yashiroreaper:

fairlyradmother:

furiousradfem:

female experiences:

  • being told it’s normal if your clothes hurts you and you have to endure it
  • being told it’s normal if sex hurts you and you have to endure it
  • not finding basic information about your biology and sexual organs through most of your life
  • being told that pain is a normal part of your life
  • being told that if you are a “good girl” you’ll endure it without complaint
  • being told you should be grateful for the rights you have and finding out in the past you wouldn’t even have these rights
  • getting brutally shut down if you try to stand up for yourself
  • getting forced into a role of serving men because “it’s woman’s job”
  • having your labor dismissed as worthless and stupid 
  • but you have to keep doing it anyway or you’ll get punished
  • anything you do is considered worth less and generally dismissed
  • realizing men’s work is praised and glorified even when they do harmful and environmentally destructive work for selfish purposes
  • realizing you can’t do anything about it and feeling less worthy even when you do more work and more necessary and useful work
  • having your compassion used against you
  • having your energy and emotional labor used by men who demand you to listen to them and comfort them and stroke their ego
  • being laughed at and invalidated and called slurs and insults when you try to talk about your own problems
  • being called selfish, dramatic, crazy, delusional and damaged when you expect basic decency and compassion
  • being treated like you’re insane and hysteric if you display any kind of anger at how badly you’re being treated
  • feeling infuriated at double standards and for how harshly you’re judged and punished while men can get away with anything
  • doubting your own senses and considering if you really are crazy
  • being ignored as a human being, your intelligence dismissed, only thing that seems to have any worth is your body but you get shamed, objectified, sexualized, used, violated, predated on and hurt 
  • hating your body and wishing it was a different body, one that nobody would hurt and violate
  • feeling completely helpless and alone

That’s a very sad, but for many women in the world, a very accurate list. I’ve experienced a lot from this list, despite being undoubtedly privileged, since my mother is a feminist and she did all she could to help me build a sense of self worth.

But still, much of these things were still part of my life, through school, media, abusive boyfriends and toxic workplaces. If some of it, most of it or all of it isn’t a part of your life experience, it doesn’t mean it’s less universal. It just means you’re privileged. You’re an exception.

I wish my daughter can be an exception too and not experience the items on this list. And I wish my daughter’s daughter someday won’t experience anything from this list at all, but not for being an exception, but because we’ve managed to change society.

This is scarily true, as a child this was how I was made out to be by my own father. 

furiousradfem:

female experiences:

  • being told it’s normal if your clothes hurts you and you have to endure it
  • being told it’s normal if sex hurts you and you have to endure it
  • not finding basic information about your biology and sexual organs through most of your life
  • being told that pain is a normal part of your life
  • being told that if you are a “good girl” you’ll endure it without complaint
  • being told you should be grateful for the rights you have and finding out in the past you wouldn’t even have these rights
  • getting brutally shut down if you try to stand up for yourself
  • getting forced into a role of serving men because “it’s woman’s job”
  • having your labor dismissed as worthless and stupid 
  • but you have to keep doing it anyway or you’ll get punished
  • anything you do is considered worth less and generally dismissed
  • realizing men’s work is praised and glorified even when they do harmful and environmentally destructive work for selfish purposes
  • realizing you can’t do anything about it and feeling less worthy even when you do more work and more necessary and useful work
  • having your compassion used against you
  • having your energy and emotional labor used by men who demand you to listen to them and comfort them and stroke their ego
  • being laughed at and invalidated and called slurs and insults when you try to talk about your own problems
  • being called selfish, dramatic, crazy, delusional and damaged when you expect basic decency and compassion
  • being treated like you’re insane and hysteric if you display any kind of anger at how badly you’re being treated
  • feeling infuriated at double standards and for how harshly you’re judged and punished while men can get away with anything
  • doubting your own senses and considering if you really are crazy
  • being ignored as a human being, your intelligence dismissed, only thing that seems to have any worth is your body but you get shamed, objectified, sexualized, used, violated, predated on and hurt 
  • hating your body and wishing it was a different body, one that nobody would hurt and violate
  • feeling completely helpless and alone

careidonot:

auntiewanda:

cumbler-tumbler:

blackswallowtailbutterfly:

rudelve:

haraamzada:

radmatriarchy:

haraamzada:

radmatriarchy:

tilthat:

TIL that Dr James Barry the first surgeon to successfully perform a cesarean birth and advocate basic hygiene in medical settings, was born Margaret Ann Bulkley and only had the truth of his biological sex revealed after death

via ift.tt

I love stories like this – of women accomplishing things despite the world trying to hold her down.

how are u gonna misgender someone when it’s right there…….

Do you think if she hadn’t lied about her sex she would have been able to be a doctor and made so much positive change? Or.. you must think that, as a woman, she wouldn’t have wanted to be a doctor at all and she’d rather be a housewife or nurse – but her goals of higher success makes her male. Hmm.

are we even on the same post because your reply is UNRELATED to my point about you misgendering a trans man. talking as if u knew him personally and had a discussion on why he chose to identify as male snskks like please……stop. like im laughing at you trying to turn it around on me not believing women can be doctors when im just here hoping u terfs will one day stop stealing credit from trans individuals bc it’s too funny when u use them as ‘evidence’ to support ur transphobic rhetoric

you are projecting like……. you’re claiming radmatriachy is doing though lol

how can you not grasp the fact that women have wanted to be full human beings and have all the same opportunities as men throughout history since forever? it’s more likely this woman wasn’t trans, she just wanted to be a fucking doctor and the only way to have done that back then was to disguise herself as a man. this is much more plausible than new concepts of gender identity and queer theory applied to historical figures.

additionally, once female historical figures that disguise themselves as men have been found to be yanno, female the whole time they’ve been killed or institutionalised. like you’re ignoring all of women’s history to apply your bullshit new concept of identity to historical situations where it cannot be applied.

we even have a children’s movie that highlights this exact issue (mulan) lol

anyway dr james barry was a woman die mad

She was a woman, and she helped other women. It’s not that the Caesarean didn’t exist before, it just meant only the baby would survive, and that’s if you were lucky. Mary Ann Bulkley changed that. Imagine how much longer it would have taken if a woman hadn’t stepped up.

“Why he chose to identify as male”

So she could have a fucking CAREER. You know, the thing females, like the one born Margaret Bulkley in late 18th-century Ireland , weren’t allowed to have because they were supposed to get married and have babies and never be heard from again, period?

A bright and spirited girl, 18-year-old Margaret chastised her spendthrift brother with the words: “Were I not a girl, I would be a soldier!” The following year she set out on the path towards that unlikely ambition when she exchanged her skirts for breeches and enrolled as a medical student at Edinburgh, shrewdly reducing her age to explain her hairless chin and petite frame.

Genderists love their historical revisionism that pretends that men and women are and always have been treated equally in society so any woman who had to disguise herself as a man in order to accomplish her goals couldn’t have done it for any other than reason than wanting to be called “he”.

I hate when they do that. Like they literally are taking away female accomplishments made against all odds by women who challenged the system and did what they needed to do in order to archive their goals and giving them to men. That’s vile! And sexism on its purest form.

hi so I get that terfs hate trans women. that much is very very clear to me. I was just wondering what the general opinion is on trans men? genuinely curious, I haven’t been able to find any posts talking about that.

radfeminist-suggestions:

We don’t hate trans women. Not the way you think at least.

You know how black and brown people hate white people as a whole for the oppression they put us through, but individual white ppl can be chill with a black or brown person? The same could be applied to trans women. Radical feminists don’t hate every trans women. And we don’t hate them for being trans. Because they’re male, they’re in the oppressor class alongside other males, and therefore, TW as a class are not liked by females. Some of us have TW friends. Watch TW youtubers. Follow TW social medias etc.

Now onto the main question.

I’m going to give you the answer based off of pure radical feminist ideology. Many supposed radfems out here do genuinely hate transmen, because they’re trans, because theyre GNC, because they’re lesbians. I encourage you to ignore those “radfems” as they’re using our ideology to masquerade their transphobia, misogyny and homophobia.

OKAY

Radical feminism sees trans men as cool, fine, chill. Womanhood is fucking hard and every female approaches it differently, reacts to misogyny differently, walks a different path, etc.

We see in most cases, trans men are females trying to escape violent misogyny in a very radical way. Dissassociating the body and mind away from femaleness. This comes in a few forms. Some women simply suffer from internalized misogyny. Some have that in joint with internalized homophobia/lesbophobia. And some women have dysphoria, a mental illness possibly in conjunction with the above.

These are all understandable. Maybe they’re not healthy, maybe they’re maladaptive coping mechanisms, maybe they’re regressive, but in a world hostile to women, it is understandable. It is a plight many radfems can understand. Many of us are detransitioned, reidentified, or just radical feminist trans men.

So… We welcome trans men into radical feminism because it is made for females. RF is here to understand all paths females take and just because a path involves removing the female identity doesn’t mean trans men cannot be helped by RF, cannot enjoy RF and cannot be welcomed by RF.

It doesn’t matter if you are a traditional clothed muslim woman, a prostitute, a nonbinary lesbian, a trans man, a WHATEVER, you’re welcome here. And I hope you find people who can listen to your story, your path in life and sympathize with you.

And if any “radical feminist” makes fun of you, bullies, harasses you, whatever, bc of your path, lemme know. We take sisters in all shapes and forms. Period.

Hope this helps 👍

lesbians-arent-transphobes:

inqilabi:

why do people leave their trash in their movie theatre seats. Like who raised you? Honestly to me it’s a true display of what little empathy humans have for service job folks. If there is no expectation to pick up after themselves cos that’s what everyone does, they leave like there was a food massacre.. truly dispicable

I work at a movie theater and I want to say a sincere fuck you to everybody who has ever stuck their gum to the seats. And EXTRA big fuck you to everybody who puts their gum in the cup holders. That shit is so hard for us to get off, how hard is it for you to put it in a napkin and toss it on the way out???!? I have to scrape gum almost every time I clean a theater. Fuck your lazy entitled asses