#female erasure

[womenaremypriority]

Tired of apologetic love for the pussy… y’all shamed ‘pussy hats’ for ‘white feminism’ and act like feminists who spread positivity and love for the vulva art ‘womb fetishizing gender essentialists!’… Pussy is EVERYTHING. Women are still being killed for having our periods. The word for ‘hysterical’ comes from ‘womb’. Women are still being told having a hymen means we’re a virgin. Women are still having the husband stitch done to us against our will. We deserve to never apologize or feel bad for loving our bodies and our genitals, and you can deal with it.

#My post #feminism #feminist #female solidarity #female erasure #medical misogyny #misogynistic language #radical feminism #radfem #radblr #My bangers

[pineapplerightsideupcake]

Just heard some male country lite singer doing a cover of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” and I’m so angry I want to spit fire. 🤬

It’s such a quintessentially female song. Like sorry Mr Cowboy but your choices in life do not boil down to which man can save you. You never faced the guilt of “abandoning” a father that turned you into a mommy-wife replacement because men aren’t expected to take care of people.

Are you naively thinking your freedom is in your boyfriends fast car? Are you listening back with the wisdom of a grown woman that knows she’s trading one prison for another?

I’m furious.

#radical feminism #radical feminist community #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do interact #radical feminists do touch #radblr #feminism #musician #female artists #female erasure

[lilithism1848]

#leningrad #lenin #leftism #anti capitalism #communism #socialism #anarchy #marxist leninist #vladimir lenin #stalin #karl marx #soviet union #marxism leninism #october revolution #bolsheviks #radical feminism #anti feminism #feminism #tweet #womens rights #fuck the patriarchy #feminist theory #female erasure #intersectional feminism

[queerism1969]

Religious nutjobs are obsessed with people's sex life. How can they justify the brutality they are doing? They say abortion is 'murder' and that's why it should be illegal. But...how will they explain banning birth control, when you can't kill something that doesn't exist?

And what will women who need Birth Control for conditions like Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) do? Just suffer for the sake of non existent children?

#birth control #reproductive health #pro choice #abortion rights #abortion #reproductive rights #intersectional feminism #womens rights #female erasure #patriarchy #trans activism #feminism #reproductive justice #bodily autonomy #pro life #roe v wade #roe vs. wade #roe versus wade #lgbtq #queer #lgbtqia #lgbt pride

[haggishlyhagging]

The medieval student drank, fought, and in general conducted himself with the same swaggering nonsense as undergraduates do today. And just as today, this could lead to tensions between these temporary and rebellious residents of the university towns and the townspeople (and their pesky laws).

In order to ensure that their students never experienced legal consequences for their behavior—a key demand from wealthy medieval parents, as much as it is from well-to-do benefactors now—the universities came up with a unique work-around: all university students would take holy orders. That way, if they got in trouble, say, for running out on the bill at a local inn, as students from the University of Paris were fond of doing, they would be tried in ecclesiastical courts rather than local ones. There they would receive a slap on the wrist and be sent back to their studies, rather than face any meaningful punishment. This meant that every medieval university student was technically a clergy member, with a holy cassock to prove it. In fact, this is where the term town-gown relations comes from.

This requirement of holy orders also meant that the two major ways to be educated in the medieval period, joining a monastery school or going to university, were effectively closed to women. So even as Plato and Hippocrates and Galen and the Genesis myth were becoming locked into the standard pedagogic system, and even as pedagogy itself was becoming systematized, women were excluded from weighing in. The nature of our natures was being decided, and we weren't even present for the discussion. Most medieval thought about women was thus written by men, for men, based on readings of work by men.

-Eleanor Janega, The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society

#Eleanor Janega #medieval history #female erasure #history of education

[miiju86]

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

- Virginia Woolf; 1882 - 1941

#virginia woolf #quotes #women in literature #feminist quote #feminist thought #female reality #female erasure #women's reality

[terf-tea]

turned to the internet to help my friend struggling with her first yeast infection and…“people with vaginas” vs. “men” in the SAME ARTICLE, no less…what the actual fuck.

#terf tea talks #obfuscation #terfs please interact #radfems please interact #misogyny #female erasure

[nomorerww]

#thinx #ideological domination #female erasure

[womenaremypriority]

Women literally risked rape and imprisonment to just wear pants and now we have women acting like wearing jeans makes them not women anymore and I’m supposed to be fine with this??!

#my post #TW rape #women’s history #gender critical #female erasure

[twilightzoneradfem]

Look no further for a perfect metaphor for the current climate; in a bookshop today i found this book

sitting on top of and covering a pile of this book

which sums up the erasure of actual women’s concerns by men who think womanhood = clothes quite well.

i picked up dawson’s misplaced book to put it back on the shelf where it belonged but sadly my hand slipped and it fell down the back of the shelving unit, such a shame

#female erasure #terfs please touch #terfs welcome #juno dawson #radfem #terf safe #rad fems please interact #trans

[lilithism1848]

#anarchism #anti capitalism #communism #leftism #socialism #anarchy #anticapitalism #socialist #late stage capitalism #anti feminism #feminism #womens rights #fuck the patriarchy #intersectional feminism #female erasure #feminist theory #identity politics #uk politics #us politics #politics

[woman-for-women]

#gender abolition #w4w post #quotes #gender #postmodernism #leirre keith #female erasure

[haggishlyhagging]

“Miriam Kramnick (1978) is one of the few commentators on Wollstonecraft who outlines the nature of the ridicule she was subjected to and the significance of this form of sexual harassment. Wollstonecraft was the recipient of 'barely printable insults', states Kramnick. ‘Her own contemporaries called her a shameless wanton, a "hyena in petticoats", a "philosophizing serpent" or wrote jibing epigrams in the Anti-Jacobin Review, like

For Mary verily would wear the breeches

God help poor silly men for such usurping b…..s

Twentieth-century readers have called her an archetypal castrating female, "God's angry woman", a man hater whose feminist crusade was inspired by nothing more than a hopeless, incurable affliction — penis envy’ (ibid., p. 7).

Even feminists have been careful about associating with her and: ‘The name "Wollstonecraft", once considered synonymous with the destruction of all sacred virtues, disowned by the feminist movement as it marched for votes or pressed for admission to universities, became an obscure reference indeed’ (ibid., p. 8). When women sought to convince men that they were honourable, respectable, and deserving of equal representation in the institutions men had created for themselves, there was little room for Wollstonecraft, who had challenged those institutions and who had gained a ‘reputation.’

Like many of the reviews of Aphra Behn, some of the reviews of Wollstonecraft's work and life, on her death, were vicious. Her work should be read, declared the Historical Magazine (1799), ‘with disgust by any female who has any pretensions to delicacy; with detestation by everyone attached to the interests of religion and morality, and with indignation by anyone who might feel any regard for the unhappy woman, whose frailties should have been buried in oblivion’ (vol. I, p. 34). This was about as far as critics could go in the pre-Freudian days, but once he had made his priceless contribution, the attack on women who did not conform to the precepts dictated by men assumed a new and greater ferocity.

‘Mary Wollstonecraft was an extreme neurotic of a compulsive type,' argue Ferdinand Lundberg and Marynia Farnham (1959) in Modern Woman: The Lost Sex. Out of her illness arose the ideology of feminism, which was to express the feelings of so many women in years to come. Unconsciously ... Mary and the feminists wanted ... to turn on men and injure them.... Underneath her aggressive writings, Mary was a masochist like her mother, as indeed all the leading feminist theorists were in fact.... By behaving as she did Mary indicated.... that she was unconsciously seeking to deprive the male of his power, to castrate him. It came out in her round scolding of men. The feminists have ever since symbolically slain their fathers by verbally consigning all men to perdition as monsters' (pp. 159-61). Really?

With the framework formulated by Freud, it again became easy to ridicule and harass women who developed any analysis of patriarchy, to dismiss them without having to refute their ideas. The scientific dogma took over from the religious dogma which had been seriously discredited (by women like Wollstonecraft) and both these male-decreed belief systems have been used ruthlessly against individual women and against women collectively. In her own day Mary Wollstonecraft was maligned for her moral sickness; with the advent of Freud it was her mental sickness. The principle is the same and it was a principle that Wollstonecraft herself identified and discredited - the principle that if women do not cheerfully confine themselves to the place to which men have relegated them, then there is something wrong with the women rather than the place they are expected to occupy. Mary Wollstonecraft understood that women would continue to be perceived as abnormal while the limited experience of men was treated as the sum total of human experience. One of her main protests was that men did not know how the world looked to women and, while they insisted that it looked no different from the way it looked to men, women were without space to discuss, share and confirm their feelings and ideas. And in this, Wollstonecraft is one of a long line of women who have come to understand the significance of male power to name the world and to say what is and what is not important, valuable, and ‘logical’.”

-Dale Spender, Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them

#dale spender #mary wollstonecraft #female oppression #female erasure #womens history #early feminism #feminist history

[partly-hueman]

We are not the same

#female erasure #LGB without the T #cope and seethe

[hjellacott]

Interesting how they don't define gay as "non-woman". Almost like this movement is all about erasing women.

#women #female erasure #women won't wheesht #feminism #feminist #lgbtq #lgtbq glosary #john's hopkins #transgender #gender ideology #gender #gender propaganda