From Black Punk Now, edited by Chris L Terry & James Spooner, Soft Skull Press

you bottle Miette??

I still can’t get over the stupid “radfems are more dangerous than incels” thing because like.. if we’re so dangerous and are more likely to kill you than a misogynistic homophobic male then why are you so adamant on coming into our spaces? wouldn’t you be terrified of ending up in a private enclosed space alone with us? also isn’t the reason why you should be allowed into female spaces that men are way more violent and way more likely to hurt you than even the terfiest of women?

be serious. you know who’s more dangerous.

"i didn't like it" and "I think it wasn't well written" are different. i can personally dislike things that are not bad and i am being so brave about it

I think a lot of people have only a surface level understanding of bodily autonomy. I've talked to people who are pro surrogacy and pro sex industry because they think women should be able to do what they want with their bodies, including sell them. But under that model, you're selling away your own bodily autonomy. You cannot be fully in control of yourself while under financial coercion. You can't have the choice to end a surrogate pregnancy at any time when you rely on that money to get by, and the same for women in the sex industry. You cannot consent to sex when the alternative is not having enough money to pay rent. The buying and selling of bodily functions is a removal of autonomy, not an expression of it.

why is it that Taylor Swift specifically is being made the face of eco-terrorism when she barely ranks 77th place on the list of celebrities with the most carbon emissions? why her, and not Travis Scott, who ranks 1st place? any idea?

and why is this gaining popularity again right after the AI pornography spectacle? any idea? any idea why people are so eager to demonize a woman who was just recently the victim of misogyny?

Dog toy plushies have fundamentally different souls than that of regular plushies. Unlike regular plushies, which are content with just existing (and just go to regular heaven when they get destroyed and don’t mind being resurrected), dog toys seek Valhalla. This is why you don’t need to feel bad when your dog/cat/especially strong bird rips it to shreds, because this was the warriors death they were seeking all their life

RB if you think CD drives in computers are not obsolete, but in fact still necessary, despite being artificially phased out

Willenbring says Marchant had insisted on picking her up at the airport, an offer she thought was nice but strange. It got stranger when he started making her feel bad for his gesture, which she hadn’t asked for. “I’m missing a Red Sox game,” she recalls him chiding her. “You really should have picked a better time to fly.” He asked whether she had a boyfriend, how often she saw him, and whether she knew anyone in Boston or would be alone. In a few months, she’d be heading with him on a research trip to Antarctica and the region with his big chunk of namesake ice. “It was almost like a pickup line,” she recalls, “‘I have a glacier.’”

But it’s what happened in the glacier’s shadow that led Willenbring to take on Marchant and become the first to expose the horrors faced by women at the bottom of the world. A report released in August 2022 by the National Science Foundation, the main agency funding Antarctic research, found that 59 percent of women at McMurdo and other field stations run by the US Antarctic Program said they’d experienced sexual harassment or assault. A central employer, Leidos, holds a $2.3 billion government contract to manage the workplaces on the ice. One woman alleged that a supervisor had slammed her head into a metal cabinet and then attacked her sexually. Britt Barquist, a former fuel foreman at McMurdo, says she had been forced to work alongside a supervisor who had sexually harassed her. “What was really traumatic was telling people, ‘I’m afraid of this person,’” she says, “and nobody cared.”

With a congressional investigation underway, Willenbring is sharing her full story for the first time with the hope of inspiring others to come forward and claim the justice they’ve long deserved. But even now, decades after she first got into Marchant’s car, she can’t help asking herself how, and why, the nightmare happened in the first place. “You never hear a women-in-science panel where people are talking about stuff like I do,” she says, “because they’re smart enough to fucking run.”

if you think white men are less likely to harm women because they are white, i really think you're just fucking stupid

True crime media is insensitive but I will give it credit: it’s the number one thing that radicalizes women.

It’s presented as apolitical, but when you watch constant stories of women being raped, tortured, and killed, and the shit way the justice system handles that… you realize how much society hates women and girls.

Even episodes of Snapped show how society coddles pedophiles and has harsh punishment for the girls who finally fight back against their rapist and abuser. I saw an episode where a grown man married a 14 year old and tortured her with knives for years, and she has the evidence all over her back to prove it. Police did nothing. She finally kills him in self defense, and she gets life in prison. That shit radicalizes you, it makes you angry.

When a man complains about how hard it is to be expected to not cry, and you just finished watching a video about women’s getting acid thrown in their face for simply being women… it puts everything in perspective.

RB for bigger sample + feel free to comment as always, esp if you don't use your government/legal/birth/whatever name

Won't somebody please think of the men? Never mind the autistic women that surely get talked over or their input seen as insignificant. Never mind women ever talking about men ignoring our intelligence or dismissing it because some hypothetical autistic boy out there might feel inclined to consider a woman might already know something in their field.