A minor rant: the way a lot of people talk about feminism these days really makes me feel like feminism is going backwards and recircling into misogyny. Allow me to explain.

I remember when people used to protest the use of "like a girl" and "for girls" as an insult, by rebranding it into a compliment and showing that just because something is seen as for girls doesn't mean it's stupid because girl isn't inherently an insult. And now we're seeing women on TikTok and Instagram use "girl math" "girl dinner" "don't ask me, I'm just a girl" "explaining math and cars and movies and politics and ethnic cleansing for the girlypops" "girl money" and overall using girl as a shorthand for being stupid, insipid, frivolous, ditzy, and lacking substance. The very idea that girl means inferior that we used to fight against is now something that is being parroted unironically by internet misogynists who unironically think that "girl=stupid" is the pinnacle of feminism.

I remember when feminists were calling out the idea that femininity is a bad thing and means weakness, and showing that being feminine doesn't mean that you can't also be strong, badass, or capable, when Legally Blonde and Sailor Moon and Friendship is Magic were praised for showing unapologetic girly girls whose love for pink and fashion didn't at all stop them from being ambitious, or kicking butt, or being a good fighter, or showing the world who's boss. And now whenever a female character who is feminine also shows traits of strength or intelligence or doesn't adhere to misogynistic stereotypes that women should be passive or demure, people are complaining that she acts "like a man" or is "masculine"(as if being masculine is a bad thing) or "why can't she be feminine and strong?"(when she is, but what they really want is for her to be meek, submissive, and docile because they see those as feminine traits while being outspoken, assertive, and bold are somehow masculine traits, and then praise that somehow) People complained that Princess Peach was being made masculine in the Super Mario Bros. movie and in Princess Peach Showtime!, just because in the former she was a badass fighter and in the latter they changed her face on the box art to be more realistic...but I thought we wanted female characters to be both feminine and strong, and now that we get them people are claiming that they act like men...

I also remember when people used "not like other girls" to refer to women with internalized misogyny who thought that liking girly things made you inferior, who tried to be "one of the guys" because "girls are too much drama", or who went through a phase of being ashamed of their girly interests because society taught them to hate them. But eventually that just morphed into people(even self-proclaimed feminists!) unironically declaring that any woman who wasn't feminine had internalized misogyny and was a "pick-me"(when that is aave) who thought that they were better than other girls and wanted to be a guy and that if they didn't eventually become pink and girly then clearly they were still stuck in that phase. And now if women so much as critique legitimately harmful gender roles like the makeup industry or shaving, other women will tell them that they are pick-mes or not like other girls who hate the women who partake in those things.

And don't even get me started on the bimbo crap. That was funny at first when people were just using it to project hyperfemininity without downplaying their intelligence(and I saw some guys partaking in the bimbocore trend, too!), but eventually it did just devolve into women pretending to be dumb idiots who cater to male egos by acting superficial and clueless and like they can't do a damn thing by themselves...even though a large part of feminism is not dumbing yourself down to make a boy feel smart, I remember learning at the age of like 11 that if you have to do that because a boy is intimidated by your intelligence then that boy is not worth it(no boy is worth it now but anywayz), but apparently according to modern-day faux-feminists it is cute to pretend that you need a man's help for everything because you're "just a girl".

I also remember when we used to fight back against the idea that teenage girls are dumb, naive, and insipid, and that they are shallow and not worth being taken seriously, only for grown adult women to call themselves "20-year-old teenage girls" as a way of saying that they're immature, silly, and incompetent, and it drives me up the wall. Not only are you infantilizing yourself, you are throwing teenage girls(many of whom do not act like this) under the bus to do so!

And it just makes me so drained and exhausted to see how normalized this is and that this is what passes for feminism these days. And before people say it, yes, I know the sexist attitudes I complained are so widespread nowadays were always around. I'm not saying that they're new or only became prevalent through the rise of TikTok. I know that's not the case. However, it definitely feels like these ideas are becoming more normalized than ever before, and hardly anyone is speaking out against them, because if you do, people will come at you with "so you hate women having fun? just let women enjoy things! what's wrong with femininity?" and everybody will ratio you, which is incredibly frustrating and invalidating.

And ykw I noticed is that most if not all of these people I see doing these things are white women. I haven't seen many if any Black or brown women engaging in the self-infantilization and bimbofication of their entire gender. I know I shouldn't have to explain why that is. But this just proves for me that white women can really pick and choose whether they are allies to the feminist cause or not. They can choose whether they want to be oppressed for their gender or privileged for their race, while women of color don't have that "luxury". They can appease the male status quo because it was made for them in the first place, while also seeking the oppressive power that white men have. It's really sad. It's like we're doing male misogynists' work for them by playing into the "women are bimbos and shallow and can't do math, being a girl sucks, teenage girls are stupid, femininity is shallow but also if you're a tomboy or butch then you obviously must hate your sisters" ideas that have been forced on us for literal fucking centuries and it is just so depressing to see. I hope people come to their senses soon because this is legit getting concerning.

But hey, what would I know? I'm just a teenage girl.

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Hi, about this post...

The op has in her bio "Out of the ash I rise with my red hair, and I eat men like air" which on the surface sounds nice and harmless, even badass, right? So then why am I telling you this?

It's because the poem this line is from is called "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath, and it's literally a Nazi poem. One of the other lines in the poem is "A sort of a walking miracle, my skin bright as a Nazi lampshade, my right foot" EW seriously wtf?!?!?!?!

(and this isn't even getting into Sylvia Plath's history of racism/white feminism, exhibit A: the bell jar)

TLDR it's unsurprising to see a TERF quoting a line from a Nazi poem written by a racist white feminist. It's by no means news to any of us that TERFs are like this, but I still feel like it bears repeating. And I feel like more people should know, even if they have her blocked already.

Thanks for listening, have a nice day.

Oh my god?? I didn’t even try looking up the poem.

Thankfully that person is already blocked.

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Y’all don’t care about black women

The fact that Gwiles shippers literally think like this:

But in a bad way. 😕

Percabeth shippers also

What did you think of Princess Peach in the new Super Mario Bros. movie? (me personally I liked her a lot tho that is no surprise 😉)

She's serviceable! I'm not her biggest fan, and I don't think she really embodies "Peach" as a character the same way Mario, Luigi, and Bowser successfully do, but she's fine. I thought her awkwardness was interesting, as well as her loyalty to her toads. But they like..."girlbossed" her in the wrong direction for me. She does everything perfect on the first try, which I think detracts from any character. I'm just fatigued from female characters being written without real flaws you know. But I also found the Mario Movie as a whole a bit strange, so like...it's not necessarily just Peach.

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HOLIS!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi, I saw your post about transandrophobia, and I just wanted you to know that the creator of the term has a corrective rape/necrophilia fetish towards lesbians and trans women, which is even more reason no to use the term. Also while I can understand trans men feeling ashamed of being men because of how society speaks about men, ever time I see a post about “transandrophobia” I lose ten years of my life because it’s like misandry repackaged. Especially since the people who make those posts often derail the man-hating posts with “oh so you hate trans men too and if you say no to this question then it means you don’t see us as me and often act like trans women have any privilege over them whatsoever. And forget the fact that all men have male privilege over the women in their same communities. Transmisogyny is an infinitely bigger problem than “transandrophobia” in that it’s actually a problem to begin with. Not that trans men aren’t also oppressed but I’m so sick of people acting like they’re uniquely or more oppressed than trans women or that they’re oppressed because society hates men. I’m sick of it.

Yeah I've heard things about the person who coined the term but this is utterly reprehensible. It's unfortunate that that kind of behavior can be overlooked on this platform, and the term has been sanitized of any association with those evil ideas.

I engage with "transandrophobia" folks if and when I have the energy to expend, because it's laborious to do so for all of the reasons you mentioned and many more. I believe in stepping in and out of the struggle for liberation as my body and mind allows.

I wish that tumblr staff didn't platform the #"transandrophobia" hashtag as much as they do; the pervasiveness of the word and the accessibility of the hashtag makes it easy for random well-meaning TMEs to be deceived and tempted into the alluring transmisogyny of it all.

In an ideal setting where tumblr staff wasn't so transmisogynistic, the #transmisogyny hashtag wouldn't be considered "sensitive" material and hidden from the public view. Then, we could have more public and productive conversations about anti-transmasculinity and how it is a necessary requirement of transmisogyn(oir)-as-fulcrum theory, instead of framing the two in opposition to each other, in the fashion of a lot of prominent white transmasc users.

Hi, thanks for reblogging that "men aren't included in lesbianism" post! But also I hate how under literally any post about bi lesbians being invalid and how, no, lesbians do not like men, there's always a plethora of bi lesbians and their freakish supporters in the comments sections going "actually lesbians love fucking men and men are a part of every identity, everyone wants to fuck men, even you lesbians, though you may deny it, so stop being a terf and go fuck a man today!" like it's mentally exhausting to have to block every fucking person in those comments. But thanks for your support! 🤗

literally as soon as I saw that post I KNEW there'd be accusations of op being a terf and looked at the comments and sure enough 😭 even after it was explained op is a trans woman like people REALLY distanced "terf" from what it actually means

Maybe people would leave you alone if you weren’t a racist hostile psycho spoilt brat who used race to excuse abusive and toxic behaviour??

Isabela Madrigal from Encanto hates proshitters!

Yez zhe doez! All of your requeztz have been queued and zhuffled! Thank you!

Do you have any instances of Persephone canonically hating men? Just asking because I love misandrists. 🥰

Was gonna say 'Aw man it'll take me a while to find the passages :(' but then i realized i can just tell you the scenes LOL

Called Ares ugly in her narration because he looks too much like a guy(for context,he was to look like a military man because god of war)

THERE ARE SO.SO MANY FUCKING TIMES SHE'S SO DONE WITH APOLLO LMFAO And the reason for it is that he's very a stereotypical guy unlike her and it's worth noting that other girls finds this charming but she thinks it makes him an annoying douchebag

Canon life from her is 'I am SALLY JACKSON'S son!' after being told she's Poseidon's son

Dosen't fw with almost any male god on sight but thinks positively of almost every goddess on sight too

Automactically dubs male characters as less smart than their female counterparts(such as Piper and Leo,Grover and Thalia,etc)

Agrees with a lot of Zoe Nightshade's opinions on men in The Titan's Curse where they interact as basically the central relathionship and the only reason it's not a fullon thing in it is that Rick wants us to think PERCY is a man too

Gives Luke zero grace and i do mean NONE,homegirl barely thinks about him post betrayal💀

I do see her as bi for kinnie reasons but there's a lot scenes of her wondering wtf the appeal is of other guys when girls thirst after them-Which i think.Includes herself because her egg is so uncracked TSITJSTSEJTDJTDJTDJ and she's got self-eestem issues😭😭😭

Today's Beauty-Marked Beauty is: Miguel Rivera from Disney's Coco

Requested by: @thisismisogynoir

Good news, Steph, lately I've been experiencing less and less comphet, and that makes me happy! It's as if the more and more time I spend with the knowledge I am a lesbian the less I feel the pressure to think that I am attracted to men, and the more at ease I am with the idea. I think it's a good thing that I'm coming more into my identity and feeling more confident and assured of it. 🥰

It’s so good to know this! I’m very happy for you and happy to see some lesbian positivity here ❤️

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Hello, I made a guide in Spanish to buying eSIMs for Gaza and I hope you can help me spread it around. Pass it to your contacts online or in person, please, it's very important. Thank you. / Hola, he hecho una guía en español de cómo comprar eSIMs para Gaza y espero que puedan ayudarme a distribuirla. Pásasela a tus contactos en línea o en persona, por favor, es muy importante. Gracias.

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