#Radical development

[realist-fortheloveofwomen]

I still can’t believe this is a take being said. My male ex tried to convince me of this too.

Who upholds the patriarchy? What is the “patriarchy” in this scenario? Who does the patriarchy benefit?

If men disliked the patriarchy it wouldn’t fucking exist. The patriarchy exists because the majority of males uphold it in society. Males as a class oppress females as a class on a societal and individual level.

Them bringing up “trans men” too is hilarious, no feminist thinks trans men are truly benefitting from the patriarchy in the same way cis men do. Trans men are still female and so are still hurt by the lack of research into female healthcare, abortion bans, and unless they ‘pass’ as male PERFECTLY, are still susceptible to male violence

[colombinaa]

no child should ever go through medically unnecessary and permanent procedures or surgeries.

children cannot consent.

[valtsv]

i feel like if someone studied your brain they could advance science by decades. what field of science exactly i have no idea

psychiatric studies

[trans-axolotl]

Bo Laurent created the Intersex Society of North America in 1993, starting the intersex rights movement in the United States. Describing the founding of ISNA, they wrote:

"Over the course of a year, simply by speaking openly within my own social circles, I learned of six other intersexuals--including two who had been fortunate enough to escape medical attention. I realized that intersexuality, rather than being extremely rare, must be relatively common. I decided to create a support network. In the summer of 993, I produced some pamphlets, obtained a post office box, and began to publicize the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) through small notices in the media. Before long, I was receiving several letters per week from intersexuals throughout the United States and Canada and occasionally some from Europe. While the details varied, the letters gave a remarkably coherent picture of the emotional consequences of medical intervention. Morgan Holmes: "All the things my body might have grown to do, all the possibilities, went down the hall with my amputated clitoris to the pathology department. The rest of me went to the recovery room--I'm still recovering." Angela Moreno: "I am horrified by what has been done to me and by the conspiracy of silence and lies. I am filled with grief and rage, but also relief finally to believe that maybe I am not the only one." Thomas: "I pray that I will have the means to repay, in some measure, the American Urological Association for all that it has done for my benefit. I am having some trouble, though, in connecting the timing mechanism to the fuse."

ISNA's most immediate goal has been to create a community of intersex people who could provide peer support to deal with shame, stigma, grief, and rage, as well as with practical issues such as how to obtain old medical records or locate a sympathetic psychotherapist or endocrinologist. To that end, I cooperated with journalizes whom I judged capable of reporting widely and responsibly on our efforts, listed ISNA with self-help and referral clearinghouses, and established a presence on the internet. ISNA now connects hundreds of intersexuals across North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. It has also begun sponsoring an annual intersex retreat, the first of which took place in 1996 and which moved participants every bit as profoundly as the New Woman conference had moved me in 1993.

ISNA's longer-term and more fundamental goal, however, is to change the way intersex infants are treated. We advocated that surgery not be performed on ambiguous genitals unless there is a medical reason (such as blocked or painful urination), and that parents be given the conceptual tools and emotional support to accept their children's physical differences...To provide a counterpoint to the mountains of medical literature that neglect intersex experience and to begin compiling an ethnographic account of that experience, ISNA's Hermaphrodites with Attitude newsletter has developed into a forum for intersexuals to tell their own stories.

...When I established ISNA in 1993, no such politicized groups existed. I was less willing to think of intersexuality as a pathology or disability, more interested in challenging its medicalization entirely, and more interested still in politicizing a pan-intersexual identity across the divisions of particular etiologies in order to destabilize more effectively the heteronormative assumptions underlying the violence directed at our bodies."

-Cheryl Chase, Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism, Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 1998, 189-211.

[s-lorelei]

I may not think trans women in women's sports is okay, but I stand firmly by the fact that Imane Khelif is a woman. Having a DSD does not make a woman trans or intersex (some don't identify as intersex.) Learn some biology.

I had to argue with my uncle about this over lunch when the controversy first sparked and it made me mad because he wasn't angry over her possibly unfairly beating a woman in boxing, but that she was trans (even though she isn't!)

I'm very outspoken towards trans women in sports, but Imane is not part of that group. She's simply a butch woman with a bit more testosterone who trained hard to earn where she is.

[raccoon-living-in-the-garage]

There's something deeply holy about mothers and I'm tired of pretending otherwise.

[aropride]

ideologically im opposed to the modern footwear industry and the fact that we're expected to from a young age force ourselves into shoes that are fundamentally incorrectly designed for our anatomy until our bones are altered enough from their natural state to fit into most shoes well enough but still leaving us with lasting pain and sometimes painful deformities that you have to get intensive surgery to correct and all for aestheticics when in this day in age it would be so fucking easy for companies to decide to make their shoes in a way that doesnt cause lasting permanent damage. sexually however i am what they call a bootlicker. in the literal sense not the deference-to-authority sense obviously fuck cops and fuck the us military

[theglowsociety]

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[resurgentclass-stardestroyer]

The explosion buffeted Kylo in his cockpit. If he had known, he could have stopped the torpedo — freezing it in space with a thought. But he had been surprised. Now he couldn't sense his mother — the shock had shattered his focus, leaving him breathing hard behind his fighter's control yoke. ... Kylo turned back toward the Raddus, determined to erase the cruiser and the rest of the Resistance fleet from existence.

— Star Wars: The Last Jedi Novelization (Chapter 8)

So Ren 1) would have stopped the torpedo from [nearly] killing his mother if he could 2) very likely believes that his mother is dead.

And I have a lot of emotions for Ren losing his grip and wanting destroy everything after that...

[venussaidso]

Wait. I can barely find Hong Haein appreciation posts that focus solely on her as a character and her journey and her relationships with her family outside of her love story. What I'll find in the tags are posts about her love for Hyunwoo or just... Hyunwoo. And yet she's the one with the terminal illness. She's the one who's been through so much and was the most enjoyably complex character in the drama. Like where are those lengthy appreciation essay posts that center Hong Haein? I'm obsessed with her yet I feel isolated about it womp womp.

Edit: There needs to be Hyunwoo slander actually.

[softerwem]

practice radical acceptance

i look for the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, courage to change the things i can, and the wisdom to know the difference

[theglowsociety]

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[hummingbirdbae]

People really don’t want to take accountability anymore and they make themselves victims of being used when really you could have set your boundaries early and stern and you wouldn’t be where you are now. Although anyone can contribute, no one is fully responsible for your happiness.

Don’t give other people the weight of making you happy. It’s not their job.

[goddess-of-alchemy]

[guttingyoualive]

Getting back into Undertale ngl, I need help developing my oc so

here’s an ask blog :)

Ask him anything

[zignifier]

I hate when people more knowledgeable about history than me are somehow less politically informed