What Feminism Is

That is all.

Except for the transphobia thing, some areas of feminism are pretty transphobic.  As with many movements, there are always small factions that let the side down.  Just because some people in a movement act/believe a certain way, doesn’t mean that’s true for all involved.  It’s like how not all Christians are fundamentalist evangelicals, and not all who practice Islam are terrorists.  That’s what this was pointing at, because not all feminists are transphobic, though some, unfortunately, are.

IMO, the motivation behind feminism should be equality in all areas, for everyone, period.  My philosophy, everyone deserves to do whatever the hell they want, as long as their actions don’t take away from the freedoms of others, and respect the way other people use their freedom, even if you don’t agree with it.

There are so many who have no respect for others as equal human beings.  It will be the downfall of us all.

H/T The Riot

Wanna Contribute?

I haven’t had a guest post since forever.  In fact I’ve only ever had one (on Sexuality and the Sex-Positive Community by my friend Alexis) and that was back in February 2011.  Nearly two whole years ago!

So, I’m pretty keen in seeing if anyone would like to compose a guest post for me, or participate in a collaboration.  The topics I’d be interested in are pretty broad:

• fat-acceptance/activism
• queer theory and LGBTQ rights
• experiences with sexuality and sexual/gender identity
• sex-positivity
• paganism
• polyamory and non-monogamous/non-traditional relationships
• mental health
• social history (any era, though my area of study is modern world)
• philosophy
• Woman’s rights

I would love to talk to anyone who’d like to join me.  You can email me, leave a message on my Facebook Page, or @ me on Twitter.

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Banning abortion kills women (sorry, "lets them die")

Reblogged from Ideologically Impure:

This is simply the inevitable outcome of "pro-life" thinking:  denying a woman medical treatment because her foetus - a foetus which is going to die anyway - is more important than she is.

Because "pro-life" attitudes result in laws which value a dying foetus over a live woman.  Because "pro-life" laws create situations where doctors - people who, "pro-lifers" are so fond of telling us, are Sworn To Do No Harm - are so afraid of the legal consequences, so bound by illogical, irrational regulations (and, depending on how you read that "this is a Catholic country" comment, so married to their personal religious beliefs) that they will stand by while a woman goes through incredible pain and 

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When I don't have the words, it's fantastic to find someone else who does.

No Right Turn: Institutionalised misogyny in the UK

You can find the background and Idiot/Savant’s thoughts here:

No Right Turn: Institutionalised misogyny in the UK.

Cause, you know, there’s only one way of acting when you’re a victim. If you act any other way, then you’re obviously lying. You made it all up, and were never a victim at all.

I mean, why wouldn’t you tell the authorities that you were withdrawing the charges because the accused and his family were threatening you? Oh, I don’t know.. maybe because they were threatening you!?

Privilege, you’re doing it right, unfortunately.