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Regarding your post about radical feminists agreeing on certain topics for the ‘exact same reasons’, what reasons are those exactly?

I'm assuming this was asked in good faith. the post:

the core of terf ideology is gender essentialism. basically: the belief that a person's personality traits and behavior is inherently linked to their biological sex (of which they only recognize 2). men (penis) are biologically stronger, bigger, violent, aggressive, sexual. therefore by comparison a woman (vagina) is weaker, smaller, peaceful and submissive. a man is what a woman is not. a woman is what a man is not.

therefore the existence of trans people, the idea of sex as a spectrum and gender as a social construct goes against the very basics of their ideology.

this is literally the same shit that makes conservatives go: man strong works, woman weak in the kitchen.

how this ties to white supremacy? well obviously this is an incredibly reductive way to view gender, that is constructed from a western colonial perspective. a man is what a White woman is not. a woman is what a White man is not. what happens when someone doesn't fit into this narrow idea of gender? chinese women olympic athletes get called men. women of colour have to overperform femininity to be recognized as women. terfs take characteristics they consider to be inherent sex characteristics such as

and weaponize them against people of colour. and not only physical traits, because gender essentialism considers personality traits to be gendered as well. woc get called manly and aggressive just for being assertive, outspoken or openly sexual (shit like megan thee stallion getting called a "masc butch" when you've never seen her without a full face of makeup on). black and indigenous men get villainized and oversexualized, while considering east asian men submissive and asexual.

going to focus on the sexual part here to address the porn and prostitution bit. to recap:

sex = biological. penis = man. man = sexual and aggressive. woman = poor little meow meow.

this way, sex with a penis becomes a form of violence in an of itself (cue political lesbianism but I'm getting into that). a woman cannot choose or consent to sex work, and paying for sex is rape. they consider sex work to be inherently more violent than any other type of work.

now, I'm not gonna sit here and defend the porn industry, the same way I'm not gonna defend any other industry. sex work can be oppressive just like any other type of work under capitalist exploitation. passing legislation to ban sex work only hurts the sex workers (a huge number of them trans and poc). turning them into criminals doesn't help disband the systemic issues that maybe pushed them into sex work, and performing sex work clandestinely only forces them to accept shittier working conditions and puts them at risk of abuse.

this went on a bit longer than i expected but I'm really not saying much, this is a VERY brief overview of huge ass topics lmao. btw I'm not gonna debate anyone if you come to the notes with dumb takes im just gonna block you haha ok 😜