#radical feminist resources

[cherryvampyre]

RADICAL FEMINIST WEBSITES currently in the process of making a large directory so this will be updated frequently; ALSO! join our radfem tumblr community (dm me or my alt @pussywhipped666 for the inv link. feel free to invite ur friends! if you have any websites or want yours added you can dm or comment

❧ Literature/reading;

list of 1st - 3rd wave literature by female authors only

radfem library google drive

translations

JSTOR feminist newsletter/magazine archive

reduxx women's magazine

andrea dworkin all works pdf

a simple explanation of classism (in case you don't get it)

❧ Studies & Statistics;

Transgender women and male type aggression

radfem studies google drive

research into transgender studies has been manipulated

gender critical erasure

literature, medicine, and misogyny: a collection of narratives

❧ Websites;

reject manifesto blog

Nordic model now

women life freedom

terf is a slur

fair play for women

feminist current

ovarit

womad

link to sistasepratist stuff

❧ Donations & petitions;

women for Afghan women

traffickinghub stop pornhub petition

change the definition of feminism to fit radicalism

womens declaration

❧ Media (fun!!);

VHS archive youtube

radfem archive

feminist movie list

female directed/written movie list

❧ Separate useful websites;

paywall reader

title capitalization website (I use this for all my blogs)

project Gutenberg; free books online

[majchic]

[she-is-ovarit]

It's concerning that this is now an LGB and women's issue now, but I really encourage people to begin purchasing USB drives or external hard drives and saving digital research on things such as gay & lesbian history, screenshots of tweets that might be important, homosexual and bisexual research, women's history, radical feminist books or PDFs, and really just anything that is at risk of being "corrected" by gender ideology or made inaccessible by academic publishers.

We need to save these things in a hard copy format as opposed to just using internet archive or taking Sci-hub for granted, because these organizations are experiencing heavy lawsuits. Additionally, it's becoming common for LGB and gender nonconformity history and research to be "rewritten" by gender ideologists. Actually, this is even true for past research and history on transvestism and transsexualism, too, in addition to things such as sex dysphoria, etc.

I bought three 64GB USBs for just $25. If you can't afford an external hardrive, buy some different colored USBs and start building your own library. We need to preserve this information and decentralize it as much as possible. It's worrisome enough that we rely on digital archives this much just generally, especially with the advent of AI and government and corporate attempts to eliminate data privacy and control.

This is a women's rights issue and an LGB issue now.

[hyacinthsgrimoire]

[womenaremypriority]

i don’t ever want to hear anyone deny that they’re medicalizing kids for being GNC ever again

This is a doctor speaking for Children’s Hospital of Orange County- the Orange County in California, one of the most populated counties in the USA, outright admitting a child being GNC (aka, a girl being masculine, or a boy being more feminine!) is a sign that they may be transgender, and they should be taken to a doctor right away. What was it about this being a TERF conspiracy, again?

[eclecticwordblender]

thinking about this one time i was called a gold digger because i jokingly said that if a man bought me a helicopter after making a mistake i would forgive him because of the helicopter.

yes, i’m a gold digger. explains why i was dating an unemployed 21 y/o male with no generational wealth or status who never got me any gifts or took me out on dates, had no promising future prospects and with whom i voluntarily split all the bills.

(i had and also have tens of better romantic prospects in every single way by the way)

yeah that’s exactly how "gold diggers" are.

[soihaveamilliondraftsright]

RECENT STATISTICS OF OVERWHELMINGLY MALE CRIME

The statistics are floating around on radblr, but when I checked on some statistics, I found they often came from the late 1990’s. Yes, they hold relevance, however it is almost three decades later and these statistics need to be renewed. It took an hour or so to find these on government websites of England and Wales.

Some common 90’s statistics thrown around are: 85% of people who commit murder are men, 90% of people who commit violent physical assault are men, and men perpetrate 95% of all serious domestic violence. More here.

I put the links to the data in the screenshots beneath the screenshots.

[radicalfacts]

radical facts - short feminist facts

#medical misogyny

Misogyny in the ER

Women visiting the ER with visited emergency departments with chest pain waited 29 percent longer than men to be evaluated for possible heart attacks.

Women are also 25% less likely than men to recieve effective pain treatment - and, as well, have to wait on average 30 minutes longer to recieve any pain relief treatment than male patients.

Women's pain also gets judged as less intense and less serious than men's - with according results for female patients.

Especially in gynecolgical treatments, women's pain tends to be dismissed to exist at all with many invasive treatments regularly being performed without any numbing or pain relief at all.

Women are also more likely to wait longer for a health diagnosis in general and to be told it’s ‘all in their heads’/psychological. That can be lethal: diagnostic errors cause 40,000-80,000 deaths in the US alone - with women being up to 30% more likely than men to get misdiagnosed.

[uter-us]

hey yall i got a great question from @waveofmutilationuksurf !! they asked how i view the process of male or female socialization, so here's some explanation with data on the way we are socialized based upon sex. anyone's free (and encouraged) to reblog or pm me or comment if my information is inaccurate, they have something to add, or disagree w, etc!!!

okay so to start off, just defining socialization: the second definition from Oxford languages for socialization is "the process of learning to behave in a way that is acceptable to society." so male socialization would be about the distinct differences in how people who are male are taught to behave acceptably in our society as opposed to female people. (most radfems would say "men"/"boys" and "women"/"girls" but this post isn't primarily for radfems just the general public interested, so I am only going to be saying female people / female children and male people / male children for that sake! i have more about this at the end.) I am talking primarily about the socialization in childhood and adolescence. (As their brains are developing, gender roles have a greater ability/depth to ingrain into their sense of the world and themselves. The dont have the context or knowledge to discern stereotype from reality.)

Male and female socialization aids in upholding misogyny and patriarchy primarily through gender roles. It starts from birth. From the abstract of peer reviewed ScienceDirect's "Gender Bias in Mothers' Expectations about Infant Crawling." ->

"This study examined gender bias in mothers' expectations about their infants' motor development. Mothers of 11-month-old infants estimated their babies' crawling ability, crawling attempts, and motor decisions in a novel locomotor task—crawling down steep and shallow slopes. Mothers of girls underestimated their performance and mothers of boys overestimated their performance. Mothers' gender bias had no basis in fact. When we tested the infants in the same slope task moments after mothers' provided their ratings, girls and boys showed identical levels of motor performance."

This is an example of how even before the female child could walk and talk, they were already being underestimated, and the male child was already being overestimated. This is a very sad message to send to the female children because it undoubtedly extends into other aspects of their lives. This is just the beginning of a lifetime of underestimation towards female people who will then internalize this about themselves, believing it to be true and hindering their potential. This message is also bad to send to the male children, because when this theme extends in other aspects of their lives (throughout their lives), they will underestimate the female people around them, while over estimating the male people. This undeniably will do harm to the female people as the playing field is not level!

Another example is on the content of greeting cards (separated by age too!). Children get greeting cards from peers and family year after year. From peer reviewed ACM's "Pretty Princess vs. Successful Leader: Gender Roles in Greeting Card Messages." (download for free here) ->

primary topics from the birthday cards:

and fyi this is the info on the catagorization:

"We further split these messages based on their gender association. We assume that the association is implied by the recipient’s gender mentioned in the message: If a message mentions an indicator in the general female group in Table 2 (or variations of mother or grandmother), we categorize it as a female-associated message."

Specifically in our discussion of childhood socialization, the difference between the female-addressed cards and the male-addressed cards were between a value in appearance for female children, and a value in achievement for male children.

(the reason i still am specifying sex and not gender for these cards is because the majority of trans people do not come out in childhood (more often adulthood and adolescence), so the vaaasttt majority of these birthday cards going to these children are picked based off their sex.)

this study was actually REALLY very interesting and you should definitely consider reading it (or at least perusing some of the data! they include valentines and wedding cards too w over 18000 cards total, and they additionally have some data on personal messages on twitter-- all very interesting!)

another example is from an article from the New York times titled, "The Gender Divide in Preschoolers’ Closets". The author, a mother to two preschoolers, sees the divide in her male toddler's clothing and her female toddler's clothing. She writes primarily about the functionality of the clothing. ->

"'Especially in the toddler years, the boys have more pockets, they have more fun active clothes than the girls,' said Francesca Sammaritano, a children’s wear designer and assistant professor of fashion at Parsons School of Design. 'There’s leg room for bending your knees.'"

Additionally the author Sara Clemence writes, "It’s not just about avoiding skinned knees, but also the subtle and discouraging message that’s woven right into girls’ garments: you are dressed to decorate, not to do."

As well as the functionality of the clothing, we can consider the text on the clothes from the girls section vs the boys section. In the Irish Times' "It’s time to tackle gendered inspirational guff on children’s clothes," Deirdre Falvey writes about the content on the clothing. ->

"The more that clothes and toys emphasise gender difference, the more our shared humanity is undermined. And the more girls and boys learn to see each other as other. The more children are pushed to conform to gender stereotypes – even via the clothes they’re offered – the more they grow up to fulfil them.

"The messages from most of these clothes: Girls are sweet and flowery, good and kind. Boys are strong and adventurous, assertive and bold. See it, wear it, become it."

Throughout this post, we've seen that female abilities are undermined; female and male children are taught female value is in appearance; female children are taught to minimize, quiet themselves, and "put on a pretty face." Male children are taught the polar opposite. The difference is stark!

Male and female socialization is important to recognize because it explains and contextualizes stereotypes and gender roles. For example, I hear men point to how women (or they often say "females") are less likely to ask for a raise as proof of women's "weak nature" and to justify the wage gap (fyi I find conflicting information if this is actually a true fact lol, but I digress). Is this because female people are just naturally more submissive? are they just naturally less assertive? no, it's not natural, it's nurtured.

Furthermore, outside of this post, I primarily say "men"/"boys" and "women"/"girls" as opposed to "male people"/"male children" and "female people"/"female children," because to me, there is a lot to a woman, but not a lot that makes a woman a woman. Her biology did not betray her; it was weaponized against her. These children in the studies and articles above are not mistreated because of their gender identity, they are mistreated because of their sex.

Another reason recognizing male/female socialization is important is because once we recognize that these things do happen, we can mitigate the harm. From peer reviewed APA PsycNet's "Parents’ judgments of children’s gender-typed play indicate qualities of the early-life caregiving environment." ->

"Mothers who displayed androgynous and counterstereotyped preferences—primarily conveying approval different-gender-typed play—were rated higher on objective assessments of the quality of the home environment and parent–child interactions."

I'm not speaking for all radfems, but in my understanding, a large part of not considering trans women to be women is due to their socialization, and that a gender identity or sense of self can not undo years of male socialization starting from birth.

I hope this was reasonably coherent ! if you have questions and corrections lemme know :)

[mrterfycat]

Hi radfems, I need your help <3

I need some resources / theories / stats from Good sites on the following topics, I had some saved and I'm not able to find it anymore;

1. Man to woman Ratio of Porn watchers

2. Man to woman Sexual Assault Stats

3. Theory/resource on Beauty standards affecting women.

4. How Patriarchy Affects women and What all Patriarchy has Done to women.

5. All the rights Men and women DON'T have.

6. Stats of Crimes by men and Women.

7. How Misogyny is ingrained into women

8. Overall on what all women go through vs what men go through

If i remember more I'll be adding it.

Please Rb to boost <3

[haggishlyhagging]

List of Wordpress/blogspot radfem blogs that I’ve found

I haven’t 100% verified all of these are radfem and not sure how many are active. If you know of more that are still online please send them to me? My inner librarian really wants to collate.

-https://antipornfeminists.wordpress.com

-https://bevjoradicallesbian.wordpress.com

-https://elementalwitch.wordpress.com

-https://factcheckme.wordpress.com

-https://feministuk.wordpress.com

-https://www.hellyeahimafeminist.com

-https://icemountainfire.wordpress.com

-https://keepingreallesbianfeminismsimple.wordpress.com

-https://radfemimages.wordpress.com

-https://radfemspiraling.wordpress.com

-https://radfemworldnews.wordpress.com

-https://radicalhubarchives.wordpress.com

-https://radicalkitten.wordpress.com

-http://radicalprofeminist.blogspot.com

-https://sisterhoodispowerful.wordpress.com

-https://sisteroutrider.wordpress.com

-https://storyendingnever.com

-https://thenewbacklash.blogspot.com

-https://tradfem.wordpress.com/

-https://trustyourperceptions.wordpress.com

-https://witchwind.wordpress.com

[cherryvampyre]

i think we should start a campaign to remove the definition of feminism from google & the dictionary and change it to this:

instead of this:

saying that it’s based on equality just causes issues & makes it so male centric, it’s not equality it’s liberation of women from OPPRESSION like don’t even annoy me

here is the petition ^^ pls take 2 moments to sign (make sure to verify with email or it won't go through)

[being-kindrad]

Feminist Reprise “Book List” webpage archive

I archived the “Book List” page from the now-defunct Feminist Reprise website.

[she-is-ovarit]

There's a new website a radical feminist made, which just launched! I wanted to share:

"Hello all! I wanted to share the website that I've created, kindrad.org. My goal was to create a place where a person with little background in feminism or gender criticism would be able to get started in understanding these concepts."

It sounds like she's planning on adding more to it at a future date and that this is just more of a skeleton foundation. Still, it's really well designed and is a great introduction to gender critical/radical feminism.

[overtlydinosaurian]

Are you a Feminist?

Are You A Feminist, the introduction of Jessa Crispin's 2017 feminist manifesto

Do you believe women are human beings and deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist, or so all the feminists keep insisting.

Despite the simplicity and obviousness of the dictionary definition of feminism, and despite years of working at feminist nonprofits and decades of advocacy, I am disowning the label. If you asked me today if I am a feminist, I would not only say no, I would say no with a sneer.

Don't worry this is not where I insist I am not a feminist because I am afraid of being mistaken for one of those "hairy -legged, angry, man hating feminists" who are drawn up like Boogeyman by men and women alike. Nor will I now reassure you of my approachability, my reasonable nature, my heteronormativity, my love of men and my sexual availability (despite the fact that this disclaimer appears to be a requisite for all feminist writing published in the last 15 years.) If anything, that pose- I am harmless, I am toothless, you can fuck me -is why I find myself rejecting the feminist label. All these bad feminists, all these Talmudic "can you be a feminist and still have a bikini wax?" discussions. All of these reassurances to their (male) audiences that they don't want too much, won't go too far - "we don't know what Andrea Dworkin was on about either! Trust us!" All of these feminists giving blowjobs like its missionary work. Somewhere along the way towards female liberation, it was decided the most effective method was for feminism to become universal. But instead of shaping a world and a philosophy that would become attractive to the masses, a world based on fairness and community and exchange, it was feminism itself that would have to be rebranded and remarketed for contemporary men and women.

They forgot that for something to be universally accepted, it must be banal, as non-threatening and ineffective as possible. Hence the pose. People don't like change, and so feminism must be as close to the status quo - with minor modifications - as it can be in order to recruit large numbers. In other words it has to become entirely pointless. Radical change is scary. It's terrifying actually. And the feminism I support is a full-on revolution. Where women are not simply allowed to participate in the world as it already exists - a world that because it was devised by a patriarchy in order to subjugate and control and destroy all challengers is inherently a corrupt world - but are actively able to reshape the world. Where women do not simply knock on the doors of churches, of governments, as capitalist marketplaces and politely ask for admittance, but create their own religious systems, governments, and economies. My feminism is not one of incremental change that is so revealed in the end to be The Same As Ever, but more so. It is a cleansing fire. Asking for a system that was built on the express purpose of oppression to um? please stop oppressing me? Is nonsense work. The only task that is worth doing is fully dismantling and replacing that system. This is why I cannot associate myself with a feminism that focuses dementedly on ""self empowerment,"" whose goals do not include the full destruction of corporate culture but merely a higher percentage of female CEOs in military officers, a feminism that requires no thought no discomfort and no real change. If feminism is universal it is something that all women and men can get on board with, then it is not for me. If feminism is nothing more than personal gain disguised as political progress, then it is not for me. By declaring myself a feminist I must reassure you that I am not angry, I post no threat, then definitely feminism is not for me.

I am angry and I do pose a threat.

-Jessa Crispin, Why I Am Not a Feminist, Emphasis mine.

Crispin, J. (2017). In Why I Am Not a Feminist (pp. ix–xii). introduction, Melville House.

[womenaremypriority]

This is from MrMenno on YouTube, a gender critical gay man. They know. Why don’t people care that so many of these children are gay, or mentally ill, or autistic? My heart is breaking.