Harems WERE female spaces. They were enforced and not voluntary but they were not just where female slaves were kept. Anon's comparison is nonsense, but the responses are as well.

It's interesting to watch normal people respond to the trans movement fading out. Women are talking more about wanting our own spaces, we're saying "women" without the need to stick on "and non binary people" or "and anyone who identifies as a woman". Lesbians are talking about loving the female body, without feeling pressured to include male bodies.

Referring to a vagina as a "hole" is incredibly inaccurate and sexist. A vagina is a complex organ made up of many parts labia, clitorius, clitorial hood. So many parts when you degrade a vagina to simply a hole you fundamentally ignore/downplay women's issues especially those that relate to female health issues such as endometriosis, yeast infections, pmos and bv.

“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”

meanwhile girls in afghanistan can’t even go to school… fml. i hate everything about patriarchal female socialisation.