‘progressive’ Misogyny Is Men Telling Women They Aren’t Able To Be At The Forefront Of Conversations

Are you like, stupid?

Getting the "girls can do anything and still be a girl" talk is like being handed a sword. Being told “maybe you’re a boy” when you stray from the mold? That’s a cage.

One says: you’re real.

The other says: you’re wrong.

You were never wrong. You were always you. And anyone who tried to un-girl you for not being soft enough, quiet enough, pink enough? They were scared of a girl who didn’t need permission to exist.

You didn’t need to change. The world needs to catch up.

You know that feeling when you spread your wings like you've been grounded forever, feathers tangled in the wires of their expectations and suddenly, the wind catches you? The air’s not heavy anymore, it's freedom.They tell you you're too wild for a cage, that you should be smaller, quieter, tamer. But they don’t understand you’ve always been meant to fly. Maybe you haven't even figured out your full wingspan yet, but every time you stretch, you feel the sky, vast and endless, waiting.

You were never meant to stay in the nest they built for you. The moment you left, you started becoming the bird you were always supposed to be. They can keep their cages. You’ll keep your flight.

Or something like that, I like birds....

I want to make people see how much has been taken away from them.

Did you know that there are dozens of species of fireflies, and some of them light up with a blue glow? Did you know about the moths? There are thousands of them, bright pink and raspberry orange and checkerboard and emerald. They are called things like Black-Etched Prominent, Purple Fairy, Pink-Legged Tiger, Small Mossy Glyph and Black-Bordered Lemon.

Did you know that there are moths that feed on lichens? Did you know about the blue and green bees? The rainbow-colored dogbane beetles? Your streams are supposed to teem with newts, salamanders, crawdads, frogs, and fishes. I want to take you by the hand and show you an animal you've never seen before, and say, "This exists! It's real! It's alive!"

There are secret wildflowers that no website will show you and that no list entitled "native species to attract butterflies!" will name. Every day I'm at work I see a new plant I didn't know existed.

The purple coneflowers and prairie blazing star are a tidepool, a puddle, and there is an ocean out there. There are wildflowers that only grow in a few specific counties in a single state in the United States, there are plants that are evolved specifically to live underneath the drip line of a dolomite cliff or on the border of a glade of exposed limestone bedrock. Did you know that different species of moss grow on the sides of a boulder vs. on top of it?

There are obscure trees you might have never seen—Sourwood, Yellowwood, Overcup Oak, Ninebark, Mountain Stewartia, Striped Maple, American Hophornbeam, Rusty Blackhaw, Kentucky Coffeetree. There are edible fruits you've never even heard of.

And it is so scary and sad that so many people live and work in environments where most of these wondrous living things have been locally extirpated.

There are vast tracts of suburb and town and city and barren pasture where a person could plausibly never learn of the existence of the vast majority of their native plants and animals, where a person might never imagine just how many there are, because they've only ever been exposed to the tiny handful of living things that can survive in a suburb and they have no reason to extrapolate that there are ten thousand more that no one is talking about.

It's like being a fish that has lived its whole life in a bucket, with no way of imagining the ocean. The insects in your field guide are a fraction of those that exist, of all the native plants to your area only a handful can be bought in a nursery.

Welcome to the Earth! It's beautiful! It's full of life! More things are real and beautiful and alive than a single person could imagine!!!

I hate it when trans people on TikTok pull out that stages of genocide thing and say oh this is happening to us currently right now! As if being called sir by a waiter and JK Rowling tweeting stuff and being told that children shouldn’t have access to incredibly dangerous and life changing medical care is in anyway the same thing as an actual genocide.

These people need to read up on history and recognise that people not wanting to see a dick in a woman’s locker room is a fucking minuscule problem to have in contrast to what persecuted groups have experienced now and throughout history.

No I will not "look at the bright side" or "think positively" because I was born in a country where women don't have it as horrible as in other places. I didn't fucking choose to be born here, and they didn't choose to be born anywhere else.

If I were born in one of the 30 african and middle eastern countries where fgm is most concentrated according to the UN, my best scenario would be having my clitoris cut off without any kind of pain killer, with a razor blade that was never sterilized. They could also just decide to cut the whole thing off and then sew me shut, leaving a minuscule hole for my future "husband" to break through when he deems me worthy of his wrinkly, twice as old dick.

If I were born in Pakistan I could be one of the over 150 estimated women who get acid thrown at them annually, because their husbands (who I can assure you these women didn't marry by any real choice) threw a fucking tantrum over what they were wearing.

If I were born in America, where every 98 seconds someone is sexually assaulted, 91% of the victims being female, I could be one of the 1/3 of women who have experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime according to the New York City National Organization for Women.

So with that said, I DON'T CARE THAT I HAVE IT LESS BAD, IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER

I didn't choose to be born in a country where I'm kind of viewed as an equal human being by most people despite the anatomy I didn't choose to have. Those 150 estimated pakistani women didn't fucking choose to have acid thrown at their faces. The women of america didn't choose the reality they live in right now.

I was lucky to be born in Sweden. I shouldn't have to consider being treated as a living, breathing human being as something lucky just because I have a fucking vagina.

Fuck the bright side and fuck your "optimism"

the relationship between a person and the native flora and fauna of where they grew up is something that can actually be so personal

The LGB community: it's okay to be same sex attracted. toys do not make your child gay. Gay men are not pedophiles. Lesbians are not violently attacking women in change rooms. Love your gay/bi children.

The TQ+ community: exclusive same sex attraction is transphobic. Not letting your child inject bone melting cross sex hormones into themselves is the same as suicide baiting. Some trans women steal their female family members clothes and masturbate in them, if you have a problem with this you deserve to be doxxed. Trans women just want to pee but we also need to carry bats and canes Incase a Cissy looks at us wrong. Some of our artists are stealing innocent pictures of your children from your social media accounts and using them as motivation for their furry fetishes. Some of us have rape kinks, pedo kinks, and public humiliation kinks that we WILL be indulging in in front of your children. Trying to stop us will get you fired. We send death threats to lesbians and gay men who won't date us.

The LGB community: we would like to be allowed to marry, share benefits with our partners, adopt children, have housing and employment protections, and be allowed to serve in the military. Gay men are not diseased. We would like to be able to educate same sex attracted young people about how to have sex safely. Lesbians are not a fetish and they don't date women just for men's attention. Bisexuals are not promiscuous and we are not interested in threesomes.

The TQ+ community: we would like to destroy the medical definitions for women. Calling it breast feeding is a hate crime, use chest feeding instead. Gay men who won't force themselves into eating my pussy are a disease and deserve to die. Lesbians who won't suck my dick are bigots who deserve to be raped. We would like to teach children to how give proper blow jobs. We would like to talk to your children about violent sex without you being able to stop us. Trans women with pregnancy fetishes deserve to be in miscarriage or infertility support groups. Keeping rape shelters single sex is the same as segregation.

The LGB community: we would like to be separate from the TQ+ community please. Our values and goals are incredibly different and they are directly hurting us.

The TQ+ community: how dare these dykes and faggots say they want to be separate from us? AIDS should have killed them all off