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butch-reidentified · 8 months ago

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nobody has ever been forced to stay in a menstrual hut because they had a cramp and got moody.

do you hear yourself when you threaten to violently torture and murder people (women, mainly feminists, let's be honest - those are often the people telling you "transfem periods" aren't a thing) in order to silence them about having a biological function they're violently oppressed for appropriated by the oppressor class? women and girls all over the world face horrors beyond your privileged imagination because the bleeding is seen as unclean.

women and girls who don't menstruate, such as my adoptive mother who was born without a uterus, don't pretend to have periods. so why do you? why is it that women and girls like my mother are able to comprehend that no uterus = no period, and able to recognize that those who DO have a uterus often face acts of violent oppression over the shedding of its lining, but you do not share that understanding? why is it only "transfems" who need to make this about themselves and silence women who object to the absurd audacity of appropriating sex-based oppression? if you are indeed a woman with no uterus, like my mother, where does this entitlement and violence come from?

you post depraved, graphically violent threats - the sort that have never crossed my mind even at my most furious - designed to silence an oppressed group (female human beings) about an aspect of their oppression, and then wonder why feminists are increasingly butting heads with your ideology? you can't show a modicum of understanding of the issues we face, but we are expected to cater to your feelings at every turn. and this is different from traditional sexism how?

I am asking genuinely and in good faith, despite the unsettling vitriol of your original post, why you think this is an acceptable and not wildly misogynistic thing to say. why does it warrant fantasies/threats of brutal homicide to state that a period requires a uterus from which to shed the lining? how is it hateful or bigoted to recognize the life-or-death consequences of ignoring this fact when it's still a massive aspect of female oppression globally?

hey, whoever tells you transfem periods aren't a thing is a dirty liar and i'll gut them and feed them their own intestines

#the ONLY thing that makes a period is shedding the uterine lining #moodiness is not a period and most women don't even get moody #not all women even get cramps!#do you understand how these posts come across to people who reject the gender construct #as male violence towards women?#for those of us who are gender abolitionists #who define man and woman as terms specifying sex and species like buck and doe #not gender terms #you are a human of the male sex who believes in the concept of gender identity #and presumably believes that woman is a gender term not a sex-and-species term #and thus identifies as a woman (gender) [or another gender label]#but radfems see gender as inherently patriarchal and harmful #and see “woman” as the same as “doe” - it means a human whose anatomy & physiology developed around the capacity to produce ova #(EVEN if that production fails to occur due to any number of medical reasons!!!)#just as a doe is a deer whose anatomy & physiology developed around the capacity to produce ova #even if...etc #the same way humans are bipedal is a perfectly reasonable thing to say even though some people are born without or lose 1 or both legs #a woman is female even though some are born without or lose the capacity to actually produce ova #there is no other qualifier to be a woman!#women are still women if they never produce a single ovum or have a single period!#women are still women if they don't remove body hair/wear makeup/have long hair/act “feminine” etc etc etc #the only requirement is being born the sex whose anatomy & physiology is *intended* to produce ova #all of this is also true of men (and bucks) with regard to sperm #so...#from this perspective can you understand how we see this and see male violence against women/girls?#or do I need to dive deeper in this explanation?#bc I can lol #menstruation #menstrual huts #period huts

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