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chat, is "sex negativity" real or is that just the new word for "woman who says no to unwanted sex"?

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ik misogyny is real and all and I live this daily but it'll never cease to amaze me how in pop culture a woman will say smth Slightly off color and it can tank her career immediately (especiallyyyyy women of color & queer women) and then male celebrities are out there with 10k rape allegations and u still get people defending his honor like he sent their kids to private school and bought their mom's house like

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Every 5 minutes patriarchy goes 'but what else can we take away from women while still keeping them complacent and obedient' and they chip away testing how far it takes until we are openly enraged and ready to fight. Then they give us one thing, or just promise to give it, ask us to be grateful we got it & keep chipping away

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The reason it wouldn't work is of course that they're not actually scared of men, they just get off on breaking womens boundaries. It's part of the fetish to force their presence upon women.

this caption is so good. this has been on my mind ever since i started seeing such an influx of “how can cis women be so cruel by forcing transwomen(any men who envy and want to be women based on the misogynistic sexual definitions of womanhood) to share a bathroom with men when men will be violent towards transwomen because men are extremely sexually violently misogynistic” parrotting from the left like how do you not hear yourselves. how do you not hear yourselves. how.

what if. we use our brains. and advocate for third spaces. so that feminine males don’t have to fear going into a bathroom with misogynistic homophobic males and females also don’t have to fear going into a bathroom with misogynistic autogynephilic males. everybody would win (except the men who claim to be women despite having no empathy for women and just want access to female spaces because they only have empathy for themselves) and the left could stop looking stupid and incapable of understanding statistical evidence and constant outpour of online social examples only when it comes to sexism :)

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Punk band UK Subs were detained upon entering the US and kept locked up for 24 hours with little to eat or drink and no sleep before being sent back to London.

They had the correct paperwork for their visit.

Basically don't bother going to the US folks, waste of your time and money.

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It's hilarious to me how Colossal Biosciences wants to be movie-version John Hammond but are 100% book-version John Hammond. In the Jurassic Park novel, it's very clear: John Hammond is a con artist who gives people an illusion, not the truth. He knew from the beginning that what he was making weren't dinosaurs, but he didn't care because he had a story to sell. He wasn't just "filling in gaps" with the frog dna, his scientists were basically making things up from whole cloth and he had no pretence about it- but he also knew what the public wanted to believe.

Case in point: https://time.com/7274542/colossal-dire-wolf/

These are not dire wolves. These are GMO gray wolves. Dire wolves aren't even in the same genus as gray wolves, and we know this from genetics.

What Colossal is doing is scamming the public. They want you to believe that they can pull off miracles. They can't. It's the flea circus where everything is mechanised, but because you want to believe, you "see" the fleas. They might be good at genetic modification and they might be good at hyping themselves up, but they haven't de-extincted the dire wolf. They didn't activate mammoth genes in a mouse. They are lying to you and they're going to keep doing it. Don't believe the hype.

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it’s actually so fucking insane to me that leftists can hold the belief that white people, due to their socialization in a racist society, are all inherently racist to some degree and need to constantly be checking themselves and doing work to be actively anti-racist.

but those same people would be sending rape and death threats if I said that male people, due to their socialization in a misogynistic society, are all inherently misogynistic to some degree and need to constantly be checking themselves and doing work to be actively feminist, even if they identify as women.

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this is a good article for the most part but imo misses the core issue even though one of the guys quoted lays it out pretty explicitly:

Paying for parasocial engagement saved Matthew from having to put himself out there. It’s funny, he says, how highly sexual he is online compared to how timid he is toward women in real life. “It made me give up on meeting someone,” he says of Chaturbate. “It was a safe place where I could get the same result, or so I thought, and not have to put in all that work.”

this is why I don't feel bad for men who claim the Male Loneliness EpidemicTM (not a real thing) "forces" them to turn to porn etc.: it's the other way around. they choose to seek out one-sided and/or transactional "relationships" with porn and online sex workers because they are completely uninterested in an actual relationship.

because an actual relationship requires work (everything from basic personal hygeine to listening skills to shared housework) -- work that to a healthy person is only occasionally dull because when you care about someone and find them interesting, there's pleasure in that work.

but to these men it all feels pointless and joyless because they do not care about women and it's not worth it to them. they don't want to have to listen to a woman talk about her day, let alone about her problems (especially not any problems she might have with him). they don't even want to engage with a woman face-to-face irl. they want a woman who cares only about them, and who doesn't ask them to care about her.

and then when their misogyny leads them into self-isolation, debt, and resentment, they turn around and say it was the fault of women all along. and then a whole society, including a lot of women, fall for it and ring the alarm over male loneliness: a problem created solely by men, and solvable only by men, which stems from misogyny and hurts women more than anyone else. it's such bullshit.

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ALSO! What kind of father can hear their daughter explain in earnest how boys her age talk about girls in front of her, and just dismiss it! They're just boys! Not men! Now let's get back to how you can't say "men's violence against women" because my fefeels!

She told him in detail! She said how noone speaks up! And he still has the gall to say most men would speak up and most men are good, then where the fuck are they? Where sre the teachers? Where are the parents? You know full well boys and men like that do not respect women and girls, and especially not if they are uncomfortable. Because that's part of the point! They want girls uncomfortable and scared! The only way they would ever stop is with actual consequences from those good men you claim to be everywhere so WHERE ARE THEY?

It's funny how to men, the most important thing about men's violence against women, is the grammar of the sentence and not... Ya know... The violence men commit against women...

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Sometimes I wonder why I even bother. I won't ever change his mind about how men's feelings about discussing male violence is more important than fixing it, but at least little cousin was there.

I'm probably too radical for a "I understand them objectifying and sexualizing all women and girls because they read 'kill all men' online once" - girlie but she may yet grow up.

It's funny how to men, the most important thing about men's violence against women, is the grammar of the sentence and not... Ya know... The violence men commit against women...

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It's funny how to men, the most important thing about men's violence against women, is the grammar of the sentence and not... Ya know... The violence men commit against women...

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During the last months of being on radblr i’ve noticed a couple of accounts managed by teen girls; and i do appreciate women and girls of all ages entering feminism. However, there are safety measures to know and the first one is not writing that you’re a kid on the internet.

I’m in my early 20s and i can’t believe i’m saying this, but back in my day kids were taught to lie about our personal information. I know you probably think: “I’m writing i’m a minor, so adults that come across my blog will know and act accordingly as any adult should”. And i agree that’s how it should be. However, that’s a huge “I’M HERE!” to pedophiles.

Predators can fool people in real life, they are more than capable of doing it online too. They often make accounts in which they act like kids. They learn how to use the mini culture that teens create online to their advantage. They know that your blog is not controlled by a parent or any other guardian.

Some other shit i’ve seen them do is stuff like:

-Hi i’m XYZ, i work for this [organisation you follow/shown interest in] and i’d like to [ask for help]/[offer to participate in whatever]

Do NOT trust these things. Actual official workers do not reach out to you, especially if you got your teen age written on your bio. If you as a teen feminist are interested in going to public meetings or gatherings, only look for official resources (not individuals) and always go with a parent or a guardian.

The internet may not be real life, but that doesn’t make it any less dangerous.

For your safety, you gotta be on the internet with the assumption that everyone here is an adult you don’t know. “But what if grown ass people start engaging with me as if i’m an adult?” If anyone comes to your blog to bother or harass you in any way you have every right to block them immediately, no explanations needed. You can limit who can engage with your posts at any time. You don’t even need “logical” reasons to, don’t overthink it; if your gut is telling you to block someone then do it. Better safe than sorry. You don’t have to interact with anyone you don’t want here.

Unless it’s a friend’s or relative’s account, whom you know in real life, everyone on the internet is a stranger. Please beware of creeps.

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It's like a snakehead attached to a raw chicken thigh!

name the most non-frog looking frog you can think of!

I can’t because John Edward Gray already did in 1841. He named it Myobatrachus gouldii, the ‘turtle frog’, which, based on its Latin name should really be called ‘Gould’s muscle frog’.

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It has pretty weird anatomy, including strange proportions of limbs, and a distinct and strange head. No wonder it has a family all of its own.

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tumblr is one of the only places i will actually unmute a video when the tags are like "omg unmute it" bc i know most everyone else on this website loves reading and hates noise like i do so it must be pretty good