#radfems again

[leam1983]

A Note

I've been replying to a few too many militant blogs, let's call them. The "Based on your likes!" tag is starting to feed me absolutely rank crap that would send most of everyone on the political Left screeching with indignation if it was being said about women or POC.

As men are the target, however, and as I'm stuck peering into the fringes of diehard, theory-be-damned and Sociology-can-fuck-itself "Feminism", I'm seeing a bubble where absolutely vile crap is paired with little rose emojis and blushing Smileys.

Just imagine if your local Neo-Nazis went and said "Self-Care starts with killing a few Jews bare-handed in the morning!"

That's more or less how this feels. Again, as a disabled man with less leverage than most? It's disturbing and horrifying.

Hopefully I've blocked enough blogs and tags to earn myself a reprieve.

#radfems again #sigh

[genderkoolaid]

this is literally a mra blog pretending to be progressive LMAO

could you get out of my pussy maybe

#so obsessed w me........ #also once again love how radfems call me an MRA and MRAs call me a radfem #m. #ask box #radmail

[redditreceipts]

Random thought but have you ever noticed that breadtube is...misogynistic? Idk, as someone who used to watch a lot of breadtube (still a leftist, but as I've learned more about leftist politics and movements I find that breadtube often lacks substance - just seems like a lot of rambling without critical thinking/analysis).

Like, I can't help but notice that the lot of them shy away from topics around sex based oppression, male/female socialization, sexploitation etc (and if they're not ignoring it, they're saying that none of it is real and that those are just conservative talking points).

Idk. I just feel like a lot of people would rather watch transwomen talk about how important feminist works are actually bigoted to justify violent, misogynistic feelings toward radical feminists who discuss these things. It feels like they want to intellectualize misogyny and uphold a strawman of radical feminism so that they can validate telling women to shut the fuck up about our oppression. Am I making sense?

yes, you're totally making sense, and I decided to look into that. so I made an Excel list with the most prominent Bread Tubers, the number of their subscribers, their biological sexes and their gender identities:

if you just look at gender identity, the subscribers seem to be quite evenly distributed between men, women and non-binary people:

looks kinda fair, right?

but if we look into biological sex...

it's suddenly clear that biological males gather about 77 percent of the total subscribers, while biological females gather only about 24 percent.

doesn't seem that fair anymore, right?

but it gets even worse when you take into account the male's gender identities...

there are more subscribers to biological males with female or non-binary gender identities than subscribers to biological females???

I guess there is your answer on why bread tube does not cover issues of sexism and sex-based oppression.

...and that is why an analysis based on biological sex is important and trying to erase it will let us believe that we are closer to equality between the sexes than we actually are

#I still watch some of them and think many have good analyses #for example on topics of history #but I will never #ever #try to know anything about sexism and misogyny by them ever again #breadtube #bread tube #leftist youtube #sex discrimination #trans #transgender #trans woman #listen to trans women #terfblr #terfs please interact #radical feminism #it took a while to make these graphs so #radblr #radfems please interact #gender critical #radical feminists please touch #radical feminists do interact #feminism #listen to women #misogyny #terfs please touch #gender critical feminism #gender critical feminist #gc feminist #gc feminism

[weallpartyatybcpatricksfuneral]

"girls support girls-" okay but are you normal about queer women? are you normal about BIWOC? are you normal about disabled women? are you normal about autistic women? are you normal about fat women? alternative women? unattractive women? are you normal about women who choose not to shave their legs and armpits and faces? are you normal about butches and tomboys and masculine women? are you normal about trans women? are you normal about trans men? are you normal about nonbinary folk and people who lie outside the gender binary or renounce gender all together? are you normal about women who absolutely despise and detest the latest trends? are you normal about weird women who unsettle you with their interests? are you normal about women who don't wear makeup, who will never wear makeup, who openly dislike makeup and the makeup industry?

#ive seen a LOT of (usually white cis het) women and girls on instagram say shit like girls support girls and then turn around and shit on #women who dont follow trends #i really hate it when a woman posts about how they dislike [insert trendy thing here] and all of a sudden shes a pick me who doesnt like #other girls #ESPECIALLY when it comes to things like makeip #*makeup #its really pissing me off #this and the rise of the 'im just a girl' 'girl math' 'girl dinner' 'girlhood is-' #SHUT UP!!!! #WOMEN HAVE MANY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES!!! #if i have to see one more 'normalize femininity' post again im going to LOSE IT #alas i need instagram because i contact people from my school on there #me posts #edit: something else ive seen is just how prevalent white feminism has become #white feminism and blatent radfem rhetoric has just started being spread EVERYWHERE #like holy shit we are regressing

[thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra]

queer discourse tumblr will be like "this group of queer people face hate crimes and this is obviously the fault of this other group of queer people and not the perpetrators" and not see anything wrong with it

#max squawks #aphobia #mspec lesbian #homomultiphobia #transmultiphobia #transandrophobia #altersex #anti transmed #anti truscum #anti radfem #yea bro your discourse account about how much you hate bi lesbians is so cool. remind me how you're fighting against irl lesbophobes again?

[ms-revived-frogs]

I find it funny that I keep saying that all life has value and all humans deserve the right to life ... and radfems' response to that is to tell me to kill myself. Like, do you think that's working on your part?

#im sorry radfems but your dogpiling and suicidebaiting has no control over me anymore #i genuinely do not care how many times you tell me to kms bc i know my life has value and i love that fundamental aspect of being a human 💞 #im not gonna get bullied off this site again just bc a bunch of middle age women are mad at me lol

[closetradfem]

Literally everyone: Iceland is such a feminist paradise! Feminism worked in Iceland! I want to live in Iceland! Women are so safe and welcome there!

Iceland: yay for gender equality! on a completely unrelated note, don’t ask what the Icelandic word for wedding is

#thinking of the womens strike again #iceland isn’t the feminist and lgbtq+ paradise you think it is but ok #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do interact #radblr #radical feminists do touch #radical feminism #radfem #radical feminist #feminism #misogyny

[womenstruation]

I hate male patients so much. In my time at medical school, I’ve been subject to weird sexual comments, had unwanted physical contact, had men denigrate their female partners (who are most often their sole caretakers) in front of me, had male workers have inappropriate sexual conversations in front of me, been used as “bait” to get male patients to “behave” and engage. It’s so sickening.

#feminism #radfem #radical feminist #radical feminism #radblr #radfems please interact #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do interact #I used to want to be a gp but I have to deal with males so no #it’s just so annoying because they really ruin your day #and sometimes it’s not just the patients too #the only time I reported to my uni #I was told as a black woman I was used to it #which erm #at least they did a seminar on what to do if it happens #but just for the younger years which again erm #alas

[radsplain]

“the whole fucking off to the middle of nowhere and starting a lesbian separatist commune idea sounds cool in theory but is unrealistic in practice and could never actually work in modern da-”

#SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!!!!! #like is it a long shot? maybe but I’m not giving up on my dream idc how long it takes #and to hear this rhetoric coming from other radfems… like pls. let me dream #i just wanna live out my days on a farm with my future wife and our animals #gardening cooking and forming relationships with other lesbians who wanna do the same #is it really too much to ask #I don’t think you understand how unbothered I would be to never have to see another man again… #female separatism #lesbian #radsplain.txt

[terven-queen]

#OC #my art #everything is a terf #radblr #radfem #radical feminism #terfs please interact #terf positivity #terf art #back when I was on my old account this picture had over 500 notes 🥺 it’s my goal to get it that high again lol

[radicalit]

'Classic radblr authors' and not just 'radfem authors' because not all of them are/were radfems, but they are feminist authors popular here :) If you've read feminist literature before reading any of the authors mentioned, pick the first radfem reading. If not, pick the first 'general' / second wave feminist reading!

#polls #sorry if your fave isn't here - it's limited to 10 options and those are the authors i felt we mention the most here #radical feminism #radfem #radical feminists please touch #radical feminists please interact #radfems please touch #radfem please touch #radfems please interact #radicalit.op #posting this again because last time i accidentally set it for only 24h duration and forgot to use tags so it reached like no one #which frankly made it even funnier that someone sent a bitter anon abt these authors clearly trying to bait an angry response from me #because like. they had to actively search for it. it didnt appear in any tags other than my personal one lmaoo

[eroticcannibal]

Regarding that whole terf being like "I can totes tell which is a real vulva just by looking at it" thing, people are covering the transmisoginy but I've noticed no one is talking about how anti-porn views are playing into how this terf views bodies

Like, their is clearly a reactionary "only bigger inner labia are real, everything is surgical" thing going on here which obviously stems from the (legitimate!) Complaints about lack of genital diversity in porn (and inner labia size was a huge point of discussion a few years back). And like, radfems being radfems, decided at the time that the appropriate response was to decide anyone with this more favoured-by-mainstream-porn kind of vulva are evil and should be mocked and probably got surgery (even if they didnt) which makes them a traitor to women etc etc

And this is not to say that this specific instance is actually an attack on anyone but trans women (though the "real vs fake women" narrative *is* something also applied to sex workers of any gender, including cis women, by radfems) but rather I feel it is something to be aware of especially considering how anti-sex work sentiment affects overly sexualised groups (trans women) and groups who engage in sex work more frequently (also trans women)

#word of god #also like kind of a dig #but this is actually very obvious and i feel the fact ppl arent noticing it shows again just how lacking most ppls knowledge of #the dangers of radfems is #its more than just terfs and transmiosginy people! #and even if you *only* care about trans women #its more than just terfs and transmisogoiny that affects trans women! #radical feminism is a plague upon us and ppl ignore it and fall for it too easily #but pat themsepves on the back amd think theyre safe cus they called out a terf engaging in teansmisoginy #thats not enough!

[f1ghtsoftly]

I think a lot about how if a woman in our society wishes to realize her ambition in this world must submit to a type of emotional violation as a price of entry into the public world of men.

This shows up in ways we do not expect. We live in a world that requires energetic investment in exchange for advancement, but what does it mean to invest in a society that hates you? What does it mean to believe in a value system that wants to rape your corpse? Whether they choose to reject it entirely or delude themselves into believing it’s not true, every woman’s hard work is on the chopping block of public shame and ridicule. It is expected, valorized and normalized to ritually humiliate any woman who steps up in the public eye. Every earnest attempt at establishing a legacy must come at the cost of a knife to the heart; exposing a bare breast that we all see as marked, as woman.

The buy-in required to succeed results in a forfeit of dignity for the colonized (women as colonized subjects?). What is the point, in legitimating a system that not only devalues *you*, both all that you are and is associated with you. Where pornographic violation is normalized and expected? Down to the symbolic, the religious, the arcane. All ways to desecrate women have been thought of and pioneered, no stone left unturned, no woman left untouched by it’s force. We live in a world where rape is constantly and consistently preformed on a symbolic and ritual level and we are expected to thank men for the privlege of interacting in the public sphere under it’s duress.

This is seen as a woman's place. To sell oneself in a hostile marketplace and to expose oneself to wolves. It is the labor extension of the marriage market and indeed a further replication of patriarchal power dynamics that define committed relationships. The only way for a woman to advance, even in our “civilized” world where we can substitute her labor for marriage, the dynamics persist. To aspire to work outside of drudgery as a female is to submit oneself wholly for consumption to a world that degrades what you wish to value and which lays claim to your very spirit.

I cannot make this point strongly enough, humiliation and ridicule is not a price women should have to pay to exist publicly.

#radblr #radical feminism #radical feminist #radical feminist theory #radical feminists please touch #radfem safe #radfem welcome #char is writing theory again

[lesbiogay]

"online spaces seem to define lesbianism as a hatred for men rather than a love for women" fuck yeah man and it's so fucking tiring. Isn't bioessentialism exhausting-

"so it really annoys me when people can't separate men from lesbians entirely. Like if I see another 'this male character is a he/him lesbian' post I'm gonna kms" oh! Ok you're insane.

#this is beat for beat a post i had to see with my own eyes not too long ago #congratulations you really do hate men still and its just repackaged as 'protecting the lesbian community' #i didnt even check if op was a terf i just fucking blocked them and moved on bc at this point. walks like a duck etc #like some of u guys really need to learn that radfem ideology is bioessentialist nonsense about vitriolic hate for all men #or those perceived as men #and not to be a 'not all men' truther but u need to watch yourself. are you complaining about the patriarchy #or just reinforcing that toxic masculinity is an inherit genetic trait rather than learned behavior #again i will sound pedantic. but if i must say it i will say it. this isnt misandry sis its walking a tightrope over a tar pit of lies. #mspec gay #mspec lesbian #lesbiogay #bi gay

[saltburn-bi]

actually I am tired of seeing yall interact w this person. please block slashfuhrer and stop interacting with them. if you are on mobile I suggest also filtering the tags in the image to identify the people reblogging them without criticism.

#saltburn #radfems / #terfs / #again if you're a terf or radfem reading this: dig a hole. piss in the hole. and bury yourself in the piss hole

[womenstruation]

we were so close to having a generation of little black girls grow up without ever experiencing relaxers but now I'm not so sure. Everywhere on social media, women but mostly teenage girls complain about their natural hair, begging for tips on how to "relax" and "texturise" it, whatever that means. Even the language used is so telling, damaging your hair is not "relaxing" it.

And it's not just the damage done to your hair, relaxer use can increase risk of uterine cancers and fibroids, but this very real danger is ignored. I know it doesn't help that the natural hair movement that was meant to finally help us feel accepted, has been overtaken. But for a moment around 2015, I really thought we had seen the back of relaxers.

#feminism #radfem #beauty culture #black hair #i hate all those my 4c hair could never jokes #or calling Black women bald headed #but it is so crazy that we cannot wear our hair as it grows out of our head without making a statement #and now i am again seeing babies having their hair relaxed #getting sew-ins #i hate being reminded that progress isn't linear