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Lilah, late 20s. Feminist sideblog. My commentary is tagged #og.
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Nina Simone didn’t play no games when it came to her money 😂
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can't get over how misogynistic and sexual mobile game ads are nowadays
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women's sports is one of the loudest and most successful anti-patriarchy campaigns in human history. what women's sports did and does is prove, over and over again, the excellence, the raw power and strength of the human woman. it completely disrupts ideas on gender.
you have big, powerful women in rugby. fast, endurable women runners. impeccably strong gymnasts. women with strong, large bodies that take up space. that are HEALTHY. they are not RESTRICTED or ladylike. they are free of the stillness/deadness that femininity demands. no corsets. no (aesthetic) thinness. no hourglass bodies for gawking. women's sports screams to society "we are fully human, not objects, not small men. we are not domestic dolls. we are hunters and foragers. fighters."
why do you think men are so vitriolic about it? why don't they want women in football? why don't they want it televized? why do they keep harassing female basketball players? why do they insist on dressing women in sexualized uniforms? why do they now make it taboo to exculde men from women's sports?
i firmly believe it's because women's sports tears patriarchal gender ideology apart so effortlessly. it completely spits in the face of patriarchal political propaganda and shows how null it is. it forces all of us to view women as full, as the beginning of human excellence, as central to human history. not as decorative sexual objects, no matter how men want us to be.
that's why there's so much aggression and derision when it comes to women's sports from men. because women's sports destroys the idea of femininity and depicts women as non-derivative. women must be monsters and cannot afford to play into the childlikeness that femininity demands. the arena of sports forces us to focus on women's physical performance rather than appearance. their strength rather than how attractive they are. their skill and strategy. their humanity. it is a form of entertainment where all female roles are agentive and active rather than passive.
women's sports events are also hotbeds for female and lgb solidarity like you have no idea!
y'all need to start watching women's sports. not only because it is exciting, but it deprograms the patriarchal bullshit out of you so fast. you realize how much is possible. how much we can all achieve right now.
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Thinking about that Ruth Bader Ginsburg quote that's like "When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that." You can apply this to everything, from members of governments to the authors whose books you read. Men are centered almost everywhere and have been for years. Equality doesn't have to be 50% men and 50% women. It can be 100% women to balance the decades when it was 100% men. Choose women's liberation and choose only women.
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Gen Z thinking they're so progressive while their gender politics is literally "whoever wears the dress and does the dishes is the woman/femme" kills me
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I don’t understand where all the libfems are at when porn is heinously racist. like libfems spend like 90% of their time condemning White FeminismTM and Supporting Women of ColorTM but have absolutely nothing to say about the millions of videos currently circulating on the internet of women being fetishised and stereotyped for their race in the most disgusting ways imaginable, bc they’re literally too scared to say a god damn word against anything that men enjoy
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have you guys noticed how exceptionally intelligent women are almost always hardy joyful energetic friendly well-rounded well-adjusted people who like themselves and like the lives they've created. turning genius into misery is a male knack
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people complain that feminists are the fun police until we start making jokes about divorce, abortion and menocide suddenly everyone becomes mr politicall correct
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I don’t think we as a society talk nearly enough about how intricately connected cats and women are. cats are associated with women so heavily, not just in English but in other languages as well. the stereotype of the ‘crazy cat lady’, the fact words to refer to cats are often also used to refer to female genitalia, ‘cat fight’, ‘catty’, etc.
Cats have suffered alongside women, too, which is not something I have seen brought up. Cats were targeted during the Witch Hunts as well, and suffered similar fates as the women they hunted. During this time, cats were nearly driven to extinction, and the mice and rat population go out of control— which is believed to have heavily contributed if not outright caused one of the most famous plagues.
To this day, I think we need to analyze if it’s truly a coincidence that cats are often portrayed as mean or uncaring because they do not behave the same way as dogs— “man’s best friend”— that their boundaries are violated for fun and then people criticize the cat for reacting, for self-defense. They will mutilate a cat so it cannot defend itself, and then abandon it when it is understandably upset, when it can no longer feel safe.
If you look at the statistics, more cats enter animal shelters than dogs, and tend to stay for longer. Personally, my local humane societies seem to have almost exclusively cats. In part, this is because cats are more effective at reproducing than dogs, and there are very little if any resources dedicated to to TNR. This is also because people will not spay/neuter their cats, and then will abandon the cat and/or just the kittens.
I do not think it is entirely coincidental that cats are so heavily associated with women, and they are villainized for not being dogs. That dogs are called “man’s best friend”, but somehow that does not mean cats are called “women’s best friend”— instead diamonds are, for whatever reason, despite women’s shared history with cats, and shared experience of being villainized for having boundaries. They are made the villain for being cats instead of dogs, they are called uncaring and “assholes” because the way they show love is not identical to the way a dog does.
I feel like there is no way it is entirely coincidental, the way cats are hated and the way they are so heavily associated with women, with females.
#this but also i hate that dogs are called man's best friend#because dogs like women more#and women were the ones who domesticated them
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the constant pressure women have to figure out how to be eco responsible for things like diapers, pads, tampons, condoms, birth control pills, the food they feed their kids, the soaps and laundry detergent they use...yes, it's on the table. but it's crazy that you hardly see the same pressures applied to men who most definitely have more leniency to use products for their pleasure. "do you know how many diapers are in land fills?" idk do we know how much energy is consumed by video games?? imagine a campaign around turning off your video games to save the earth or comparing the difference between the energy consumption of 2 hour board game vs 6 hours of video games. instead of focusing on moms who have to take care of their completely dependent baby or women who can't help but menstruate or w/e
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Please check source (https://twitter.com/MissPotkin/status/1372594737874661382) for videos and updates to this ongoing saga
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I don’t understand this phenomenon of the most feminine, most gender-conforming women calling themselves trans men. Are we seriously supposed to believe you have no issue being perceived as a woman and conforming to the social expectations of women, but being called a woman would give you unbearable dysphoria and drive you to suicide?
Are we seriously supposed to believe gender dysphoria is merely a linguistic issue?
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