stop calling every piece of fabric with a plaid pattern “flannel”
flannel is a soft, warm cotton. it has nothing to do with what pattern is on the cloth
I see there’s drama in the plaid fandom
im a lesbian
So am i and i say every plaid is flannel! You can’t change my mind! See that plaid blanket over there?? That’s flannel. The latitude and longitude grid on world maps? That’s a nice flannel you got there buddy
hey are you free this saturday night. id like to meet up and have a passionate discussion with you
i can’t tell whether that’s a callout or an ask-out
Brilliant article on how choice feminism is garbage and how it hurts women in third world countries.
Usha Vishwakarma runs the Red Brigade, which protests widespread rape and teaches self defense to girls and women. Ruchira Gupta runs Apne Aap, an anti-trafficking organisation that also runs schools for girls who are targeted by sex traffickers. Vijayalaxmi Sharma fights child marriage, Masooma Ranalvi resists female genital mutilation, and Manju Yadav protests the veils women are pressured to wear in her community. Supriya Sonar and Mumtaz Shaikh petitioned president Ramnath Kovind with Right to Pee, for female-only bathrooms and toilets.
It is not our own rationales, though, that are the issue; but the patriarchal, sexist idea that “women want it”.
It gives us the illusion of power while betraying women by normalising support for patriarchal institutions like prostitution, marriage, surrogacy, genital mutilation, conversion therapy and the veil. It makes us hypocrites – because why have a rights movement, when there is almost nothing but the pay gap that, in our eyes, actually constitutes a violation?
Brilliant article on how choice feminism is garbage and how it hurts women in third world countries.
Usha Vishwakarma runs the Red Brigade, which protests widespread rape and teaches self defense to girls and women. Ruchira Gupta runs Apne Aap, an anti-trafficking organisation that also runs schools for girls who are targeted by sex traffickers. Vijayalaxmi Sharma fights child marriage, Masooma Ranalvi resists female genital mutilation, and Manju Yadav protests the veils women are pressured to wear in her community. Supriya Sonar and Mumtaz Shaikh petitioned president Ramnath Kovind with Right to Pee, for female-only bathrooms and toilets.
It is not our own rationales, though, that are the issue; but the patriarchal, sexist idea that “women want it”.
It gives us the illusion of power while betraying women by normalising support for patriarchal institutions like prostitution, marriage, surrogacy, genital mutilation, conversion therapy and the veil. It makes us hypocrites – because why have a rights movement, when there is almost nothing but the pay gap that, in our eyes, actually constitutes a violation?
Just to pick up on one thing the ‘right to pee’ when women in third world countries say this it’s because there are no options for them. When first world trans activists complain using the same phrase it’s because they don’t like the options of toilets provided for them. And isn’t that a microcosm of entitled choice feminism as opposed to global feminism, the difference between not liking the choices available and having no choice whatsoever.
one of the main things western-style liberal feminism has achieved and it’s absolutely one of its actual aims – is to make women feel ashamed of caring about women’s rights and issues. there are race and class differences that play a huge role in complicating this issue, and the phenomenon of white/western feminists assuming they know what’s “good for” woc/gmw is a real problem, but what liberal feminism presents as the solution is to STOP CARING. not step back and learn from women on the ground and ask, what can i do to help, or even just gain awareness and learn from their activism, which is often much more useful and realistic anyway since true change can only be begun within one’s own community… but to stop caring, because caring itself is automatically reframed as “speaking over” and “patronizing”.
it’s not a coincidence that issues that affect the vast majority of women around the world, like poverty, lack of reproductive rights, prostitution, religious patriarchy, the right to female-only spaces like toilets, are all issues that liberal feminists think aren’t relevant at all or have only limited relevance to white/western feminists… and this is immediately used as an excuse to dismiss those issues altogether or, in the case of modern gender/queer/trans activism, to press for the inclusion and centering of males instead.
so you end up with a lot of performative white guilt and a lot of white males getting to define feminism over and over again – and this is somehow a better feminism, this is somehow progress.
no movement is as vilified for attempts to make connections around the world, as much as the movement for female liberation.
this should be a huge warning sign that liberal feminists don’t want female liberation, they actively fight against the understanding of sex as an axis of oppression.
Good points except the idea that trans activists “don’t like the options of toilets provided for them” is flat-out wrong. The “options” they have are that if someone decides they don’t look like they’re in the right room someone might beat the living shit out of them.
You can care about multiple problems at the same time. You can understand that women in different cultures are dealing with different problems and will find different solutions. There’s no need to mock other people’s struggles just because there are people who have it worse.
“Good points except the idea that trans activists “don’t like the options of toilets provided for them” is flat-out wrong. The “options” they have are that if someone decides they don’t look like they’re in the right room someone might beat the living shit out of them.“
This is referring to all the people and places who have suggested there be third “gender neutral” or unisex bathrooms, only for trans activists to get angry and threaten violence because they want to go in the bathroom that “validates” their “gender identity”. We’re not stupid. We know it’s never been about “just wanting to pee”.
I keep seeing this claim that trans people are being mass assaulted in bathrooms, but where’s the evidence? Where are the statistics proving these claims are true? I need factual data to believe this, not the words of some lying shit stain.
So no, it’s not “flat out wrong”. You’re just manipulative.
Good Lord, how delicious! I wanna do that! The next time I’m in a cathedral, I’m doing it.
As she stood inside an ancient and empty church in Montefrío, Spain, Malinda Kathleen Reese belted out one of the best Christmas carols of all time-“O Come, O Come Emmanuel” and the end result was just heavenly.
I’m obsessed with this because A. Victorian Christmas Carols B. European Cathedrals C. It’s gorgeous and fuckin choristers are my favorite
people downplaying the misogyny that trans men experience in order to validate them as men is a perfect example of how individualism is politically useless
not problematic: the usage of phallus imagery as a symbol of power for several millennia, as a mean to assert men’s power and strip women of any
problematic: women loving and deifying their own bodies which have been villainized and deemed inferior for Literal Thousands of Years. because some man on the internet said so
Friendly reminder that the men who complain about first world feminists because women in the third world have it worse only do it in an attempt to shut first world women up rather than because they have genuine concern for third world women.
They do it so that milder forms of misogyny can continue to be normalised and go unaddressed.
This kind of argument, like most of the anti-feminist arguments, is never used for anything else. No one says, well, this disability isn’t as bad as that disability, so we’re not going to help those people and they should just shut up and be grateful.
i dont know when it happened but somewhere along the way “shipping” got a new meaning for younger folk that seems to translate to “i want these people together for real asap”. i think the media had something to do with it. but guys.
guys.
shipping absolutely Does Not mean demanding anything from people/creators. shipping isn’t about expecting and waiting for the day it will certainly happen. it is not a direct translation to Happen Or Die.
shipping means you like the idea of two (or more) people together. you like the concept. you find it fun to imagine the dynamics. you even create fanon content of it (fic, art, edits). it’s all in your head and it’s Fine that way.
is it nice to have a ship become canon? oh my god, yes. but that’s not what shipping is about and yall need to take a step back and breathe because being a jerk to people aint gonna change their mind about ships.
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