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Feminist linguistic suggestions:
-Stop using misogynistic insults such as “cunt”, “bitch”, or “whore”, even in a neutral or “endearing” way
-Stop using the word “pussy” when describing cowardice and referencing testicles when describing bravery
-Use female-default language
-Don’t refer to yourself or other women as “girls” unless you are specifically talking about children
-Do not tolerate other people using offensive language towards women around you
-Act confused when people call women girls, especially if the context is sexual
-Laugh more at women’s jokes
-Stop lightening your voice to please men
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okay. hear me out. i know you’ve said before no concept albums but this is one of my favorite pieces of media and means so much to my acceptance of my own womanhood and i really hope you just give it a chance.
taylor swifts The Tortured Poets Department is one of most groundbreaking and heart wrenching sapphic aligned media i’ve ever experienced, and it’s backlash by music review jornos is no doubt because of its focus on womanhood and queer love. the album embraces melodrama and emotional vulnerability, often using heightened expressions of emotion as a narrative device. swift’s lyrics are central to the album, with developed imagery taking precedence over catchy pop hooks. the album is also recognized for its references to other artists and poets, suggesting a lineage of “tortured” lyrical poets.
in terms of its significance in lesbian and feminist art, while there is no direct confirmation of the album being labeled as such, it could be argued that its themes of love, relationships, and emotional expression resonate with broader human experiences, including those within the lgbtq+ community. the album’s exploration of heartbreak and creativity might align with feminist ideas of personal agency and the rejection of societal expectations.
you've got a glowing review
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Marie de France
Marie de France (wrote c. 1160-1215 CE) was a multilingual poet and translator, the first female poet of France, and a highly influential literary voice of 12th-century CE Europe. She is credited with establishing the literary genre of chivalric literature (though this is contested), contributing to the development of the Arthurian Legend, and developing the Breton lais (a short poem) as an art form. Marie's published works include:
Lais (including the Arthurian works Chevrefueil and Lanval)
Aesop's Fables (a translation from Middle English to French) and other fables
St. Patrick's Purgatory (also known as The Legend of the Purgatory of St. Patrick)
She was trilingual, writing in the Francien (Parisian) dialect with a command of Latin and Middle English. Her lais were developed from the earlier Breton lais poetic form and so she must have also known Celtic Breton and been acquainted with Brittany. Her works influenced later poets, notably Geoffrey Chaucer, and her imagery in St. Patrick's Purgatory would be used by later writers in depictions of the Christian afterlife.
Marie's works were popular in aristocratic circles but frequently featured lower-class characters as more worthy and noble than their supposed social superiors and always cast women as strong central characters. Her vision of female equality has led to her designation as a proto-feminist in the modern day, and her works remain as popular as they were in her lifetime.
Identity
Her actual name is unknown – `Marie de France' is a pen name given her only in the 16th century CE. All that is known of her comes from her work in which she identifies herself as Marie from France. Based on details in her work including knowledge of place names and geography, and the sources she drew from, scholars have determined that Marie spent a significant amount of time in England at the court of Henry II (r. 1154-1189 CE) and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine (l. c. 1122-1204 CE).
Scholars suggest Marie may have been Henry's half-sister who perhaps followed him from Normandy to England when he was crowned king in 1154 CE. The Lais of Marie de France are dedicated to “a noble king” who is most likely Henry II but precisely how Marie meant this dedication is unclear. Marie's poetry often features women imprisoned or otherwise poorly treated by men and this theme mirrors Henry's relationship with Eleanor.
Throughout their marriage, Henry was unfaithful to his wife numerous times and carried on an open affair with the noblewoman Rosamund Clifford. When Henry's sons rebelled in 1173-1174 CE with Eleanor's support, the king had her imprisoned for the next 16 years. This same sort of relationship, often with similar details, appears in a number of Marie's works. Further, Henry does not seem to have been as fond of poetry and poets as his wife was and so an interpretation of Marie's dedication as sarcastic is probable.
In modern-day scholarship, Marie is almost always credited with establishing the genre of chivalric literature, but this seems unlikely as her works clearly draw on a pre-existing tradition of courtly love literature whose central motifs she inverts. In courtly love poetry, the knight is seen rescuing the damsel in distress; in Marie's works, the knight is often the one who has imprisoned her in the first place or, sometimes, the one in need of rescue.
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I would love to see one about women's favourite part of tumblr. Feel free to edit/add but I'd suggest: feminist theory recommendations, hearing about activist women's direct action, hearing about women's life experiences, reflective posts, humourous posts, sense of community, other (comment in tags)
p.s. bless your idea for this blog I love clicking buttons!!
Thank youuuu that means a lot :D I'm having so much fun with this blog and I love hearing that you are too
#poll#polls#radblr#radical feminism#radical feminists do interact#terfblr#terfism#radical feminist safe
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zuko stans (especially the z*tara shipper ones) are such cum-guzzling cocksuckers.
if you even slightly criticize his character and suggest he isn't as pure as the fandom makes him out to be, these hoars will have a full-blown meltdown. their male obsession is embarrassing.
the z*tara shippers literally don't give a flying fuck about katara. they just wanna use her as a self-insert for their psychosexual fantasies of choking on zuko's sour, putrid, stinking semen.
that's why their layouts are always zuko and never katara.
what's even more pathetic is when they act like zuko is some feminist icon. like, no, that ugly moid literally had his little sister locked up in a mental hospital, instead of helping her deal with her problems. fuck him.
if he was alive today, zuko would probably be one of those incels/andrew tate stans who schizopost on twt, obsessively browse misogynistic gimmick accounts and complain about women all day.
fuck that ugly, deformed moid.”
I think this confession from the Atla Confessions blog represents you perfect
Do you know what really says feminist icon? Misogynistic slurs.
You are a misogynist and so is the coward running that "confession" blog, but that drama and that blog has been dead for a while. We all know who it is trying to dredge it back up with multiple fake accounts after literally faking their own suicide, though. Good try.
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my 'hey yes we have an all-consuming brainrot going but let's try and do something actually productive this week that I'm having off of work' project is sorting through my bookshelves, rigorously throwing things out (little miss I own over a thousand books in my one-room apartment is reaching the breaking point aka I'm finally and utterly running out of space) and i think i threw out almost a hundred books today and it's still not anywhere close for sorting shelves by genre without having to stack and put things second row. how am I supposed to live like this
#*mine#mona rambles#I've already put a book buying ban on myself until i catch up with my tbr of owned books#unfortunately for me then tolkien took over my brain so while i /am/ only more or less buying my 2 allowed books per month#they're all his stuff and I'm not making a dent in said tbr at all while also having very little hope that this is going to change anytime#soon#i do have a rough sorting now by like....#fantasy / other fiction / queer + feminist + antiracist theory / other non-fiction / poetry / classics / philosophy / language + travel /et#but it's really more of a suggestion and really testing the limits of like.... shelf space lmao#i'll have to catalogue all of it too once i'm done to see what my actual tbr is at and like. man. terrifying#but also i just think someone should pay me money in exchange for 5-50k words per month so that i can move and have a library. it's time
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‘gay retelling of a classic!’ ‘feminist sapphic twist on this greek myth!’ why don’t you write a better book than that. i think we deserve better books than that
#just had ‘jane austen’s mansfield park reimagined as a sapphic murder mystery’ advertised 2 me on IG. and i just think you should write a#better book than that. if you want to write a ‘sapphic murder mystery’ then write it. the fact that you have to lean on existing classics#and advertise yours as a ‘retelling’ or a ‘twist’ or a ‘reimagining’ suggests to me that you are not a very good writer. sorry this is very#hatery but i believe it…just write a new book. a better book. what is the point of writing a gay version of wuthering heights other than it#solves your problem of not being able to come up with a plot because you are not a very good writer. i dont know. i suppose there is space#for anything and should be space for all sorts in the publishing industry but also i hear sapphic murder mystery mansfield park and i think#that’s probably not a very good book. idk. there is excellent queer and feminist original fiction out there without the need to take#existing literature at random and use that as a crutch for some reason…#(ridi's) bigmouth strikes again
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Started watching a "problem with greek myth retellings" video and it began with a blurb montage like "Condemned by the misogynist guys of history, this is the true girlboss feminist story of [A WOMAN]" and like. brb writing one of those about crown prince rudolf. It's ok he's like a misunderstood girlboss to me<3
#NASJASKSDFKDSLFDGJDFJ#joking. since those retellings seem to be often bad#fun fact i do have ideas for like a black teen comedy series with mary as the protagonist where the ending is like a harrowing twist#like you think it won't go that far but it does and the point is that she had historical agency and her own problems and personal journey#but in the end it spiralled catastrophically due to both crown prince rudolf related events and others#unfortunately writing one would draw the ire of both misogynist rudolf conspiracy theorists (how dare you suggest women have agency) AND a#certain type of feminist media critiquer person: (1) how dare you cover a topic like that flippantly 2) how dare you make rudolf anything#but an inhuman monster of a r*pist murderer gr**mer or whatever in the story#like idk man.. other male characters portrayed as romantic interests in mainstream media are toxic r*pists all the time. like omg i hate ho#'the great' handles p*ter and catherine because i was rooting for them to remain toxic and for catherine to kill him or whatever but then#she starts falling in love with him in s2 and everyone in tumblr is like omg hot sexy toxic romance. like cant we have ONE series where#straight romance doesnt inevitably become the overbearing focus?? i had wlw ships for that show.. they never pulled through...#anyway um yeah. the way i would portray rudolf in that is that mary sees him as this romantic hero which is emphasised in the way its shot#but he's constantly acting in kinda offputting and strange ways and is occasionally pretty pathetic and weird ASHDJFJF#^^ that's never been a deterrent to anyone ever. most rudolf biographers want to [redacted] him this has been proven by the way they write.#the only ones that dont are me (well not a real biographer but a rudolf enjoyer nonetheless) and brigitte hamann /hj#(she actually doesnt salivate over his appearance like frederick morton does xD only quotes 2 contemporary women commenting on it)
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Mallows Beauty or whoever spamming my social media feed:
Omg bestie r u still using regular body wash to shave ur 🐱😱 ???
Are u embarrassed by ur STRAWBERRY LEGS after shaving?? 🤢🍓
Do u have INGROWN HAIRS on your COOCHIE 🤮👎
Is your bf is on his way in 5 minutes and u haven't SHAVED?? 😰🙍♂️
Use our pussy de-disgustifying shaving balm to correct ur hideous natural body and remove all ur body hair for ur crusty dingleberry ass bf! 😍❤️🥰 Ultimate self love and feminism is when women CHOOSE to shave (but ur disgusting and unfuckable if you don't) 😇✨💖
#like no girl i don't have these non existant problems and i don't care about them and also i'm better than you#when i was trashing indie brands i honestly meant them#i actually got blocked from their account for calling out their shitty misogynistic advertising haha#anti shaving#pro body hair#literally every three posts i see adverts like this despite clicking 'not interested' every time and never interacting with posts like that#i actually think that because i interact with feminist content and PRO body hair content they suggest these ads to me more smh
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for some reason tumblr has gone 'you're into radical left politics, so you must be into all radical politics!' and is suggesting a lot of blogs that would happily see me dead 🙃
#anarchy#anarchist#im LEFT#WHEN I TRY TO TYPE FEMINIST IT SUGGESTS RADICAL FEMINIST TAGS JFC IM IN HELL
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Any ideology that says you need to take hormones and get surgeries to “be your true self” and not getting access to those things is akin to genocide is an ideology that needs to be scrutinized.
#radblr#radfem#radical feminism#radical feminists do interact#gender critical#Even if the hormones and treatments were safe#Which they’re not#Even if they were it’s still very suspicious#To act like these elective surgeries are life saving#And not having access to them is just like gay conversion therapy#Once you’re in the mindset of having to spend thousands of dollars and permanently change your body#To be your true self#And that anyone suggesting barriers is a Nazi who hates you#You are anti scientific and don’t understand the precariousness of the human body#And don’t forget they’re fucking covered by insurance in US states where insulin isn’t even covered!!!#My post
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the infighting about witchcraft on radblr thats been going on for days now is so insane. in the 70s the CIA had to pay agitators to get this kind of result...
#like gyns there is a real world outside and there are activist movements in YOUR AREA to get involved in <3#average tumblr user when someone holds personal beliefs that they dont share 😡😡😡😡#like be so fucking real rn nobody is suggesting replacing feminist praxis with witchcraft it's just an added consciousness raising extra#anyway vvitchscum i will defend you in the trenches
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pray the devil back to hell is a really interesting documentary about the liberian civil war and how a women's peace movement helped end the war if any of you are interested in a docu about that
#pray the devil back to hell#radical feminism#radical feminist#radfems do touch#documentary suggestions for yall!
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(draft from my main, disclaimer for anyone who sees this: this blog is primarily a porn blog and stupid debating will be ignored or laughed at, you can try it but i dont care)
ive seen a lot of people incorrectly thinking that the trans people wanting to be acknowledged in reproductive rights discussions are all trans women, and as a result a lot of backlash to more gender neutral language in those discussions is like “you’ll never be a woman” “you’ll never be pregnant, so this doesn’t concern you” “‘males’ will never know the weight of this sort of decision, we don’t have to include you in this” and/or claiming that trans women throw tantrums and whine about dysphoria when it comes to about female-exclusive language and discussions about pregnant people
(they do not btw. i have never seen or heard a trans women interrupt a cis women and say that someone talking about periods or reproduction or anything to say they’re making her dysphoric, that discussing periods is transphobic, etc. and even if this hypothetical trans woman exists…… trans people are not a monolith. a few trans people saying stuff like that does not mean all trans people believe it.)
in reality, the people pushing for more neutral language… are trans men and nonbinary people who can get pregnant. “pregnant people” or “people with uteruses” or “people who menstruate” are not terms that exclude cis women, nor are trans people claiming that this language is being used to include trans women who can’t get pregnant (which is all of them, in the current world)
gender-neutral language with respect to reproductive rights (like abortion) is not misogynistic or erasing women or anything like that. frankly, i think it’s really fucking telling that people think that defining womanhood and being female by reproductive capability is cool and woke and feminist. “if you can have children, you’re always going to be female” is an outdated belief that doesn’t serve anyone but cis women and instead harms anyone who’s not a woman but can get pregnant.
“pregnant people” does not erase women, it just includes non-women who can also get pregnant. that’s all. it’s acknowledging a fact. it’s not some long-con game to remove cis women from existence, it’s literally just acknowledging that not all people who can get pregnant are women
#transandrophobia#transphobia //#misogyny //#‘saying pregnant people ignores women’ women are included in the word people. dumbass#i remember just after roe v wade got overturned i saw several posts from radfem types saying that trans men who were asking to be#acknowledged and recognized as victims of that decision#were delusional and ‘not realizing they can’t identify out of oppression’#and a lot of them even suggested we should detransition as a result of that decision#because we’re ‘always going to be female’#which is an incredibly callous and cruel way to look at this.#if you really support trans men (which a lot of terfs specifically say they do) even just as dysphoric or confused women#how is telling them they’re trapped as victims forever like. a feminist statement to you??#‘uwu you’re going to be a victim of misogyny forever so you should detransition and accept being female’#and just……… accept misogyny thrown at us because of it#if you think that you are an incredibly cruel person with no sympathy for marginalized people. like full stop#women are not the only group affected by reproductive rights being fucked with and i will beat you over the head with this fact#until it sinks in. women. are. not. the. only. ones. who. can. be. pregnant.#cis women are not the only ones who need abortion access. they’re just not. and acting like trans men wanting to be included in these#discussions is erasing women#is transphobic and cruel#accepting that not all people who can get pregnant are women is quick and easy and free. trust me acknowledging trans men will not kill you
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White feminism exists to retool progressive language in service of white supremacy
#white feminism#white supremacy#The ideology of white feminism =/= white feminist people#I pointed out terf language being transphobic perisexist ableist and racist#Without even hinting at how misandrist it was cus that would never get me anywhere#But it hurt a white cis womans feelings so I must be in the wrong#Doesnt matter how gently I coo that surely her desire for#the perfect progressive language for a wombyn born wombyn club doesnt have ill intentions#It mustve been about having an inclusive space to talk about womens issues#Heres a suggestion for how to do that without being a no boys allowed club echo chamber#Anything that makes a white cis woman sad is patriarchy
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going to try and put down any simple thoughts I have instead of staring into space with a clench in my heart and strong emotions.
all of it is wisdom. Sometimes it made me laugh a lot. Sometimes it made me laugh in a sobbing way for how things still were. Sometimes it made me angry too, in a way that says 'things must change'. Sometimes it made me go 'oh', in a way that says 'i recognise this in real life. She put it into words, the wrong feeling I had.'
It was always thought-provoking.
2 Feminist Tools:
First: 'I matter. I matter equally. Not 'if only'. Not 'as long as'. I matter equally. Full stop.
Second: Can you reverse X and get the same results? eg. If Chudi sleeps with another woman and you forgive him, would the same be true if you slept with another man?
The conversational, warm tone, as if you are a friend listening in (it was originally written for a friend whose daughter was just born, who asked 'how can I raise my daughter feminist?') works so well, and makes it so accessible for a topic as thorny as feminism, and one that can easily get lost in jargon.
The wry humour and occasional snark was delicious too, and added to the readableness of this (it's a really thin book!!)
She just says it simply. She says it as it is, with bravery and honesty.
That. Is the best ending for this book.
It's a lot of reflection and thought distilled into one book -- about equality for everyone, between men and women, bad and good, and the spectrum in between, and emphasises acceptance of all diversity. And to be honest, open-minded, and to question all social norms.
#dear ijeawele: a feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions#chimamanda ngozi adichie#books#Oh thank fucking god it saved automatically when my browser froze I would not have liked having to rewrite this all over again#books-ed-read-2024
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