I'll watch the stars go out

“A lesbian hosted podcast with analysis and commentary through a Marxist and Radical Feminist lens.” Hosted by Jen Izaakson & Hannah Berrelli.

“When Sibbi asked me to help him find Svidi,I lied about her whereabouts, took the money, and killed Sibbi immediately. And that was after searching all over Skyrim for a potion of glibness so I could persuade Svidi to let me help her. I couldn’t bring myself to intimidate her. I’m aghast that such a misogynistic quest made it into the game with such limited options for making Sibbi pay for his hypocrisy.”

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Meaning, you can choose to find a woman who's escaped her murderous, cheating ex and help him kill her. Why is this so casually implemented into the game? Do you have any information on Svidi? "She was a young woman... buxom, with long flowing black hair. She used to sing the most lovely songs to me when we were courting. I've never heard a voice so beautiful. All that talent will go to waste when I'm finished with her."

boys are coddled and treated like their beliefs and actions are harmless meanwhile girls' suffering is ignored. sure the boys are "just kids" but so are the girls.

imagine being a girl trying to learn in this sort of environment.

teenage boys are engaging in abusive behavior towards their girlfriends that they learned from andrew tate and your primary concern is the left doesn't coddle men and boys in this discussion about misogyny?

framing all andrew tate supporters as "young boys who don't know any better" ignores the support he has among adult men. in the UK, 26% of men aged 18-29 and 28% of men aged 30-39 agree with his opinions on women.

She was not killed as an act of cruelty, or simply neglected. People cared about her, and the many space dogs who survived proves it

After the Soviet Union had lied about it for years in their propaganda, in 2002, Russian scientist Dimitri Malashenkov revealed that Laika had survived only about five to seven hours after liftoff before dying of overheating and panic. It was belatedly made known that Laika’s pulse rate tripled during takeoff and only came down somewhat during weightlessness.

This wasn’t a test of how the body responds to overheating in space that would at least yield useful data to prevent future deaths. Laika didn't ensure the survival of future dogs, who had to endure the same stress. This happened because The Soviet scientists had insufficient time to perfect life-support systems, due to political pressure to launch in time for the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. That is what she died for.

It makes me think of what I've experienced in my own life over the past few years - I'm a lesbian, but my friends are all bi or het women. And at the start of university, when we were loser nerds and nobody had had even a first kiss yet, we could all talk about feminism are were on the same wave length. Since then we've all found people, partners, started dating, had sex - and suddenly feminism has become this very difficult topic for us. I can't speak freely anymore because I'll hurt their feelings when I say something that implies their Jakies aren't angels (literally multiple of them have explained to me how their boyfriend isn't like other men because he sometimes randomly meows. It sounds like satire).

And more and more, they try to bring these guys with them to stuff. We used to agree that a space with even one man in it is just not comparable to a women-only space. A hang out, a lunch, a party, god even my DnD games have been infiltrated. But now they can't say that anymore, everything has to be toned down and "it's not so black and white" and the dreaded "but not all men...".

I don't know if my friends are happier now with their boyfriends (it doesn't really seem like it). But it certainly looks like they can't speak or think as freely about feminism anymore, because those men maybe wouldn't like it or would feel hurt by it, and that's now a priority.

My straight friends, we're only allowed to rag on their bfs after they've broken up with them. If I say anything about the red flags I see before then, they totally get all offended. Rose colored glasses istg

A feminist's emphasis on sexual violence is judged as hysterical; a [vegan’s] emphasis on the death of animals as emotional.

Both feminists and [vegans] are accused of negativity because they appear to require that something be given up (the most obvious trappings of femininity; the meat on the plate) as opposed to their own perspective in which they are emphasizing the positive choice (aspiring to emancipation and liberation; choosing vegetables, grains, and fruits).”

While feminists encountered the response that “men need liberation too,” [vegans] are greeted by the postulate that “plants have life too.”

Or to make the issue appear more ridiculous, the position is forwarded this way: “But what of the lettuce and tomato you are eating; they have feelings too!”

The attempt to create defensiveness through trivialization is the first conversational gambit which greets threatening reforms. This pre-establishes the perimeters of discourse.

One must explain that no bras were burned at the Miss America pageant, or the symbolic nature of the action of that time, or that this question fails to regard with seriousness questions such as equal pay for equal work.

Similarly, a [vegan], thinking that answering these questions will provide enlightenment, may patiently explain that if plants have life, then why not be responsible solely for the plants one eats at the table rather than for the larger quantities of plants consumed by the herbivorous animals before they become meat?

In each case a more radical answer could be forwarded: “Men need first to acknowledge how they benefit from male dominance,” “Can anyone really argue that the suffering of this lettuce equals that of a sentient cow who must be bled out before being butchered?”

But if the feminist or [vegan] responds this way they will be put back on the defensive by the accusation that they are being aggressive.

What to a [vegan] or a feminist is of political, personal, existential, and ethical importance, becomes for others only an entertainment during dinnertime.”