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CAN MEN PLEASE JUST FUCKING NOT????????

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https://x.com/womenreadwomen/status/1778424442592600388?s=46&t=v29QdsOtRdKJWbeBrMTmWQ

Again, I’d like to point out: where is the debate over what a man is?

It doesn’t exist.

That tells me all I need to know.

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https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1776616861888655835?s=46&t=v29QdsOtRdKJWbeBrMTmWQ

#radical feminism #sex based rights #radblr #radical feminist #radfem thoughts #sex based oppression #gender critical #biological sex is real #i stand with jk rowling #jk rowling

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I’ll take “It’s about fucking time” for $2000, Ken.

#radical feminism #sex based rights #radblr #radical feminist #radfem thoughts #sex based oppression #biological sex is real #medical misogyny

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RARE ALL-FEMALE LINEUP TO ARGUE SUPREME COURT ABORTION PILL CASE

I want everyone to ponder that headline.

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This is absolutely gut-wrenching. What a waste of a great mind.

How many more women were stuck living lives like hers and were also clearly depressed?

There are so many women with stories like that that we will never read or hear about.

I can’t imagine being forced to live like that. I already deal with depression and anxiety. That would’ve broken my spirit so badly, I wonder whether it would’ve destroyed my will to live. I am not exaggerating.

I keep a diary. I also love the arts and to read and to write. I have a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree. I am a single woman her 30s. I speak up for women.

I’d like to think I’m someone Sophia and every other woman forced to live the way she did can be proud of.

And speaking of Sophia Tolstoy, her diaries are just so depressing. 

“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman. I try to suppress all human feelings. When the machine is working properly it heats the milk, knits a blanket, makes little requests and bustles about trying not to think […].“

She wrote this when she was 19, one year into her marriage to Leo and as she was pregnant with the first of his 13 children.

A few years later, when she was 25 or so:

“I am so often alone with my thoughts that the need to write in my diary comes quite naturally … Now I am well again and not pregnant—it terrifies me how often I have been in that condition. He said that for him being young meant “I can achieve anything”. For me […] reason tells me that there is nothing I either want or can do beyond nursing, eating, drinking, sleeping, and loving and caring for my husband and babies, all of which I know is happiness of a kind, but why do I feel so woeful all the time, and weep as I did yesterday? I am writing this now with the pleasantly exciting sense that nobody will ever read it, so I can be quite frank with myself […].“

During her 12th pregnancy she wrote about taking scalding baths and jumping from high pieces of furniture to try and miscarry.  And at one point while reading her husband’s diary (which he told her to read) she found the sentence “There is no such thing as love, only the physical need for intercourse and the practical need for a life companion.” In her own diary she wrote “They ebb and flow like waves, these times when I realise how lonely I am and want only to cry…”

A few years before her husband’s death, she published a cycle of prose poems titled “Groans”, under the pseudonym “A Tired Woman”.

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If she ever asked me to partake in a threesome with her, I would NOT say no!

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Universities really do care more about plagiarism than they do about Sexual assault.

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Lol I totally think JKR should sue for defamation. I highly doubt Willoughby will shut up and back off.

I’m sick of these narcissistic autogynephilic males with their misogyny, demands to be centered all the fucking time, their raging tantrums that they are not getting their way/have lost control of the situation, and their fragility.

Fuck off, Willoughby. No one owes you validation—NOT that you deserve it, you self-absorbed POS.

#radical feminism #sex based rights #radblr #radical feminist #radfem thoughts #gender critical #sex based oppression #terfblr #radical feminist community #biological sex is real

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Happy Birthday to Kitty Russell herself, Amanda Blake!

February 20, 1929

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It’s not women’s responsibility to coddle men. This isn’t 1950 for fuck’s sake.

I am ALWAYS tired when I come home from work, as well, but you know what? I don’t expect anyone else to have dinner ready for me. I scrounge around in the kitchen, or I pick up a frozen dinner and heat it up when I get home. The point is, I take care of my damned self BECAUSE I AM AN ADULT.

Both men AND women work long hours.

I know you’re tired, but fix your own goddamned dinner. You think your partner isn’t also tired? Why is it one party’s—usually the woman’s—responsibility to make dinner for the other when they come home from work after a long day? Why can’t they just relax after they make own individual dinner? What if your partner is still at work when you get home? Do you just sit around and pout until they come home and whine about them making dinner?

Be an adult and take care of your damned self. Or if you come home at similar times, share the responsibility. Cooking together could even be a source of bonding.

I can NOT with how society is regressing.

BTW, this is also an indictment of capitalism. People shouldn’t have to work that much so that they are coming home with barely even any energy to do things like make their own meals, only to barely stay afloat financially. I believe in the 6-hour work day, living wages and salaries, and a 4-day work week.

Archaic gender roles and capitalism are both putting strain on relationships—both romantic and familial. Hardly anyone has work-life balance anymore because all most people fucking do is work.

But this is about the 12th time this week I’ve thought “I hate men. I don’t have time for them and their sexist bullshit, nor do I have time for women who have internalized that sexist bullshit.”

God damn it, I’m tired.

#radical feminism #sex based rights #radblr #radical feminist #radfem thoughts #sex based oppression #I’m not taking care of you like you’re a child #grow up please #internalized misogyny

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So since the writers of the Netflix live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series are so hell-bent on addressing problematic things from the OG animated series, how is Kataang being addressed? 🙃🙃🙃 I mean, the OG writers had Aang treating Katara like a possession. 🤷🏼‍♀️ (I don’t agree with them messing with Sokka’s growth arc. Yeah, Sokka started out as a sexist POS—then Katara started kicking serious ass, and he also met Suki, Toph, Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee. He let Katara, Suki, and Toph inspire him to become a better person. There’s nothing wrong with that! When a character changes and grows for the better, that is called character development, and I was always taught that that’s a good thing!)

#zutara #katara #avatar: the last airbender #netflix #sokka #aang

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I listened to Britney’s memoir on Spotify. It’s heart wrenching. Getting used and hurt by men was a major theme in her life, especially her excuse of a father and this piece of shit, who I suspect may be a narcissist. He devastated Britney and then had the audacity to place all the blame on her by releasing “Cry Me a River”. According to Britney, she admitted that she made out with another guy, but Justin went all the way with another woman (who Britney was kind enough not to mention by name in the book). His behavior was worse, but he made sure to play the victim and project all his bullshit onto her.

Victim-playing and projection are two of the biggest moves in the narcissist’s playbook.

Did Britney make a mistake? Yes. BUT HE MADE A BIGGER ONE AND GOT OFF SCOTT-FREE BECAUSE MISOGYNISTIC DOUBLE-STANDARDS. Britney was traumatized by his, society’s, and the media’s demonization of her while that prick lied his ass off and laughed all the way to the bank.

But awww, the comeback tour fell through? What was that about “What goes around comes all the way back around”? 🤣

Also, I read Janet Jackson is doing a tour soon—this summer, IIRC. Good luck to her, I hope it sells out! I mean that!

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When I am high (like now), I think about how J. K. Rowling really did write the BEST selling Young Adults' series of all time and turn it into a billion-dollar film franchise... and then in like a single day she was collectively cancelled & defamed (and honestly defaced too) by her hugest fans, for saying that biological sex is real & the sex-based oppression is a real concept—literally unprovoked too. Joanne spoke her mind not caring about backlash... and she's still correct, a genius, & thriving as she should...

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Why is Eowyn one of my favorite fictional characters across the fandom board?

Ahem: exhibit A.

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Thousands protest against increasing violence against women in Kenya as they march to the parliamentary building and supreme court in the capital Nairobi [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

Published On 27 Jan 202427 Jan 2024

Thousands of people have gathered to protest in cities and towns in Kenya against the recent slayings of more than a dozen women.

The anti-femicide demonstration on Saturday was the largest event ever held in the country against sexual and gender-based violence.

In the capital, Nairobi, protesters wore T-shirts printed with the names of women who became homicide victims this month. The crowd, composed mostly of women, brought traffic to a standstill.

“Stop killing us!” the demonstrators shouted as they waved signs with messages such as “There is no justification to kill women.”

The crowd in Nairobi was hostile to attempts by the parliamentary representative for women, Esther Passaris, to address them. Accusing Passaris of remaining silent during the latest wave of killings, protesters shouted her down with chants of “Where were you?” and “Go home!”

“A country is judged by not how well it treats its rich people, but how well it takes care of the weak and vulnerable,” said Law Society of Kenya President Eric Theuri, who was among the demonstrators.

Kenyan media outlets have reported the slayings of at least 14 women since the start of the year, according to Patricia Andago, a data journalist at media and research firm Odipo Dev who also took part in the march.

Odipo Dev reported this week that news accounts showed at least 500 women were killed in acts of femicide from January 2016 to December 2023. Many more cases go unreported, Andago said.

Two cases that gripped Kenya this month involved two women who were killed at Airbnb accommodations. The second victim was a university student who was dismembered and decapitated after she reportedly was kidnapped for ransom.

Theuri said cases of gender-based violence take too long to be heard in Kenyan court, which he thinks emboldens perpetrators to commit crimes against women.

“As we speak right now, we have a shortage of about 100 judges. We have a shortage of 200 magistrates and adjudicators, and so that means that the wheel of justice grinds slowly as a result of inadequate provisions of resources,” he said.

People gather to protest in an anti-femicide demonstration, the largest event of its kind ever held in Kenya. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

Kenyan media outlets have reported the slayings of at least 14 women since the start of the year. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

A protester holds a Palestinian flag during a march to protest against the rising cases of femicide, in downtown Nairobi. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]

Women and feminists in Kenya took to the streets to march against the rising cases of femicide. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]

In Nairobi, protesters wore T-shirts printed with the names of women who became homicide victims this month. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

Protesters react against the rising cases of femicide. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]

A human rights activist reacts as she attends a protest demanding an end to femicide in the country. [Monicah Mwangi/Reuters]

Protesters gather during the anti-femicide demonstration. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

The crowd, composed mostly of women, brought traffic to a standstill. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]