Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. (ETA: Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.)
Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here and here .
I just want to enjoy heavy music without songs about raping dead women/nuns. It is SO much more common than you’d think. “It’s supposed to be controversial!!” Is it really controversial when violence against women is so common?? This is why I only listen to girl bands
I’m not interested in a world where men really want to watch porn but resist because they’ve been shamed; I’m interested in a world where men are raised from birth with such an unshakable understanding of women as living human beings that they are incapable of being aroused by their exploitation.
feminists: this terrible act is so damaging to ones self that it has the highest rate of ptsd of any event, women kill themselves in wartime to avoid rape, every womans worst fear is rape,
rape apologists: its consensual why are you mad. its totally neutral and fine to fantasize about acting out the most heinous act on a woman if its actually “pretend”.
why did god make men last really short during sex while making women last really long during sex? the answer is easy sillies… man on man and woman on woman relationships were ALWAYS meant to be… man jerks off another man and they’re like this is it, it’s enough of an adventurous “sex” for AT LEAST a month…. us lads, we GET each other in EVERY way… while lesbians are out there beating each other’s meat for half an hour and they go to round 2 ten seconds later… they’re strong legends, that’s what they are… long story short, miss nature knows what’s up… so what’s up? mlm and wlw is the NATURAL way of living while a man/woman relationship is just a FORMAL communal way to help procreate gay legends
You want engagement so bad.
Sex is why women are opressed
Gender is how
every woman thinks she's evil and irredeemable for making a few avoidable mistakes while every man goes about his day thinking he's normal after having emotionally tortured at least 5 different women
I was watching a documentary called the “State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith”. It’s about a woman who killed her rapist (who, at the time of his slaying, had her brother in a chokehold). Something in it stuck with me.
When the prosecutor was speaking to her, he asked something along the line of, “Did the [perpetrator] have any visible weapons on him?”
She responded with, “His hands.”
Then he asks again, “Did the [perpetrator] have any-“”
She interrupts him and says, “His penis.”
He speaks again and then she says, “His mouth.”
It just stuck with me because…it’s so right. Men’s hands, especially men’s penises, their mouths, their whole bodies, are weapons, especially towards women. Men are significantly stronger than women physically and yeah, that matters. A woman has no or very little chance of physically defending herself against a male without a weapon, and even that’s very risky depending on the laws in your country. Men use their bodies to hit women, punch women, slap women, rape women, violate women in ways almost incomparable to when used against other men.
Considering how men view women, how they view themselves, how they view masculinity, how they view sex, women and girls have every right to be cautious around men and “picky” about the ones they have in their lives.
Fortunately not, but it’s good to have hopes and dreams. Hold onto those. I’m sure you don’t have much else.
“You will never be a woman” lmao it’s nice to be affirmed as a trans man. Transphobia failed successfully
That’s crazy imagine if there was a gender of people who’d been systemically oppressed and subjugated for millennia, told they were the root cause of evil in society, told they were objects and not humans, raped killed and abused, enslaved, banned from some forms of artistic performance because their existence was “corrupting morals”, stripped of their bodily autonomy, and blamed and used as the scapegoat for every single problem in the world. I’m sure they’d also collectively become horrible hateful bigots with no care for any other human too, right? Oh wait. Huh. That’s weird. They’re not.