androlesbo:

spencer-shayy:

sappharah:

sappharah:

lesbians: i am not attracted to any men in any way, shape, or form

y’all: ok but what about… this man

let me make it explicitly clear: trans women are women not men, lesbians can be attracted to trans women, and this post is only open to lesbians who accept and embrace their trans sisters. terfs go to hell.

you literally just contradicted your first post. you clearly believe lesbians can be attracted to men. you just fucking said it.

Lesbians: I’m not attracted to any men in any way, shape, or form

Y’all: okay but what if a man has extensive cosmetic surgery to feminise his features and has his penis inverted and turned into an internal flesh sock and identifies as a woman

Lesbians: no I’m not attracted to those men either

Y’all: die terf

bi-privilege:

bi-privilege:

i would just like to point out that the recent conversation surrounding the male birth control trials isn’t just “lol weak men can’t deal with side effects” it’s the fact that when they were testing hormonal birth control for women in the 50s & 60s, the side effects were much worse, and the women who participated in them, mostly in puerto rico, were not told about the side effects or that the drug was experimental

and THEN when women dropped out, they started using incarcerated women as their guinea pigs, and then despite the fact that some scientists who participated in the original trials were like “uh i don’t think this is actually good, it’s making a lot of these women sick,” the pharmaceutical industry & fda were like  ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and approved it for the general population anyways, without really warning women about the potential for all these negative side effects

and THEN researchers basically ceased to do any type of research on side effects like depression and decreased libido for 50 years, despite the fact that women were still complaining about them, and because there was no “hard evidence” of these side effects, a lot of doctors basically just assumed women were exaggerating or making it up. and that continued until the first major study of depression in women who take hormonal contraceptives was released just. this. year.

so yeah, the patriarchy. *waves flag*

further reading:

oh, and fun fact: even after this new study was released, a lot of the scientific community is still being like “but can we PROVE these women aren’t just depressed because they’re LOVESICK?”

dragon-in-a-fez:

overherewiththequeers:

personalgremlin:

this makes me want to cry

First of all, “…they were surrounded on all sides by echoes and images of themselves, in a world where image and object had not yet torn themselves apart” is one of the most poetic phrasings I’ve ever heard.

Second, here’s the original source, “What the caves are trying to tell us” by Sam Kriss.

Third, the original opens with:  “Every so often, I get the urge to drag someone into a cave, and show them something unspeakable.”

I had another point, but it got lost in the artful prose of this article.

I feel like “every so often, I get the urge to drag someone into a cave and show them something unspeakable” is something that’s okay for a paleolithic cave art expert to say, but like, absolutely no one else

Source: personalgremlin

invertprivilege:

proteus-no:

nunyabizni:

platypus-protection-syndicate:

Kotex tampons recalled due to reports of unraveling, pieces left in body

Heads up recall…

boosting keep your bits safe people

the one brand of tampons I use…. are you fucking kidding me?

PUBLISHED: DEC 12TH, 2018 – 10:34AM (EST)UPDATED: DEC 12TH, 2018 – 4:00PM (EST)

INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — The company that owns Kotex is recalling its U by Kotex Sleek Tampons due to a quality-related defect.

According to the company, the tampons are unraveling or coming apart upon removal. In some cases, users have had to seek medical attention to remove tampon pieces left in the body.

We announced today a voluntary recall of U by Kotex® Sleek® Tampons, Regular Absorbency sold in the U.S. & Canada for a quality-related defect that could impact the product performance. For info, please read our FAQs: http://bit.ly/2B7yMjr or contact us: http://bit.ly/2EiLhMe

The recall affects tampons manufactured between October 7, 2016 and October 16, 2018. They were distributed from October 17, 2016 to October 23, 2018, according to Kimberly-Clark.com.

Symptoms of the defect include pain, swelling, infections, nausea or vomiting. There have been a small number of reports of infections and injury, according to the company.

Anyone with the affected products are urged to stop using the product immediately and contact Kimberly-Clark’s Consumer Service team at 1-888-255-3499.

To see the full list of recalled products, click here.

to-quote-hamlet-no:

Women should be able to go their entire lives without wearing makeup or heels if they don’t want to, without getting called slobby, or unprofessional, or “doesn’t care about her image”, or being fucking denied jobs for not wanting to wear heels or makeup at work every day. If men aren’t expected to cover their faces with makeup or wear incredibly uncomfortable shoes every day of their lives neither should I.

aeleolus:

penfairy:

“I would eat his heart in the marketplace” is legit the most savage line I have ever heard, I’d like to personally thank Shakespeare for putting into words that feeling of rage and protectiveness women get when some fuckboy hurts another woman

Okay first off, I will always reblog this post, but secondly, I went to Shakespeare in the Park tonight to see this and all the women cheered *so loudly* when Beatrice said this line, and the guy in front of me looked around all shocked and a little scared and said “… oh wow” and it was ICONIQUE