literally noone gave a good response to me, 1 stopped responding, 2 randomly blocked me, the second you get a good explanation of what radical feminism is, and you cant justify hating it for no reason anymore you block the person youre arguing with to stop thinking. You guys are supposed to be the progressive ones, you have to learn to criticize your worldview and be willing to change when confronted with good arguments, you cannot claim to support women if you refuse to help women in any meaningful ways

What legalised prostitution looks like

A lot of well-meaning activists, including feminists, especially from countries that do not have legalised prostitution, advocate very loudly and very passionately for that legalisation. And I understand that, given I was one of those activists until a few years ago. But most people have no idea what legalised prostitution looks like, and back then, neither did I even though it was all around me. It's usually presented publicly as the pretty face of a luxury escort who smiles into the cameras and says she loves her job. But she represents perhaps ten percent of German prostitution - at most. So I figure I should talk about what it actually looks like. It looks like the owner of the Paradise brothel getting invited onto talkshows and lauded as a businessman, with his brothel seen as the epitome of the nice, clean, ethical German brothel, all certified and above-board, right until he was sentenced for human trafficking. It looks like Berlin's bio toilets, the city's grand solution to residents complaining about the street prostitution impossible not to notice along Kurfürstenstraße - let the women be raped in public toilets then, instead of in the street. Out of sight, out of mind. Most of the women along Kurfürstenstraße speak no German. Most are under control of a pimp. Many have no permanent address. But at least city council can pat themselves on the back for their little wooden toilet boxes. It looks like johns salivating at the idea of Ukrainian women, suddenly left homeless by war, ending up in German brothels - sadly not simply a fantasy of theirs, but a common occurrence. It looks like a group styling themselves as an NGO handing out flyers offering to help Ukrainian refugee women get into prostitution while the police tries to warn them about human trafficking. It looks like underage girls pulled out of legal or illegal brothels every other month. Like strip club ads on the public buses I had to take to school every morning. Like high-rise brothels with a different skin colour or nationality on each floor. Like flatrate brothel offers, finally outlawed after the sheer obvious abusiveness became too much for even our politicians to turn a blind eye to. Like boys in my eigth grade class joking about their dream job: being a pimp sounds good to them. It looks like survivor Huscke Mau leaving a talkshow for her treatment there, made to explain and defend her experiences, doubted, belittled. it looks like the Netzwerk Ella letters. It looks like casual "job offers" on the street; if one woman is for sale, all women are. It looks like one hundred women in prostitution murdered by johns or pimps since the legalisation came into effect in 2002. It looks like human trafficking experts estimating nine out of ten women in German prostitution being forced, by poverty, by trafficking, by a loverboy pimp, by addiction. Like Germany being the trafficking capital of Europe. Like eight out of ten women in German prostitution not being German. I could go on, but this is getting long, and I imagine my point has been made. The German government itself conceded in a review of the legalisation of prostitution that prostitution has become no safer, conditions have become no better, crime has not gone down, prostituted women have become no richer, and no one is factually getting any promised social benefits. But at least the state is getting brothel taxes. Now you know what legalised prostitution looks like. Maybe it's time we look at other approaches.

Tumblr is fucking stupid because a lot of y’all think that white people invented sexism and taught it to men of colour. Lol right okay black and brown women have been treated like shit waaaayy before Cracker Von Patriarch III came along and handed out smallpox and Bibles

Have you guys seen mitskis haircut .

tip for women: do fewer things "out of love" and more things that directly advantage you

how convenient for the patriarchy that you *choose* to do…exactly what it expects of you.

still can’t stop thinking about the message that bianca devin’s murder sent to young women online. young girls had to see a teenage girl much like themselves get murdered by an incel, the pictures of her corpse spread throughout the internet and sent to her family, people online celebrating her death, talks of there being child p*rn of her, major news outlets calling her an “e-girl”, not a drop of empathy from anyone for the young girl that was murdered in cold blood. the horrific message that girls are left with is that they need to behave or else, or else they deserve to die in the worst way possible and people will rejoice in it too, that they need to know better than to hurt a man’s feelings or else he’s absolutely entitled to hurting them. bianca deserved so much better, and so did every other young girl who had to watch this unfold.

The shock that I had when I heard that women should offer sex work to disabled people that can’t get a date. Are y’all that fucked up in your minds? Who actually thought of that and said that it’s a good idea. Since when was paying for access to the inside of a person’s body for one-sided sexual gratification a natural desire? People really do try to justify buying a woman’s body every time they get the chance.

The most disgusting thing I've ever had to watch on tiktok, youtube shorts, and other apps are "funny" gender party videos of men's reactions to having a daughter.

All the sadness, the tears, the anger… it's disgusting. And it just kills me that women are trying to make such a thing seem funny instead of offensive. You're literally sacrificing your health, your body, your career, your life for the next 18 years (most likely 20+ years) for this whining bitch to be unhappy about the sex of the baby? Seriously? At what point is that even funny?

And just imagine how much of a traumatizing experience it is for little girls who watch this kind of stuff. Realizing from a young age that a lot of parents would have preferred a boy instead of her is fucked up. And no matter what people say about children not realizing anything, that gender socialization doesn't exist, it's just that little girls subconsciously feel all this social hatred towards them from childhood.

But the most horrifying thing is that women don't even care. Like it's no big deal, even though it's fucked up on all sides. And don't try to lie to me now about people reacting the same way to having a son. If that were true, such a thing as "selective abortion" wouldn't exist, which is why some countries now have a severe shortage of women.

It's time for us, as a socially oppressed group, to fucking dump garbage(males) that not only doesn't shower us with gratitude that we decided to have a child with them in the first place, but is also unhappy with the sex of that child. Because we've already sacrificed too much for them to demand anything more.

If you had a teenage daughter and she wanted to wear makeup, what would you do?

-Fully forbid

-Allow only if she paid for it

-Discourage, but allow if she persisted

-Totally allow it

Thanks for the poll!

This deeply held belief that even nonbelievers deep down hold the same belief happens both with the trans community and christianity. The idea that "radfems hate me now because now I'm a man" only works if you believe so hard that you're a man to the point where you extend the belief to people who don't believe you can change sex. It's the same way christians, from my experience, believe that atheists do believe in god but are just angry at him or want to rebel against him. Both have such strong faith that they can't even fathom others not believing at least a little bit at their core.

trends keep women in a continuous humiliated state and not exactly in the way you might think. do current extreme beauty rituals look humiliating and degrading from an outside point of view? yes, but for the people that wear them at the moment, they don’t. however, what i’m noticing is a pattern of women making self-deprecating comments about their past choices in fashion and makeup techniques. they look at old photos of themselves and instead of feeling love and nostalgia for their younger self, they feel embarrassment. “oh wow i looked like a clown with the 2016 brows and contour, i looked like an idiot dressing like an egirl at the start of the pandemic, i looked weird with my 2000s overplucked brows”. men don’t have that, they might look back at a time when they had a questionable haircut or a time they gained some weight but that’s about it. women, though, are always in a humiliated and embarrassed state. we are conditioned to not only hate our present selves but to constantly hate our past selves as well.

Reading Against Our Will has been such an... emotional? vindicating? eye-opener for me. Like, obviously, we all know logically that men rape women on a mass scale, and on tumblr I'm constantly exposed to examples of it. But outside of news stories, horrifying anecdotes and statistics, there's been a sort of... comfort gap, I suppose you could call it, in my brain. I'm not blackpilled by this book or anything, but the sheer sense of scale you get from this book, the complete lack of ambiguity that rape is violence, that it is a terror committed specifically by men against women... it's hard to put it into words but it really kind of puts the pieces all together: What this fight is, what we're fighting for, what we're up against and who we're up against.

Unfortunately, the nature of statistics means that people are inherently dehumanised into numbers. But that's why this book is so powerful - it's is dense with a real human story: anecdote after anecdote, all more or less the exact same story. the exact same type of violence. the exact same trauma. the sameness of it, it's the same same same same same story. And it's all shared by women. This is our history, this is our story, this is what unites us, this is the core feature of our oppression, this is a terror shared by women in the American civil war, in Jewish pogroms, in the average household. It is what unites us, and it is because we are women with women's bodies. After the war in Bengal, there were 25,000 pregnancies.

I know this is tired, I know it's cheap to make every single feminist point we make a jab at gender identity... but there's something so uncomfortably sobering about reading about the history of rape. But where it's sobering, it's also galvanising. If you're a radfem/rad-leaning who's on the fence about whether or not you're supporting 'the right side', I'd wholeheartedly recommend this book. It's not for the faint-hearted, although suprisingly less graphic than you would expect - specifically because these are accounts taken from real people throughout history, and people tend to shield their language when talking about rape.

That is something that she makes a point of addressing: her book sets the story straight once and for all, that rape is something that all women share as a commonality throughout history, but both men and women are curiously unwilling to talk about it - especially men. Make no mistake - this silence is as politically deliberate as the act itself. So, as feminists, we should never shut up about rape. And we should never shut up about it as an act of terror, committed specifically by men against women; by males against females. There is zero ambiguity who is targeted and why: once again, I remind you that after the war in Bengal, there were 25,000 pregnancies. To ignore the biological reality, to ignore the commonality of women, to ignore the purpose and scale of rape, is to be fundamentally anti-feminist.

Birth control is one of those things that’s so complex to feminism because on the one hand, it single handedly freed millions of women from sexual and reproductive servitude and fuelled women’s liberation in an easily accessible way. On the other hand it’s such a representation of all of the inadequies of women’s healthcare, the horrific side effects, the ways it’s overprescribed and expected of women to take on to save their boyfriends the burden of using a condom. It’s like thank you, but also do better. It may have leased to mass improvements in women’s rights in society but it desperately still needs improvement

Marriage is NOT for women. At its core, it is a man and HIS wife. It's never going to be for women. A woman, no matter how liberal her husband is, will always be taking a hit to her core value as an individual the second she marries. The man gains respect, and the woman loses herself and becomes a part of the man. The man sucks the inherent value out of the woman and attaches it to himself upon marriage. To say it is anything else, "union" of lovers, etc, is just a story fed to women. Look at Disney. The whole story of a princess continues for as long as she is single. The ending is when a man marries her... for then, she is reduced to the man's wife. It's not a happy ending. It's the end of a woman's autonomy. Nuclear family is a myth, they've cheated, they've had concubines, they've abused us, chained us, locked us at home all for the sake of "nuclear family" which never actually existed. It is a lie. Marriage is a lie.