"why are you criticizing my sexual preferences i like choking my girlfriend and she likes it too! :("
anyway, did you know that the likelihood of a woman being murdered by her partner increases by 750% if she is strangled/choked by him?
communists will celebrate violent revolution against fascists and capitalists, openly wish death upon billionaires but suddenly a woman wanting her abuser or rapist to suffer is “carceral” and “just continuing the cycle of violence”
i'm tired of hearing "wealthy white women can go out of state for abortions" as if forcing anyone to cross state lines for healthcare is a acceptable in any way
do you really think someone in texas will get pregnant & go "oh i can just fly to new york for an abortion it's fine!"
what’s really concerning about the sudden rise of people on the “left” who believe human trafficking isn’t common and is “SWERF” propaganda is that it treats the exploitation inherent to the sex trade as an anomaly rather than essential to its existence
y’all realized that women being in the traditional workforce didn’t end misogyny and really just decided “might as well go back to the point in history where i was legally my husband’s property and could be lobotomized at a moment’s notice” i hate y’all
when taylor swift said “you were tossing me the car keys, ‘fuck the patriarchy’”, she showed how supposedly feminist men appropriate feminist language to gain easier access to more vulnerable women by presenting as non-threatening but still mistreat women. in this essay i will—
resist the urge to neutralize the language around abortion and reproductive healthcare — this doesn’t mean it isn’t inclusive of all genders, it just means we need to center the material reality that it is WOMEN who are being targeted & who need to be fought for primarily
incredible that by by targeting privileged women and to extracting them from the political & material reality of being a woman, you can get away with calling women hysterical, liars, manipulative and every other misogynistic thing in the book
"there's no connection between consensual choking and strangulation wtf!!!" your boyfriend gets off on the idea of you struggling to breathe and having power and control over you, the very basis of every abusive relationship. why does having that power over you get him off?
the scariest people advocating for the sex trade are the few women who made lots of money & start talking abt how basic regulation will “literally kill sex workers” — you sound like a boss fighting minimum wage bc it’ll “kill your business” but using dead women as leverage
like I’m sorry but if you see me saying “feminism doesn’t need to include anyone but women” and your first thought is “they clearly are excluding trans women” that says more about how you view trans women than it does about me!
honestly mean girls is such a good portrayal of the ways girls are socialized into hating themselves — like the scene where cady is watching the plastics hate on their bodies and she doesn’t understand how there can be so many things to dislike abt your body
the way ppl are speaking abt catharine mackinnon is so indicative of how mainstream feminism has become a reselling of patriarchy - she is literally the reason you can even legally claim sexual harassment & has done more for women than many current feminists could ever claim to
i hate being an actually radical social worker bc this field is such fucking liberal bullshit why the fuck am i being forced to take a training about how “sex work” is not inherently exploitative to “women, girls and femmes” ariana was right when she said she hated america!
i've worked w women who cant see themselves as DV victims bc they "weren't perfect either" & slapped him once in self defense despite experiencing horrific abuse - by going to bat for JD, you're keeping survivors from being able to find that power in recognizing they were abused
“actually you’re more likely to be murdered by someone you know, you hysterical woman” wow thanks so much grimace as if we don’t fucking know this — it’s almost like violence against women in both the public & private sphere is endemic!
people see a small number of women asking for the bare minimum in relationships with men and having boundaries and they go “ummm i think feminism was a mistake actually! we should stop this”
“abortion rights are labor/human/working class/religious/LGBTQ/racial rights etc!”
you’re not wrong but i encourage you to accept the notion that even if none of that was true it would still matter because abortion affects women and women are worth burning it all down for
it will never sit well with me when people use the death/murder of a relatively privileged woman to go “yes it’s sad BUT [insert group] has it so much worse so…” like but nothing a woman was murdered by her boyfriend like so many women are it just seems so insincere?
seeing people call a female artist re-examining an unhealthy relationship she had with an older man in her youth a “victim mentality” in the name of intersectional feminism is my super villain origin story
marxist men: we analyze the GROUP conditions
women: so what about women as a group fighting for our liberation?
marxist men: HA no we only mean groups that include us — y’all can keep being baby factories tho
“radical feminism doesn’t account for imperialist class structures” meanwhile the only radical feminism you’re reading is from unmedicated women on twitter dot com who also don’t actually read radical feminist thought
it’s actually okay for misogyny to be reason enough for something to be bad — like i assure you as someone who is firmly rooted in working with working class women, you don’t have to plead your case by downplaging the root cause of misogyny
Let's be clear, wealthy women will always have access to whatever doctors, medicines and procedures that they want. Ending Roe is an attack on the autonomy of poor and working class women.
@comradeswift
Choking in form of kink is not abuse. It's consensual and consented to. BDSM is a lifestyle, abuse is definitely not synonymous to BDSM. Implying so makes you brain dead. Have fun.
if the only way we can criticize ezra miller’s violence is by echoing “trans & non binary people are valid despite being abusive/bad/violent!” we cannot actually discuss ezra miller’s violence in a way that actually matters
there is no women's movement in this country anymore - what's being passed off as feminism isn't feminism, it's just a coping mechanism to live under patriarchy and not upset men
every radical, marxist, transnational feminist group/org/person who actually confronts patriarchy and attempts to hold men accountable is called a SWERF bc they dare break the illusion that personal choice & liberalism can free us & y'all depend on that illusion to feel okay
you’ve gotta be one stupid son of a mother fucker to read “men constitute the overwhelming majority of abusers and women the overwhelming majority of victims” as a call for women being allowed to abuse with impunity
This shit right here is why straight men and lesbian survivors of domestic violence or even rape rarely come forward.
This is the cultural ecosystem that TERFs want, one where cis women can be abusive in every way and their victims have no recourse.
men and women alike have never gone this hard for women survivors of abuse - even if j*hnny d*pp was abused (he was not) when have you ever seen people go this hard defending a woman victim? never. even at the height of the me too movement, we were still being called liars
feminists: all women suffer from gender based violence
marxist men: wow so you literally think Palestinian men oppress Israeli women? you support EVA BRUAN???
it was never about "caring for male victims of violence" - it was about shutting up women who are too loud about being beaten and abused by powerful men, it's about reasserting male dominance and power
it's woman hating
yet bc she's a second-wave feminist who doesn't kowtow to patriarchy she's seen as an anti-sex puritan - too many women who claim to be feminists take everything the second wavers did for granted, it's giving spoiled energy tbqh!
i’m sorry but catcher in the rye is literally about a teenage boy whose brother died and who was sexually abused having a hard time dealing with life it’s not even subtext it’s very clearly stated how did any of you graduate high school with these reading comprehension skills
if you build a following as a mental health professional based on hot takes and lack of boundaries you really should not be a therapist — this is a conversation for supervision, beloved, not twitter!
“how is people pleasing manipulative? i just lied and said i was ok with that thing i hated or did that thing i didn’t want to do so that people would like me” faceass lmao
“sacred prostitution” is what you get when your spiritual practice centers the “divine feminine & masculine” — just reinforcing oppressive ideas of gender where women are passive recipients of male violence
why do people get so much more mad when you point out how men on the left don’t do anything to materially fight misogyny than they do about the actual misogyny
wanna know the org whose work helped me understand my experiences in the sex trade?
AF3IRM — the fact that sex trade apologists attack the leading anti-imperialist feminist org who actually get work DONE & keeps survivors safe shows where loyalties lie & it’s not with women
i’m not surprised that the backlash against “SWERFs” has caused people to just not believe that trafficking exists and that condemning trafficking at all is “anti-sex worker”
insane how feminists saying that women of all classes, races and privileges experience sexual violence and DV is being spun as “girlbossifying eva braun” you are all deeply unserious people
so many women are blindly defending d*pp based on the idea that "men can be abused too" and yeah, true but it's telling that they're bending over backwards for men when men will never do the same for women - they'll throw another woman under the bus for the sake of male approval
ezra miller assaults women & abuses children and still has a job in hollywood while amber heard, a female survivor of domestic violence, is being iced out by the same studio — if that’s not male privilege despite personal identity idk what is
i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: feminism does not have to concern anyone but women and if it is to be meaningful, it must focus on and prioritize women
yet you know what’s the most commonly shared feature of mass shooters? violence against women. no matter their race, they all abuse women. why does that not center in your analysis of imperialist violence?
them being overwhelmingly white in an imperialist, violence stricken empire where millions of its citizens are desensitize, if not, entirely comfortable with mass death, is far more important imo
it’s typical abuse apologist rhetoric: “trafficking isn’t happening as much as you think it is, but if it is, it’s actually not trafficking and by pointing this out you’re literally putting sex workers in danger”
i quite literally used to be involved in kink and used it as a form of self harm so implying it’s a hang up *i* have is gross — your kinks do not exist in a vacuum. why does someone get off on choking someone? bc of the power & control
if women do not have the freedom to tell our stories and speak about the violence we have endured, we as women fundamentally do not have free speech in this country
lord help me, the communists who you sent to fight exploitation can’t even see how their desire for violent sex may be informed by dominant ideology and cultural hegemony
i’ve personally been assaulted, followed, threatened with murder, etc. by random men on the street so i don’t think it’s particularly “hysterical” for women — yes even white women! — to be genuinely afraid of this
i am very lucky to have an IUD and live in a state that will most likely not criminalize abortion but right now i’m angry for my sisters who don’t have these privileges — women are going to die and all these people, men and handmaidens of patriarchy have blood on their hands
this idea that radical feminists believe that women are inherently good and don’t do harm shows that most people who moan and groan about radical feminists on this bird app don’t know anything about radical feminism and are just virtue signaling
the way anything that questions the status quo of women’s material conditions around the world is deemed as white feminism is the worst impact the tumblr diaspora has had
if you a prominent communist man you’re required by law, actually to tell me how many times you’ve done your own laundry in the past year and if not how many times you’re wife has had to do it for you
they also never include trafficked women who don’t see any of the money they make in their idea of who the “majority” of sex workers are — almost like it’s bc if they did, they’re argument would be exposed for
the propaganda it is!
the only logical end result of this is Christian puritanism. people will always represent their sexuality, whether it is in writing, acting, images, etc. and she's right: hatred of pornography is a religiously/conservatively-based belief on control of people's sexuality.
and this related to the white cis feminists who say "kill your local rapist" is inherently revolutionary because they personally like it.
ok but the world is still racist & antisemitic & transphobic. that phrase does not exist independently of those facts. context matters.
me: saying white and/or wealthy women can always access abortion is false & dangerous bc it’s misinformation & ignores that if you need immediate one you’ll die before you can travel somewhere else
cretins on this app: so you hate WOC? white women never stop making it about them
I wish more people understood that the way the police state conceptualizes what counts as "violence" or a "crime" is a huge part of why we get the idea that men are dangerous and scary and that women are pure. And how racist and transmisogynistic the whole framework is.
“saying men are too stupid to see the object that’s clearly in front of them is biological essentialism” well if they didn’t want me to say that then maybe they shouldn’t be so fucking stupid!
it just goes to show how poorly people understand intersectionality — it can still be rooted in misogyny while more severely impacting poor and working class women especially women of color
that doesn’t negate the fact that women as a CLASS are being targeted