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Over the past several years over a dozen women, some girls under the age of 18, have been receiving letters filled with porn and sperm after participating in FIDE chess tournaments.

In 2022, the male commenter at the FIDE women’s tournament said that chess is “maybe not for women”.

Right now, male competitive chess players outnumber female competitive chess players 16:1.

And studies have shown that this harassment has an affect on how women play; when women think they are playing men, they don’t play as aggressively as when they think they are playing women. I wonder why.

Do you think that after years of girls/women receiving porn and sperm in letters, and having your own commentators belittle you, these female players might deserve a female-only tournament until the harassment dies down?

Read this in “stats & curiosities from HBR”

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Showing very feminine women in typical "male domains" does not teach girls that women can achieve anything they want. It teaches them that women have to be feminine to achieve anything at all. That way, femininity and beauty become preconditions for success in fields that have absolutely nothing to do with how you look or how your dress.

I used to watch undercover boss and there was an episode about hooters, the manager was abusing his power over the waitresses and humiliating them, making them act and eat like dogs so they could get time off. I mentioned this to an ex saying how fucked up that was, and he had 0 empathy for these women saying it's their fault and they 'choose' to work there. I pointed out that it doesn't matter if they work there, they should NOT be treated like that no matter what. He got defensive and didn't care, repeating that "well they choose to work there" before storming out.

This is where choice feminism has gotten us, women can be straight up abused and now men can just shrug and say "well she chose to do this, not my problem" without feeling a shred of guilt for exploited women. I swear to god this sentiment is just the "well she was asking for it" excuse repackaged

saw someone refer to not knowing how to keep track of your money as "girl math" ......why are we in this weird era of treating women like idiots but repackaging it to sound cute and quirky. We All Need To Stop

“mary shelley would hate terfs” mary shelley lived in the 1800s, wrote an entire book about how we shouldn’t play god with bodies that was a metaphor for how men envy women’s ability to create life & their inability to replicate or control that, and her parents were radical feminists.

anyway I love things like having independence, being intelligent, taking pride in my skills, not feigning incompetence, referring to myself as a woman instead of a girl, aging unapologetically, having pores, stretch marks, grey hairs, wrinkles and body fat, listening to my body's needs, eating as much as I need to satisfy my hunger, being bare-faced, wearing comfortable clothes, etcetera

In discussions and media about feminism, we really need to stop portraying it as, "You can't be fat, you can't be ugly, you can't be weird! Women always exist within double standards!" and more as, "We are sold into sex slavery worldwide, either as prostitutes or wives. Our biggest predator is men, especially the ones closest to us, as they are more likely to molest, rape, beat, and murder us than anyone else. We do not have complete freedom and power over how we use our reproductive organs - in fact, the female body is so understudied and stigmatized that we often live our lives in pain and die from related issues such as ovarian cancer and childbirth. Men own and control the majority of the world's resources, land, and money, but women do more than half of worldwide labor alongside the care of their own homes and family members, remaining destitute. Even if women do not participate in wars as soldiers, we are still trafficked, raped, and killed by men on all sides during it. Our political power is extremely limited, and is still taken as a threat, even though we are the majority. The hate of women is practiced in these ways every single day."

btw choosing to reinforce the patriarchy is still reinforcing the patriarchy, there’s nothing feminist about choosing to

— Michaele L. Ferguson, Perspectives on Politics

People got rightfully mad at 13 reasons why and riverdale half a decade ago, yet somehow euphoria is different even though it's a million times worse. Just...why?

It's more like;

Women to men: you are loved, you are valued, you deserve hugs and to be able to cry :)

Men to women: you are sexy, you are fuckable, you deserve a porn category and to be able to sell you body :)

EXTREMELY rare w from the uk media

heartbreakingly, that publication often makes good points 

sex work is work. therefore we should advocate for:

so empowering. this is what the future should be.

how come it’s all “what about infertile women” if you say being a woman means having a female reproductive system, but “birthing body” is fine???? i never intend to give birth, so what kind of “body” am i? why is my non-birthing body still the target of abortion laws? i’m not a body anyways. i’m a fucking person.  i’m fucking tired of this nonsense. i truly have no patience for it. say female or shut the fuck up!!!!

This one is actually so funny to me because the point is she's not a human woman. She's an object, an inhuman feminine archetype.

In the beginning, she represents femininity devoid of womanhood. But she loses aspects of her artificial femininity as she gains womanhood. She literally explicitly gets a vagina at the end when she turns human so Terf W I guess lmao

many beautiful women are mutuals with me on this website

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

there‘s a reason why it‘s „suck my dick“ and not „lick my pussy“ to demean someone.

there‘s a reason why we say „get fucked“ and „that‘s fucked“. fucked means: penetrated.

there‘s a reason why so much language surrounding penetrative sex is so violent: smashed, nailed, „rearranging someone‘s guts“, banging, screwing.

there‘s a reason why so many people have an aversion to gay sex, or even straight men engaging in passive anal acts.

there‘s a reason why lesbian porn catered to men usually involves dildos and strap-ons.

there‘s a reason why it‘s „big dick energy“ and „small dick energy“ and not big and small pussy energy.

there‘s a reason why a woman‘s vagina is considered „worn out“ when she had a lot of sexual partners while it doesnt impact a man‘s dick.

there‘s a reason why men say „i fucked your mom/sister“ as an insult: i stained your property, i dishonored your family.

there‘s a reason why women with a lot of sexual partners, or even women who arent virgins, are considered „dirty“ and dishonored, and why gay and bisexual men are seen as less manly.

there‘s a reason why women who are and were prostitutes or in porn are seen as less worthy while men who buy sex or do (straight) porn are seen as manly, which is considered good.

there‘s a reason why „whore“ and „slut“ are female specific terms.

penetration is seen as degrading.

and sex is often only considered as penetration. and the penis is considered to be superior, and a tool of degradation.

and to be penetrated is seen as a female trait, which in turn justifies women‘s degradation and misogyny. this is where a lot of homophobia stems from as well.

this is why the penis is not a neutral body part.