#marginalized women

[crazycatsiren]

Happy International Women's Day to disabled women, neurodivergent women, poor women, fat women, queer women, women of color, Jewish women, Muslim women, women who are sex workers, women who are addicts, women who are homeless, women who are single mothers. ♀️

#intersectional feminism #women #international women's day #marginalized women #women's rights #support women #radfems do not even fucking think about touching this

[marzipanandminutiae]

Of course, the burkini ban is messed up on grounds of religious freedom and racial discrimination. But also

Under any other circumstances, people would be HORRIFIED at a government mandate that women have to show a certain amount of skin. Like. That’s fucking dystopian, and the absolute opposite of feminism. If a government tried to pass a law that all women had to wear tube tops and miniskirts to go outside, people would rightfully be up in arms demanding blood

But because it’s targeting a marginalized religious group, many folks are lauding the blatant forced sexualization of women. Appalling

(apparently the ban also outlaws things like sun – protecting bathing suits if they cover too much skin. Which like. Yes, let’s give everyone skin cancer just so we can spite a religion we’ve decided to hate. Sounds like a good plan </s>)

#mini rant #Religious discrimination #misogyny #feminism #sexualizing women #islamophobia #I was just thinking about this in terms of the “women fought not to have to dress like this #that I’ve heard once or twice in reference to my own historically – inspired wardrobe #and how much I would absolutely hate it if someone tried to force me to show more skin in public #for me it’s an annoying comment here or there. For Muslim women in France it’s actual legal discrimination #I swear we’ve gone from people measuring flappers’ swimsuits on the beach #to make sure they covered enough. to police forcing women to strip #because they’re covering too much. We just can’t fucking win #especially women from marginalized racial or religious groups

[baeddling]

People not grasping what "trans men hold power over trans women" means is probably the most frustrating part of talking abt intracommunity transmisogyny

#and its not a particularly novel idea either #marginalized men and marginalized women in the same community are never playing on an even field

[pansexualdemic]

#capitalism #palestine #economy #imperialism #colonialism #israel #congo genocide #genocide #africa #marginalization #marginalizedcommunities #marginalized groups #marginalized people #black women #black voices #afrofuturism #melanin #afrocentric #afropessimism #afro surrealism #amplify #leftist #socialism #communism #anarchist #left wing #anti capitalism #white leftists #yt #uplifting

[entropyvoid]

Y’know before things went to shit a popular topic amongst jewish users on this site was about cultural Christianity, and a large part of that discussion was pointing out that certain ways of talking/acting/thinking were rooted in Christian culture, and were not culturally neutral, and the expectation of Jews (and people from non-culturally-Christian backgrounds in general) to conform to them was an expectation to assimilate and abandon our own cultural ways of talking/acting/thinking.

And this collective conversation has largely been abandoned as Jews on this platform now have much more loud and blatant forms of antisemitism to worry about

But I can’t really stop thinking about how ostracization, public shaming, guilt, conversational shut-downs, harassment, and throwing ad hominem buzzwords at various people to not have to engage directly with opposing ideas enough to form an actual counterargument have all been a serious issue with how people operate in left-leaning online spaces for a long time now, and how those things are also very common methods of group control in a lot of the more… well, controlling and loudly bigoted sects of American Christianity, with roots in American Puritanism.

And I think a lot of people who want to think of themselves as leftists or even activists should really take a step back and more deeply analyze their methods/praxis of realizing their ideals and how they interact with other people, whether or not they’re actually willing to be constructive about things, etc.

Like is burning bridges, shutting down conversations, refusing to engage intellectually with things you don’t like, callouts, etc… actually helpful and useful? Why is this the method so many default to, and where does it come from?

#ch.txt #jumblr #tagging bc. idk. the conversation started there and also visibility? #i saw a post the other day that linked a study I really want to refind #that was about how callouts and public shame statistically work rEALLY WELL on people already in marginalized positions. like trans women #but are extremely ineffective against people in positions of social power

[avarii]

Detective Benoit Blanc giving a black woman the power to burn the whole system to the ground herself is probably the most overlooked and underrated part of The Glass Onion

#benoit blanc #Helen brand #glass onion #using his privilege to empower marginalized women is key to his story and I don’t feel like it’s talked about enough #the glass onion #glass onion spoilers

[roman-roy-apologist]

yeah ok i get it you don’t think transandrophobia exists but you do realize that it’s still bad to be shitty to transmascs right? you get that right?

#like you don’t get to be transphobic just bc you say ‘well they’re men so men can’t be oppressed’ #as if if there is never any intersection of identities that includes being a man #like first think of gay/bi men they experience a different kind of oppression than queer women do and it would be idiotic to argue that #them being men has NOTHING to do with the oppression they face #and then there’s black and brown men who are constantly painted as scary and violent in news and media and are disproportionately killed #by police officers #and you’re telling me that has NOTHING to do with how their identities intersect between being a POC and a man. ok #it makes no sense to me because look #obviously we live under the patriarchy which systematically oppressed women as well as anyone who deviates from #the cisheteronormative white masculine ideals and i’m by no means trying to say that ‘men have it harder’ #it just seems a bit ingenuine to argue that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES CAN A MAN FACE OPPRESSION DUE TO THE INTERSECTION OF ANOTHER #MARGINALIZED IDENTITY #transandrophobia #transgender #transmasc #trans masc #trans man #transphobia

[alethianightsong]

"The prince with a thousand enemies" quote hits different when you're marginalized

The full quote is like 80% despair and 20% hope. Basically, God says to the semi-divine Prince of Rabbits "everything in this world wants to catch and kill you. But while you are powerless, you are not helpless. Run fast, hide well, warn and help others like you and you will never be erased from this earth." El-ahrairah is not given weapons but tools to help him and his people survive (claws to dig havens, ears to listen, legs to run, feet to thump and warn). And despite how hard it is for him to survive, despite all his enemies, he is still noble, admirable and possessing dignity. He is a Prince.

#el-ahrairah #watership down #rabbit #frith #marginalized groups #marginalization #persecution #black women #women #lgbtqia #queer community #queer pride #hope #xenofiction #hazel #goodbye despair #despair #dark animation #prince with a thousand enemies #year of the rabbit

[crippled-peeper]

disliking specific real life trans people for their abusive or hateful behavior isn’t transphobia or transmisogyny lol

#I keep seeing posts about how it’s unfair and transmisogynist if a trans man isn’t unconditionally supportive of all trans women he knows #and I’m like…. lmao. this kind of shit is why domestic violence is such a bad problem in this community #you think individuals owe you because you’re systemically marginalized and that’s just not true people are allowed to leave you and say no #- to you. it’s called we’re all adults with autonomy

[crazycatsiren]

As a disabled woman, sometimes I just want to talk about being a disabled woman and to other disabled women.

My support for disabled men, nonbinary, and trans people doesn't factor into this. I'm a disabled woman. Let me be a disabled woman with other disabled women. Let our lives be about us. We can care about other people without making everything about other people. Our lives and our experiences are still our own. Sometimes I just want to talk about me on my blog, ok?

Ableism and misogyny do intersect. We're not making things up either. And we should be able to talk about this, without any whataboutism.

Disabled women exist. We are allowed to talk about ourselves and to each other.

#disabled #disabled women #disabled community #cripple punk #intersectional feminism #marginalized women

[transvarmint]

Being a woman does not make you immune to being misogynistic, nor does it make you any less prone to being misogynistic.

You are not less misogynistic by virtue of being a woman. You are not any less capable of perpetrating it.

To believe that being a woman in and of itself makes you less likely to be misogynistic is just essentialism. It implies that other genders are more misogynistic solely only the basis of their gender, rather than being misogynistic based on the choices they actively make.

To not be misogynistic, you must actively choose to fight against it, everyday. You must actively make choices that challenges systemic and social misogyny. You must question your own biases and how they influence your behavior.

You cannot be passively anti-misogyny. Your gender does not give you a free pass.

And importantly, women can absolutely perpetuate misogyny against other women, AND people who are not women. So you must be checking yourself for misogynistic bias in ALL interactions.

*** Before anyone comes at me, YES this applies to men and all genders as well. No, I'm not blaming women for systemic misogyny. I'm simply pointing out that everyone plays a role in it. Women are capable of perpetuating bigotry, especially if there are other intersections at play. Women are not perfect victims, they are human beings who have autonomy, and that autonomy includes the capability to uphold harmful institutions. ***

*** Also yes, experiencing misogyny on a daily basis will cause you to have a different relationship to it. Some folks respond to that by fighting against misogyny, but others respond to that trauma by continuing the cycle of abuse. This is just a fact. ***

#transandrophobia #won't be remotely surprised if we get harassment and death threats over this one #but we're gonna try to stick to our guns here #because it needs to be fucking said #trans women deserve to speak about the way cis women enact [trans]misogynystic violence on them #and transmascs deserve to speak about the way cis women enact transphobic + misogynystic (transandrophobic) violence on us #sorry not sorry! #this is why I don't think women only or 'no men' spaces are inherently safer for women #in fact it often just creates an environment where more marginalized women are targeted under the guise of creating a 'safe space' #not to mention fucking over anyone who has a complicated gender or doesn't pass or is closeted etc #like this is the entire conceit of rad/fem shit #the idea that women are inherently safer or inherently less capable of perpetuating harm #on the basis of their victimhood under the patriarchy

[joskippy]

There is such a big racism and antisemitism problem in the nightvale fandom that its fucking crazy

#jontalks #wtnv #ill main tag this what fucking ever im gonna delete this immediately anyway #stop drawing carlos tan with brown hair stop depicting him as a dead beat lying predatory sex pest #stop fucking demonizing him for his character flaws you wouldnt be calling him some of the shit you people call him if he was white #ive seen the biggest artist in this fandom say they wish cecil got put in a cage and expiremented on in the year 11 arc like that #isnt revolting to say about a jewish character #ive seen the same people dissapointed that did not happen like the two writers arent jewish and would write something as disgusting as that #ive seen an artist draw a white character fantasize about brutalizing a brown character #and no one gives people shit for it and they still fucking do disgusting shit with these characters #ive seen people mad carlos didnt do something awwful to lubelle to give her reason to hate him like #the whole point of that wasnt that lubelle was a privilege white women jealous of a brown gay mans success #you people are so fucking aggravating and disgusting #and you need to start giving people shit when they are fucking weird about these marginalized characters #because some of you do not think when you depict carlos. a dark brown latino gay man as a predatory sex pest who is a dead beat #and treat cecil who people either draw lighter than or white as this perfect angel who has done nothing wrong #you would not be calling carlos a impulsive lier and a piece of shit for just being written as a emotionally closed off character #if he was white or if he was a paler latino man #it just fucking boggles my mind this is still an issue in this space and that it ALWAYS has been #its not surprising to me at all that this is the same fanbase in the early days that were refusing to see carlos as a dark skinned man and #that people who didnt want to depict him as such were fucking defended #this is the same fanbase that started shaking in their boots when people were questioning why everyone defaults to white for cecil its like #some of yall are very racist and you need to revaluate the bs you say about #a cast of majorily marginalized characters #and why you demonize the brown character for the same shit the one that is aracial in podcast and you draw as white as a perfect sweet ange #lol

[think-queer]

If you view any group of trans people as essentially "hysterical whiny women afabs who don't have any real problems and need to shut up" then please stay far far away from me

#seriously #the way i see some people talk about trans people who were afab #it can border on actual incel stuff but against 'afabs' instead of 'women' #but those people don't even seem to realize that they haven't unpacked their misogyny and think they're being completely progressive #and before anything jumps to conclusions this is something i see from trans 'allies' of all identities and agab #its not some kind of 'male socialization' bullshit #i think its just people who were exposed to that kind of misogyny and then never did the work to unlearn it #and its especially common with queer people who think their marginalized identities mean they *can't* be misogynistic

[uncanny-tranny]

I think if we are to do marginalized communities good, it'll help to remember that often, marginalized people who seem to be "forgotten about" in the mind of bigots aren't being treated well by them either - so many marginalized people are forcibly erased and made invisible. That is not a neutral action; it is a form of violence. Not all violence will present itself in the extreme of facing physical violence. The core of any violence against marginalized peoples will often come from a similar level of hatred for them. That's why it's so important to combat all violence, even the forms of violence you don't perceive "as harmful" as other forms.

#politics #like for example in some spaces people think that because transphobes tend to 'forget' about trans men* that means we face no violence... #...when we are often forcibly erased and the other forms of violence we face tends to also be erased - like... #...seeing people who go 'lel trans men are going to be forced in women's bathrooms if we go by ASAB' as if... #...we don't face violence for using said bathrooms. that's what i mean by the violence is still there but it's made invisible #and that's a common tactic i think. because if you MAKE people invisible then it's easier to dehumanize them and pretend they don't EXIST #it's just weird when people see that and don't perceive it as violence because it doesn't 'look that bad' #not all violence is fire and brimstone levels of brutality and indeed most violence done unto marginalized people won't look that way #to present violence as ONLY being the extremes we are permitting other forms of violence to exist and be carried out onto people #this ISN'T to say that extreme forms of violence are not atrocities and that they shouldn't be recognized for being brutal but that... #...we cannot narrow our view of violence so much that we still permit it so long as it isn't 'the most extreme' #just like physical abuse is not the only form of abuse one can face - it is analogous in this situation to recognize other violences #i hope this makes sense - i'm writing this with a time crunch and it's a bad habit

[mueritos]

being in a social work masters program as a marginalized person who is ages ahead in theory and experience in comparison to your (white, privileged, rich) cohort is a fucking minefield. solidarity for all and every other marginalized person in these fucking micro aggressive and liberal ass social work programs.

#muerto talks #i mean like yea. of course this would happen #didnt matter if i went to nyu or school in philly #white women flock to social work programs because theyre not smart enough for nursing programs #sure youre not commiting elder abuse as an rn but youre a mandated reporter in communities youve never spoken to until now lol #its been quite isolating here and im not afraid to be myself and speak up in class but the fucking thank yous i get from white women #make me wanna bite a rock man #id much rather u call me a slur at this point #at the very least my field placement is in a bipoc space with bipoc staff #godspeed to all other marginalized people in these masters programs........

[pjharvey]

i do think that that ethel cain post was gross and misogynistic, majorly so. but i also feel like so many transphobic people on here were like itching for an excuse to attack her. and then people are saying she’s “appropriating the female experience” with her music which is like. normal thing to say. it’s wacky some people apparently think that a trans woman from an evangelical christian family with a pastor father in the deep south, who originally came out as gay at literally 12 years old, could never possibly have had any trauma around her body and her sexuality. okay

#trans women like cis women say misogynistic shit sometimes and you should be able to call them out for it #without misgendering them and dismissing/contributing to their own marginalization