaction of online political spaces…not saying that there's none of this happening but, we have to organize, we have to venture into the material world. There's risks that have to be discussed and addressed sure but there's more risk to staying silent & also strength in numbers. Being crypto is reasonable, but how can we move forward? These are things that need to seriously be considered for any sort of real societal shift or activism to happen, or even for us to just have irl connections which are so, so invaluable and so different from digital ones. The notion that women somehow "ruin" men's happiness through their interests and passions is a projection of men's own insecurities. From making fun of female-dominated hobbies to invalidating their emotional experiences, many men seek to undermine what women value. This pattern of behavior reflects a deeper discomfort with allowing women their own agency, especially when it doesn't align with traditional male ideals of what's important or worthy of respect. Instead of uplifting women, these actions serve to keep them in a subordinate position. Feminist fatigue with online spaces stems from the lack of real-world action. While digital platforms have allowed for the spread of feminist ideas, many activists feel that the movement has stalled. Without organizing in physical spaces, there is a risk that feminist discourse will remain theoretical and disconnected from the tangible change needed to challenge oppressive systems. Reproductive violence is a widespread form of control used by men, religious institutions, and governments to limit women's autonomy. Through the denial of birth control or abortion access, women are forced into unwanted pregnancies or childbirth, reinforcing male control over female bodies. The way internalized misogyny often manifests within certain marginalized groups is striking. frieza: Im derpy, but even I wouldnt crimb LIC. Me:

LIC…DIK…KIB… All sleping. Why is Donkey Kongs banana horde always full of sklebby Super Saiyan Forms? Go to Links kitchen of shame, and dont look back.

[shoujoboy-restart]

Also the actual worry men should have is prostate cancer, so "male breast cancer" is the equivalent of talking about the importance of losing weight and exercise while having a undiagnosed brain tumor. It's virtue signaling, men feel so unable to externalize their feelings and struggles with other men they feel the only alternative is to constantly make women's issue about them and demand pointless sympathy.

[taliabhattwrites]

I don't think there is a significant or notable number of people who believe transmascs are not oppressed.

I feel slightly insane just having to type this out, but this is rhetoric you inevitably come across if you discuss transfeminism on Tumblr.

The mainstream, cissexist understanding of transmasculine people is the Irreversible Damage narrative (one that's old enough to show up in Transsexual Empire as well) of transmascs as "misguided little girls", "tricked" into "mutilating themselves". It is a deliberately emasculating and transphobic narrative that very explicitly centers on oppression, even if the fevered imaginings misattribute the cause. As anyone who's dealt with the gatekeeping medical establishment knows, they are far from giving away HRT or even consults with both hands, and most transfems I know have a hard enough time convincing people to take DIY T advice, leave alone "tricking" anyone into top surgery.

Arguably, the misogyny that transmasculine folks experience is the defining narrative surrounding their existence, as transmasculinity is frequently and erroneously attributed to "tomboyish women" who resent their position in the patriarchy so much they seek to transition out of it. This rhetoric is an invisiblization of transmasculinity, constructed deliberately to preserve gendered verticality, for if it were possible to "gain status" under the sexed regime, its entire basis, its ideological naturalization, would fall apart.

Honestly, the actual discussions I see are centered around whether "transmisogyny" is a term that should apply to transmascs and transfems alike. While I understand the impetus for that discussion, I feel like the assertion that transmisogyny is a specific oppression that transfems experience for our perceived abandonment of the "male sex" is often conflated with the incorrect idea that we believe transmasculine people are not oppressed at all. This is not true, and we understand, rather acutely, that our society is entirely organized around reproductive exploitation. That is, in fact, the source of transfeminine disposability!

I know I'm someone who "just got here" and there is a history here that I'm not a part of, but so much of that history is speckled with hearsay and fabrication that I can't even attempt to make sense of it. All I know is that I, in 2024, have been called a revived medieval slur for effeminate men by people who attribute certain beliefs to me based on my being a trans woman who is also a feminist, and I simply do not hold those views, nor do I know anyone who sincerely does.

If you're going to attempt to discredit a transfeminist, or transfeminism in general, then please at least do us the courtesy of responding to things we actually say and have actually argued instead of ascribing to us phantom ideologies in a frankly conspiratorial fashion. I also implore people to pay attention to how transphobic rhetoric operates out in the wider world, how actual reactionaries talk about and think of trans people, instead of fixating so hard on internecine social media clique drama that one enters an alternate reality--a phantasm, as Judith Butler would put it.

Speaking of which--do y'all have any idea how overrepresented transmascs are in trans studies and queer theory? Can we like, stop and reckon with reality-as-it-is, instead of hallucinating a transfeminine hegemony where it doesn't exist? I'm aware a lot of their output isn't particularly explicative on the material realities of transmasculine oppression despite their prominence in the academy, but that is ... not the fault of trans women, who face extremely harsh epistemic injustice even in trans studies.

The actual issue is how invisiblized transmasculine oppression is and how the epistemicide that transmasculine people face manifests as a refusal to differentiate between the misogyny all women face, reproductive exploitation in particular, and the contours of violence, erasure, and oppression directed at specifically transmasculine people.

You will notice that is a society-wide problem, motivated by a desire to erase the possibilities of transmasculinity, to the point of not even being willing to name it. You will notice that I am quite familiar with how this works, and how it's completely compatible with a materialist transfeminist framework that analyzes how our oppression is--while distinct--interlinked and stems from the same root.

I sincerely hope that whoever needs to see this post sees it, and that something productive--more productive dialogue, at least--can arise from it.