about to say something mean but i feel like every "male-specific" issue is something that also happens to women its just that a lot of you dont seem to see women as people

From “Cats in the Sun”, Greek Islands, published 1994 by Hans Silvester

"Does your cat know about the feminist movement?"

Seen in Sheffield, UK

ORLANDO (1992) dir. Sally Potter

requested by @the-blue-fairie

I'm honestly surprised radical feminist movements of the past century have not attacked the topic of last names as hard as they could have. It's such an appalling, clear sign of patriarchy. By taking a man's last name, his wife and children symbolically belong to him (more extreme explanation would be that the man owns them, like mere resources). In this day and age, children around the world are legally required to take the father's last name, mother's name is forgotten. And there being this whole thing that women do not have a last name, because mother's name is actually her father's (grandfather's) and so on. That's a big thing. Why was there not a systematic push for women to create their own last names? Or for a less radical approach, why not push for children to take mother's last name (and hers only), since she is in a sense their creator, she is the one that birthed them? Or a push for women to not take their husbands last names at all, that not being an option anymore, since both adults are whole human beings and one name (one person) is not more important than the other? Hell, why not deconstruct the concept of last names entirely, a sort of abolition, and have people be recognized legally and socially by some different concept (it can still be words, but different)?

Edgar Bundy (English,1862-1922)  

A Witch, 1896

oil on canvas

Women's rights buttons.

1920s-1980s.

officially in my quiet era. whatever happens, happens. i don’t have much to say about anything anymore. it is what it is and life goes on

SANDRA HÜLLER for The Hollywood Reporter (September 1, 2023) 📸 Yotam Shwartz

Sinead O’Connor in London, 1997

Gloria Anzaldúa, from Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Really exhausting having to pretend that choosing to be financially dependent on your partner is a valid choice that ought to be respected and not just a stupid ass decision.

i found out recently that the guy who invented love languages was a sexist conservative who basically did it so he could tell his wife "see, your love language is acts of service so you can keep doing all the dishes, and my love language is physical touch so i just show love by having sex with you" men are lame as fuck!!!

In death the female loses the quality of being Other, and becomes an inanimate object that no longer threatens male order. Her body, once ‘a site of superlative alterity’, can now be controlled, composed, and dissected. In this state, the woman can be idealized. These ideas can be placed within the nineteenth century patriarchal cult of invalidism ... This cult glorified female suffering, illness and consequently, their deaths. Women who could be defined as either faint, frail or fading away, were set as icons of virtuous femininity. The ‘consumptive’ look consequently became an ideal of feminine beauty, which prescribed a pale, almost translucent skin, feverish eyes and an emaciated body. This sort of idealization went hand in hand with an eroticization of the dead female, the ultimate object of male fantasy ... Her total passivity enlarged her ‘erotic potential’. An almost necrophilic interest was thus taken into the bodies of lifeless females in nineteenth century Western art ... a morbid fascination that also surfaced in the Victorian iconography, and which, from a feminist perspective, can be seen to stem from the obsessive, patriarchal desire to control women.

Valerie Meessen, "Post-mortems: Representations of Female Suicide by Drowning in Victorian Culture"

This is one of my all time fave tiktoks, have you ever watched it ? I don't even know if it could be reposted on here without getting flagged

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeRqCCpu/

Thanks for the great submission!