trying to fact check a very important post about what happens if you drink salt water (seawater) to see if my preconceived notions were simply myth or some shit and the first internet search results are this

this is a great lesson in why sources are important

I think we should start putting Wellness Industry people into the ocean

You literally go crazy before it kills you. No lie.

The point of drinking saltwater is to shit your guts out lmao. You could probably put poison in water for the same effect, your intestines purge the poison + water rapidly which also flushes out all the decayed crud and parasites that live in a sluggish digestive system. It’s an ancient practice used in both Ayurveda and TCM, but obviously not for everyone. 

I’m curious about radfem or other GC spaces; I feel a lot of those I talk to, especially newer ones like me, are detrans in some capacity or have dealt with dysphoria.

I personally socially transitioned. Apologies if I forgot any other major categories.

Please RB if you can to help spread!

I medically transitioned at 16, feel no body dysphoria, but do feel a persistent disconnect with other women and like I was never really able to resocialize myself into womanhood. I think a big part of it is just my own neurosis and self-sabotaging due to imposter syndrome. I feel weird all the time.

— Will Hall, Living with suicidal feelings (via she-minions)

anti-pronoun pins I designed with help from the ladies in the Totally Rad Lesbians discord server ... one day when I can afford one of those badge press machines I’m going to have a bangin’ badge shop

(those last two I’ll name The Emma and The Genevieve)

These are fantastic! 

self-described “radfems” online: uhm there’s this problem i’ve been noticing in radical feminism where some of you are like crazyyyy. like way too extreme. haven’t you considered that average women aren’t gonna agree with your ideas? that means you hate those women. and if you hate most women that’s not very feminist. so tone it down a little

the word “radical” in radical feminist: do i mean nothing to you

full offense but some of you need to touch grass and realize most of the women whose liberation you claim to be fighting for are normies and being aggressively anti natalist does not serve women who have already given birth in any way. Some of you truly don't care about women, only about being holier than thou. fun fact not even radfem theorists were perfect radfems. such thing does not exist. imagine calling a woman a sociopath for birthing a child and still believing you are the compassionate one lmao. literally go outside interact with random women on the street I beg u guys.

we're never going to end patriarchy if we make the rejection of motherhood a requirement of feminism. most women would choose their children + families over feminism, especially if they feel they are j going to be judged + condescended for being mothers in feminist spaces (even if it's not the case); even if we magically convinced every woman on the planet to not have any more kids, most of them would already have at least one. what then? are these women expected to self flagelate?

and let's be real, radical feminism is a niche ideology that will likely remain niche because of how childish + out of touch most of the women involved are; radical feminism in recent years has produced nothing to offer the average woman due to how easily it allowed itself to be absorbed by the anti-trans conservative establishment. its currently going nowhere, so can normie women really be faulted for prioritizing their children + families over a half-dead movement that doesn't even see value in helping them and in fact sees them as class traitors because they had kids (esp if it was w men)?

and on the topic: i don't think it's productive to frame women having kids as solely doing so in service of a man like someone in the replies has framed it as. not everything women do is solely a product of patriarchal brainwashing, that's some polilez rhetoric. motherhood is not a male invention. as an institution, it is currently patriarchal because men have used religious, economic, and sexist influence to artificially overstate their importance in human reproduction. in nature, males are disposable; this is an existential truth that has tormented men since the start of humanity, so they weaponised what they had at their disposal + the vulnerabilities that come with pregnancy/motherhood to control mothers (who make up the bulk of womankind) and by extension daughters. it's an almost air-tight setup that ensures their continued male supremacist control over women and society (because women create the people within society). idk how radfems can recognize womb envy and yet insist the root of patriarchy is reproduction itself rather than how its been weaponised against the natural creators [women]. the issue is men coveting women's role as the creators of people, not women's reproductive capacity itself. i think that's the biggest revelation ive had regarding radical feminism - it offers so many good analyses + salient observations about women's oppression, but it completely falls flat on resolutions.

we aren't going to uproot shit if our game plan is to somehow convince women (which btw also includes lesbian + same-sex partnered bisexual women, not just straight women) to stop wanting + having kids instead of seizing control of motherhood so it's dictated by + benefits women instead of men. like what a waste of time. radical feminism because it IS intrinsically tied with antinatalism is a waste of time. like did we forget patriarchy literally means "rule of the FATHER"? we are handing the win over to male supremacy if, as feminists our only response to male-dictated reproduction is "lol stop having kids" ...what kind of childish black and white thinking...

honestly i wish more women who are truly committed to improving conditions for women abandoned radical feminist framework. we should take what is valuable from it, but discard the rest. as it currently stands, most radfems seem to think the solution to female oppression is to end humanity. that's sad. that's basically saying "women can't be free ever, so let's just allow humanity to die off." im beginning to understand why radfems have accrued the reputation of infatilizing women + not caring about mothers.

radfems are always going on about how "other movements aren't expected to do [xyz]!" then turn around and insist on denying women a fundamental aspect other social movements share: aspirations for the future. truly, no other oppressed group is expected to abandon hope and j choose to die off without having experienced even one day of liberation the way women are per radical feminist doctrine. activists don't only fight for the best interests of their oppressed class - they're also meant to inspire hope.

Well first off, a women married to a man is emotionally and financially invested in the patriarchy, period. If she leaves the man and ends up being a single mother, now she is almost certainly in crisis mode. Here is the issue with feminism that focuses too much on bailing other womens’ ships; there is no room left for constructive activity and worldbuilding. Married and ex-married women chose the patriarchal family unit as their worldbuilding exercise, and I’m not at capacity to bail them out or water down my thoughts to spare their feelings.

Short guide for women to decoding their feelings about doing something or being with someone

If you’re unsure, if you don’t know, if you are hesitant, if you don’t feel like it, if you’re not in the mood, if not right now, if you have to think about it, if you don’t feel good about it, if the thought of it makes you uncomfortable, if you have to think of excuses and reasons to do it, if you’re doing it out of shame, if you are doing it to avoid scrutiny, if you are doing to please other people, if you have to talk yourself into it

That’s a NO. Don’t do it and stop dismissing your own feelings for the benefit of others

One of the hardest things in my life is constantly being reminded how small my mom’s life became because of her marriage to my father. She and I were talking about how she has recently rediscovered her love of soft boiled eggs. She has been eating scrambled eggs for 33 years because my dad doesn’t like any other kind of eggs. She hates scrambled eggs. She has finally started cooking some breakfasts only for herself and leaving him to shift for himself even though it makes him angry.

the goonies was absolutely deranged

Amending a sexist ad in Melbourne. “Women are not objects. Turning a woman into a sexualised object is the first step in justifying violence against her.”

headless women of advertisement

literally how ridiculous their 'definitions' of womanhood are

"female" and "male" become as meaningless as "floopdiloop" without a real definition. we need these terms to mean something because they denote oppressed and oppressor classes along the axis of sexism. the immutable traits these words describe are the traits for which women (by which I mean female humans) have been oppressed worldwide for all of human history. if "woman" means nothing, we have no language to describe ourselves as a marginalised group fighting for our rights and safety. the only reason you think it's harmless for a man to identify as a woman is because you don't truly believe women are oppressed. no one would have to explain to you why a white person can't identify as a black person and then say they're the most oppressed type of black person because no one actually sees them as black and because they're not getting access to resources specifically reserved for black people. the fact that a man can perform femininity and y'all will jump to say that makes him just as– if not more– oppressed for being a woman as the women who are groomed on the basis of their female sex from the second they're born, as the women in menstrual huts, as the women attacked with acid, as the women forced to carry their rapists' babies to term, as the women denied jobs on the assumption they'll later leave to be homemakers or on the assumption that they're unqualified because they're female, as the women groomed into being housewives for men much older than them specifically because of their perceived female fertility.... I could go on forever because that's how fucking infinite the list of sex-specific issues ""AFAB""s face on the basis of being ""AFAB"". there is a millennia-old history of misogyny and it is demonstrably (and obviously!!) sex-based. What trait are women oppressed for if not their sex? with your airy bullshit non-definition of womanhood, how do the oppressor class (men) even tell whom to oppress? if "woman" is so internally self defined and meaningless, how did they know whom to deny the vote? who couldn't open a bank account? whom to forcibly impregnate? whom to marry off with a dowry? this so-open-minded-your-brain-falls-out lack of critical thought from libfem "activism" makes it seem like people are oppressed for wanting to perform femininity as though femininity itself isn't something which is artificially superimposed through intense socialisation of most "AFAB"s from birth. women weren't denied the vote because they were the ones in skirts, they were denied the vote and restricted to skirts because they were female. "a woman is anyone who identified as a woman is a woman is a woman is a woman" is tautological empty nothingness on par with the meaningless "floopdiloop"; it is not progressive and it is actively hindering feminism's progress.

idek with the TERF wars. Biological sex, anthropology, and historical record should all be respected and the basis of our beliefs about gender. But fighting definition wars over "wHaT iS WEmON rEAlly??" just shows that a lot of common beliefs that radfems hold about gender aren't held by the vast majority of people that believe the standard definitions of sex and gender (based on religion). Trying to find a common ground with some mythical normie pre-TRA insanity; wasted energy

the colonisation that britain started, but was soon joined in by many other countries, was a pretty unique event in world history. you know, insofar as it led to the development of the current economic world system that has remained in place ever since and consolidated and deepened the divisions between humanity that it put in place. you tried to argue one thing that indirectly led to a much larger thing was more important than the larger thing and it came across as though you were dismissing colonialism and imperialism. I haven’t even called you anything because as far as I’m concerned you just chose a weird hill to die on and I barely know you. but don’t give me this shit with british self-flattery over empire because you’re, I don’t know, unengaged with modern day imperialism and its functionings, maybe. goodbye @joannerowling @mandragores

Why screenshot this instead of replying directly if you’re going to tag me? That stuff is exactly why i’m thinking of leaving tumblr behind tbh, it’s like high school here. Anyway, i don’t understand your point. Every event in history is “unique” (the “British self-flattery” was tongue-in-cheek i’ll admit, but seriously, that guilt complex anglos have really does come across as unsincere sometimes with how you love to wallow in it). And every system was preceded by a different one! -500 BC Rome didn’t lead less than, idk, 1700s France to our current politics. It’s one continuous timeline. The Antique civilisations lead to the middle ages connect to the modern era bring out our contemporary times etc.

This is juicy discourse tbqh

Pretty village, Norway

a reminder to feminist cis women that the misogyny and oppression you face is a result of the societal role you are forced into, not the genitalia or sex organs you are born with.

stop equating sex with gender. stop implying having a dick gives people societal power.

your trans woman friends would appreciate it.

Why are women forced into the societal role we’re forced into? What is it about us that makes people force that role on us even before birth?

The societal role you are forced into is literally dependent on what genitalia you were born with, dumbass. These societal roles are specifically meant to benefit the dick people and subordinate women. Some of the dick people not liking their role doesn’t make them women and isn’t our problem.

@grizzlybutch considers himself to be a “27 year old white trans butch lesbian”, which really transforms this into a very different picture.

A man saying,

A man essentially using authoritarian and entitled language to tell women to stop believing that oppression and discrimination based on sex/biology exists, that male people as a group don’t ever overpower, exploit, and otherwise use female people, that this is how it is, stop reading and forming your own thoughts and just get back in that kitchen.

This 27 year old man is using authoritarian language and telling these things on a social media platform that is predominantly populated by teenage girls and early young adult women. And he does this while camouflaging on the internet behind a username that attempts to make people perceive his dicktations as coming from someone female.

Yes, I’m sure male people would appreciate it if female people would start believing that reverse-sexism exists and throw feminism in the trash while replacing the biological sciences with social constructivism and creationism. I am sure our MRA and conservative “friends” would appreciate it, too.