Today me and my friend accidentally drank alcoholic drinks, because 2 men who bought them, said they were alcohol free. We didn't notice the taste because we both don't drink. THEY DIDN'T EVEN ASK US, they just bought alcoholic cocktails and lied that those were berry lemonades. Btw my friend takes antidepressants, which is dangerous to mix with alcohol!! Wtf I hate men...
if you dont believe in homosexuality as a natural, innate, morally neutral sexual orientation that cannot be changed then you! are! a! fucking! homophobe!!!!!!!!
Yekaterininskiy Garden (Екатерининский сад) also known as Kat'kin Garden (Катькин сад)
- Is a picturesque park in Saint Petersburg, Russia, featuring a landmark monument erected in 1873 honoring Catherine the Great.
- There is something special about this place. It's not just a regular tourist attraction. Kat'kin Garden in the 70's used to be a secret meeting point of "sexual minorities" and chess players. (Both groups separately from each other, of course).
- The former usually would gather right next to the monument, while the latter would seat at the benches around it.
- Some people would offensively call it a breeding ground for AIDS.
- Unlike in America for example, in USSR there were no places for homosexuals to meet, no bars or pubs. An alternative would be outdoor places like this garden. Another common thing was to form a group together and hang out at someone's house.
- Nowadays, it is still a rendezvous point for homosexuals.
Olga Tsuberbiller (Ольга Николаевна Цубербиллер)
- Olga was a Russian mathematician famous for creating the textbook Problems and Exercises in Analytic Geometry. The book has been used as a standard text for high schools in Russia since its creation in 1927 and still is widely used nowadays.
- Olga Tsuberbiller (born Olga Nikolaevna Gubonina) was born in Moscow, in 1885.
- Her mother was engaged in farming and her father was employed by the Chinese Eastern Railway.
- She was the granddaughter of the industrialist Pyotr Gubonin and spent part of her youth on the family's estate at Gurzuf (Yalta, Crimea). The resort, which now makes up Gurzuf was founded by Gubonina's grandfather and uncle. The two designed the 93 hotels and summer cottages and it quickly became a favorite place of writers, as it had been in earlier years for Alexander Pushkin.
- Olga immediately began teaching analytical geometry in the Bestuzhev Courses, right after graduating from the courses herself.
- The Bestuzhev Courses in St.Petersburg were the largest and most prominent women's higher education institution in Imperial Russia.
- She was married once, hence the last name Tsuberbiller. Although she was widowed during the Russian Civil War.
- Olga counseled and tutored students and worked to popularize the study of math, while she was working in the women's courses.
- She also was a professor at the First Moscow State University.
- In 1923, Tsuberbiller met and became friends with Sophia Parnok, a famous Russian poet of a Jewish descent. The exact nature of their relationship wasn't clear, because Sophia didn't refer to Olga in the same sexual context as she described the rest of her relationship with female lovers.
- While occupying an important place in her life, Tsuberbiller was a protector, as expressed in the poem cycle Half-voiced, which describes Tsuberbiller as a type of guardian angel.
- Olga became Parnok's closest friend, and when Parnok's lover Ludmila Erarskaya was hospitalized for a mental break, Tsuberbiller was the one to whom Parnok turned to regain her equilibrium. Parnok moved in with Tsuberbiller, though Tsuberbiller was already busy providing care for her mother and her brother, who was at the time unemployed.
- In 1927, Tsuberbiller published the first edition of "Problems and Exercises in Analytic Geometry", which became a standard text in Soviet high schools.It is still a standard text in Russian high schools and technical institutions.
- By 1928, Parnok had begun to have serious health issues and Tsuberbiller, who was also ill took her to Ukraine for the summer.
- In 1930, Tsuberbiller became a professor at the Institute of Fine Chemical Technology and at the end of that same year, she and Parnok moved to a new apartment on Nikitsky Boulevard with more room where the couple could regularly entertain colleagues of Tsubersbiller's.
- Tsuberbiller and Parnok must have had a kind of "open" relationship, because Sophia openly dated other women while still living with Olga, and the latter allowed Sophia freedom.
- Sophia died while living with Olga and she took responsibility for Parnok's literary estate upon Parnok's death.
- Soon after Parnok' death, Tsuberbiller began a relationship with Concordia Antarova,a noted opera singer.
- Tsuberbiller became one of the Honored Scientists of the Russian Soviet Federative Republic in 1955. As she had with Parnok, Tsuberbiller took care of Antarova through various illnesses until her death in 1959. She retired from the university in 1969.
- Tsuberbiller died on 28 September 1975 in Moscow and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetry near Antarova.
- Olga was featured in the series "Butch Heroes" , the art project by Ria Brodell about butch lesbians from all around the globe and throughout the history.
the really ironic thing about terfs is like 70% of them are just transmisogynistic cishet men who pretend to be women online just to get a platform in transmisogynistic feminism. pretty fucked up
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you really wanna talk about cishet men pretending to be women?
OMG DHEJGDHEVRBHRG
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Men's hate towards women: murders, rapes, prostitution, control over reproductive rights, glass ceiling and sticky floor etc
Women's hate towards men (according to men): made a movie «Barbie»
“It’s literally impossible to be a woman.
You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow, we're always doing it wrong?
You have to be thin, but not too thin, and you can never say you wanna be thin. You have to say you wanna be healthy, but also, you have to BE THIN.
You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass.
You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean.
You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas.
You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time.
You have to be a career woman, but also, always be looking out for other people.
You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is INSANE, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining!
You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood, but ALWAYS STAND OUT and ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL. But never forget that the system is rigged, so find a way to acknowledge that but ALSO, always be grateful!
You have to never get old. Never be rude. Never show off. Never be selfish. Never fall down. Never fail. Never show fear. Never get OUT OF LINE. It's too hard! It's too contradictory, and nobody gives you a medal or says 'thank you!' And it turns out, in fact, that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also, everything is your fault.
I'm just so tired of watching myself, and every single other woman tie herself into knots, so that people will like us.
And if all of that, is also true for a doll just representing a woman, then I don't even know." -Gloria the barbie movie
this is it. this is exactly it oh my god.
I have just watched Barbie, it was a pirate recorded from the cinema in Kazakhstan, with shadows of people and their laughter and with a lot of casino ads. Unique experience✨
females need to be good at everything, we aren't allowed to just be normal humans, because 1 mistake is a mistake for our entire sex.
1 mistake is just proof that we are inferior.
men can rape, men can be violent, men can harass, men can murder, but those are individual mistakes, because it's not all men.
but in any and all situations, it sure as hell is all women, because we're just subhumans, we're all the same, there's no individuality, my mistake is something all of us will suffer from.
yet we're bad if we fear men, we're sexist if we fear men, even when every man we've interacted with has harmed us.
we're always at fault, we're hysterical and emotional, we lack logic and common sense.
Sociolinguistics 101:
Dialectology 101
Prescriptivism 101
Etymology 101
Raciolinguistics 101
Semantics 101
Grammatical Tense 101
Referential Inscrutability
Syntax 101
Variable Rhoticity 101
Phonology 101
Classical Philology 101
Language Preservation 101
Sign Language 101
Generative Linguistics 101
Descriptivism 101
Language Acquisition 101
Historical Linguistics 101
Orthography 101
Pragmatics 101
I want to remind that we shouldn't serve men emotionally and informationally. Activism already takes a lot of effort and resources, and it's better to spend these resources on dialogues with other women, conveying feminist ideas to them. There's no point in wasting your energy on empty arguments with men and trying to convince them.
Personally, I've had an experience arguing about porn, prostitution, patriarchy, adaptive preferences, radfem, and none of them have led to anything productive. It makes no sense to waste energy looking for statistics, articles, terms for a dialogue with a person who is obviously opposed and is only trying to elevate himself with this dispute, instead of really learning something about feminism.
Does anyone know any newish radfem or rad leaning books? Like 2010's to present day.
- 'Invisible Women' by Caroline Criado Perez is an incredible book that everyone should read, first published 2019, about the way society is built around men in literally every aspect of life
- 'Pimp State' by Kat Banyard, first published 2016, is an amazing takedown of the six main myths that surround the sex trade
- 'Firebrand Feminism' by Breanne Fahs, first published 2018, interviews and looks into the lives of prominent Radical feminists Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dana Densmore, as well as discussing the basics and historic origins of radical feminism as a grass roots movement
- 'Spinning and Weaving : Radical Feminism for the 21st century' edited by Elizabeth Miller, first published 2021, is an anthology of various essays on topics such as porn, intersectional feminism, lesbian feminism, transgender politics and more (some are better than others, it's 600+ pages so I'm making my way through)
- 'Trans' by Helen Joyce, published 2021 - not so much radical feminism - moreso gender critical, as Joyce herself claims to be 'fiscally conservative' - and a few takes I don't quiet agree with but overall an excellent comprehensive discussion of the current and historical political climate of trans issues
Why Women Are Blamed For Everything by Dr Jessica Taylor, about the psychology of victim blaming. Grim but straightforward reading. It’s been years since I read it, but also Natasha Walter’s Living Dolls, about the hypersexualisation of young women and return of misogyny as ‘empowerment’. Also Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine, about the science of sex differences.
“The Women’s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years” by Rosalind Miles (2021)
“Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood” by Michelle Goodwin (2020)
“The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society” by Dr. Debra W. Soh (2020)
“Witches, Witch Hunting and Women” by Silvia Federici (2018)
“Butterfly Politics” by Catharine Mackinnon (2017)
“Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality” by Gail Dines (2010)
“The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade” (2008), “Beauty and Misogyny” (2005), “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism” (2014), “Unpacking Queer Politics” (2003) by Sheila Jefferys
"The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception" by Debora Spar (2006) is a little older but it's a fascinating critique of surrogacy and the fertility industry as a whole
One I saw going around was about women contributing to the objectification and sexualization of themselves and other women.
It's called; Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and The Rise of Rauch Culture by Ariel Levy.
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"Penile Imperialism
The Male Sex Right and Women's Subordination"
by Sheila Jeffreys
Came out last Fall. Amazing book because it covers current topics like consent, the rise of sexual kink, prostitution and transgenderism to name a few. I thought I won't read anything new after I read her book "Beauty and misogyny" (which is a must-read) but it's worth the buy. Clear, concise, critical and informative.
"On the meaning of sex" by Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Spinifex is doing a online book launch for the English translation on March 8th!
"Paid For" by Rachel Moran
"Prostitution Narratives" by Norma and Tankard Reist
"The Equality Illusion" by Kat Banyard
"The Prostitution of Sexuality" by Kathleen Barry
I started reading an essay written by Russian female-poet Marina Tsvetaeva about my favourite Russian female-artist Natalia Goncharova. After that, I'm going to write a post about her
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I want to spend my "hot girl summer" by reading more radfem literature <з
"Humanity is male, and man defines woman, not in herself, but in relation to himself; she is not considered an autonomous being." "Man thinks himself without woman. Woman does not think herself without man.” And she is nothing other than what man decides; she is thus called “the sex,” meaning that the male sees her essentially as a sexed being; for him she is sex, so she is it in the absolute. She is determined and differentiated in relation to man, while he is not in relation to her; she is the inessential in front of the essential. He is the Subject; he is the Absolute. She is the Other"
The introduction to The Second Sex comes to mind every time I see this, or any mention of lesbians being "non-men" Simone wrote this in 1949. Over 70 years later and at this point a woman can't even be her own. A woman reduced to a "non-man". Her words have never felt more true. It's especially painful considering lesbianism is the only sexuality that's entirely separate from men, but now they have to be defined by them.
Oh really, hearing that my identity is just a misconception during the pride month, that's what I actually wanted