why is 99% of leftist theory about sex and gender just very comfortable sexism. the thing is, for their purposes, it works. which is
1. not really investigating how gender or sex works and still getting a part in the conversation
2. coddling men

When I met my wife, I was constantly telling her not to get too attached because I wasn't sure I'd be sticking around very long.

Well, I lived along enough to see five years of marriage and hear my mom call me her daughter.

Journalists have made themselves our enemies.

calling it now spotify is gonna make a personalized playlist of ai generated songs that "match your taste" for wrapped.

Swarnim is an Indian trans woman who has recently experienced transphobic workplace harassment and is dealing with health issues plus eviction. She's offering coding classes that she hopes will interest women and especially queer people. Boost if you can. docs.google.com/forms/d/1vR8...

caitvi is so fucking insane like. "yeah so theres this pairing, one half is a mixed idf soldier/40% cop and her partner is really cool and edgy and has a dark backstory (doesnt matter for her character dont worry) all that matters is that shes hot and she only has eyes for her gf"

sexual violence is THE patriarchal technology of oppression. wherever there is any kind of oppression--colonialism, genocide, capitalism, the state, the police--there is sexual violence as its frontline operative mechanism. the child is THE archetypal object of legitimate disciplinary violence.

Esther Ghey is of this parental decision, and her decision to bemoan her daughter's ability to be trans, befriend the family of her murderers, and deadname her throughout a book is because she's a fucking ghoul of a transphobe. She grieved the loss of her son, not daughter, let's be real.

me when women

Reminded today of how deeply - to the bone marrow - angry I get when someone implies that cis women's/AFAB childhoods are super special, exclusive, and extra victimizing experiences of misogyny
🙄🙄🙄

Especially bc it's only ever brought up to deny or dismiss trans women talking about their girlhoods

Fascinating that the conservative movement believes in a form of "free speech" that is not free from government persecution, but IS free from basic human decency

I love how playful this is. while the content is absolutely still serious, the text is so unserious. It elucidates just how much of a circus this all is, THIS is it? our most prime power structure for all of history is THIS fucking stupid?

"dont you dare violate women; only *we* get to do that"

It's about determining access rights to women-as-property, with women of the hegemonic demographic regarded as a resource to hoard, guard, and position as 'under threat' from the Other.

Well, fuck.

A Bangladeshi lesbian friend has been issued an ultimatum on marriage by her family. She was, in the past, subject to religious conversion therapy to try to 'cure' her, and now will be married off against her will unless she can secure the funds and documents to escape.

Please help.