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‘Overpopulation’ is a symptom of women’s oppression and poverty; it can only be remedied by addressing those problems.

People are all like “the world’s population is growing too fast!” and idk how to tell you this but the actual best way to fix that is global and total women’s liberation…. because women actually don’t want to be pregnant their entire life if they can avoid it and have access to birth control, ability to tell men no, and abortion on demand and without stigma :/ 

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Not-so-friendly reminder that there is no such thing as an underage woman or non-consensual sex, the words you’re looking for are “child” and “rape”. Way less syllables and way more accurate! Thank you for your time.

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“Vegans only eat $20 tofu from whole foods!!!”

Literally the only thing i can afford at Whole Foods is the free wifi 

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I've seen it described this way: if you were to stick your finger up a dude's ass with no warning or prior discussion, you'd see that he understands sexual consent extremely well and recognizes immediately that what you did was wrong. Same with if a straight guy were to get his balls grabbed out of nowhere by a big gay guy - they wouldn't just roll with it and say "It's my fault, I was probably giving him mixed signals, I should just lighten up and enjoy it"; he'd feel violated and angry and possibly frightened. Homophobic men (who are usually misogynists too) are always paranoid or angry that gay men will try to grope/ogle/etc them.

Men understand sexual consent perfectly well, they just deliberately ignore women's sexual consent because they don't care. They use innocent and simple ignorance as a cover for deliberate and predatory malice.

One of the most useful myths to supporting rape culture - I think - is the notion that men are simply confused about what consent means. Mainstream feminism has spent so much time finding different ways to explain consent, giving endless examples on what a “no” can look like and what doesn’t constitute consent but like. It’s all so ridiculous because it’s operating on the basis that it’s difficult to figure out if your partner is consenting. Which it’s not. And then rapists use the definitions of consent and the whole convo around consent to manipulate circumstances where the issue isn’t that they raped someone the issue is that it “wasn’t clear” that consent wasn’t given.

We have to stop infantilising men especially like I promise you your boyfriend can tell if you aren’t into the sex. It’s whether he cares or not. The guy at the club trying to fondle you knows you don’t like it. He doesn’t care.

I’m SO tired of the be all end all convo about rape being on consent. Its not a difficult concept to grasp and a lack of understanding consent is not why rape occurs.

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Men want women to bear their children, yet hate us throughout the entire process. Magazines will print photos of “perfect” postpartum bodies, and shame other women for not bouncing back to what they looked like before pregnancy. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen a man complain about how his wife’s vagina is “loose like a lasagna” after having a baby. Women are made to be ashamed of their postpartum stretch marks and cellulite and soft stomachs because they don’t appeal to the male gaze. Meanwhile mothers are taking care of a new life, and are most likely under a lot of stress to begin with. Not to mention postpartum depression, which can ruin lives. Companies sell creams and workouts and “mommy tucks” to desperate mothers who just want to feel normal and be accepted by their spouse. Breastfeeding in public is not tolerated, because exposing breasts in public for any reason that isn’t sexual is unacceptable to men. Anyways I just hate how it’s socially acceptable for men to police postpartum bodies just so that they can continue living their fantasy; they want a perfect mother with a perfect body caring for a perfect child. And we all know that this is impossible. We need to stand up for our mothers, love our mothers, instead of shaming our mothers for things they can’t control. 

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A way my therapist has told me to approach childhood trauma is thinking about the child who went through the traumatising ordeal. You may resent yourself for not fighting back, not doing enough, or not running away, but you need to see the young child who was there, the one who needed protection, not persecution

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caffeine is stored in the me

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TUMBLR HAS DARK MODE NOW ?¿

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I feel like I don’t see enough on of the connection between extreme hyperfemininity in our current culture and more and more girls not identifying with womanhood 

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Third term abortions are not for women who were careless, or changed their mind. Third term abortions aren’t given to women because they want to get back at a guy, or because they were lazy in seeking one out before their third trimester.

The stereotypes you have had poured down your throats by bad people are wrong. They are dangerous. They are cruel beyond comprehension.

Nobody has a third term abortion because they don’t want their baby.

Women who have third term abortions are mothers. They had baby showers. They cried tears of joy and called their own moms screaming with happiness when that little stick revealed the word “pregnant.” Women who have third term abortions had gender reveal parties. They have a crib, built and ready. Their baby probably has a name; odds are they already have it spelled out in cute building blocks on a wall in the nursery. Women who have third term abortions are excitedly reading books and asking to hold their friends’ babies. They’re cooing over your child in line at the grocery store. They have cute and funny photo shoots with their husbands and dogs to announce to their friends that they are expecting and they are thrilled.

I personally believe a woman should be allowed to have an abortion for any reason at all. That is my personal belief.

But women who have third term abortions don’t have them for just any reason. It is not casual. Women who have third term abortions have them because their baby is dead or dying and they are likely to die too.

Women who have third term abortions are grieving. They are devastated. They can’t bear to open the nursery door and pack up the little baby clothes they’ve collected. They watch moms with their babies at the grocery store and they go sit in their cars and sob uncontrollably.

Women who have third term abortions are women whose babies died. Babies they loved and wanted and prepared for.

Full stop.

Your cruelty towards these women is breathtaking. Stop it. Understand facts. How f***ing dare you.

I stand with my fellow women. I am ALWAYS in your corners.

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Climate change is like someone comes up to you and tells you your super strict aunt is visiting, but your house has seen 3 parties over the weekend and is a mess. You’re not quite sure if the person is serious or not, some people say ‘QUICK! We need to tidy the house NOW! She’ll be here in an HOUR!’ and other people say ‘Your aunt isn’t visiting, it’s all a huge lie, and besides, the house is still habitable!’

Sure, you can work around the pizza trodden into the carpet, maybe lay a rug over the teenager vomit, wear shoes so the spilled beer doesn’t soak into your socks.

But if you spend a little time and effort cleaning the house, even if your aunt isn’t coming, you still have a lovely clean house! If you keep measures in place to keep it clean, no more wild parties, a few storage baskets, invest in a roomba, it’ll stay clean for when your children live there too.

And if your aunt is actually coming, and you DON’T clean the house, you’re totally and utterly and without question, fucked.

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kind of annoyed today because women rarely get the message that it’s okay to downright hate penetration with every cell in their body, yet anytime the message is actually put out there, suddenly we’re hating on women who like penetration. like it doesn’t make anyone anti-straight woman (or anti-bisexual or anti-lesbian or whatever) or whatever to state that we categorically do not like penetrative sex. trust me when i say that it’s not a common point of view otherwise i wouldn’t have traumatized myself as much as i did as a teenager

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Wore a suit to work today, so I can slack in style. Everyone so impressed by my suit they not realizing I’m not doing shit.