i know we cannot recount all the ways women have been feminists throughout history much less backtrack through centuries of badly recorded history to find when feminism "started" but i still was put off by this article putting a name and date to who "started feminism"
Sedentary lifestyles and lack of muscle mass are debilitating killers for women. If you are not sick or disabled, until your 60s you should be able to (with PROPER FORM):
Do three sets of five push-ups.
At least three pull-ups.
Deadlift 135 lbs.
Hold most yoga poses that engage legs for at least 60 seconds.
Walk up a steep incline without breathing heavily.
Fireman carry 200 lbs for distance.
This is the bare minimum. This is I Spend Most of My Time Hunched Over a Keyboard. You'll notice jogging isn't on this list. That's because jogging ruins your joints.
Posting this again because basically this is my bible
To the hypocritical lesbians: It's unthinkable for het and bi women to stop associating with or even just stop dating men for the same reason it's unthinkable for lesbians to stop having sex and romance though. Sex and romance invite complacency and jealous guarding and hoarding behavior, and controlling behavior, in every group. You get more done if you're single and your mind is clearer. You should lead by example. Love addiction is holding us back and causing us to be cruel to our fellow women, often in the same way males do. Teach us how, because female liberation is more important than relationships. No matter what your sexuality is. Lesbianism won't die out if we take a break to win a war. I'd argue it will grow when we win.
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I can NOT fucking believe i am watching this shit happen in real time.
Overnight I've watched the wiki page for 4B go from a single line of text describing it as a feminist movement and four more lines beneath it explaining the rules, to now it being a several paragraph screed about how it is a terf riddled, transphobic, transwomen hating movement made intentionally and with the sole purpose to stop women from having sex with transwomen.
The article editing history shows this all being done overnight. It also shows it mostly being done by a single user who INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH has been flagged multiple times for getting into editing wars on the CIRCUMCISION and FORESKIN wiki pages!!!! You cannot make this shit up!!
American women only briefly floated the idea that they shouldn't have sex with anyone that can get them pregnant in a time where pregnancy could be a death sentence and like fucking LIGHTNING these folks come out the gate to shut it down in every way possible.
Finished 'femininity and domination' and i'm just gobsmacked. in a world full of propaganda about "reclaiming femininity", it feels like resistance to remember that femininity is not a harmless collection of traits and aesthetics but a politicized value system that demands the subordination of women. femininity not only demands women be subordinate but teaches them how to be subordinate and take pleasure in their subordination. and it makes power, real power, seem dull and abstract. it's an excellent mechanism for producing docile persons
this was something i intuitively understood at a young age and which was slowly eroded after a decade of "feminist" attempts to reclaim the value system that demands our subordination. gender was and still is about power
“Around 830 women die every day due to preventable pregnancy complications. The world is missing an estimated 90 to 100 million women due to the extermination of female – not feminine – infants. In such a situation, to boldly declare that you “see no sex difference” reveals both ignorance and privilege. We’re back to the idea that female people cannot be credible witnesses to their own lives.”
— Glosswitch, “When Did Liberal Men Start Thinking it Was Acceptable to Tell Feminists How to be Feminist?” (via lavenderbunnies)
Does anyone know any newish radfem or rad leaning books? Like 2010's to present day.