I was taken aback from the constant uploads on r/niceguys of women just coming across men who are entitled just because they think they are ‘nice’. I hope these people realise that it’s the bare minimum and something not to be proud of but to be in habit of.1yr ⋅ cantheysinglivetho ⋅ r/Feminism
Nov. 1 is World Kobane Day. Kobane became a symbol for the Rojava Revolution as well as international solidarity. Especially the resistance of the women, be it in the ranks of the YPJ or as social leaders, became an inspiration for feminist movements worldwide.3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
A sign in the women’s bathroom for those who feel unsafe on a date5yr ⋅ worldfusionwisdom ⋅ r/Feminism
White male observers of African culture in the 18th and 19th centuries were astounded and impressed by the African male’s subjugation of the African female... not only that women accept an inferior status, but that they participate actively in the community labor force. -- bell hooks2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Eyde El-Seido's father, brothers, and cousin are now in custody, and the AANES has formally charged them as The Syrian People’s Council has already abolished the “mitigating excuse” for the so-called “honor killings, criminalizing honor-related femicide as murder.3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Rough Sex gone Wrong defense: 45% of the time, this claim in a homicide defence results in a lesser charge of manslaughter, a lighter sentence,/the death not being treated as a crime at all. & in the last 5 years, it's worse, with 50% success in sex game claims.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Reproductive labor may not be perceived as economically valuable, but our society is built on the unseen and unpaid labor of women. Capitalism is responsible for our societies devaluation of work done in the home and disregard of women.3yr ⋅ Ithekkinme ⋅ r/Feminism
Male dominant society has defined women as a discrete biological group forever. If this was going to produce liberation, we’d be free... To me, women is a political group. I never had much occasion to say that. - Catherine MacKinnon4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Under the male-supremacist system that now blights our planet, women are defined first by our reproductive capacities...Even though in actuality not all women can produce babies, all women are defined as the producers of babies.3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Misogyny in India: Usha sewing machine ad (1980-81) providing mothers with grooming tips -- how can a mother groom her daughter to become a devoted house slave.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
6/BDSM is now a strategic defense for men in the way that 'provocation' has previously been. And to see it increasingly being used, and working, over the last few years is hugely troubling. 7/There is nothing a woman can do to cause a man to kill her4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Antifeminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of woman hating. The woman hating implicit in the antifeminism is designed to humiliate the woman so that she feels the humiliation and so that those listening can see her being humiliated and feeling it.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
She is recognized as the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Truth: There are women who will work for pornographers— not as so-called models but as managers, lawyers, publicists, and paid writers of “opinion” and “journalism.” There are women of every kind, all the time; there are always women who will ignore egregious wrongs.3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Most of the human brains turned out to be “mosaics” of male-typical and female-typical features, rather than being consistently male-typical (“male brains”) or female-typical (“female brains”), concluding that brains “cannot be categorised into two distinct classes: male brain/female brain”.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Alcohol is a weapon of sexual violence in that it is overwhelmingly used by rapists to incapacitate their victims. Alcohol is also a weapon of sexual violence in that men consume alcohol in order to disinhibit themselves so as to enable themselves to behave more violently towards women.3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
There is more to this post and it is definitely worth reading in my opinion 🙏2yr ⋅ apocalypticalley ⋅ r/Feminism
Freud invented psychoanalysis in order to rationalize the Judaeo-Christian patriarchal hierarchy.1yr ⋅ Apala_ ⋅ r/Feminism
Horitculturalist Thomas Leo Ogren explains that botanical sexism may be part of why cities often favour male trees (that release pollen) vs. female ones (that bear fruit) -- leading to more sneezing & allergies. Bias toward male species leads to massive amounts of pollen therefore more allergies.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Militants have in some instances ordered women to leave their workplaces, and when a group of women protested the announcement of the all-male government in Kabul, Taliban fighters beat them with whips and sticks.2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Femicide, Transmisogyny, Misogyny : Every time a man kills a woman during sex, the defense is that she wanted to experience acts of violence severe enough to kill her. And this defense of men's violence is extremely successful in court.3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
So nobody enslaved me or held a gun to my head to make me prostituted myself. But I don't think choice is the right word for it because the disgusting actions of adult men and a sexist culture groomed me for it from an extremely early age.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women2yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
The far-right “Christians” don’t care about your safety. They are pro-death.1yr ⋅ FreethinkerHUMAN ⋅ r/Feminism
Irrational obsession with virginity (a mythical conception). Proper sex education will be able to cure this unhealthy obsession.5yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Right wing extremists deny the existence of rape pandemic while neoliberal & woke left wing misogynists deny the existence of rape trafficking.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
What if the cure for cancer live in the mind of a..............................5yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Feminism is not a Western invention.” -- Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer, activist, physician who was imprisoned for her feminist writing.3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Made another book mark for my Aunt this time. Thought you might appreciate.3yr ⋅ whoopdawhoop12345 ⋅ r/Feminism
Gladys Mae West contributed to the mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, & her work on the development of the satellite geodesy models that were eventually incorporated into the GPS & on an astronomical study that proved the regularity of Pluto’s motion relative to Neptune.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
The mythical idea that women give something away when they have sex is the backbone of heteropatriarchal male domination.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Jessica Valenti: Believing women means doing so whether it's politically convenient or not. And what about other 7 survivors? They are also entitled to feminist solidarity.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
This was featured alongside famous works of art at the Carnegie Museum of Art6yr ⋅ feministengineer ⋅ r/Feminism
Pro suffrage propaganda poster for voting rights for women. Designed and published by the Suffrage Atelier. 1912.2yr ⋅ fitxfor ⋅ r/Feminism
The study author Dr. Conard cautions against presuming a pornographic context, or even that it was created for men Vs. women. But the sex positive English media simply chose to quote another archaeologist, Paul Mellars of the University of Cambridge, who had nothing to do with the discovery.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Jewish law is religious law based on domination over women. The point is, with both sharia courts and Jewish courts, women may not decide freely whether they exit a marriage. Like Muslim women, Jewish women often find themselves at a disadvantage in the religious divorce process.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Alberta Virginia Scott, the first African American graduate of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 18985yr ⋅ Uhillbilly ⋅ r/Feminism
7 soldiers confessed to raping a 13-year-old girl from the indigenous Embera tribe, who went missing from her rural reserve in northern Colombia.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Want to see a demonstration of rape culture? What's being said here is that the victim must be punished by the nation-state (that treats rape as subjective -- rape happens because of women's resistance, not because of men's coercion) after her rapist get away.3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
It is always extraordinary, when looking at this money exchange, to understand that in most people’s minds the money is worth more than the woman is...If you were going to think of a way to punish women for being women, poverty would be enough. Poverty is hard. It hurts.3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
She was the world's first female fighter pilot, aged 23 (Sabiha Gokcen)3yr ⋅ TurkicLanguages ⋅ r/Feminism
So let's pump the brakes. Sex can be transactional under patriarchy, and that's the problem. The sex-positives like to talk about repression, and here it is: a culture that tells women that sex needn't be mutually wanted and pleasurable, it's something others take from them.3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Ellen Gleditsch was a Norwegian radiochemist and Norway's second female professor. Starting her career as an assistant to Marie Curie, she became a pioneer in radiochemistry, establishing the half-life of radium and helping demonstrate the existence of isotopes.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Why use a gender-neutral pronoun in the title of a post that's definitely not gender-neutral? It really annoys me when male is considered default.1yr ⋅ Caysath ⋅ r/Feminism
First author of the “women punish sexy women” article responds to Reddit misinterpretation of her data.5yr ⋅ Yeahmaybeitsdetritus ⋅ r/Feminism
Triple femicides of Kurdish women's activists is a Turkish state tradition -- (1) Paris, 2013: Sakine Cansız, Fidan Dogan, Leyla Saylemez. (2) Silopi, 2016: Seve Demir, Fatma Uyar, Pakize Nayır. (3) Kobane, 2020: Zehra Berkel, Mizgin Xelil, Emine Weysi.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
Women want to live too. Stop killing us anymore!! -- From a rally against violence on women in Korea. (The white chrysanthemum was for the latest female stalking and murder victim who got brutally killed in a subway restroom.)1yr ⋅ inlgyment ⋅ r/Feminism
When you think you find a potential partner but find out they’re anti-feminist.6yr ⋅ ath-ena ⋅ r/Feminism
Over 2.7 billion women are legally barred from having same employment choices as men.5yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
This is so insane when you think about it. A law had to be passed over how hair naturally grows, something a person cannot control.4yr ⋅ Yeahmaybeitsdetritus ⋅ r/Feminism
Transfeminist Manifesto. Prominent Transfeminists, including Sandy Stone, have rejected born in the wrong body narrative -- a narrative that is constructed by early days cishet male sexologists.3yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism
I'm a collage artist working with found materials that I get secondhand on Craigslist. From a set of educational flashcards that covered the suffragettes and a random wily octopus comes this, which I think I'm calling Squishing the Patriarchy.4mo ⋅ itsmeitsme ⋅ r/Feminism
Physicist Lise Meitner with students in 1959. She was nominated 48 times for the Nobel (but never won)5yr ⋅ Yeahmaybeitsdetritus ⋅ r/Feminism
Apparently, it's impossible for women to be smart and beautiful at the same time.6yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/Feminism
Healing Women and Clarke's 3rd Law - Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology is Indistinguishable from Magic5yr ⋅ Yeahmaybeitsdetritus ⋅ r/Feminism
I thought it was an adhd hack at first, but no, just catering to the weaponized incompetence of her bf!8mo ⋅ Secret_Dragonfly9588 ⋅ r/Feminism
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be *demanded* by the oppressed.4yr ⋅ Yeahmaybeitsdetritus ⋅ r/Feminism
Art is my therapy. This was born out of anger and frustration but has become my favorite piece.2yr ⋅ goldiebish ⋅ r/Feminism
Rather than taking occasional birth, medieval incels decided to kill their own sex class. Of course, their goal was to control women's bodies and sexual behaviours.4yr ⋅ MistWeaver80 ⋅ r/Feminism