Desisterfem - Womanhood Is Not A Costume

this may or may not be a popular thought in the radical feminism community but i do think viewing oneself as asexual is a very valid sexual orientation, i just don't think it alone means you can belong in the lgb community.

i'm not talking about having a low sex drive or anything like that - i'm talking literally being incapable of sexual attraction.

If you want to know why we live in a rape culture, it's because men believe that rape is just sex a woman wasn't crazy about.

posting a tiktok vaguely criticizing the prostitution and porn industries knowing im about to deal with the dumbest people alive

Julie Carcione, Property of the US Govt., 2022

Lace, 11"x 11"

hello, new radfem sideblog here because i can't share my opinions on my main.

Also, it's literally just a book. People still read Lovecraft, and he was a horrible racist. People read Neil Gaiman and watch the shows based on his books - and he's a literal rapist! If people can read and watch those, people can read and watch Harry Potter.

Y'all focus so much on her "funding anti-trans movements" and not on how much she works to battle misogyny.

like honestly cis people will jump through such insane hoops to justify liking hp it's absurd. today a (cis) woman told me "you wouldn't blame a person with an abusive parent for staying with the parent"...? i presume jkr is the "abusive parent" in this metaphor which is insane btw. you are not forced to rely on jowling rowling to survive. you do not need shitty wizard books injected into your veins or you will die. are you seriously so attached to a childrens' book series? do you care so little about trans lives? about the trans people in YOUR life? the gall. it feels like every month or so a (much more articulate than me) trans person (usually a trans woman; trans women are the primary target of jkr's transphobia) makes a post like this & nobody ever listens. how much do we have to say it? jkr takes any & all engagement with her work as an endorsement of her beliefs & actions. she has said this. she uses the money she makes & the attention she gets to fund real anti-trans action that has happened & will continue to happen. i'm not going to pretend like dropping her like a hot potato will fix everything, but god it will at least make her less relevant. it will keep her out of the news more. the trans people (& especially trans women) in your life will be able to feel like they can breathe around you if you just put the shitty wizard books down. the most disheartening part of all of this for me is it is such a small sacrifice to make & so many "allies" cannot even bring themselves to do that.

drop the damn books

Playing God is only bad when men do it btw. When women do it, it's reclaiming what's yours

As a woman, you're always too young or too old for things, because the perfect age is when you're a man.