I always found it so fucked up how women are forced to learn about male historians, geniuses, painters and philosophers and see them as smart and good people when they saw women as literal shit on their shoe, for example Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Norman Mailer, Martin Luther, Paul Gauguin, Thomas Aquinas, Picasso, Napoleon, Confucius, Dalí, etc.

I remember I got in trouble at school for saying male historians and geniuses who saw women as subhuman aren’t great and I refuse to praise them for their achievements. Imagine what this does to girls and their self esteem.

like you think trad wife content is harmful but you won’t criticize someone’s abuse “kink”? you think trad wife content is harmful but you won’t criticize someone peddling gender stereotypes?

But when an indigenous person tells them how utterly offensive it is to use the word genocide, it’s just completely ignored.

Completely agree, and it doesn't help young and impressionable teens to hear that there is a genocide against them for existing when it's just not true.

There is no epidemic of violence against trans people like there is for other vulnerable populations. Most trans people that are murdered is due to intimate partner violence, prostitution, homelessness, racism etc.

Women go missing or are murdered EVERY DAY. Because they are women. Indigenous women are particularly vulnerable to this.

I think often about Audre Lorde's critique of a women only event that welcomed her wife and daughter, but not her son. Because she questioned it - the function and purpose of barring even the sons of Feminist women from Feminist events. Especially the barring of her young Black son, who would otherwise be left alone in the city where he would be more prone to the very violence those same Feminist women claimed to want to change.

Because what functional, forward thinking Feminist purpose does it actually serve to do that? What message does that send to women with sons, husbands, brothers, lovers, friends, who want to involve the men and boys in their lives in their activism? Who want to build a functionally better world for us all outside of the oppressive grasp of Patriarchy? Especially for the marginalized men who often sit at their own intersection violent Patriarchal oppression, that still happens to be Patriarchal oppression despite it not being distinctly misogyny?

Should POC be allowed spaces that exclude white people? Should trans people be allowed spaces that exclude cis people? Should Muslims be allowed spaces that exclude non-Muslims? Should disabled people be allowed spaces that exclude able-bodied people? Etc. Etc. You could make the argument for any one of these that they’re wrongfully excluding well-meaning allies, possibly even the family of those attending the event. You could claim that it’s alienating to both those allies and those who want to bring them along.

But when it comes to any oppressed group other than women, nobody argues against exclusive spaces. And if they do, they’re rightfully viewed as ignorant (think white people complaining about not being allowed to join a black student’s union).

When it comes to anyone other than women, it’s generally understood that exclusive spaces for oppressed groups exist for many reasons. One might be wanting to find community with those who share your experiences. Another might be wanting to have conversations about these experiences without feeling pressured to change the way you speak about them for the comfort of outsiders (many women know that conversations about women’s experiences are very different depending on if there’s a man in the room. For example, talking about periods).

Why is it that this understanding suddenly disappears when we’re talking about women?

some women take birth control for sex. good. thats a feminist win.

condom can break, can be deliberately tampered, can be stealthed, are expensive, you physically have to have one, etc. in a perfect world none this would matter but we live int his world. most women arent feminists they just trying to get through life and i want them to have all the tools they can get.

The north of Ireland has officially declared violence against women and girls a state of emergency. There is no more unsafe country in the whole of Europe to be a woman. The most dangerous place for a woman in the north of Ireland is her own home. 1/2 femicide victims are killed by an initiate partner. 1/6 girls in Northern Ireland will be sexually assaulted or been the victim of physical violence by a partner since 15. The average age of female homicide victims where sexual violence has been involved is NINETEEN. More than 5 women are being murdered a year in Northern Ireland by men, and that’s only the reported ones. If a woman is raped and murdered here, the media cannot report the rape. Abortion laws are so strict here, almost all pregnant women and girls have to fly over to England or wales or further to receive an abortion, we’ve been campaigning against this so long that Sinead O’Connor was one of the leading women trying to change laws surrounding this.

I am in full time education in one of the best schools in the country academically. We have a sexual predator, who was caught assaulting a girl in a classroom with a teacher present, just wandering around our school. He got THREE FUCKING DETENTIONS. Ive had boys try and stick their hand up my skirt, I’ve seen boys constantly sexually degrade female peers. But I have not seen any teachers do anything about it.