#can't believe I'm seeing an uncritical version of this on my dashboard in the year 2024 c'mon guys

[mmmthornton]

Not to uh put a damper on it, but maybe we can focus on that happening when penises AREN'T massively responsible for sexual and reproductive trauma against people without penises first. Maybe we can work on fixing the violence, instead of telling people their reaction TO the violence is a crime first? Just, priorities.

Trans women will never be free until people stop having strong emotions about penises. Like we, as a society, have got to stop caring about dicks! Dicks have to stop symbolizing maleness, obviously, but they also have to stop symbolizing power, dominance, sexual agency and aggression, violence, and even sex itself. Like trans women can’t be free if the very conceptual presence of a penis represents an intrusion(!) of unwanted(!) sexuality(!) in public life. Like that’s why trans women are abhorrent to both male chauvinists and radical feminists, because both groups have extremely strong feelings about what a penis *represents*, and find the conceptual and actual presence of a woman with a penis to be simultaneously vile and nonsensical because they’ve loaded so much symbolic baggage onto both women and penises.

Anyway dicks are totally neutral body parts and seeing a dick, or a bulge in a swimsuit, or simply knowing that there’s a dick somewhere in the same bathroom as you isn’t harmful or violent