I Think Everyone Severely Underestimates How Much Iron Women Need Compared To Men. Lets Put Things In

radfems being depicted as "ugly" will never stop being so ironically funny to me? like you're going to try to insult a group of womyn by... telling them that you aren't going to respect their opinion because they don't fit your beauty standards?? you're literally proving their point?? a woman's worth is not based on her sex appeal lmao

So have y'all just missed every single post where an intersex person tells you not to refer to intersex animals as "biologically nonbinary" or do y'all just not care what intersex people have to say. Genuine question

Ayy fellow radfem Sopranos-enjoyer! :D Randomly stumbled across your blog and just wanted to say DAMN I wish I'd been as awesome and aware of the world as you are when I was 13! I was deeeeep in the libfem brainwashing till my late 20s. It's incredibly encouraging to see girls in your generation saying 'fuck that shit!' The world NEEDS young womyn like you! 🤍

thank youu :) 💗 definitely went through a bit of a libfem phase too LOL

clara dao getting a boob job was definitely a big eye opener for alot of flat chested womyn about boob jobs.

for context, she was a tiktok body positivity type influencer with a flat chest. she was a big inspiration to alot of flat chested girls, but after she gained popularity she got a boob job.

i love how people have been reacting to this tbh. how dare she use flat chested womyns insecurities to buy her boob job!

this is just reinforcing the belief that being flat chested as a womyn is in some way a flaw and needs fixing.

I hope you don't mind, I'd like to recommend you some authors for your journey as a young Feminist.

Audre Lorde and bell hooks are two of the most prominent Black, Visionary, Feminists to have ever written. They are foundational staples in Visionary Feminism.

Lorde's short speeches "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" and "There Is No Hierarchy Of Oppressions" are staples of Feminist literature and if you have access to your local library they can be found in The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, curated by Roxane Gay. "Sister Outsider" is also a staple book of hers.

I specifically recommend "Feminism is for Everybody" by hooks as well as looking into some of the many talks she was a part of before she passed that are all uploaded on YouTube.

Judith Butler is a highly academic read, but very easy to listen to if you look up interviews with them. If you're interested in higher academia Feminist thought, "Gender Trouble" is a great place to start and "Who's Afraid of Gender" really gets into current events and modern politics.

Leslie Feinberg is also a staple lesbian author. You can find a free PDF copy of "Stone Butch Blues" on Feinberg's website - lesliefeinberg.net.

I also recommend Kimberlé Crenshaw, Mikki Kendall, and María Lugones. Crenshaw is a key voice regarding Critical Race Theory and she has many speeches and talks that you can find on YouTube. Mikki Kendall is the author of "Hood Feminism" - which is a staple on my own shelf. Lugones was an Argentine feminist philosopher and similar to Butler, she was deeply academic. Her work is in dialogue with another Peruvian humanist thinker, Aníbal Quijano, regarding colonialism and power.

Most of those books should be available at your local library and almost of these thinkers have talks and speeches freely available on YouTube as well. I truly wish you well in your growth as a young Feminist voice.

i really appreciate this!! ill definitely look into these the next time i go to the library ：）

wish i could grab coffee w my mutuals. mentally we are in a cute café right now

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You simply cannot expect intersex people to constantly center perisex feelings and ignorance in their discussion. Yes, the H slur is an actual slur, even when used to describe intersex and cosexed animals. Yes, intersex people are oppressed. Yes, they're often medically abused, not "given treatment denied to trans people". No, they're not "biologically nonbinary" and yes, they can be any gender just like perisex people. Many "treatments" for intersex variants hinge upon not what is best for the person's body and needs but what will make them appear perisex. To imply any of this is false is intersexist and to try to center your own worldview and feelings in a conversation about someone else's lived experiences is selfish and equally bigoted. If you are not intersex, the discussion is not and cannot be expected to be about your opinions and worldviews.

When a man complains that “women are complicated” he really means “women are nothing like the cookie cutter archetypes that I formed in my head and I’ve discovered that every woman is an individual and they don’t come with a manual and that confuses me. I have to actually see them as human beings and interact with them as such?”