Fucking FINALLY seeing this somewhat talked about

There's a woman on Twitter who's made a tweet saying that there's a white man stalking her who knows where she lives and where she works and she's filed a restraining order and everything but if she ends up dead it's a white man from Louisville named Thomas Brown who did it. Guess whos in the quotes and comments casting doubt, mocking her, victim blaming, and generally being vile fucking people.

doing research for a publicity thing tomorrow and mother fucking bleak shit

ireland's budget 2023:

public funding for horse and greyhound racing: €91 million

public funding for domestic, sexual, and gender based violence services: €37 million

people suffering under misogynistic and gender-based violence literally valued less than abusing horses and dogs

Joss Whedon is a prick, but this one story from Tales of The Slayers (2002) has been haunting me since I first read it years ago.

Tw: witch-burning, religious extremism, misogynistic violence

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Barbarian - 2022, Film

(Vague Spoilers Ahead)

Known triggers include:

Barbarian contains multiple storylines of s**ual assualt, including a workplace harassment plotline, and another villain as a serial abductor/assaulter of women, resulting in forced pregnancies. Incest is also featured in said storyline.

There is a suicide, as well as a violent scene involving a car.

Stay safe lovelies, and feel free to write in with any additions.

A common question and critique, both in feminist literature and in (online) feminist spaces, is ”Why aren’t the good men doing more for women? Why are they still so passive despite being the 'good' ones?”

Okay, so the answer is actually pretty simple.

At best, these self-proclaimed or so-called "good men" don’t care as long as it isn’t inconvenient for them personally.

At worst, they either secretly or openly enjoy women‘s oppression, humiliation, violation — both due to mere sadism and due to the fact that they actively benefit from it, personally as well as systemically.

That‘s why "good men" are nearly non-existent. Some might be allies when it comes to certain topics (though probably not for genuine women-oriented reasons, and yes, intention matters), however, they‘ll still be misogynistic and oppressive in other ways, or tolerate those who are.

And the concept of a "good men" who‘s "passive" is completely ridiculous. If you, as a member of the oppressor class who‘s advantaged by our systemic & worldwide oppression all the damn time, think that not doing anything makes you "good", you‘re merely a bystander, and hence a (silent) enabler. Not a "good man who‘s just being passive".

Silence is complicity.

They don’t deserve to be labelled as "good". Not harming us with their own hands is the barest minimum. And we deserve to raise our standards, and we also deserve that our sisters raise theirs.

Women for Women. That‘s it. That‘s the only way.

They threatened to rape your son?! How shit of a person do you have to be to say that, it makes me vomit just thinking about it

Yes, I posted on twitter about wanting to go to a womens rights forum in my city, and I got a message almost instantly threatening to kill me, and then rape my son in front of me as I died. It was more graphic than that, but that's the gist.

I called my partner home from work, I got in contact with the police, and twitter support. The police were actually very good, they said that I wasn't being silly, or overreacting to a "troll", it was a serious threat, and they would take it seriously too. Twitter support was also very good, and immediately perma-banned the TiM who made the threat.

But I still didn't go to the forum. And it took a long time for me to stop being scared when I left the house.

And when I posted about it (on twitter, and on Facebook) the response was... crickets. Nobody on the TRA side wanted to come out and say that a TiM had done a bad thing. Even some of my friends said "Well.. yes, it was awful but you shouldn't have said you wanted to go to the forum."

Because, as always, women are responsible when men violently respond to them.

I feel that the biggest sacrifice we make to patriarchy is the night. Cool, buzzing summernights and clear, starry winternights. The wind and the burnt smell on a night in autumn and the reflection of the stars in a pond in spring. I really love the night, and now that humans have built safe cities and parks, why can't we cherish the emptiness, the calmness and the silence of the night there. Imagine we were able to have a picknick in a park at night, imagine we could go for a stroll wherever we wanted to, alone, listening to music or listening to the wind. And now that we have spaces without the natural predators our ancestors were so afraid of, we have made our very own predators that prevent us from enjoying the night: Men.

I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men I hate men

do you ever worry your own writing might come off as misogynistic though? it seems deceptively easy

When you have anxiety, PTSD, OCD, or multiple of these things, every move you make is something you will self-doubt. It can become endless if you let it, and you can be frozen by absolute indescision.

Embrace the void and reach enlightenment with me; There are many ways to read a story, and no writer can pre-empt every possible interpretation. Not even myself.

If they think my work comes across as misogynistic? Let them. Salty amoebas are often wrong on the internet, but the block button and xkit are beautiful transwomen who are also my friends.

Mind you the "girl bosses" in question are Dany: who has been sold as a bridal slave at 13, been on the run and feared for her life since she was born, rarely known safety and security, been used as payment by her abusive brother and further abused by the husband she was given too, who has made it a point to protect other women around her from further harm despite having little agency, who faced multiple assassination attempts and the painful loss of her child, vowed to defend others who couldn't defend themselves, has faced constant misogyny on her journey to doing so, has put her own ambitions on hold in order to help others, and is currently the only character enacting wild scale revolution in order to protect a class of people nobody else is fighting for. And Arya: who has been on the run since the end of AGOT starving and scared, has been thrust into a warzone and directly affected by the violent impact, was witness to the horrific torture of the smallfolk by the mountain and his men, was captured and forced into servitude at Harrenhal, was beaten and threatened with sexual violence, who has witnessed countless people she cared about die including her father, mother, and brother, and who still remembers those who lost their lives when nobody else has and done her best to get justice for them.

Yeah, It's soooooo feminist to treat these two female characters like they're lesser because they aren't traditionally feminine. I find it funny how the ones who talk about the importance of valuing "feminine" strengths are the same ones who erase them from Dany and Arya. All of their intelligence, kindness, empathy, etc. get thrown out and their characters are reduced to ones who only know violence. Even the suffering and abuse they've gone through is treated as less impactful and they're given no sympathy. It's an interesting circle of them being misogynistic so that they can justify their misogyny to themselves. It also highlights how little they believe in the things they're saying. Supporting "feminine" characters has just become a convenient way of propping up their favorites; feminism is nothing but a disposable tool. If they actually cared then they wouldn't be rewriting characters to make them seem more "masculine", and in fact wouldn't care about that distinction at all. The female characters have a lot of overlapping experiences afterall.

No one is saying you have to like Arya or Dany, but being misogynistic toward them and trying to disguise it as feminism is disgusting. There's also no way of doing so that won't inevitably reflect poorly on the characters you claim to love. There's nothing productive about making such restrictive boxes for female characters. If you really don't care about them then you don't have to talk about them. It's as simple as that. But if putting them down is the only way you have of propping up your fave, then maybe it's time to find a character that you actually like.

On that note. Neverever do “one last time seeing each other” with a dangerous ex, it will not go well, especially if you aren’t in public with at least one other person with you. If an abusive man wants to see you one last time in private he is hoping it’s the last time anyone will see you

another misogynistic terrorist attack this time in my home australia. a man went on a stabbing spree targeting women, he killed 5 women and 1 male security guard who was bravely trying to intervene. he was shot to death by a female officer. its noted that he specifically "focused on women and avoided the men" but the police are also saying "nothing to suggest any motivation or ideology" .... :I

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“People can leave an online trail of their hatred for women and it doesn’t raise any red flags because hating women is normal.”

-  Tina Vasquez 

im already tired of the 'man vs bear' debate. it went from actually meaningful discussion about sexual assault and how men need to do better to just purposefully ragebaiting incels and nothing of actual value. and that's not even getting into the fact that the discourse only focuses on survivors who are cis women, and less focus on trans survivors, enby survivors (and even male survivors for that matter). hell, transphobes have already started to invade the conversation. we need less rhetorical questions about abuse, and more actual uplifting of survivors and actual education about abuse (for all genders for that matter!)

the man vs bear topic has done nothing to help survivors, and i will die on this hill.