#gender oppression

[profeminist]

"Ghana's parliament has passed a tough new bill that imposes a prison sentence of up to three years for anyone convicted of identifying as LGBTQ+.

It also imposes a maximum five-year jail term for forming or funding LGBTQ+ groups.

Lawmakers heckled down attempts to replace prison sentences with community service and counselling.

It is the latest sign of growing opposition to LGBTQ+ rights in the conservative West African nation.

The bill, which had the backing of Ghana's two major political parties, will come into effect only if President Nana Akufo-Addo signs it into law. He previously said that he would do so if the majority of Ghanaians want him to.

Gay sex is already against the law in Ghana - it carries a three-year prison sentence."

Read the full piece here: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68353437

#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt news #ghana #lgbtqia+ #gender oppression #homophobia #nana akufo-addo

[she-is-ovarit]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.’s most powerful body must support governments seeking to legally declare the intensifying crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls “gender apartheid,” the head of the U.N. agency promoting gender equality said Tuesday. Sima Bahous, executive director of UN Women, told the Security Council that more than 50 increasingly dire Taliban edicts are being enforced with more severity, including by male family members. That is exacerbating mental health issues and suicidal thoughts especially among young women and is shrinking women’s decision-making even in their own homes. “They tell us that they are prisoners living in darkness, confined to their homes without hope or future,” she said. Under international law, apartheid is defined as a system of legalized racial segregation that originated in South Africa. But a growing consensus among international experts, officials and activists says apartheid can also apply to gender in cases like that of Afghanistan, where women and girls face systematic discrimination. “We ask you to lend your full support to an intergovernmental process to explicitly codify gender apartheid in international law,” Bahous urged the 15-member council, including its five permanent members: the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France. There is no existing international law to respond to “mass, state-sponsored gender oppression,” Bahous said. But she said the Taliban’s “systemic and planned assault on women’s rights … must be named, defined and proscribed in our global norms so that we can respond appropriately.” The Taliban took power in August 2021 during the final weeks of the U.S. and NATO forces’ pullout from Afghanistan after 20 years of war. As they did during their previous rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban gradually reimposed their harsh interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia, barring girls from school beyond the sixth grade and women from almost all jobs, public spaces, gyms and recently closing beauty salons. The Security Council meeting on U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ latest report on Afghanistan took place on the final day of the annual meeting of world leaders at the 193-member U.N. General Assembly.

Males oppress female human beings on the axis of sex. The Taliban commits mass rape and genocide of women and girls, bars them from obtaining an education and treats them as domestic and sexual property. Yet despite what research and scholarship has been published across disciplines, despite what investigative journalists have reported, despite the lived experiences of these women and girls being described, despite video and photographic documentation, despite both the data and the grossly inhuman rules and religious code written in policy and holy books, the immense global pattern of the oppression of female human beings by males is dismissed, justified, willfully ignored, or just plainly not prioritized. Male supremacy goes unchallenged.

#taliban #Afghanistan #global feminism #Islam #women's oppression #female oppression #sex-based oppression #women's rights #intersectional feminism #feminism #education for girls #female liberation now #anti male supremacy #sexism #violence against women #male violence #male privilege #oppression #gender oppression #patriarchy

[yavo]

The Language We Use (Critical Discussion of the Present State of Progressive Dialogue)

the language we use when discussing who can speak on what or whatever. ever since talking with some feminists who said that only women can fight for and speak on feminism. I've so far been trying to document a few of the traits of this style of discussion which permeates liberal/toxic progressivism, such as:

lack of keeping the door open for groups who may either not be recognize or articulated today, but may be tomorrow. assuming that our present understanding is conclusive and complete.

the fixation not on what experiences or issues a group experiences and how others may relate to it (building off prior point), but instead the fixation on very specific things with exceptions made for present groups. examples of this include looking at historical examples of feminist groups who opposed the inclusion of trans women, or the disinclusion of neurodiversity and disability from present social organizing.

tying both of these together, I believe there is an unrecognized struggle between unifying aspects and specifying aspects. both are important, specifying aspects are important to understanding why we associate between different groups, what issues they experience, how they materially experience different stuff than other groups, etc., while unifying aspects are the material overlap different groups have with each other on concerns, with multiple unifying aspects stacked on top of unifying aspects. however, within many circles you have a strong tendency of those who are either for unifying aspects or specifying aspects, with the specifying aspects dogmatists believing the unifying aspect dogmatists to be erasing them, while the unifying aspects dogmatists believe the specifying aspect dogmatists to be splintering them.

these points combined are presently the critiques I have in mind, with the experiences of watching queer groups go from disincluded to becoming included, and the same for neurodiversity, as well as neurodiversity somewhat recently becoming socially articulated and going through those hurdles of realizing definitions being made accidentally contradicted reality, excluding others who clearly experienced our stuff (in our case, the group who was initially discluded was those with DID)

conclusion: I hope my concerns are clear from this, and I hope others can help either corroborate, critique, or add additional observations or points that concern the language we use to discuss the issues of our various communities, and how to keep it productive towards the goals of (1) understanding and articulating struggles of different groups and (2) the material unifying of these groups and groups of groups by recognizing their shared material interest

I've tried finding reading on this topic, but almost everyone has kinda shrugged. if you have any recommended reading on the topic, please let me know!

#politics #intersectionality #feminism #lgbtqia #disability #class #discussion #social justice #gender oppression

[daffodilhorizon]

"feminists" are mad at me for saying feminism is also for nonbinary people

The terfs are at it again folks i guess someone's gotta carry on the legacy of exclusionary feminism that's been with us since the first wave

#gender oppression #feminism

[skeletonsescapedthelab]

Long flowly dresses, Chilling at home, No work stress, Not having your own money, Yummy food, Your husband beating you, Cute babies, ect.

Stay at home girlfriends on tik tok, and trad wives on Tumblr, are propaganda for traditional gender roles and oppression of women. Now I know this sounds extreme but let's look at the definition of propaganda. " information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view."

Now Trad wifes on Tumblr will show cute pictures of flowy dresses, fields, bread, and talk about all the feminine things they love. This only shows the good side and leaves out vital information. Like that the wife needs permission to go out, drive, get finances, ect. She must follow her husband's rules. Even if she chooses this life, the power dynamic is still abuse. They also won't tell you that "domestic discipline" means the husband spanking the wife, whenever he decides she did something wrong.

Then there is stay at home girlfriends. They will show their life of leisure without kids, or a job. They do want they want all day and chill. What they don't show you is that without a job they rely on someone else financially. They don't show you how hard it will be be to get a job if the relationship doesn't work out. They also talk about "feminine energy" this makes is seem like doing nothing but house chores comes naturally and is tied up with being a woman. It's a new way of wording old outdated beliefs.

I want to believe these people are not making propaganda on purpose. Social media is supposed to be fun. And life problems are very personal. For these reasons we often only show the happiest sides of things on social media. However, we still live in a society where a lot of people think women are lesser than men. So when women get in relationships where the man has more power and doesn't talk about that aspect of it, only the fun parts, it becomes propaganda even if that's not what she intended.

Now you might say, but those women choose to be in those relationships! Stop belittling them! give them freedom! I ask you why do we see women as stay at home wifes, girlfriends, in submissive roles, more than men? Why have I never seen a gay couple with this dynamic? It's mostly women in relationships with men getting into these iffy situations, why? It must have something to do with gender oppression.

Stay at home dads exist and I'm sure there are gay couples where only one works, but I'm still just as concerned for them as the women mentioned before.

Also if you're going to argue I should let women make their own choices without criticism

1. It's not just about women

2. Who gets to choose?

Most of these women are white. Also you must have a pretty rich partner to not work yourself. Most women don't have the choice of lifestyle they want, most people in general can't live in their ideal situation for that matter. So if you really support people's right not to work and focus on what they want, you should argue for a higher minimum wage so people can work less, or abolish capitalism all together. But as the system works right now, certain choices are dangerous ones.

If you hate having a job so much maybe you should do some anti capitalism activism, not give your partner an unhealthy amount of power in your relationship.

Here are some ways you can do that:

•Vote for socialist candidates

•campaign

•Support strikes

• volunteer at food banks, homless shelters, and other places that give free essentials

#financial abuse #physical abuse #abuse #abuse mention #activism #feminism #my opion #tik tok #comentary #Tumblr #gender oppression #gender

[sinistersuns]

hey look at this

Okay now we can get to the original post

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#do I like. even need to say anything. #trans #transmasc #I need cis women to stop acting like they’re the only ones who experience gendered oppression #transmascphobia #transandrophobia

[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

#obligatory disclaimer that this really really obviously is not universal #I do live in a major progressive city #there's definitely a level of a liberal bubble effect here #but it's still really powerful to see it #because even in a major liberal enclave there were so many limits on the gender roles and homophobia etc. etc. fronts #and also the limits of the oppressive weight of obligatory teen apathy lol #seriously go gen z. so glad you guys decided cringe is dead. I love you for that so much #and I love it for you #not news #life #hope #homophobia #sexism #teens #teenagers #progress #gen z #btw if it wasn't clear I'm a #millennial #plush toy #plushie #squishmallows #build a bear #stuffed animal #like the idea of almost any teenager much less teenage boys #saying IN FRONT OF THEIR PEERS #that they are excited about their STUFFED ANIMALS #when I was a teenager #????? #cannot imagine that ever happening.

[trans-androgyne]

“Women and non-binary people” stop. Do you mean people with marginalized genders? Do you mean gender-oppressed people? Then say that. Stop refusing to recognize the very much gendered oppression of other trans people. There’s not some chasm of difference between how our oppressors treat a very masc non-binary person and a more binary trans man. I’m also non-binary and very much oppressed for my gender but because I’m transmasculine I could never feel comfortable in a space that marketed itself like that. Tell me what the real harm is of letting gender-oppressed mascs into spaces discussing gender oppression is. Because the consequence of not doing so is denying them space for their experiences just because of their gender identity. Do better.

#‘’but 🥺 we don’t want men in our spaces 🥺’’ why. these men are oppressed for their gender identity & expression. #‘’well some people have trauma around men’’ some people have trauma around women too. should we keep them out of queer spaces #‘’their appearance might make someone uncomfortable’’ are you also keeping out cis women butches and trans women who aren’t hyper femme #because if so your space has serious problems and you are the one making gender-oppressed people uncomfortable #so many trans women are wary of these spaces because they police perceived masculinity. so how abt stop doing that #transandrophobia #intracommunity issues tag #mine

[fleapit]

can we pleasee please please stop fucking fearmongering and blaming trans men for the predstrogen situation. please god. posts about "trans men teaming up with terfs to get trans women banned!" with zero sources all over my dash. blaming "transandrophobia truthers" for all the transmisogyny. have you all lost your fucking minds?? what the fuck happened to t4t??? what the fuck happened to trans solidarity??? why is "transfem separatism" even a subject worth entertaining????

anyone who says other trans people are the enemy is a fucking fed. jesus christ

#my blood is fucking boiling right now and my heart is breaking #i keep seeing people go off the deep end with 'trans men arent oppressed! trans men face no discrimination because they have male privilege #its the fucking 2010 “trans men are betraying their female gender!” shit all over again! #transandrophobia #fleapit's patented rants #sorry im just. so sick of it. #saw it from a fucking FORCE-MASC BLOG like are you serious???

[bikini-kill-pilled]

sometimes i just brood about how i can't walk around shirtless in public, which is such a simple privilege males have over females that really shouldn't mean much. however, it's impossible for me to rebel against this expectation on my own; the reason i don't just say "fuck it" and walk out shirtless is because i would become a sexual object to every man i see. the intent i had would be hijacked by the male gaze, if that makes sense.

i also see this hijacking thing happen with sexual liberation, where women were/are trying to reclaim their agency and right to have sed with whoever, but many men don't see it like that. they just see women they can have sex with, and the meaning is lost on them.

this observation has always frustrated me and it just sucks that you can see the pattern in a lot of aspects of feminism, where men will pick out parts that benefit them and THEN support those parts for their own benefit.

#short little rant session #radical feminism #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do interact #radical feminist #gender critical #radical feminist community #gender criticism #radical feminists do touch #radical feminists please touch #gender abolition #misandry #sex based oppression #radblr #talking and thinking

[she-is-ovarit]

Yes there is subjective diversity, in which everybody has differences in experiences due to them being individuals. With subjective diversity it is correct to say that there is no universal shared experience, we are all different and unique as singular human beings. Subjective diversity is highly emphasized and celebrated within the trans community, and there's nothing wrong with this.

But to say that there isn't a such thing as objective diversity for women isn't true, nor is it helpful. To argue that there aren't differences in experiences based on external markers pertaining to biology (age, sex, ethnicity, etc.) just reinforces oppressive systems.

People do have common, shared experiences unique to being female. People are discriminated, mistreated, and oppressed for being of the female sex. One of the ways this happens is by people believing that women aren't oppressed for being female or are "less" oppressed because we make up half the population on the planet and because the MRAs pushed feminism to become "egalitarian" in the early 2000s. So the power relations between men and women were no longer seen as a hierarchy between the sexes, and instead it became "lets analyze how gender hurts everybody while perceiving men and women as having equal power doing equal harm to each other". But we aren't "less oppressed" than other groups of people nor do we have the same power, wealth, and authority as men, and nor are we biologically the same as them.

Women have group membership based upon our sex. We are highly diverse within our own group, but the fact that we are of our sex is what we have in common to everybody within our group. That is an external marker. You don't need to "examine people's genitals" to perceive sex as an external marker, because sex is not just minimized to genitalia. Humans are not a species where we all look the same between the sexes except for genitals - we are a sexually dimorphic species, and you can distinguish someone's sex overwhelmingly due to this sexual dimorphism.

It is also not "essentialism" to claim that what makes someone a woman is based upon an adult person being of the female sex. That's not what essentialism means. Biological essentialism is when you claim an objective characteristic or biological marker of an individual entirely defines their behavior. "He is good at math because he's Chinese" is biological essentialism. "She is bad at math because she is female" is biological essentialism. "He is Chinese because he is from China" is not biological essentialism. "Women are adult human females" is not biological essentialism.

#gender #biological essentialism #feminism #feminist #misogyny #sexism #LGB #LGBQ #trans #transgender #enby #nonbinary #diversity #oppression #gender oppression

[eileenleahy]

very very weird when people act like only trans & nb people have complicated relationships with gender and are the True Understanders of the violence of our deeply gendered world. beyond the fact of how troubled cis girls and women grow as they experience gender in a misogynistic world, are we supposed to act like every poc doesnt become aware at some point of just how eurocentric gender expectations are, and how dysphoric that makes you? how alienated from your own body and sex? this is just me talking from the experience of being forcibly held down and waxed at 8yrs old for being a hairy latina and constantly getting called manly at school for having a mustache and body hair. sighh i really just need white trans people to stop pretending they intrinsically have an understanding of gender so far above everyone else's

#im not saying cis oppression or whatever the fuck im just saying Understand experiences beyond yourself #and it's telling how often i see trans poc discuss how complicated their communities' relationship with gender is and how distinct it is #from the cis white world. and there's consequently a distinct lack of aggrandizing of their personal understanding of gender #because everyone they know has a fucked up relationship w gender by virtue of their race

[kthulhu42]

Putting her brilliant response aside, women have literally died because society treated us like smaller men. Women have different symptoms of diseases, need doses of medications that account for our metabolism, and have unique conditions that are in desperate need of further study. Arguing that biological sex has no importance just sets us back. Women are a biological class and we exist, and we matter.

#radblr #radical feminism #terfblr #feminism #sexism #gender critical #Medical misogyny #sex based oppression #Weird how my son also ended up gestating in me though. His Dad had a lot more room.

[lilithism1848]

#anti capitalism #leftism #communism #socialism #anarchy #abortion rights #reproductive freedom #bodily autonomy #abortion #reproductive rights #birth control #pro abortion #pro choice #abortion is healthcare #pro life #anti abortion #radical feminism #radical feminists do interact #radical feminist safe #gender roles #anti religion #fuck the patriarchy #sex based oppression #radical feminists do touch

[katetorias]

really dislike the idea that being gender nonconforming immediately means you’re not allowed to be upset at getting misgendered… are only trans people who adhere to their gender stereotypes allowed to feel upset about something so personal? doesn’t make any sense. dressing like your agab doesn’t immediately mean you don’t deal with any trans issues ¿

#just very unnecessarily cruel #you guys are obsessed when cis ppl are gender nonconforming #god forbid a trans person does the same #what is the point of coming into a community just to say the same thing the people oppressing us say #rambles

[mikasasrippedtoenail]

Profanity and Misogyny

"Motherfucker", "cunt" , "bitch", "Whore" etc. are words that are so commonly used in colloquial language that one almost forgets the nuance attached to them. In almost every language there exist a myriad of swear words that refer to the degradation of the female vagina. A woman's sex is seen as her badge of shame and if she has control over her it then she has become astray from the path of the virtue.

"To insult a man, you insult his woman". I remember awkwardly shuffling in my seat, getting very uncomfortable when male peers would call each other "motherfucker" or "cunts" so casually. A woman much older than them was reduced to her sex, a tool to insult their friends. My sex- the organ that I was born with- was a sign of weakness. If you are meek or a coward you are a "pussy". In my language, I could never find the word equivalent of vagina, for it was too sexualised to use in society. Before I was even old enough to understand the workings of my body, a organ that I had been born with was left redundant to its function to please a man-villified by porn.

"Fuck" is seen as an insult because men consider sex a defiling act that takes away the dignity of the woman. Another misogynistic implication is the term "deflowering"; having sex takes away her innocence. After sex, the woman is not a human to them but a "cunt". The sexual paraphernalia of a woman is associated with purity. There is such a huge emphasis that is put on the concept of virginity, because it brings control to the patriarchal society over a woman's autonomy.

The sexual liberation of 70s was brought as a rebellion to these norms- young women were groomed into thinking that sex is empowering. Hookup culture also emerged as an aftereffect of the sexual liberation. The politics of a woman's sex is argued all day while the male penis remains as a neutral organ despite having been a tool to oppress women.

Sex is a completely neutral act of pleasure that is neither degrading nor empowering. However, this statement would only exist in a vacuum. Men use sex as a form of violence upon women-rape is a political tool. For women to take back control of their sexual autonomy, they must acknowledge the politics of sex-or lack thereof. Selectively choosing whom you are having sex with is the first step.

I implore everyone to stop using degrading profanities that have misogynistic connotations. When others around me --especially men-- use these swear words, I ask them why their insults always involve a woman to be degraded and humiliated. Not acting as an accompalice to patriarchy, not keeping quiet against the patriarchal violence and spreading word against misogyny is the best silent mutiny.

#radical feminist safe #radblr #radical feminists do touch #female seperatism #radical feminism #terfsafe #radical feminists do interact #trans exclusionary radical feminist #terfblr #gender abolition #gender critical #sex based oppression #women are the superior sex #love women #swear words #profanity #misogny #anti religion