there should be an extension to every social media site that automatically blocks every male so you never have to read their comments, see their posts or be reminded or their existence while using the platform

I find it funny that trans women can have their own spaces, separate from females, without being called sexist or misogynistic. But god forbid females want our own space separate from biological males (trans women)! Then we're evil, transmisogynistic women who need to be punished and called names.

Just because you're transsexual (and, let's be honest, most TIMs aren't truly transsexual) doesn't mean you get to enter female-only spaces. Jusy because you identify as a female doesn't mean you get to enter female-only spaces. Sure, transsexual-inclusive groups can exist. I don't care if they do. But let females (including transsexual men and nonbinary afabs) have our own damn space.

my grandma's best friend is a female nurse at a men's prison and several of the male prisoners will periodically claim they have some problem or another with their penises, just to get a kick out of her having to examine them. its sick! and she at least has status of being staff, so imagine what a female prisoner would have to endure with male prisoners' access to her, and all without respect or the even (relatively) ensured safety.

only females should be in female prisons.

if you can’t clearly define what a woman is, and you reject every radical feminist who can clearly define what a woman is, how do you know you are one?

I know that's a really dumb question, but what exactly is female separatism? Is it like building a country just for women, or just avoiding men in general? A clear definition of female separatism would help me understand better a lot of stuff here on radblr

Sorry for my -100 IQ :')

It's not a dumb question at all! And the answer isn't simple, it's actually in many layers, and I'll try my best to explain each one.

Separatism can be described as a desire, intention, and direct action to depend, communicate, interact and bond with males as little as possible, or not at all. For a lot of us, this simply isn't possible, especially not immediately. Lots of women have male family members, friends, children, spouses, relatives, who they cannot just abandon for the political goal, and that's perfectly fine, because we can practice separatism only as much as it is practical, nobody should have to do extreme things that damage their social standing, just for the sake of politics.

So in this situation, separatism would just be to depend on the m*n in your life as little as possible. To have your own income, your own living space, to prioritize interactions with women, to not financially depend on m*n, to work with women, to choose female doctors, cashiers, service workers, mechanics, roommates. This also includes avoiding male-made writings and media, and as much as it's practical, consuming female-made entertainment and education. This is done with the goal of being safer from violence, to form a strong female community and class-consciousness, to be somewhat protected from the brainwashing effects of the male perspective, and to have more free space in your social life to express what you think, how you feel, and what would benefit you, without m*n talking down to you and explaining to you why you're dumb and have to do things the way they think is right. I mean, I'm sure you'll run into this issue with women who parade the male perspective as well, it's not a 100% sure fix every time, but being in a female-company often enough will enforce our class consciousness, even if we don't feel it happening. It will also point out to us just how labour-intensive and draining it is to be in male company, and how unsafe, shut down, and objectified we are in their presence.

Being financially independent and having a strong support system of women would function as a great protection from being trapped in domestic violence and isolated abuse situations, which are very prevalent in the current society and within the heterosexual marriage institution. So this helps us keep safer, together.

Now a stronger layer of separatism would be to go a step further, and start building female-only spaces, and female-only businesses. This also, is something that can be done when possible and practical, and it means female-only gyms, female only bath-houses, buses, trains, grocery stores, companies. This still works under the current system of capitalism, but having a business or a company with only women leading and using it, creates a safer space, with less exploitation, less danger from abuse or harassment, and more benefit to women. There are currently many spaces, organizations, businesses and political powers, that are male only, and they disproportionately benefit m*n. They might employ women, but only to keep them doing the most difficult ground work, and to be underpaid and used as entertainment and a service; they do not benefit women in almost any way, and globally, we're at a great disadvantage economically and politically without owning and benefiting from at least half of businesses existing. Having more female-owned spaces and businesses would tilt the power in our favour, and grant us more political and economical power as well. This is also why all such businesses and spaces are heavily opposed by the males, and are seen as a threat (though they present it as emotionally wounding, they're fighting against a political threat).

For some women, who have been thru extensive abuse and sexual violence by the hands of m*n, this isn't enough, and for us, just being in presence of m*n is draining and difficult, and being aware that we're a part of a system that brought us into this state, and is now trying to depict us as insane and hysterical, feels awful for us. So we want to go another step further, and create spaces where we could live our entire lives without having to interact with m*n. This is completely by our own will, and for our own fulfillment. A few of these spaces already exist, though not on a very large scale.

There's a village in Kenya, named Umoja, where m*n are not allowed to live, though they're allowed to visit, they can never sleep over. The women there work together and create jewelry and ornaments to support themselves and keep themselves independent, so they would not have to suffer thru forced and abusive marriages or sexual violence. I know of another separatist space with lesbians who own several houses on the beach, and they work electronically, so they're safe economically, and can keep the entire area male-free, because it's their private property. I also know of a few separatist spaces where women have taken refuge in nature and organized a way of life that is self-sustainable, they've been regenerating the nature and creating livable spaces in forests and mountains, accepting only other women to live there.

I'm sure there are plenty more, I haven't looked it up in a while, and I believe some are doing this a bit more secretly and aren't interested in being broadcasted online, because this puts them in danger. Being a living proof that women can survive, and happily so, without m*n, creates a hole in their forced perspective. They have convinced us they're somehow necessary, as if we couldn't possibly do without them, and absolutely have to accept the drawbacks of living among them (domestic violence, sexual violence, loss of last names and matrilinear identity, living within an exploitative system, tolerating terrorism, wars, celebrations of violence, damage to the environment, loss of human rights for certain groups, constant danger, constant harassment, objectification, pay gap, loss of independence, pedophilia-dominated entertainment, women being tortured for fun, abuse of female children, homophobia, human trafficking, pornography, life of servitude, life of vigilance, low social value and self-objectification). Once women have established that on their own, they can build stronger community, resolve all big social issues by the mutually benefiting each other, sharing resources and relying on each other for support and survival, it will start looking transparent that we don't exactly need to keep sustaining the male-led world, and that we only do it because they're keeping us in constant fear of violence and retribution if we attempt to defy their rule.

Currently all that is practical for most to do is to avoid and live as independent from m*n as possible, and that in itself is a strong force of separatism, that will benefit women in every way it can. I'm the most extreme kind, who has already lost all her bonds to any male in her life, and I want to go and build a separatist community out in the wild. These communities can function in any way the women inside them decide; for instance, I know there are women longing for childless communities, some women would want to have lesbian-only, or women-attracted only communities, some would like for these communities to be inside of cities, and that's possible too! A woman can obtain enough buildings and space to create an area where only women live, where they have their own grocery stores, gyms, libraries, workplaces, communal spaces, and since it's their own property, they can make the rules and decide whether m*n are allowed to walk in their spaces or not.

The all-female cities or countries are a dream that would only work if we really had limitless resources, and if big majority of women were wanting it. Currently this is not possible or practical, since very few women are in favour of female-only spaces. A lot of backlash to separatism comes just from the idea of these idealistic, utopian cities and countries, because there's fear of women not being able to see m*n anymore, or form relationships or be romantically or sexually fulfilled by m*n. While any of this is already difficult to achieve in male-dominated spaces, it would still be fully possible in separatism, because anyone can leave separatist space at any time, and be in presence of any m*n they want to. Separatist spaces will never force women in, or keep them from getting out, and it will never be hard to simply go out in the male-dominated world again, and do whatever they need to do with m*n.

I actually like the theory presented in the 'Who cooked the last supper' book, where she describes women who lived as the heads of villages, marriage didn't exist, and they simply took to bed any m*n they wanted to, and bore children when they wanted to, which would then be tended to by them and other women in the village. This seems like a very reasonable way for a woman to not have to depend on a m*n to provide, and she has all the support and care she needs after undergoing something as traumatic as pregnancy. Male children were raised, but chased out of villages as they turned adult, and were told to fend for themselves, because they simply weren't useful in the village, because women understood m*n had a greater like for violence and physical assault than women were ready to tolerate in their midst.

I wouldn't want male children to be free to abuse female children, so I'm against keeping them in separatist spaces, and it's something that still needs to be worked around, because it potentially limits the life of separatism to women with male children, so there might be necessary spaces exclusively for women with male children, who still need to be safe from violent husbands, fathers, relatives, bosses, traffickers, and whoever else would wish harm on them and their children. Completely separatist spaces are imagined as safe havens from women who are in danger of abuse, or are running from abuse and seeking refuge. It's also a space imagined to be free of homophobia and safe for lesbians and bisexual women, who would be able to express their attraction freely, without fearing repercussions or violence for the nature of their healthy and normal sexuality.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that separatist life would be ideal, there’s a lot that would have to be figured out, since women too can be mentally unhealthy, abusive, emotionally unwell and in need of more support than others can easily provide, but statistically, overall danger of assault, rape, objectified harassment, terrorism, murder, torture, war, and other life threats, would go down by more than 90%. A lot of us would feel safer in this environment, even with the potential threat of women not responding perfectly, and we would in any case, have the authority to decide what measures are to be taken, and how to minimize and reduce any additional abuse of power. This is not something the current system discourages or reduces.

Separatism is a very broad topic and a lot of the details still need to be discussed! Really only thing the separatist spaces have in common is that they center women, women's safety, survival, women's interests, desires, accommodations. They are systems built to benefit and serve women above all, and everything else is something to be discussed and decided by the group who is building and creating it. Separatism can be 3 lesbians on a farm, it can be 20 women living in a forest or a beach, they decide themselves who they let in, and how life is led in there. Freedom and safety of women are the pillars of separatism, and it's existence can benefit women currently in danger, need of survival resources, and in need of community. It's only controversial because in the current society, there isn't even one system that benefits primarily women at all.

Take two now that I'm no longer in Tumblr jail:

I'd like to see if we can get this to the target audience, because... this just won't leave my mind. Please be civil.

*I'm not anti-gendered spaces btw. I'm just multigendered and can't imagine if I'd be comfortable in any type of gendered space or not.

**Bigender, genderfluid, etc. Any gender experience that includes man and woman whether it be at all times or at changing intervals. I'm not talking about nonbinary genders because in my mind that's a slightly different question. (I'd ask that too if we could have two polls in one post.)

Had an excellent discussion with an older woman about organizing and women's spaces today, she's such an inspiration to me 🥺

She ran into the TW problem about a decade ago and got around it by making her organization a church recognized by the IRS and named female-only worship as one of the tenets of the group, which I think is genius tbh. I know every group can't/won't want to do that, but 👀 filing that away for later

Hello 👋 I have created a pro separatist discord server for the radfem and radtwt community. Here we will share community, discussion, empowerment and more. If you are interested in joining the community you can use this link. New members will be verified before getting access to the server. This protects our members.

https://discord.gg/pBSAU9sEq

I keep posting about things in my city and I'm afraid of getting doxxed so I was hoping you could share this? It's just so wonderful and exciting so I'm sending it to a few different women 🥰

https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/article/san-antonio-women-barbershop-tattoo-parlor-17369386.php?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow

Absolutely!! Thank you so much for the good news!!! ❤️

This is so cool!!! Women near San Antonio should check out this female-only barbershop and tattoo spot! Thanks for sharing, anon!!!

History of Women’s Restrooms in the United States

In the midst of the debate about males using female bathrooms, let me remind you that here in the U.S there is still no federal law mandating women’s only restrooms. Despite this, many states and building codes have their own policies regarding restrooms for women. To add on, the first ever restroom equality act in the U.S wasn’t passed until 1989, and that was only in one state. And congresswomen in the House didn’t have a bathroom near the chamber until 2011. Women are still fighting for restroom parity in the U.S and TRA’s are trying to tell us that they are oppressed because of bathrooms? The wiki article also states that female students at Harvard threw jars of fake urine at buildings to protest there not being enough women’s restrooms on campus. Women are the ones being oppressed based on lack of access to facilities, not TIMs. In my own life, I’ve noticed a lack of women’s bathrooms in very old buildings on my college campus. In one of the buildings I had a class in last semester, there was a men’s restroom right as you walk in and another one right next to my classroom, but the women’s restroom was down a labyrinth of halls in the basement. Our proff would give us a 5 min break during class, and it would take us women almost 10 minutes to get back because of how far away the bathroom was. And of course he would make all these jokes about how it takes forever for girls to use the restroom. 🙄 Not to mention how there are a disproportionate number of toilets in the men’s versus women’s rooms. We’ve had just a few decades of access to our own facilities and they are being taken away. But of course no one is suggesting that men give up their spaces. 🙃

for reference: the title of this post is a reference to the extremely discriminatory signs that were in front of stores during racial segregation:

imagine being so privileged that you compare people not wanting men in their spaces to literal apartheid and racial segregation.

"they all need to be institutionalized" oh my god

probably because you behave exactly like a cis man and these people are able to pick up on that

"I really hate it when people assume that just because I am male, I am violent. That's why when someone tells me that I can't go somewhere, I am going to FUCKING BEAT THAT PERSON UP!"

Meanwhile in the Netherlands...

The government-backed Dutch Human Rights Institute has come to the defense of a trans-identified male who reported a woman to police for requesting he stay out of women’s spaces. Alexandra Erné regularly posts exhibitionist and BDSM photos on publicly-accessible websites.

On November 8, the Institute issued a statement asserting that violence against women impacted victims based on “gender identity” and “gender expression” rather than biological sex.

In response, women's right activist Lydia Daniel wrote: “Men who admit that they get a kick out of voyeurism and exhibitionism given access to our locker room, THAT is also violence,” she said, emphasizing her point by uploading some fetish photos first posted by Erné. “You did that. And it is inequality based on sex, not gender. You can’t even name what’s going wrong.”

Bonus: on Alexandra's online profile we can read they are a "demisexual lesbian woman" with various kinks including exhibitionism.

(PS: And of course, autogynephilia does not exist. This is just the poor misunderstood soul of a lesbian female that accidently ended up in the body of a straight male because of some mysterious soul swap at birth.)

Female inmates are terrified that transgender prisoners will still be allowed into women’s jails, according to policy reviews that have been secret until now.

Women prisoners are concerned that some trans offenders have manipulated the system by ditching hormone therapy used to help them transition as soon as they enter a female jail.

Vulnerable women have told researchers that they fear being sexually abused by male offenders who claim to be transitioning.

The reviews were conducted by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) after public outrage over the case of Isla Bryson, a double rapist previously known as Adam Graham who was initially remanded to Cornton Vale women’s prison in January last year. Only after political condemnation of the decision was Bryson switched to a male prison.

New guidelines for the SPS will still allow transitioning male prisoners to be admitted to female jails if they have no record of violence against women.

Single-sex campaign groups said the new policy was “shocking”. They said trans prisoners should not be put in women’s jails where most inmates have suffered lives of physical, sexual and domestic abuse.

Kate Coleman, director of Keep Prisons Single Sex said: “At its heart is not the safety of women, rather it is the principle of maximising the opportunities for transgender prisoners to be allocated to the estate corresponding to their expressed gender.”

The aim, she said, was to increase the opportunity for male prisoners identifying as women to have access to women in prison so that they could “practise” being female.

The SPS drew up its policy after a series of unpublished reviews asking female prisoners and officers about their concerns.

The Sunday Post said it had gained access to several papers that contain claims of trans prisoners “manipulating the system” and refusing, as soon as they get into a women’s jail, to take the female hormones that prevent their male genitalia “working”.

One female prisoner said of a trans fellow inmate: “If I was to have an argument with them then I would feel at risk because that’s the strength of a man.” Another said: “The last one to get out [of jail] is now back living as a man. The one before that got out — back living as a man. When he was in our hall he was telling people ‘I’m stopping taking my medication because I can’t get [an erection]’.”

Rhona Hotchkiss, the former governor of a number of Scotland’s prisons, including Cornton Vale, expressed an “increasing concern” for the wellbeing of female prisoners as well as staff. “Why was this research never issued by the SPS?” Hotchkiss asked. “Possibly because it would increase the pressure on them and the SNP government?”

She added: “It is abundantly clear that women in prison — not all of them and not all of the time — are by turns distressed, frightened, annoyed or irritated by the presence of men who identify as women in women’s prisons.”

The SPS said its new policy supported the health, safety and wellbeing of all people living and working in Scotland’s prisons. The reviews had not been published to protect personal information.

“No transgender women with a history of violence against women and girls, who present a risk to women, will be placed in the female estate,” the SPS said.

Separately, Patrick Harvie, the Scottish Greens co-leader, has been criticised for a “dangerous” attack on critics of Nicola Sturgeon’s gender self-identification bill after comparing them with bigots who hate Muslims.

In a podcast the Scottish government minister said that people who express concerns about changes to transgender laws are no different from the far-right trying to ‘“demonise and stigmatise the Muslim community”.

Meghan Gallacher, deputy leader of the Scottish Conservatives, said: “Patrick Harvie typically dismisses legitimate concerns people had about how the bill threatened the safety of women and girls because he is so wedded to his dogmatic views.”

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Orange Radfem Header for anon - her ask linked here. The second and third options should be what works as a mobile header. Let me know if none of them work or if you want something tweaked.

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who knew in 2022 it would be considered bigoted to say lesbians don’t like p*nises, even if the one with the p*nis wears pretty clothes and likes makeup.

a lesbian is female homosexual. only women can be lesbians.

if a man calls himself a lesbian, he’s a predator who needs to be avoided. and to expect lesbians to accept these men in their delusions is greatly lesbophobic.

like be fucking for real people.