#believe women

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

How To Be a Safe Person to Menstruate With

You can be private without expressing disgust. Just step away politely or be honest that you are embarrassed. Neither of these choices shames women.

The reverse is also true. Like I said, just because someone doesn’t want to talk doesn’t mean they’re lame and ashamed.

Compliment girls wearing on their self-expression like red jewelry or watering a Venus flytrap with their menstrual cups.

There are lots of sustainable products now but accessibility is not equal. Not everyone has the water resources to wash reusable products so don’t get preachy.

If you shit on someone else’s choice of birth control, by God I will come for you.

Vote to protect birth control

Do not tell someone they’re gross for using pads and cups that require washing.

If you have found a trustworthy gynecologist, spread the word

If a woman tells you she feels ill, in pain, or like something is wrong believe her

Do not tell her to lose weight or consider therapy. If you do, I will hit you with a fish.

Take hormonal diseases seriously

When someone tells you she has endometriosis, interstitial cystitis, cancer, or PCOS, do not come at her with medical expertise you suddenly think you have.

Offer to buy pads and tampons but make sure to ask what kind — some have allergens.

You can always get someone a glass of water.

If it’s a trans guy you’re talking with, validate his body without treating him like one of the girls. If you don’t know how, just ask.

Do not try to guess if someone is on their period. That’s rude.

I have an alpha period. If we hang out, you will sync to my period and we can all be unhappy together.

If you bleed monthly and are talking to a woman who doesn’t, you aren’t better than her. You define your period. She can define hers.

If someone is confused because she started her period and got a positive pregnancy test, take her to the hospital and defend her with your life. She is miscarrying and needs an ultrasound. If a doctor dismisses her as just having a difficult period, make ape noises and then threaten him with arson.

If after all this you are still angry, DM me his name and I will personally come for revenge. I am pregnant and very powerful.

For that matter, my husband will sort him out for you.

Take black women seriously. Respect that WOC face medical discrimination and gaslighting on the daily.

Advil is valid. Homeopathics are valid. Do not assail your friend with essential oils when she’s asked for a Midol.

If your friend shares some concerning symptoms with you, do not freak her out with an armchair diagnosis.

But you should definitely validate her pain and encourage her to get help. Or even help her get help. Throw her in the car and personally drive her to the doctor.

If your friend confides in you that she has an STI or you are able to guess that she has an STI, be nice to her because if you don’t I will find you and I will yeet you away into the night like Batman.

Educate yourself about periods. Learn the correct anatomical words.

And for God’s sake, you still have to wear a condom.

#periods #period education #feminism #trans inclusive feminism #birth control #comunication #period talk #boundaries #body positivity #protection #protect women #female rage #endometriosis #pcos #infertility #women’s health #healthcare #liberal #protect black women #believe women #transmasc positivity

[soberscientistlife]

Believe women

#believe women #rape #accountability

[xblackreader]

He better address it because…

I wanna see him in jail or somehow proving her wrong in a court of law but idk it seems very….

(I don’t wanna believe blindly but I believe in protecting the victims of SA and believing women. Period. So idk unless y’all got some proof he didn’t, I believe her so far. She is most credible to me 🤷🏾‍♀️) that is all I will say on the matter.

#believe women #me too #if it’s true sorry to say it but lock him up #I ain’t sorry #actually I’m sorry to the ppl who looked up to him and sW #saw themselves in him #can’t have these mfs lose and representing communities #tenoch huerta

[leighlew3]

TRIGGER WARNING

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Regarding the Harvey Weinstein news in NYC of that conviction being overturned… “unfairly tried for past behaviour” ?!

What a f’n joke. The “justice” system believes that witnesses testifying to a pattern of abuse to make a case for a perpetrator’s guilt are inadmissible. But yet when it comes to a VICTIM? The defense can do a full character assassination and bring up their past, present and freakin’ future relationships, behaviors, choices and more in order to make a case to paint them as a liar. It’s all so absolutely sickening.

The system is fully set up to revictimize victims (especially women and children) and to protect (usually male) predators and abusers. It’s just a fact. And it’s insane.

Even if you come forward, even if MANY come forward, and finally secure a well-deserved guilty verdict, this just shows victims everywhere that it can STILL be reversed or even (what’s likely to come next and has happened before) a victim be sued by their own own rapist or abuser.

This is WHY PEOPLE DON’T COME FORWARD.

Fuck the NYC court system.

Fuck Harvey Weinstein.

Fuck predators and their enablers.

#trigger warning #tw sa #tw abuse #harvey weinstein #legal #believe women #me too movement #nyc #hollywood

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“When E. Jean Carroll talks about the loss of her reputation, it's hard for Millennial, Gen Z, and frankly, even Gen Xers like me, to fully appreciate what she lost. Yes, she was an advice columnist for ELLE magazine. But she was also the stuff of journalistic legend. She made her bones in the often macho "gonzo journalist" movement, inserting herself into -- and often doing crazy things -- in the name of a story. Her big break came from taking Fran Lebowitz *camping*; her byline appeared in Rolling Stone and Playboy. She was sophisticated, witty, beautiful, and as one reviewer wrote, like the late Nora Ephron, but "wilder." She was Carrie Bradshaw if Sex and the City began in the mid-80s, not the late 90s, and everyone gathered at Elaine's, not Balthazar. In fact, Bradshaw's creator/alter ego, Candace Bushnell, wrote in 2019 that Carroll "was the coolest woman journalist around – daring, had a ton of guts, and was as funny as the guys. . . . There really wasn’t and isn’t anyone else like her.” If you were a trailblazing Emmy winner once known as the "coolest woman in journalism" by a woman who herself redefined the zeitgeist for a generation of New York women, ask yourself whether you'd risk that legacy all for a lie. Yeah, I didn't think so. Trust women.” ~Lisa Rubin

#believe women #trust women #E.Jean Carroll #Lisa Rubin #articles #women

[i-know-you-wanna-kiss-me]

tw sa

idk i always find it a little bit suspicious when a woman (or sometimes not) speaks up about the assault that they faced from a famous man and then immediately say that they were lying as soon as that male celebs stans send them rape and death threats and general hate. like i wonder why being threatened with violence would make a person that is already in a weakened state back down and surrender to just being labelled a liar and an attention seeker🤔🤔

#i believe her #feminisism #have you guys ever heard of little kids being bullied and speaking up about their situation only to back down #when their bullies threaten them more? #it's already a painful situation and stans just make it so much worse and put these victims under threat of more violence #seriously #unfollow me if you do this #tw sa #tw sex assault #tw abuse #believe women #patriarchy #male privilege #anti harassment #stan culture

[subtlefanart]

#word requests open #dan schneider #nickelodeon #believe women #art #icarly #jennette mccurdy #i'm glad my mom died #henry danger #danger force #zoey 101 #by me

[soberscientistlife]

Thank you Ms. Carroll for standing up for women's rights

#rape #women's rights #believe women

[heftbyjapanesebreakfast]

why didn't anyone tell me that she's bisexual in anatomy of a fall like omfg

#BELIEVE WOMEN #m

[attallahmusic]

Her Loss

A commentary on Drake and 21 Savage’s new album and how Drake went from being a hopeless romantic to just a hopeless loser.

This Friday Drake and 21 Savage released their collaborative album Her Loss which features 16 songs, 4 of them solely by Drake making it feel less like a collaboration and more like a Drake album with 21 Savage features. This project differs from Drake’s previous release of this year, Honestly, Nevermind in so far that it takes less inspiration from house and returns to the sound we usually correlate to Drake and 21 Savage as artists. This is completely and totally a rap-album. In this album Drake refers to multiple of his contemporaries, some by name such as the artist Bad Bunny, but also through words like bitch such as for Megan Thee Stallion. Drake has the following to say about Tina Snow on his song Circo Loco

This bitch lie about getting shots, but she still a stallion

This is in reference to Megan Thee Stallion getting shot in the foot, alledgedly by Tory Lanez who is awaiting trail for the 28th of this month.

And without knowing the verdict of the trial, this opens up to the question: why is Drake and so many men ready to call Megan a liar? As more attention have been brought onto assault, typically sexual assault, caused by men victimizing women in the last decade or so, we’ve also been audience to women being discredited, treated as untrustworthy, and deceitful. This view of women is deeprooted in our society and what Drake exemplifies is a systemic disbelief in women. Treating women as untrustworthy is a tool of our opression. It erases women’s voices, authority and power.

It’s the grease that makes the entire system go. Women’s erasure is an essential part of the deal powerful men have always made with the men they would have power over: let me have control over you, and in turn I will ensure you can control women.

Drake used to make music with Black women in mind, he made songs with the intend to empower and uplift women such as Fancy, Take Care and Madonna these are songs that celebrate independent women, who pursue their own education, have their own career goals and lifes. But in reality, this is not the woman Drake wants. After professing his love for Rihanna at a speech in 2016, he then made a song with her abuser Chris Brown, who mind you, almost killed her. Drake was also at the receiving end of a lot of controversy, when it was releaved that he was texting the then 14 year old Millie Bobby Brown about her love-life, a weird situation to be at more than twice her age. This is not the first time Drake has publically been romantically involved with a teenager as a video resurfaced of him kissing a 17 year old at one of his concerts, as well as him dating an 18 year old model, at the age of 31. Drake does not care about women, he cares about what they can do for him, but he does not see them as equal nor care for their independence as his previous songs would have you believe. In his actions he is clearly using the power imbalance between women and men, which is even more stark within the rap-community, to his advantage. By calling Megan a liar, he is aligning himself with a growing number of young men, incels and the likes, who band around a community of hatred for women. These are the followers of Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan. These are men who truly and deeply believe that women are deceitful, and that it is more likely that they are lying about assault than that the assault actually happened. All of this, he does while also saying the following on the song Spin Bout U on the new album.

Damn, just turned on the news and seen that men who never got pussy in school

Are makin' laws about what women can do 

I gotta protect ya

He is obviously trying to continue to pander to women, but the one we need protection from is him. By discrediting Megan Thee Stallion, who would have absolutely no reason to lie, Drake is upholding the patiarchy and why? It’s simple, it’s because he benefits from it.

Because the existing power structure is built on female subjugation, female credibility is inherently dangerous to it. Patriarchy is called that for a reason: men really do benefit from it. When we take seriously women’s experiences of sexual violence and humiliation, men will be forced to lose a kind of freedom they often don’t even know they enjoy: the freedom to use women’s bodies to shore up their egos, convince themselves they are powerful and in control, or whatever other uses they see fit.

Not only does Drake benefit from weakening women in his field of work, now that we see such strong talent and competition, he is protecting himself should his romantic-track record give any indications as to what he might do, as well as protecting his male counterparts in the industry. He is protecting himself not any women even if he does say, “I gotta protect ya” he does not even have the common decency to respect us.

Quotes throughout this article are from

Deadly Silence: what happens when we don’t believe women

#Drake #21 savage #Her loss #album #music #rap #article #feminism #the guardian #politics #sociology #hip hop #new music #music commentary #believe women #21 #Tina snow #megan thee stallion

[goblinblood]

My coworker who claims to have seen a skinwalker told us today she was born with taste buds in her vagina

#who am i to judge #believe women

[royallyprincesslilly]

Very happy for Meg and I wish the lawyers who tried to slut shame her and use useless and irrelevant information about her intimate past as a defense strategy to have an abysmal win/loss career case record AND that leprechaun's permanently receding hairline.🙄

#I see why they say lawyers have no souls #meg thee stallion #believe black women #believe women