Tinyangryflower - Cami

Mashable

The woman who defied Italian tradition by refusing to marry her rapist

50 years ago, Franca Viola risked everything to put her rapist behind bars and marry the man of her choice.

1966 - not even 60 years ago. She’s still alive today.

Important notes:

Italy was very predominantly Christian, which had heavy influence on their legal system.

Women were basically told no one would ever love them, marry them, have kids with them, take care of them, etc. if they were “used up”.

Men’s crimes were forgiven if the woman married him.

I recently did a class project on the female body and how to gain confidence as a woman. Basically I told my class that their worth isn’t based on beauty and I also talked about all the cool stuff women’s bodies can do and how it works. I explained things like cellulite and why women have it (because our bodies need it to keep us alive because we’re important. It’s the reason men don’t have it ;) ) and how the vagina is a self cleaning system. I talked about the beauty industry. I talked about how the women in my class are allowed to take up space and be loud. I talked about fordyce spots and how they’re normal and I talked about cutting toxic people out of their life who deserve it. They even listened to me when I talked about shaving and makeup not being a choice, and they all agreed that it’s damaging to your self confidence to be afraid of living naturally with hair and no makeup.

I made a small zine decorated with embroidered uteri and felted vulvas in different shapes and sizes to show that all vulvas are different. I also put in my whole presentation as well as a few paragraphs on why pornography is harmful with all my sources. I left some pages blank so people could write stuff down and after they were done writing in it I read stuff like “I have a vagina and I’m proud” and tbh it was amazing. I’m so glad I was able to help my classmates out and I also did this all while two libfems in my class who hate me because I’m a “terf” watched, and they could do nothing about it.

I poured two months of work, researching and preparing into this project and it paid off exactly how I wanted it to. After class people were coming up to me to say how amazing they felt, how they learnt so much about themselves, how they’re less ashamed of their bodies because of me. Every time I think about my project, I feel so accomplished and I’m so glad I’ve impacted at least one woman’s life for the better.

"The greatest revolution in a country is the one that changes women and their way of life. You can't make the revolution without women. Perhaps women are physically weaker but morally they have a hundred times greater strength.”

Oriana Fallaci (1929-2006)

‘ᴴᵉʸ ᵂʰʸ ᴰᵒⁿ’ᵗ ʸᵒᵘ ᴶᵘˢᵗ ᴹᵃᵏᵉ ᵃⁿ ᴼⁿˡʸᶠᵃⁿˢ,’

ᵃⁿᵒⁿʸᵐᵒᵘˢ ᵃᵘᵗʰᵒʳ

Where’s that post that’s like “as a woman from India radical feminism is the default feminism in the global south” and some American replies like “uh yeah I was born in Louisiana I know the south is filled with bigots like you”

Queen just accidentally implied that trans women are straight men pretending to be lesbians lmao

I love the malding that ensues when a woman mimics transbian behavior

‘Men are taught not to be emotional’

Pal men are taught to throw tables across the room if they’re angry and punch people who mildly disrespect them— all of these things are emotional responses they’re just incongruous with what we consider emotional to be i.e. a sniffling teenage girl. Men are super emotional. They’re selfishly emotional. They’re so emotional that they *have* to let any living creature around them feel the pain they feel inside even for a sec.