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Somebody approved this ad, and I just wanna say, I have questions

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Saw this on Pinterest. I don't know the credits (+ the post did not have on OP), if you do please tell me!

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#socialism #communism #class consciousness #patriarchy #women’s liberation

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women's sports is one of the loudest and most successful anti-patriarchy campaigns in human history. what women's sports did and does is prove, over and over again, the excellence, the raw power and strength of human woman. it completely disrupts ideas on gender.

you have big, powerful women in rugby. fast, endurable women runners. impeccably strong gymnasts. women with strong, large bodies that take up space. that are HEALTHY. they are not RESTRICTED or ladylike. they are free of the stillness/deadness that femininity demands. no corsets. no (aesthetic) thinness. no hourglass bodies for gawking. women's sports screams to society "we are fully human, not objects, not small men. we are not domestic dolls. we are hunters and foragers. fighters."

why do you think men are so vitriolic about it? why don't they want women in football? why don't they want it televized? why do they keep harassing female basketball players? why do they insist on dressing women in sexualized uniforms? why do they now make it taboo to exculde men from women's sports?

i firmly believe it's because women's sports tears patriarchal gender ideology apart so effortlessly. it completely spits in the face of patriarchal political propaganda and shows how null it is. it forces all of us to view women as full, as the beginning of human excellence, as central to human history. not as decorative sexual objects, no matter how men want us to be.

that's why there's so much aggression and derision when it comes to women's sports from men. because women's sports destroys the idea of femininity and depicts women as non-derivative. women must be monsters and cannot afford to play into the childlikeness that femininity demands. the arena of sports forces us to focus on women's physical performance rather than appearance. their strength rather than how attractive they are. their skill and strategy. their humanity.

women's sports events are also hotbeds for female and lgb solidarity like you have no idea!

y'all need to start watching women's sports. not only because is it exciting, but it deprograms the patriarchal bullshit out of you so fast. you realize how much is possible. how much we can all achieve right now.

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it sucks trying to talk to younger girls about things like grooming and appealing to the male gaze as an adult bc so many of them just assume we’re out of touch, haven’t experienced anything similar, and generally don’t know what the hell we’re taking about when that couldn’t be farther from the truth. they assume we’re puritans, which is so frustrating because it’s like i was you when i was that age lol please listen

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It never ceases to feel odd to me when people freak out when a woman refuses to excuse a misogynistic and violent man and be the “bigger person”. You’re not under any obligation to see the humanity in someone who refuses to see it in you. Don’t give into a mentality that will keep you trapped, allowing someone to control and disrespect you while you gently turn the other cheek.

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by Lorraine Sorlet

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In memory of the great and unforgettable Pete Shelley, born April 17, 1955

Buzzcocks

Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve?

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Thrift store painting (did not purchase) Wednesday April 17, 2024

#thrift store finds

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#velvetunderground pre-history via @officialpleasekillme on instagram

#velvet underground #the velvet underground #lou reed #rock history

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It Aint Me Babe

Last Gasp, 1970

 Cover by Trina Robbins

It Ain't Me Babe is the first comic book produced entirely by women. It was co-produced by Trina Robbins and Barbara "Willy" Mendes, and published by Last Gasp. Robbins and other staff members from a feminist newspaper in Berkeley, California, also called It Ain't Me, Babe, contributed. Many of the creators from the It Ain't Me Babe comic went on to contribute to the long-running series Wimmen's Comix.

Robbins, Mendes, and "Hurricane" Nancy Kalish (who sometimes signed her work "Panzika") were frustrated with the boy's club atmosphere of underground comix, which was dominated by male artists glorying in their depictions of sex, drugs and rock & roll—and the casual misogyny typical of those stories. The editors recruited other contributors, including Carole Kalish, Lisa Lyons (a cartoonist for a socialist newspaper), Meredith Kurtzman (cartoonist and daughter of Mad magazine creator Harvey Kurtzman), and Michele Brand (Roger Brand's wife and, according to Robbins, "a better artist").

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what the fuck