Meet Cherish and Kelly. They’re here, and they’re the most queer.

Cherish is a lesbian woman who is subverting society’s expectations of what it means to be a lesbian, “I don’t feel the need to shave, take HRT or have any kind of surgery to be a woman because feminism is about living naturally as a woman without ascribing to oppressive beauty standards.” says Cherish in her stunning button down shirt she found in the men’s department. Her decision to keep her beard, wear pants and men’s shoes are an absolutely fabulous way to tell the world how gnc she is.

Kelly on the other hand feels no need to call themself a man OR a woman because those binary ideas are a social construct, “Sex is pseudoscience, it’s something created to oppress non-white people.” Kelly says in a moment of pure wisdom.

I sat down with this queer couple in a trendy coffee bar close to where Cherish works as an editor for a publishing firm. No one around us takes notice of this couple who bravely face the world everyday, they know their queerness isn’t accepted by everyone but this doesn’t stop them from letting anyone who mistakes them for heterosexual know that they aren’t, this takes guts.

“Kelly is finding it difficult to find a senior position even though she has a higher degree than I do, people are just so bigoted against non-binary people.” Cherish knows if Kelly, wearing a floral print dress and gender bending sneakers on their feet, would just identify as a woman then they’d be much further in life.

Kelly and Cherish plan on getting married soon but worry about finding a church accepting of a lesbian marrying a non-binary female, “Religious institutions are still so homophobic and it’s probably going to limit our options. They’ll take one look at Cherish in her tuxedo she wants to wear and flip, it SCREAMS butch!” cries Kelly.

They go on to tell me how other lesbian couples seem to avoid them and know it’s because transphobia runs rampant in lesbian circles, “They’re just jealous that Cherish is more of a woman than they’ll ever be and she has an organic strap-on.” Meanwhile they ensure they’re on the frontlines at Pride and do their utmost to make sure lesbians know that people like Cherish are the future lesbians can look forward to.

The couple wants children but doesn’t quite know yet which one is going to carry. Those of us at QueerPride Weekly wish this very queer couple good luck in their future.

All the gold digging accusations directed to woman distracts from the fact that many men are literally financial predators and use reproductive abuse to carry it out. They wanna come into your life and control all of your financial assets and burden you with their debts.

keep telling myself that my knee jerk response to the barbie movie hype is mean and petty and irrational and mostly based on the fact that i got bullied and excluded my entire childhood for not being feminine enough and barbies were like. some sort of Harbinger of that experience but my fucking g-d some of the things i have to read online make it really difficult to swallow down my impulse to be an asshole about it. i haven't read so many wild takes about The Power of Femininity since it was popular to claim that legally blonde is a feminist masterpiece

You are right. Barbie, when it first came out, must have been great for young girls. A doll that is not a baby. But that was not what Barbie represented for our generation. She was the "girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice" for us. All pink and glitter, her high heels and disproportionate body, full-face make up and shiny blond hair. She was there to remind us of our position in society. You can be a vet or pilot, but you can't be anything if you are not pleasing to the eye.

Boys would get toys that looked fun, and girls would get gifted these. If you were such a tomboy that people knew not to get you Barbies, you would not be able to play with other girls.

It was alienating when all my friends had one (or two if they were well off) prized original Barbie and i had animal toys. You can't join the boys because they are violent and mean, can't join the girls because they are playing with dolls.

and they have to frame it as “trans women are getting banned from chess” instead of “men aren’t allowed in women’s events” because they know if they were honest about it they would look stupid

like yeah i’m technically banned from middle school spelling bees but i’m not taking it personally

Personally, I think the women who are under the delusion that femininity is demonized is bc they watched movies like Legally Blond, Mean Girls, and High School Musical, saw the ultra feminine women in those movies be made fun of, and came to the conclusion that femininity must be protected in women, and just ran with it bc they’re brain dead who don’t live in the real world and don’t wanna admit how horrible people treat gnc/masculine women

That‘s why I‘ll always save all my admiration for women‘s accomplishments and ignore men‘s.

Reminds me of the post about women being several times better than men at apnea and people saying it proved "women were just as good as men"

Anyway nornalise saying women are better than men

Of course. Same happened to Joanne Rowling when she became the world's highest-paid writer. Suddenly, revenues and number of sold copies were no longer a valid criteria to decide who was the best author, and amateur literature critics appeared everywhere trying to diminish her work and attribute her success to the movies that appeared years later. Or to advertisement and merchandising, although people were queuing to buy her books years before that was even a thing. Making money is a sign of success when men do it, but when women do it better than them, then the criteria needs to change so men get to keep the upper place. Male inferiority complex.

i love how you can tell that almost every picrew made by the japanese artists the site was made for is super high quality and then you see one made by an american and it’s like

Not to be mean or anything but...

“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”

Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

girl dinner (big fucking plate of carbs and protein) girl math (complex analysis) girl career (trades and engineering and politics and compsci) girl sports (dirtbikes and football and weightlifting) girl instruments (drums and bass guitar and electric) girl personality (loud and opinionated and annoying and brash)

Why Are Libfems… like she almost got the point, but because of sex posi bullshit she spun it the wrong way. It’s SAD that so many women in kink/BDSM are trying to use it as a bandaid coping mechanism for trauma. It’s sad that the men involved in that scene prey upon women they know are vulnerable. It’s not badass by any means. Hypersexuality as a response to trauma shouldn’t be romanticized.

???? TrAuma

Is badaSS?????!!!! I puked

Here is a video on re-victimization from the sex positivity guru herself. She actually does a good job talking about the topic dispite not recognizing how BDSM is abuse and encourages re-victimization: