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women's sports is one of the loudest and most successful anti-patriarchy campaigns in human history. what women's sports did and does is prove, over and over again, the excellence, the raw power and strength of the human woman. it completely disrupts ideas on gender.

you have big, powerful women in rugby. fast, endurable women runners. impeccably strong gymnasts. women with strong, large bodies that take up space. that are HEALTHY. they are not RESTRICTED or ladylike. they are free of the stillness/deadness that femininity demands. no corsets. no (aesthetic) thinness. no hourglass bodies for gawking. women's sports screams to society "we are fully human, not objects, not small men. we are not domestic dolls. we are hunters and foragers. fighters."

why do you think men are so vitriolic about it? why don't they want women in football? why don't they want it televized? why do they keep harassing female basketball players? why do they insist on dressing women in sexualized uniforms? why do they now make it taboo to exculde men from women's sports?

i firmly believe it's because women's sports tears patriarchal gender ideology apart so effortlessly. it completely spits in the face of patriarchal political propaganda and shows how null it is. it forces all of us to view women as full, as the beginning of human excellence, as central to human history. not as decorative sexual objects, no matter how men want us to be.

that's why there's so much aggression and derision when it comes to women's sports from men. because women's sports destroys the idea of femininity and depicts women as non-derivative. women must be monsters and cannot afford to play into the childlikeness that femininity demands. the arena of sports forces us to focus on women's physical performance rather than appearance. their strength rather than how attractive they are. their skill and strategy. their humanity. it is a form of entertainment where all female roles are agentive and active rather than passive.

women's sports events are also hotbeds for female and lgb solidarity like you have no idea!

y'all need to start watching women's sports. not only because it is exciting, but it deprograms the patriarchal bullshit out of you so fast. you realize how much is possible. how much we can all achieve right now.

OKAY GUYS

I know I haven’t posted anything on here in a bit

But my girlfriend just reminded me of a book I really liked and she let me rant about it to her so now you guys get to hear me yap too

A DANGER TO HERSELF AND OTHERS

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH

ITS SO GOOD

ITS SO GOOD

(Spoilers under the cut)

This is the book that made me realize I really really like the idea of an unreliable narrator

I forgot the name of the MC but she gets accused of pushing this girl Agnes out of their college dorm window

And the book start out with her in a mental hospital while she waits for her trial

So we go through the book and eventually we meet this character who I THINK was named Lily

And she becomes MCs roommate at the hospital

And she has this whole backstory like she was a ballerina with anorexia and it got so bad that her parents admitted her

And then we find out that LILY WASNT EVEN REAL

AND THE MAIN CHARACTER HAS SCHIZOPHRENIA

AND THERE WAS THIS BOY CHARACTER WHO WAS AGNES‘S BOYFRIEND WHO WAS CHEATING ON HER WITH THE MC

AND HE WASNT REAL EITHEEEEERR

And then I went back and reread it and realized that NOVODY EVER INTERACTS WITH LILY EXCEPT FOR THE MC

It’s WILD

Fantastic read 10/10 would recommend