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“We survive through amnesia, by being unable to remember what happened to us. We survive by not remembering the name of the woman who was in the newspaper yesterday, who was walking some where and was missing. What was her name? There are too many of them. I am sick to death of not being able to remember the names.”

Life and Death, Andrea Dworkin

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#and aint shit changed since then

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“Our brains were two million years in the making. That long, slow accretion doubled our cranial capacity. And the first thing we did with it was say thank you. We drew the megafauna and the megafemales, sculpted and carved them. The oldest known figurative sculpture is the Goddess of Hohle Fels, and 40,000 years ago someone spent hundreds of hours carving Her. There is no mystery here, not to me: the animals and the women gave us life. Of course they were our first, endless art project. Awe and thanksgiving are built into us, body and brain. Once upon a time, we knew we were alive. And it was good. 

And now we leave the realm of miracles and enter hell. 

Patriarchy is the ruling religion of the planet. It comes in variations―some old, some new, some ecclesiastical, some secular. But at bottom, they are all necrophilic. Erich Fromm describes necrophilia as “the passion to transform that which is alive into something unalive; to destroy for the sake of destruction; the exclusive interest in all that is purely mechanical.” In this religion, the worst sin is being alive, and the carriers of that sin are female. Under patriarchy, the female body is loathsome; its life-giving fat-cells vilified; its generative organs despised. Its natural condition is always ridiculed: normal feet must be turned into four-inch stubs; rib cages must be crushed into collapse; breasts are varyingly too big or too small or excised entirely. That this inflicts pain―if not constant agony―is not peripheral to these practices. It’s central. When she suffers, she is made obedient.” 

― Lierre Keith, ‘The Girls and the Grasses’ 

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This was on my post about how the owners of Hobby Lobby used the chaos caused by the US invasion of Iraq, which destabilized the country and caused the looting of the national museum of Baghdad, to smuggle thousands of stolen artifacts into the US to stock their Evangelical Christian propaganda Museum of the Bible.

Like, you do you, I’m not a cop and I’m not your mom, but damn why would you proudly and publicly proclaim this

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"people in real life: hey man how's it going" is a killer phrase. instantly neutralizes whatever insane discourse you find online. gonna start using that from now on

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zim every ep: has a new plan to take over the earth or kill dib or something

almost every gir subplot:

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i love poly ppl being like "my primary partner" i love them reinventing the concept of "my main hoe" and side hoes

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I will NEVER leave that man alone, not after what he put Amber through. I will post EVERY negative thing about him, I will drag his abusive ass as long as I can because that man deserves the worst.

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oh my god

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“The world taught woman nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and then said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public, and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men, and when to gain it she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.”

-Carrie Chapman Catt, 1902

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"The fact that society believes a man who says he's a woman, instead of a woman who says he's not, is proof that society knows exactly who is the man and who is the woman."

— Jen Izaakson.

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Of course I do not feel comfortable sharing a bathroom space with a male of any sort, but, it truly disgusts how so many people (conservative specifically) just write off trans people as nasty and evil right off the bat. Like, I disagree ideologically with so many people and first of all you don't see me immediately trying to convince people of my opinions and secondly I'm not going to blindly hate anyone unless there is a valid reason and being trans isn't a good enough reason to hate somebody. It just bothers me how so few people choose to look at strangers with compassion over contempt. I have trans people in my family and in some of my social circles and while I think a lot of things they say is silly or just flat out untrue it's never made me wish to treat them with any less dignity, same as extremely religious people. Just another reason why the "evil terf" label is annoying...like, I'm nothing like the far rights spitting insults and slurs. I am a very critical and I hope scientifically analytical person when it comes to just about everything in life and I hate being lumped in with people so cruel and unfeeling towards others.

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"Females can't help but display their sexuality" - you mean you can't look at parts of our normal, natural bodies without sexually objectifying them. Because you are porn-addled.

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Drew Barrymore by Mario Sorrenti (1996)

#ummmm omg!

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There’s a huge mistake we make when debating prostitution. It should always be talked about as a class issue. Prostitution is humiliation, exploitation and abuse for women as a class of people. It doesn’t matter if some girl claims she enjoys selling her nudes on OnlyFans, for example - what matters is how it affects females as a whole. I’m sick of anecdotal arguments being used for an issue that destroys so many lives.

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i am skeptical you could do that actually, tiktok user

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Radblr needs to start talking more about drag queens, transracialism and the fine line between satire and misogyny.

I can’t rlly be asked to write an essay rn but the general things I’ve noticed have been:

- dozens, literally, of drag queens on RPDR coming out as trans and nonbinary within 2-3 years

- white male drag queens using caricatures of black women and black femininity in their drag

- cognitive dissonance in terms of satire and gender roles. Is it still satire if they’re getting plastic surgery to look more feminine?

- the overwhelming male domination of the genre, despite the message being progressiveness

- why drag kings haven’t been nearly as popular (we know why)

- the fetishisation of femininity, and how it can be separated from other gnc gay men

Feel free to add on!