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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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I love her

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It is not a coincidence that asexuality is becoming more popular as mainstream depiction of human sexuality is becoming more violent. Perfectly normal, healthy young people, are looking at this filthy and feeling understandable disgusted by it. But because sex is depicted by porn and online discourse as violent and "kinky", the disgust for this type of sex becomes disgust of sex in general.

You are not asexual, you are a sane person in an insane world.

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If men hadn't oppressed, restricted, raped and enslaved women for the last 5000 years all the ugly, short, balding in their 20s men would have died out by now and I'll never forgive them for that

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No extremist, manhating feminist has ever painted an uglier picture of men than the average man just casually talking about his own gender. Like men will just openly admit their “boys chats” and other locker room talk is way worse than the stuff that gets abusers and rapists convicted. They mock the concept of a man who’s remotely nice to a woman (these days it’s simp, before that it was whipped). They laugh at how unrealistic romance movies are because a man would never do any of those things for a woman in the real world. They’ll go into detail about their rape kinks if you let them. Most men are completely open about how awful they are, and they feel safe doing it because for some reason, most women won’t believe them. It’s a terrible thing the way a man will go “I’m a genuinely evil person” and women will immediately rush to say “awww I’m sure that’s not true! I bet you’re sweet and misunderstood underneath it all! I bet you’re joking! Ok, maybe you and all the men you know are like that, but not all of them!”

Your female socialization and your kind heart has you searching for a humanity in men that they don’t even pretend to have. Listen to men when they tell you who they are.

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Being surrounded by basically nude hypersexualized images of women is bad for women and girls self esteem like this isn’t even an opinion it’s just a fact. It is humiliating for women to watch other women be humiliated

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it is really astounding to me how much power the phrase "OP is a terf" holds. like the post could be "women are being killed so their bodies can be sold to men" and everyone will ignore it if "OP is a terf." it could be "women are more likely to die in car crashes because car safety is only tested on males, and the same goes for medications, which are only tested on males" and if someone comments "OP is a terf" suddenly all those women don't matter. suddenly all the trafficked, murdered, abused, women don't matter because "OP is a terf." it's so transparent that modern liberal "feminists" don't give a flying fuck about actually addressing women's real issues and that their only form of activism is sending rape threats to women who call Jonathan Yaniv a he.

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there's been a conversation on TikTok about whether women would rather be trapped in a forest with a bear or a man. i have yet to see any woman say man, while many men are furious about that. this poem really spoke to me

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‘Woman of colour is murdered’

Internet: “if this was a white woman you’d be talking about it more!”

‘White woman is murdered’

Internet: “if this was a woman of colour you’d be talking about it less!”

… you realise in both these situations you’re still not actually talking about the woman who was murdered, let alone the man who murdered her?

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Soy mujer. y un entrañable calor me abriga cuando el mundo me golpea. es el calor de las otras mujeres, de aquellas que hicieron de la vida este rincón sensible, luchador, de piel suave y corazón guerrero.

—Alejandra Pizarnik

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I saw a post saying "If porn and prostitution were empowering men would be doing it" and while I absolutely agree I would add:

"If porn and prostitution were empowering men would be fighting to prevent women from doing it at all"

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you should have to give up porn, anime, and the internet before getting some of these diagnoses

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why are tras on tumblr so sexually charged when they see a terf like you can make a point without saying 'CHOKE ON MY MASSIVE TRANS GIRL DICK'

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My sex was denied the vote. Those of my sex meet in secret to recover their rights. Those of my sex bind their breasts to escape. Those of my sex are mutilated by tradition. Those of my sex die in childbirth. Those of my sex are imprisoned for controlling our bodies.

Those of your sex stole the name from mine. My sex is not your gender.

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whisper girls on pinterest being based.