#Radfem

[womenaremypriority]

Feminist linguistic suggestions:

-Stop using misogynistic insults such as “cunt”, “bitch”, or “whore”, even in a neutral or “endearing” way

-Stop using the word “pussy” when describing cowardice and referencing testicles when describing bravery

-Use female-default language

-Don’t refer to yourself or other women as “girls” unless you are specifically talking about children

-Do not tolerate other people using offensive language towards women around you

-Act confused when people call women girls, especially if the context is sexual

-Laugh more at women’s jokes

-Stop lightening your voice to please men

[fem-lit]

Cosmetic surgery is not “cosmetic,” and human flesh is not “plastic.” Even the names trivialize what it is. It’s not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons’ language when they speak to women: “a nip,” a “tummy tuck.” Rees writes, describing a second-degree acid burn over the face: “Remember when you were in school and you skinned your knee and a scab formed?” This baby talk falsifies reality. Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body.

— Naomi Wolf (1990) The Beauty Myth

[hmsindecision]

“People with a cervix” immediately tells me you have never worked with or cared about a huge number of people. Literally it’s so fucking CLASSIST in a country with no sex ed.

Do you have any clue how low the literacy rate is in the United States?????? 18-21% of adults can’t read at all. And yet you think they have a working understanding of the female anatomy to the point where asking if they have a cervix is more helpful than asking if they are female?

Don’t you think that people with a second language are more likely to learn the word “woman” than “cervix” or “uterus”? Or do I’m/migrant communities not matter at all?

How about this? 44% of women in this UK survey were able to identify where their cervix is!!! And that is a country with basic sex education!

Do you know what the most common reactions were to me asking for pronouns and gender identity was in social services? Anger, embarrassment, and shame. Because they had no idea what the FUCK I was talking about. Many people responded with their racial identity.

Literally cannot think of a bigger luxury than a gender. People who are taking medications to change body parts should know better than anyone how to name and care for those body parts, right? So why do all of our public awareness campaigns need to validate them, instead of reaching the most vulnerable populations?

And no, please don’t tell me that a trans man who has medical access to HRT and medical care is somehow more vulnerable than a non-English speaking migrant woman living on the streets. Which one already knows she needs Pap smears????? Which one do we need to cater to???

WHICH ONE IS MORE COMMON AND DYING EVERY DAY IN THIS COUNTRY YOU CLASSIST FREAKS

[radykalny-feminizm]

Happy lesbian visibility day!* 😊

*to homosexual females only

[strezzedanddeprezzed]

I guess this is an unpopular opinion, but I think the label "pick me" is being used wayyy to frequently now.

Calling a girl a pick me when she simply says (without shaming anyone) "I don't wear makeup", "I don't sleep around", or "I don't party" is a reflection on how you view your own lifestyle.

If you feel the need to call a girl a pick me because she can proudly say she doesn't wear makeup or she doesn't participate in hookup culture you're showing that you are insecure about your lifestyle and how you present yourself. Calling a girl a pick me because she can proudly live life as your opposite is a reflection on you. Maybe reflect on why you are so threatened by women who don't wear makeup and are proud of it before you call anyone a pick me.

[radtoken]

Gentle reminder that radical feminism isn't just about insulting TIMs. Go outside and volunteer at a women's shelter (if you're able, obviously). Put up posters or stickers that apread radical feminist messages and ideas. Promote women and women-owned businesses. Do something that will actually help women and girls.

[forwomenbiwomen]

[radfemmemes]

source

[spongebobterfpants]

“misogynist manosphere son or misandrist terf daughter”:

safe edgy reddit moment. this trans movement is just typical gender dynamics tenfold but encouraging a gross version self expression

[nansheonearth]

Lesbian Herstory ig

[moidhaterxxx]

What's the point of women posting online slagging off their husbands (rightfully) for being absolute pos and then getting mad at the comments telling her to leave?

Is it just content farming? And no, the women never leaves the relationship either.

[feministdragon]

for me the end goal of feminism is freedom: the recognition that women are human beings

[vulva-venus-hates-that-penis]

[daryllia]

The very first bill ever proposed by a female lawmaker in the United States came from Colorado state representative Carrie Clyde Holly in January 1895. Building on a decade of women’s activism, Holly’s ambitious legislation sought to raise the age of consent in the state to 21 years old. In 1890, the age at which girls could consent to sex was 12 or younger in 38 states. In Delaware, it was seven. […]

[…] Based on English Common Law dating back to the 1500s, American lawmakers had selected 10 or 12 as the age of consent to coincide with the onset of puberty, as if once a girl menstruated she was ready to have sex. Men accused of raping girls as young as 7 could (and did) simply say “she consented” to avoid prosecution. Reformers understood that once “ruined,” these young victims of assault could be forced into prostitution because no man would marry or hire a “fallen woman.”

Prostitution especially concerned wives and mothers because, before penicillin became widely available in 1945, syphilis and gonorrhea were more widespread than all other infectious diseases combined. Wives who unknowingly contracted STIs from their husbands could pass them on to their unborn children, resulting in miscarriages, fetal abnormalities, blindness, epilepsy and unsightly “syphilis teeth.” In most cases, women could not successfully sue for divorce, support themselves, or retain custody of their children if they did divorce. […]

[…] British purity reformers had succeeded in raising the age of consent to 13 in 1861, and the movement received international attention in 1885 after muckraking journalist William T. Stead went undercover in London’s brothels. Stead published a series of salacious articles, collectively titled “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon,” in the Pall Mall Gazette detailing how London’s husbands and fathers paid top dollar to deflower child virgins in the city’s brothels. Within months, public outcry led Parliament to raise the age of consent to 16.

[…] Many lawmakers rejected women’s presence in public affairs and further resented the unprecedented campaign to curtail white men’s sexual prerogatives. So they stone-walled WCTU members, inserted neutralizing or mocking language in their proposed bills, and occasionally outright banned women from their galleries. The few legislators who went on record in support of young ages of consent voiced sympathy for hypothetical men who would be ensnared into marriage by conniving girls who consented to sex and later threatened to press charges. […]

[…] For years, black women—including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Ida B. Wells—had called attention to the fact that white men used rape as a tool of white supremacy. […]

White Southern lawmakers stridently opposed revised age-of-consent laws because they did not want black women to be able to charge white men with a crime. Kentucky state representative A. C. Tompkins went on record with his opposition, explaining, “We see at once what a terrible weapon for evil the elevating of the age of consent would be when placed in the hands of a lecherous, sensual n*gro woman,” insinuating that black women, who he claimed matured earlier and had a more sexual nature, would seduce men and then accuse them of assault. […]

- Kimberly Hamlin "What Raising the Age of Sexual Consent Taught Women About the Vote" 2020