lovethedandelions:

watching that performance art without knowing the context of those comments (lesbians reacting to the cotton ceiling BS - rightly calling the theory rapey and pervy!) I can understand why people would be sympathetic

absolutely disgusting to take those comments out of context and framing them as personal attacks, in an attempt to garner pity. manipulative ! also I’ve never read a radfem saying that transwomen aren’t human but that’s in there. i don’t condone that. but seriously there are hateful comments and literal death threats towards lesbians who opposed the cotton ceiling theory, not sure how “you are male” equates to those

Oh, god, I was planning a post on this - apparently, this cotton ceiling shit needs to be refreshed repeatedly so that it cannot be used to construct hate speech from quotes taken out of context, most cherry-picked because of their inflammatory or polemic character.

That “trans women aren’t human” quote actually made me suspicious because I know a lot of “anti-trans” blogs and (with one exception) never saw a denial of trans people’s humanity. It seems, though, that they think a denial of their gender identity is basically a form of dehumanization. Moreover, at least half of the quotes used in the video were not directed at Morgan and there was only one petition but not against him but his workshop.

Unveiling Femen

marierioux:

As someone who follows Ukrainian politics and has been watching FEMEN on the regular I thought I would bring attention to what is really going on here, and give some people in the West a little perspective on what it is they’re supporting/shaming. To understand FEMEN’s ideology, you have to know where their money is coming from, and who exactly are they. 

Their leader is Anna Gutsol, an economist and ex-PR manager. For a while, FEMEN got money for the recruitment of their “activists” from an American multimillionaire expat named Jed Sunden, the owner of the Kiev Post, and one of the richest expats in Ukraine. His support dwindled, however, when Gutsol started to get into political activism, and move away from feminism in any sense of the word. FEMEN’s logo was bought by Sunden in Russia’s premier design agency, the Lebedev Studio.

When Gutsol enacted several nude protests outside of foreign embassies in Kiev, Sunden cut off all contact with them (his involvement led to him being declared persona-non-grata in Ukraine, and he had to go through a court process to stay in the country).

Gutsol had to find financing elsewhere, and her father (a member of the Ukranian parliament, no less) was just the solution. Mikhail Gutsol is also a criminal, for the record. In 2009 he actually killed a pedestrian while driving under the influence. He never saw jail because Ukraine has one of the most corrupt political systems in the world and because Gutsol is good friends with Vadim Rabinovich. Now this man essentially owns FEMEN. Ukrainians have taken to calling FEMEN “Rabinovich’s boobs”.

Rabinovich, an Israeli expat in Ukraine (he forbid Gutsol to picket the Israeli embassy in 2011), also has a sketchy record with the Ukrainian penal system: excluded from the KOMSOMOL for “amoral behaviour” in 1974, arrested for the first time in 1980 for large-scale theft of governmental funds, then found a cushy job as the owner of several large crystal factories in the USSR, and sold a large quantity of Soviet weapons abroad, he was arrested again in 1982 for more theft. He did well, however, seeing as he owns a number of Ukrainian tv channels, papers, and publishers. 

He always had an eye on Ukraine’s politics (having supported several political parties at the same time during the The Orange Revolution) and world politics (having sold the Taliban two hundred T-55 and T-62 tanks with his friend - you might’ve heard of him - Viktor Bout, transporting them to Kabul by plane via Sharjah). He’s a real class act.

Rabinovich is also well known for his philanthropic activities: but many Jewish leaders believe he is trying to buy positive publicity to make up for the negative publicity that his financial and political activities have drawn.

But FEMEN isn’t some hottie-women, feminist, counter-cultural rebel group in Ukraine. Most of them are students recruited from Kiev’s colleges. Some of them are even high school students. None of them are unpaid in their capacity as “activists”. They’re poor young woman who are being paid to play activist by multimillionaires. All their members are strictly forbidden to disclose payments they receive, but according to Ukrainian papers, each student gets around $600-700 a month, which is a tidy sum for a Ukrainian student. There is a lot of poverty in Ukraine, and I’m not sure whether I feel worse for these women or the idiots in the Western world who have no idea what they’re supporting: poor Eastern European women being paid by a white Israeli man to have Western viewpoints to do neocolonial protests naked…. that’s a whole mess of crazy. 

Either way, please know that FEMEN’s purpose was always to be a political tool in the hands of the highest bidding media magnate. They were used to discredit ex-president Kuchma in 2011, ex-PM Tomoshenko (attacking her in front of the prosecutor’s office and showering her with fake dollars “to buy her freedom”), and many, many others. They are nothing but a puppet organization (even their numbers are uncertain, with Gutsol claiming to have 15,000, 300 and 40 members at different points), and any support for them from the west should be an object of ridicule.

home-of-amazons:

fuckingradfems:

Give me a non-religious source, and maybe I’ll stop laughing at you and finish this debate. Really? You’re going to cite a source from a Christian based organization? Of course Christians think porn is evil, moron. Show me a source that doesn’t have stories akin to “I found God and now I’m speaking out against the evils of porn.” Religious bias will not get me to see your side

Okay. Here’s a study showing that pornography heightens the risk of recidivism in sex offenders. Here’s one that found that 88% of scenes in mainstream porn (that is, the most popular, most watched porn videos) contain physical violence almost always against a female. This is an overview of research on the effects of pornography on male porn consumers over a number of years. It’s a long read but it’s informative about the role porn plays in desensitising viewers to hardcore acts that enforce female submission and increasing the acceptance of rape myths. This factsheet outlines the ways that pornography and prostitution are related, often overlapping and merging with each other. I’d give you more but the PDFs of a lot of studies can only be accessed through a research database, usually from a university website, so if you want more you can go hunting.

I will point out that while the Pink Cross Foundation is indeed a Christian organisation, the experiences described by the young women are valid and important. Their words hold more weight than those of famous porn actresses who appear in interviews because those women’s stories are representative of what happens to most porn actresses—you know, the women who never get famous, who never make huge amounts of money, who got into porn because they needed to pay rent and get out of debt, or worse still, who were trafficked against their will. You’re a pretty shitty person if you’re going to dismiss them right away on the basis of their conversion to a religion because these women were raped on camera for years, and men still masturbate to their rapes.

Omg, people, stop making up your own (wrong) definitions of radical feminism in the hopes of “rescuing” our politics for yourselves so as to avoid accusations of transphobia.

tehbewilderness:

tranqualizer:

omg legit there are white men on my feed scared about being mistaken for the dude they’re looking for re: shootings/bombings

why is that so funny to me

It astonishes me that white d00dz are oblivious to the fact that they are the perp demographic in the US. I blame the corporate media, and the white d00dz incredible capacity for denial.