Lady LETRAS

˙˙Ni confirmo ni desmiento que me he meado de la risa gracias a los garrulos de X y ahora no puedo desorinarme.

[Korutürk Bey @KoruturkBey]

Kendisini besleyen kişiye olan korkusu giderek sevgiye dönüşen sevimli baykuş;

[Davizz66 🔻 @recuncho34]

Estos cobardes siempre van a por mujeres, menores o personas mayores…

Atentos a este HJØDPVTÂ.

[SubRosa )✿( Magick @subrosamagick.bsky.social @SubRosaMagick]

She was 57 years old.
White hair. No carefully managed image. No media training designed to make her more palatable. Just thirty years of accumulated knowledge and the calm, unhurried authority of a woman who had spent her life mastering her subject.
She sat on a BBC panel, answered questions about immigration and politics, cited evidence, made arguments — and then went home.
The next morning, her inbox looked like a crime scene.
Her name is Mary Beard — Cambridge professor, classicist, one of the most respected scholars of ancient Rome and Western civilisation alive. And the internet had decided that a woman speaking with quiet authority on television needed to be punished for it.
The messages were not criticism. They were not debate. They were rape threats. Death threats. Coordinated campaigns of personal destruction targeting her appearance, her age, her voice — anything that could be used to remind her that spaces like the one she had just occupied were not meant for her.
Most people would have gone quiet.
Mary Beard went further in.
She did what scholars do when they find a pattern that disturbs them: she followed it backward. Through decades. Through centuries. Through millennia. All the way back to some of the oldest texts in Western civilisation.
And she found it had always been there.
In Homer's Odyssey — one of the foundational works of Western literature, nearly three thousand years old — there is a scene that most readers pass over without registering its quiet violence. Penelope comes downstairs and asks the poet to sing a different song. Her own son, Telemachus, cuts her off. He orders her back to her room and tells her plainly: speech is the business of men.
She goes.
Mary Beard read that scene and recognized it immediately.
Not as ancient history. As a pattern.
In ancient Rome, women who dared to speak in public were not described as orators or thinkers. They were described as noise — disorderly sound, something that did not deserve to be called language or argument. Their voices were not speech. Their thoughts were not thoughts.
In the medieval world, women who claimed public authority were labeled as witches.
Elizabeth I — Queen of England, ruler of a nation — had to rhetorically reshape herself into something masculine just to be taken seriously as the leader of her own country.
The silencing of women who speak with authority was not invented by social media. It was not a modern pathology or a cultural accident. It was built deliberately, over centuries, into the very foundations of how Western civilisation defined who gets to speak, what authority sounds like, and who is allowed to take up space in public life.
Mary Beard had found something important.
In 2017, she published Women & Power: A Manifesto — short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to reframe everything you thought you understood about why this keeps happening.
Her argument was precise and devastating.
The problem is not that women lack the ability to lead. The problem is that the model of leadership itself — the template for what public authority looks, sounds, and feels like — was built by men over centuries and has never been redesigned. When a woman enters public life and doesn't fit that template, she is not failing. The template was never built for her. It was built specifically to exclude her, and it has been doing exactly that, efficiently and continuously, for three thousand years.
The solution, Beard argued, is not to teach women to perform power the way men have always performed it. The solution is to dismantle and rebuild the very concept of what power is allowed to look like.
She kept teaching. She kept writing. She kept appearing on television — white-haired, unhurried, carrying her decades of authority without performing it, without packaging it for comfort, without apologizing for it.
The threats continued.
But other messages began arriving too. Letters from women and girls who had spent their entire lives feeling that every door was slightly too narrow, every table slightly too high, every room slightly reluctant to make space for them. Women who had spent years wondering what was wrong with them — why they couldn't quite fit, couldn't quite belong, couldn't quite be taken seriously no matter how much they knew or how hard they worked.
They read the book and understood, perhaps for the first time, that nothing had ever been wrong with them.
The room had been designed without them in mind.
That is not a personal failing.
That is a three-thousand-year-old architectural decision.
And one Cambridge professor with white hair and a calm voice — who refused to go quiet when the internet told her to — spent her career documenting it, naming it, and handing that knowledge to everyone who needed to hear it.
Telemachus told Penelope that speech was the business of men.
He was wrong then.
He is still wrong now.
And Mary Beard has three thousand years of evidence to prove it.
via The Inspireist

#FeministFriday #HERstory

[Lady LETRAS @LadyLetras]

@alb_olmos Pero... Qué co***o te pasa a ti con las mujeres de 50????

[Roxita de Lussemburgo aka BrujAvería #XX @Rossemburg]

Hombres: «El satisfyer no te puede dar besos, abrazos y caricias».

Nosotras: «Ya, pero el satisfyer tampoco puede:

-agarrarme del cuello (con o sin presión);
-tirarme del pelo;
-llamarme 'puta';
-azotarme;
-quitarse el condón a mitad;
-contagiarme una ETS (si solo lo uso yo)».

[🔻 @cxlturx]

Lo más revolucionario que puedo hacer es decidir dónde y en qué pongo mi atención y mi dinero: ¿utilizas «terf»? no te sigo, ¿escribes libros invisibilizando a las mujeres? no lo compro. Sin payasos no se sostiene el circo, punto.

[Elena reinés @elena_reines]

Gracias por rescatar mi currículum de cuando tenía 25 años. Si encuentra una foto de mi comunión, ya hacemos la colección completa.

Por cierto, estudiar, trabajar y formarse es bastante más digno que dedicar el cargo de diputado a intentar humillar a mujeres por Twitter

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Heartbreaking. I watched it once. Then I watched it again. And each time, my body hurt and my heart broke.

Four young women in Kabul were run over by Taliban forces after attending an educational seminar.
Nobody knows whether they are alive or not. Just think about that.
These women were were not doing anything wrong. They were learning.

Simple act of seeking education can become a life-threatening risk.

I received this video from a woman of Afghanistan with a simply message: “please use your platform and tell the world that they are killing us here, we are tired of Taliban. please don’t let the world forget Afghan women. we are fed up with Taliban. Enough is enough”.

[La Vecina Rubia @lavecinarubia]

Estoy convencida de que las redes sociales sirven para mucho más. Por eso las utilizo como mejor sé: para ayudar, entretener, sacar sonrisas, hablar de ortografía... Por cosas como esta me siento agradecida de tener este altavoz de millones de personas formado por vuestras voces.

[Carlos ✯ ☭ @carlos_]

¿Te imaginas que la policía te detenga, te acuse de terrorismo y una jueza pida cárcel para ti por una frase sobre Dragon Ball? Parece un chiste de internet, pero le pasó a un joven de Madrid. Abro hilo para recordar una de las historias más surrealistas de nuestra justicia 👇

[Feminicidio·net @feminicidio]

Los talibanes endurecen aún más su #misoginia en Afganistán, ante la connivencia internacional: detienen a decenas de mujeres en redadas, por incumplir sus reglas de velado patriarcal. Esto se suma a que:
❌Desde mayo, han legalizado el matrimonio forzado de niñas menores incluso de 9 años.
❌Desde enero, el código penal legaliza la violencia contra las mujeres.
❌Desde 2021, más de 140 normas cercenan la vida de las mujeres y las niñas en todos los ámbitos.
❌Una delegación de los talibanes visitará Bruselas este mes de junio, invitados por la Unión Europea.
#PorSerMujeres #NoAlApartheid #BastaYa #StandWithAfghanWomen https://t.co/xDqhYZBlff

[Ri-Ri @YoSoyRiRi]

Hacer six seven no es vivir en la actualidad. Vivir en la actualidad es reconocer la libertad de las mujeres a abortar, la de la gente homosexual a casarse y la de la gente a decidir una muerte digna.

[VITINHO @euvitin0]

A internet inteira só consegue falar sobre a "fertilidade" de Mariam Nabatanzi.

Mas essa história nunca foi sobre biologia.
Foi sobre um crime silencioso.

Aos 12 anos, ela foi vendida pelo próprio pai para um homem de 57 anos.

Ela se tornou a quinta esposa em um casamento sem amor e cheio de abusos.

"Aos 18 anos, eu já tinha 18 filhos e implorei por ajuda médica."

O médico a proibiu de usar anticoncepcionais, dizendo que a única forma de não morrer era continuar tendo bebês devido à sua condição.

Ninguém percebeu o verdadeiro absurdo.
A própria madrasta que a criou se tornou amante do seu marido e teve filhos com ele.

Em 2015, o homem vendeu a casa da família e fugiu com todo o dinheiro, deixando-a com as crianças.

"Uma de minhas filhas se formou em enfermagem, foi para a Rússia e nunca mais me deu notícias."

Hoje, ela trabalha em 5 empregos diferentes para sustentar os filhos sozinha.

Reduzir a vida de Mariam a um "caso impressionante de fertilidade" é ignorar uma sequência brutal de abandonos, abusos e falhas do sistema.

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

En España, la hija de 13 años de una madre fue secuestrada y violada por un vecino. El agresor fue condenado a nueve años de prisión.

Aproximadamente seis años después de cumplir su condena, el agresor fue puesto en libertad condicional y regresó a la ciudad. Se encontró con la madre en un bar cerca de una parada de autobús.

El agresor le preguntó burlonamente: "¿Cómo está tu hija?". Enfurecida, ella compró gasolina, regresó al bar, roció al hombre con ella y le prendió fuego.

El hombre sufrió quemaduras graves y murió pocos días después.

Aunque estaba presa del pánico, no huyó, sino que confesó lo sucedido a quienes la rodeaban y esperó a que llegara la policía.

Fue condenada a cinco años y seis meses de prisión, pero gracias a una campaña de indulto y por motivos de salud, fue puesta en libertad tras cumplir parte de su condena.

[✧ @cessonmute]

A man refusing condoms is "a preference" but a women refusing pregnancy is "murder".
That isn't morality, it's misogyny.

[Andy Crush @Andy_TToledo]

Recuerden que el aborto en Argentina es gratuito y legal.

Podes realizarlo en cualquier centro de salud y nadie puede negártelo.

Saludos!

[Meredith Gay 🛋️✨ @MerGarza]

Que voltear a otro lado cuando sacerdotes violan a niñas, niños, y mujeres de vergüenza por primera vez en la vida 🙏🏼

[julieta 🌞🇵🇸 @lajuliabarish]

sisi pero la ley del aborto existe y tu amigo imaginario no