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You like to 'confuse people', I simply wear a skirt on one day and men's trousers on the other without ever being less of a woman

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Males wouldn't achieve shit if women weren't there for them. And yet, it's women who are considered inherently incapable.

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having a good day then thinking about this one quote about no woman ever comparing herself to god after creating life by giving birth but every boy with a gun is a god in his own eyes because he has the power to choose who lives or dies and he uses it to take and destroy lives. coughing up blood right now. i need to be hospitalized.

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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Not to be That Guy but I do kind of think that the way postmodernist style thinking functions in academia is a psyop intended to undermine the left. In the 60s and 70s, all kinds of radicalism and action came from universities. Some universities built in that era were designed for police shutdowns during riots. But now it’s like… the way that people in humanities, social sciences etc, everyone who’s been encouraged into postmodernism, queer theory etc, ESPECIALLY those from pristigous schools, structure their thought is so… impossible to apply in any material way. Forget about radical meaning at the root, it’s more like radical meaning totally off the ground. Everything is like, a thought experiment, spoken about as if it’s reality. And they dominate leftist spaces– often having the class background or even just academic confidence to back up their strongly held beliefs, or even just the time to implement them. The closer you are to a liberal arts university, the more likely it is that the political groups around it are incredibly bogged down in identity and language that most people don’t understand, and an environment hostile to basic questioning and learning outside of adopting the lingo. It really effectively isolates the people in it AND isolates them from organizing effectively. Not to mention their conceptual frameworks are really removed from reality in the first place

If it wasn’t an actual psy op it worked just as well by itself lol

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terfs/radfems be like ‘im gender critical’ but then refuse to be critical about why they prefer vaginas to dicks

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ELENA GOROLOVA // ACTIVIST

“She is a Czech human rights defender. She works as a social worker in Ostrava and is of Roma origins. At the age of 21, she was forcibly sterilized in hospital after giving birth to her second son. She had hoped to have another child and had not given her informed consent to the procedure. In the year 2005 Elena was one of the 87 Czech women complaining of being forcibly sterilized. Since then, she has campaigned against forced sterilization and discrimination against Roma women in Czechia and advocating for redress and awareness of forced sterilizations. She is the spokesperson for the Group of Women Harmed by Forced Sterilization and a member of Czech organization Vzájemné soužití (Life Together).”

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also the fact that porn is often embedded in some sort of daily scenario instead of at least just showing sexual acts should worry more people.

why do men need to see boss and employee? delivery guy/post man/whatever and woman home alone? or even worse, teacher and student? stepdad and stepdaughter?

it is not just about the arousal of watching sexual acts being performed, they need to see women being available at any time, they want to imagine themselves just „taking“ random women, even the women (and girls) closest to them. also notice how many times there is some type of authority involved?

makes you wonder how many men you encounter in daily situations, even within your family or friend circle, at work, when you order something, really dont see you as a woman, as a person, but as a mere object for their sexual fantasies.

especially considering how often these situations actually happen, and how often there is sexual assault involved.

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can masc women collectively stop referring to themselves as looking like 'twelve-year-old boys'. can you guys grow a spine a bit and have some self-respect. you don't look like a twelve-year-old boy, you look like an adult woman.

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When you call a woman a “girl”, you reinforce the infantilization of women as helpless, irrational, weak beings in need of protection. A diminutive term, “girl” denies a woman her adulthood, her maturity and her power. Notice the frequency in which we call men “men” or “guys” but call women “girls”. This is no coincidence. This use of language is rooted in sexism and it is disrespectful, patronizing and disempowering. A woman is not a female child. Stop calling women “girls”.

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I used to think that I just have to do shit and my mental health would be fine. But no, I sit in my classes and get anxious as fuck and can't pay attention anymore

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Do you mean that they are just saying it but not acting on it in real life? So they don't actually have sex with women? That would make sense

I think for some bi people they are kinda just straights with a fetish for homosexuality. Like how they say they’d fuck the opposite sex but would never get into a relationship with them then go home to their Nigel. It’s giving fetish and may I say in some cases porn addict brainrot

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I get what you mean but is that possible - to have a fetish for homosexuality when you are not attracted to that sex? That would mean, that it would be potentially possible for lesbians as well, only the other way round, wouldn't it?

Straight women having a fetish for gay men surely exist but I would question if it's possible for them to have a fetish for lesbians. They might simply be porn addicted, homophobic bisexuals

I think for some bi people they are kinda just straights with a fetish for homosexuality. Like how they say they’d fuck the opposite sex but would never get into a relationship with them then go home to their Nigel. It’s giving fetish and may I say in some cases porn addict brainrot

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"Each aspect of being a lesbian, gay man, or heterosexual fully applies to every bisexual"

How can both a lesbian and a gay man apply to one person? And also, the aspect of being attracted to the opposite sex is different to homosexuals and vice versa with heterosexuals. Bisexuals can be homophobic in a quite unique way: claiming stuff like "hearts over parts", that everyone can be attracted to any sex. So basically thinking that everyone is like oneself.

So no, we are not 100% lesbian or gay and not 100% heterosexual. That math alone is not logical.

“A bisexual is, then, 100 percent lesbian or gay and 100 percent heterosexual. Like someone of mixed racial or ethnic heritage, we are simultaneous, full members of both groups. No activity or belief secures our standing; we can stop searching for hospitality. Every place is our home. Each aspect of being a lesbian, gay man, or heterosexual fully applies to every bisexual: We can reclaim all the richness of each community as our own, and we can name and recover from every injury we have withstood as members of both groups. If we attempt a detour around complete pride or healing, we are settling for less than becoming our whole selves.”

- Rebecca Shuster, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out

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"The upshot of this simple example is that the truth of what we say is rarely just a matter of definition. Whether what we have said is true or not will depend, for the most part, on how things stand in the world. Abraham Lincoln, during his days as a trial lawyer, is reported to have cross-examined a witness like this: “How many legs does a horse have?” “Four,” said the witness. “Now, if we call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have?” “Five,” answered the witness. “Nope,” said Abe, “calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.” In general, then, though the meaning of what we say is dependent on convention, the truth of what we say is not."

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter & Robert Fogelin (2013): Understanding Arguments. An Introduction to informal logic. Cengage Learning, p. 19

"Although it is important to realize that language is conventional, it is also important not to misunderstand this fact. From the idea that language is conventional, it is easy to conclude that language is totally arbitrary. If language is totally arbitrary, then it might seem that it really does not matter which words we use or how we put them together. It takes only a little thought to see that this view, however daring it might seem, misrepresents the role of conventions in language. If we wish to communicate with others, we must follow the system of conventions that others use. [...] Communication can take place only within a shared system of conventions. Conventions do not destroy meaning by making it arbitrary; conventions bring meaning into existence."

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter & Robert Fogelin (2013): Understanding Arguments. An Introduction to informal logic. Cengage Learning, p. 18

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"Although it is important to realize that language is conventional, it is also important not to misunderstand this fact. From the idea that language is conventional, it is easy to conclude that language is totally arbitrary. If language is totally arbitrary, then it might seem that it really does not matter which words we use or how we put them together. It takes only a little thought to see that this view, however daring it might seem, misrepresents the role of conventions in language. If we wish to communicate with others, we must follow the system of conventions that others use. [...] Communication can take place only within a shared system of conventions. Conventions do not destroy meaning by making it arbitrary; conventions bring meaning into existence."

Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter & Robert Fogelin (2013): Understanding Arguments. An Introduction to informal logic. Cengage Learning, p. 18