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#patriarchy

• Women's unpaid Labour

Worldwide, women and girls perform 12.5 billion hours of unpaid labor every day. This work adds $10.8 trillion to the economy every year.

With this unpaid "shadow-labour" alone, women contribute as much as 6.6 percent to the global GDP.

It exceeds the combined revenue of the 50 largest companies on last year’s , including Walmart, Apple and Amazon.

(Data via Oxfam & ILO)

Fact-Sheet UNAIDS #zero discrimination day (2020) containing a good first overview over some of the globally most pressing issues concerning women's rights. Download Link below:

it’s the way they don’t even have a concrete argument besides “trans women aren’t men because WE say so 🥺🥺.” they are the patriarchy, they are male socialized, and they are a threat to real women. end of story.

another example of how being popular in feminist online circles does not make someone a feminist by default. once again not much the fault of the community that called her out on her lesbophobia months ago for "driving her away" from feminism, but another symptom of a bigotry rabbit hole she was already slowly falling into

ive seen people make the connection between anti-transfemininity and homophobia & how a lot of homophobia is inherently anti-transfem. & while i disagree with the idea that homophobia is like, anti-transfemininity Lite, its um. interesting to me that the people who will say that gay men are attacked because of their proximity to transfeminity don't say the same about lesbophobia and anti-transmasculinity. because a lot of lesbophobia is inherently anti-transmasc; a lot of lesbophobic violence is done under the assumption that lesbians "want to be men" or "think they are men" (and some do). that's clearly anti-transmasc. it's clearly about punishing perceived transmasculinity, regardless of whether the victim identifies or would have identified as transmasc/a trans man. and yet i've never seen anyone make this connection or point out how so much lesbophobia involves the punishing of perceived transmasculinity. hmmm i wonder why. anyways.

Imagine being 9 years old and asking your dad about the things you're interested in doing when you grow up and he's like "No ❤️! But you can get married, have babies, and then maybe your sons can do those things ☺️🫶 "

This is not a perfect analogy but I am making it anyway to try to convey what being online has been like for me lately.

Seeing people say "Oh, Jews are fine, I just hate zionists!" is like seeing "Oh, women are fine, I just hate feminists!"

Zionism and feminism are both very broad socio-political movements that have changed focus over time, that ostensibly have some very basic core tenets but you really need to ask the specific person you're talking to how they personally define it to be sure.

Both have been subject to legitimate criticism, and hostile reactionary bullshit. Had waves, sub-movements, splinters, people with damn near opposite views sharing the term and people with seemingly identical views rejecting it.

You can give working, broad definitions like these:

Feminism is the belief that all people should be treated equally regardless of gender, with a focus on women's rights due to systemic oppression.

Zionism is the belief that all peoples have the right to self determination and safety, with a focus on Jewish people finding it in Israel.

You can also give different definitions! Many people give different definitions! Many people also hold these beliefs but use different names for them for various reasons.

There are self-described zionists who are jingoistic, racist, etc, and who attribute those attitudes to their zionism. Just as there are feminists who are misandrist, bio-essentialist, transphobic, homophobic, and so on, who attribute those attitudes to their feminism.

There are also incredibly selfless, compassionate activists working for positive change in the world who consider themselves zionists and feminists.

It has been very jarring to see people, who I respect, uncritically reblogging posts or headlines that use "zionists" as a stand in for "bad people", just as jarring as it would be to see them sharing things that use "feminists" that way. Especially when those posts contain easily debunked conspiracy theories that I know you'd have seen right through if the OP said "Jews" but because they said "zionists" you swallowed it whole.

I am not asking anyone to stop sharing important information, petitions, news articles, resources, and so on. I am asking you to slow down and stop spreading inflammatory language that paints a broad socio-political movement for Jewish self-determination as inherently bad. The same way I would ask you not to spread inflammatory language that paints gender equality & women's liberation as inherently bad.

If the information is important, please look for other, more neutrally worded posts. Or verify the links yourself and make a fresh post! There is no situation online in which the only way to share information must be to spread such language.

radical facts - short feminist facts

#medical misogyny

Misdiagnosed & Mistreated - Misogyny & Androcentrism in Medicine

Although it is a well established scientific fact that the female body acts and reacts medically often very different than the male body, these differences get widely ignored. This widespread misogyny and androcentrism in medicine frequently gets women misdiagnosed and mistreated, which often proves deadly.

Studies found that females presenting with a heart attack were more likely to die when a male doctor treated them, compared with a female doctor.

Women are also 50% more likely to get their heart attack misdiagnosed - for their (typical to females) symptoms get seen as atypical and often dismissed; based upon only male symptoms getting seen as typical and indicative.

Female patients are also less likely to be prescribed preventative treatment after an initial attack.

Women are half as likely as men to receive pain killers after surgery.

When getting surgery, women have a 32% higher risk of dying - when operated on by a male surgeon.

They also have to wait longer to receive pain management medication in emergency rooms as well as often simply getting sedated instead of recieving pain management. No such effect is seen in male patients.

Female patients generally have to wait for significantly longer timespans to get a diagnosis. Per example, it takes typically 2.5 more years for a woman to be diagnosed with cancer and 4.5 more years for a diabetes diagnosis compared with men. In total, women were found to get diagnosed much later in more than 700 diseases compared to men.

PDF Brochure - Pregnancy Justice

Practical Guide showing the various ways in which pregnant women face discrimination, criminalization and state penalties.

PDF free to download & share!

Link to the website of the organization 'Pregnancy Justice':

the theory that the reason why jk rowling is such an awful person now is because she's so chronically online and radicalized through lack of real human contact outside her transphobic internet spaces actually checks out pretty well

Alicent Hightower 🤝 Sansa Stark

Having their book counterparts agency stripped away from them and unnecessary scenes of SA being written for them instead

Every time I speak up against trans/gender ideology, I'm terrified of being harassed and doxed like many other women have been. I'm terrified of being stalked and cyber bullied like countless other women have been for sharing our opinions on our own reality and sex. This is not normal. I and other women should not feel terrified talking about female oppression and biological sex. The fact that we feel this scared in 2023 talking about feminism because it will offend men, blows my mind. Seeing trans people on tumblr and twitter make violent comments like 'shoot a bullet through every terfs pussy' or 'every terf should get raped' or 'women should stfu about oppression because it's terfy' and the fact that no one calls them out and the minute they do, they're instantly doxed and bullied off by being called a bigot? When trans people make comments like this towards women, it's no wonder, we do not want to share our spaces with you people. Our concerns are valid and not born out of bigotry or transphobia like so many claim it to be - it is an exact reaction to the violence shown by tra/trans women. At the end of the day, trans ideology is more about male entitlement, male violence and further oppressing the female sex.

If your definition of being a 'real woman' is having XX chromosomes, then you should know there's cis women who have male (XY) chromosomes. Conditions like Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome and Swyer syndrome prove it. Your biological sex doesn't define your gender identity.

In conditions like Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS), individuals assigned female at birth with XY chromosomes typically have a vagina and may have a short or underdeveloped uterus and fallopian tubes, but they typically lack functional ovaries. In Swyer syndrome, individuals with XY chromosomes have female internal reproductive organs, including a uterus and fallopian tubes, but they typically lack functional gonads (ovaries). These variations highlight the complexity of biological development and gender identity.

Would you refer to these cis women with he/him pronouns for having male chromosomes like you do with trans women?

Before you say 'but these people are rare' just know that Refusing to acknowledge individuals with conditions like Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS) and Swyer syndrome because of their rarity is ignorant and narrow-minded. Their existence punches holes in simplistic gender narratives, whether you like it or not. Dismissing them only reveals your unwillingness to confront the complexity of human biology and identity.

Sorry, but topics such as science, logic, and facts are not on your side.

i know zoro would the type of dad to style his and luffy’s daughter with the cutest braids, bathe her almost everyday, and dress her up in the prettiest clothes

This is a very very unfinished thought but I've been thinking a lot as I reread the books about how the women of House of the Dragon don't really get catharsis and how that'll likely be worse in S2. Say what you want about asoiaf but a number of named women there experience catharsis.

They kill their abusers (Lysa, Cersei, Dany). They regain some agency after a violation (Lysa, Cersei, Lady Stoneheart, Dany), and they refuse to forgive the people complicit in their subjugation (Lysa, Cersei, Dany, Lady Stoneheart, Jeyne Westerling).

Obviously, three or four isn't enough in such an expansive cast of characters but the point remains that they claw back their autonomy however they have to. They're allowed to be angry, bitter, unforgiving and cruel to their abusers in a way women in House of the Dragon just aren't allowed. They're allowed grief, grief that is violent and destructive.

The women of House of the Dragon don't get angry. They stand around and stare plaintively at the camera, they cry prettily, and they plead for peace and non-violence. They suffer and suffer and suffer and there's no relief.

I just found out that Greta Gerwig is a homewrecker bc she was sleeping with the director of "Marriage Story" starting from when his wife was pregnant & the cheating plot line in that movie is likely based on Bombauch's divorce from his wife because he cheated on his wife with Greta Gerwig