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Welcome to another episode of dumb males degrading and sexualizing women because of their own delusional misogynistic mindset.
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replies to a pornstar committing suicide by shooting herself in the mouth on twitter. these dogs need to be put the fuck down.
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Leftist men will be like Yeah I guess “misogyny” is bad but you have to consider that some men are wxrking clxss and differently abled so :) and also queer so they’re attracted to women in a gay way lol & sex has been dismantled and has no bearing on the way I interact with the world and holy shit I hate white cis women
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I just saw a tumblr user ask another user if they could reblog a post
THAT IS WHAT THIS WHOLE THING IS FOR
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I find it really upsetting when leftists sexualize Abby Shapiro for having big boobs. Like Vaush going on about how she should show off her cleavage on twitch for money or how Xanderhal kept going on about her "milkers" in his streams about her. Like she's a judgemental self righteous douche* but she makes it a point that she does not want to be sexualized, so antagonistically mocking her and pushing that boundary just to spite her is incredibly misogynistic. Because what's funny about it? The joke is just "LMAO woman doesn't like being sexualized and I'm doing it anyways!!XD" it just cements the fact that a lot of left wing people only care about progressive values so long as they can weaponize it. It's just really fucking disheartening. Just because a woman is conservative does not give you a free pass to sexually harass and objectify her. Focus on her shitty politics, not her body.
[TERFS/RADFEMS DNI THIS ISN'T FOR YOU]
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Hi! From my casual observation at the workplace and on public transport, I'm thinking that heels are finally being discarded. Yay! But let's have a poll, right?
At your workplaces, do you see women wearing heels:
- never, everyone wears flats, loafers, trainers, work boots, boat shoes, etc
- only on "special occasions", like company events
- only women in public facing roles wear heels, but they must be stilettos
- all women except those in tech/IT wear heels
- all women are required/pressured into wearing heels, but they can be low/chunky
- stilettos for all, life is pain
I'm excited to see the results of this one, I've also noticed seeing less stilettos than I did a few years ago. Thanks for the poll, Nonnette!
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what’s your preferred sleep aid?
• prescribed sleep medication
• marijuana (smoked)
• marijuana (edibles)
• over-the-counter melatonin
• chamomile tea
• a sleep aid not listed here (tags?)
• i don’t use a sleep aid/results
#i go fuck you insomnia and switch to trying to stay awake and keep my eyes open#or i use the military thing of *imagine calm place* *breathe evenly* *calmly think 'don't think' over and over*#occasionally i will take half an antihistamine but they make me feel demented the next day
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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday
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When we see a terf we block and don’t engage. In theory that’s great - leaves them without an audience, saves us from accidentally helping them recruit.
In practice things are less than optimal. You see some feminism 101 take like “bitch is a slur” and your hackles go up. Go on OP’s blog and there’s a bunch of posts about women’s rights. That could be a red flag - I don’t have all day to vet this person. Better not reblog, just to be safe.
What is the effect on the tumblr ecosystem? Feminist posts with any teeth at all can never go viral in this atmosphere! Any discussion of surrogacy more nuanced than “it is an individual choice” will get no engagement; only the most milquetoast sentiments can prevail.
I don’t have a solution. I just want to point out that the atmosphere of (justified) paranoia has set feminism on this website back 20 years.
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as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine
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Why Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend
Women and their jewellery have a very intricate relationship. The tale of the nagging wife troubling her husband for new jewellery is as old as time. It is a reflection on a woman's vanity. Folk tales mock her ignorance of worldly ways and her frivolous obsession with being adorned. She is redundant to a mere crow that admires shiny things. However, this begs the question, is a woman's desire to collect jewellery as absurd as men paint it to be?
The world has forgotten that until very recently, women were forbidden from owning any form of capital. Be it property, money or even small inanimate objects, they belonged first to her father then her husband. The roof above her could be taken away on a whim with a clock's tick. In these trying times, jewellery emerged as a beacon of financial security for most women of the globe.
Mother of pearls, diamond earrings, gold necklaces etc. were-- although not in print-- under a woman's reign of control. They had an impressive resale value and could last several generations under proper care. More so, they could be secretly sold usually without paperwork to acquire a woman some monetary freedom. If her husband gambled all their assets away, atleast she'll have enough money to put some food on the table for her children.
Jewellery has often times saved people from calamities. Unlike land, jewellery is easier to sell. In case of an emergency, a large sum of money could be obtained without much trouble. Jewellery are an excellent heirloom. The wisdom of grandmothers is passed down to granddaughters to come, allowing them some command over their own life.
Jewellery is a form of investment just like land and shares. Its value is diminished solely due to its association with women. It is not a woman's vice but a survival tactic against the suffocating patriarchy. Jewellery is something she can have under her own name--no matter how small or how futile-- it is her sole capital, her best friend.
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The faces of child marriage in the United States
In a previous post I made, I shared photos and captions discussing the reality of child marriage that occurred in third world countries.
It's important to understand that the issue of forced child marriage isn't limited to the third world, and also occurs in first world nations such as the United States.
Here are some examples:
Angela, pictured here, was 13 years old when she was forced by her mother to marry. After the forced marriaged, Angela became pregnant at 15 and her ex husband soon became abusive.
"Sherry Johnson was just 11 years old when she was forced to marry a 20-year-old deacon from her insular Pentecostal church community in Florida. Johnson says he raped her when she was 10 years old; the rape resulted in a pregnancy. Johnson says her church community, including her mother, covered up the rape – and forced her to marry her rapist. During her marriage, her husband sexually and emotionally abused the young girl."
"Michelle DeMello walked into the clerk’s office in Colorado thinking for sure someone would save her.
She was 16 and pregnant. Her Christian community in Green Mountain Falls was pressuring her family to marry her off to her 19-year-old boyfriend. She didn’t think she had the right to say no to the marriage after the mess she felt she’d made. “I could be the example of the shining whore in town, or I could be what everybody wanted me to be at that moment and save my family a lot of honor,” DeMello said. She assumed that the clerk would refuse to approve the marriage. The law wouldn’t allow a minor to marry, right?"
Naila Amin was just 13 years old when her parents took her from her home in Queens, New York, to Pakistan so that she could marry her 26-year-old cousin. At the time, the legal age for marriage in her home state was 14.
After the marriage, she returned to the United States but after her parents discovered she had a boyfriend, they forced her to return to Pakistan to live with her husband until she was 18.
Although the marriage technically took place in Pakistan, it's still important to highlight. "Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, there is no minimum age requirement for a person to sponsor a spouse or fiancée to come to the U.S. In practice, this means an American child can sponsor their foreign spouse provided the marriage is legal in both the country where it happened and the state where the couple intends to live. Amin's parents reasoned that if they married her shortly before her 14th birthday, she could file for her new husband's visa right away."
Naila was raped by her husband while living in Pakistan and was only freed when she had to return to the US due to CPS being called as a result of her lack of attendance at school.
Between 2000 and 2015, it was reported that that over 200,000 children were married in the United States. The number is undoubtedly higher since some states do not report the data. 87% of those children were girls and overwhelming majority of their husbands were adult men.
"Currently, only four US states (New Jersey, Delaware, Minnesota and Pennsylvania) prohibit marriage below the age of 18 outright. Some states have no minimum age requirement if there is parental or judicial approval and other states have a young minimum age. In North Carolina and Alaska, a 14-year-old can marry with judicial approval. But often, judges hearing these cases are not an adequate safeguard for these children and are not trained in family and children’s issues.
“When judicial approval is needed for a child to be married, one might expect that this is because judges have certain training in trauma and child abuse that might inform their granting of an exception. This is not, however, usually the case,” says Dr Sarah Gundle, a clinical psychologist in New York City, who works extensively with trauma survivors. “While many judges have come to realise that understanding the impact of trauma may lead to better outcomes, there is no systematic, trauma-informed training they must undergo to become a judge. The result is that the courts don’t systematically provide protection for these girls and the consequences for these judicial exceptions to marriage laws can be dire.”
In some states, it is not even a judge but a county clerk who has the authority to approve the licence for a child marriage."
Child brides in the United States are also in a unique situation where although they are old enough to be married, they are not old enough to receive help from domestic violence shelters.
"Child brides in America can find themselves in the position of being deemed old enough to marry, but too young to be admitted to a domestic violence shelter (children can be admitted to a shelter if they are coming with a parent). Many shelters will not take young girls fleeing domestic abuse because of antiquated “harbouring-a-runaway” laws and licensing requirements which create significant obstacles for them to leave an abuser."
While some have introduced legislation to ban under 18 marriage with no exception, there have been opposition from groups such as the ACLU.
"The ACLU Northern California chapters, along with the Children's Law Center of California, opposed the bill, claiming estimates of the scale of the problem were overblown. They cited Los Angeles County, where just 44 petitions for marriage by a minor we made in 2017 out of a population of 10 million. The groups argued that the new law would strip youth of their right to form their families and eliminate one of the only pathways to exit the foster care system through emancipation."
The states in red do not have a minimum age of marriage
To learn more about resources for child marriage in the United States visit unchainedatlast.org, ncadv.org, and www.thehotline.org.
Sources from which the information was taken. Statements in quotations are directly from the source material.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2020/12/24/america-women-and-girls-forced-into-marriage?__twitter_impression=true
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kmov.com/news/i-was-a-passport-to-this-man-bill-to-close-child-marriage-loopholes-languishes-in/article_2715f542-fefb-11e9-879c-437b67353082.amp.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/child-marriage-in-us-cbsn-originals/
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/inspirational-stories/a40323/child-marriage/
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-41727495
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Credit to moeai.art on Tik Tok
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"Just stay in your house" fuck, i thought we put criminals in prison not the victims?
I genuinely have no words. Trans activists showing their misogynoir runs deep. Trans activism isn't prevalent in black spaces but I hope this causes more black women to wake up
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#sometimes i ache to be somewhere bucolic you know#just to exist while chilling in a verdant ecosystem
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