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11 May

I have this memory from Busan in South Korea. I took a trip there with a friend, he brought along two of his pals. We walked around, found ourselves in the red light district where there were "window girls"

Women in sex slavery sitting in front of large glass windows with red lights on them like meat at the butcher. I said I felt uncomfortable and one of my friend's mates opened the door, shoved me in, held the door shut, and shouted, "You c-nts are all the same"

In my basic Korean I just kept saying to her "I'm sorry"

Later on he would say to me that Europeans don't use the word "c-nt" the same way as Americans and I was wrong to be so upset

That I ruined the fun.

I will never forget that moment of realization I had then.

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1 May

I don't believe that men adopting "feminine" attire is non-conforming.

Conforming to opposite sex stereotypes, especially performatively by men, reinforces restrictions for women.

True identity can't be bought or worn, but comes from within — from actions, not appearances.

Gender stereotypes are not clothing choices. In fact, having clothing choices is evidence of that.
Gender, or sex caste roles, means an assumption that females fill certain undesirable roles, do certain undesirable tasks, and that it is our nature to be subordinate to men.

"Gender" is a word that should not be used in feminism, since it obfuscates sex-based oppression and allows definitions of women's subordination removed from physical reality.
Women's bodies are sold for sex, cheap labor, reproduction; this has nothing to do with outward decor.

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1 May

Kanno Sugako (1881–1911), was a Japanese radical anarcho-feminist.

She was the first woman to be executed in modern Japan for political reasons, having led a plot to overthrow the government, which was endorsing the sale of girls to textile factories.
#InternationalWorkersDay

Later, when the judge asked Kanno if she wished to make a final statement, she stated her only regret was that the plot failed.

I learned about her from a book called "Flowers in Salt" by Sharon Sievers about the modern beginnings of feminism in Japan.

Japan wanted to modernize after seeing the threat of US technology in the late 1800s. The government was able to create a trade economy due to the literal enslavement of women and girls in textile factories which strengthened male ruling power via export industries.

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14 Apr

“A woman in Washington state was interested to know how many trans identified inmates have been given transfers to women's prisons. She filed a Freedom on Information Act request. Instead of getting the information she requested, she got sued by the ACLU.”
thepostmillennial.com/aclu-blocks-wo…

There were "two inmates moved from male to female prison. One is a serial killer who admitted to killing prostitutes and hating women, another is a sex offender charged with having sex with a 12 year old."

"California also has a policy of funding sex reassignment surgeries for inmates.

This resulted in the case of a notorious baby killer undergoing the surgery and then being transferred into the same prison where the women whose children he killed is housed."

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6 Mar

"While I never really believed the cliché about women being good for only one thing, that sentiment kept creeping into my fantasies.

It’s called forced feminization... transforming the loss of male privilege into the best f*ck ever."

— Julia Serano, trans-identifying author

"Pornography is what it feels like when you think you have an object, but really the object has you. It is therefore a quintessential expression of femaleness.

Getting f*cked makes you female because f*cked is what a female is."

— Andrea Long Chu
Trans-identifying academic

"Autogynephilia describes... the basic structure of all human sexuality. The assimilation of any erotic image is, by nature, female. To be female is, in every case, to become what someone else wants. At bottom, everyone is a sissy."

— Andrea Long Chu
Trans-identifying author

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6 Mar

Makayla Sandve, who began identifying as a woman a month after incarceration, is filing for a transfer to a women's prison after a request was denied due to an "extensive criminal record." The BC Tribunal called this "biological determinism."
#NotOurCrimes
infotel.ca/newsitem/bc-tr…

Among items listed in the human rights complaint by trans-identifying inmate Makayla Sandve is the refusal of a female prison guard to perform a body search.

"Sandve requested a female guard to perform a search but the female corrections officer said, 'eww, I’m not doing it.'"

Another purported human rights violation is the refusal to provide Sandve with the women's prison uniform, and "feeling ugly without clothing needed to express her gender."

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