#on this blog it’s intersectional feminism or fuck off

[autistic-katara]

just found out i was accidentally following a terf (they post content for a fandom i’m in) so i just wanna say if ur a terf and u see this please block me, and send this post to all ur terfy friends and have them block me too

i am a teenage trans boy who plans on medically transitioning and cutting off my mother who won’t let me cause of UR GUYS’ BS (it has quite literally almost killed me) as soon as i can who is also very pro consensual kink and SW (yes i am aware there are massive problems in the industry, but ur shit isn’t helping SWers and they’ve told u that ur rhetoric is harmful a million and use haven’t listened), and who stands with my trans sisters and siblings (and with my trans brothers since while ur rhetoric is more outwardly harmful to transfems we’re still hurt by it). u do not want me on ur dash or ur posts and i feel the same abt u. please ffs if u see this block me

[not-gray-politics]

"Women are infantilizing themselves" this "Why are women dressing like little girls" that "Why do women use the term "adulting" and own plushies and wear cute dresses" hey have you ever stopped to reconsider why we scrutinize everything women do and/or are sometimes interested in and put it under a microscopic lense and psychoanalyze it. Maybe the girl dinner girlies just like food. Maybe women like aesthetics and toys and fashion because they're FUN. I don't see people asking the same thing about guys who play with legos and like superheroes and play roleplaying games. it's always "Why are WOMEN doing all of these 'infantilizing' things". Have you ever stopped to think about how maybe it's all just FUN. You don't need a reason for enjoying things!! It's not """infantilizing""" to immerse yourself in things that bring you joy! Stop this weird misogynistic nonsense! Stop interpreting things society arbitrarily decided are "feminine" as being childish or demeaning! Question that shit when you see it!! Even people who approach these kinds of ideas in completely good faith sometimes fail to recognize it as being rooted in misogyny.

[uhhhhmanda]

a blog to block/report

The terfs have gotten ahold of my popular repost of a tweet about Beatriz Sousa. Please block (and report, if you like) this blog:

Very icky.

[bisexualseraphim]

How about you go hate on violent males and n*zis the way you hate women who don't like dick?? Oooh is it because the males pose an actual threat to you? Fucking coward

I have literally made posts complaining about misogynistic men several times before. I don’t know how you use this website, but I go about my day, something happens that gives me A Thought, I make a quick post about it, and then I go back to doing important life things. I would love to spend all day on my phone complaining about how nasty all the evils of the world are, but I can’t. I make posts about things as they come up when I have the time to make them.

And I don’t know what you’re talking about re “women who don’t like dick,” whom I have zero issues with, but if you mean radfems, I have been posting about them a lot lately because I made a single post about them and now they won’t leave me the fuck alone (despite the big “fuck off” in my bio) and it’s pissing me off lol. When they give me peace and I’m able to think about other things I will post about other shit.

If you don’t like what I post, block me and move on. It’ll make you so much happier I promise. Or how about you turn anon off before sending me shit like this? Calling me a coward but won’t even show your own URL when you’re talking all big lmao

[malikson]

I have their tags filtered, and it's always frustrating seeing their posts getting reblogged... I bet most people don't even read their posts all the way through because I've noticed they usually leave the hint that they're a terf/radfem to the last few lines

yeah like in the post i saw she referred to men as “males” and that tipped me off. i went to her blog and lo and behold, radfem, and when i looked up trans on her blog, gender critical and terf bullshit. it’s funny too because the first post i saw on her blog was about how conservatives aren’t allowed in radfem spaces. right, as if your whole belief system isn’t eurocentric/white centric. of fucking course you’re gonna have conservative racist pieces of shit in your circle

if this isn’t enough, here’s a reminder that yours truly is trans nonbinary and my feminism is intersectional. i don’t want ANY radfems, terfs or gender critical people following me

[crumblinggothicarchitecture]

hi it's 'trans rights' anon, sorry for being cagey i just enjoy your thoughts and didn't want to engage if you turned out to be a terf. Sorry for being weird! I love reading your long ass posts tearing tswift limb from literary limb

Hello again! No worries- I had just worried if it was something I said that made you feel uncomfortable, or that maybe it was something in my bio that felt off. So I tried to explain anything that might have been the cause.

I don't know how to internet- I'll be honest I never use social media and I've only been talking on this blog for like a few months. So, sometimes I worry that I will be misinterpreted- It's happened a few times already so. Anyway- I don't stand for any kind of discriminatory practices.

In my real-life activism- I consider myself a bit of a radical really because I've been working in organizations helping to protect LGBT rights down here in the American South since I was in High School.

So, I really just don't fuck around about wanting everyone to be safe and able to fully express themselves in whichever manner they see fit. So- don't worry about wanting to double check. I'm super into feminism and navigating feminism on this website has been a bit of challenge - because sometimes I think people are really far left, and down with intersectional feminism, and then I discover they have really regressive views on gender. I do not understand it????????????

Anyway, hopefully my response was reassuring enough?

But I'm glad to hear you enjoy my literary criticisms of Taylor Swift. It's actually brought some joy back into my life. Before I started doing this, I was really burnt out on writing. I hadn't written anything for months!

I was legitimately considering a career change- but I think I just need to rediscover the joy of literary criticism. Doing critique of Taylor Swift has been the best form of low-stakes exploration, and it's just so nice to remove the pressure I put on myself to do the best work possible for my job. I feel like here I can relax I little bit and maybe just chat about stuff I notice in her work. It's been helping a lot with the burn out issue.

I might branch out into some other musicians too- just for fun. I would like to talk about some artists I actually love too like Hozier or Joy Oladokun. Or ramble about some poets I love- like Mary Oliver. I could write a dissertation on her work alone- and still be singing praises after the fact.

okay done rambling now <3 bye

[genderkoolaid]

"mens liberation" i know you don't process any of the asks you get about how misogynistic your entire blog is but can you at the fucking least make your own "movement" that doesn't directly rip off the movement women made to get their own economic agency and freedom. you do realize women's liberation was because women were making half the amount of money men were, couldn't open their own bank accounts and were trapped in marriages that drove thousands to suicide, right? you are being grotesquely, offensively stupid by ripping off a movement for civil, economic and social agency so you can talk about how mens feelings are hurt when people expect them (yes, in a variety of toxic ways) to be tough or masculine. there are infinitely many ways for you to talk about how masculinity is demonized in society without discrediting actual feminist movements - it's just so funny to me you identify as "pro feminist" and not just a feminist. of course you don't want to nominally be part of a movement that includes women. you would make any intersectional feminist's skin crawl. sincerely, a trans man who has actually read feminist theory.

this is just goofy. it's some online-discourse-ass thinking to feel that being inspired by another movement is somehow harmful to that movement; how the fuck do you think solidarity between marginalized groups should work if any sort of "hey we're inspired by what you guys are doing" is "ripping off". "pro-feminist" is being used to specify that my men's liberation is not against feminism but thanks for nitpicking the exact fucking language I use to show that, next time I'll make sure to cater every single word I say to your exact bad faith whims. no aspect of men being inspired by feminism in any way hurts women's fight for liberation, you dork, and both are quite important to me since i am both a man and a woman. anyways

[sweaterkittensahoy]

hi i just want to say i love love love ur blog and thank u for all the info on “rad feminism”. although i very much believe in / support / LOVE feminism (of course!!!!) i wasnt really aware of the term but i do hear it thrown around a lot so i’m shocked to hear that this type of “feminism” is discriminatory towards transgender people. feminism should be the complete OPPOSITE of that. calling urself a feminist and forcing ppl into boxes is CRAZY.

So, here's a post I reblogged today that looks at how radfems and TERFs are doing shit on tumblr to try and indoctrinate people, and I just want to share that because there's further good information about their tactics.

The history of radfems is 100% wrapped in gatekeeping and control tactics. Very short history: Radfems were birthed out of second wave feminism. Up until that point, feminism was something pursued in the public sector most often by women who had the means and time to focus fully on activism. So, upper middle-class white women. There were BIPOC women in every aspect of feminism from the beginning, but due to socioeconomic factors and just plain old racism, those women were rarely listened to outside their own sphere of influence.

In second wave, BIPOC women had finally gained some upward mobility economically and socially that opened the doors to do more in the wider world of the feminist movement. When they went to the white women in charge of the movement and said, "Hey, we have supported and worked for your concerns for decades. Here are things that are especially affecting BIPOC women, and we would greatly appreciate the reciprocation of everything we've put into the movement.

To which the upper middle-class white women who had the power in the movement basically said, "No, those things don't affect us, so we don't care."

Out of this schism came a lot of white women who couldn't believe other women were "betraying" them by putting the needs of their communities ahead of what white women wanted. And that was the birth of radical feminism, the idea that anyone who called themself "feminist" disagreeing with these women were the enemy and had to be silence and stopped.

Several decades later, third wave feminism was able to really start discussing intersectional feminism where even if your concerns aren't mine, they are valid because you are speaking from an experience and a community I don't have. But we are all striving for human rights, dignity, and respect, so fighting for the rights of one woman is fighting for rights for all of us. Third wave isn't (wasn't? I'm not sure if we've actually rolled into fourth wave at this point) perfect. White Feminism is still an issue. Getting people who say they believe in the rights of all women to realize that means women they find fundamentally terrible deserve the same human rights is a problem. People wanting to put Western Feminism Ideals onto other cultures like Japan and the Middle East is a problem.

Meanwhile, Radical Feminists have built a walled-off city where they can all yell about how they're the truest and purest feminists and anyone who disagrees with them is mentally ill, or hates women, or is an abuse apologist. Amongst many other claims.

The difference between Radfems and Feminists is that Radfems don't want to bring in anyone who doesn't absolutely agree with them on every point. Feminists want to open the doors and welcome anyone trying to genuinely help all women achieve human dignity. It's not a perfect system. As listed above, there are issues in the movement to this day that will likely persist until the universe ends, but at the core of it, Radfems want total agreement and loyalty, and Feminists are seeking to build a community where we understand one another and support one another even if my problem isn't your problem.

The most important thing to remember, I think, is this: The number of radfems is actually pretty small. They're just fucking loud. And I think the reason they've gotten so loud is that more and more people are realizing their goals aren't to educate or help but to shame and control, and so they're getting louder about how they're the real victims and MUST fight back against people who disagree with them, whether directly or not because they're trying to "save" the "real" feminists. They're not trying to save anyone except themselves and the rest of their cult, and to hell with the rest of us. But, there's more of us seeking real community and care than radfems, so I think we'll win in the end. We just have to remember that we're in this together, and that keeping the door open to new ideas and information is a very powerful tool.

[smalltowndoll]

It was late summer, 2007; I was still just a child. The sun beat onto my face, covered in sunburn and freckles. Life was simple, and I was pure.

asks are tagged #dollytalks

religious imagery is tagged #god was here

Noah, 25, genderfucked. You probably hate me.

I hate men but I have a boyfriend, so fuck off. I'm too beautiful for you anyway. Not radfem. I hate radicalization of any belief more than a group of people.

Intersectional Feminism for the win do not take my words as gospel like you do your bibles. I am not a god or angel or deity on which to pray and worship. I am flesh and blood and bones and ash like the rest of you.

୨୧ Likes

─ dolls, fashion, soft things, pink and green, nature, sleeping, romance, cooking, horror, liminal spaces, flowers, video games, anime, bugs, stars, road trips, stuffed animals, bows, snow, sunshine, rain, him ❤︎

─ i'm a soft, sensitive, sweet angel with dark hair, glasses and scarred skin. i'm not here to play, i'm here to live and die a thousand times

This blog is my diary for my unlikeable weirdness and suffering, and deep longing of a soft and innocent childhood once more. I'm not nice, I'm as bitter as those who raised me as forced to be as cruel as the world I got thrown into.

This blog is NOT a radfem, waif, zionist, racist, anti-any religion, or terf blog!!! Please DNI if yours is.

[autumn-oceanopromises]

Writing Like A Woman

I bought a book and I'm waiting for it to be delivered: "To Write Like A Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction", by Joanna Russ. I've never read her work before, seminal and powerful as it seems to be in relation to queer, intersectional, and feminist perspectives, and her work seems to be mostly out of print, as she was active (and alive) in the 60s to 90s.

I'll be quite honest - up until probably my mid-twenties, the title of that book alone would have put me off it completely. (There's a whole story and essay to be had there, the growing-up ways that a POC immigrant boy - man - seeks the media perception of white (=good, =great) masculinity and pretends to be the most masculine and milquetoast, which includes rejecting femininity in everything, in order to reject perceptions of weakness, which are mostly to do with how other boys see boys, within the masculine subculture. How virtue signaling is constant, even in the most private of spaces and to absolutely nobody but myself.)

But that's not the topic of this entry. This one's about writing like a woman: the female-expectation-derived plot points and structures that are rarely examined and re-combined by amateur male writers, why writing and exploring those structures are especially important in the low-agency world we are entering into or are already living in now, and how I want to but don't quite know where to start.

*Trigger warnings and disclaimers: I come at this from the perspective of someone whose publicly posted body of amateur writing is 50% poetry, 40% erotica/pornography, including some extremely dark content (though none of it is, of course, hosted on this blog), so appropriate trigger warnings apply when I discuss this, and 10% other things, including NANO novels, short stories, slash and romance fanfic, game design, worldbuilding lore, marketing copy, etc. I read predominantly amateur fantasy and science fiction, often fanfiction, and not professionally published literary fiction, horror, or romance, and am unaware of the trends within them. I am a cishet POC man living in a predominantly white country, and as such, may mention and perpetuate problematic perspectives. This is my personal opinion, written in 2023.* I've approached the work of Joanna Russ circuitously. I would like her guidance in the literary analysis of feminist fiction. I discovered her first by finding out about her essays and novels from r/menwritingwomen, a subreddit about pinpointing the ways that men write women - as a lampoon, as a satire, as a horror. I've looked at critical, if fond, examinations of her work, which is often the only things available for free on the Internet any longer - respected authors, mostly women, who point to her work as something that inspired and provoked them. I very, very much look forward to finding out what her work reads like. I very much look forward, if dread, examining and being deeply, viscerally horrified, at my thinking, my plot structures, and my internalized bigotry. I look forward to deliberately playing some really horrible shit straight, but with an undercurrent of horror. I look forward to writing things which are less horrifying. I very much look forward to writing like a woman, especially in science fiction and fantasy.

Writing like a woman without acerbic wit and superb guidance (at least according to all the critics), it turns out, in 2023 amateur writing spaces, even and especially under the current flood of "strong female characters", is incredibly fucking hard. Writing, plot and structure, is still mostly treated with the implication and context of masculine-derived plot and structures. The Hero's Journey is about men, after all, and it inseminates most things in modern media. In amateur genre fiction, which holds a lot of eyeballs, including isekai and litRPGs, there's very few non-male viewpoints; fantasy and science fiction as a setting abounds just about everywhere, but the rise and fall of the plot remains action, adventure, base-building, and shounen: everything stems from what society expects and pressures boys and men to do and desire: to conquer, to save, to explore, to investigate, to fight, to build and create, to happen to - to take, to seize, to plunder.

Some of the most popular tropes in this field are: overpowered protagonists, crushing and laying waste to things before them; time travel, cheat items and powers, systems to manipulate and game. The number of these stories are increasing, rapidly, and are a thriving ecosystem - the number of popular complete fucking jackasses maybe one or two morality pets is through the fucking roof.

I consume an absolute shit-ton of these. It was originally a guilty pleasure, but it's rapidly become less guilty, and more of blatant escapism and a solid portion of my day. I'm one of the target audience: I hate my job, but am reasonably good at it in some bits. I hate going to work, I hate being at work, and I hate the feeling of general helplessness and corporate bullshit, in myself, my team, and my customers, even while being very aware that I have probably some of the least corporate bullshit and helplessness that a person working in retail and in general is trading time for money, has. I have very much a lot of agency and I know I'm using it very poorly.

There is very little stopping me, in terms of amount of bureaucratic rules, except for the fact that the company is seriously overcharging people for a health-related product, mainly because the company is part of the fashion-industrial complex and a monolithic monopoly in the heart of unchecked capitalism. As a symptom of the general shittiness though, and unrelated to the corporate bullshit side of things, I especially hate entitled customers, who treat my team and me like shit for less and less amounts of money. Sure, you paid a "lot" of money for "the worst customer service in your whole life". We went out of our way to give you special treatment, including at least three free products and processes worth nearly 1.5 grand, something like four hours in consultation, and you in total spent $200 in a store where $800 is the average price, where you knew the average price walking in. I wish you genuinely shitty customer service for the rest of your miserable fucking life. That said, it's true that people in general just are making less money than the prices of living goods, and belts are squeezing tighter everywhere. If you can afford belts.

As people get less and less able to afford important shit, become less and less able to enact their own personal individualism and individual thoughts, and more and more ruled by whatever the higher-level narrative is - the news, the fashion companies, the social media trends, all of that shit - the more escapism rises, but also the more I believe that writing like a woman, like the challenges women faced in in the '60s to '90s is important. I would like to write "like a woman": I want to explore plot structures where the action happens in carving out agency under an unbearable and generally unbeatable social pressure - focusing more on the bureaucratic rather than the supernatural as in horror genre fiction, rather than the protagonist happening to the world. Figuring out the mystery where everyone and everything wants to kill or suppress you, girl (or boy, or other) meets house, and more structures that I just don't know yet, with and about things happening to the protagonist, the manic pixie dream boy archetypes, all that shebang and shemoves. I realize as I say this that it sounds incredibly stupid. The whole first half of the hero's journey is shit happening to the protagonist, the protagonist breaking out and developing agency, and arguably, a protagonist - especially in film - is almost always entirely reactionary.

But that focus on it? Where the pressure is right there, if unacknowledged or right out of the eyeline? Where specifically, the focus is the variation on and about carving out what little agency you can have in a world that specifically is trying to keep you down and quiet and in your little box and if you go too far they'll slap you down into place with horrific impersonal consequences, so walking the line and making peace with walking the line, is really, really important? Joanna Russ wrote a lot of this in science fiction, and many, many feminist writers have explored this in fantasy (in historical and epic), in mystery, in romance, in horror, in literary fiction, in erotica made by and for women. It exists in trans narratives, in queer narratives, in POC narratives, in narratives about poverty.

I don't know anyone who's cross-applied the same structures to the boxes for cishet middle-class men, even though we're rapidly entering a world where those boxes are getting more and more obvious and more and more crushing, because the middle-class is shrinking rapidly and high-level narratives, spin, trends, all that shit, are turning people on people. Radicalising via arousing extreme states of anger and fear, lust and gluttony and envy and greed. And, okay, there's a lot of fiction out there for cishet men already. It's just, that fiction for cishet men always runs with the same narratives that, frankly, causes this shit to happen IRL for everyone else.

I'll be honest: this whole entry is probably nothing new to people already reading and agreeing with the points of feminist literature. And cishet man discovers one of the good points of feminist literature, news at 11. But it matters to me.

And I don't know any mainstream literature or media, where specifically, the direction to make this situation and setup is about empowerment. Bioshock, maybe. But even that has caveats. Because a lot of works in these structures are tragic, specifically are about arousing extreme fear and anxiety and tension. Sometimes sexually arousing, sometimes sublimating it into an orgy of "justified" violence. Can I make this setup empowering and joyful and ecstatic and awe-inspiring and wonderful, with happy endings that don't result in breaking out of the physical box entirely or withdrawing into personal self-isolation, through whatever means? Because the pressure is overwhelming and there's a lot of it. And you can't change the world around you, you can't control it, but you can control yourself and your reaction to it - that's one of the most common therapy adages. And this is, very much, the same thing. I think it's really important, because the direction, very much, in high-level narratives and spin, especially in Western countries, is "give up when you're faced with this pressure". It's give in and join the complex. It's "escape into a fantasy world where shit is easy". It's escape into apathy. Apathy is the highest it's ever been, political or otherwise. Lack of social connection, lack of intimacy, lack of knowing and understanding and empathizing. It's rabble-rousing with undirected anger and fear directed against other people who are also angry and fearful.

And I think it's really worth disguising as a different take, so that some of the audience that's consuming media and fiction that would cause it IRL, instead starts looking at and exploring and varying takes on dealing with it instead. I don't know if there is much like this, in published fiction. though maybe there's a heap of it and I just have never found it. Therapy-heavy fiction and takes exist, but they come off really proselytizing.

Specifically though, on a personal level, I'm wondering, yet again, about the courtesan universe that I'm writing. All the fixed points in the timeline, everything I've written so far about it, I now realize is variations on this theme. But, having come at it from a male perspective, having written and consumed only ever male perspectives or male-reflected expectations and perspectives, it's always come off incredibly flat, somehow, with caricatures of characters. I've put in conflicts and things which are irrelevant and sometimes contradictory to the underlying message and exploration of theme for that universe, and it reads badly. My whole life, as well, has been about "breaking out of the box", while being incredibly aware that I keep putting myself back inside, or breaking out of the box and realizing I'm just in a bigger box; carving out agency while staying in the same box still feels like a failure to me.

I really want to explore this, though. I want to carve out my own agency, and be okay with it, living in the box that society dictates. I would like to explore, in writing, and hopefully share with other people, and inspire them to explore the same thing, their own takes on it. This is still, quintessentially, a very male perspective on a female-based structure, and I'm aware of that, so I would appreciate guidance. I really want to tell these stories, and explore these themes, writing like a woman.

[bugbuoyx]

About Me

You've got the basic rundown from my sidebar but what else could there be? So much more obviously lol. This is really long so read at your own risk. I’m only posting this to pin it :P Edit: This is the most recent version of the tumblr pride flags post! There is a list of flags I have done in the replies

Anyways I'm a queer transmasculine guy who's gender is best describe as la croix boy, sparkling guy, or guy-adjacent. I present masculinely in public as well as obviously queer. I’m also mlm/nblm meaning I’m gay and I like dudes.

I am not subtle about being queer at all in any shape or form, nor do I censor or tag it or any other slurs. Being queer is an essential part of my identity, one you can not remove without erasing a part of me. The intersection between my gender and sexuality is complex and I don’t really care for microlabels for myself.

Besides that I have hobbies! Too many of them! I crochet just about anything I’ve done 10in amogus’s, shawls (I love making shawls even though they’re not my style), and useful things like pot holders and wash cloths! I’m also getting into cross stitch. I draw as well as keep bugs. I forget to tag things alot but I usually tag “bugs” “spider” “arachnid” etc. I’m awkward so I don’t post much myself but I reblog stuff about transmascs, the queer community, bugs, and whatever I find funny. This is my old blog from like 2014-2018 that I’m reusing out of laziness so if you’re trying to dig up dirt on me please check post dates lmfao. I am much different now than I was when I was 14-18.

Some of my views: - I (and bigots) don’t give a fuck about slur discourse in respect to the queer community. I’m not gonna censor them, especially if it’s in regards to a persons identity. For example I’m not gonna say “The D*ke March” or the “D-slur March” because I respect them and their right to reclaim and identify themselves. If you ask me to tag tranny, faggot, dyke, etc. you’re better off blocking me/those words and moving on. If you ask me to tag queer, you’re the one catching a block.

- Trans people can not oppress each other on the basis of being trans, but they can hurt eachother personally. A transmasc can perpetuate transmisogyny but trans guys do not oppress trans women/vice versa. - Anti-transmasculinity exists. Actually I’ll go a step further, misandry does exist and mainly manifests against oppressed groups though it is also spread by radfem groups. - Radfems catch a block, I don’t care if you are “trans friendly”, radical feminism is inherently transphobic. Men and Masculinity are not inherently evil, disgusting, or violent and can exist in non-toxic ways. Alongside that, femininity can be toxic and weaponized, such as radical feminism and false rape accusations.

- I don’t want to get into shipping discourse but I lean more pro-ship. I believe censorship demonstrably and inevitably leads to the silencing of minority communities. Tumblr is ironically a good example of this seeing as the porn ban also lead to trans women being labelled “nsfw” for simply existing.

[ixi-rrriots]

hey! im ixi or mickie, both are my name.

i use all pronouns, but im a queer girl, basically. shoutout to my gf.

im 16 and a loud riot grrrl feminist punk all that. im also the drummer for a band, to whomever it may concern

this blog is primarily for punk/riot grrrl stuff. have fun xoxo

this is a side blog btw. if you get followed by mickies-musical-madness, thats my main

FEMINISM INCLUDES ALL WOMEN. RACISTS AND TERFS AND ABLISTS GET THE FUCK OFF MY BLOG RIGHT NOW. INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISM IS THE ONLY REAL FEMINISM.

[xkittzkornerx]

considering removing the whole Bible Belt leftist thing. not bc i’m turning right or center but bc a lot of people have preconceived notions of me based off that label and it’s annoying. wish people would understand groups that large can’t be a hivemind. i acknowledge that many people in different political groups than mine have their own independent perspectives and aren’t just a caricature in a political cartoon. (i only generalize to simplify conversation and to avoid diluting the point—i don’t believe, for example, all republicans, think the same) stereotypes often exist for specific reasons but there are always exceptions. we’d all be better off if we asked people their opinions and why they think that way rather than assuming their stance based off their political affiliation and getting angry at their theoretical view.

it’s fine to hypthosize what they’re likely to belief based off their actions, but we’ve gotta remember that nothing is set in stone. literally just ask ffs. we have this hush-hush culture around politics in the US and it stinks. time and place is important but it’s expected to just not speak your mind or else you’re being divisive. it’s dumb. we never learn how to talk to one another bc we’re told not to, then we wonder why we’re always so misconstrued. it breeds a lot of room for propaganda to further divide us and damn, does it work. we should be structuring shit around learning how to disagree, and debate (if both parties wish), civilly. as long as you’re not throwing punches right out the gate, swinging around accusations and slurs, idk why we can’t just fucking talk to one another. actually talk, not shout at or spend the entire time trying to point out how stupid the other is. it is never lost on me how most people never ask the question why. i always want a why. i want to understand, even if i think it’s wrong. even if it’s immoral. how can you counter what you do not know?

people see on my blog that i’m an intersectional feminist and assume i hate all men, or that i hate cis women, or that i automatically believe what CNN publishes, or that i must love Biden. none of these things are true. they get so red over the word ‘feminist’ they didn’t bother looking into the specific branch of it i cited, and they don’t ask me my personal takes on any of these topics either. conveniently, they also ignore that right next to me saying i’m an interfem, i also say i’m an ethical humanist. my guy, that second half would answer some of your questions regarding my core values. it lays the foundation of which my feminism sprouts from.

humans are complex. i still don’t think labels are the problem, it’s how we use them so definitively w no wiggle room or nuance. people should be allowed to use terminology they identify w to communicate having similar beliefs/experiences, to form community, w/o having to list a fifty-page disclaimer that they, too, are a three-dimensional being. words are a concept, concepts are often fluid.

i just can’t understand how people jump to accusations so quickly, on all sides, so confidently. w their entire chest out and head high. i’ll shit talk Biden or criticize Harris and all of a sudden i’m part of MAGA. i’ll get a message saying i’m a collectivist and that i believe in cult-like loyalty and blind obedience. i have only ever stated that i believe the exact opposite and i actively fight against anything that perpetuates that thinking. lotta y’all don’t wanna “intellectual debate,” you want someone to verbally abuse.

[musicrunsthroughmysoul]

Oooh...it’s a good thing (and also a sad thing) that I checked someone’s blog before reblogging a post they made about feminism...because, while initially good, I also had the gut feeling that they may be leaving trans folks out of their concept of feminism and hmmmmm this OP didn’t discourage an anon who suggested radical feminism (aka TERF) as a possible label for themselves so. Yeah, no. Bye.

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🍦 ~About~ 🍦

Hey all, I’m Soph (she/her or it/its)! I’m a trans lesbian in her 30’s, trying out real gaining for the first time in her life. I’m a feeder, feedee, admirer, and broad-spectrum lover of fat and bodily self-expression!

I’m happily taken by my fantastic feeder-ish fiancee (Hi, girl!) who stumbled on this account months ago. That was, uh, pretty scary.

I shift between actively and passively gaining- I want to enjoy it as much as possible, and sometimes that means gently relishing the softness I’ve achieved, and sometimes it means being achingly stuffed on a daily basis~~~ 💖

This blog is 18+ only! Minors or blogs without their age listed will be blocked.

This blog is also loving, accepting, and respectful of all races, abilities, genders! Fuck off racists, terfs, and bigots of all kinds. I’m here for Queer Feedism, Fat Liberation, Body Positivity, Intersectional Feminism, and anything that lets people be who they really are without feeling ashamed

DMs and Asks are open! Feel free to send anything you want, I love to make friends on here, but it’s more likely to get a response if it’s more than just kink stuff

Into:

Soft feedism, teasing, encouragement, praise/worship, weight gain denial, non-degrading nicknames, weight gain erotica, wholesome and caring feedism, outgrowing clothes,

Not Into:

Death feedism, heavy degradation, vore, feet, inflation, immobility, non-consensual feeding

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Been blocking a lot of TERF lately and panphobic, gnc-phobic people. Fuck off I don't want to see you and your ridiculous nonsense. My blog is inclusive, I'm trans and my brand of feminism is intersectional feminism