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hadeantaiga · 2 months

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I'm going to say it again:

"Men are dangerous" is 100% patriarchal rhetoric.

The patriarchy does everything it can to train men to be dangerous. It creates a toxic version of masculinity that only profits and privileges men who choose to be dangerous. It does everything it can to put men into positions where they can be dangerous.

Which means that danger is artificially constructed.

Men are not dangerous because they're male. Men are not dangerous because they're masculine. Masculinity and manhood are not dangerous things.

The dangerous version of masculinity sold by the patriarchy is a social construct that can, in fact, be opted out of. Men and masculine people can construct a masculinity that is not toxic, that does not promote violence, that is centered around healthy relationships and communication and helping others.

Building a healthy, vibrant vision of masculinity is absolutely a part of feminism. I'm not saying it needs to be done by women - do not twist this into a claim that I'm attempting to burden women with remaking masculinity. Men can be feminists. Men who are feminists are eager and willing and actively taking part in the act of ripping masculinity away from the patriarchy and reforming it into something new.

#feminism #intersectional feminism #revolutionary feminism #queer feminism #trans feminism

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tekra-brings-the-rain · 3 months

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One of my problems with white feminism is the fact that it doesn’t focus on dismantling systems of exploitation, but instead aims to be part of those structures, creating a concept of ‘winning’ at the capitalistic power system, which is designed to oppress. For example, female CEOs are often used as an example of success, which is basing how ‘feminist’ an organization/person/society is by how well it/they perform under capitalism.

This can also work in other ways as well, such as with queer and trans representation centering those who are successful only in a way that follows the path laid out by the current system.

All liberation will only work if you leave the capitalistic framework.

This kind of feminism had its place in history (think the suffragette movement) but we need to move forwards for meaningful change.

#intersectionalfeminist #intersectional feminism #white feminism #feminism #anti capitalism #capitalism #transgender feminism #queer feminism

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genderqueerdykes · 3 months

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women of any identity are not obligated to be hairless. cis women, straight women, trans women, lesbian women, butch women, femme women, genderfluid women, bigender women, bisexual women, asexual women, aromantic women, nonbinary women, intersex women, genderqueer women- all women are allowed to be hairy, as hairy as they'd like, as hairy as they naturally come. our bodies naturally come with hair on them, you should not have to painstakingly remove it unless you want to. having body hair does not negate your womanhood, nor does it inherently make you a "masculine" woman- all AGABs have the potential to grow body hair. you're allowed to choose what you do with yours.

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intersexfairy · 9 months

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with how we're all aware of how toxic masculinity leads men/boys to harass, assault, and abuse other men/boys, you'd think the fact they can be harmed by patriarchy and misogyny wouldn't be a controversial statment. *especially* marginalized men. but alas, many people have taken the "identity" in identity politics so literally, they just end up ignoring and reinforcing the harmful things they claim to be against.

also if you think the pain of the men harmed by toxic masculinity isn't a big deal because they're men... that is. that is literally you believing in toxic masculinity. like i thought we all knew part of toxic masculinity is that men shouldn't feel pain, they shouldn't cry, they can't ask for help or be truly hurt, etc. etc. and if they do any of these things, then they're not real men and not only deserve to be emasculated, but deserve to suffer. you just switched it to they are real men so they deserve to suffer.

and even though again, this is extra harmful for marginalized men, i shouldn't have to say that for you to care. if you only give support to people harmed by these systems when you think deserve it, you're always going to end up propping these systems up at some point. maybe you should stop that.

also. to any man reading this who feels like their pain doesn't matter: it does. you deserve to exist in a world where you're safe to be yourself and feel emotions, and get genuine protection and support. we all need to exist in that world. none of us deserve this hell.

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starport-rodeo · 9 months

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the barbie movie honestly changed me as a person. the message of never truly being able to genuinely feel good about yourself because it’s always either too slutty or too prudish, too skinny or too fat, too happy or never happy enough. i have never felt comfortable in my own skin or pretty enough to try hard to impress others. but let me tell you, i’ve never felt so happy to walk out in public in my little pink skirt and brightly colored makeup to see a movie about a doll in the real world. finally understanding my feminine side and embracing it for the first time in a really long time without giving a shit about how others will see me.

#barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #greta gerwig #queer femme #queer feminism

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bog-bitch · 5 months

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Heartbreaking: The Feminist Post You Were About To Reblog Was Made By a TERF

#this post is gonna get me some weird anons isn’t it #trans inclusive feminism #queer feminism #feminism #inclusive feminism #intersectional feminism #trans inclusive radical feminism #tirf #trans feminism #intersectionalfeminist #intersectional activism #lgbtq #queer #sapphic

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feminist-fog · 1 year

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“makeup/shaving/plastic surgery is a messed up industry that preys on people and needs to be criticized” and “people should be allowed to do what they want with their bodies and there are other reasons for shaving/makeup/plastic surgery other than beauty standards” are opinions that can and should co exist.

#feminist #feminism #queer anarchism #queer feminism #queer #trans inclusive feminism #makeup #pro choice

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queenofthecats · 5 months

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Just wanted to say, I think I’m on the wrong side of tumblr. Why do some of y’all act like lesbians are drooling but forcing themselves not to sleep with men and male aligned people?

Lesbians are not into men, we are into: cis-women, trans-women, non-binary people, gender-fluid people, and labels similar

We are not into: men (trans and cis)

(Some lesbians have crushes on fictional men, but not real men. I’m not talking about them)

Guys, y’all don’t have to use labels, it’s ok not to. It’s ok to not know, or to feel like a label doesn’t exactly describe you. You can go by queer, but please stop using the term lesbian. You can create new terms and everything, but this was originally made for non-men to describe their attraction to non-men.

Some people feel comfortable with labels, not everybody wants to be outside of the label. I respect you guys who don’t go by labels, so please just respect people who do.

It’s completely okay to not have a label, or to create a new one. You can go by queer, and that’s okay.

I like having a box for me to relate to other people, you don’t have to if you don’t want to. Just please respect lesbians space.

It feels lesphobic to identify as a man and still call yourself a lesbian, or to date men in the present and do it? Not everybody is attracted to men, this is the label that represents that. Please respect us. Maybe a different term would fit for you, or again, you don’t have to use a term. Can y’all please just stop trying to include men in lesbianism? This is the whole point of being a lesbian. You’re not a lesbian if you’re not a non-man liking non-men. You’re either a straight guy or bi/pan or just generally queer.

#anti lesboy #anti mspec #alt lesbian #fat lesbian #queer feminism #lgbt #labels?#i personally love it #some people don’t though #and thats okay #just please respect people who use them #I think a lot of y’all forget that not everybody is the same #some of us feel comfortable with it #it’s okay if you don’t #it’s okay if your attraction isn’t something you can describe #just please leave lesbians alone #I don’t like men #lesbian #not trying to argue

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thebookewyrme · 2 years

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Ok, look. I’m not going to be the first person to ever say this, I know for a fact. But we have GOT to start taking feminist rhetoric back from the radfems and separatists. We have got to start saying “no, feminism is either intersectional or it is bullshit, and yes that means it includes men”. We have got to start saying “I don’t care how the movement started or who did what in the seventies, take the good and jettison the dangerous.” And there is so much dangerous nonsense out there.

And I get it! It’s easy to say “all men are bad because I’ve been hurt, so let’s hurt the men, all of them”. I have been victim to this mindset myself, born of my own many traumas. But again, this completely ignores any intersectionality of men who are victims of patriarchy themselves, men who are allies, and people who are neither men nor women and fall into the cracks between.

I just think, that as feminists, a big part of our job is not just to fight for equality and freedom from oppression, we need to be teaching potential allies and others about intersectionality. Many people are already doing this, but more people need to be doing so as well. Especially if they have the spoons for it. And I’m not just talking about modeling it, I mean explicitly calling out dangerous rhetoric when they see it, and countering with safer ideologies that don’t explicitly harm another group. We cannot achieve freedom by pushing down another group. Not even if it’s cis straight white men. Freedom from oppression means freedom for ALL, not just changing who is on top and who is on bottom.

And all this goes doubly for fandom spaces, which are emotionally charged spaces that allow for some really toxic creep.

Anyway. That’s today’s thoughts.

#feminism #intersectionality #radical feminists and TERFs are dangerous #and we must fight back #queer feminism #intersectional feminism

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diddyrivera · 4 months

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additional resources to marxist feminism:

living a feminist life by sara ahmed

the rise and decline of patriarchal systems by nancy folbre

this bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color by cherrie moraga and gloria anzaldua

delusions of gender: how our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference by cordelia fine

close to home: a materialist analysis to women's oppression by christine delphy

(pdf) the feminist standpoint: developing the ground for a specifically feminist historical materialism

(medium) on women as a class: materialist feminism and mass struggle by aly e

(sagejournals) capital and class: the unhappy moments of marxism and feminism: towards a more progressive union

(substack) the marxfem pulpit by abigail von maure (earth2abbs on tiktok)

if anything else related to marxist feminism, just let me know :)

additional resources to eco feminism:

gossips, gorgons, and crones: the fates of the earth by jane caputi

parable of the sower by octavia e butler

neither man nor beast: feminism and the defense of animals by carol j. adams

bitch: on the female of species by lucy cooke

fresh banana leaves: healing indigenous landscapes through indigenous science by jessica hernandez

the intersectional environmentalist by leah thomas

right here, right now by natalie isaacs

feminism or death by francoise d'ealibonne

violent inheritance: sexuality, land, and energy in making the north american west by e cram

animal crisis: a new critical theory by alice grary

unsettling: surviving extinction together by elizabeth weinberg

land of women by maria sanchez

sexus animalis: there is nothing unnatural in nature by emmanuelle pouydebat

windswept: walking the paths of trailblazing women by annabel abbs

andrea smith - rape of the land

andy smith - ecofeminism through an anticolonial framework

carolyn marchant - nature as female

charlene spretnak - critical and constructive contributions of ecofeminism

heather eaton - ecological feminist theology

heather Eaton - The Edge of the Seat

janet abromovitz - biodiversity and gender Issues

joni Seager - creating a culture of destruction

karen warren - ecofeminism

karen warren - taking empirical data seriously

karen warren - the power and promise of ecological feminism

l. gruen - dismantling oppression

martha e. gimenez - does ecology need marx?

n. sturgeon - the nature of race

petra kelly - women and power

quinby - ecofeminism and the politics of resistance

rosemary radford ruether - ecofeminism: symbolic and social connections

sherry ortner - is female to male as nature is to culture?

sturgeon - the nature of race

val plumwood - feminism and ecofeminism

winona laduke - a society based on conquest cannot be sustained

if anyone has any other recommendations related to eco feminism, plz let me know :)

additional resources related to trans feminism:

the empire strikes back: a posttransexual manifesto by sandy stone

(chicago journals) trapped in the wrong theory: rethinking trans oppression and resistance by talia mae bettcher

(philpapers.org) trans women and the meaning of woman by talia mae bettcher

the transgender studies reader by susan stryker and stephen whittle

if anyone has other recommendations related to trans feminism, plz let me know :)

additional resources related to anarcha feminism:

the anarchist turn by jacob blumenfeld

we will not cancel us and other dreams of transformative justice by adrienne maree brown

burn it down: feminist manifestos for the revolution by breanne fahs

reinventing anarchy, again by howard ehrlich

anarcho-blackness by marquis bey

a little philosophical lexicon of anarchism from proudhon to deleuze by daniel colson and jesse cohn

joyful militancy by nick montgomery and carla bergman

wayward lives, beautiful experiments by saidiya v. hartman

we won't be here tomorrow and other stories by margaret killjoy

writing revolution by christopher j. castaneda

paradoxes of utopia by juan suriano

twelve fingers by jo soares

for a just and better world by sonia hernandez

if anyone has other recommendations related to anarcha feminism, plz let me know :)

#feminism #intersectionalfeminist #intersectionality #anti terf #anti swerf #womens rights #marxist feminism #eco feminism #anarcha feminism #trans feminism #queer feminism #pro lgbtq+#pro disabled #pro trans #pro palestine #pro sex worker

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hadeantaiga · 6 months

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It's time for a companion poll!

Cis women, this poll is for you, based on the first poll I made for trans afab folks (link), which was itself based on a post by a radfem who has rosy sweet loving experiences of using the public women's restroom. She finds it to be a place of solace and safety, where she can always find menstrual products and as a child, safety from boys who were bullying her.

#gender #lgbtq #feminism #intersectional feminism #revolutionary feminism #queer feminism #trans feminism

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bunni-bonez · 4 months

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tbh I think it’s kinda fucked that young men who get radicalized by the alt right tend be receive way more sympathy from leftists than young women who get radicalized into terfdom. It seems like a lot of online leftists see young Nazis as enemies (as they should), but redeemable ones. They get the luxury of having their radicalization explained with Materialism so that they can, in theory, eventually see the light. Which on some levels is good. Deradicalization is a good way of defanging dangerous movements. But radfems never get that grace. Which is understandable, they are hateful bigots after all, but their ideas don’t spring from nowhere. I’ve spent more hours than I’d like to admit curiously scrolling thru radfem blogs. And honestly. I get it. A lot of it just feels like understandable frustration at growing up in a misogynistic culture. On tumblr at least, it seems like radfems are primarily angry at men, trans people are secondary enemies to them. Its justified to be angry. I may not have always lived as a woman, but I harbor a lot of pain and anger at the way misogyny affects my life. But that anger can not be the sole basis of my outlook. Because anger only shows you half the truth. And in the material blind spots is where radfem transphobia comes in. Trans people might not always be the main enemy, but they are the more vulnerable one. While we should oppose terfs, especially the active propagandists who want us dead, it is important to understand how young women get swept up in that ideology. And hopefully through that, we we can try to prevent that rabbit hole.

Or idk whatever I hate discourse lol

#Like yeah misogyny is awful and everywhere #And tbh even queerpositive leftist spaces do not talk about it nearly enough #and patriarchy makes men do evil shit #you are allowed to be angry at men for that #trans people are not your enemy on this though #and no amount of trans people being tactless online will make that true #Idk man #tbh this prob isn’t even my first radfem sympathy post lol #idk I get them!!! Their anger at men and patriarchy is refreshing and needed!!!#they just need to read some theory and actually meet trans ppl #queer feminism #feminism #marxist feminism #marxism #leftist #this post might get me killed lol pray 4 me

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genderqueerdykes · 3 months

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the way we police bodies in our modern era is just insane to me. like for example i'm thinking about muscles. literally everyone has them. why are muscular bodies "masculine"? every single person on this earth has muscles and can have them be in any size and tone. like, have you ever met or seen a woman who's a carpenter? a construction worker? a farmer? a warehouse or factory worker? an athlete? a firefighter? an emt? a powerlifter? a body builder?

women can be absolutely stacked. women can be fucking ripped. some women are born with absolutely jacked muscle structure without any working out involved. women get muscular and people act like every single woman is some waifish leaf blowing in the wind- wake up, open your eyes, what are you even saying? look at the world around you, where are you living?

i feel insane living in a world where we either think women don't have muscles at all, or they have muscles but they can't ever get big and are inherently pathetically weak. we have modern science and photographs and videos at our fingertips and yet here we are really out here still believing that men strong women weak. it hurts my brain.

#our writing #queer feminism #trans feminism #inclusive feminism #body policing #bioessentialism #intersectional feminism

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old-acc-discourseisdumb · 4 months

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If you’re wondering why men are ‘not allowed’ to be affectionate with each other without being called gay or to have female friends they aren’t in love with, it’s because of hegemonic masculinity.

Raewyn Connel came up with this concept, the ideal which all men are expected to compare themselves to. Hegemonic means dominant in a social or political context.

Outside of hegemonic masculinity, there’s complicit masculinities expressed by men who aren’t ‘the perfect man’ but still uphold it’s ideals, such as the typical virgin gamer stereotype, physically weak men, unmarried middle age men, unemployed men, etc. marginalised masculinities are men who don’t receive as many benefits from patriarchy due to class, race, disability, trans identity, etc. This is a distinct (but often overlapping) category from subordinated masculinities, meaning men who are grouped with women but still have significant benefits of male privilege. These are feminine men, emotional men, gay men, etc.

Psychologists Amy Cohn and Amos Zeichner say there are four dimensions to hegemonic masculinity: competitiveness and dominance; emotional inexpressiveness (except for anger); gender role stress (maintaining the act of masculinity); and homophobia and misogyny. Men who defy these hegemonic ideals, such as men who are open about mental health, men who parent their children, men who are allies and feminists, and men who don’t exhaust themselves with those standards are all written off as subordinated masculinities, grouped with gay men.

Notice all of those standards are essential for friendship. Emotional vulnerability and equality especially. That creates a standard for men where they’re allowed to want sex (and expected to) but aren’t allowed to want emotional connections, so actual closeness is impossible for the man with hegemonic and complicit masculinities.

TL;DR the components which make up ‘ideal masculinity’ contradict close friendships, so men are assumed to be incapable of forming bonds which aren’t sexual in nature.

Btw I got all of this from Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele. Highly recommended book to help deconstruct gender norms and to learn more about this stuff

#toxic masculinity #feminism #queer feminism #intersectionalfeminist #anti radical feminism #patriarchy #fragile masculinity

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kahmeokiblog · 8 months

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i have a question for TIRFs. What do you think of the idea that ''afab solidarity'' is transmisogyny/terfism?

#radfem #tirf #trans inclusive feminism #trans inclusive radical feminism #tirfism #feminism #trans #transgender #radical feminist #tirfs #feminist #radical feminism #queer #queer feminism #afab

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defleftist · 2 years

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I will always aid and abet abortions. Do not comply.

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