Posts by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
(DIR) Post #AAFWx55EyD0PLaBqF6 by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-08-12T03:06:51.958515Z
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@tangleofsnakes Blame the Normans who ruled England during the Middle Ages and gave us all these weird French words we absorbed.Incidentally, this is why so much of our military language is French in origin, as well.
(DIR) Post #AAFaLrckRuaMhmN7lQ by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-08-12T09:22:57.012820Z
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@AnimatronicLady I mean honestly I don’t even really believe there’d be any uproar anymore. The reality is 95% of men have never cared about women’s rights, and at least half of women have been brainwashed into believing that if they just simp hard enough eventually men will treat them better, so they’re just going along with whatever men want.It’s always been the minority of us who somehow conjure the energy to both personally resist and actively campaign. It probably always will be.
(DIR) Post #AAIjvwUVJTUpHpfqm8 by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-08-14T01:53:53.926239Z
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@Nora This assumes that 1. I give a fuck what some man calls me and 2. that men don’t frequently “ask” for sex in wildly inappropriate ways and situations.Both assumptions are incorrect.
(DIR) Post #AAJidrXp3lMTw908Lw by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-08-14T05:47:23.346703Z
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@UrbanGardener @RockTheBoat @Nora Right? Oh no, this fuckhead who’s been harassing me thinks I’m “frigid” and now he’s proceeded to leave me alone. What ever will I do? 🙄
(DIR) Post #AAKqrKVHhB6KJ8hrUW by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-08-14T01:04:48.482860Z
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@spinsterseperatist @Froggo @AnthemAK Completely untrue. Vaccine/inoculation mandates have existed for hundreds of years. This country was literally founded on the back of an inoculation mandate. Washington’s troops had to be inoculated against smallpox, and trust me, the COVID vaccines are a cake walk compared to that. We have always had vaccine mandates for public school, for healthcare workers, etc. There have always been vaccine mandates to enter if you are arriving from certain countries, or going to certain countries.We just don’t notice all this stuff because vaccines have worked so well over time that we never thought about contagious disease for more than 10 minutes until COVID hit. That’s because vaccines have changed our lives.People do have the right to die. If they are on their property, or on the property of businesses allowing unvaccinated people, then they can die all they like.But if they’re going to be in public places where other people have as much of a right to live as they do to die, then they don’t have the right to take non-consenting people down with them. Other people are allowed to eject them from their shared space. It doesn’t belong to them. Your bodily choice ends at the boundary of your body.
(DIR) Post #AAMlyTNqxzqWQBjlwm by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-08-15T22:41:30.468812Z
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@Froggo No one is asking anyone to give up their bodily autonomy, and the comparison to abortion is idiotic. You can’t transmit your abortion to another pregnant woman by standing nearby, now can you.And beyond that, no one is revoking anyone’s bodily autonomy anyway. If you want to knowingly make yourself a vector for a highly transmissible and deadly virus, you are completely and totally free to do that.You are just not free to violate the consent of other people by forcing yourself upon them, and putting them at risk as well.You can die all you like. In your own home, and the homes and businesses of likeminded risk-takers. You do not get to force other people to die for you.
(DIR) Post #AANDCxGjLgjnvPXGu8 by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-08-16T05:28:42.147439Z
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@sansar @Linnas @Froggo Yup. It really is pretty comparable. One side thinks they’re entitled to force other people to sacrifice themselves, and the other side thinks rights come with responsibilities and consent matters.“BUT I SHOULD BE ABLE TO VIOLATE WHOEVER’S SPACE AND BOUNDARIES I WANT!”Where have I heard that before?
(DIR) Post #AANWR8uSlOWHDBbCJE by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-08-16T09:08:03.292404Z
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@Spring @Froggo Why? Presumably everyone there is consenting to the same thing I am. We have collectively majority-agreed on our risk tolerance, that’s why we’re in the same place, and that’s why our majority-ruled society has agreed we can be in that place, in the conditions we are.If I don’t like the current majority-agreed risk tolerance (which at the moment, I don’t), I’m free to stay the fuck out of the bars. I don’t like it, but that’s my decision to make. I don’t get to tell everyone else what to do in their space. See how this works? Rights with responsibility?For the billionth time: no one is “making” anyone get vaccinated. That is total bullshit that simply isn’t happening. They’re just saying if you don’t, that we don’t consent to you coming in and killing the vulnerable. We’re allowed to withdraw consent. You’re allowed to refuse our terms. But you have to deal with the consequences of your choices, which is that we might not want you around us. You do not own everything and you don’t get to ignore everyone’s consent. Rights with responsibility.It’s amazing how all ability to comprehend consent and social contract, supposedly a lynchpin of radfem and GC, suddenly goes out the window when it’s about your personal bugbear.Also, just so it does not go unsaid: at this point, comparing COVID, and especially Delta, to the flu is straight-up disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself. COVID is worse than any flu we’ve ever had in known history, 1918 included, and Delta is crippling and killing even children, who are currently unable to be vaccinated. Our pediatric units are full. Stop.
(DIR) Post #AAObh5kgfXK9BixOmu by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-08-16T19:56:05.692093Z
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@ninapaley I really can’t decide. All of them.The issue right now is that current radfemmery is composed of liberal and conservative refugees who actually don’t agree on anything at all except that trans ideology and the sex industry are bad. They don’t even agree on what the goal is, what female liberation looks like, or even whether all women can or should be included in liberation.So, I don’t even really see these as being issues separate from radical feminism. Your view on sexuality and motherhood is intrinsic to what you think the goal of feminism should be. And we are extremely at odds on those metrics.Ultimately, I think it’s gonna be like every other political rights movement: we will tolerate each other until we have defeated the most immediate threat, and then it will instantly disband.At the end of the day, there’s no sustainable movement if we don’t agree on what it means to be liberated.
(DIR) Post #AAOy4mbzgJ39ldaofQ by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-08-17T01:40:09.086497Z
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Guys, if we’re so fucked that the only way forward is to cut off half the human population and resort to mechanical reproduction until we run out of gametes in order to keep our sorry existence on this self-destructing doom-planet going, then…
(DIR) Post #AAP8SjXrjXU4kRiliC by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-08-17T03:50:56.704241Z
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@LittleSis Have whatever techno-nightmare you want I guess, but I think it’s absurd to not just let it go at that point. Isn’t the whole “trying to solve nature with techno-dystopia” thing part of the TRA agenda?If Spinster proves anything, it’s that women aren’t a bunch of angels just sitting in a circle singing kumbaya, and on a certain level that’s actually patronizing as hell. Under the right influence, we’re mean as shit too — TIF’s prove that — and we’d only get meaner if we started culling people by the billions. Like seriously. Do you hear yourself?I’d prefer we just stop forcing people to suffer. 🤷♀️
(DIR) Post #AAPr2yjf86hSGgKeWW by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-08-17T04:09:30.532272Z
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@LittleSis But you are, because humans are sexually dymorphic. So like… how is that going to work, exactly?There’s only two ways to read separatism:1. A completely unserious fantasy with all the intellectual legitimacy of proclaiming you will solve world hunger with an easy-bake oven.2. A genocide proposal followed by artificial reproduction that ends with humans dying out of genetic inviability. And at that point, we might as well just chosen voluntarily human extinction in the first place rather than forcing all these fucked up kids to suffer.It’s ridiculous on its face, and that’s the *kindest* thing that can be said about it.
(DIR) Post #AAQa3oYQxqIwv1qvsu by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-08-17T18:53:48.991318Z
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@LittleSis That is option 1, a completely unserious fantasy.There’s almost 8 billion people on this planet and the habitable zone for humans is shrinking at a rapid pace. Where you gonna put all these people, such that they have usable land and can separate themselves from the other billions of people/men in the world? How are you gonna defend it without MASSIVE blood shed when even entire nation states are a hair’s width from coming to blows over water? And where are you gonna get this billions of dollars you’ll need to do such aid to women worldwide?How are you gonna maintain both separatism and meaningful, useful assistance to the majority of women who don’t go because they rightly trust their families more than a bunch of moonbats they don’t know and who don’t understand math, when they will have lives with men and boys in their family? You’re either gonna help these women or you’re gonna live without any involvement with men, pick one.How are you gonna maintain this colony of women over time (on this land that doesn’t exist, using community methods that don’t allow for separatism, spending money you don’t have) when HUMANS ARE SEXUALLY DYMORPHIC?This is kindergarten-level logic. If all you wanna do is go on a glorified girls-only vacation, just call it that.
(DIR) Post #AAQaUOUVyUNlu6h4Zk by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-08-17T20:39:04.159064Z
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@Chronic-Yonic It’s always so telling the way men resort to “HOW DARE YOU AGE OUT OF LOOKING LIKE A PUBESCENT GIRL!!” as their go-to insult.Poise Parker is a 40-something woman, if memory serves. It would be quite weird if she still looked like a girl.The fact that grown women looking like grown women offends fetishistic men so much says more about them than it does about women.
(DIR) Post #AD29O6DqVFJDEfyHjc by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-11-03T19:34:18.675767Z
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Virginia school: *covers up the rape of young girls by male paraphiliacs to push their trans agenda*Democrats: *shrugs and accuses women of just being horrible bitches for caring about the rape of girls*Media: *total blackout on the cover-up, won’t even ask about it in polls*Women: *defect away from rape apologist Democrats, Republican wins*Media: “Democrats were down by 10 points with women in Virginia AnD wE jUsT cAn’T fIgUrE oUt WhHhYyYy?!?!”Gee, it’s a goddamn mystery.
(DIR) Post #AD3WZ8nLlpJuVIlvv6 by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-11-03T23:28:11.833141Z
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@MrNobody @mrsaturday Being opposed to reproduction does not mean being opposed to maintaining a strong family for the children who are unfortunately already forced to be here. I’d prefer they all have a family willing to defend them from rape enablers.Although it’s worth noting that I think the isolated, limited adult unit of the West is a pretty poor way of doing that.…And also that I don’t think having children has anything to do with the ability to recognize that raping little girls is bad. If you have to personally have skin in the game to care about rape, you’re not a good person regardless.
(DIR) Post #AIp8LhR9ttdUi7G5dA by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-07-01T18:34:41.539092Z
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@JaeTheElvenQueen Yup! http://womanmeanssomething.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/A-Longitudinal-Analysis-of-Media-Reports-at-Target-Stores.pdfBut also, just for a more “humanizing” example of this, encourage them to watch the video of what happened at an LA spa recently:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VRaC-tFCEMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxCclLiBy8oThere was a man waving his dick around in front of a young girl. And the manager’s response is that they are literally powerless to do anything about it, because stopping men from perving on girls is now functionally illegal. All a man has to do is say “I feel like a woman today,” and he is exempt.
(DIR) Post #ANYavklokVYCvThk80 by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2021-06-26T19:47:49.576201Z
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@Flick Thank you so much for sharing. This. This right here is why I bang on so much that we need to stop normalizing female pain, and playing along to the script that our cycles are just supposed to be agonizing.That is a script written by men with no interest in understanding women’s health.Because we do experience a physical state change throughout the month, it is normal to have various sensations. Some may be mildly or fleetingly uncomfortable for some women.But if you are living in pain, if you are suffering, if your symptoms are interfering with your life, do not let any doctor tell you that is just part of being a woman, existence is pain. It’s not. That’s bullshit. Humans are nomadic endurance runners, the idea that the majority of us are just supposed to be living in paralyzing pain half the time is fucking ridiculous. Don’t give up until someone takes you seriously.As in all things medical, it’s possible that even with the best care they may never find a total cure, necessarily. It may also be the case that the cure is something that the medical industry doesn’t specialize in (for a lot of women, chronic pelvic pain is related to things like diet, trauma, inflammation, or weight). But don’t let anyone brush you off and tell you to just suffer quietly and get on with it.Women’s health matters. Your suffering matters. Your suffering does not define you, it is your body trying to tell you it needs help.You are your body’s only representative. Don’t give up until someone helps you.Oh, and also, don’t bother seeing male doctors. I do notice how you didn’t get any real help until you saw a female — fucking same, and fucking same again for every other woman I’ve ever known who’s ultimately solved or at least treated their pelvic pain. Only see female doctors.
(DIR) Post #APo626awK9fmaKk60O by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2020-07-31T01:53:31.441Z
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What do y’all reply with when someone asks you for pronouns?I’m tired of this passive aggressive shit and I don’t wanna play.#gc #radfem #pronouns #tra
(DIR) Post #AXUxzqt4N9aAtAyk7s by Lilitu@spinster.xyz
2023-07-08T22:16:05.982920Z
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I finally found the words for why "chivalry" always feels so hostile.It's a way of physically thought-stopping and skill-blocking women, under the guise of being "nice."It constantly interrupts women as they try to just move around in space, attempting to force them to re-adapt their behavior to suit the man as he supposedly "demonstrates his respect."It dumbs things down, or even just removes access to learning or achievement entirely, as men push their way into any situation where a woman is attempting to gain or demonstrate a skill, claiming they just want to help her by "taking it off her plate."It keeps women idle and constantly distracted, and over the course of a lifetime, results in a tremendous disadvantage of skills and independence. And despite all their cries of "just being nice guys," this doesn't seem to benefit anyone but men.And if you have the audacity to notice this and tell them to stop, they act like a victim and cry about how no one appreciates "nice guys" anymore.Lessons from the boatyard.