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annie115 · 5 months

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Now you don´t think so bad of me, huh? CL16

CL16 x Activist!Reader

Summary: You´re an activist who fights for the environment and therefore hates Formula One, when you meet one of the drivers

Authors note: This is the first fanfiction I post here, please let me know how you like it 😊 I love comments and suggestions. I´m not a native in English, sorry for mistakes. No proof read!

I slammed the door to my apartment and threw my sign in the corner. Angrily I stumbled to the counter where I poured myself a glass of white wine. Whoa, this day sucked! I haven’t even introduced myself. Hey, I´m Amy, 25 years old and therefore interested in saving our planet. I will live on this earth for at least 60 more years, hopefully, and I can´t watch humanity to destroy it. That’s why me and my community are protesting. Sometimes just within the weekend, sometimes on environmental demonstrations but mostly at races. Especially, Formula One. Ugh. I hated Formula One. I couldn’t understand why people would be so interested in cars driving around in a circle, pushing each other off and blowing millions of emissions in the air. Formula One is one thing and one thing only: An unnecessary environmentally damaging catastrophe.

And the drivers? I haven’t met one of them, luckily, but don’t they care even a teeny tiny bit? They are responsible for the pollution. And I´m not only talking about the emissions, I´m talking about the resources they need for their stupid cars. And then, in the time lapse of a weekend they destroy it completely. They crash into a wall and create a damage by thousands of dollars! I highly doubt that the pieces of the cars were made out of sustainable resources. In fact, I knew that this wasn’t the case, I was informed of course.

Anyway, I was living in Monaco at the time. Monaco was famous for its race track and the race week was the most special week of the year. Thousands of visitors came to our little place just to celebrate this stupid sport. Starting two days ago me and some other activists were protesting along the track and the entrances to make people aware of what they are supporting.

Please don’t get me wrong. I´m not one of the people who would attack you or scream at you because you attend an event. I´m one of the activists who are stating their point without many words. I have my sign, which I threw in the corner. Nevertheless today a situation escalated a little, when one of my friends attacked a man who told her she should fuck herself, maybe it would relax her. In my opinion it was more than valid of her to attack him but she knew better. We don’t want this kind of attention. I sighed when I thought about tomorrow, when I will be there again. Is it even worth it? Are we really able to change something?

“Save the earth! Save the planet! Don’t blow thousands of microplastic particles in the air just to be the fastest!” My friend yelled when some of the drivers arrived at the entrance we were standing at. I didn’t say anything. As I said, I like to protest without words. It was the first time that I would see the drivers in real life and I had to admit that I was curious what they would look or be like. I imagined them as assholes. Selfish rich men who don’t care about the future because they had enough money to buy a bunker where they could hide. The drivers ignored us while they were passing by until my friend, Emma, yelled again. “You are the reason we will be dead in a couple of years! You are the reason we can´t sleep at night!” she yelled. Now, one driver was turning around. He continued walking backwards while yelling: “If we would really keep you up all night you´d be more relaxed!” He gave her a dirty smirk and I frowned. What the fuck did he just say? That was the second time that some guy would make a sexist comment about us. What was wrong with the people? “Hey! Don´t you dare speak to her like that!” I yelled without thinking about it for a second. The driver stopped walking and eyed me. Only now I noticed how handsome he was. No, that was an understatement. He looked like a fucking god. He was wearing jeans and a red Ferrari T-Shirt. His brown hair was a bit messy and his blue-green eyes were shining in mischief. “No need to be jealous baby, I have enough for all of you”, he said and winked. I rolled my eyes, knowing that there was no sense in talking with him. What an ass. A hot ass, but an ass still.

After one more hour of protesting, I got tired. “Guys, I´m going to take a break”, I said and gave my sign to another girl to get going. I was usually not the type who would leave them standing there, but I was kinda sick of it. We didn’t reach anybody today, nobody was even listening to us. For them we are nothing but a joke. I sighed and entered a coffee shop I passed to get an Iced Coffee. It was hot today, almost 30 degrees. That’s why I was wearing a white summer dress and white sneakers. I braided my black long hair this morning so it won´t be hanging in my neck all sticky. I ordered my drink and sat down at the little table on the window, when the door opened again. I took a peak of who was coming in and recognized the driver from earlier. I frowned. What was he doing here? Don’t they have coffee in their fancy catering areas?

He stood in front of the counter, with his hands in his pockets while eying the menu. “Charles! What can I get you?” the barista asked and I frowned again. Why did she know him? And his name was Charles? “Hey Isabel, I´ll just have the usual. The coffee in the motorhome is terrible”, he chuckled and I scoffed. Now he acted all nice and innocent. I turned to my drink again and looked out the window.

While Charles was waiting for his drink, he looked around. When he saw me he tilted his head a little and stepped forward to my table. “Aren´t you that activist from this morning?” he asked and I looked up. Our eyes locked and for a second I couldn’t breathe. I cleared my throat. “I am in fact. Aren´t you that asshole who insulted me and my friend?” I spitted. He scoffed. “Geez, I was just joking. Maybe you need to relax a little”. “Maybe you need to stop destroying the planet”, I spitted and he rolled his eyes. “Damn Cherie, you need to calm the fuck down. Do you really think we are the problem?” “You´re part of the problem. And don’t you dare call me that!” He raised an eyebrow. “Why not? You´re still blushing, Cherie”, he pronounced every single syllable of the word. The barista called his name and he went to the counter to grab his drink. While I thought that this conversation was finally over, I was wrong. He came back, grabbed a chair and sat down next to me.

“You don’t mind, do you?” he asked without needing an answer. He leaned forward to me until his lips were almost striping my ear. “Oh, and not only the blushing, also the way you press your thighs together just shows me how much you want me to fuck you right in this bathroom.” I looked at him, outraged. But the worst thing was, he was right. I was literally dripping for him. The way his shirt played around his biceps, his eyes were scanning my body like I was a wild animal and he was the hunter. His hands were laying on the table, big and full of tendons and muscles. I wondered what he could do with those hands. The tension between us was so electric that I was afraid somebody could notice, but in fact, nobody was there except for the barista who was currently distracted with cleaning the coffee machine. I looked at Charles again whose right hand was no longer on the table. I felt his fingers striping my naked thigh, pushing my legs apart a little. I was embarrassed, knowing that the inside of my thighs must be wet already. He smirked when he noticed and came close to my ear again. “So wet, and only for me”, he whispered and I inhaled sharply. His finger found the strap of my slip and played with it while I was about to loose control. I wanted him. Desperately. I abruptly stood up and headed to the bathroom. I looked at myself in the mirror, while Charles entered the tiny room.

Before I could take a second thought, his hands were all over me. He grabbed me by the waist and sat me down on the cold sink which made me gasp. “How bad do you need me, huh?” he asked and I moaned. He slapped my thigh, slightly. “Answer me”, he demanded and I threw my head back. “Please”, I gasped when he finally pushed two fingers inside me. “God, you´re so wet, Cherie”, he moaned while moving faster inside and outside me. I moaned loudly, being fully aware that the barista will hear us. “Go ahead, let everybody know that you´re about to get fucked by me”, he said and started kissing my neck down to my collarbone. I couldn’t think straight. My hands played with the button of his jeans, he slapped them away. “Wanting my cock so badly, little slut?” he grin and striped down his jeans with one quick move. He placed his tip on my lust without pushing it inside. “Beg”, he said and I whined. He rubbed his cock through my wet folds, driving me crazy. “Beg me to fuck you”, he whispered and I moaned again. “Please, Charles. Please fuck me”. He slammed himself inside me and I gasped. “Oh fuck you´re so wet”, he moaned and moved a little slower to get used to my pussy. “Such a beautiful little slut”, he said while fucking me harder. My hand were in his hair, pulling it while his hand were placed on the mirror to get a better grip. He was fucking me over the edge and beyond, I wasn’t able to grab one single thought. “Charles, please let me-“ I begged and he grabbed my throat. “Do you want to cum?” he asked his eyes dark of lust. “Yes, please”, I whined and he pushed his thumb on my clit just in the perfect moment. He moaned when I clenched around him, having the most intense orgasm ever. “Fuck”, he gasped as he finished himself, spreading his cum over my legs. Out of breath he grabbed a tissue to clean me up. “I bet you don’t think so badly about me know, huh?” he asked smirking. “Even worse now”, I replied and winked at him.

Don’t be a ghost reader, tell me what you think! :)

#formula 1 #charles leclerc #smut #fanfiction #activist #monaco #female reader

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elfyprincess · 1 year

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trans women are women, die mad about it bitch

TRAs always show they know what a woman is when it’s time to use the b-word.

#wonder why you chose to call me a FEMALE dog #the b word is a misogynistic slur #trans activists are misogynists #trans receipts #feminist #feminism #radical feminsm #radical feminst #radfem #terf diaries #personal #radfem safe #peak trans #terf safe #trans women are men

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wild-wombytch · 4 months

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Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, representing Te Pāti Māori, was appointed New Zealand's youngest MP at 21 (since James Stuart-Wortley, who was elected in the country's first general election in 1853 when he was aged 20 years and 7 months).

During her maiden speech in December 2023, Maipi-Clarke criticised the National-led coalition government, claiming that it had "attacked my whole world from every corner." She identified health, the environment, water, land, natural resources and children as key areas of disagreement with the Government. She performed a haka for said maiden speech :

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Maipi-Clarke has ancestry in Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou, Te Āti Awa, and Ngāi Tahu. The broadcaster Potaka Maipi is her father. She is the grand-niece of Māori language activist Hana Te Hemara. Taitimu Maipi, whose activism contributed to the removal of the Captain Hamilton statue in 2020, is her grandfather. Wi Katene, the first Māori MP to be appointed to the Executive Council, was her great-great-great-great-grandfather

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afrotumble · 2 months

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Dias, named after reggae singer Bob Marley, is of Jamaican and Cape Verdean descent. She was born in Philadelphia and grew up in West Orange, New Jersey. Her mother, Janice Johnson Dias, is co-founder of the GrassROOTS Community Foundation.

When Dias was age 11, she complained to her mother that all of her mandatory readings were books about white boys and dogs. Dias decided to start a book drive, #1000BlackGirlBooks, to bring more attention to literature featuring black female protagonists, with the goal to collect 1,000 books to donate for black girls to other schools. Within a few months, more than 9,000 books were collected. Many of these books have been sent to a children's book drive in Jamaica. The campaign also called public attention to the lack of diversity in children's literature. Dias attended West Orange High School in West Orange, New Jersey, graduating in 2022. She is currently attending Harvard University.

#books #book drives #black female characters #writers #activists #african american

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disco-cola · 4 months

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just saw a video a 23 year old israeli girl made about her arrest after attending a protest for palestine in haifa and she said while freedom of speech was always limited in israel that if you now speak out against the war as a jewish israeli citizen you’re called a traitor and have to fear for your safety and freedom (so much for the safest place in the world for jews?! again yeah ONLY if you comply with that dangerous nationalist ideology that comes from zionism) and she said during her arrest when she was held in jail she heard police officers sing a song about returning gush katif (the former israeli settlements in gaza) and how they want gaza to be killed off and the policemen also called her and other women who were arrested at the protest »sluts«

#and she said of course it’s now even more dangerous for palestinians with Israeli citizenship #but yeah ✨the only democracy in the Middle East✨#also heard another female israeli activist say that she can’t call for a ceasefire but her colleagues at work can openly say slurs

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coochiequeens · 4 months

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The PDGA is not financially or logistically in a position to take the lead in multi-state litigation on this topic,” wrote the organization in their statement. “For the first time in recent memory, the PDGA will end the year with a net operating loss, and it is not in the best interest of our members to continue to allocate resources to further litigation.”

There it is. Instead of using funds to create a third category open to anyone who identifies differently than their bio sex TRAs just wore down an organization to let men bully their way into women's sports.

By Reduxx Team December 23, 2023

The Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) has been forced to drop their new regulations on men who want to participate in women’s competitions after being sued by a trans-identified male player. The lawsuit was launched earlier this year by Natalie Ryan, who had been dominating women’s competitions prior to the PDGA attempting to rein in male competitors.

Ryan first filed a suit against the PDGA in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California this past February. In his complaint, he argued that a recently-adopted PDGA policy prohibiting trans-identified males from competing with women if they had undergone a “male puberty” violated his civil rights and California laws against discrimination.

“The policy adopted by the PDGA and [Disc Golf Pro Tour] is arbitrary and capricious and in violation of Plaintiff’s right to be free from discrimination based on her gender,” the suit said, arguing that policies restricting widespread male participation in women’s sport “denied [Ryan] and other transgender women, who in the eyes of California law are women, full and equal access to the accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, and/or services of [PDGA] organizations.”

Yesterday, a settlement between Ryan and PDGA was announced. While the full terms are not available for public consumption, part of the agreement included PDGA dropping the policy which banned males from competing with women unless they had begun transitioning prior to puberty. This change means that all males who had undergone at least two years of hormone therapy are able to compete with women once again.

In a statement, PDGA revealed that a lack of funds was part of the reason why they were unable to fight against Ryan’s litigation onslaught, with Ryan having filed suits against them in two separate states.

“The PDGA is not financially or logistically in a position to take the lead in multi-state litigation on this topic,” wrote the organization in their statement. “For the first time in recent memory, the PDGA will end the year with a net operating loss, and it is not in the best interest of our members to continue to allocate resources to further litigation.”

The rule revision is set to go into effect on January 1, 2024, and will be in place through at least the end of the 2025 season.

Following the settlement agreement, Ryan boasted of his victory on Instagram.

“All trans women will be equals at the elite level again. This is my victory. I had to be ruthless to get them to listen. I’m glad I can put that side of myself away,” he said.

Ryan has already signed up for a 2024 Tour Card and intends to play at most Disc Golf Pro Tour and Major events.

The now-quashed PDGA policy is widely believed to have been proposed in response to Ryan’s performance in the female category, with the male athlete rapidly rising through the ranks and beating out elite female competitors.

In September of 2022 at the Disc Golf Pro Tour, Ryan easily defeated the world’s number 1 ranked female competitor, Kristin Tattar, taking home $9,000 in prize money. Months prior, at the Great Lakes Open in Milford, Michigan, Ryan walked away with $6,000 for a first-place performance, beating out the world’s current number 2 ranked female player.

Despite having only participated in women’s Disc Golf for a short few years, Ryan is currently ranked amongst the best “female” players in the world. Last year, after topping the Disc Golf Pro Tour, Ryan ranked into the top 5. Despite not participating in some major events this year due to his lawsuit, Ryan still ranks in the top 15.

Last year, two anonymous female disc golf players spoke with Quillette‘s Jon Kay and stated that Ryan’s biological sex was undoubtedly bolstering his success in the sport.

“I would say that one of the biggest advantages of the [male-bodied] players is their ability to scramble in tight situations when a disc goes off the fairway, to just stand there and blast a shot through the woods,” one of the women said. “I’ve seen both [trans player] Chloe [Alice] and Natalie [Ryan] do this. They’re just standing still and throw the kind of [forehand shot] that I’ve never seen a female throw even under perfect conditions.”

The other female player added: “What makes it worse is that Ryan’s form isn’t even that good. If it were, [he’d] be out-throwing us by even more. So while the rest of us spend years refining our form, trying to keep up and get more distance, [he’s] been in the sport only—what?—three years or something.”

Another female disc golf player, Jennifer Castro, revealed that she was aware of female athletes refusing to join tournaments where transgender players were enrolled due to the stark performance advantage.

“I personally know of women who refuse to sign up for events if a transgender is playing, not because we hate them but because we feel we have zero chance, so what is the point of wasting our money on registration fees?”

Speaking to Reduxx, Marshi Smith of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) condemned the PDGA and DGPT for buckling under pressure.

“Rest assured the DGPT has not seen their last courtroom. We will fight back on this. Men like Ryan cannot threaten sports bodies with financial ruin so they capitulate to misogynistic entitled demands tossing women aside,” Smith said.

ICONS had previously thrown their support behind protecting women’s disc golf, and the organization had held an emergency press conference following the initial news of Ryan’s lawsuits last year.

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A number of female disc golfers participated in the Save Female Disc Golf campaign, slamming a Minnesota court judge who ordered PDGA to allow Ryan to participate in a tournament he had been barred from.

“Organizations must have a backbone and stand on fairness and integrity for their athletes – women included,” Smith added, revealing that ICONS has now launched a fund with the intention of supporting female athletes who wish to challenge male-inclusive policies in court.

“Men like Ryan have the backing of activist pro bono lawyers but we are building our own war chest for female athletes now. We refuse to surrender the hard-earned achievements of women and are prepared to stand firm.”

#usa #The Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA)#Natalie Ryan is a man #If he underwent a male puberty he has biological advantages over women #Men in women’s sports #Title IX #A man walks away with the prize money ment for women athletes #Save Female Disc Golf #The men have activist pro bono lawyers #Youtube

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womeninfictionandirl · 26 days

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Malala Yousafzai by Allison Adams

“I raise up my voice, not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.”

Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female and child education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. As a young girl, Malala defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012, but she survived and went on to become an important voice for international human rights. She also founded the Malala Fund, which works to secure the rights to education for girls all over the world.

#Malala Yousafzai #MALALA YUSAFZAI #allison adams #art #artwork #female portrait #female activists #education #women’s rights #sheroes #activism #educational activism #irl women/girls

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yourdailyqueer · 4 days

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Elizabeth Kerekere

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: Born 1965

Ethnicity: Māori, Irish

Nationality: New Zealander

Occupation: Politician (Independent/Green), activist, artist

Note: In Māori language Elizabeth identifies herself as someone who is Takatāpui.

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subcoolture · 1 year

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This is the most important speech about relationships that you are going to read in decades

I wish this wasn’t true, but I don’t think men are salvageable at this point. If they don’t look at themselves, find some empathy for women, recognize their part in our suffering, and reeducate and completely transform themselves, there is no hope.

And what do you think the possibilities for this are?

As feminist women we spend years reading and analizing every aspect of the way we think and act, recognizing every bit of patriarchy in it and working to internalize healthy ways instead, transforming ourselves completely. And all that, being ourselves not the executors of Patriarchy, but the sufferers, the oppressed. We learn so that we can fight it in every one of our lifes, we take the burden of doing what our opressors are not interested in doing, obviously. And we also even do it for other women. We do everything in our lives so that our actions don’t maintain patriarchal stuff that can hurt other women.

And meanwhile, what the hell are men doing? Are they keeping up with us? ABSOLUTELY NOT! 😂😂😂 THEY DON'T GIVE A FUCK! How the hell can they expect us then to have relationships with them?

I'm going to give you all just a few, JUST A FEW, examples of stuff that I go through as a feminist woman, as opposed to what men are going through instead. And then you tell me if there is a possibility of me, a woman, having a relationship with a man in some sort of 'equality'. Because we know 100% equality would be just impossible.

I have spent hundreds of days of my life informing myself about innumerable cases of men committing all sorts of violence towards women. I have read and felt in my body the pain and horror every time, and I have done that as a woman, knowing that the victim could've been me, or can be me in the future, or they have even been women that I know, or I have been a victim of similar experiences. And I have to read an keep up with those news every day to inform others, because I am an activist. Hundreds of days I've had to read that info multiple times as I edit it and comment it for the public. That is traumatizing, and that is what I am forced to do as a woman in this society in order to create conscience.

Meanwhile, men around me are just living their lifes without that sort of burden on themselves. While I spend my time in stuff that men do that leave me traumatized and causes me pain and more trauma every day, day after day, men are free to spend their time on things they just enjoy. They can just have fun. They can just relax and do something they enjoy. They don't need to worry about their rights, about their safety.

For hundreds of days I also have the most demanding discussions about very difficult feminist topics, which of course means I have to spend an enormous amount of time and energy to be educated on those topics and to discuss them with people who a lot of the times are not only stupid but abusive. I talk about discussions about sexual exploitation, for example, which are huge topics that involve things like the pornography industry that many people have completely normalized.

But let's just talk here about porn consumption. If you consume that content you are supporting women and girls sexual exploitation, and all the horrible things that industry encompasses (which are impossible to sum up here). And ALSO: if you are a man, you are basically educating yourself on misoginy, you are internalizing and normalizing sexual violence on women every day. So, what the hell can we do with those men? How the hell can we think we can have any sort of intimacy with those men? And not even intimacy, those men are literally jacking off to sexual exploitation of women. I don't even want them around. NOBODY should want them around. But we have to have them around because that's the society we live in.

The question is, are they salvageable? That's what I was wondering about in the beginning. I mean, do you see men abandoning their porn consumption? Which has even become an addiction in many cases. It is obvious that if a man has internalized all that misogynistic porn culture, he is going to exercise the violence he has learned on the women he can get intimate with, right? They are doing it every day. They don't even think what they are doing is violence, precisely because they have normalized it.

Do you see men every day reading feminist authors who have studied and analized all about pornography? Do you see them interested in doing that work so that they unlearn the harmful culture they have internalized? Do you see them even worried about it? Do you even see them INTERESTED in the least when we denounce it every single day, desperate by the level of depravation and suffering it causes, traumatized ourselves? Do you see them empathizing with us? BECAUSE I DON'T. THEY DON'T FUCKING CARE.

They go to bed with women, and they don't care about that women. Even if they say that they are in love with those women. In most cases they are really not. They like the beauty, fun, and all sort of services that a woman provides them with. But they do not LOVE women. So they couldn't care less about actually having intimacy with women. If they did, they would be reeducating themselves by learning feminism and analizing themselves with all the damage that porn has done in their brains, and doing all the work so that as men they don't end up exercising violence on women. And instead, love them as they deserve.

As a woman, and as a feminist activist I am more and more aware every day of the ways in which men hurt us, exploit us, and live in freedom at my expense. I suffer every day under the Patriarchy, and men make me suffer every day, if not actively, with their indifference to my pain. And every day, what it meansfor me is not only that suffering (as if it wasn't enough), it is how my chances at life are diminished because the time and energy I would want to spend on my dreams and goals are spent instead in surviving under Patriarchy and fighting to change things.

Meanwhile, a man who has not done ANY WORK on himself, who hasn't read ANY feminism, thinks that we can have a relationship in equality. NO. WE OBVIOUSLY CAN'T.

That's the thing, that's why there is no hope at this moment. Men are not interested in keeping up. There are still women who accept them in their low quality and misogynistic shape because they just want to have a relationship and most men are like that. So they just conform.

I wish men would work on themselves just because they know it's the right thing. I wish they would stop consuming pornography because they just realize how harmful it is for women and girls. I wish they had those values and so they would act on them. I wish they thought about how men, possibly also including them, hurt us since we are little kids, and that it made them want to learn about feminism because they want to reeducate themselves and not be one of those men anymore. I wish they would be interested in doing the work on themselves, analizing how they think and act, and transforming themselves completely because they want to be the best men for us.

But it doesn't happen.

Even when men are lonely, and wish they had a girlfriend or even hope for a wife, they are still not spending a minute thinking about how they can be good men for us. They are not taking any interest in anything us feminists are explaining every single day.

I have a feminist activism account with thousands of followers and not even 5% of them are men. Do you realize what that means and how depressing it is? I see day by day how we, the women, become experts in every topic, while men are more and more far away from us every day. There is a bigger gap every day between us, because we have learned and we have evolved, while they don't. And it's not even feminism. Women are bettering themselves in many other ways. Women go to therapy, and men don't. Women analize themselves and learn and evolve. Men don't.

MEN ARE COMPLETELY NOT SELF AWARE.

How can men be suitable to have relationship with women if they are basically a ticking bomb for us and they will exercise violence on us at any moment? Which of course, will be normal for them, because they have normalized it. It's their culture.

And even if they are very kind and loving, and willing to learn, they don't do it on their own, and instead, it turns into another task for their female partners. So they are men, yet again, exploiting women.

If a man is not learning on his own there is no possibility of an equal relationship. And if a man is not going even further than that and compensating his privileges as a man, there is no equal relationship either.

Men must be aware that they live a life without all the opression that being a woman entails. And they have to be aware that they are the opressors, whether they like it or not. They have to take responsibility for that, and do everything in their power to at least try not to be ACTIVE opressors, which they absolutely are if they haven't done serious work to reeducate themselves in feminism. That's the only way of ever getting close to real loving relationships between men and women, in EQUITY.

And that's the only way in which they will be salvageable, and there will be hope. If not, FYI, I'm not getting close to any man anytime soon. And neither should any woman.

Most probably, the only way they will change, is being forced to. Realizing they have to if they want to ever have a real profound relationship with a woman. I hope they can find goodness in their hearts to realize women deserve better from them. I don't have a lot of hope, but I wish they could find some kindness in their hearts, and think about how they want to love a woman, a partner, a girlfriend or even a wife. I wish for them to think about the love they want to give to a woman, and decide to shape themselves accordingly.

— Léia Katràud

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ceciliatllis · 2 years

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if you misinterpreted the show and fabien frankel’s CLEAR decision to portray criston as conflicted between being devoted to his code of honor/oath vs. giving into his feelings/infatuation for rhaenyra and somehow read that scene as him not reciprocating, you need to improve your media literacy skills asap because you are wildly off. not to mention the entire choreography of the scene emphasizes that she does have power and authority but that they have a relationship where he COULD say no (hence the slow removal of the armor, constant facial cues from rhaenyra where she was basically asking him if all of this was okay, and most importantly the decision to have her give him his white cloak as the camera focuses on HIM ultimately setting it aside and kissing her). anyone saying rhaenyra would have had him killed or removed from his position if he refused her are grasping at so many straws; that is NOT her character and he was not acting out of fear from that. he knows her better than that after years of being by her side. she has so far not been portrayed as a tyrant devoid of rational thinking who lashes out in extreme, cruel ways when she doesn’t get what she wants.

I actually love that this wasn’t filmed as a high-paced, impulsive, spur of the moment scene where two people are caught up in greedy lust and don’t realize the impact of their choices. unlike alicent and viserys, there are romantic feelings or at the very least attraction between rhaenyra and criston. I agree the show could have elaborated on it more but they did hint at a bond and showed that there was potential for something like this to happen in the future. alicent is lifeless, barely moving, and not an active participant in her scene with viserys; she cannot refuse him because she is his wife and queen and must obey. there is no playfulness or lightness in their relationship; it’s not even a “love scene” as there’s no love or passion present there. it’s someone exerting their “conjugal rights” over someone else and satiating their own sexual needs with no regard for the other person. rhaenyra and criston do not have this dynamic in any way so I don’t get the comparison between the two scenes from “some” people (aka men who are annoyed that their favorite show included a sex scene that didn’t treat the woman like she was a tool for male pleasure for once and are trying to find any fault in this despite not caring when actual abusive dynamics are shown on tv - very transparent what’s happening here).

rhaenyra and criston are shown kissing, laughing, enjoying one another’s presence, and clasping hands as they embrace (an obvious and direct contrast to the shot of alicent’s hand in her uncomfortable scene with viserys that was meant to show she is alone and isolated in a passionless experience). the scene is filmed as a very romantic, affectionate tryst that has an underlying tension to it as this is not some meaningless decision for either of them. he’s not begrudgingly sleeping with her to “fulfill” a duty; there is genuine mutual desire there as most viewers noticed. if you hate sex scenes having a female gaze or simply didn’t see the chemistry (although difficult to believe as even critics have praised it as being a refreshing departure from the other sex scenes in this franchise), just say that and be honest instead of twisting it into something distasteful. but don’t act as if there weren’t two VERY willing participants in this scene because that’s not accurate.

#house of the dragon #ser criston cole #rhaenyra targaryen #rhaenyra x criston #can’t believe this even has to be said tbh #I told myself I wouldn’t look at these takes anymore because I lose brain cells rapidly #GoT fans hate when women aren’t treated like objects when it comes to sex #they tried to find fault with the arya/gendry scene too by saying she was a child when she was a grown woman #just say you hate female-focused love scenes and be honest #and then there’s the modern activists missing every single cue and sign that shows criston wants to be with her #re: thoughts #re: shows #re: house of the dragon #years later and I’m still writing thinkpieces because of this fandom’s dumbassery I guess lol #some things never change ✨

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