“When she applied to run in the Boston Marathon in 1966 they rejected her saying: “Women are not physiologically able to run a marathon, and we can’t take the liability.” Then exactly 50 years ago today, on the day of the marathon, Bobbi Gibb hid in the bushes and waited for the race to begin. When about half of the runners had gone past she jumped in. She wore her brother’s Bermuda shorts, a pair of boy’s sneakers, a bathing suit, and a sweatshirt. As she took off into the swarm of runners, Gibb started to feel overheated, but she didn’t remove her hoodie. “I knew if they saw me, they were going to try to stop me,” she said. “I even thought I might be arrested.” It didn’t take long for male runners in Gibb’s vicinity to realize that she was not another man. Gibb expected them to shoulder her off the road, or call out to the police. Instead, the other runners told her that if anyone tried to interfere with her race, they would put a stop to it. Finally feeling secure and assured, Gibb took off her sweatshirt. As soon as it became clear that there was a woman running in the marathon, the crowd erupted—not with anger or righteousness, but with pure joy, she recalled. Men cheered. Women cried. By the time she reached Wellesley College, the news of her run had spread, and the female students were waiting for her, jumping and screaming. The governor of Massachusetts met her at the finish line and shook her hand. The first woman to ever run the marathon had finished in the top third.”

here she is in 2021 with her own statue, which, by the way, she sculpted herself

Often kids this age don't even realise that not everyone has a penis/vagina like them, because they don't see other people naked and it hasn't been explained to them yet. So until it is made clear to them the only thing they know that separates boys and girls is gender roles.

this reminds me of an anecdote that was given in "delusions of gender" from a family that raised their son truly gender neutral, letting him know he was male but not assigning any meaning to it outside of the plain anatomical definition. one day he decided he wanted to wear barrettes to school and his classmate was insistent that he was a girl because of it. he got so exasperated he pulled down his pants and was like SEE! i'm a boy, i have a penis! and his classmate calmly went okay but everyone has a penis, only girls wear barrettes

A man exploited a woman, then he beats her before murdering her by shooting her NINE times and now he’s claiming to be a woman.

A gay man who admitted to murdering the surrogate mother he hired to have his children has told the court he identifies as a woman in what some are calling a bid to avoid a potentially lengthy sentence for femicide.

Fernando Alves Ferreira was detained in February of 2022 after admitting to the murder of Eduarda Santos, a surrogate he had hired who was living with him in the Argentinian city of Bariloche. Santos’ body was found by a tourist on the Circuito Chico Trail with 9 gunshot wounds. A later forensic examination revealed that Santos’ corpse also had injuries consistent with having been beaten prior to her death.

Two days after the killing, Ferreira turned himself into police. He repeatedly admitted to the crime while in custody, stating repeatedly “I did it. I killed her.” He was charged with femicide, premeditated murder, and use of a firearm owned without authorization, and expressed a desire in court to enter a guilty plea.

In Ferreira’s car, which was seized after he turned himself in, police found blood stains, leading them to theorize that a fight had broken out in the vehicle before Santos fled on foot. Ferreira then chased her down and shot her. Investigators noted that Ferreira had taken “every precaution to ensure the woman could not defend herself.” CCTV footage was also found of Ferreira disposing of his weapon. 

The motivation for the crime is unclear, as Ferreira has refused to provide concrete details. Instead, he has vaguely accused Santos of being involved in illegal “gang” activity and suggested he was the victim in the situation. No evidence has been found to substantiate his claim.

The court heard that Ferreira and Santos were both originally from Brazil, and that Ferreira, along with his husband, had hired Santos to be a surrogate in 2020. 

Santos would give birth to twins for Ferreira and his partner, who would pass away the next year. The woman had apparently been living with the couple due to having a lack of her own economic resources.

The chief prosecutor in the case characterized Santos as being particularly vulnerable, and described her as having been “at the mercy” of Ferreira. Just one month prior to her murder, Santos had given birth to another child.

“Eduarda was a foreign woman who lived in Bariloche … She lived in the defendant’s house, lacked her own resources, and was at the mercy of the owner of the house,” chief prosecutor Martín Lozada stated during a hearing. “It was a situation of remarkable asymmetry. Eduarda was a woman to whom the accused had rented her womb to have two children through surrogacy, and since the birth of the twins, she lived in the same house.”

Prosecutors also argued that Ferreira had exercised “economic and psychological violence” on Santos for years, and that Santos was without any family or friends in Argentina. 

In response, Ferreira accused Santos of being the aggressor, saying “she was not submissive.”

Santos’ family in Brazil have previously spoken out against Ferreira’s claims of victimhood, slamming media for giving him sympathetic coverage. 

“My sister is the victim, not him,” Santos’ brother told Brazilian outlet O Dia last year. At the time, the family appeared to have been unaware of Santos’ situation in Argentina, believing she had gainful employment in the country. Santos’ family has been fighting for custody of the children she had as a surrogate for Ferreira in order to repatriate them to Brazil. Ferreira has demanded the children not be returned to Brazil. 

It was the dynamic between Ferreira and Santos which led to prosecutors pursuing a conviction for femicide, which is defined as a gender-specific crime introduced in 2012 to address the nation’s epidemic of sex-based violence. According to the United Nations, one woman is murdered every 32 hours in Argentina. The femicide provision was defined broadly as “a crime against a woman when the act is perpetrated by a man and gender violence is mediated.”

But now, Ferreira’s lawyers are seeking to have the femicide charge withdrawn, arguing that their client no longer identifies as a man. This past week during a hearing, Ferreira’s lawyers stated that his name was now “Amanda,” and that he was going through the relevant legal procedures to have his self-declared gender identity recognized. 

The prosecutors have reportedly pushed back against Ferreira’s request to be treated as a woman, but the case is still underway.

Of the charges Ferreira faced, the femicide claim carried the longest potential sentence of life imprisonment. If withdrawn, and if the other legal strategies stated by the defense are successful, Ferreira could spend as little as 10 years in prison for slaughtering Santos.

This is not the first time gender identity has interfered with a femicide-related crime in Argentina.

As previously reported by Reduxx, the brutal murder of a prostituted woman in Buenos Aires was initially recorded as a femicide until media learned that the two men involved in the killing identified as transgender.

Brenda Córdoba, 28, was murdered on November 10 of 2021 in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Balvanera. Grisly surveillance camera footage released by police during the investigation into her death showed Córdoba being approached by what appeared to be a man in a white hoodie and face mask. The man circled around to her back before grabbing her in a headlock and stabbing her multiple times in the chest.

Córdoba, who was dropped into a puddle of her own blood, was initially found alive by passersby who had attempted to intervene in the stabbing and rushed to hospital. She died as a result of her injuries days later.

Her killers were apprehended by police after an appeal to the community with CCTV footage of the murder. While media initially reported the crime as having been a femicide, the term was quickly scrubbed from reporting after the gender identities of Córdoba’s killers were established.

“due to having a lack of her own economic resources”……. Meaning two men exploited a poor woman.

By Anna Slatz

Anna is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Reduxx, with a journalistic focus on covering crime, child predators, and women's rights. She lives in Canada, enjoys Opera, and kvetches in her spare time.

Gosh I love her so much.

Chile lemme reblog god from the machine

This just goes to show that even the most priviledged women, white, rich and royals on top of that, are still oppressed because of their female sex.

It amazes me that hordes of men will act like this and then - en masse - deny that they view penetrating women as an act of dominance and conquest.

It's insane to me that someone created "true to life" nude 3D models of several famous women, posted pictures of it online, but has the smallest blurry boxes covering nipples and genitals in order for us to discuss it without being accused of obscenity. Why wasn't it obscene to create this to begin with? Why is it is "personal freedom" for men to spend thousands of dollars to fuck a doll that looks like a famous woman, but god forbid someone posts a photo of a topless woman building a deck? Why is porn above reproach, but criticism of it needs to be censored and critics accused of exclusionary radical views?

Thinking about that Ruth Bader Ginsburg quote that's like "When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that." You can apply this to everything, from members of governments to the authors whose books you read. Men are centered almost everywhere and have been for years. Equality doesn't have to be 50% men and 50% women. It can be 100% women to balance the decades when it was 100% men. Choose women's liberation and choose only women.

anything men have ever said about women is pure projection

the study

idk why but i feel like being a punk is for he/hims and doing ballet is for she/hers

Bibliography

or donating thousands of dollars to aid female lawyers and their families in afghanistan facing death?

Or literally losing her billionaire status because she gave so much money to charity, including charities for battered women?

Or founding a clinic for a neurological condition more common in women than men (M.S.), which her own mother died of?

or setting up a charitable trust which has been supporting funding for women and children's causes since the year 2000?

So i came across this pic of alanis morissette this was from 1996 she was a superstar during that time w a hit song nominated 4 three Grammies etc and look what she’s wearing normal clothes comfortable imagine a female pop star wearing smth like this like srsly it’s insane how this empowering “consumerist feminist” culture rly set us back hundreds of years now it’s all this ugly bikini like thing they all wear w the creepy smooth skin i hate it

Giant bloke dances like a whale, more at 11.

another great episode of: white male is getting celebrated for being mediocre.

Abolish for-profit health care insurance.

It’s always hating people for ‘just existing’ and ‘being themselves’ and ‘trying to live’. It’s never about hating them for perpetuating deeply misogynistic and homophobic rhetoric under the guise of being progressive and then becoming angry and violent when they’re called out on their misogyny and homophobia. How fucking blind and manipulative do you have to be to miss the point so badly, anon.

Feels good to be part of this right? 🥰

Did someone have ever seen a TERF saying such graphic, violent, painfull torture fetish to a trans person ???

This trans activist wrote a goddamn Twitter novel about how he wants to torture and kill women. Simply for disagreeing with him. They are not harmless weirdos. They're violent, misogynistic ticking time bombs.

Im sorry, we're supposed to let these people into our spaces??

full offense but these people are actual psychopaths who need to be locked up for life. making graphic threats that are planned out in detail should be enough. why do they have to act on these misogynistic fantantasies to be locked up? i want nothing except their violent brain to be smeared across a wall <3 this person (and everyone who liked and retweeted this psychopathic, nazi-esque degeneracy) deserves the chair.

This is a twitter thread that tells how to commit femicide.

"Anti terf" people Incite hate,applaud femicides, and want to see women who don't think like them dead.

Anyway, now if they accept that they want to commit femicides? Just because someone doesn't think like you? Are you out of your mind?

Why you want to kill a women?

Go to therapy

The hydrofluoric acid part was especially telling. It's not as if men already use acid to disfigure and burn 'disobedient' women's faces or anything.

i'm supposed to accept these men as my "sisters"? yeah, no. they can go fuck themselves.