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It looks like rape. Like mothers being seperated from daughters. It looks like being forced to cohabit with and serve an owner who will force himself on you and breed you like stock. It is the sadness of miscarriage and the realisation that your body won't hold up. It's mutilation and violence. It's watching the deaths of your friends knowing that none of them lived a truly happy life. It's watching your daughter grow up knowing that she will be sold into servitude and raped until she dies, the same fate you face. In some cases you didn't even have a name.

Women's oppression is the oldest form of oppression, and yet we are still so strongly gripped by patriarchy that there is a refusal to acknowledge what that actually means. We have barely even started earning our rights in the west, and our sisters still face the terror of what I have described above. Women are always one step away from losing everything, and yet the movement meant to fight for women's liberation is being overun by men and misogynistic women. It's easier for them to uphold the status quo than challenge it.

notice anything? notice anything missing? any commonality amongst all of these women that is being deflected from and obfuscated by unclear vague all-inclusive language?

lesbian. lesbian is the word for female homosexuals. not gay, not queer, lesbian. lesbian. lesbian. ellen did not come out as gay, she came out as a lesbian, melissa etheridge is not a queer rock icon, she is a lesbian rock icon, the wnba contains no gay players, it contains only lesbian and bisexual players, tegan and sara did not grow up gay, they grew up as lesbians, ellen degeneres did not have a queer talk show, she was a lesbian with a talk show. please please please just say lesbian it isn’t a dirty word. soon enough, the only exposure people will have to the word lesbian will be through bleached blonde straight girls with fake boobs and long french tip nails fondling each other on pornhub for male pleasure. when we talk about actual lesbians it is so important to use clear language and say LESBIAN!!!!!!!

If any of these liberals had bothered to read, they would know that there exists many many communities indigenous to Africa whose languages don't have gendered pronouns, where clothing rules are different. Where men and women dressed the same, where the rules of nudity are different. Where men are effeminate. And in most, if not all of these communities, misogyny will still be rampant.

Cows are artificially inseminated in a humiliating ritual by a male of another species (Men). This is done as soon as she reaches sexual maturity at the age of 16 to 18 months. She is forced to be pregnant for 9 months and then go through the painful process of birthing a calf that will be taken away immedietely, who will soon experience the same fate of her mother if she is female. The cow then is artificially inseminated again soon after the birth of her first calf, and the cycle repeats until she grows too weak and is killed.

Hens are bred to produce more eggs than they can manage, often resulting in a shorter than average lifespan, respiration problems, and difficulty keeping herself upright.

when i was visiting subreddits about endometriosis or pcos, there was a lot of pressure on the inclusivity of language

why isn't it a thing in literally any other places? why aren't labour unions writing about workers in this way? working and unemployed folks, functional and momentarily stagnant bodies?

why are we specifically pressured to change, include everyone who feels like it and walk on nomenclature shells so we don't hurt anyone's feelings in the process of describing our own - often crippling and debilitating - pain?

we don't even know why exactly endometriosis happens. we don't know shit about it, compared to literally anything connected to male anatomy. their pain is an emergency, ours is a status quo

"people are evil" when talking about male violence

"all the people affected" when it's 99.9% women affected

Many of them are vegan. Many have survived domestic abuse and sexual assault. For many of them, this is their first-ever paid job after a life of domestic servitude in marriage. They're the only armed female anti-poaching group currently active. They've arrested hundreds of poachers just since 2017.