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I came across this woman's cool obit again, yesterday.

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You’re right, women’s sports are different from the men’s. The men don’t have to flee their country to represent it. The men don’t have to leave their country just to be able to play at all.

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the normalization of choking makes me mad because:

you cannot verbally say a “safe word” when your supply of air is being cut off

your brain isn’t rational when deprived of oxygen (this is well documented even in situations outside of strangulation such as altitude sickness) making it hard to give some kind of physical signal like a tap

if your partner ignores the previously mentioned physical “safe word”, the lack of oxygen makes it difficult to fight back

choking (“"consensual”“ or not) seems to be mostly male on female. your average woman is going to have trouble overpowering your average man with her bare hands and this is only magnified by point #3

lack of oxygen can very quickly cause permanent damage or death

if you get off on hurting people something is wrong with you

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“A new report found that across 49 low- and middle-income countries, children exposed to corporal punishment – defined as “any punishment in which physical force is used and intended to cause some degree of pain or discomfort, however light” – were 24% less likely to be developmentally on track than children who were not.

Globally, an estimated 1.2 billion children are subjected to corporal punishment each year. In the past month, 17% of all children exposed to corporal punishment suffered severe forms – such as being hit on the head, face or ears, or hit hard and repeatedly, said the report.

“There is now overwhelming scientific evidence that corporal punishment carries multiple risks to the health of children,” said Etienne Krug, director of the WHO department for health determinants, promotion and prevention. “It offers no benefits to the behaviour, development or wellbeing of children and no benefit to parents or societies either.

“Corporal punishment is a global public health concern – it’s time to end this harmful practice to ensure that children thrive at home and at school.”

Children exposed to corporal punishment are more likely to have anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and emotional instability, which continue into adulthood and can lead to alcohol and drug use, violent behaviour and suicide.”

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What if I don’t believe in the human soul, and therefore the idea that you’re trans because you have a “woman soul” is completely irrelevant to me. Then what.

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I was watching a documentary called the “State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith”. It’s about a woman who killed her rapist (who, at the time of his slaying, had her brother in a chokehold). Something in it stuck with me.

When the prosecutor was speaking to her, he asked something along the line of, “Did the [perpetrator] have any visible weapons on him?”

She responded with, “His hands.”

Then he asks again, “Did the [perpetrator] have any-“”

She interrupts him and says, “His penis.”

He speaks again and then she says, “His mouth.”

It just stuck with me because…it’s so right. Men’s hands, especially men’s penises, their mouths, their whole bodies, are weapons, especially towards women. Men are significantly stronger than women physically and yeah, that matters. A woman has no or very little chance of physically defending herself against a male without a weapon, and even that’s very risky depending on the laws in your country. Men use their bodies to hit women, punch women, slap women, rape women, violate women in ways almost incomparable to when used against other men.

Considering how men view women, how they view themselves, how they view masculinity, how they view sex, women and girls have every right to be cautious around men and “picky” about the ones they have in their lives.

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Here are some things that will happen if sex is NOT a mandatory category on the census

Within only a few years, we will stop knowing what the rate of sex-selective abortion of female fetuses is, or in what regions those rates are highest.

Within a few years, places that usually show a skewed sex ratio of adults due to highly gendered workplaces (for example, cities with oilfields and many temporary male workers, or capital cities with many women in low-level government jobs) will not be able to plan or budget according to known factors—for example, planning for female or male-specific healthcare, or prisons. 

Within 10 or so years, we will lack any verifiable data on the oppression of women and girls. We will not know if they are underrepresented or overrepresented in certain jobs, we will not know what the wage gap is (or if it exists), and we will not be able to make data-based arguments for programs that support women and girls.

Within 20+ years, we will no longer even have verified proof that the sex ratio of human beings, is, on average, roughly 52:50 females to males, with male infants slightly outpopulating female infants, and female elderly people being much more populous than male elderly people.

This means that MRAs will finally achieve their dream—being able to make the spurious argument that, for example, women are not underrepresented in the highest levels of corporate and governmental power. Maybe women really are just 10% of the overall population, so it makes sense that they are 10% of XYZ’s board of directors, or cabinet ministers. Maybe women are actually dramatically, rather than slightly, overrepresented in certain fields (like law school), so we need to do affirmative action for males.

Prison planning will now be very difficult for all cities, not just the ones with highly dynamic sex ratios and temporary workforces. Likely, planners will just save money by building very few female prisons, and overcrowding them if necessary. This is assuming that male and female prisons are still segregated at all, though. If, in the MOGAI hell world, we decide to do mixed-sex prisons, female prisoners will likely commit suicide before or after being subjected to multiple sexual assaults a day, and constant harassment.

Data on male violence against women will become nonexistent. We will only have statistics about human violence against humans, which makes it difficult to know which humans need a special shelter with a secret address and a detailed plan to escape another human.

Obviously, the problems with health care planning will be tremendous. Even assuming that individuals still have proof of their sex, but that sex is not recorded on mandatory census forms, accuracy in allocating funds to sex-specific healthcare needs will be drastically reduced by lack of accurate data.

Census companies will take advantage of the growing corporate demand for census data. However, their data will be fractured, market-based, and targeted only at specific consumer populations. (For example, what percentage of people in income bracket $25-50,000 and neighbourhood LMN are male and female?) Some companies will deliberately engage in biased data-collection processes in order to skew data in the way their commissioning company wants.

Companies competing for government contracts will use skewed and dishonest private data sets to make it look like their particular services are absolutely necessary and urgent.

One thing will not change in this new world, however. Pimps and porn directors will still know who exactly their clients are, and what sex of performers they want to see. Prostitutes will still know where the men live. Strippers will know who yells verbal abuse at them, and tries to touch them. Johns will know that biologically female women are the people they want to abuse.

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Every man thinks a conversation is a script and he is CHRISTIAN BALE and u are GIRL #3

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basically there’s two types of thing in the world, Punk and Puritan. anything you like is Punk, and anything you don’t like is Puritan

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Anna Brown Ehlers (right) and her art, made using Chilkat weaving techniques. Ehlers is Tlingit, born and raised in Juneau

h/t twitter.com/womensart1

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also you ever notice how third gender posts are always like "they were spiritual healers and oracles and other things that sound cool if you're playing dnd but don't really mean anything in real life"

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