I really…. really don’t say this often (actually, ever) but I truly and sincerely hope Fallon Fox gets a serious injury that will stop him from being able to beat up women for money and sport.
“I’m quite sure that there are quite a few female MMA fighters who have the guts to fight another skilled woman without peeing their panties” – Mr Fox.
Oh and here’s a claim the article makes: “Growing consensus among medical professionals who provide health care for transgender people is that after several years of clinical treatment, including hormone therapy and sometimes gender-affirming surgeries, transgender women have musculature and bone structure that is largely similar to their cisgender counterparts”
Where the fuck are these dumbass medical professionals? Fucking absolute total morons need their medical licenses revoked/struck off.
However I know that claim is untrue, I’ve not seen a single article published saying trans women lose all their biological advantage. I mean they clesrly fucking don’t because they keep winning everything.
I’m absolutely fucking furious.
A woman cannot break the orbital bone of another woman with her fist alone. “Largely similar”, my ass.
^^^ what happened to Tamika Brents has literally never happened in women’s UFC before
Good for Ronda Rousey. Stand up to these men. Stop letting them invade your spaces and appropriate your sex. Don’t let him take any more sick male satisfaction in beating up women.
When I was 17 my appendix ruptured because I thought I was just having period cramps and didn’t go to the hospital so don’t tell me PMS symptoms are no big deal
this actually happened to me during my math final and i didn’t think anything of it and when i was later admitted to the hospital my math prof was asking me ‘you didn’t have to take the final! why didn’t you tell me it hurt?!?!’ and i told him i’ve had cramps worse.
he gave me 100
This is actually an extremely common occurrence simply because in sex ed they don’t teach you how to tell the difference between menstrual cramps and other more serious pains. The way to tell the difference between cramps and appendicitis is that while menstrual cramps are generalized toward the middle of the stomach below the belly button, pain from a swollen or burst appendix will start in the middle of the stomach and relocate to only the lower right side, even lower than menstrual cramps, and is a very localized pain. It also comes on extremely suddenly and will worsen over time or when you make a sudden movement, like a cough or a sneeze.
Basically, if you’re feeling any sort of pain, even if it’s menstrual cramps, don’t hesitate to tell the school nurse or a parent, or if you’re out of school and home even make a doctor’s appointment. Chances are if your cramps are that bad there’s something they can do to improve that as well.
I am boosting the shit out of that reply, because I am twenty-fucking-five years old and did not know how to tell the two pains apart
Adding another diagnostic tool! This is something we use in the ER called the rebound test. Basically, appendicitis and cramps react differently to certain things. If you’re still not sure if you have cramps or appendicitis, take two fingers and press them into your abdomen where the pain is (try repeating this on the lower right quadrant of the abdomen just to be sure.)
When you press in firmly, it will probably hurt. Here’s the test: LET GO. Does it get better or get worse? Appendicitis will immediately hurt worse when you let go. Cramps will not. Go to the ER if the rebound test makes it worse!
THE REBOUND TEST IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
My husband got sent home from the ER with a rupturing appendix. When he came back and was rushed into surgery, the surgeon was super angry – “Why didn’t anyone do the rebound test?!”
All great info, but there is another lesson to be learned here: if you’re in major pain, it’s probably important – so don’t let anyone tell you it’s not. There is a documented pattern of women who go to the ER with complaints of pain being dismissed as overreacting…when in reality women have an incredibly high tolerance for pain, to the point that some don’t even realize exactly how serious their condition is. These stories only serve to illustrate this point.
i think so much about that quote “a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort” by Gillian Flynn because thats basically female socialization in a nutshell. We’re taught to hate ourselves and our bodies so self destruction looks pleasant and romantic.
I’m absolutely happy to discuss some feelings on this! Female socialization in general is about teaching women to be small, to put men before themselves always, to serve men and submit to them, to always be sexual objects, to be responsible for evil and sin, to marry men and to bear their children, and many other horrible messages. This is all about controlling women, to get them to buy into their own exploitation. Women who are attracted to men are taught that this is the price they pay in order to ever experience love. Femininity is the price women are taught they need to pay in order to obtain family and a man who will take care of them and protect them. This is why women are banned from activities like owning property, having bank accounts, driving cars, making livable wages, or anything else. They are taught that femininity is the path to being chosen, and being chosen by men is the only option to have a fulfilling life.
The difference with lesbian socialization is that a lesbian does not have an attraction to men that can be used to exploit her. So while she is given the same idea that men are the path to survival, she is also taught that she is inherently unable to attain this type of success. There is no path to happiness that lesbians are taught. We are isolated from each other and made invisible so that we have no way of understanding any paths to happiness. We are asked to try men over and over, we are told we will never be loved as we are, our physical presentation is questioned. To keep us isolated is to keep us under their control. To tell us that we are alone and we will never find anyone like us is their way of trying to get us to submit to men. And that works all over the world, and it has worked for a long time. Lesbians feel so alone that they decide to keep their head down and bury themselves and be used by men. Lesbians all over the world and throughout time have been too alone to be themselves, and have had no path under patriarchy to both survive and be true to themselves.
This is why lesbian community is so healing. This is why we are so incredibly relieved to find lesbian friends. This is why we are so appreciative when we find lovers.
To be a lesbian is to have felt alone. The best way we can fight what we have been taught is to weave ourselves together.
“There is no path to happiness that lesbians are taught” is so true and a crucial difference between the experiences of lesbians and women who are attracted to men, that the latter don’t see at all. I talked before about how mlw see that the game is rigged and they can’t win, because men write the rules, but they assume this puts them on a similar level as lesbians (can’t please men no matter what you do), because they don’t see that lesbians don’t have the option to play the game at all, and that’s a very different, and much more isolating experience, right from the start.
Exactly. And sometimes mlw misinterpret lesbians’ inability to play the game of pleasing-men-so-they-just-might-respect-you as having won the game. They think that since we don’t get to play, we can’t lose when really, we already lost. Lesbians can’t please men because they don’t have much to gain by doing so but that still doesn’t change the fact that women are supposed to cater to men’s desires. Not wanting men is considered a hate crime in a society that revolves around both male sexuality and heterosexuality.
As sespursongles said, men make the rules and mlw play the game which is why they are seen as better than lesbians. Women who please men and prioritize them, especially romantically and sexually are seen as far better than the women who don’t (especially those that can’t due to their nature). After all, since men are believed to be better, the underclass (women) must cater and pander to them in any way which men like.
Lesbians cannot know that they can live a happy life without men because that would come with the inevitable realization that men are not necessary in all women’s lives.
if you ever need to explain to some dumbass why “menstruator” is an unacceptable term to refer to females, @science-side-of-me just broke it down ever so elegantly in the notes on this post:
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