Sometimes I Think If I Had Access To Female-exclusive Spaces And Was Able To Make Meaningful Connections

i got diagnosed with cancer just a few weeks after starting testosterone. after going through the trauma of the diagnosis, surgery and recovery, and finally processing everything that happened to me... i realised i don't want any gender-affirming surgeries, ever. i want to keep all the healthy tissue that i can. if these people could understand what it feels like to have to give up physical parts of you, they would probably change their minds too. it makes you a lot more grateful for what you have, i think.

Might be a repost but this is getting trippy

“There is no global epidemic of battered husbands or of mothers raping their children. Sorority girls don’t slip male students date rape drugs and gang-rape them at parties. Cheerleaders don’t wait until football players are too intoxicated to walk or speak, have sex with them, film the rape and share it with all their friends via social media. Boys are not pressured to send topless photos of themselves then blackmailed with the photos, then stalked and bullied and mocked until they kill themselves. There are not entire websites devoted to posting pornified imagery of ex-boyfriends in order to shame and humiliate them. There is no industry wherein women are coercing boys and men into prostitution, en masse, forcing them to have sex with strange women day in and day out. These are the facts. I know these things to be true because this reality is impossible to ignore if you pay any attention to media at all, because I am a woman and this is my life, and because I’m a feminist and I understand the devastating impact patriarchy has on women and girls everywhere. And that is why, as a feminist, I believe women.”

— (via nedstarkshonour)

To any lesbians/gays reading gender critical posts out of curiosity/anger --

You can disagree with everything I say, but I want you to listen to this one thing.

You're not wrong for being exclusively same-sex attracted.

Before I was gender critical, I thought something was wrong with me because I was only attracted to "afab" individuals. It's okay to not want to interact with a dick. It's okay to not want to interact with a pussy.

No matter what your friends/the internet want you to think, you can actively desire one sex. It's not hateful. It's homosexuality.

Your sexuality doesn't have to be passive. You don't have to close your eyes or pretend that the dick/vagina isn't there. You can actively want only vagina or only dick.

It's not evil. It's not wrong. It's not discrimination. You are not a bigot for not wanting to date/have sex with the opposite sex, no matter what they say.

I honestly hate how I feel the need to say this. But, I think more LG individuals need to hear it.

meat thing. useless flesh. “punch it” having two thousand likes.

i ain’t hearing about no “male loneliness epidemic”.

Woman (Tara Strong) has problematic opinion online - evil bitch

Man (Jim Cummings) accused of rape, sexual abuse and animal abuse - based

He admitted to the animal abuse btw. What happened to all of the outrage Internet people usually have for mistreatment of animals?

Should be obvious, but I'm not defending Tara Strong at all, just noticing the disparity in treatment towards problematic female voice actors and male voice actors, who have been accused of violent crimes. Reminds me of the treatment of J.K. Rowling (though I agree with most of her takes, obviously do not agree with Tara), versus the treatment of Neil Gaiman. Evil bitch vs based, boycott vs separate the art from the artist. Interesting.

voice acting as a profession is so funny because you'll see someone being like "voice actors need to be paid better! like [obscure person you've never heard of]" and you're like "oh I wonder who that person is, maybe I've heard them voice a character" and you look it up and it turns out they voice 137 characters in Futurama and 94 characters in The Simpsons and 96 characters in Adventure Time and every one of the My Little Ponies and 27 characters in Arcane and 96 characters in Kim Possible and 4 characters in Phineas and Ferb and 296 characters in Dexter's Laboratory and all of the main cast of Fairly Odd Parents and at least 6 characters in every Pixar movie and almost every animated depiction of Superman and 473 SpongeBob characters and they've been in every installment of Mass Effect and Halo and The Elder Scrolls and Fallout and Call of Duty and they were in Star Trek and Law & Order and they were 12 characters in the MCU and they also invented t-shirts and the colour green and they got paid a sum total of $3.27 and a mothball for all of it combined. then you go burn down David Zaslav's house with him inside

Maybe your girlfriend didn’t want to have to deal with the constant stress and pressure to constantly validate your delusions :]

(This book was published in 1987)

I’ll start!

1. the clitoris is present in ALL mammal species, as well as many species of birds and reptiles.

2. the clitoris is mostly internal, much larger than you think, and capable of erection. It is made of the exact same tissue types as the penis. It extends from the head of the clitoris (external) all the way to the sides of the vaginal opening (internal), sometimes beyond. it also extends laterally.

3. the full, accurate anatomy of the clitoris is missing from most medical texts. Doctors who perform pelvic surgeries may not know where your clitoral nerves are, and may sever them.

4. most women cannot orgasm without clitoral stimulation, and yet many men expect them to. I suggest these men orgasm without penile stimulation.

5. Indian flying foxes have been observed engaging in cunnilingus, which increases the duration of penetrative sex. Non-human primates have also been observed engaging in cunnilingus.

6. Clitoral stimulation causes ovulation in some mammals for whom the clitoris lies inside the vaginal canal, suggesting an evolutionary function for the clitoris.

7. Some people like to hypothesize that the clitoris is vestigial, despite zero scientific evidence to back this up.

8. The scientific study of the clitoris has been severely impacted by misogyny. Misogyny is also evident in the lack of sex education on the clitoris, where it is often omitted or only discussed briefly.

9. The clitoris has over 10,000 nerve endings.

10. The clitoris is THE source of sexual pleasure and sexual function for 50% of our population.

reminder that lesbians are NOT more violent than men and we don't have the highest domestic violence rates. i wish people (mostly men) would stop deliberately misconstruing this