Stomp right wing ideology out of radical feminism. There is nothing radical nor feminist about any form of right wing ideology. Radical feminism is a leftist ideology. If you are a conservative and you think you're a radfem, you're probably just a conservative and can see the truth behind trans ideology. But racism, homophobia, religious indoctrination (I'll say it - I think religion sucks and is bad for you), etc needs to be purged from this movement. The core values are inherently contradictory.
Transgenderism, like all other fundamentalist religions, is enraged by women's autonomy, and seeks to stamp it out. Spittle-flecked, fists clenched, apoplectic rage.
There's no male version of a terf, for instance. Men who know it's bullshit might catch a 'nazzi loser' here or there, but it is the women who object who take all the porn-fueled threats and ire.
Women saying no drives them absolutely bonkers. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
as a trans guy using queer dating apps, something I've noticed a lot is profiles saying "straight man seeking women or trans men" and "lesbian seeking women or trans men" like. by definition you are not attracted to men, so either you're not the sexuality you say you are, or you equate trans men to women. ough.
I'm sorry for being so sappy, but I wanted to show you guys something.
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âI donât want kids so having a uterus is pointlessâ is the worst talking point Iâve ever seen and truly shows me how much we have failed women in the medical realm.
Did you know though that the uterus has important functions besides having babies? Those functions include hormonal, anatomical, skeletal and sexual.
The uterus works with the ovaries and tubes to produce health promoting hormones- which are estrogen and progesterone. This is why hysterectomy can cause impaired ovarian function or complete ovarian failure. Also, these hormones donât just help the reproductive system but estrogen has been shown to regulate immune response and increases the brains serotonin. The uterus is the most powerful organ in the body. During sex it is responsible for the intensity you feel in an orgasm.
Ovary removal (castration) or impaired ovarian function has been shown to increase risk for heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, hip fracture, impaired memory and cognition, dementia, parkinsonism, mood disorders, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, adverse ocular and skin changes, sleep disorders, more severe hot flushes, sexual dysfunction.
The uterus has anatomical functions. It separates the bladder and bowel and keeps them anchored in their proper places. Hysterectomy displaces these organs causing dysfunction especially down the road.
Hysterectomy also destroys skeletal integrity since the uterus' ligaments are the support structures for the pelvis. Again, the RS is more than just âhaving babiesâ it interacts with the rest of your body and organs.
I know this is a âsolutionâ for things like endometriosis but a hysterectomy with or without ovary removal is not a cure for endometriosis (endo) since endo implants / lesions exist throughout the pelvis. Many women still experience chronic pain even after this procedure.
Hysterectomy is one of the top overused surgeries (90+% are unnecessary) and women are not provided with the many negative effects from gynecologists. Women deserve to be informed and have informed consent. Educate yourself so you can be your own advocate and an advocate for others.
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 by Adrienne Rich
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
Fiction
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
The Handmaidâs Tale by Margaret Atwood
Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Gate to Womanâs Country by Sheri S. Tepper
History
Womenâs Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
The Living Goddesses by Marija Gimbutas
The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Womenâs History of the World by Rosalind Miles
Women of Ideas: And What Men Have Done to Them by Dale Spender
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World by Rachel Swaby
Intersectional
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Ainât I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Itâs Not About the Burqa by Mariam Khan (editor)
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by CherrĂe Moraga (editor) and Gloria AnzaldĂşa (editor)
Lesbian
Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective by Sheila Jeffreys
The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism by Suzanne Pharr
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich
Liberal vs. radical
Female Erasure: What You Need to Know about Gender Politicsâ War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights by Ruth Barrett (editor)
End of Equality by Beatrix Campbell
Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap
Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 by Alice Echols
Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism by Sheila Jeffreys
Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism by Miranda Kiraly (editor) and Meagan Tyler (editor)
The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism by Dorchen Leidholdt (editor) and Janice G. Raymond (editor)
The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male by Janice G. Raymond
We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler
Pornography, prostitution, surrogacy & rape
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller
Slavery Inc.: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking by Lydia Cacho
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality by Gail Dines
Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self by Kajsa Ekis Ekman
The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade by Sheila Jeffreys
Only Words by Catharine A. Mackinnon
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths about Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade by Janice G. Raymond
Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle Over Womenâs Freedom by Janice G. Raymond
Psychology & trauma
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence â From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Lewis Herman
Toward a New Psychology of Women by Jean Baker Miller
Theory
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism by Mary Daly
Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin by Andrea Dworkin, Johanna Fateman (editor) and Amy Scholder (editor
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for a Feminist Revolution by Shulamith Firestone
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis by Robin Ruth Linden (editor), Darlene R. Pagano (editor), Diana E. H. Russell (editor) and Susan Leigh Star (editor)
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State by Catharine A. Mackinnon
The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman
Other
Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now by Jenny Brown
Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Womenâs Oppression by Christine Delphy
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery
Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West by Sheila Jeffreys
Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A. Mackinnon
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection by Janice G. Raymond
How to Suppress Womenâs Writing by Joanna Russ
Man Made Language by Dale Spender
Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth by Marilyn Waring
The blue lands have been taken from the indigineous people by azerbaijani forces during war.
The red lands are going to be occupied by azerbaijan too after the âagreementâ.
The green lands are the only ones we have left.Â
We lost almost 70% of our land. The indigenous people - armenians, lost 70% of their land in modern world, 2020, just to avoid SECOND genocide and extermination. People lost their homes, their culture, churches and everything theyâve built for so long.
This is a fucking joke. The international human rights organisations are a big fucking joke. A cruel one at that.
Iâm mourning because the world failed my people again and let a second genocide happen.Â
Please share this information so more people know just how fucked up the situation in Armenia is.
Full video here of this gastropod-specialized snake actually eating the snail, I just think these first few seconds are the new funniest thing in the world somehow
hellloooooo looking to follow more woc radfems/gender critical blogs 𤊠if ur a woc pleath give this a like/reblog and iâll follow you basically !!! if youâre not a woc feel free to reblog anyways just to spread it around :) ŕ¸ŕ¸ŕ¸ŕ¸ŕ¸¸ŕ¸ŕ¸ŕšŕ¸° pals
And speaking of Sophia Tolstoy, her diaries are just so depressing.Â
âI am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman. I try to suppress all human feelings. When the machine is working properly it heats the milk, knits a blanket, makes little requests and bustles about trying not to think [âŚ].â
She wrote this when she was 19, one year into her marriage to Leo and as she was pregnant with the first of his 13 children.
A few years later, when she was 25 or so:
âI am so often alone with my thoughts that the need to write in my diary comes quite naturally ⌠Now I am well again and not pregnantâit terrifies me how often I have been in that condition. He said that for him being young meant âI can achieve anythingâ. For me [âŚ] reason tells me that there is nothing I either want or can do beyond nursing, eating, drinking, sleeping, and loving and caring for my husband and babies, all of which I know is happiness of a kind, but why do I feel so woeful all the time, and weep as I did yesterday? I am writing this now with the pleasantly exciting sense that nobody will ever read it, so I can be quite frank with myself [âŚ].â
During her 12th pregnancy she wrote about taking scalding baths and jumping from high pieces of furniture to try and miscarry. And at one point while reading her husbandâs diary (which he told her to read) she found the sentence âThere is no such thing as love, only the physical need for intercourse and the practical need for a life companion.â In her own diary she wrote âThey ebb and flow like waves, these times when I realise how lonely I am and want only to cryâŚâ
A few years before her husbandâs death, she published a cycle of prose poems titled âGroansâ, under the pseudonym âA Tired Womanâ.
These books should help you learn exactly what some of the tenets of Radical Feminism are, as well as give you an exact explanation for some of the things you feel but can't really name/place a reason for. I found these helpful so I am sharing them to you <3