i don't know if you guys have been keeping up with the women's world cup but this past sunday spain won against england. and you would think this would be the best moment of their careers and their lives but you wanna know what happened?

the spanish football federation's president non-consensually kissed one of the players, jenni hermoso, on the mouth when they were celebrating. this grown ass man took it upon himself to ruin the celebration for ALL the women who just achieved the thing they have been preparing for all their lives, literally the peak of a football player's career, they did it and he by himself ruined it.

and i say all the women because the other players, along 58 currently inactive and ex-players, stood up for jenni hermoso and have refused to play for the team until luis rubiales publicly apologizes and renounces his spot. now the rfef says they'll take legal action against the players and jenni for lying and because they have an obligation to play for the team.

do you remember how the men's world cup celebrations went? i do, im from argentina. no one said anything to any of the players, they were treated like kings for months and they are worshipped to this day. and rightfully so! they earned it i guess. but we do see the discrepancy?

how is it that we allow as a society for one man to sexually assault a woman right after achieving the thing another group of men got ceaselessly venerated for not even a year later? what do women have to do to earn respect? win the world cup? become the pride and joy of their country?

Actually, I want to do a study of regret rates for Harry Potter-themed tattoos versus regret rates for gender confirmation surgeries, because my naive suspicion is that the former are considerably higher at this point.

Good!

A jury has reached a verdict at the civil trial where former President Donald Trump is accused of raping and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.

Deliberations by the nine-member jury began after Judge Lewis Kaplan gave the panel final instructions and a verdict form in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

Carroll, 79, alleged in a lawsuit that Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s.

it’s funny to me when men respond to “i fear men so i avoid them” with “oh yeah? Well I’m gonna avoid women!” because that’s like no threat whatsoever. I am zero percent bothered by this. You go right ahead, buddy.

Losing my mind over this article

[Excerpts from article by Mike Drucker titled "I’m Willing To Throw People Under The Bus If It Means Pretending To Relive My Childhood"

Subheading: How can I support a group if supporting them involves even the slightest inconvenience to me, the main character of the universe?

(Picture is of a still from Hogwarts Legacy) Excerpts text here]

But Jumping Fences Never Leads To Trouble!

Imagine being such a POS you brag about siccing the cops on a homeless man for trying to find someplace to sleep. The descriptions of OP as not funny, annoying, spiteful, and evil fit her to a T.

Happy Women's Day to everyone who supported Amber Heard the whole time and absolutely no one else

Feel Sorry For Girls Who Actually Like Science

Oh, a story about girls being allowed in a class they aren't qualified to be in? And their bad behavior and obvious lack of qualification is ignored? Revolutionary. Anyway, here's a poll:

The least believable thing about this story isn’t actually that a brown person willingly went within 10 feet of OP.

The least believable thing about this story is the implication that OP actually agrees that Native Americans should be listened to when they say something is offensive and hurtful.

This is the top comment on this FML:

[Top comment

Political correctness seems to be the domain of the white person telling others what is and isn’t offensive on behalf of the minority groups. Without their actual input.]

To hear these white people tell it, they’re not ignoring us when we speak up about racism, because we’re not actually saying anything. All the objections come solely from self-important white people speaking on our behalf. They ARE listening to us, it’s just that we’re somehow not speaking about it at all, ever, unless we’re backing them up.

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sorry i’m still laughing at these pathetic women’s orgs being like we didnt speak out for amber heard and against male violence because we were scared of harassment uwu. like you are massive national organizations with millions and millions of dollars in financial backing. you should have been the main ones speaking up that’s why you were founded……

oh my god you think women can also lie and be bad??? that's such a brave and controversial opinion, i'm sure all the cops calling abused women hysterical have never heard of it

J*hnny d*pp has earned $116 million since amber heard first came out about him abusing her. He continued to be in h*rry p*tter, murder on the orient express, pirates and several other movies. The idea that his career was ruined by her allegations are a joke, never mind that benign article where she didn’t even name him, considering he earned $116 million after

That everyone accepted this framing, that she “ruined his career”, makes me so fucking furious. It doesn’t hold up to an ounce of scrutiny once you think about it for more than two goddamn seconds:

If anyone “ruined” his career besides himself, it was this 2018 Rolling Stone piece that revealed all his unhinged behavior to the public. But he didn’t sue Stephen Rodrick, he didn’t sue Rolling Stone, he didn’t sue the ACLU (they admitted to ghostwriting Heard’s op-ed), he didn’t sue the Washington Post for publishing it, he sued his victim. He did so in a Virginia court to take advantage of weak laws against frivolous lawsuits and he had it live streamed so that not only would she be forced to relive his abuse and assault of her in front of the entire world, but also so he could sic his vicious stans on her.

In contrast, he has done immeasurable damage to her career. She was a solid performer on the rise when they met and studios are going to regard her as toxic for years, regardless of her talent, the truth of the allegations, anything. She escaped Depp and he has spent the last 7 years abusing her via the legal system. He made legions of people complicit in his abuse. He emboldened countless abusers to copy his playbook in silencing their victims.

Fuck the Tiktokers who mocked Heard’s testimony, fuck the YouTubers that made thousands livestreaming the trial, fuck the media that portrayed this as celebrity nonsense, fuck the right wing idealogues that highjacked the discourse, fuck that non-sequestered jury, and fuck anyone who tries to paint themselves as a reasonable centrist with “well they both sound toxic to me”.

And oh hey, here’s a list of celebrities who bought his bullshit hook line and sinker if, like me, you’d rather avoid their work in the future.

saying it’s weird to be obsessed with this case is reserved for men using amber as a stand-in for all their hatred for women and acting under the disguise of “caring about male victims” after they turned brendan fraser into a meme.

that’s not applicable to the people outraged at this verdict. this is a major case with massive implications. do not tell me, other victims of violence, and even women who are not victims of violence, that it’s weird to care so much about this case.

it’s not weird for us to be scared about what this means for amber, other survivors, and for ourselves. uk outlets are already saying police are seeing massive spikes in people rescinding DV/SA/IPV accusations. do you think that’s a coincidence?

this trial set victim rights back decades. we have the right to care and to keep talking about it. stop silencing women. stop gaslighting women.