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she-is-ovarit · 6 months
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The rape and brutalization of any women—including white women—in any country is not a "response" to colonialism, oppression, slavery, poverty, war, murder, and starvation.
It is done out of hatred of women and the pleasure of female pain, degradation, and humiliation. It is attempted to be justified through cultural relativism, through religion, by blaming women for male violence, blaming women for the actions of male systems of governance, blaming women for being in the wrong place at the wrong time—or around the wrong men. In times of war, the rape and brutalization of women demonstrates male behavior in the absence of rules and law.
It is depraved, shameful, disgusting, and absolutely unforgivable. It does not matter which men are doing it to which women in what place. Rape is never justifiable.
As a Jewish woman, would I shame Jewish men for raping the wives of Nazi men? Yes, I would. Would I shame black male slaves for raping white women? Yes, I would. And I would shame white men for raping black women, Nazi men for raping Jewish women. And I would shame male Israeli soldiers for raping Palestinian women and Palestinian males for raping Israeli women.
The rape and brutalization of any women is not an act of liberation, resistance, decolonization, self-defense, or freedom from oppression.
If your measure of the depravity, immorality, and disgust for rape hinges on what men are doing it and what women they are doing it to, you are a rape apologist. That is sexually predatory thinking, that is male supremacist thinking, and that is disturbing behavior. It is wrong to rape.
Female liberation, now.
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radykalny-feminizm · 1 year
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Another based TikTok woman being 100% right about religion, love the tendency ✊
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hairtusk · 25 days
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Once a year, around International Women's Day, MP Jess Phillips reads out a list of names of the women murdered by men in Britain in the last 12 months. She almost always reads them to a near-empty chamber. This is the ninth year in a row she has done this. There were 98 women on this year's list.
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feministdragon · 5 months
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gyns, if you see something on the internet that resonates, keep a copy of it somewhere, put a copy of it on a hard drive, write it in a notebook, and record who wrote it and where they wrote it, and the link. also save it to the internet archive. there is an information instability these days, the internet is not actually forever, especially for information that may not be convenient for the people in charge of maintaining our information spaces
there is a pattern in history of erasing women’s words, we need to make sure that this time we keep our women’s knowledge alive and growing
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femalethink · 10 months
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Why procreation should be "a fact of nature" rather than a social, historically determined activity, invested by diverse interests and power relations, is a question Marx did not ask. Nor did he imagine that men and women might have different interests with respect to child-making, an activity which he treated as a gender-neutral, undifferentiated process.
In reality, so far are procreation and population changes from being automatic or "natural" that, in all phases of capitalist development, the state has had to resort to regulation and coercion to expand or reduce the work-force. This was especially true at the time of the capitalist take-off, when the muscles and bones of workers were the primary means of production. But even later — down to the present — the state has spared no efforts in its attempt to wrench from women's hands the control over reproduction, and to determine which children should be born, where, when, or in what numbers. Consequently, women have often been forced to procreate against their will, and have experienced an alienation from their bodies, their "labor," and even their children, deeper than that experienced by any other workers. No one can describe in fact the anguish and desperation suffered by a woman seeing her body turn against herself, as it must occur in the case of an unwanted pregnancy.
—Silvia Federici, "Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation".
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stillarandom-radfem · 3 months
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I said this once on my old account, and I'm going to say it again: even if a TiM in a women's shelter isn't actively misbehaving towards the women in the shelter (and momentarily ignoring the fact, of course, that many of them do), by being there, he is still taking a bed away from actual biological women who have nowhere else to go. About 99% of biological women who are homeless become so due to domestic violence, and going back home could mean death for them. Meanwhile, most TiMs have experienced a male puberty, and could more than handle themselves in a male shelter. Yes, even TiMs who are on cross-sex hormones and have had cosmetic surgeries in hopes of "passing" as a woman. You are still significantly physically stronger than most women are; you'll be fine in the men's shelter. And, if they feel that there aren't enough shelters for guys, or that they want ones explicitly for trans people, they can always go out and build them. You know, like women did for ours? It's not our sex's job to compensate you with our beds and shelters that we took the time and effort specifically to set aside for ourselves. Not when our lives are on the line, and the only thing you risk injuring is your ego. That's not our problem. You deal with it, and then go find a bed at a men's shelter. No, I am not sorry for you. Go cry to someone who cares.
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connorthemaoist · 8 months
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butch-reidentified · 3 months
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If you can’t refute this then maybe it’s time to start considering your cause isn’t so righteous or beneficial to women after all https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1RvBf5I1kz/?igsh=dWJpYjVpOXRsOGti
I am honestly a little disappointed. Your preface there had me eager for an intellectual challenge, whereas it seems the only intellectual challenge to be found here is the challenge you seem to face when attempting to engage in intellectual conversation.
You are asking me to refute the content of an Instagram reel in which some unidentified man is speaking to an unseen audience with no context provided as to his credentials or what (if any) event this might be, and not a single citation (nor any attempt to support his assertions at all, really) to be found. Have I understood the assignment? If so, 10/10, mate. This is going to be positively delightful. For me, at least.
Allow me first to note that correlation is not inherently indicative of causation. See below for an example of an instance in which the two variables are rather obviously not causative in either direction, despite the strong correlation demonstrated:
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Let's keep this in mind always. Similarly, it's extremely important to be mindful of possible confounding variables. If this term is unfamiliar to you, you have no business demanding refutations to begin with.
Now, on to the good stuff! The man in the reel makes three (3) distinct assertions:
First, that feminism has negatively impacted women
Second, that children raised in single-parent households have more negative outcomes than children raised by two parents -- and that this is a direct result of feminism.
Third, that children raised by parents of the same sex have poorer outcomes than children raised by heterosexual couples -- for which, again, we have naught but those pesky feminists to blame.
Please, come, join me in the upcoming reblogs as I ponder and react to each of these three statements and bask in the enlightenment this anon has so selflessly and heroically bestowed upon little old me.
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mouth-almighty · 1 year
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If you see people reporting that the Islamic Regime in Iran has dissolved the Moral Police, they are perpetuating propaganda. The laws haaven't changed. The provision for the Morality Police is still enshrined in Iranian law. The regime has merely told the Morality Police to stand back and stand by.
The revolution underway in Iran is not just about the Morality Police but about the entire regime and its 40 year oppression of the people.
Instead of listening to Western media outlets, listen to the voices of Iranian, Kurdish, Khuzestani, Baloch, and other activists who are fighting for liberation.
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redditreceipts · 4 months
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I feel that the biggest sacrifice we make to patriarchy is the night. Cool, buzzing summernights and clear, starry winternights. The wind and the burnt smell on a night in autumn and the reflection of the stars in a pond in spring. I really love the night, and now that humans have built safe cities and parks, why can't we cherish the emptiness, the calmness and the silence of the night there. Imagine we were able to have a picknick in a park at night, imagine we could go for a stroll wherever we wanted to, alone, listening to music or listening to the wind. And now that we have spaces without the natural predators our ancestors were so afraid of, we have made our very own predators that prevent us from enjoying the night: Men.
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radfem-quotes · 3 months
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the catholic objection to abortion centered specifically on the biblical curse which made childbearing a painful punishment - it did not have to do with the "right to life" of the unborn fetus. it was also said that midwives were able to remove labor pains from the woman and transfer those pains to her husband - clearly in violation of divine injunction and intention both.
Andrea Dworkin, woman hating
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dykeiism · 6 months
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why are radfems against sex work?
i'd like to make a post to summarize my views on pornography, prositution, and other forms of sex work. it will be useful for me to have it all in one place, and i'll continue to update it as i learn more about the topic. i've broken down my arguments into three categories: demand, consent, and intimacy. there's a lot of overlap between the categories, but i still find it helpful to have it organized in this manner. ↶ೃ✧˚demand. ❃ ↷ ˊ- sex work creates a demand that will be fulfilled with sex trafficking.
let's imagine the best-case scenario: a woman doing sex work because she wants to. she genuinely enjoys this type of work, and her clients treat her well. this is understood by some to be "ethical sex work."
as a business, sex work must actively encourage the demand for sex work to keep increasing. porn industries want to create porn addicts. they want to create a pornsick society. that’s how businesses survive. it's horribly optimistic to imagine that every person who wants to use pornography or prostitutes will do so ethically (assuming that ethical sex work is possible). but let's imagine for a moment that ethical sex work exists, and that everyone who wants to consume sex work does so ethically. would there ever be enough women who are willingly going into sex work to satisfy this demand? as long as there is a demand, there will be sex trafficking to meet that demand. the “ethical” sex worker is a very very small minority of sex workers who throws every other sex worker and prostituted woman/girl under the bus for her own gain.
sex workers need men to use porn and prostitutes, and they will encourage men to do so. is this good for feminism? do you think these are good men? do you think these men respect the women in their lives? do they have healthy sexual relationships, or are they sexually reliant on static fantasies created by strangers who they have no personal connection or intimacy with?
↶ೃ✧˚consent. ❃ ↷ ˊ- consent can't be bought. consent can’t be bought--in fact, the mainstream conception of "consent" isn't one that respects women's sexual desires. it's a copout that allows men to do whatever they want to women, as long as the woman agrees to having it done to her. sex is something you do with someone, not to them. so many women (including myself) have uncritically consented to sexual activities in the heat of the moment because our minds were clouded by confusion, surprise, or anxiety, and we didn't feel like we could take a moment to think things through. think of it from the perspective of someone who uses a prostitute, in the best case scenario (in which the woman is pursuing prostitution of her own volition and not out of necessity): you found a woman who you're sexually interested in, but she isn't interested in you. instead of offering her a worthwhile sexual experience, you use your money to blow past her disinterest and buy her consent. you then begin to touch and penetrate a woman who wouldn't be interested in you if not for the money you offered her. you see no problem with this. since you are paying this woman, she is providing you a service. you have a one-sided sexual encounter where you use someone else's body to fulfill your own desires. think about the men who do this, and the men who consume pornography. how do you think they view sexuality? how do you think they treat their own sexual partners, after consuming so many static sexual fantasies that are devoid of any personal intimacy? ↶*ೃ✧˚intimacy. ❃ ↷ ˊ- i've decided to put "intimacy" at the end, because it is the most subjective of the three. upon reading this, it may become quite clear that these views are influenced by my personal experiences with sex work, sexual trauma, and christianity.
if you’re sex positive, you’ll be against porn. porn misrepresents sexuality by completely divorcing sexual pleasure from love, intimacy, and vulnerability. witnessing such intimate imagery of total strangers will inevitably mess up the way you approach your own sexuality, and the way you interact with sexual partners. porn puts a price on sexuality and makes it into something that can be bought and sold.  porn consumption encourages hookup culture
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feministdragon · 5 months
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what heterosexual women just really can’t get their heads around is that sexual desire for men is both real and natural, but at the same time it is absolutely used to ensnare and enslave women
and so it follows that not getting involved with men is the most effective way to protect your freedom and emotional and financial health
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unbfacts · 9 months
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radfemtaquito · 2 years
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It's bitterly funny to me that people still think cancel culture is a real thing. So many men have been accused of sexual violence and gone on to enjoy high-profile careers.
Men get "cancelled" and then go on to become Supreme Court justices and the President of the United States. Women get mercilessly ripped to shreds when they name their attackers.
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Honestly I think birthday parties can be a feminist action.
By replacing weddings as a day where women for the first time in their lives receive positive attention from everyone, we help cut down on women's loneliness, the dopamine of having a setting where people are happy for you + hitting a major milestone, I feel we can help give women an avenue not yet given to them before. How many of us can say we've had an actual birthday party recently? This isn't a full fledge idea, I just wanted to get the ball rolling and start a conversation! 💬
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