Let’s talk about IUDs!
As soon as someone with a uterus is told about the implantation of an IUD, it is generally with plenty of assurances that it will not hurt and that it will only include some “mild discomfort”. At this point, many who have gone through this procedure will tell you otherwise. Stories of extreme pain and intolerable cramping exist everywhere you look, so why is our pain constantly being dismissed as near-imaginary?
This has really always been the case. We are told that we are weak and incompetent throughout society and yet our pain is dismissed and disregarded as something to be ignored. As “hysteria”.
Knowledge is power, and any person with a uterus deserves to be empowered throughout their procedures, to have their pain acknowledged and to be able to make fully informed decisions for their body - from start to finish.
You cannot have a society that both demands people relinquish their choice to have an abortion, and also disregards their safety during contraceptive implantation.
Is it really birth control and babies you care about, or is it the control and disregard of those with a uterus?
Video by Abigail @z00m.ie 🦋🦋🦋
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TW: predatory talk
Why do we so often, on this platform, talk about the fact that predatory behaviour is normalised in society?
Because this normalisation is a direct result of r*pe, assault and misogyny being deeply engrained into, and accepted throughout, our culture. What starts as “locker room” talk turns into grown men with podcasts talking about how they fetishise teens because they find them easier to manipulate.
Since many will not listen to the millions of traumatised teenagers who have grown into hurt adults with varying levels of PTSD, perhaps they will listen to the reality directly from the predator’s mouth, so to speak.
Have you started to believe us, yet?
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@fatalprose_llc 💛
"Misandry", and I say that word using quotation marks, is a reaction to misogyny. It is the resentment and resistance to the mistreatment and dehumanisation that women face in a male- dominated society.
'𝘋𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘯?'
NO. But does that mean that we as men can assume the role as victim as if the society that does do us harm was designed by women? Also no... Society creates misandrists through misogyny, but society creates misogynists through patriarchy.
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Misandry or misogyny?
Excellent explanation and expansion on the topic by @ professorneil 👏🏻
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Marry Lucy Dann perfectly illustrates the absurdity (and extreme harm) of blaming the trans community, and often specifically trans women, for potential crimes and creepy behaviour of conducted by cis men.
Protect trans women. All women belong in women’s spaces.
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Violence against women and femmes is not something that can just be ignored for many of us - it’s an ever-present reality, sticking its talons into our daily lives in the ways we move and live and breathe around the world. When going through daily motions, the base expectation is always that someone may want to harm us, that we need to be hyper-aware of our surroundings or risk not being prepared enough to protect ourselves from aggression.
Even with all these precautions, violence against women and femmes occurs constantly, because when it comes down to it, it is not something that potential victims should be “ready enough” for, it is something that simply should not happen to begin with.
So often, there are warning signs. So often, there are jokes that get swept under the rug by other men because they can’t imagine just how serious they are. So often, there are people who weren’t called out enough, who went on to take the life of someone innocent.
Digesting what women are saying with empathy and kindness and understanding; believing women when the warning signs start to emerge; not allowing violent “jokes” and predatory actions to happen amongst your friends - these things may save someone’s life.
It is time for everyone to take responsibility for what they allow to pass under their radar, and begin to listen to those who tell them when something is wrong.
Videos by @supertanskiii and @davidlarbi_
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Have you ever asked how you can be a better ally to women and gender non-conforming people, as a cis-man? It all starts with the most simple, and most helpful step: asking that very same question, out loud.
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Speech by Trisha Shetty
“My body is not a political playground. It is not a place for legislation.”
Samirah Raheem
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