Quote:Imagine if male genitals were treated like female genitals? Like testicles weren’t even referred to as testicles and some men didn’t even know what they were actually called and the general area was just called “penis”.

Quote:Imagine if boys were told that their prostate doesn’t exist. Imagine if hairy genitals on men were called “bearded snakes.” And they don’t know how many different holes they have until adulthood. Imagine.

Quote:imagine if men were flocking en mass to get “testicle tightening” surgeries.  imagine if men weren’t taught that they could have orgasms.  Imagine if it were considered rude to say “penis” even in debates regarding legislature involving medical care about men’s penises.  Imagine penis was a word that was considered too “dirty” to be said on television. Imagine if penis’s were depicted only as meat-sticks that fit in vaginas with no other value.  Imagine if teenage boys heard joke after joke about how all dicks smell terrible no matter what

Quote:Imagine if people thought the more a penis was used, the smaller and more useless it became.

Imagine if people didn’t understand how penises ‘work’ and therefore their orgasms didn’t matter.

Imagine if having a penis meant you were paid less money.

Quote:Imagine if the ideal male genitalia were small and hairless like a prepubescent boy’s, and larger/hairier male genitalia was considered gross and sloppy.

Imagine if unreciprocated cunnilingus were the norm.

Imagine if boys were taught that sex was expected to hurt for them and were told to lie back and think of England, to grin and bear it.

Imagine if male reproductive conditions were under-researched and under-treated. No known cause, no known cure was the default. Reproductive pains considered normal for men, and their reproductive complaints mocked and dismissed.

Imagine that teenage boys were put on hormonal birth control, perhaps because they’re thought to help these mysterious ailments but with the side effect of making them sexually available to women all the time without risk of pregnancy.

Imagine if male hormonal cycles (high T in the morning, low T at night) were mocked and considered to make men unreliable. If men’s competence and judgment was questioned because of it (“He’s just mad because it’s that time of the day! They’re so testerical in the morning” or “Can a man really hold office if he’s just going to start crying every time the evening rolls around and his T drops?”, including worse mockery for older men who have lower T in general and might have erectile dysfunction, prostate cancer, or other older male reproductive issues).

Imagine if there was legislation on men’s right to ejaculate without the intent to reproduce because “every sperm is sacred”.

Quote:Imagine if mens worth and respectability was estimated by the number of his sexual encounters with women, Imagine if men who had sex before marriage were considered filthy and licentious, I.e) “sloppy seconds” 

Imagine if penises and scrotums were deemed “vulgar” and “obscene” in all contexts outside of smut magazines for older women. 

Imagine if men were barred from masturbation because sperm is reserved for reproduction. Imagine if mens bodies were considered women’s property for them to control and serve their interests.

Imagine if sex that didn’t involve injury to mens bodies were considered “vanilla” and “boring” imagine if women casually said things like, “beat that ballsack uuuup” or “destroy his dick” amongst their aggressive, drunk, larger, hefty female friends while men sit and chat with the boys on how to get their girlfriends to spend time with them and contribute to housework, what they hate about their bodies and joke how horrible sex is because it’s about women using men’s bodies however they please.

Imagine if hair on mens bodies were considered, “unhygienic”, “unsightly” and “un-gentlemanlike” even though it grows there naturally. Imagine if men who refused to wear makeup were considered “uppity” and “unkempt”.

Imagine if muscularity in men was considered “womanish” and “unappealing” and interests outside cosmetics, servitude and self-minimalism were viewed as “effeminating” to women and “Ovary busting”. in fact, everything you do to improve men’s quality of life and attain success in female-dominated fields is valued by how it effects women.

Imagine if boys were encouraged to show their arms, backs, chests and stomachs before they hit puberty, imagine if all the male musicians were young, unhealthily-thin, airbrushed pop singers who sing about needing girls to give their lives meaning and becoming every girls dream boy.

Imagine if male sexual abuse and exploitation were repackaged as “male empowerment” by sex advise columnists and sex positive organizations. I.e.) lick pussies and earn stacks, boii get it  👅💅🏼💵💵             

Quote:Once all these things are true for 10,000 years then we can talk about equality

1. Woman-focused news and articles. Go to Google, search "women" and click on the "News" tab. It'll provide 30 pages of aggregated news. (Note: search "women" not "woman" for better results, otherwise you'll get a lot of "woman stabbed/stabs/robbed/robs" type of news.) I usually set the timeline to be "past 24 hours" if I've been doing this daily. There is lots of women's sports news, generally. I go through the news articles and post the ones I find interesting. Be sure to read the articles before posting, this also helps make sure that there isn't a paywall when trying to access the article.
   
   
2. Browse other pro-woman social medias and share content from there. I like to do this with Tumblr, this is easy for me because I have a Tumblr account and I follow hundreds of pro-women/radical feminist/gender critical Tumblr accounts, so my feed is pretty good at this point. I like to just screenshot interesting posts, repost memes/screenshots that have been shared there, and sometimes I copy Tumblr posts directly into an Ovarit post if it's too long for a screenshot and I think it's valuable information (be sure to provide a source back to the original and credit the original author).
   
   
3. Share women's art. I use Tumblr for this too in general, but you can find women's art all over the internet. Share what resonates with you. :)
   
   
4. Share other interesting content. Since women aren't a hivemind, we have other interests, lol. Ovarit has several communities that are focused on special interests like STEM, books, arts crafts and yarns, television and movies, games, gardening, and vegan food. Check out all the Ovarit circles here: https://ovarit.com/subs
   
   
5. /o/Women is the catch-all. If you want to share something and you're feeling like none of the current circles fit the content you want to share, remember that /o/Women is the fallback to post in. (As a side note, I wish we had like an /o/Misc for this, I think it'd be a lot easier for people to know intuitively where they can post something that they don't know where it fits.)
   
   

• Shape Shifter mentions how he learned that after seven years is when most TIPs begin to regret surgery, especially seven years after bottom surgery
  
  
• The "feminizing voice" surgery TIMs get actually removes their ability to have a louder voice. Shape Shifter mentions that he brought up this concern to the doctor and the doctor told him it wouldn't happen, and it did. Shape Shifter mentions being scared that he can no longer scream if he is in danger. Billy also had this voice feminization surgery and has the same issue of not being able to speak loudly anymore.
  
  
• Billy mentions children were able to clock him much easier than adults. (I assume this is due to children not knowing they have to "play pretend" with TIPs.)
  
  

Quote:The breast binding trend that young women are doing now has already been done by young women 100 years ago.

Quote:The changes in qipao fashion began with the trend of breast binding in the early 1910s. Breast binding became more popular toward the end of the Qing dynasty, especially among young female students, who sought to hide their feminine figures by binding their breasts and wearing the early qipao that was stylistically similar to their male counterpart’s changpao style.

Quote:Breast binding provided young women with a slim boyish figure and allowed them to show off a more androgynous body as they began to move into the public sphere, which allowed them to preserve a sense of modesty. By hiding their feminine figures, they were able to enter the public sphere without drawing the attention of the male gaze as sexually promiscuous women. In the late 1910s, the trend of breast binding for political reasons quickly spread around urban China, and by the 1920s women of each province sported their own versions of breast binding devices.

Quote:The general practice of breast binding also points toward women’s desire to take control of their bodies as they are increasingly visible in the public eye. Women chose to bind their breasts as a way to make their body more suitable to the public eye, which then allowed them to take advantage of education and job opportunities that would bring them directly within the gaze of a society that had functioned by hiding female bodies for centuries. During this time period, who was in control of women’s bodies was the serious question. The changes in both breast binding and qipao styles provided women the opportunity to enter the public sphere without drawing the criticism of conservatives who felt women should stay within their traditional gender roles at home.

Quote:By the early to mid-1920s, another movement was beginning to gain traction that completely changed the way that women would display their bodies in public, as well as how the Nationalist government would respond to women’s political needs and demands. This movement began as some urban women sought to free their bodies from the constrains of their clothing as well as the constrains of traditional gender norms. These women sought to literally free their bodies from the historical bindings that had deformed women’s bodies. In this movement, breast binding became closely linked with rhetoric surrounding foot binding, which linked it to the feudal and restrictive past. Feminists across China called this the ‘natural curves’ movement, and it sought to completely eradicate breast binding and focused on women’s physical health.

Quote:When the ‘natural curves’ movement began, the women involved focused primarily on celebrating women’s ‘natural’ curves and bringing the ‘natural’ female form more fully into the public eye. This would both literally free women from hiding their figures using harmful tactics such as breast binding, as well as figuratively freeing women from the traditional expectations that drove women to hide themselves from men.

Quote:In the late 1920s the Nationalist government, as well as some conservative civilians supported ‘natural breasts’ and fashion that followed not out of a desire to liberate women, but out of concern for their reproductive health and creating a clear divide between genders. A popular magazine called The Women’s Monthly published an article that openly admonished young women who still bound their breasts, and other women’s magazines published articles encouraging women to abandon their old binders in favor of the western bra, that would support the breasts without constraining them. Breast binding was said to be a major detriment to a woman’s ability to raise her child, as it was widely accepted that breast binding caused women to be unable to produce milk. These groups linked what was supposed to be a form of female liberation back to the traditional gender roles that many women were trying to escape.

Quote:First there's a breast binding trend among young women who want to avoid being sexualized by male peers.

Then there's a feminist rejection of this trend as feminists promote the importance of women's health and fitness.

And finally, conservatives co-opt the feminist rejection and twist it into a promotion of traditional reproductive duties.

All of this happened 100 years ago.

And all of it is happening again today.

• I think the "women's autonomy" section is somewhat weak and too broad. My intention was to elaborate that women are human beings that should be free to make decisions of their own accord, and not be constrained to decisions that conform to patriarchal expectations. My thoughts when making this section: women and girls who feel pressured to appear or act feminine; women who did not get the chance to learn in their youth that being same-sex attracted is okay; women who were raised in religious families and who don't know they can renounce their religion. I don't know if it'd be better to fix the section somehow or my other thought was to split some of the bullet points up into sections like healthcare, education, economy/work/career?