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The Radfemmery is a place for users to share screenshots, memes, and gifs related to all aspects of radical feminism. We want to blur the line between being funny and serious, so that we can find humour and release in a world that's more often than not against us. Better to laugh than cry sometimes. All areas of radical feminism can be meme’d.
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Women write boys and men better, too, with empathy and nuance.
I do notice that sometimes. Men write themselves without a shred of either, as a woman writer does that mean in essence we are writing men wrong?
It means that men don’t understand themselves. As a class, they’re in a perpetual state of dissociation from their feelings.
A few years ago I completed my Goodreads challenge of reading 100 books in a year and someone commented that I was reading "an awful lot of women" and that I should probably be more inclusive. Where I do agree is that I should read less white women but that's not what the comment pointed out. I think maybe 20 of those books were written by men, lol. And no, I don't read primarily romance.
hey! So great to see someone else who has done a challenge of 100 books. I've done 200 books for a few years, but I also pad it by reading some manga lmao. Can you tell me your favorite female authors?
I read mostly fantasy. Female authors whose books I've enjoyed recently include: Rachel Aaron (Heartstrikers), Sarah Beth Durst (Race the Sands), Jen Williams (Winnowing Flame trilogy), R.F. Kuang (The Poppy War), F. C. Yee (Epic Crush of Genie Lo), The Sword of Kaigen (M. L. Wang), Nicole Kornher-Stace (Archivist Wasp), N.K. Jemisin (The Fifth Season) Favorites I've reread many times: E. Lockhart (The Boyfriend List), Louise Rennison (Georgia Nicolson series), Alison Goodman (Eon), Laini Taylor (Daughter of Smoke & Bone)
My favorite male authors who I feel write great portrayals of women: Mark Lawrence, Will Wight, Brandon Sanderson
Right now I'm doing a binge reread of Will Wight's Cradle series to get to read the 9th book which just came out (currently rereading the 7th), and HNNNGH it's so good... battle scenes are on point, and I get thrills reading even though I know what happens. On this reread, I noticed that no female characters are described sexually. They are described for their hair color, eye color, Goldsigns (bodily manifestations related to sacred arts path of choice), just to build a picture in the reader's mind... it's so refreshing. There is literally one character who is described as "curvaceous" and "beautiful," which makes sense considering she has 500 children. Also, the main MAIN character is a boy, but the second two most important characters are girls, and one of them (who is kind of a dual main character at this point) is much much more powerful than him until several books in when he catches up. There are both male and female minor antagonists, and when it comes to the very most powerful sacred artists, at least half of them are female.
Can you share any recommendations? Maybe no the post for this, but I've been looking...
I grew up relating to the written word of men who hate me. I loved books from a young age, but was rarely recommended books written by women. It is ridiculous how many toxic trash of men are considered geniuses, artists, whatever in their fields but women are held up to some lofty moral standard.
Roald Dahl: hugely antisemitic. Refused to apologise for his Jew-hate even after he received letters from Jewish children. Claimed that Jews must have done something to deserve the Holocaust because even someone like Hitler didn't just kill people for no reason.
People: Aww Matilda! Charlie and the Chocolate factory! I love those books!
Just looking at Dahl make my skin crawl, he looked as creepy as he was.
Eeewww i didn't know that.
Men: lose their mind over "SCUM Manifesto".
Lol if women are “half-ape,” men are full-ape
when reading this i said aloud 'does he know that we're the same species'
I guess his chimp strength and gorilla rage are hampering his judgment just a lil bit
I see a lot of them as being developmentally arrested children. Just extremely emotionally immature, on a Quixotic quest to discover who they are without awareness that such discovery comes from within and starts via examination of one’s own limitations.
This is also human nature; men as a class are just more like this. They have a greater handicap than women, mainly due to socialization.
If it was socialisation why have men been this way since the dawn of humanity? There's a point at which we need to stop pretending it's "socialisation". Maybe men are inherently violent, lacking in morals and empathy etc.
I totally get why some readers might not be comfortable with what’s in this comment, it might seem to be a not “not all men” but yes “not all men.” But please people let’s not pile on. The person submitting the comment does not deserve that.
Then go somewhere else maybe? This place is female centered, we're not here to coddle and protect men.
All you did with that statement was hurt fellow women. Think about it.
Edit: you invalidate our experiences and then gaslight us about the nature of men. Your advice (trust men!) will get women killed; our advice (men are aggressive and should be avoided) helps women live and succeed.
Yes but almost all men have been watching internet porn since they were 11, and that is a root cause of a lot of these problems. I don’t think it’s fair to generalize but the socialization is almost universal, and they don’t work to unlearn it because it benefits them.
Same. They are missing something fundamental, like there is a distinct LACK of something inside them. It's scary.
We could add Charles Bukowsi to that list. Loved by dude-bros the world over, and epic woman hater/beater. It's okay though, it's not like he was mean to other males or anything.
🔥🔥...And Philip Roth, and John Updike, and Chuck Palahniuk, and Bret Easton Ellis...🔥🔥
Oh yeah, I forgot about all of those douche canoes.
"hE gEts iT".
Brrrr! I geet the shivers just by remembering the dude-bros I actually heard liking him.
It’s handy to have a list of sexist heroes you can use to eliminate potential dates.
Replying to myself but: even if you decided you don’t like me personally from my posts here, why would you downvote this one? What is more noncontroversial than saying it’s handy to know about sexist authors which are a common tell of a guy you probably don’t want to get involved with, because even if he’s not an outright abuser or sexist, he’ll likely be a manbaby who will drain your time and resources? It’s fairly simple math: if a guy loooves Bukowksi, Hemingway, Chuck Palahniuk, William Burroughs, et al (there are many more)- save yourself the potential trouble, as it’s more probable than not at that point.
This is not a controversial thing to say on Ovarit. At all. So who tf is downvoting?
Are there dudes on here whose feelings are hurt? Wtf?
Edited to add: I see the Ovariters above were downvoted too, for saying the same. Someone on here caping for these male authors? 🤣
It make me cringe! I mean he's a quotable guy, but he was such a shitty neckbeard.
Even if one conceded that the men on that list are a product of their time; Rowling is treated far worse than men who say the same shit as her TODAY!
Case in point, Dave Chappelle literally described transgenderism as "A rich white man's hobby". And, while he got some criticism, nobody on Twitter is calling for him to be raped, lynched, or demanding that credit for The Chappelle Show be retroactively applied to Caitlyn Jenner. Furthermore, no one is claiming to feel "unsafe" or "triggered" because Chappelle reruns are still on TV. TRAs go after Rowling because she's an easy target. She's a good woman who wants to be liked. And they're PISSED that Rowling grew a backbone and stood her ground
Allen Ginsberg: Open pedophile who shamelessly campaigned with NAMBLA as a public member and tried to link the gay rights movement with pederasty. Never apologized because he never saw the wrongness inherent in it.
Literature profs, hipsters: “Man, have you even read ‘Howl’? It’s like all you can think about are a person’s sexual proclivities and not their art. Why not get off your self-righteous high horse and start reading art for the art, man. Oh, and JKR is a TERF, fuck her.”
Neil Gaiman wrote a long screed about how women who are "triggered" are silly, don't need trigger warnings, and need to just get over their trauma.
He also constantly went after/ attacked Anne Rice, and I've always believed it was because he was jealous that she was/is a better writer. He came really petty, stalking her and posting comments about what she was doing when it had nothing to do with him.
Also, always dating and marrying women half his age, and some other stuff I can't think of right now. I used to love the Sandman comics, but when I learned about Neil Gaiman as a person, I always couldn't stand him.
And it's so frustrating because everyone loves him and just overlooks all the shit that comes out of his ignorant, mansplaining mouth.
Also, a lot of his work is just ripped off from super hero comics and follows boring tropes. Yet everyone freely hates his wife, Amanda Palmer who, while annoying, is an actual creative genius. (I used to love Dresden Dolls.)
Joss Whedon ripped off Octavia Butler's science fiction novels and turned them into some episodes of Angel. He also ripped off Anne Rice while constantly mocking her through dialogue on Buffy and Angel, among other numerous sins against women.
And yes. Mary Shelley, who created the science fiction genre, wrote Frankenstein all by herself.
I'll pick up Rice over Gaiman any day.
She's a preternaurally good author. Time to go read Blood & Gold!
Hell, you can expand outward just from authors into entertainers in general. I don't see anyone trying to cancel Elvis for grooming a 14yo Priscilla, or Jerry Lee Lewis for marrying his underage cousin. Documentaries have been made about how creepy Michael Jackson was, yet quite a few people refuse to believe it. David Bowie, crowned prince of online queer fandom, has a few rape allegations and reportedly had sex with underage girls in the 70s.
We're expected to cancel women for standing up to male entitlement, but we're never allowed to cancel men for being entitled. Decades of creepy behavior isn't enough to ruin his contributions to "art".
I remember one of the 13 year old girls later said "I chased HIM, he's not a predator!" like, that isn't how this works. As a fully grown adult it's his responsibility to turn down the advances of any literal children.
But he didn't. It kinda makes me sick to see fawning over Bowie here.
Bowie is a hard one, because I think a lot of people, including feminists, see him as exemplifying the sort of androgynous genderbending that we're talking about when it comes to clothing not changing your sex, and that men can wear makeup and style themselves in feminine ways but everyone is still going to see a man in the end. I was never a big fan, but I can see the value of him as an example of what seemed to be a more enlightened time in terms of gender expression even if as an individual man, his actions are gross and disappointing.
I hardly read any fiction until adulthood, not because I had anything against fiction in general, but because it was so hard to find anything that wasn't woman and girl-hating without adult-type access privileges and experience. It bothers me a lot that those kind of limits for kids are being reinforced again, and that there are still such limits on adults.
I read a lot of "animal fiction" as a kid.
Black Beauty types.