Physical Feminist Resources

"Never forget that it only takes one political, economic or religious crisis for women's rights to be put in jeopardy. Those rights are never to be taken for granted; you must remain vigilant throughout your life."

“THE ABUSER’S PROBLEM IS NOT THAT HE RESPONDS INAPPROPRIATELY TO CONFLICT. HIS ABUSIVENESS IS OPERATING PRIOR TO THE CONFLICT: IT USUALLY CREATES THE CONFLICT, AND IT DETERMINES THE SHAPE THE CONFLICT TAKES.”

“Because men cannot create life, they specialise in death. They compensate by destroying.”

“Almost no abuser is mean or frightening all the time. At least occasionally he is loving, gentle, and humorous and perhaps even capable of compassion and empathy. This intermittent, and usually unpredictable, kindness is critical to forming traumatic attachments. When a person, male or female, has suffered harsh, painful treatment over an extended period of time, he or she naturally feels a flood of love and gratitude toward anyone who brings relief, like the surge of affection one might feel for the hand that offers a glass of water on a scorching day. But in situations of abuse, the rescuer and the tormentor are the very same person.”

One of the basic human rights he takes away from you is the right to be angry with him. No matter how badly he treats you, he believes that your voice shouldn’t rise and your blood shouldn’t boil. The privilege of rage is reserved for him alone. When your anger does jump out of you—as will happen to any abused woman from time to time—he is likely to try to jam it back down your throat as quickly as he can. Then he uses your anger against you to prove what an irrational person you are. Abuse can make you feel straitjacketed. You may develop physical or emotional reactions to swallowing your anger, such as depression, nightmares, emotional numbing, or eating and sleeping problems, which your partner may use as an excuse to belittle you further or make you feel crazy.

“Liberal feminism applies a contradictory approach to its analysis of sexist practice. On the one hand, it fights for female bodily autonomy, often in the form of ‘reproductive rights’. On the other hand, it simultaneously promotes the industries that objectify and commoditise the female body. This is epitomised by pornography and pornographic objectification of the female body, which, for instance, has given rise to alarming rates of labiaplasty. While liberal feminism may be critical of cultural practices in the global South, such as female genital mutilation, some maintain that Western cultural ‘beauty’ practices that brutalise female bodies are an edifice of agency and choice. 

“I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.”

Saw someone online claim Amber groomed D*pp, I swear that word has lost all meaning.