“Womanhood is not about periods or pregnancy or whatever” and that is where you are wrong. You cannot take away what makes us women, our experiences and turn it into a label for any man to slap on as he feels like it. In doing so you are robbing us of our experiences, dismissing them, our universal fear, subjugation, oppression, and saying it has no part in being a woman. That is the lie. That is your mistake because in saying a woman is nothing more than a person who declares their womanhood, you are saying all the countless women raped, battered, mutilated, deprived of education, sexually tortured for their bodies, treated like breeding mules, their experiences don’t mean anything. When in fact, they only occurred because they are Women. Because they were born female and share the experience of being women. Stop trying to change our reality into an identity. It is not one. It is the reality of millions oppressed for their SEX. Not their ‘identity’. They didn’t have the luxury of choosing. Nobody does. We are women and we are not an identity. We are a reality and not your costume, fetish, or persona to appropriate.
(Source: rad-feminism, via destinydiamante)
"The human talent for pattern recognition is a two-edged sword. We’re especially good at finding patterns, even when they aren’t really there. Something known as false pattern recognition. We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, we’re all too eager to deceive ourselves and others, to discern a sacred image in a grilled cheese sandwich or find a divine warning in a comet."
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (via stoicremains)(Source: scientificphilosopher, via stoicremains-deactivated2017102)
“but the way I choke my gf is special and not abusive and can even be feminist because she wants it” do you even hear yourself
(via destinydiamante)
