@LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone
2026-10-12 13:25 UTC
Replies (13)
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@AcidBurn@retrofed.com 2026-10-12 13:34
Men.
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@doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 2026-10-12 13:42
::: CW Abuse Watching my abusive step father cause my little sister to bleed after he threw her into a plastic bathtub. This just set the seeds, I grew into it in proper around highschool, but I was still a kid then, so through college my understanding and actions I take to protect and empower my sisters developed further. :::
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@wezzzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-12 16:07
Lissening to women
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@That_Bitch_Is_Cily@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-12 16:20
Caring about other people other than myself and immediate friends/family. Although I was initially hesitant to label myself a feminist before I transitioned. One of the many walls I had up.
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@scuppie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-12 16:21
I believed in the general principles already but in a superficial way. Then I realised I was trans just as #metoo was happening and learning what it’s like to be a woman while everyone was talking about what it’s like to be a woman made me see how much of it I had been blind to.
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@Supamanc@sopuli.xyz 2026-10-12 16:33
Observation of the world we live in.
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@velma@reddthat.com 2026-10-12 17:43
I remember distinctly the day in my childhood that I became aware of anti-abortion protestors as my father and I were going somewhere in the city. I asked my dad what they were mad about. “They’re mad that women are allowed to stop their pregnancies.” My dad told me. “They think it’s about killing babies.” I remember thinking about it for a moment before asking something related, but my dad made a point that stuck with me for the rest of my life: “Don’t you think women should be allowed to decide what happens with their own bodies?” That’s when I became a feminist before I even had the words to know what that meant.
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@Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 2026-10-12 20:28
Women are people. Men are people. Women are often treated worse then men. That’s not cool. Hence, I stand up for equality. That should be normal, right?!
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@Drusas@fedia.io 2026-10-13 00:07
Nothing "made" me a feminist. I believed girls and boys were equal before I even understood the concept. It was just that I later learned this is called "feminism".
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@Sordid_Seraphim@lemmy.zip 2026-10-13 00:34
I’ve always had a hard time calling myself a feminist because I didn’t really know much of the ideology. I knew I agreed with most the sentiment though. That changed when I watched multiple “Foreign Man in a Foreign Land” video which continuously came back to the patriarchy and how it relates to pretty much all of our modern day struggles since truly it harms us all. I saw how the rape culture made female victims into liars and male victims the “lucky” guys. I related that to my own understanding of how rape is seen as a valid punishment for women who go against it like recently with a democratic candidate. I heavily relate it to V-Coding the method of sexually placating aggressive prisoners with trans women along with the systematic rape and abuse trans women like me would face in prison. I see how it turns us against ourselves constantly. I wish more men understood how fucked the system is because while they 100% have privelage they are paying a price by losing many of the things they may want or desire. It hurts even more to see women infighting against their own interests because that is what the partiarchy wanted in the first place. To divide, control and objectify us. This all in turn has caused tremendous harm to the queer community because evwrything we are goes against the gender role narratives set out for us. I’m not going to speak on race too much because I don’t feel that’s my place to speak but so many POC in every category have been fucked over by colonialism and trying to fit into a culture that was built on the subjugation and destruction of many differe people and cultures. So yeah if I had a single reason for being feminist it’s because normal is not enough, normal has been fucked for a long time.
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@Malica@lemmy.zip 2026-10-13 00:56
Suffering the consequences of the internalized misogyny I was raised with. First boyfriend was a pig. The biggest thing was watching other women suffer. For some reason, seeing it happen to others made it click that it’s not right, even if I couldn’t fully do it when it was happening to me. I’m still getting better, it’s a lot of damage to undo. Learning about how much history has been rewritten to disparage women has been infuriating, that anger just drives me further.
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@LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-10-12 19:59
When i was 13 cars of men would regularly stop me and my friends and try to get us in the car with them. They wouldn’t be aggressive, they’d just wave you over, you’d tell them to fuck off and carry on walking and that’d be the end. It was regular, and during the day but by the time I was 16 that had almost entirely stopped. Jesus Christ.
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@dkppunk@piefed.social 2026-10-13 01:20
I’ve been a feminist for my entire life without fully understanding the words. I grew up as the neighborhood tom boy. I was a rough and tumble girl who played in the mud with worms and dinosaurs. I had been saying “no” to what is considered to be feminine ever since I could speak. I played with insects from when I was a toddler looking at aphids, so my mom bought me the Audubon Society Guide to Insects and Arachnids. I had so many people tell me that I should act more like a girl and I said no. It was my parent’s divorce that solidified it. I saw my mom lose her entire identity after and I decided I wouldn’t go through that. I’ve been an advocate for women’s equality and making our own decisions in life ever since, but now I have the proper words for feminism. It really helped that my mom was a feminist from the 70s.