#female oppression

[manie-sans-delire-x]

Men: *ban girls/women from education even under threat of death*

Girls/women: *dont know anything*

Men: See? Proof that women are stupid

#op #female oppression #womens history

[butch-reidentified]

nobody has ever been forced to stay in a menstrual hut because they had a cramp and got moody. because that's not a period. die.

#mine #menstrual huts #female oppression #menstruation #menstrual period #trans period #you are literally evil and narcissistic for this #you truly have no idea what women to through #mtf period

[balkanradfem]

people@women: have you tried loving and trusting your oppressor?💕

#female oppression #radical feminism #radfem #male oppressors #anti patriarchy #which other oppressed group gets this advice #come on #on top of birthing and raising them

[haggishlyhagging]

Mother says the doctor let her hemorrhage all through the night I was born. The pool of blood that splashed around her hips on the rubber sheet until morning is symbolic to me of the life she, and her mothers before her, have bled away for others—making vampires of their husbands and children and leaving their own inner selves anemic and ravaged.

Dad first saw her in the summer of 1923, galloping bareback over the Idaho plains in men's overalls, her hair whipping behind her. Because there were so few sons and so many daughters in the Howell family, Mom helped with the outdoor farm work. The labor was often so heavy and so almost impossibly hard that it made the small, slender girl weep as she did it. Despite that, Mom still preferred it to the work of the women in the house: the endless cooking and scrubbing, sewing, soapmaking, preserving. Just washing clothes was a superhuman feat, boiling water over an outdoor fire and stirring and wringing and hanging and ironing—a two-day chore that had to be done every week by all the women of the house.

Her mother, short and plump and silent, was the first one up in the morning to build the fire, put the bread in to bake, and prepare the huge breakfast, and the last one to bed at night. Mom says her mother was always tired and didn't talk much, but confided to her once that she only wanted to live to get her children grown and then to die. She got her wish. Mom's father, whom Mom idolized, lived through two more wives after her mother died.

Mom filed all this away in her unconscious.

Late one summer night, three years ago, in the kitchen of my house in Virginia where womanhood finally found and claimed me, for the first time my mother looked squarely at what it had meant in her life to be female. On the farm in Woodruff, she confided, the men came in from their work at dark, ate supper, sat around and talked a little, perhaps, and then went off to bed, while the women, who had been up in the morning before the men, wearily washed the dishes (without soap, so the water could be fed to the pigs) and got to bed an hour or two later. I asked her what she thought of her near-perfect father for behaving this way. Her eyes filled with tears and she whispered, "It wasn't fair."

Since that night she has regained some of her defenses against recognizing the blatant injustices of such a system, so when I've reminded her of what she told me that night, she's insisted that she hadn't remembered correctly, and that her father often had helped with the dishes and had not gone to bed leaving the womenfolk still hard at work. But I remember that night in my kitchen and the terrible things that were dawning upon both of us, and I know she remembers what was required of her as a girl. After a bonebreaking day in the fields, she was to drag her exhausted body and her screaming muscles about the kitchen to help the women with the supper and the washing up while the men were allowed—even expected and encouraged—to rest. And despite going to bed two hours later than the men, she had to arise earlier than they did the next morning to begin it all over again. There was no rest for the women—only endless drudgery until the children were reared, and then death.

-Sonia Johnson, From Housewife to Heretic

#sonia johnson #female oppression #patriarchy #male entitlement #males are incompatible with health #womens history

[chlorinatedpopsicle]

Recently, there's been a popular post on radblr discussing how women aren't allowed to have fun like men are, and how men get applauded for doing stupid shit while women get mocked.

I just stumbled upon an example of this in the wild.

Someone on r/stupidfood posted a vid of this woman who filled a fanny pack with spaghetti and ate it while skydiving. It was funny. She was clearly just being silly for silliness' sake.

Not only was the post tag calling her "stupid", the comments were like 95% making fun of her, calling her an idiot, criticizing her skydiving etiquette, saying the spaghetti looked gross, and just generally bitching about anything and everything.

I was SO GLAD to see these people in the comments pointing out how weird that is:

They're absolutely right. If it were a guy doing this, people would just think it's funny!!! People would be in the comments calling him a legend and a mad lad.

Filthy Frank could eat ravioli out of his shirt pocket as a stupid joke, and people could understand that he was doing a deliberately stupid thing as a funny bit. But when a woman does something similar, it must just be because she's stupid and annoying and probably trying too hard to be quirky. Fuck off.

#mine #misogyny #female oppression #gender roles/norms/stereotypes #male bullshit #why we need female only spaces #female socialization

[she-is-ovarit]

Afghan women and girls are being sent to "prison" for "their safety" by the Taliban, who are making Afghan men essentially pinky-swear in front of other Afghan men that they won't hurt women and girls. This comes after girls are forbidden from receiving an education higher than the 6th grade, are barred from entering public spaces, required to abide by a dress code and have a male chaperone at all times.

#Afghan women #women's oppression #Taliban #afghanistan #sex based oppression #male violence #violence against women #female oppression #feminism #global feminism #radical feminism

[radical-thots]

Every time I speak up against trans/gender ideology, I'm terrified of being harassed and doxed like many other women have been. I'm terrified of being stalked and cyber bullied like countless other women have been for sharing our opinions on our own reality and sex. This is not normal. I and other women should not feel terrified talking about female oppression and biological sex. The fact that we feel this scared in 2023 talking about feminism because it will offend men, blows my mind. Seeing trans people on tumblr and twitter make violent comments like 'shoot a bullet through every terfs pussy' or 'every terf should get raped' or 'women should stfu about oppression because it's terfy' and the fact that no one calls them out and the minute they do, they're instantly doxed and bullied off by being called a bigot? When trans people make comments like this towards women, it's no wonder, we do not want to share our spaces with you people. Our concerns are valid and not born out of bigotry or transphobia like so many claim it to be - it is an exact reaction to the violence shown by tra/trans women. At the end of the day, trans ideology is more about male entitlement, male violence and further oppressing the female sex.

#trans #radfemdointeract #radical feminst #radfem #radfemsafe #radical feminists do touch #gender critical #female oppression #rad feminism #feminism #lgtbqia+ #Riley Gaines was attacked by freaking teenagers for speaking up for women and our spaces #JK Rowling is sent regular death and rape threats despite the fact that she is victim of both rape and dv #not to mention the restaurant she visited was vandalised #a black artist I follow on insta was called a terf for drawing the vagina #trans people on tumblr send violent threats everyday to terfs but say NOTHING to men like Ben Shapiro Peterson Jordan Matt Walsh or even #DeSantis

[radicaltorch]

My journey with radical feminism

as a woman with autism I always felt a disconnect with femininity and womanhood, this resulted in me hanging out with males exclusively and soon adopting their ideologies. I was a 4chan dwelling, woman hating, individual. I was an extension of the males around me and was not my own person in their eyes or my own. I wanted to be accepted by them so badly I took on the most extreme opinions to be a dream girl for them. soon i became interested in reading, I was recommended lots of radical feminist literature and once I shared this with the males I was friends with they began to lose it. they seemed afraid, that I would be "ruined" if I read any of these books. I was disturbed by the things they said to me and I want to share them with you

my name is lubov and I'm a radical feminist.

#female oppression #patriarchy #male violence #radical feminist #radical feminists do touch #radfem #radfem do touch #male entitlement #radical feminism #radical feminists do interact

[manie-sans-delire-x]

Funny how pregnancy is the one "bad decision" youre not allowed to back out of and correct. Imagine if people acted like that about anything else.

"Aw man I picked the wrong major" "I dont like where I live" "I want to break up with my partner" "I dont like my job"

"It was your choice!! Take responsibility and have it dictate the rest of your life now!"

#op #pro choice #abortion #womens rights #female oppression

[redditreceipts]

I'm very pessimistic about the oppression of females.

I think males are biologically predisposed to create patriarchy. The solution would be to reduce the male population to 8% (through abortions for example) and bioengineer them to destroy these biological predispositions.

yeah, it's an interesting idea. I personally don't really think that they are biologically predisposed to do that, I think that patriarchy is dependant on the principals of ownership in our society, and when the social construction of ownership changes, the oppression of women changes as well. I don't really see much proof for a biological predisposition of patriarchy. we could look at our nearest ancestors, chimpanzees and bonobos, but they both have very different ways of displaying sexually dimorphic behaviour. and who's to say that homo sapiens sapiens didn't evolve in a completely different manner somewhere along the way? there have also been a lot of matriarchal societies in human history, or at least societies that have not been patriarchal (because the term "matriarchy" is disputed in ethnological circles I guess)

but even if it's the case that men are biologically predisposed to create patriarchy, I think we can adopt other methods to reach the same "bioengineering" goals (and these are actually realistic and applicable today).

Let's assume that the tendency to create patriarchy is genetically predisposed in men, then we could "genetically change" them in the following ways:

encouraging women to only have children with men who lack oppressive behaviourial patterns

encouraging the abortion of a fetus if the father is an asshole

mandatory castration of all sex offenders

this way, the "patriarchy genes" would just not be passed down. and look in the animal kingdom: female peacocks found males with blue feathers, a crown and a beautiful tail sexy, and the males complied. female baboons found that ugly ass blue and red nose sexy, and what did the males do? they evolved to have it. if female birds can get their men to get crazy dances to perform for them and to evolve in every color of the rainbow, then female homo sapiens should get their men to behave imo

#patriarchy #female oppression #male violence #sex based oppression #sex based rights #radical feminists please touch #radical feminists do interact #radblr #radical feminism #evolution #radfem safe

[haggishlyhagging]

Stop helping men. Stop going out of your way to share knowledge with them. Ignore them if you can do so safely. If that’s not possible, shrug your shoulders when you can get away with it. Act dumb. I don’t know how long that’s supposed to cook for. I don’t know what cleaner to use in the tub. I don’t know where Melvin filed the papers for that big project. I don’t know where Kevin went. I don’t know how to get stains out of a shirt. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.

Stop enabling them. Just stop it. Just stop. If they can weaponize incompetence, so can you.

#male entitlement #males are incompatible with health #center women #female oppression #weaponized incompetence #radical feminists do touch #radfemsafe

[museumofferedophelia]

Lesbian sex is only considered "real" sex when it can be commodified, observed, exotified or engaged in by outsider parties.

It's real when men turn it into one of the most viewed pornographic categories. When they harass bisexual women to have threesomes, trying to observe and vicariously partake in acts of sapphic sex. When they sexualise and harangue lesbian women, trying to engage in any sort of way with the Lesbian sex that they're permanently barred from by virtue of being male.

Lesbian sex is considered real when (actually) straight women romanticise "experimenting with girls" in college. It's treated like the ultimate act of unbridled sexual rebellion, sensuality, free-spiritedness. It's considered subversive and salacious and titillating and erotic, a risqué tier above typical heterosexual intercourse. But when they can't feel what they're incapable of feeling, thus becoming an outsider party, suddenly it turns into "Lesbian sex is just foreplay, I enjoy actual sex," or "I tried the whole lesbian thing in college, it was boring."

It holds multiple contradictory perspectives- more erotic and shocking than heterosexual intercourse, but also just a pale imitation of it. Thrilling and sensual, but also boring. The ultimate fantasy, but also an unreality. It's real so long as it's occurring on a screen or in the minds of groups who have no involvement with it whatsoever. It's real when it can be watched, but not when it naturally occurs. It's real when it sexually pleases men, but not when it pleases women.

The outsider parties, permanently excluded, determine the validity of Lesbian sex.

#gender critical #radfem friendly #terfblr #terf #radical feminists do interact #dropthet #radical feminism #radblr #feminism #lgb #butch #lesbian #femme #bisexual #queer #gay #female oppression #pansexual #lgbtq #lgbt pride

[coralillough]

Hi, why the hell is the imaginary boyfriend in this "booty enhancing mask" advertisement 47 years old and the narrating woman 24? Why is it implied that they've been together for years?? Why is this something that Instagram and its advertisers are pitching to young women and even teenage girls??? Why did the marketers feel that this was a necessary detail to include in an advertisement for a product that purports to help those women and girls achieve a piece of the current-trend body????

Like, I get that my views make me (rightfully lol) very sensitive to this kind of advertising, but this just seems extra sinister. This is so gross in a way I can barely articulate. Fuck.

#beauty industry #radical feminism #gender critical #female oppression #feminism