Dexamphetamines - RUEMINATION

God made me pretty, you made me mean

I have listened to Weedkiller at least once a day since it came out, so I had to do some Ashnikko fanart~

she sent me this picture from a board i have on pinterest and said it looks like us

*im gnawing at the bars of my fucking cage*

If your feminism doesn't include poor women, disabled women, mentally ill women, LGBT women, sex workers and women of colour it's not feminism!!!

Okay.

I tick almost all your boxes. So how are you helping me? How are you fighting for my rights, my safety, my dignity or my freedom?

I am poor. How are you helping me? By encouraging me to prostitute myself. You're telling me it's a job like any other, better even, because I will be my own boss, be empowered and sexually liberated, if only I let men I don't know nor desire penetrate my body for money. For some reason it's not a job you are very keen on doing yourself. But it could be a great opportunity for me. That's it. That's all you are doing. You've never volunteered at your local food bank, you've never donated to a homeless shelter, oh but you know how I can get out of poverty. By letting men fuck me.

I'm disabled. How are you helping me? By drawing shitty cartoons of naked women in wheelchairs singing "all body types are beautiful". I don't give a damn about that. I care about getting a job despite my disabilities. I care about getting financial support to deal with my disabilities. I care about not being assaulted by men because of my disabilities. Meanwhile you're sharing photoshoots of amputees in lingery to prove we're all fuckable.

I'm bi and gender non conforming. I've been harassed and beaten for it. I've been called "sir" or a "dyke". I've struggled with dysphoria for the better part of my life. I need people to stop assuming femininity = womanhood in order to be safe. And how are you helping me? By calling me a que*r relentlessly, no matter how many times I ask you to stop. By telling me I'm not a real woman because I don't fit gender stereotypes. By claiming I have a male brain and people like me will probably end up committing suicide if we don't get injected with artificial hormones. By telling me I'm a bigot if I don't agree to date men, no matter how they identify.

I struggle with PTSD and depression, like a lot of women. How are you helping me? By sending me private messages telling me to commit suicide for the opinions I just shared. By cheering men on, when they send me graphic rape and death threats. It seems mentally ill women can actually go fuck themselves in your very inclusive feminism.

I'm often mistaken for an "arab", a "muslim", and treated accordingly. How are you fighting racism and helping me get equal opportunities and safety? By using people of colour as talking points on the internet. By waving them like props. By drawing shitty cartoons again and turning us into your token woc, putting words in our mouthes.. By calling basic worldwide feminism "white feminism". By calling feminists of colour "nazis". By calling ex muslim women who risk their lives speaking out "islamophobic". By claiming white men who use they/them pronouns are oppressed by us. By chanting that we should be hanged. By saying that if we allow black women to play sports with white women then surely we should accept men. By being completely ignorant about what happens in non western countries and not caring one bit because you're too busy advocating in favour of the most racist industry of all; pornography.

I have many friends who've been in the sex industry. I see how you treat them. Yes, I see how much you care for sex workers everyday. I see how you fight for their rights... by throwing your fists in their faces. When you beat them up at feminist protests for carrying a sign that says prostitution harms women. I see how central they are to your feminism, when you declare that what happened to them, what left them with PTSD and disabilities, should be legalized. When you call them "sluts" and "whores" against their will. When you intimidate them into keeping quiet. When you interrupt their lectures. When you shout "listen to sex workers!!!" only to turn your back on them the minute they don't say what you want them to say.

Your feminism is purely performative. We're nothing but pawns to you. Not only do you not do anything to actually help us, but you treat us like dirt the minute we contradict you. I'll help a victim of male violence no matter what her beliefs are. I'll help you, even though I think your opinions are abhorrent. But you think I deserve to be beaten to death for disagreeing with you. I'm "included" as long as I keep my mouth shut. I'm sick of you. Stop trying to use me. You don't care. You don't do anything. You're a joke. You don't speak for me. You don't represent my interests. I don't want to appear on your shitty cartoons. You know nothing about class struggle.