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this is my visionary feminist artwork i drew just now and i'm not taking any feedback or criticism . i call it 'portrait of the reproductive organs at ovulation'

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my question is how would y'all describe your political beliefs?

- far left

- left leaning/moderately leftist

- centrist

- moderately conservative/right leaning

- very conservative/far right (then how are you a radfem lol)

- don't care about politics

Thanks for the poll anon!

#conservatism is incompatible with radical feminism so i hope those people are just orbiters #anyway far left <3

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hold on i have a take that’s going to upset people

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"girlhood can be anything!" "manhood can be anything!"

so just abolish gender then .. come on pls dont make me beg

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The absolute fucking agony and misery of trying to find posts about feminism that have any teeth and deal with reproductive health and the ways that the (in)ability to bear children has shaped the history of women is like walking through a trying to walk through a beautiful garden but the ground is covered in rakes, and the rakes absolutely HATE trans people.

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sometimes I hear a dude talk for 5 minutes and know he's never had a true or beautiful thought in his life

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a man, shaking and sniffling: why do you still need feminism….you can vote….and there’s a chance that i’ll go to prison if i kill you…….what more could you want…….

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When I was a little girl, I thought I should've been a boy. I didn't fit in with the other girls I knew and I didn't fit in with what I was told a girl was supposed to be like. Eventually, when I was 10 or so, I started thinking that I was a girl because I had the body of a girl. And as such, the other things people told me were clearly unnecessary to be a girl - they were all made up BS. That line of thought helped me with accepting myself for a very long time. But back then, I only knew of mainstream feminism, and as it's narrative quickly began to change around gender, I found myself trying to reconcile that old thinking with this new one about identification. I didn't want to be hateful or anything. I knew after all, how bad it was to feel like you couldn't be yourself due to your gender. But that old lightbulb moment I had as a kid, it stuck with me. I'd talk to an enby friend who explained it to me like, "I am nonbinary because I like feminine and masculine things", and all I could think was, "that is the most misogynistic thing I have ever heard". I'd read trans people talk about how stereotypes were good, actually. I saw a kids book about how a tomboy girl was actually a boy. All of that, while they still claimed that gender roles were bad. It was like I was going crazy. When I found radical feminism, and they viewed things in that same way, it was freeing. I didn't feel like I was doublethinking no more. I want to destroy gender roles, destroy gender itself. That doesn't mean biological sex will vanish. But the rest, the other "made up bullshit", it must go. (also I used my own boots to make this picture. It's one of my favorites I have made so far)

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"i love gays who aren't ashamed of themselves and who are proud!!" you people start crying when a gay man likes dick and balls or a lesbian woman likes pussy idk what to tell you

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reminiscing ⛰️

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some of you rly think these “identities” you use to describe yourselves come from deep in your very soul w/ no outside influence from the world around u. when in fact you (a) do not exist in a vacuum, and (b) are not immune to a lifetime of internalised misogyny, homophobia, and body image issues resulting from low self esteem

you did not pop into existence as a transmasc demigrayaro enbyqueer whatever. you discovered interesting-looking words to describe minor aspects of ur personality, loosely, & then turned them into your whole gimmick for clout on the internet. 

and then some clown made you a flag & said “yes this is exactly like being a gay person” & u ate that shit up like a birthday cake. & now it has to be everyone else’s problem

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[Caption: Would you fix class struggle by inventing more classes?]

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This was posted on the r/askFeminists subreddit a year or two ago. I think it’s a really good summarization of some of the major holes and contradictions in trans ideology. I come back to this post every once in a while, so I thought I’d post it here. Here is the link for the comment section that peaked her.

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also worth mentioning how disabled males feel entitled to sex, autistic males have and do commit sexual assault in front of everyone knowing they’ll be given more lenience, and how homeless males rape homeless women. plus things like poor men historically still being offered wives in poor economies that they sexually exploited and traumatized. i’m arab so i’d know. i don’t give a fuck about the state of the most hurt men in society. why would i now

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bio saying he/him f-ggot with a blog full of yaoi and fandom shit like shipping heterosexual characters from superwholuck or that pirate show

bio saying she/her lesbian with a blog full of hentai and anime girls in sexual memes or big tiddy furry fetish art

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It's monstrous how much boys and men love tormenting girls and women. The way so many boys and men actually love scaring and upsetting girls and women on purpose because they think it's funny.

I'm thinking specifically about how I have some phobias of bugs, and I specifically have to hide that from men because once they find out they purposely show me the bugs I'm afraid of to torment me because they think it's funny and cute to torment and upset a woman. Like when one of my male co-workers at my old job found out I was arachnophobic after that he made a point of if he found a spider in the store he'd purposely try to shove it in my face because he thought it was funny and cute to scare me and make me upset. I've had multiple instances of grown male co-workers behaving like this but never a grown female co-worker. Sure, I'm sure there's at least a few grown women in the world out there like that, but for the most part this behavior is only seen in small girls but quickly corrected and beat out of her while men are still tormenting women for fun as grown adults.

Or my mother has a pretty bad phobia of frogs, and she told me a story about how when she was a little girl some boys found out, and they specifically made it a point to collect frogs from outside to throw at her. One time they cornered her in the bathroom and threw buckets of frogs at her, she was sobbing and shaking and having a full blown panic attack while they were laughing. It was for no other reason than they thought it was funny to make a girl upset and scared.

And this ties in with how often if a girl or woman asks a boy or man to stop doing something that bothers her or annoys her they double down and start doing the behavior even more just because they want to upset girls and women. Like schoolgirls asking the boy next to her to stop drumming with his pencils because it's distracting her from being able to pay attention to class, how likely is it he'll actually stop vs just doing it even more loudly and frequently just to bother her? If this is a lifelong pattern for girls this makes girls back off and less likely to stand up to boys and men.

If a girl has for years had a pattern of every time she asks the boys in her class to stop drumming with their pencils while she's trying to pay attention or stop saying gross sexual jokes that make her uncomfortable to her during class or stop poking her and every time they just double down and start doing it even more and even louder or harder just to upset her, is she going to keep asking boys to stop doing things that bother her? Is she going to feel comfortable and safe standing up for herself and asserting her boundaries? Or is she going to get quiet and stop speaking up and hope for the love of god they don't notice the annoyance on her face because if they do that's enough just to make them double down and start doing it more to bother her?

I've seen countless examples of men purposely making women so scared or upset or angry that they're in tears for no other reason than fun and entertainment. Boys and men are fucking sadistic demons. And this keeps girls and women in line, keeps girls and women from being able to stand up for ourselves and assert our personal boundaries to boys and men.