#intersectionalfeminist

[starry-ace]

“The Barbie movie is like basic gender studies 101. It’s like the bare minimum for feminism”

YEAH SOME PEOPLE HAVENT TAKEN GENDER STUDIES 101 AND WOULDNT YOU AGREE WE ARE CURRENTLY AT LESS THAN THE BARE MINIMUM FOR FEMINISM?

things do not need to be perfect to be good. You cannot teach someone intersectionality if that person has not heard of bare minimum feminism. You might be on step 100 but just because you started earlier does not mean that everyone can jump to your level. They have to climb the stairs too. And the people at the top yelling down to the people at the bottom that being at the bottom is bad, they need to be at the top, IT DOES NOT ENCOURAGE THEM TO CLIMB UP.

[biddybumps]

[tekra-brings-the-rain]

One of my problems with white feminism is the fact that it doesn’t focus on dismantling systems of exploitation, but instead aims to be part of those structures, creating a concept of ‘winning’ at the capitalistic power system, which is designed to oppress. For example, female CEOs are often used as an example of success, which is basing how ‘feminist’ an organization/person/society is by how well it/they perform under capitalism.

This can also work in other ways as well, such as with queer and trans representation centering those who are successful only in a way that follows the path laid out by the current system.

All liberation will only work if you leave the capitalistic framework.

This kind of feminism had its place in history (think the suffragette movement) but we need to move forwards for meaningful change.

[hard--headed--woman]

I just had this conversation with my friend and I thought I'd share it here : believing that feminism has to educate men in order to destroy the patriarchy because we cannot do it without them (this is what she believes) is believing that men oppress us because they are ignorant. It is saying that they oppress us because they don't know what they're doing and don't realize they are doing something wrong, and that somehow this ignorance has been going on for centuries. It is being overly naive. Men aren't babies. Men aren't innocent little beings who would never hurt us if they knew their actions were hurtful. They have been oppressing us for thousands of years, we have been figthing against it for thousands of years ; how could it be possible for them not to understand what they do ? How could they possibly take away our rights without understanding what they do ? How could they hit us, rape us, traffick us without understanding what they do ? And it's not like feminism is new. We have been fighting for centuries and they have been fighting back for centuries to prevent us to free ourselves. They don't read feminist books, they don't take listen to our sperches, they ignore us when we talk about our rights, they mock us, they don't take us seriously. And listen to them speaking. Listen to them giving each other relationship advices, teaching each other to manipulate us. Listen to them talking about us. Read their comments on the internet. Read their damn books and essays about feminism and women's rights. They know what they're doing. They don't care about us. They hate us, they don't see us as humans.

[anti-terf-posts]

hot take but plus size/fat people shouldn't have to sexualize themselves for you to be accepting of them.

[violottie]

"Our liberation is not only interconnected it is also intersectional. The time to decolonize is long overdue." from Anusha Wijeyakumar, 01/Mar/2024:

[thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra]

also the fact that ppl who deny transandrophobia have the gall to pretend to be intersectional feminists is astounding. literally the definition of intersectionality is acknowledging how different parts of a person's identity impacts the discrimination they face. understanding transandrophobia is acknowledging that transmascs, like everyone, face a unique form of oppression due to us being trans, men, and viewed as female by society.

if you harass transmascs for talking about their lived experiences bc "men always evil", you better take intersectional feminist out of your bio and get used to using radfem tags

[bog-bitch]

Heartbreaking: The Feminist Post You Were About To Reblog Was Made By a TERF

[gis4greenandgreenisgre4t]

i don’t trust any ‘feminist’ bitch that says ‘we need to dismantle the patriarchy!!’ but will snap their necks to call ppl they don’t like (esp trans people bc ik you fucking terfs) ‘ugly’ like girl did you read your own posts??

[beautifuiprincessdisorder]

i love girls and women so much. the women in my life bring me so much joy and happiness that i can’t even put into words. i find them so beautiful in every way. the female relationships in my life are what keep me alive, there is so much pure genuine love between women and it gives me so much hope to know that such love still exists. there is nothing more comforting to me than to be held in the arms of a woman whether it be my mother or my sister or my friend or a girlfriend. we can talk for hours without stopping or we can sit in complete silence and i will feel content just from their presence alone. we can talk about anything (no matter how embarrassing) and there is never a feeling of judgement. we are all so different yet the same at the same time and it’s beautiful. i feel bad for the women who hate other women, i don’t understand how any woman could be happy centring men in their lives who don’t care about them at all. i have so much genuine love for every kind of woman or girl that it almost feels like it’s consuming my heart 🤍

[blackbirdswillsing]

someone on tiktok said that women had never done anything impactful in history so i listed some women, they then said that people like emily davison and emmeline pankhurst didn’t count because gender equality didn’t count???

so then i listed some more academic/science based women and they said this:

(ignore the marie curie typo)

i’m not crazy right? these are some of the most famous women in history, famous for their discoveries and achievements

i’m sorry that you don’t know who they are but your ignorance does not mean that these amazing women did not do what they did??

tell me that you guys know all of these women and it’s common knowledge because i’m pretty sure it is right?

i’m so sick and tired of people thinking they deserve to win arguments using insults and belittlement even though they don’t have the slightest clue what they’re even talking about

edit: stop saying “i only know x but not y and z”. i don’t care, do better.

[biddybumps]

Reposting this here too because i’ve never seen something more true in my life 🫠

[coentinim]

The thing a lot of feminists discuss a lot is what is actually empowerment. Because some will say it's makeup, high heels and generally conforming to the beauty standard, or maybe wearing a hijab or other religious head or body covering. And I just think the word they're looking for is just confidence. It's not empowering to shave your legs or cover up your entire body, but it does reduce shame. I'm also ashamed of walking out unshaved, with no concealer and with dirty hair, so when I do shaving or make up, the lack of shame creates a fleeting but pleasant feeling of confidence. Rejecting beauty norms entirely would be more of an actual empowerment, but I'd have to bear the shame first. And I don't know if I can do that.

[hard--headed--woman]

if you sincerely believe that men are oppressed or hated in this society because they're men (no, i'm not saying men of color or gay and bi men aren't oppressed, nice try dick havers fandom) you're delusional, you've spent too much time on tumblr and you've had your brain rotted by MRA and incel rhetoric.

[gaycrashbandicoot]

I don't know why cis people worship jk Rowling as some kind of really incredible feminist, the pinnacle of woman's rights and activism. Even outside of her very blatant, rampant and disgusting transphobic she is a very mid/average feminist. I think some people who love her have just never met another woman lol.

I mean lots of terfs aren't great feminists bcs their views about women are regressive and bioessentialist and basically just reinventing 1950s sexism as woke but if we take trans ppl out of the equation entirely jk rowling is not an incredible feminist.

[cvntkisser]

some men be like im a sigma/alpha male and i hate beta males and use bro/dude/blud to refer to people instead of traditional pronouns but if i told them that creating new catagories of men is creating new genders and that by calling themselves a sigma/alpha male they are identifying as a neogender and by not using he/she/they and using bro/dude/blud as a replacement they are gramatically using neopronouns they would call me a slur.