Radical Feminism: the Liberation of Women

revenge porn image-based sexual abuse

child porn child sexual abuse imagery

sex work prostitution / sexual exploitation

choked strangled

BDSM / kink sexual sadism

had sex with a minor raped a child

died by her partner murdered

I'm looking for another way to name "cosmetic surgery".

You don't need to add "sexual" in front of sadism btw, sadism is about sex by definition.

Renouncing faith, homosexuality, socialising with men, adopting behaviours outside of the religion, sex outside of marriage, being in a relationship with someone of the wrong religion.

Non religious reasons: being a victim of sexual assault, refusing an arranged marriage. These can arguably be connected back to religion.

There’s no acknowledgment that the expectations and trappings of femininity are intended to turn their adherent into an object, while masculinity is about empowerment, grooming an oppressive class. They’re not created equal!

Femininity is about restricting movement, mandatory time and money investments into ever-changing beauty rituals, being small and subservient and accommodating. It’s literally about becoming a decoration. The fact that men don’t have as much access to a clearly oppressive role is not the problem here! The fact that they are being taught violence and to repress their humanity in order to subjugate women, over whom they are told they are inherently superior, is definitely more of a problem!

Watching porn is normal and if you’re against your boyfriend/husband consuming material that features the sexual assault of women, you are a shrill, prudish woman who is actually abusing her boyfriend/husband by being too controlling.

 
-sekhet is for infertile and gay men. if you can’t make babies you’re an entirely different gender.

 
-ashtime is for men who are infertile who were forced to live as women.

 
-out of all the north and south american indigenous alternative genders (there are several) only the Ninauposkitzipxpe were women allowed to live as men

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-hijra is for gay or infertile men or even fucking women who can’t bear young and they’re treated like DIRT.


-yinyang ren is for someone who doesn’t conform to either gender role or fluctuates between both. any woman who doesn’t shave or any man drawn to makeup can no longer be their sex, they are “others”


-köçek, oman, metis, acault, chuckchis, fa'afafine, Mukhannathun? all reserved for men. only men are allowed to go against their gender role, but even then they are denied their manhood and are treated as “others” despite their will most of the time.


-in afghanistan and pakistan, when a family doesn’t have a son, they raise their daughter as a bacha posh, or a male, until she’s of marrying age. because if she’s not a man, the only other thing she’s useful for is marriage

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-burrnesha were women forced to live a life of celibacy and “manliness”


-femminello even means “little man woman” for trans woman. 

The point is to make external social circumstances (violence against women) an internal event that forms the basis of your self concept. So that you can, ultimately, auto-oppress yourself and be perpetually stuck in your social position.

They’ve already succeeded in doing this with sexism/gender roles. Sexist gender roles, artificially created by society, is now your “innate identity”. Instead of a boy wondering why his interest in “feminine” things renders him low status amongst other men- he now just goes ahead and identifies as the low status classification (ie: female/girl/woman). Thus, there is no opportunity for questioning or resistance to the hegemonic masculine structure.

Similarly, by including missing and murdered women in an identity acronym you’re supposed to just cognitively accept that Indigenous women are the type to go missing and be murdered. Instead of drawing attention to the external forces that cause this phenomenon, with this language, we’re supposed code the experience of being missing or murdered as just part of these women’s innate identity.

Transfeminism accuses radical feminism of being obsessed with the “negatives” of womanhood. But it’s the opposite- the radical feminist position sees womanhood as the neutral experience of being human and having a female body. We seek to highlight the oppressive external social structures imposed on said body.

The point is to make external social circumstances (violence against women) an internal event that forms the basis of your self concept. So that you can, ultimately, auto-oppress yourself and be perpetually stuck in your social position.

They’ve already succeeded in doing this with sexism/gender roles. Sexist gender roles, artificially created by society, is now your “innate identity”. Instead of a boy wondering why his interest in “feminine” things renders him low status amongst other men- he now just goes ahead and identifies as the low status classification (ie: female/girl/woman). Thus, there is no opportunity for questioning or resistance to the hegemonic masculine structure.

Similarly, by including missing and murdered women in an identity acronym you’re supposed to just cognitively accept that Indigenous women are the type to go missing and be murdered. Instead of drawing attention to the external forces that cause this phenomenon, with this language, we’re supposed code the experience of being missing or murdered as just part of these women’s innate identity.

Transfeminism accuses radical feminism of being obsessed with the “negatives” of womanhood. But it’s the opposite- the radical feminist position sees womanhood as the neutral experience of being human and having a female body. We seek to highlight the oppressive external social structures imposed on said body.

“A period is a state of mind”

Dude. Bro. Everyone gets stomachaches and gets emotional. That doesn’t make it a period, Steve.

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​And to those of you who think you’re safe because you’re ready and wanting to start a family so obviously youre not getting an abortion anyway! So what?? Think again!! Because you can now be charged as a “would be killer” for using pain killers during pregnancy because the same ingredient just HAPPENS to also be found in abortion pills!

They literally used these women as experimental test runs for what they can get away with and they’re getting away with it!!

Justice For Alexia Moore and Adriana Smith

i remember being read The Giving Tree as a little girl. i remember the little boys thinking it was a great story, while me and my friends, all girls, were left shocked. we had expected some message at the end about how taking and taking from someone while giving nothing in return is wrong. it was like pages had been ripped from the book. the little boys saw nothing wrong, but we understood that the book was saying we were supposed to give and give and give until we had nothing left, and it was a happy ending. because the boy got everything he could ever want, and the tree got the boys attention for an hour or two.

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (Celeste Davis, Oct 6 2024)

"White flight is a term that describes how white people move out of neighborhoods when more people of color move in.

White flight is especially common when minority populations become the majority. That neighborhood then declines in value.

Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued.

Take veterinary school for example:

In 1969 almost all veterinary students were male at 89%.

By 1987, male enrollment was equal to female at 50%.

By 2009, male enrollment in veterinary schools had plummeted to 22.4%

A sociologist studying gender in veterinary schools, Dr. Anne Lincoln says that in an attempt to describe this drastic drop in male enrollment, many keep pointing to financial reasons like the debt-to-income ratio or the high cost of schooling.

But Lincoln’s research found that “men and women are equally affected by tuition and salaries.”

Her research shows that the reason fewer men are enrolling in veterinary school boils down to one factor: the number of women in the classroom.

For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.

One more woman applying was a greater deterrent than $1000 in extra tuition! (…)

Since males had dominated these professions for centuries, you would think they would leave slowly, hesitantly or maybe linger at 40%, 35%, 30%, but that’s not what happens.

Once the tipping point reaches majority female- the men flee. And boy do they flee!

It’s a slippery slope. When the number of women hits 60% the men who are there make a swift exit and other men stop joining.

Morty Schapiro, economist and former president of Northwestern University has noticed this trend when studying college enrollment numbers across universities:

“There’s a cliff you fall off once you become 60/40 female/male. It then becomes exponentially more difficult to recruit men.”

Now we’ve reached that 60% point of no return for colleges.

As we’ve seen with teachers, nurses and interior design, once an institution is majority female, the public perception of its value plummets.

Scanning through Reddit and Quora threads, many men seem to be in agreement - college is stupid and unnecessary.

A waste of time and money. You’re much better off going into the trades, a tech boot camp or becoming an entrepreneur. No need for college. (…)

When mostly men went to college? Prestigious. Aspirational. Important.

Now that mostly women go to college? Unnecessary. De-valued. A bad choice. (…)

School is now feminine. College is feminine. And rule #1 if you want to safely navigate this world as a man? Avoid the feminine.

I highly recommend watching this testimony from Aliya Rahman, the disabled woman who was dragged out of her car and kidnapped by ICE on her way to a doctor appointment in Minneapolis a few weeks ago.

Thank you members, for taking the time to be here today, and thank you staff for making this happen.

My name is Aliya Rahman, and I am a resident of South Minneapolis. I am a Bangladeshi American born in Northern Wisconsin. And I’m a disabled person with autism and a traumatic brain injury.

Not all autistic brains do this, but mine fixates on sounds, numbers, and patterns. And while what the world saw happen to me exactly three weeks ago today on video was a terrible violation it is still nothing compared to the horrific practices I saw inside the Whipple center.

So I am here today with a duty to the people who have not had the privilege of coming home, and I offer this data because these practices must end now.

On January 13th on the way to my 39th appointment at Hennepin County’s traumatic brain injury center, I encountered a traffic jam caused by ICE vehicles and no signs indicating how to get around it. I had not wanted to pull in to a blocked, chaotic intersection, but verbally agreed to do so and rolled down my window after an agent yelled, “Move! I will break your f-ing window!”

His first instruction.

Agents on all sides of my vehicle yelled conflicting threats and instructions that I could not process while watching for pedestrians.

Then, the glass of the passenger side window flew across my face.

I yelled, “I’m disabled!” at the hands grabbing at me and an agent said, “Too late.”

I felt immersed in a pattern, and I thought of Jenoah Donald, an autistic black man killed by the police during a traffic stop in 2021.

I remembered mister Silverio Villegas González, who was killed by ICE in his vehicle last year.

An agent pulled a large combat knife in front of my face, which I thought was for cutting me, and later learned was used to cut off my seat belt. Shooting pain went through my head, neck, and wrists when I hit the ground face first and people leaned on my back.

I felt the pattern, and I thought of mister George Floyd, who was killed four blocks away.

I was carried face down through the street by my cuffed arms and legs while yelling that I had a brain injury and was disabled. I now cannot lift my arms normally.

I was never asked for ID.

Never told I was under arrest.

Never read my rights.

And never charged with a crime.

Approaching the Whipple center, I saw black and brown bodies shackled together, chained together, being marched by yelling agents outdoors. I continued to hear the word “bodies”, because that is how agents referred to us:

“We’re bringing in a body.”

“They’re bringing in bodies 7, 8 at a time, where do I put ‘em?”

“We can’t use that room, there’s already a body in there.”

You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you’re already being called a body.

Agents repeatedly had to stop and ask how to do tasks. I received no medical screening, phone call, or access to a lawyer. I was denied a communication navigator when my speech began to slur. Agents laughed as I tried to immobilize my own neck. I asked for my cane and was told no, pulled up by my arms and prodded forward in leg irons by agents laughing and saying, “Walk! You can do it, walk.”

Agents did not know if the facility had a wheelchair.

When I was finally placed in one to be taken to interrogation an agent taunted, “You were driving, right? So your legs do work.”

I pleaded for emergency medical care for over an hour after my vision had become blurry, my heart rate went through the roof, and the pain in my neck and head became unbearable.

It was denied.

When I became unable to speak my cellmate pleaded for me.

The last sounds I remember before I blacked out on the cell floor were my cellmate banging on the door, pleading for a medic, and a voice outside saying, “We don’t wanna step on ICE’s toes.”

When I opened my eyes at Hennepin County’s emergency room, I learned I was brought there to be treated for assault.

The impacts of DHS detention on my physical, mental and financial well-being and safety have been very severe, but I do not deserve more humane treatment than anyone else, US citizen or not. And I am here today with a strong spirit and a duty to the many people who haven’t had the privilege to tell their stories or see their loved ones come home. I am extremely distressed by the pattern that violence from law enforcement has been happening to black and indigenous communities for centuries, and to DHS survivors for over 20 years.

We call ourselves a civilized nation, but we lack rules and accountability around what a person claiming to be law enforcement is permitted to do to another human being.

Secondly, men don't know what terror is. "Terror" is not what you feel when you're nervous about a woman not being interested in sleeping with you. Terror is what you feel when you're a child bride on your first night with your paedophilic husband. Terror is when your father, uncle and brothers discuss murdering you because you've "dishonored" the family. Terror is when your boyfriend puts his hand around your neck because you threatened to leave him. Terror is when a man follows you home after you refused to answer his "hello what's your name can I have your number do you live nearby?" Ironically, terror is what women often feel when they reject men.