Can We Talk About How The Term "glow-up" Used To Mean That Someone Was Looking Healthier And Happier,

Can we talk about how the term "glow-up" used to mean that someone was looking healthier and happier, like perhaps they started going on walks and eating better, or maybe they dumped their boyfriend, joined CrossFit, and got a new job. Obviously it had the potential for some negative social effects, but overall, it was a fairly harmless term and I actually liked it because I felt like it was a nice way to compliment women who were making drastic changes in their life to better their personal health without being specific. Like I noticed a coworker who had previously mentioned her journey of training for a 10K to help get back in shape and lose some excess weight, had lost 20 pounds, so instead of saying "wow you looked like you lost a bunch of weight" in the presence of other coworkers, it was nice to be able to say something like "you look so healthy and glowed up!" to acknowledge her hard work.

Now whether you agree or disagree with that term being used to acknowledge women meeting personal health goals, I think we should all be concerned with what "glow-up" has come to mean. As I scrolled thru Tik-Tok recently, I noticed an ongoing trend of people posting "can we talk about (insert celebrity name)'s glow up?!" And most of these celebrities are young, early twenties or even 19 year old women whose photos are shown of their 15 or 16 year old teenage, fully clothed, minimal to no makeup, selves followed by their "glow up" photos. The second set of photos shows a 19 to 23 year old woman with a full face of makeup, extensions or some striking haircut, a variety of revealing outfits, and most likely at least one photo of her in some sexual pose such as straddling a piece of furniture. The ideal "glow-up" celebrity is trying to shed her "good girl" persona, and follows the directions society has given her to sexualize herself in every way possible. It breaks my heart that these talented young women using their sex appeal are being hailed as an "improvement" over their innocent younger selves.

It is so insane to me that people think this could ever work. Male and female anatomy are SO different, and they are huge risks to organ transplant even when they find a perfect match for blood type etc. The very few cases where we have seen successful uterine transplant were so that women who wanted to have children but did not have a functional uterus (often d/t uterine cancer or Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome). Before and after transplantation, the woman has to be placed on heavy immunosuppressants so her body will not reject the uterus, and then the goal is for the woman to get pregnant and have a child, after which she will have a hysterectomy so she can be taken off of the immunosuppressants. Literally the only reason for this process to occur is that a biological women who doesn't have a uterus very strongly want a biological child.

Do TIMs really think that any of us enjoy having a uterus or would want one for any reason other than to have a child? Are grown men really that jealous of an organ that literally destroys a part of itself once a month and leaves us in excruciating pain? Doctors will never perform a transplant that doesn't provide the body with a function it is lacking. It's why you don't need a kidney transplant if you only lost one kidney. The absolute audacity of this TIM saying they want a procedure that is still not reachable for the biological women struggling with infertility, just so he can be "the first trans woman to have an abortion" is proof that TIMs have no idea what it truly means to be a woman.

I would rather some people feel uncomfortable and embarrassed with other people's judgements about them having an age gap relationship than I would have one more girl or young woman go through being sexually groomed in their late teens/early 20s by a man ~7+ years older than her.

It’s early days (1% in) but Eve by Cat Bohannon might be shaping up to be a wonderful companion piece to Invisible Women.

I have not seen this website posted yet so gyns I am happy to present to you "The Grand Map of Non-Happenings"

All you have to do is zoom in and click on the red tent and it will tell you of a reported instance in that area of a crime committed by trans identified males (even though it totally never happens)

Best of all, it's crowdsourced, and you can submit articles not already listed right at the top of the map

Gyns I pray you make use of this website and to publicize and bring to attention of these crimes that "never happen". Share it, use it, whatever you need. And donate to The Red Tent Collective if you have the means to do so!

You know those yard signs that are like "In this house we believe: climate change is science, no humans are illegal, gay rights are human rights" etc. and they basically just sum up the American liberal belief in one easy-to-read sign? I want one of those for radfem beliefs that just sums our talking points up. I'm thinking something along the lines of "In this house we know that:

-lgb rights are human rights

-feminism exists for the liberation of women

-abortion and contraception are healthcare

-hormone replacement and plastic surgery for the purpose of gender transition are NOT healthcare

-Pornography fuels the sex trafficking industry and both industries exploit women endlessly for male pleasure

Anyone else have additions?