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Don't cry, we'll erase your porn. Don't kill yourself, we'll protect you. We'll fight for you.

Katniss describes the process as leaving her raw, vulnerable, a plucked bird ready for roasting. It's an interesting visual, what with her mockingjay wedding dress, her role as the girl on fire and a symbol for the rebellion, and of course the outcome of the war. But that's neither here nor there of course.

This passage used to make me genuinely sad as a 13 year old. Again she describes herself as plucked, raw. What's a bird without its wings?

People have taken to calling Katniss a "I'm not like other girls" main character. She repeatedly talks about how freakish the Capitol residents look, how Snow's puffy lips are unsettling, how she dreads being left to her prep team's whims and having yet another aspect of her agency taken away from her. It goes to show how reading comprehension is in the gutter these days. Collins' intent with writing the Capitol as she did couldn't have been more obvious. This is a YA series, of course the social critique is on the nose. Katniss was a traumatized child even before the games, starved and poor, responsible for the survival of her family. Of course these foolish beauty routines seem outlandish to her as an outsider, and that's because they are, people have just grown accustomed to them.

The first time I felt the need to shave my legs was the night of my high school graduation party and by the time I was done with one leg I knew it wasn't worth it. It felt wrong and it still does.

I hope young girls today have stories that depict body hair as a normal, human thing to have. I hope they know this expensive quest to remove all human aspects and render one's body as that of a wax doll isn't worth it.

i 🩵 divorce

When you were on those first radfem blogs hate reading or just a crypto, what was your last straw? What finally peaked you over the edge?

Asking because I've been radical feminist aligned since 2012 before gender nation attacked and "TERF" didn't exist outside obscure forums and I was pre sold on like 9/10 of radfem arguments before I ever got a whiff of the trans issue so the act of having to do a hard peak is foreign to me

But I want to make sure I portray the recent rabbit hole pace accurately for Ceremony my TRA character in Constant Craving

I used to identify as nonbinary but I can say that what "peaked" me was realizing that I am just a GNC woman and that I'm a lesbian in 2023. Even as a lurker, everything all started as hatereading but seeing so many words that I did agree with, I started seeking out more posts here about radical feminism, especially the posts criticizing the usage of the q-slur to talk about SSA people, homophobia and misogyny in the LGB(TQ) community, and anti-makeup and anti-shaving sentiments.

Now, fun games:

Go on the goodreads page of that book written by a bi woman where the main character starts out as a lesbian and ends up with a guy, filter for 5 star reviews (most of them written by bi women) and search for the word “fluid”. In the first 2 pages of reviews (and not counting the book’s blurb about ~the fluidity of love), I found 15 different people using the “sexuality is fluid” argument (usually in all caps) to defend the book. That’s why I called it a conversion therapy propaganda book.

Read the document written by the conversion therapists and notice the arguments that sound absolutely identical to what trans & bi women tell lesbians on a daily basis.

I’ll get you started: “The [term sexual fluidity exploration] accurately conveys that the therapist is not being coercive but merely assisting individuals in a client-centered examination of their sexual attractions.” (“Nobody’s forcing you to date transwomen, we’re just asking you to examine…”)

What they have to say about category change is also interesting: talking about sexual fluidity exploration rather than conversion therapy is better because it “does not imply that categorical change is the goal […] nor does it imply that change which is less than categorical in nature cannot be meaningful and satisfying to clients”. Which is exactly the way that bi woman who defended the book yesterday argued - the lesbian character does not become straight, therefore it’s not conversion therapy. Their rebranding efforts are really successful. Although mostly with people who were eager to support them in the first place.

And of course when they say “Scientifically, the fluidity of sexual orientation (and, for our purposes, especially same-sex attractions) for many women and men is now beyond question”, they quote Lisa Diamond to support their claim. Diamond, whose study shows that lesbian sexuality is not fluid at all. In fact the main thing her study shows is that bi women love to call themselves lesbians (”Other women with nonexclusive attractions would routinely change their identity labels in accordance with their current romantic partner or social network. If they were seriously involved with a woman, they identified as lesbian. If they were seriously involved with a man, they identified as bisexual or heterosexual, all the while acknowledging that they remained attracted to both sexes.”) and that it’s incredibly harmful to actual lesbians because bi women’s lies about their orientation will then be happily quoted by conversion therapists to convince their lesbian patients that they too can and should learn to love dick.

hey so the trans pride flag was created by a porn-obsessed autogynophile who loved wearing his mother's underwear and wrote bizarre erotica including one story involving a man who marries a teenaged girl who magically "cannot age." the trans flag also has the same color scheme as former "MAP pride" flags...@ any trans people seeing this who are good with graphic design, one of you should probably give it a redesign and we should all stop promoting the work of this creep...