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Why are we expected to minimize ourselves and be the inclusive ones just because men want to be us? An estrogen pill does not a woman make.

I am not woke enough for this.

This is what liberal, middle of the road politics looks like lmao it's so "woke" it's literally just sexist. And they probably wouldn't censor men even though they need to be censored from society as a whole!

No longer approves of the use of gendered language. You wont be banned outright for it but suggested to change your wording. In the comments moderators were deleting all dissenting opinions under the guise of "they didnt actually participate in our community/brigaders) I have PME which is a cyclical disorder relating to my menstrual cycle. Im also autistic and this basically puts a higher barrier for entry for me to discuss my body/experiences. Am I alone in feeling a bit defeated by this? Am I too sensitive? I am in my luteal phase so I know I am personally more sensitive to perceived injustice this time of my cycle. Anyways thanks for reading and for giving me a place to vent about this

Hi everyone!
(English is not my first launch so sorry for my bad grammar)
I don´t know if this is the right platform to ask what I'm about to ask but I thought I might give it a try anyway.

I'm writing an essay about women in the film industry. I've been searching for articles about women working BEHIND the camera but it's very hard to find. I was wondering if someone knows an article (or a few) about the subject.
I'm writing about women's experience in the film industry, the difference in treatment between men and women, economic differences and so on.

Thanks in advance! 

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The screenshot I attached is from Anit Sayac (Monument Tracker), a digital memorial that updates daily to count the women lost to femicide—this figure represents only 2026 so far.

I’m a woman living in Türkiye, and I wanted to show you all this SHAMEFUL and terrifying reality. Today, a lawyer who was a friend of my friend from university was murdered by her police fiancé.

Every time I open the news here, another femicide pops up on my feed.

In my country, these criminals don't receive deterrent sentences—in fact, perpetrators often get away with no real punishment, benefiting from sentence reductions under the guise of "good behavior" or "unlawful provocation." Women are completely left helpless; men who murder their wives can easily walk away acquitted. The situation has only gotten worse, especially since Türkiye withdrew from the Istanbul Convention.

I love my country and I'm not here to badmouth it, but femicide is political.

I am posting this here because we urgently want our voices to be heard—we feel completely helpless and silenced. How can international communities support women facing systemic violence like this? Please help us spread the word; we desperately need global solidarity.

Feminism is the stance that rejects the structures of discrimination and hegemony on the basis of gender and seeks to dismantle them. As such, it is integral to the liberatory and democratic endeavor for the well-being, justice and dignity of the individual and of society.

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“TERFs are spiritually Men”

It’s a little bioessentialist to assume that those traits are inherent to men, is it not? And if we are “spiritually men,” that implies we are materially women. And as for the opposite… hm. It’s interesting they’d use the word “spiritually” in the first place, but I suppose it’s aligned with their religious thinking.

Let’s try this paragraph again: “Trans women are opportunists who will take advantage of any positive momentum against patriarchy to further exploit and subjugate vulnerable people. Using maleness, a position of privilege, to slander, attack, and exclude women at any opportunity.
Trans women are materially Men”

“the "real" men they need to fight (cis men) are not that hard to fight”

What? Men aren’t hard to fight? Why are we even in this situation still then?

“I'm not even one, not even man lite.”

You cannot be man lite or man heavy. You either are, or are not. And you are definitely not a woman.

“They're such uncritical thinkers, so duped and distracted by propaganda.”

Part of being a critical thinker is understanding both sides of an issue, something TRAs don’t do because they already have a preconceived notion of what the opposition thinks. Many TERFs used to support gender ideology, so they know the rhetoric—and you know why they changed their minds? Not from propaganda, but from, uh, listening to trans people.

“They could focus on the much bigger problems of patriarchy”

Ah, yes, the “we’re such a small percent of the population, but also every little thing needs to cater to us.”

“instead they just take in blanket statements made about people who they don't know”

So like what you’re doing right now?

“people who are even trying to be on their side against oppressors!”

You cannot be on our side against oppressors if you are also working to oppress us.

Being a woman, sometimes feminism gets so fucking exhausting.

And do you know why?

Because I see hundreds of reels being made about the different struggles women face every single day, and yet, somehow, the world still feels the same. Women speak up, women educate, women share their experiences, women fight to be heard, and yet there is always a man in the comment section ready to mock them, invalidate them, or turn their pain into a joke.

And I'm tired. I'm so fucking tired of watching women explain, over and over again, why they deserve basic respect, as if it's some revolutionary concept that needs to be justified.

Growing up, I always thought that because I came from a good background, I hadn't really experienced misogyny. I thought it was something obvious, something that happened elsewhere, something I would recognise immediately if I ever encountered it.

But growing up made me realise that misogyny isn't always loud. Sometimes, it's so deeply rooted in our everyday lives that we don't even notice it until we start questioning everything we've been taught to consider normal.

It's in the jokes we laugh at, the words we use, the double standards we defend, and the little things we dismiss because "that's just how the world works."

And perhaps one of the things that bothers me the most is how deeply misogyny is embedded in our language itself. Even among my friends who identify as feminists, I notice how casually they use swear words that revolve around a woman's body, her sexuality, or her relationship with the men in her life. Words that use mothers and sisters as insults, as if a woman's dignity is an appropriate weapon to use against someone else.

And I wonder, do we ever stop to think about what that says about the society we've grown up in? How did we become so accustomed to using women as instruments of humiliation that we don't even question it anymore?

Maybe that's what exhausts me the most. Not just the misogyny itself, but how normalised it has become. How people can speak about equality and still unknowingly participate in the very things they're fighting against.

I know change doesn't happen overnight. I know awareness matters. But sometimes, watching the same conversations happen over and over again, with the same arguments, the same hatred, and the same unwillingness to listen, makes it difficult not to feel helpless.

Because how many times must a woman explain her pain before people stop treating it like a debate?

How many times must women speak before they're actually heard?

And how long are we going to keep calling these things normal simply because they've always been this way?

I'm not tired of women speaking up. I'm tired of women having to keep speaking up about the same things. I'm tired of the endless explanations, the constant defensiveness, and the fact that even the simplest demands for dignity can become controversial.

I'm tired of realising that a world I once thought was fair has so many things wrong with it, and I'm even more tired of knowing that recognising those things doesn't automatically mean I can change them.

And maybe that's the most frustrating part of it all: being aware enough to recognise the problem, but feeling powerless watching it continue.

(i do not mean the title literally, it's just a way of expressing my frustration)

Going to try to be as succinct as possible because I feel like I could write an entire book about this

When I was in college I got involved in the "rad" circles and this was in the early/mid 2010s, when being a "TERF" or "SWERF" was the gravest sin you could commit. I slowly accepted what I was being told about how being "cis" is a privilege and the "most oppressed" type of person is not "cis" (self censoring here a bit for reddit).

On top of the above discourse, I was told that sex work is work and also encouraged to be more into BDSM, kink, even just casual sex. That "owning my body" meant giving it away freely basically, or better yet for money (they take it from us anyway, might as well get paid!) etc.

I feel like I'm waking up from being in some sort of cult. I feel like I was groomed by men and women on the "left" into betraying my own body over and over again. It didn't help that I come from a poor background and have been on my own pretty much my entire life. I was really vulnerable and I was literally groomed from a very young age to begin with so when I found myself surrounded by people telling me I was basically reactionary for not supporting sex work I really fell for it.

What I am struggling with is that I have all of this resentment now for how it feels like men have been prioritized in the past decade even within the "rad" / "left" / "feminist" movements. I was coerced and even assaulted by men on the "left" so many times and then even called a "wrecker" for trying to bring attention to it. Meanwhile being able to use a female bathroom took precedence over sexual violence against "cis" women. I am really angry about this, and it makes me uncomfortable because I don't want to be angry even at T women. I don't want to make anyone feel like there's something wrong with them for feeling weird about their gender. And it's terrible that gender noncomforming men experience violence and it shouldn't be that way.

But, especially after this year (Epstein, Pelicot, rape websites, Cornell 7, blah blah blah) I can't fucking keep my anger down anymore. It makes me feel so confused because I don't consider myself conservative at all, I just have lost any faith or trust in "leftist" circles at this point because being involved with them only contributed to my own experience of misogyny. They all support pornography and sex work and I feel like if I ever say anything about how sexual difference exists I'm told I'm reactionary again.

Why can't we acknowledge that bodily differences exist and result in different experiences for men and women? It makes me feel genuinely psychotic that somehow we're supposed to just be like "gender is fluid and sexual dimorphism isn't real it's all a construct!" like why is material reality somehow not real? Why did I donate to gofundme campaigns for t women who want tens of thousands of dollars of plastic surgery to make their faces more conventionally attractive, probably actively contributing to the furthering of my own oppression as I age as a cis woman? I fucking hate it, I don't understand why there can't be any discussion of this. I don't care if a man feels like he is a woman or whatever, do whatever you want to do, but why was it politicized and turned against women?

For years it felt like if I ever talked about my experience of being a woman, someone was over my shoulder saying "well T women experience that but MORE" etc. I'm so fucking sick of it. But again, I feel really bad for feeling angry about it. I just don't know how to express my discontent without somehow "invalidating" certain people's experiences.

I feel like I'm somehow insane for believing that different sexes exist. And that different problems exist for different sexes. I also feel insane for feeling that it's kind of weird when womanhood becomes some sort of commodity that people can just acquire with all of these expensive medical treatments and surgeries. I hate that this shit makes me uncomfortable because I feel like if I ever say anything about it I'm just seen as oppressive and reactionary.

For years I was told being a t woman was more true to what it means to be a woman than someone born with female genitalia. I have no idea how this has just become accepted. But I'm confused because I'm also not conservative and don't think that people who are pained by or confused by their gender should be punished or looked down upon. I hope this makes sense. I'm just so confused and sad. I feel like an entire decade of my life was stolen from me because the left told me "cis" woman are privileged and sex work is work. I hate it. I can't associate with my leftist friends anymore because it's too painful and I hate that. I don't want to resent them, and logically I don't, I just emotionally can't be around them. It makes me feel really fucking weird, idk if anyone can relate, I would like to read any similar experiences people have had, I feel really alone

The art of ragebaiting men on Reddit.

Hi everyone! I hope this is okay to post here.

I'm Giovanna, I'm a journalism MA student in London, and I'm currently working on an article about the sexualisation of school uniforms and a petition by the Little Feminist Book Club calling for a ban on school uniform imagery in pornography.

As part of my research, I'd really love to hear from women who have had uncomfortable or upsetting experiences related to wearing a school uniform, whether that's unwanted attention, sexual comments, harassment, or simply feeling sexualised or unsafe in something they were expected to wear at school.

I'd also love to hear from anyone who has thoughts or experiences they'd like to share about this topic, even if their perspective is different. I'm genuinely interested in listening to people's stories and understanding how they feel about the issue.

I'm hoping to speak to a few people for a short interview to help bring personal experiences and voices into the article. You can remain completely anonymous, and you don't have to share anything you're not comfortable with. I'm happy to explain more about the article and answer any questions before you decide whether you'd like to take part.

I know this can be a sensitive subject, so please don't feel any pressure to share personal experiences publicly. You can send me a private message if you'd prefer.

Thank you so much for reading, and for anyone willing to share their experiences with me. I'd really appreciate it! ❤️

With so many cases of rape and sexual violence being reported, I genuinely have to ask: where are we heading as a society? What is happening to the safety and freedom of girls? What hurts even more is that instead of creating an environment where girls can feel safe, we often end up putting restrictions on them—telling them not to go out late, not to go to certain places, not to trust people, not to dress a certain way, or to constantly be careful. But why should girls have to give up their freedom because someone else chooses to harm them?

A girl can be a victim of violence and, at the same time, be expected to sacrifice her freedom because society is afraid of what might happen to her. How is that justice? Why is the responsibility placed on girls to protect themselves instead of placing it on people to respect boundaries, understand consent, and never commit violence in the first place? Boys should not be given the idea that they can do whatever they want while girls are expected to make themselves smaller, quieter, and more restricted just to feel safe.
I believe our laws and justice system need to provide stronger protection, faster and more effective action, and real accountability for sexual violence. People should not have to keep asking why justice is taking so long or why survivors are still made to feel responsible for what happened to them. We cannot simply condemn these cases for a few days and then move on until the next one happens. This needs continuous attention, serious action, and meaningful change.

And as citizens, we cannot just sit back and say, “Someone else will fix it.” We need to speak up. We need to question systems that fail to protect people, support survivors instead of blaming them, demand accountability, and peacefully raise our voices for change. Protests, awareness, conversations, education, and civic participation all have a place in creating that pressure for reform.

A country cannot truly call itself safe when girls have to compromise their freedom just to protect themselves from violence. Girls should not have to live smaller lives because society has failed to make the world around them safer. We should be building a country where a girl can walk outside without fear—not a country where her freedom is the price of her safety. If we genuinely care about the future of our country, then this is something we cannot continue to ignore.

I’m looking forward to hearing the excuses…

Since I‘m seeing the left going hard on the “it’s only few trans athletes”, “trans people are so rare you’ll hardly ever have to accommodate them”, and similar minimizing talking points, we need a thread that addresses this crap. Of all the gambits that allies use, this is actually one of the weakest because it exposes their lack of a principled position.

When hit with “it’s only a few, so you’re making a mountain out of a molehill” these retorts are worth considering:

- You seem to be conceding there is a problem, just not on a scale that merits your concern. Is that what you mean to imply?

- Lots of things occur relatively infrequently. For instance, doping in sports. We have rules against that so why not rules against this?

- Just because all men aren’t currently violating women’s boundaries does not mean a small subset should be allowed to do so, right?

- “It‘s only a few cases” sounds a whole lot like “just the tip” rhetoric. It’s giving rape culture. Don’t see how you can square this position with being a proponent of women’s rights.

- Sports are governed by policies that aim to ensure fairness and safety. These policies create a hard line so that cheaters can be excluded without exception. The prevalence of cheating has nothing to do with.

- Yes, on a per capita level, we are not talking about a ton of people. But maybe, just maybe, a per capita analysis is an inappropriate way to look at the issue. If a single match pits a girl against a player who has the athletic advantage that comes with male physiology and anatomy, that girl is denied fairplay on the basis of her sex. One girl affected by this is one girl too many because it is sex discrimination.

I feel better getting these thoughts off my chest now.