Gay men took the side of trans-identified males when they started to invade women's safe spaces, stealing their sports and scholarships, undermining sex-based rights that women only very recently in history had managed to secure.

They told lesbians they're bigots if they don't agree that a man is a lesbian if he says that he is and if they're not willing to have sex with him.

They have re-written history to take away from lesbians the credit for Stone Wall and give it to trans women instead, just as they wrote out of history all the heterosexual women allies who supported them through the AIDS crisis and many other crisis besides.

They have never cared about female specific ongoing tragedies such as Indian women dying in menstrual huts in India, or African women dying of female genital mutilations in Africa - after all, these are issues that do not affect them personally so they're not important.

And even though AIDS has since the 1980s become one of the leading causes of death for women worldwide they have never showed up for that crisis, even though women were the ones who campaigned for them and their rights when they needed it.

In their eyes women when women show up for them they are doing nothing more than their duty, as women exist to serve men not the other way around so why should they feel any sense of gratitude or loyalty in return?

Why would they care now that women have lost their right to abortion and next will lose the rest of their reproductive rights? When have they ever come to our rescue? They would sooner show up to sing "We saw your boobs" alongside the misogynist men who rape women, like they have done so many times before. Stay classy, guys.

John Stoltenberg - A Feminist Guide to Gay Male Misogyny

What is gay male misogyny? What distinguishes it as gay and male? Why do gay men do it? What does it do to others when we do it? What does it do to ourselves when we do it? And what can we do about it?

A talk by John Stoltenberg April 19, 2013, at Wake Forest University for a symposium titled "Rewriting Homosexuality."

A couple of months ago the Oscars, the 2013 Oscars, opened with a song that Seth MacFarlane sang.

A show of hands, does this ring a bell, did anybody here in the room see this? Maybe about half of you.

Well, let me recap it for those who didn't see it: Seth MacFarlane begins singing a song and the song is "We saw your boobs", and it's a recital of different female actors names and films they appeared in; and the chorus is "in the movie that we saw we saw your boobs". He sings this song and then the curtains open: it's the Los Angeles Gay Men's Chorus. They join in on the last verse.

What wasn't apparent at the time was that at least four of the women actors who were named in that song lyric, their breasts appeared on screen because their characters had been raped.

Jodie Foster in "The Accused", her breasts were visible on screen during a flashback her character is having about the rape. And her assailants are violently ripping her breasts out of her shirt. (sing songs) "In the movie that we saw we saw your boobs".

Hilary Swank in "Boys Don't Cry", she's playing a trans man, Brandon Teena, we see Hilary Swank's breasts during a medical examination after Teena's character has been brutally raped on the trunk of a car. Her breasts are swollen and dark with bruises and Hillary Swank as the character flinches. (sing songs) "In the movie that we saw we saw your boobs".

Similarly Halle Berry in "Monsters Ball", her name was referenced in this song lyric; Charlize Theron, in "Monster". And I'm setting the scene in this way for my topic today, which is gay male misogyny.

(...)

There's actually a conversation about gay male misogyny going on online. It's fairly extensive (…) It's very disturbing, but in a culture that doesn't see gay men who are perceived as queer as men having male privilege our misogyny and sexist acts are instead read as diva worship or celebrating women, even when in reality they are objectification, assault and dehumanization.

If you think it's cool to do drugs or booze or smoke, if anyone seeking a healthy life style looks practically orthorexic and hypochondriac in your eyes, then even if you're an anti-religion leftist you in your own way are also a religious fanatic because you also believe you're made of some kind of immaterial spirit that can't be harmed. We are all just sacks of flesh and if you don't adopt a carefully thought out diet and exercise routine - something that necessarily excludes many foods and entails a lot of sacrifice - then you will find yourself in a lot of trouble. Everyone who ends up sick wishes they could go back in time to make profoundly different decisions. Then they don't mind being ridiculed for caring too much about their fragile bodies because they realize that's all they have, life is all that any of us has.

0.5 million men vs 10 million for women. even if filler or plastic surgery is on the rise for men it will not compare in magnitudes to what women have to go through

instead of doing away with the insanity altogether, let men descend into this madness too so the makeup and beauty industry can make more profit. i hope actually women stop wearing makeup or doing any procedures, and then the companies will have no choice but to target men and we should men go through this hell because we'll never learn as a society.

"For men, a drop makes a splash." -- even in beauty procedures they are concerned for men's comfort more so than women. Let's do as little as possible we can get away with for men... no actually let them suffer the way women go under the knife.

In England at least anyone can take a course in one afternoon that gives them the legal right to perform invasive procedures that, if done incorrectly, could kill or irreparably damage their clients. So now ignorant beauticians who can't even do your nails right can kill you with injections or liposuctions done wrong.

Britain’s Backstreet Surgery Scandal | ITV News

In a new documentary, ‘Britain’s Backstreet Surgery Scandal’, ITV News witnessed dangerous practices carried out by salon staff with just a few hours training.

I never thought I'd live to see the day when a woman would say out loud that she voted for Trump (who wants to take away her rights) because she believes she'll be protected by her Democrat governor (that she didn't vote for) from the consequences of her actions.

"The Democrats will protect me from my worst enemy whom I empowered with my vote". "I am going to feed the tiger that wants to kill me but not the warrior that wants to protect me from the tiger, that makes sense to me."

And she voted Trump for president without knowing that in her state women had already lost their reproductive rights because her Democratic governor had already been overridden by the Republicans. Republicans that wouldn't have the power to do so if she hadn't voted for them.

I guess too much fluoride in the water really does kill braincells.

Doctors Told Him It Was Impossible... He Proved Them Wrong

(Will never not reblog this beauty. What genius.)

Same. :)

i hate viruses so fucking much. literally getting attacked by a fucking shape. a concept. consumes no energy. responds to no stimuli. its only existence is to fuck with you. like fuck offf

prev's tags are too good not to save

[ID: #right???

#it's not even a beast or a creature #a bacterium is at least a guy. a horrible little scallawag of a guy but a guy nonetheless

#a virus is just. a mean tiny complicated philips head screwdriver

#fuck off out of here. go back to concept town /end ID]

one thing about me is I have a very strong affinity for characters who are obsessed with seeing themselves as the villain because they’ve been told so many times they’re a monster it’s easier to believe it & embrace it & pretend not to care than look in the mirror & face themselves on any kind of genuine level so they just keep hurting themselves & everyone around them worse & worse

i cannot hate myself into a version of me i will love.

i cannot punish myself in any way that will unmake the past.

A woman whose epilepsy was greatly improved by an experimental brain implant was devastated when, just two years after getting it, she was forced to have it removed due to the company that made it going bankrupt.

Specifically, because she couldn't afford to buy the implant from the company. They basically took her implant back to recoup their losses. This is what happens when you privatize healthcare and health research. The group providing her with this implant should not have been able to go bankrupt in the first place, let alone repossess her implant to pay off their debts.

This is what disabled people mean when we say that cyberpunk horror is just a reality for us. This woman was literally forced to undergo a surgery because she couldn't pay to keep the implant already inside her brain. How long till companies start repossessing pacemakers and transplants?

You can reverse epilepsy by following a keto diet, no drugs or surgeries required. We've known this for decades. I'm sure there are many uses for medicine and that science is a noble and worthy endeavour - but it's thanks to science and medicine that we've known for decades that epilepsy is cured by sticking to a keto diet. Cultivating this dependency on pharmaceuticals and surgeries - and now chips in your brain? - where there is no need for any of that stuff is cultivating a kind of medical consumerism, as if we weren't consumeristic enough already or as if a cure doesn't register as ever being really real unless it comes in a bottle and is a product or a service that you can purchase.

Ahem

Do not take them out unless you absolutely have to.

"In the current brain imaging analysis, participants who had both their ovaries removed before age 40 commonly took estrogen to replace what their sex gonads once made. But this hormone replacement therapy had no impact on their white matter integrity."

goddammit

Reposting for the inevitably of hearing that there was fraud everywhere.

im losing my mind

i dont know who needs to see this today,

In that case stop drinking coffee, because most coffee contains mold and mycotoxins.

TiM finds out that not every place will accommodate his ‘gender identity’, including clinics

it's crazy how anti science they are. the belief that hrt changes a male to a female is as insane as believing water can turn to wine. like looney level shit

the insane part is that society is so built around making sure males don't get their feelings hurt that everyone goes along with it

What the technician was trying to explain to this idiot male is that HE IS ANEMIC. Your blood does not change based on hormones. You do not literally become female. Biologically. The only reason these idiots think so is because 1000s of (pharma industry backed) sycophants and well-meaning but scientifically moronic allies keep insisting "transwomen are real women!" To the point where they think it means female. And nobody but mean women online tell the truth. I blame the medical industry for doing this to itself. Every single medical professional knows better, but won't say it. But I digress.

If you are anemic, you are not allowed to donate blood/plasma. Period. Full stop. End of story.

It's dangerous to you AND your blood is useless to give to anybody. It's like a balding man insisting that he has enough good hair to make a wig for a cancer patient.

Your blood sucks, bro.

Hemoglobin (the bits containing iron that attract and carry oxygen) values below 13.2 g/dl are considered anemia in males. The threshold is 11.6 gm/dl in females. Under these values means YOUR BLOOD IS NOT FUNCTIONING PROPERLY. *Your blood is sick*.

He should be far more worried about that than someone questioning his gender validation. If his blood was just under the minimum for females, he's even bigger trouble. But let's say he was at 12 gm/dl which is over the cutoff for females, but under males... it's still really unhealthy for females. You would be borderline, and it's up to the clinic's discretion to accept that donation at all. In any case, you need to assess your blood health.

The scientific illiteracy of the trans community is staggeringly high, and it is putting them in very unhealthy, possibly dangerous, situations. This male shouldn't have been so fixated his gender, but maybe been very concerned that no matter what his sex, his hemoglobin count is incredibly low. He is borderline anemic no matter what. 13 and under is considered "severe low". 7 or under is considered "dangerously low" and usually a reason for hospitalization. This idiot thinks HRT will make his blood cells better at carrying oxygen? When in fact, it's possible all those exogenous hormones are causing his RBCs to weaken (studies show this pattern in women who take HRT (estrogen/progesterone) for menopause and there are studies that also show increased testosterone-dependent RBC damage from exogenous HRT as well for females on male HRT) which makes anemia worse.

And...

In the case of blood donations, that mismatch can literally kill recipients. For example, a female donating plasma who calls herself male and is of any blood type other than AB, can cause TRALI, which is basically when your new blood causes extreme immune reaction to the body's own lungs. It can be fatal. It only happens with female plasma, from women who have carried a fetus to term. Anti-HLA antigens cannot be tested for in any blood except AB. But then, it is unlikely that the blood would be tested at all if she checked "male" on the form and nobody at the center questioned her birth sex. (They can, and occasionally do, do further screening on-site. Trans people have reported being asked to redo their intake forms where they put their legal gender instead of bio sex by employees after being asked birth sex.)

A transman could literally kill a male if she checked "male" on the intake form. I know we joke about killing all men here on radblr, but this is a real-world example of how sex can matter, even in the most unexpected ways. And this blasé approach to sex in the medical field now can have frightening consequences. Transmen also can develop erythrocytosis beyond even the levels of "cis" males. Their hemocrit levels are through the roof. This is also very bad (huge stroke and clot risk). At least most blood banks do screen out for that, iirc. Trans people should have to disclose their status and treatment regime. Other conditions do.

There is also the issue of the mostly unstudied effects that exogenous hormones can have on blood health. It's still a poorly studied area of hematology and transfusion care but studies are emerging of, for example, exogenous female hormone supplementation causing higher than normal hemolysis (aka red blood cells exploding/dying), which is terrible for transfusion recipients.

In general, there is more and more coming out that sex does matter in blood transfusions, but the mechanisms aren't clear and it's an area that is brand new. Of course, blood banks are freaking out and denying the findings of new studies are relevant.

And ER doctors generally don't check sex when hooking up transfusions either, just blood and antigen (Rh) type. The majority of transfusion reactions can be managed when caught in time, but it's the longterm outcomes that seem to be affected by sex. Most of these doctors are no longer in the picture by that point and would never be aware.

And, I will say, most blood banks do NOT ask about sex at birth anymore. There is a push from some organizations to change this back to force trans patients to acknowledge biological sex, not just legal gender. (The biggest issue imo is the medical establishment using sex and gender interchangeably.)

Just a little snippet:

It's amazing how quickly they abandon the whole "sex and gender are two different things, sex is biology and gender is social" talking point the moment those two concepts come into conflict with one another.