Quian

Women like us can't be bullied out of resistance.

Other people's perceptions of you are none of your business.

[Quian @Pantera_pe]

Don't make me tap the sign
https://t.co/kcb0NL20RF

[Fred Sargeant 🏳️‍🌈 🟦 @FredSargeant]

Malcolm Michaels Jr, aka by his preferred nickname "Mikey", drag name Marsha, was a child sex entrepreneur affiliated with porn kingpin Mike "Dirty Mike" Umbers, a part of Matty "The Horse" Ianniello's Mafia Times Square sex empire. Michael's did nothing that advanced gay rights during the period except to complain about being disliked by the membership of the Gay Liberation Front and that people wouldn't dance with him at GLF fundraising dances.

We were not "inspired" or led by drug-addled, homeless, mentality ill, child sex traffickers. Pay him no mind.

[Quian @Pantera_pe]

@about2face Then do something.
Something else than trying to cling from what women are doing.

[Quian @Pantera_pe]

The only times men complaint against circumsicion is in posts about FGM.

[About Face @about2face]

@LittahMem @Pantera_pe Considering GM was done to them and is still permissible in most places, I would say they have plenty of room to air grievance.

All GM is bad. It shouldn't matter who it's on. Nobody is "appropriate FGM". It is a dark joke making light of TERF belief nales can't be victims.

[Quian @Pantera_pe]

@FruellaDeBrille If their greatest fear is women laughing at them, they might be men.

[Quian @Pantera_pe]

@RealPostFolder The "corporate succesfull woman" author;

[Quian @Pantera_pe]

@socfemoz No. We are not equal.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

The nonstop infantilization is just beyond creepy. Even the choice of colors – baby blue and pale pink - are a huge red flag.

[Quian @Pantera_pe]

@only2beR2 @stacycay @zaelefty See
Stereotypes.
Not following the current stereotypes assigned to our sex doesn't make us the opposite sex.
Because they are STEREOTYPES.

[Quian @Pantera_pe]

@nyaraVT Ok, let’s hear them:

[Gay Not Queer @Gaynotqueer1]

"Can I talk to the ladies who take ride share for a minute? Girl to girl?"

Man upset that when he's gleefully expecting women, it's men who turn up.

[Quian @Pantera_pe]

@TellusQ @ManySuchCases While being a female appearing person herself

[Quian @Pantera_pe]

@ManySuchCases She won't be seen as a girl for ever. If she's lucky, she will be seen as a woman.

[Gay Not Queer @Gaynotqueer1]

"Can I talk to the ladies who take ride share for a minute? Girl to girl?"

Man upset that when he's gleefully expecting women, it's men who turn up.

[Quian @Pantera_pe]

@No4167 Was it King Louis XVI 's birthday party?

[Quian @Pantera_pe]

Is there anything they won't try to appropriate?

[🏳️‍⚧️Jenna🏳️‍⚧️ @JennaFights4You]

Nazis do this face when I explain to them that every single trans woman who was circumcised, is LITERALLY a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM).

[Quian @Pantera_pe]

@s0ftw4v3 Is that pubes? What is it?

[Quian @Pantera_pe]

@revelfemme What was that?

[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

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

A man pretending to be a woman, suspected of murdering a little boy, publicly assaulted female journalists.

Naturally Australian media referred to him as "she".