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"if you're unhappy with how you're treated as a woman just transition" okay but I also care about women who aren't me

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theres really no way to put this eloquently or in a non-vulgar fashion , i really need women to understand that going with the masochistic fantasies and fetishes of men is never empowering

i see men that want to be spat on and verbally degraded and put in physical pain and be in consensual cuckold relationships and have their money taken for nothing in return and have sadistic pornographic acts inflicted on them until they orgasm, etc etc, by women.

and i see some women go with exactly what those men want from them and genuinely feel as though its all empowering for women. that because what they are doing to those kink-infested men is something that no sane or self-respecting person would ever ask to be done to them, the women in those partnerships have the upperhand.

sometimes those women even think that they masterminded everything theyre doing, that the man has no upperhand, that hes not fully aware of the gravity or repulsiveness of whats being done to him, that the woman is fully in control. and the satisfaction and power these women feel from the whole arrangement seems to heavily impair their judgment.

no no no no no. he wants it from you, and you gave it to him. thats the deciding factor in this entire equation. you didnt gain any power for yourself; he put the batteries in your back, wound you up and you went through the motions for him, just as he wanted. no matter how disgusting, no matter how unreasonable and insane, no matter how self-degrading on his part, at the end of the day he set the conditions and you went with it, and he benefitted. got what he wanted.

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the idea that women “own” our bodies as opposed to being them, implies that bodies are a commodity to be owned

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Prostitution goes beyond the streets or only fans or sleazy strip clubs. At its core, prostitution is the idea that women's bodies are a commodity to be purchased via financial transactions. These transactions can be in money but also in gifts or travels, dates even. If prostitution is a thing then a male friend can ask you out and expect sex because he paid for your meal. A boss can give you a raise and expect a blowjob. A professor, a good grade and a nude in exchange. Your husband can rape you because he put a roof over your head.

Allowing prostitution is allowing the right for men to buy women. Any woman at any moment. Because there is no difference between the prostituted women and women but a difference of time, of moments. You can be prostituted as long as prostitution exists. And men know all women are potential prostitutes as long as they can buy any of us.

Abolishing prostitution not only helps freeing trafficked women and girls but also liberate us as a class. Because if the concept of exchanging yourself for financial gain does not exist, then no male can expect sex, a blowjob, a nude after giving you something.

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what happen when u inevitably realize that ‘listen to x voices’ will afford contrary opinions and you must confront uncomfortable complexity of entire peoples

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it wasn’t useful to think of it as “dysphoria” when i had my most recent distress about having breasts. of course that could have been the framework i used to think about it, it “qualified,” and i could fit it easily into that paradigm. but it has been a long time since i believed i was not really female/was desperate not to be female. and for as long as i thought about it as dysphoria, there was a range of things i attached to those feelings as the meaning, possible responses, related issues, ways to understand it. and it became an exercise in something like vivisectioning reality, bargaining. “it’s not that i don’t want to be female, i just want my old body back, which was also female but which did not have these breasts.”

it felt different when instead of dysphoria i thought about it as being upset by having fat. that made the situation plainer. the stakes became obvious. different possibilities opened up for me at that point. i found my rage, and that meant i knew i was worth being angry about, and that meant i found my boundaries, because i realized they had been crossed in a deep way that got into my head without my permission. and from there, i could resist.

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too many people think intersectional feminism means “being a woman is not oppression by itself, only when it’s combined with a different oppression” instead of “misogyny intersects with other oppressions to alter and intensify the nature of the daily terrorism all women face”

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We really used to ask teachers if we could drink water.......what the fuck was that

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie link to full essay

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Correct me if I’m wrong but I think….there are a lot of men who are very invested in making sure woc never find sisterhood with any white women

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not sorry but i would rather every porn actress and prostitute that enjoys what they do have to get a new job than one single person be trafficked or raped again and i will never change my mind

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I wish people would understand that I don't have a gender; I have a sex. I am not agender, or any of that other stuff, because I don't subscribe to the belief system that makes agender possible. I am not cisgendered because I hate the gender that comes with being a woman, and I would never choose to identity with that. The use of cis just makes victim blaming easier. It suggests that women who don't transition choose the gender stereotypes that come with being of the female sex. My clothes and personality are not some big statement. They are just me existing as a women who likes certain things. I hate hyperindividualism.

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“The truth does not require your belief. The truth is real. You can beat it on the ground, you can rip it apart, you can look inside it. Nobody needs to guard the truth from inspection. Nobody needs to tell you that, you know, you can’t look behind the stage.”

— Terence McKenna, Conversations on the Edge of Magic

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Thinkin bout how we live in a world that fetishises femininity but fuckin hates women

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“It was witches who developed an extensive understanding of bones and muscles, herbs and drugs, while physicians were still deriving their prognoses from astrology and alchemists were trying to turn lead into gold. So great was the witches’ knowledge that in 1527, Paracelsus, considered the ‘father of modern medicine,’ burned his text on pharmaceuticals, confessing that he ‘had learned from the Sorceress all he knew.’”

— Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses - A History of Women Healers (1973)

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Can someone explain to me how this makes any type of sense at all

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There’s no hope for libfems there’s no hope for libfems there’s no h-