#ecofeminism

not gonna debate you with the reblogs; i don't want terfs on my blog. i wonder if your veganism is as fake as your feminism. i wonder how bigoted and bullylike your response will be to prove my point.

Coming onto my page and calling me a fake lesbian, fake vegan AND fake feminist and then not even linking the post of which you’re talking about is hilarious because it just tells me you don’t even believe what you’re saying to me, or you’re simply too stupid to articulate your basic level thoughts clearly. You probably saw the word “homosexual” and blacked out from rage lmafoooo wouldn’t that make you HOMOphobic instead?

Like I’m glad you’re making a choice that works for you and technically it IS a step in the right direction but it is not vegan to eat bacon only sometimes.

"In the villages, coastal regions, and agricultural heartlands of the Third World, environmental collapse is the daily, agonizing, and physical destruction of life. As prolonged droughts turn fertile earth to dust, as erratic floods wash away entire generations of crops, and as rising sea levels poison the freshwater table with saltwater, the male class does not adapt by altering its consumption. This visceral breakdown is clear in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, where rising sea levels push saltwater miles inland, permanently poisoning freshwater tables and destroying the rice paddies that local women rely on to feed their families (Dang et al., 2024). It is equally devastating across rural Pakistan, where catastrophic floods obliterate generational agrarian infrastructures, forcing families into desperate, climate-induced cycles of sex-based domestic violence and the forced marriage of young daughters (Haider, 2024). Global climate data confirms that these escalating eco-catastrophes do not cause the ruling class to alter their insatiable resource habits; instead, they shift the entire physical weight of this planetary crisis directly onto the shoulders of women (IPCC, 2023).

Women carry the burning burden of this environmental breakdown. Men designate women as the sole caretakers of life; they must walk miles each day across scorched terrain to find clean water. This concept is written directly onto the woman’s body—found in the permanent ache of her spine from carrying fifty-pound jerrycans under a blistering sun, the dust that coats her throat, and the raw blisters that score the soles of her feet. They must perform impossible domestic acrobatics to stretch diminishing food supplies to feed their children, often starving themselves so that others can eat. A woman’s stomach remains empty so that the patriarchal family unit can survive another day in the ruins. They care for the sick, the elderly, and the dying as climate-driven diseases spread and public infrastructure rots. As imperialist capital bleeds nature dry, the physical energy and labor required to sustain human life expands exponentially. The more the planet burns, the harder women must work just to keep their families from sliding into the grave. Yet, the male ruling class hoards and violently tightens their grip over wealth and resources through their domination of capital accumulation. Female labor performs the work that keeps the species alive, while men monopolize the authority that dictates the conditions of that survival. They have made women the shock absorbers of a burning world while they sit safely atop the wreckage."

"As the land dies and can no longer support agriculture or human habitation, displaced populations are forced to flee, migrating into border zones, urban slums, and crowded refugee camps. This material expulsion is accelerating across planetary frontlines like the Central American Dry Corridor, where multi-year droughts have collapsed subsistence farming, and the Lake Chad Basin, where rapid desertification has completely erased agrarian livelihoods, turning millions of farmers into climate refugees (UNEP, 2023). This mass displacement is a deliberate, engineered containment strategy. The phallocracy constructs these borders to serve as a cage, locking away the human victims of its own ecocidal destruction so that the centers of imperialist and colonial wealth accumulation remain undisturbed. Within these camps and externalized border zones—such as the Western-funded militarized interception networks and informal containment points across North Africa—survival is fully militarized, bureaucratized, and weaponized. Armed guards, border officials, humanitarian directors, and police officers—architectures dominated entirely by men—control access to life itself. They hold food rations, life-saving medicine, basic shelter, and vital legal paperwork behind endless bureaucratic lines, checkpoints, and discretionary permit systems (Gerard & Pickering, 2014). A woman’s survival in these spaces is reduced to repeated, degrading, and dangerous encounters with male authority. Because men hold absolute, unchecked power over the bare necessities of life, compliance to them becomes the literal price of staying alive. <...> The conditions experienced by Palestinian women in Gaza vividly expose this relationship with particular severity. The targeted destruction of hospitals, water systems, sanitation infrastructure, and reproductive healthcare facilities has left thousands of women without access to prenatal care, contraception, menstrual hygiene products, or safe childbirth conditions (ActionAid International, 2024; UN ESCWA, 2024). Under these catastrophic conditions, severe shortages of sanitary products have forced many Palestinian women and girls to use torn fabric, old clothing, or even scraps of tents to manage menstruation under forced displacement—routinely stripped of reliable access to clean water, basic privacy, or adequate sanitation facilities (ActionAid International, 2024). The ecological destruction of Palestine demonstrates the convergence of militarized environmental devastation, imperialist-colonial violence, and patriarchal vulnerability. Access to clean water, healthcare, sanitation, electricity, and reproductive safety becomes politically controlled and weaponized through siege, occupation, and deliberate infrastructural destruction. This systematic devastation manifests as what feminist Sylvia Federici (2004) identifies as the ongoing, violent nature of capital accumulation: a structure where the formal economy only survives because the state externalizes the raw cost of physical survival onto the uncompensated, agonizing, and unwaged labor of women. The colonial war machine is not merely asserted through bombs and bullets, but through the deliberate, sadistic engineering of biological squalor. Women’s bodies ultimately absorb the brunt of imperialist warfare through the systematic denial of reproductive care, severe escalation in sexual violence, and acute physical illnesses born from exhaustion and deliberate malnutrition."

"The division is plain: our male relatives sat comfortably in the air-conditioned living room, while the women spent hours hidden away in the kitchen or the backyard, burning over the stove fire to accommodate them. The domestic hearth operates as an unmapped colony, a space where women are drained of their physical energy to maintain the leisure of their male relatives. Power chokes women from both sides in a coordinated, multi-layered vice. Men rule survival externally through “humanitarian” institutions and bourgeois states and their military forces, and internally within the family unit. Men govern the macro-structures of society and the micro-structures of the home, while women perform the exhausting, invisible, and uncompensated physical work necessary to keep humanity alive and society functioning. Across refugee camps and household walls, the logic of climate collapse is absolute and unchanging: men control the resources while women do the work to survive. The ruling-sex acts as the wasteful, destructive rulers of survival, while relying entirely on the labor of women to clean up, manage, and absorb the shockwaves of their destruction."

"Climate collapse cannot be solved through paperwork, international treaties, recycling campaigns, or polite liberal reforms. Those destroying the earth are the same forces that compound women’s subordination. Environmental destruction and the systematic exploitation of women are not separate issues; they are the twin engines of global imperialist extraction. The ruling-sex treats both the earth and the female body as infinite, disposable resources to be mined until exhaustion. They rape the soil and they rape the female body, driven by the same exact phallocratic entitlement that demands total mastery over all living things. We cannot save our earth without dismantling the structures of male domination that govern it. To stop the ongoing murder of our planet, we must break their chokehold on survival itself. We must refuse to perform the unpaid labor that keeps their dying, ecocidal system running. We must dismantle the financial strangulation of the Third World by the First, the bourgeois boardrooms, and the phallocratic family unit that traps us in states of manufactured dependency. The survival of the earth requires a total, unyielding strike of the womb and the hand—the absolute refusal to make more toxic waste for women and children to sort, the absolute refusal to breed the next generation of exploiters and workers, and the absolute refusal to absorb the shocks of their violence. Our collective non-cooperation is the ultimate weapon, a sovereign reclamation of the future that will starve their global machinery of its fuel. The only path to a living world is the absolute destruction of male rule; to save our earth, we must reclaim ourselves."

absolutely life-changing essay by aurora linnea from the latest Total Woman Victory issue

"In his study of inheritance, The Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication (1868), Charles Darwin identified a constellation of traits consistently present in domesticated but not wild animal populations. The cornerstone of this “domestication syndrome” is docility: “the fact or quality of being easily handled, managed, or led; meek and unquestioning obedience” (“Docility Definition & Meaning,” 2023).Physiologically, the docility of domesticates is associated with stress hormone down-regulation in combination with a “dramatic reduction” in the size of specific brain structures that, as Melinda A. Zeder (2012) of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History explains, “can be directly linked to an increase in the thresholds for the display of behaviors such as aggression, fear, and flight that result in the overall reduction of reactivity” (p. 169).It is of obvious advantage to the predator to divest the prey of her instinctual fear of predation. Docile animals, who serve their function with minimal friction, accepting captive dependency as safety, are “much more attractive to their human keepers” than animals who realize the danger they’re in and strive to free themselves. Thus the inbred docility of the domesticate is what Marilyn Frye (1983) calls mayhem: “a maiming which impairs a person’s ability to defend herself” (p. 70). Another key symptom of domestication syndrome is pedomorphism, characterized by the retention of a juvenile appearance and demeanor among adults (Wildins et al., 2014). Compared with their wild kin, domesticates are babyfaced, their muzzles shorter, eyes bigger and rounder, ears floppier. Behaviorally, they are more submissive, fawning over their masters like pups currying favor with a parent. To the masters, domesticates’ stunted development is “cute”; their babyishness codes to defenselessness—an attractive quality in a subordinate. Incompatible though the social position of eternal child may be with dignity or self-determination, it is not without its privileges: as long as she stays adorably wide-eyed and acquiescent—in the Husband’s house if not his factory farm—the domesticate can expect to be coddled, she will earn caresses, treats will be doled out to her, since she poses no threat to the Husband’s power. As a rule, aging domesticates, like noncompliant ones, are summarily culled. <...> As United Poultry Concerns founder Karen Davis (1995) writes, there is “a culturally conditioned indifference toward, and prejudice against, creatures whose lives appear too slavishly, too boringly, too stupidly female, too ‘cowlike’” (p. 196). Davis highlights the contemptuous disregard for domesticates voiced by environmentalists like J. Baird Callicot (1980): “[Domesticated] animals have been bred to docility, tractability, stupidity, and dependency. It is literally meaningless to suggest that they be liberated” (cited in Davis, p. 196). The diminishment of the oppressed animal accomplished over millennia of intergenerational oppression conveniently supplies the excuse for that oppression’s perpetuation, as the domesticate is disdained for existing in so lowly a state as the one the husbands trapped her in. “The next step,” Davis writes, “is to assert that these animals wanted, even chose, to resign their metaphysical autonomy to humans on the darkling plain of evolution” (p. 201). Domestication is domination inscribed so deeply into the being of the dominated that she is transformed into an icon of unfreedom, stymied by the wound of a debility her masters affirm to be the expression of her true and changeless nature. <...>

The exploitative abuse of nonhuman animals is a long-spun thread in the bloodstained tangle of patriarchal tyranny, militarism, enslavement, conquest, capitalist-imperialism, social stratification, white/male/human supremacy and normalized sadism that writhes into view with any clear-eyed examination of the manmade world. To the extent that we accept such abuse, in conformity with the husbands’ master mentality, we can see how we ourselves have been domesticated, how thoroughly male rule has molded us. Should we not be disturbed by this? The captivity, rape, torture, and killing of billions of females, confined in absolute subjection and reduced to consumable commodified bodies-without-selves in the context of a male capitalist enterprise in a male imperialist society would seem an atrocity difficult for feminists to overlook. So how is it we keep overlooking it?

Historians of domestication write of the defense mechanisms that husbands have devised to distance themselves from the animals they harm, including rationalization, denial (of suffering, of subjectivity, of sentience), desensitization, euphemism, and compensatory cruelty (Serpell, 1986; Adams & Donovan, 1995; Patterson, 2002). But more than any of these, the trick has been detachment. For animal activist and scholar pattrice jones (2005), this detachment, or estrangement, is the crux, both cause and consequence of patriarchal murderousness. She writes: “We are cut off from the earth, other animals, each other, and ourselves. These disconnections allow us to do terrible things to the earth, other animals, each other, and ourselves. Doing these terrible things increases the estrangement. And the cycle of violation and separation continues.” The husbands have inoculated manmade culture with detachment, estrangement, and dissociation as prophylactics against compassion. The heart hardens, cavities forming as the stiffening tissue thins and pales. Atrophies, frays. How can we be witnesses to this and not ask ourselves if a system that depends on our unfeelingness, which renders us merciless by design, deserves to survive?

Oppressed as human females under male dominion, we sabotage and demean ourselves when we allow men to drag us through the carnage as their accomplices in the oppression of numberless others. If we as feminists discover ourselves on the side of the Husband instead of with the raped and maimed creature wrenched in the machinery of he who says he is her master, then, as feminists, we have been led astray.

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