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Wed, 15 May 2013 17:11:34 +0200

Lucy

monster was done to me

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:03:05 +0200

De mim fizeram feminista radical

A Brazilian radical feminist blog. please,share.

Um blog feminista radical brasileiro. Compartilhem.

dyke-digest: thingsivemade: Rochelle Ballantyne, 17, of...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:02:05 +0200

dyke-digest:

thingsivemade:

Rochelle Ballantyne, 17, of Brooklyn is taking the chess world by storm. She is on the verge of becoming the first African-American female chess master…

Clutch Magazine, via Jezebel

Brooklyn takin the world by storm 5ever.

isepalase: Has anyone else noticed the irony that Derrick Jensen (another person I share many...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:07:04 +0200

isepalase:

Has anyone else noticed the irony that Derrick Jensen (another person I share many points of political agreement with but still do not agree with 100 percent of the time) is being accused of holding “violent” beliefs* … but his opponents are the only ones who are actually committing violence?

And what’s more, these opponents are not committing this violence against Jensen — they are committing it against women, who only happened to be actually associated with Jensen. (Because, like most political groups, DGR is not always in total agreement and not all members like or even know one another.)

* LOL, “violent beliefs”??

It’s a classic case of projection mixed with pro-active woman-hatred, if you ask me.

NÃ£o Sou Cis!

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:57:11 +0200

NÃ£o Sou Cis! :

theshellofvenus:

Sou FÃªmea. Mulher. E sinto muito pelo seu pÃªnis.

A brazilian radical feminist blog. please,share.

Um blog feminista radical brasileiro. compartilhem.

Resources for Male Survivors

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:55:00 +0200

sexselector:

mentalscubadiving:

redqueenxlt:

letstalkaboutrape:

I posted last week asking people if they knew of some good resources for male victims of sexual assault. Here is the list people came up with:

www.malesurvivor.org

www.violenceunsilenced.com

www.rainn.org

www.pandys.org

www.1in6.org

www.soulspeakout.org

http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/

Thanks everyone!

reblog for signal boost

This is great! I know a lot of guys have trouble finding resources like these. I’ll always reblog

It’s weird how we don’t have male victims coming forward. Their own misogyny blackmails them into not confessing they’ve been fucked. On the whole, they’d rather keep their secret than speak out when the time is right. Women are abused in WAY higher numbers and come forward WAY more. Men need to start by TELLING EVERYONE WHO HURT THEM SO WE CAN START MAKING ARRESTS. Because no one cares about woman’s far worse abuse. MEN HAVE TO SAY IT FOR IT TO COUNT SO GET ON THE FUCKING HORN, thx.

According to this post by Karen Ingala Smith men are more likely to call the police and to press charges but less likely to drop them again. They also underestimate their violence and overestimate their victimization. (Resources at the link.)

Zoe Saldana Says She’s “Androgynous” And Would Raise Children With A Woman

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:17:23 +0200

mousesinger:

brainstatic:

lissak06:

nbclatino:

Hear that? That’s the sound of hearts breaking with shocking revelation that Zoe Saldana has seemingly given up on men. In fact, the 34-year-old “Star Trek Into Darkness” actress says that she may never date another actor again and may very well end up with a woman.

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Raises hand. Hi. I love you.

Oh wait, I’m married. Damn.

Hold on, did the meaning of the word androgynous change?

Also, one more thing, as a gay woman who has had a LOT of straight women friends… if I had five dollars for every one of them that said “I’m finished with men” after a breakup, and another five dollars for each boyfriend they had *after* that, I’d retire to a mansion in the Bahamas.

le-jolie: “My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:10:56 +0200

le-jolie:

“My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was. I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of” - My Medical Choice by Angelina Jolie, New York Times (14 May, 2013)

Feminists assaulted in Transgender Attack at Portland conference for Social Change: Women’s books destroyed and bodies defaced with permanent magic markers

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:06:40 +0200

Feminists assaulted in Transgender Attack at Portland conference for Social Change: Women’s books destroyed and bodies defaced with permanent magic markers:

Breaking News: In what has been described as a “horrifying” incident two women were attacked by a group of men who identified themselves as “transgender women” at the Portland State University “Law and Disorder Conference” which billed itself as a “provocative space for comparative critical dialogue between activists, revolutionaries, educators, artists, musicians, scholars, dancers, actors and writers”.

The women were attacked in a coordinated assault as they sat at a table which sold feminist books and literature. The men destroyed the books and marked up the table display with permanent markers. One of the women was also marked up by the men. Predominantly male conference onlookers by all reports allowed the attack to take place, watching in stunned silence. Two males affiliated with the same group as the feminists -Deep Green Resistance- were also in attendance and the “trans women” threw a projectile at the head of one of them.

According to reports, the transgender males or “trans women” took issue with the feminist content in the Deep Green Resistance materials. Specifically, a portion of the materials reflected the feminist position that social roles based on sex are undesirable and harmful to women.

The transgender males believe that social roles based on sex are natural and innate and that it is instead the unchanging nature of biological sex that is undesirable. They believe that women should not criticize social roles based on sex, in deference to the feelings of men like themselves who embrace such roles. The men reportedly stated that all feminist writing and voices should be silenced by males with force if necessary, and they then proceeded to do just that.

Conference organizer Brandon Speck posted a statement on Facebook today following yesterday’s attack. He claimed that women should not be able to disseminate materials that might offend those men who support sex-roles. He claimed that the women deserved to be attacked for offering materials that contained feminism. He stated that no feminists should be permitted to sell books that men might not like. He said that as a man he had no authority to dictate the behavior of other men who might choose to assault women who offend them.

Gee, I guessed they “deserved” it. Like so many women “deserve” it, am I right, guys? Brandon Speck’s pathetic blame-shifting post in which he said that there were safety concern for trans males (LMAO) has already been deleted, including the comment thread containing threats against feminist activists who do not agree with trans ideology.

One of the recurring difficulties I seem to have with many (straight) women is their inability to be...

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:57:15 +0200

One of the recurring difficulties I seem to have with many (straight) women is their inability to be honest about their relationships with men and the ensuing hypocrisy they inevitably exhibit as a result.

I am supposed to become incredibly upset about any real or perceived injustice against men while it is expected that I do not complain about threatening or dangerous male behaviour directed at women in general or me in specific. Instead, I am matter-of-factly lectured on ways to minimize the unavoidable damage dealt by violent men.

Protecting someone who you expect to abuse you is not “love” - it’s submissive behaviour to appease an angry master.

Petition Routledge Pro Porn Studies Bias

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:34:50 +0200

Petition Routledge Pro Porn Studies Bias:

sisterresister:

Please sign this to try to persuade Routledge not to start publishing an academic ‘Porn Studies’ journal with a load of pro-porn folk on the editorial board. If the porn industry want yet more academic articles about how porn is empowering for women and LGBTQ people and a great source of sex ed for young people to be churned out, they can damn well pay for it themselves.

thegayesttoller: This week I was part of a discussion about a local gay club. Some women were...

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:22:02 +0200

thegayesttoller:

This week I was part of a discussion about a local gay club. Some women were complaining that while they weren’t allowed in the men’s bathrooms men frequently came into the women’s. They were then told that they were being ‘cissexist’ because how did they know that those people were actually men. They could have been transwomen, or genderqueers or butch women. Firstly, I’m pretty sure most women in gay clubs can tell the difference between men and butch women. Last time I checked I didn’t have any stubble. And secondly, why the hell should men get their own space but women have their space invaded. The rights of some deluded snowflake are apparently more important than the right of women to go to the bathroom without men there. And we should never ever question a man about whether he’s in the right place, because we might have mistaken his ‘identity’. FGS, you can’t identify away a penis. Get in the men’s damn bathroom. Why must you take away every tiny space that women have to themselves?

I don’t remember if it was here on tumblr but someone actually reported that her university had converted a couple of women’s bathrooms into uni-sex ones while basically leaving the accomodations for men untouched. Appropriating women’s spaces in the name of gender identity is the political correct thing to do and no one cares about potential discomfort or fear on our part. We just need to open our minds (sarcasm)!

"A primary myth about false rape reports focuses on the belief that women “cry rape” because they are..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:29:50 +0200

“A primary myth about false rape reports focuses on the belief that women “cry rape” because they are seeking revenge on men who have wronged them in some way. However, according to this study, the reality is that the vast majority of false allegations “are actually filed by people with serious psychological and emotional problems.” And notably, people who falsely file claims usually do not name specific individuals, but instead “involve only a vaguely described stranger.” These research findings support the theory that people who falsely allege rape do so not out of desire for revenge against a specific person, but because they seek general attention and sympathy.”

- Mahri Irvine referring to this study by the American Prosecutors Research Institute on False Reports. It also found that “false rape allegations account for two to eight percent of all reported rapes.” (via conjecturesandconversations)

"Another relevant cultural trend is the neo-liberal propensity to equate power and freedom, in their..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:25:56 +0200

“Another relevant cultural trend is the neo-liberal propensity to equate power and freedom, in their political senses, with personal freedom of choice. Across the political spectrum, it has become commonplace to argue that what really ‘empowers’ people is being able to choose: the more choices we have, and the freer we are to make them, the more powerful we will be. Applied to gender, what this produces is ‘post-feminism’, an ideology which dispenses with the idea of collective politics and instead equates the liberation of women with the exercise of individual agency. The headline in which this argument was once satirized by The Onion—‘women now empowered by anything a woman does’—is not even a parody: this is the attitude which underpins all those statements to the effect that if women choose to be housewives or prostitutes, then who is anyone (read: feminists) to criticize them?”

- http://www.troubleandstrife.org/new-articles/who-owns-gender/ (via anarchistsoup)

isha-privilege: throughout history white women have been capable of racially themed violence on the...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:52:04 +0200

isha-privilege:

throughout history white women have been capable of racially themed violence on the same magnitude as white men, although ofc they were not always able to legally enforce it due to sexist limitations, when given the opportunity they were not any more gentle nor were they to be taken lightly

and yet, the commentary i see here on white women’s white privilege always centers around……..drinking starbucks…….using instagram……..wearing uggs, stuff that is actually not white girl exclusive whatsoever, but is in fact a mockery of trends currently common within the female population of the US in general

whereas the commentary of white men’s capacity to enforce white privilege is on the destructive, dehumanizing ideologies they enforce, the way whiteness breeds a sense of superiority, the way it fosters an inability to connect and empathize with poc - basically shit that is ACTUALLY a product of white privilege

you’re using white girl jokes as a proxy through which you can channel your woman hating. ann coulter makes a sickening islamophobic and racist comment and if a white man had done the same, we’d get a deluge of posts on the way his whiteness made him ignorant, blinded him to another person’s humanity, etc. but ann coulter gets a comment about being ugly and needing plastic surgery

what the fuck. what are we supposed to make of this except that people tack on white in front of women to disguise their misogyny as anti-racist work? what can you possibly say to excuse this

"Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions—predigested..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:37:20 +0200

“Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions—predigested books and ideas…marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems. It means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short…and this, in turn, means resisting the forces in society which say that women should be nice, play safe, have low professional expectations, drown in love and forget about work, live through others, and stay in the places assigned to us. It means that we insist on a life of meaningful work, insist that work be as meaningful as love and friendship in our lives. It means, therefore, the courage to be “different”…The difference between a life lived actively, and a life of passive drifting and dispersal of energies, is an immense difference. Once we begin to feel committed to our lives, responsible to ourselves, we can never again be satisfied with the old, passive way.””

- ― Adrienne Rich (via marslipstick)

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Thu, 09 May 2013 19:32:34 +0200

Stop 'persecution of old men' by lowering age of consent to 13 says top human rights barrister

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:52:11 +0200

Stop 'persecution of old men' by lowering age of consent to 13 says top human rights barrister:

radiofaabtive:

A senior human rights barrister has sparked a storm of outrage after calling for the age of consent to be lowered to 13 in order to prevent the âpersecution of old menâ.

Meanwhile in the UK; obvious paedophile wants to lower the age of consent to 13.

It’s always about the human rights of the perpetrators, isn’t it? In Germany, we had a case in which a child murderer sued his way to the Court of Human Rights because two investigators had threatened him with violence to get him to confess the place where he had hidden his victim (who was already dead). There were first tentative steps to recognize that maybe, just maybe the human rights of perpetrators and victims are qualitatively different - but only after the perpetrator had already played the victim long enough and one of the investigators was threatened and defamed by every leftist media and activist in the country.

lolliguncula: How many times do I have to read the question “What is the difference...

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:46:09 +0200

lolliguncula: How many times do I have to read the question “What is the difference...:

ravefromthegrave:

lolliguncula:

How many times do I have to read the question “What is the difference between sex and gender?” in the radfem-related tags?? Okay, some of you are really just clueless although there are more than enough blogs on tumblr and elsewhere to answer that question for you. But some of you seem like…

i know i just answered that in the radfem tag, haha! (i wouldn’t have tagged it radfem unless it was for my other blog, sorting tags etc)

but yeah - i think the difference between gender vs. sex is crystal clear, but can understand how it gets confusing at tumblr. you start to read blogs here, you’d think gender was this innate “feeling” of belonging to a certain class. i just think the kids are confused because people on tumblr have about a billion different ideas about what gender is.

Yes, I forgot about the trans/queer types on tumblr who really do believe that gender is innate or a personal feeling. It’s kind of upsetting that this simplified understanding has become the norm because I know where that whole concept of “doing gender” comes from and it’s amazing how regressive ideas about biological determinism and individualism became intertwined with it. It’s neither the one nor the other.

I’ve actually read your answer but I’m not mad at you or even angry anymore in general (it was a completely normal question after all and nothing of the usual trolling). But, yeah, yesterday I was like “Aaaaah, I always have to read the same shit, I can’t take it anymore!”, haha. It is helpful to have periodical posts clarifying some concepts.

How many times do I have to read the question “What is the difference between sex and...

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:01:34 +0200

How many times do I have to read the question “What is the difference between sex and gender?” in the radfem-related tags?? Okay, some of you are really just clueless although there are more than enough blogs on tumblr and elsewhere to answer that question for you. But some of you seem like university-educated gender studies types and I really have to ask myself what kind of education you got/what absolute ideologues your profs must have been for you to not even have heard of the sex/gender-controversy in the academy. I mean, my prof is of the opinion that differentiating between the sexes is already an outcome of oppression and got a nervous twitch in her mouth when I said that the ability to become pregnant will always be socially significant - and we did get stuff to read about what the difference between sex and gender is. Crazy to contemplate but there’s certainly the possibility that your lecturers/activists friends are purposefully leading you on.