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Happy International Women’s Day to this twitter account and only this twitter account

#this is my fav twitter bot #it only does uk businesses with a certain number of min employees #but its iconic #international womens day

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#slur discourse #bitch #language

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this little glamorized misogyny "joke" has run its course right. can we leave this corny demonic shit in 2023. it is done now. we've had enough.

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❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

#it's kind of telling that the lgb has to campaign to drop the t when the t is out her dropping the lgb every other day #japan

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Turns out men are capable of sharing the prep work for the holidays

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if i heard that a woman aborted a fetus because prenatal screening had revealed a disability that i shared, i would simply not shame her

#bodily autonomy is not conditional #pro abortion #abortion

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Libraries & Feminism, Buttons, 1960s – 1970s.

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Idk why people want so much to be oppressed.

It's absolutely fine if you have a relationship with someone of a different sex than you. It's fine. You don't have to call it queer-fuck-punk-banana whatever.

It's also fine (and socially encouraged actually, unless you live in a place where adultery is a crime, but these people are all USians for some reason) to have a sexual relationship with no romantic interests involved.

It's fine to have friends and call them friends.

It's also not hate to point out that you are not oppressed. It's neither a personal attack or an insult.

I can't really believe people are so fucking fragile that I have to spell this out.

#that explains a lot #good take

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this is why it’s so important for feminists to talk about motherhood as well, instead of just saying “everyone should be child free” and leaving it at that. this is a HORRIBLE double standard that i’ve even noticed with my parents (my mom works during the day and dad stays home). when my mom is sick, she still does what needs done. my dad, however, hides in his room and ignores all responsibilities. it has nothing to do with who does the majority of the household duties and everything to do with male vs. female socialization.

#motherhood #the second shift #women's labour

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Documentaries that will radicalize you:

The Hunting Ground (sexual assault on college campuses)

The Invisible War (sexual assault in the military)

Hot Girls Wanted (exploitation of young women in the porn industry)

Our Father (exploitation of women seeking fertility assistance via donor sperm)

Athlete A (sexual assault in USA women’s gymnastics)

Period. End of Sentence (Indian women empower themselves to combat menstruation stigma by making and selling reusable pads)

Surviving R. Kelly (his victims come forward to expose his pedophilia and sexual abuse)

The Bleeding Edge (exploitation in the medical device industry, primarily affecting women)

#to watch #documentary

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#i didn't like her until i realized men hate her now i'm her number one fan #but for real a lot of fandom-dated female characters are my beloveds (ie. pulaski from tng)

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I’m so frustrated that if I read a book about any form of sexism written in the past 10 years, now I have to first fight through paragraphs on end about the difference between sex and gender and why we’re not talking about gender (cause it’s fucking fake).

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People have called me naive for not being "pragmatic" enough to accommodate the so-called "political realities" of compromise and concession making in my work. But like Douglass, Luther King, Shakur, and Malcolm X taught —institutions do not respond to negotiation, they respond to pressure. Their positions are not based on best practice theory or innocent misunderstandings, but on investment and attachment to power. So, in my view, it is the tactic of polite political negotiation that is based on assumptions that I would call naïve, because political negotiation assumes that politicians and institutions respond to reason and negotiation at all—that they are interested in things like common ground, good-will, good ideas and coherent thinking. They are not.

When we build a movement based on negotiation, it hurts us in two main ways: firstly, because it ignores the way that institutions truly operate. Transgenderism and its denial of biological sex and female existence has turned the statement "women are female" into a political one. What this statement (which used to be a mere fact) now represents, is not an argument or a piece of information, but the reassertion of a boundary that is being violated in the interests of power. When feminists make the now-political assertion that "women are female," but make concessions in the process of negotiating with the powerful (for instance by referring to "transwomen," or "trans rights," in campaigns against sex self-identification laws, by calling men who wear feminine clothing "she" out of "respect," or by shunning women who don't comply with these compromises), these concessions undermine the very boundary that their political truth telling was intended to assert in the first place. We will not get very far, for very long, like that.

-Renée Gerlich, “On Twenty-First Century Patriarchy, and the Place of Women's Hearts in Women's Movement” in Spinning And Weaving: Radical Feminism for the 21st Century

#Renée Gerlich #radical feminist theory

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So what you're saying is

You don't actually want feminist book recommendations

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Patti Smith, Seventh Heaven

#patti smith #its not even transing of historical gnc people at this point

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Prostitution Infographic

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#prostitution #anti prostitution #tw prostitution #sex industry

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The subject of maternal regret is so taboo but it's crucial that feminists tackle this subject and make it known to girls and young women that even though they are constantly scaremongered with "if you don't have kids you might regret it!" the opposite is equally true. Maternal regret is a real and silent epidemic. And if you ask me it is better to regret not having kids than to regret having kids. At least if you regret not having kids that regret and pain is yours and yours alone. When you regret having children you have dragged a whole other life into it and made it their pain too. Children aren't stupid, they can tell when their mother doesn't fully want to be a mother, and this is a cycle of pain and trauma for both mother and child.

"Regretting Motherhood: a study" by Orna Donath should be added to every single feminist reading list. It should be required reading for all girls and young women. It needs to be widely known that despite all the myths it is possible to regret having children and wish you could go back in time and undo the decision to become a mother.

But I believe the subject of maternal regret is kept taboo for the same reason conservatives always want to limit access to birth control and abortion. The rich and powerful want women to keep popping out babies to feed the world's economies and militaries. If a young woman knows that it's possible that she might regret having a child she might think twice. If however she is fed myths that any child she births she will unconditionally want and love and never regret she will be more likely to go through with becoming a mother even when she's unsure if that's what she actually wants. Sorry to get dark but if that was actually true why would dumpster babies be a thing?

Go read "Regretting Motherhood: a study" by Orna Donath. Talk to other girls and women about maternal regret. Make it known that maternal regret is real and more common than anybody would like to think. Make sure it's known that even though some women might regret not having kids the opposite is equally true and far more damaging.

#maternal regret #motherhood