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all sorts of echoes in these caverns

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I believe that if Christianity didn't exist more than half of sexual fetishes wouldn't exist either. The extreme "purity" of Christian doctrines stimulates the performative filthiness of the rebel.

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“We survive through amnesia, by being unable to remember what happened to us. We survive by not remembering the name of the woman who was in the newspaper yesterday, who was walking some where and was missing. What was her name? There are too many of them. I am sick to death of not being able to remember the names.”

Life and Death, Andrea Dworkin

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#starting an android revolution

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They are right to be afraid that reading terf posts will change their beliefs. When I was a TRA I would microdose on terf posts because deep down I knew they were right. 😭😭 I’d be like, “I can like just this one post because it’s talking about porn not trans people !!” And look where we are now.

When we see a terf we block and don’t engage. In theory that’s great - leaves them without an audience, saves us from accidentally helping them recruit.

In practice things are less than optimal. You see some feminism 101 take like “bitch is a slur” and your hackles go up. Go on OP’s blog and there’s a bunch of posts about women’s rights. That could be a red flag - I don’t have all day to vet this person. Better not reblog, just to be safe.

What is the effect on the tumblr ecosystem? Feminist posts with any teeth at all can never go viral in this atmosphere! Any discussion of surrogacy more nuanced than “it is an individual choice” will get no engagement; only the most milquetoast sentiments can prevail.

I don’t have a solution. I just want to point out that the atmosphere of (justified) paranoia has set feminism on this website back 20 years.

#personal #terf diaries #terf safe

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Feminist linguistic suggestions:

-Stop using misogynistic insults such as “cunt”, “bitch”, or “whore”, even in a neutral or “endearing” way

-Stop using the word “pussy” when describing cowardice and referencing testicles when describing bravery

-Use female-default language

-Don’t refer to yourself or other women as “girls” unless you are specifically talking about children

-Do not tolerate other people using offensive language towards women around you

-Act confused when people call women girls, especially if the context is sexual

-Laugh more at women’s jokes

-Stop lightening your voice to please men

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There’s a plant called the “TomTato” which is a cherry tomato plant with potatoes as roots. It yields large quantities of both tomatoes and spuds.

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reminder that digital libraries aren’t owned, also why pirating digital content is a necessity

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People talk about the surprise albums from people like Taylor Swift or Beyoncé that drop with zero warning but I have just been existing in this world where every album I've ever heard in my life has been a surprise album because I didn't know that musicians had schedules that we could see

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How am I just now learning Lady Gaga’s real name ? 😭

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga,

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I am craving onions right now I need something with onion.

Or garlic. Garlic would work too.

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How Can Star Wars Be So Good Even Though It’s So Deeply Flawed And Narratively Inconsistent And Was Created By A Dumbass

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Men's phrase, "the worst thing she'll do is say no," proves in how much different worlds we live and how much they don't care about our comfort (no they're not blind, they just don't care).

Because it's the truth, isn't it? What else is there to do? Even me as a rabid man-hater and sapphic woman who has been Thai boxing for years, I wouldn't beat and maim them. Why would I do that? First of all, as a woman, a human being, unlike men, I don't see any point in violence.

Even so we rarely say no. Most often it's some stupid excuse like "Oh, I already have a boyfriend/husband". Because men never take "no" as an answer. The only thing that stops them is knowing that you, as a thing, already have another owner. Although that doesn't stop some men. There's a famous phrase: he won't know. Fucking idiots.

And it's kind of dangerous for women to say no. You don't know how these animals will react to rejection. A lot of women after this got stalkers who literally watch their every move. Sometimes refusal can be accompanied by beating, rape, threats and even death.

We live in different worlds. Where for others the worst outcome is "no", for others it's death.

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