When transphobes talk about getting rid of gender, they’re not talking about progressive gender abolition. They’re talking about getting rid of anything that makes society more accommodating for not only trans people but cisgender women also.
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I like Reductress & read it weekly, enjoying its often witty combo of #feminism & #satire. Unfortunately i feel they missed the mark a bit here, mocking something that is very real for those of us "enjoying" the universe's "gift/s" of #introversion , #SocialAnxiety, #Depression.
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Introvert Requires 48 Hours of Alone Time to Recover From 15-Minute Conversation
In a developing story out of a darkened bedroom, 28-year-old Alissa Donahue recently returned home after engaging in a brief 15-minute conversation with a coworker, and has now begun her required 48 hours of alone time.
“The conversation was actually really pleasant,” Alissa told reporters. “Unfortunately, it did drain me so much I needed to lie down immediately when I got home, and then not get up for two and a half hours.”
Alissa said that no matter how pleasant a conversation is, she always needs some time to herself to recover.
“Engaging verbally with another human in general just drops my energy levels to zero,” Alissa explained to reporters. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a brief conversation with a coworker or a high-pressure job interview. Either way, I’m going to need to binge watch 18 episodes of Avatar the Last Airbender afterwards just to get right with myself.”
Sources close to Alissa have described socializing with her as “talking to a rapidly melting snowman” and “experientially similar to overwatering a plant.”
“I love chatting with Alissa,” Alissa’s coworker, Jamie, told reporters. “It’s just hard because I feel like I’m killing her. With every second we spend discussing an episode of a show we both watched this weekend, I feel as if I’m stealing energy from her lifeforce and somehow imbuing it into myself.”
Alissa wanted to make it clear that it wasn’t that she found these types of conversations to be unenjoyable, it was just that she didn’t possess the mental and emotional endurance to sustain them for long periods of time.
“I just need to take frequent breaks,” Alissa said. “We can talk about the show we watched this weekend, but it would be best if we did so in one-minute increments over the course of five weeks.”
As of press time, Alissa had finally recovered from the conversation and decided to re-enter the world. However, she ran into her neighbor as she was leaving her apartment and was forced to return inside for another two hours to recover from that 11 second interaction.
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As we explore privilege and entitlement and #patriarchy, there are so many things men simply won't face, or don't believe are happening, or deep down are not able to face.
Because they're weak.
And it doesn't matter how conservative a woman is, if she has a #miscarriage and her husband is not a safe person to talk to, these husbands don't know that they don't know that there have been miscarriages.
That is something that men, ought to be telling other men.
The Peace Preservation Law, aimed at rooting out socialists and communists, was promulgated 100 years ago, while a new museum for kanji was opened in Kyoto 25 years ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/05/japan/history/peace-law-womens-week-minobe-kanji-history-1925-1950-1975-2000/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #law #freedomofspeech #feminism #womensrights #ryokichiminobe #ryoichikuroda #kanji #kyoto
Protest art. Are you participating in the National Day of Action tomorrow? Find a protest near you: https://handsoff2025.com/
“Pain au Levain”: Reproductive Rights, Recipes, and Community Cookbooks
"The organization of sex and gender once had functions other than itself—it organized society. Now, it mainly organizes and reproduces itself. The kinds of relationships sexuality established in the dim human past still dominate our sexual lives, our ideas about men and women, and the ways we raise our children. But they lack the functional load they once carried. One of the most conspicuous features of kinship is that it has been systematically stripped of its functions—political, economic, educational, and organizational. It has been reduced to its barest bones—sex and gender...
we are not only oppressed as women; we are oppressed by having to be women—or men as the case may be. I personally feel that the feminist movement must dream of even more than the elimination of the oppression of women. It must dream of the elimination of obligatory sexualities and sex roles. The dream I find most compelling is one of an androgynous and genderless (though not sexless) society, in which one’s sexual anatomy is irrelevant to who one is, what one does, and with whom one makes love."
(Gayle Rubin, "The Traffic in Women")
Indeed, we're perpetually supposed to be the supporting act, and we're very far from shaking that notion out of our collective subconscious. I can't stand seeing that in myself and so try to break through it:
I am quirky, clever, and make interesting, original, and beautiful things.
Let's hear it, ladies. How about you? Say it loud and proud because, for fuck's sake, we're not kicking this can down another generational line!
在马克思主义占主导地位近一个世纪之后，无政府主义是如何从一个“边缘现象”发展成为抵抗资本主义全球化运动的核心力量的？
本文探讨了无政府主义如何在反革命时代获得重生。
对于当下正处于新一轮反动时代大门口的我们这代人来说，本文所提供的历史知识和见解值得更大范围周知 —— 以帮助您发觉和团结身边更有希望的革命力量。
本文和其他相关资料在近期的反法西斯社区新成员学习组中采用，现分享給所有读者。
其中嵌入的链接中很多是相关书籍的免费下载地址，并将部分书籍封面作为插图以方便您寻找。
这些书籍都有一定代表性，我们视其为推荐阅读，尤其是对于初步接触进步派思想的朋友来说。在华语读者熟悉的马列主义和新自由主义反动的两种主导气候中，这些书籍可能不常见。
“超越民主”更新《从旧时代的灰烬中破土而出 - 反革命时代的无政府主义重生》
https://iyouport.notion.site/1ca34ca2d46d8057a8a7e5db7f1d7996
Insieme siam partite, insieme torneremo! Non una, non una, #nonunadimeno!
Oggi #Firenze dice basta ai #femminicidi e al patriarcato!
I know people are being pretty awful to you all and the world is terrifying right now. Yet that is why we need each other.
sometimes I'm tempted to reach out to trumpy family members just to ask them to pinpoint *exactly which year* of America's "greatness" they're trying to return to.
reminds me of the time I was asking my mom questions to pinpoint where, exactly, she thought feminism had gone "too far." i was like... so should women have the right to vote? and there was a VERY LONG PAUSE before she reluctantly agreed that yes, voting was okay.
that pause was tooooo damn long.
"Hazel knew she had to fly." Watch an Oregon Experience episode- for free!- about the first ever Chinese American woman to fly for the U.S. military. #asian #history #diversity #inclusivity #feminism
https://youtu.be/vCuUdyRGEus?si=WaTqzRixWCBohdmy
