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weirdo: i like watching women be abused

liberals: >:(

weirdo: it’s a sex thing???

liberals: :) ok sorry carry on

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“There is no global epidemic of battered husbands or of mothers raping their children. Sorority girls don’t slip male students date rape drugs and gang-rape them at parties. Cheerleaders don’t wait until football players are too intoxicated to walk or speak, have sex with them, film the rape and share it with all their friends via social media. Boys are not pressured to send topless photos of themselves then blackmailed with the photos, then stalked and bullied and mocked until they kill themselves. There are not entire websites devoted to posting pornified imagery of ex-boyfriends in order to shame and humiliate them. There is no industry wherein women are coercing boys and men into prostitution, en masse, forcing them to have sex with strange women day in and day out. These are the facts. I know these things to be true because this reality is impossible to ignore if you pay any attention to media at all, because I am a woman and this is my life, and because I’m a feminist and I understand the devastating impact patriarchy has on women and girls everywhere. And that is why, as a feminist, I believe women.”

— (via nedstarkshonour)

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op: women can be tomboyish, butch, gender nonconforming, and rebellious without being men. you’ve been brainwashed.

I mourn for the rebellious masc 'girl' in every movie, who grow out of her manliness and becomes some asshole's domesticated wife. I mourn for her short untameable hair, which she was always running a hand through in those old photos. I see the way her fingers linger as she goes through the album with her young daughter, forcing a laugh at who she 'used' to be.

T would have saved him.

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this is so funny bc i know the post is anti-terf but you’re so close to getting why we’re not actually a hate group but a group that is protecting the women YOU are leaving behind.

all a man has to do is say he’s pro-trans and put a couple queer buttons on his jacket and yall will defend him to the highest degree. radical feminists are the only ones who will point out actual red flags.

if you want less terfs in the world, start actually protecting the lives of women in your communities over the feelings of men. call out red flags. ignore how “progressive” you think someone is when someone speaks out against the harm they do.

until you do, young women will keep turning to radical feminism. because we’re the only ones making them a priority.

maybe instead of retreading "why is the journalist who broke the Gaiman story a TERF" over and over, what we should be asking is "why was a TERF the only person willing to listen to Scarlett when all the other journalists she went to turned their backs on her?"

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I am Sage's mother, better known as Nana. I adopted Sage after my son died when she was still a baby. She's been through six foster homes by then, but we loved her and she blossomed into a joyful, lively girl who made music and art.

Puberty began and COVID hit, and she was treated for depression and anxiety, at times very severe. Her teachers shared any concerns with me so her treatment could be adapted.

The transparency ended in August of 2021 when Sage started high school. She started a public high school and she told me that all the girls there were bi, trans, lesbian, emo and she wanted to wear boy's clothes and be emo. Because I saw it as just a phase, it was fine with me.

But at school, she told them something different: she was now a boy named Draco with male pronouns. Sage asked the school not to tell me, and they did not tell me even though I informed them of her mental health history and medication. If I had known, this would be a much different story.

She was terribly bullied. No one told me. But boys followed her, touched her, threatened violence and rape. Something happened in the boy's bathroom but for two days, the school told me nothing. They kept meeting with Sage alone and she became so distraught they called me to pick her up.

That evening, I found a hallpass labeled 'Draco' and Sage told me she was identifying as a boy, and that her counselor said she could use the boy's bathroom. She'd been jacked up against the wall by a group of boys. She was crying, terrified. I said just stay home, we'll figure it out. That was my last conversation with Sage for five months.

The night she ran, she thought, to a young friend she'd met online, she left a note saying she was scared of what would happen if she stayed. The sheriff, FBI, search dogs were called in. I dropped to my knees in prayer. Nine days later the FBI found her in Baltimore. My baby had been lured online, sex trafficked by DC then Maryland. She was locked in a room, drugged, gang raped and brutalized by countless men. It was night. The FBI told us to pick her up in Maryland the next morning.

We packed our cars with blankets and stuffed animals and arrived by 8 am, but we were told we couldn't see her, and were summoned before Judge Robert Kershaw late that afternoon. They didn't even tell Sage that we came for her. We finally entered the courtroom and Sage appears on a huge Zoom screen from a prison cell. She looks tiny and broken, and I cry out 'I love you Sage.' Sage responds 'I love you too, Nana.' But attorney Anisa Khan rebukes us. She is a 'he' and his name is 'Draco' not Sage. We were floored.

Khan accuses us of emotional and physical abuse, that we are misgendering her, even though we just learned she claims to be trans and we're willing to use any name and pronouns to bring her home. My husband was so tearful he kept forgetting the new pronouns, so the judge had the bailiff remove him from the courtroom. I was pleading for my child to be returned and treated for her unspeakable trauma. Judge Kershaw told me, if I use the word 'trauma' again, he would throw me out too.

For over two months, he withheld custody. He housed Sage in the male quarters of a children's home. Sage told me she was the only girl and repeatedly assaulted. She was given street drugs by the other kids and Khan told her she didn't care. She just wanted to win the case and all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. Khan tried to prove abuse, but we were eventually cleared by both states of all charges.

Sage later told me Khan had told her to lie that we hit her. Khan even had Sage's school counselors testify against u,s though they barely knew Sage and they didn't know us at all. Khan told my precious child I didn't want her anymore. I found out Sage never received any of the letters I sent her.

Sage ran from the Children's Home and disappeared for months. They told me she might already be gone forever, but I couldn't give up and I finally found a tip on her social media that led the marshals to her in Texas. She had been drugged, raped, beaten and exploited. This time I was able to be with her for the traumatic rape exam, and to bring her home.

Back in Virginia, she entered the mental health facility that Judge Kershaw had ordered, as it would affirm her as a male. The therapist began pressuring her to have her healthy breasts removed. Sage was too scared to protest, but she asked me to secretly buy her girl's clothes because she wanted to be a girl, but keep them in the car. It took a kind lawyer, Josh Hetzler to secure her discharge.

After almost a year. Sage was finally home. Safe. Alive. Sage is receiving professional trauma care the first trafficker has already been convicted. Sage has nightmares, panic attacks, rape-related medical issues, but there's hope. I tell her she's not broken she's just scarred. And part of that hope is that in courageously sharing her story, others will be saved.

Sage said she doesn't know who she was back then. She wasn't a boy, she just wanted to have friends. But her school, the judge, the attorney and the doctor were all blinded by their ideology. The consequences for Sage were unspeakable.

Please don't let ideology harm another child. Let parents do our jobs. We know our children best and we love them a million times more.

Thank you.

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Jesus Christ. This girl was exploited by everybody, except for her parents, who were villainized for literally nothing. It's opposite world.

And the fact that everybody with authority prioritized stupid shit like pronouns and trying to coax her further down into a fake identity, even against her will, and other ideological bullshit over her actual wellbeing is disgraceful.

The judge and attorney need to be disbarred, the therapist stripped of their license, and everyone who conspired to separate Sage from her parents fired.

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uber now offers a “woman riders” option after numerous sexual assaults of intoxicated women as well as the murder of a woman except it’s just “drivers who identify as women and nonbinary” this is so fucking insulting at this point

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"I'm pretty with makeup"

"I'm pretty without makeup"

Radical feminism: "It doesn't matter if you're pretty at all. You don't exist to be pretty."

"Female body hair is okay"

"Female body hair is not okay"

Radical Feminism: "Female body hair simply exists and is completely neutral. Talking about whether its 'okay' doesn't even make sense."

"Presenting THIS way makes you a man"

"Presenting THIS way makes you a woman"

Radical feminism: "Nothing about the way you present makes you a man or woman. Gender isn't real."

I love that radical feminism just removes you from so many binaries of thought. It makes them completely nonsensical. Why would I analyze whether I'm pretty when it doesn't matter either way? Why is the acceptability of my body hair even a subject of discussion? It merely exists, just like the bark on a tree. Does society sit around and debate whether a tree ought to be able to keep its bark?

I've come to realize that I've been handed a ton of "either/or" choices about who I am all my life and told to make a decision on each one. And they were all illusions! I just exist. I never had to justify the way I am or even formulate an opinion on it.

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why is it "this is what happens when you tell white boys they're devils :(" when it comes to the white male alt right pipeline but no one calls for empathy for uneducated right wing white women. what about the high school girl to isolated stay at home mom pipeline. where is their loneliness epidemic

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I think this messaging that sex is just the same as any other activity, that there are no special social conditions or statuses or emotions attached to it and that it’s just something you do has rotted people’s brains. In your attempts to normalize a human activity in the face of conservative shame mongering you have so removed the social complexities of sex that you have run right back around into the embrace of rape culture.

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I literally love early law and order SVU because they’re so judgmental of freaky men. They find out that a guy watches porn and they’re like.. this fellow is sus. Perhaps a killer. And they’re right

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"This post is suspiciously TERFy"

"OP is a TERF"

"TERFs aren't welcome on MY blog!"

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someone who probably calls themselves a leftist cooking up the newest misogynistic term except it’s actually cool and progressive because it’s only going to be used against women who do bad things (the misogynistic term in question will inevitably be used to shame all women into silence regardless of how good or bad they are)

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Protect trans kids. But please, dont investigate what happens in childrens gender clinics. Please dont do any research on puberty blockers. And please, dont why the numbers of trans identified youth skyrocketed over the last past years. We don't really need to know why some people regret transistion, so don't tell the trans kids detransitioners exist. Don't let them hear those stories, don't do any research on why they thought they where trans but regret it now. Protect trans kids by never challenging their claims, never be cautious when you see homophobic parents who clearly show signs of transhausen by proxy. Don't be alarmed when doctors from a childrens hospital talk about how puberty blockers ata certain age will render them unable to orgasm. Just hand out puberty blockers and hormones and send them off to surgery, but please don't ask why, don't ask if this is safe, don't ask what will happen in 10, 20 or more years, because, they are so vulnerable, we need to protect them.

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Imagine degrading yourself like this 😖 get off the table stupid

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imo if we only band together with women who are morally pure and completely aligned with all radfem values, we’re dooming ourselves to never see change in our lifetime.

Do you think it is right to ally with people who want the same thing but for reasons you disagree with? For example, should an anti-theist feminist campaign for single sex space laws alongside Orthodox Jews and Muslims?

- yes, strength in numbers, outcome > intention

- no, it’s too risky / their intentions taint the cause

- nuance

Thanks for the submission!

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Trans activists more concerned about a trans woman’s “incorrect placement” in a men’s only prison and NOT concerned about the fact that he raped a woman really, REALLY shows you the true colors of the genderist movement. Because the violation of the woman, the victim of the actual crime, gets pushed off to the side and is of no importance. It doesn’t matter that a man raped her, no one’s shouting about the injustices SHE faced when the man raped her or about the life SHE is now forced to live after what he did to her–it’s all 100% focused on the poor man who calls himself a woman and who’s “stuck” in a men’s prison.

Transgenderism masks and ignores male violence in favor of putting even more women at risk in order to avoid hurting his delusional feelings. This is not okay and it’s happening far, far too often for comfort.

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imagine if activists cared about women and their traumas on all sides of war instead of just using them to make propaganda for their own side

if op actually cared about women being raped, they’d call out hamas and the mass rapes of israeli women as well as the rapes carried out by israelis.

but they don’t care. a thousand israeli women could be raped and as long as they were on “the wrong side” people like op would cheer it on as poor oppressed victims getting revenge on their oppressors

disgusting honestly

“Hamas-”

The IDF rapes women in front of their families, and threatens the husbands who try to look away. The IDF parades women’s lingerie and nightwear on social media because they think it’s funny. The IDF bombs hospitals. The IDF bombs churches. The IDF bombs family homes. The IDF detain children who throw rocks at tanks. The IDF snipe children. The IDF torture prisoners. The IDF shoots anyone who attempts to bring aid towards starving people.

At least pretend to not be biased.