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Look at that date again. 1995. Why are we still fighting this nearly 30 years later?!
being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years
#make your feminism intersectional#support out trans sisters#support our trans brothers and enby sibs
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I urge you all to remember the women in Afghanistan
Just because our media no longer talks about them, does not mean their oppression has ended
Documentary about women fighting for their rights
The Taliban trying to ban women from medicine
Charity organisation to check out
#OP IS TRANS TERFS GO AWAY MAKE YOUR OWN POST#collyridianism#deanism#deanist#filianism#filianist#womens rights#fuck the patriarchy#free afghan women#intersectional feminism#gender equality#Terfts dni
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where's that post about destroying books you love because i'm picking back up on Hood Feminism and not only is the spine extremely creased and the corners of the covers fraying but there's somehow a chip in the back cover. as in, a chunk of the cover is just gone. i've also written all over the inside of it, so many margin notes.
#once i'm through with it it is 100% becoming a reference piece btw#such a good non fic for intersectional Black feminism#and any non Black feminist/leftist should consider this required reading imo#and like i genuinely super recommend getting your own copy if you can so you can annotate and make notes#books#hood feminism
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Yeah I can tell people have lost their grasp on basic ongoing forms of oppression when they say things like "hatred of men and masculinity is one of the reasons trans women, BIPOC and Jewish men are persecuted" like what a non-sequiteur. Imagine being so ignorant of power structures in your attempt to """progressively""" defend men that you become transphobic
#Truly astounding. Your brain is empty read a book on transphobia instead. Acclimate yourself to that concept#Try moving on to misogyny next. You might learn things there! Like actual feminism!#Now for a real challenge: try out this wholly new intersection of oppressions called transmisogyny#And then Look Out To The World. See What It Has To Say About Men And The Preferred Gender To Rule#You know it would be funny how bad people have become in writing an argumentative text on here if it wasn't so sad to see#how they think writing assertively is all they need to make your point#People online will posit any observation as an immutable fact of reality when it’s just their misconceptions contributing to a flawed view#of the world#Even if it would be quickly deconstructed by actual theoretical frameworks like feminism 101 and intersectionalism and privilege theory#They don't even know they don't know. What a Dunning-Kruger effect. It's become Plato's cave in here#Anyways you might see that post out in the wild. Exciting!#Also how would that first point even apply. Literally the only ones who might fit in are transphobic women but then you might notice#It's not the man-hate that's directly responsible for the transphobia!#Now I'm not a fan of negative feminism posting more than anyone else but if I have to keep seeing that garbage you'll have to keep hearing#me insult this. The least it deserves after making me mad Online
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Anyway while men aren't inherently evil most of them on this site are inherently whiny
I AM TRANS TERFS SHOULD DIE
#a terf said it but their right#yall are thinking individual experiences is the same as systemic misogyny#and yall ARE saying both not all men#and that its non men complaining thats making men hate women#youre victim blaming#bioessentialism#you cant be intersectional if you silence oppressed groups#stop pretending we live in a post feminist society#intersectional feminism
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This but also everyone needs to understand that we all have deep seated subconscious biases against minorities we are not a part of. The assumption that we don't is a massive part of the reason why self proclaimed liberals and leftists are so frequently racist.
This applies to racism, misogyny, transmisogyny, xenophobia, classism every goddamn ism or phobia under the sun. Many of us even have very subconscious biases against members of our own groups. You can see lateral violence being enacted this way.
We all need to stop assuming ourselves to be good progressive people from the get go, that doesn't make us safer. Because we live in a society that instills biases in us constantly, we need to work to undo them every damn day. The work never ends at least not until that system is destroyed.
Even if you are marginalized in some way (maybe even a big way) (maybe multiple ways) you do still need to be able to recognize that you're also privileged in other ways. You benefit from things that suck.
Maybe somewhere there's someone who's existence is pure oppression and victimhood and who has truly no power and is thusly free from responsibility or guilt or the fear of harming others or being perceived as harming others, but it isn't me and it isn't you.
#transgender#racisim#transphobia#transfeminist#transfeminism#transmisogyny#intersectional feminism#to make yourself a safe person for minorities you have to continuously not only unlearn your biases but learn where they come from#and how they've become a bias in the general population in the first place#never assume you are safe
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I swear dude if I have to hear one more 20 year old white trans girl complain about transmisoginy and start talking mad shit about trans guys I'm gonna be on the news. Bc that's all you do. If yall were saying shit about transmisoginy in any other context I don't think I would care but it feels like its always this. Reevaluate your fucking priorities please.
#is there a unique intersection of oppression faced by trans women? yes. i experience it every day.#but it does not take complex theory to see which ones of you are being assholes for the sake of being an asshole.#trans men are not ontologically fucking evil because they are men. calm the fuck down#go the fuck outside#make irl friends#take an instructor led class on feminism if you have to bc whatever youre doing isnt it#idk man maybe its just the trans women i follow but im losing my mind.#either we are all liberated or none of us are
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Disclaimer: I like Anita Sarkeesian.
But also, I just saw a writeup of a Youtuber whose content has come a long way from his Gamergate days, and to explain that, the wiki says, "Anita Sarkeesian is a radical feminist who created a webseries about sexist tropes in video games"
AHAHAHAHAHA ANITA SARKEESIAN, RADICAL FEMINIST
HOO HEE EXCUSE ME THAT'S A GOOD ONE
Radical feminist. Feminist extremist. Anita Sarkeesian.
Anita Sarkeesian did her Master's Thesis in Social and Political Thought in 2010 on the trope of the "Strong Woman" in fantasy and science fiction TV shows, and produced Tropes vs Women, a series of online videos breaking down her work in a way that was accessible to a lay audience. She found a ready audience in geek feminist circles, since this was exactly the kind of thing we wanted and needed right then.
Tropes vs Women was extremely bog-standard cultural critique, what you'd find expressed in discussion between scholars of literary theory or media analysis anywhere, and exactly what 99% of feminists were saying at the time. It certainly talked about patriarchy as the complex system of sexism fused into our cultural matrix, so it's not like it wasn't radical feminism from that viewpoint, but it wasn't "radical" by way of being especially militant. Sarkeesian frequently pointed out how individual occurrences of a trope weren't harmful in themselves, but that a media landscape completely saturated with only that trope and nothing but that trope is, in the aggregate, a big feminist issue.
And the internet
HAAAAAAAATED
her for it.
Like, geek feminists got flak a lot anyway, especially when we wanted things like properly enforced policies against sexual harassment at science fiction conventions. And yeah, there totally were toxic keyboard warriors who said stuff about all men being scum - but Sarkeesian wasn't one of them.
It's probably because of her succinct, matter-of-fact, "this is not a debated issue, feminists have decades of theory and research to back this point up, sources abound if you google for thirty seconds so I won't stop to baby you through all the fundamental concepts" approach that she got such a big reach. She was calm, concise, coherent, and rational, everything feminists are told we need to be.
Unfortunately that just made her seem... attackable, I think. A good target, not actually scary or impassioned, unlikely to respond to violence with violence. The perfect kind of person to play five seconds of, and then spend the next five minutes yelling into your mic because IF ANITA IS RIGHT ABOUT VIDEO GAME SEXIST YOU MIGHT AS WELL SAY THAT EVERYTHING IS SEXIST AND SEXISM IS SYSTEMIC AND ENDEMIC TO ALL OF WESTERN CULTURE AND OTHER CULTURES TOO, WHICH IS CLEARLY RIDICULOUS, ANITA LADY BAD.
She literally spent five solid years as Enemy #1 in online geek spaces. It was completely insane. I am so sorry she had to take the brunt of it, and yet grateful that she did. She held the line and took the shit and kept doing good decent feminist work for years after, though she did admit to burnout and closed up shop on her nonprofit org Feminist Frequency in 2023. I hope to hell she's having a good day.
But even now, more than a decade later, dudes talk about her as though she were Geek Feminist Godzilla, the biggest baddest woman in the universe, off to lay waste to downtown Video Games and cut everybody's balls off.
When people (mostly dudes, but not all) talk like this, it's just very funny and unintentionally revealing because of the absolute averageness of her third-wave, trans-inclusive, western-centric, intersectional feminism. It makes them look absolutely pathetic.
Because it just makes it clear that she is probably the first and last self-described feminist the speaker has ever paid attention to.
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sooo this post is getting a lot of reblogs from terf accounts, so i just want to make it very clear that my blog is not a safe space for transphobia, and trans women are women. if your feminism doesn't account for transgender individuals, your feminism is incomplete.
dont ever give credit to people for "giving" women rights. dont thank them for returning what shouldn't have been taken in the first place.
#terfs will be blocked im not here to argue with yall. make your “rebuttal” on your own page.#feminism#trans inclusive feminism#intersectional feminism#women of color#trans women are women#trans rights#trans rights are human rights
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In addition to the obvious ways to demonize, sexually harass and badjacket any convenient trans person (lbr almost always trans women, but occasional exceptions occur), it seems to me that there is a strong element of sexual entitlement at play in the actions of anti-kink people.
I’ve thought this for a very long time, honestly, especially way back when I was doing more reading about the anti-kink feminism of the 70s/80s. Reading between the lines, then as now, there’s a strong undercurrent of “what do you mean, your interests make us sexually incompatible? I think you simply must have something deeply wrong with you”. It sucks, of course, to be interested in someone and to find out that your interests don’t overlap, that their favourite things are your hard limits, and vice versa. For those of us who can accept that the world is full of people who don’t actually exist solely as sexual partners for us, that there are in fact people who aren’t just waiting to have our desires projected onto them, this is not world-shaking stuff.
This entitlement weighs the most on the people who are positioned socially to be sexual objects for the more powerful. The idea of such people as sexual subjects, with desires and interests that could preclude many/most, enrages the entitled. Even the basic idea that the bodies and lives of the people involved do not require the approval of people not fucking invited to what consenting grownups get up to together seems unimaginable to some people. (even if it grosses you/me out. Especially then.) From the groyper types who demand virginal tradwives and rage about roasties with their tattoos and previous partners, to the people who call themselves leftists on here absolutely losing their shit at the idea that any given trans woman could be wholly uninterested in them and their approval. (Not to mention the sexual attitudes towards WOC, fat people, other kinds of trans people, the ways all of these intersect and more!) The anti-kink brigade remain blissfully unaware that they are echoing every incel manifesto.
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ewww looks like the radfems and terfs found my post.
"radfems don't say that" bullshit ive seen plenty say shit like that.
"we call you traitors..." i am a cisgender perisex girl. the doctors saw me being born and wrote female on my birth certificate and i'm pretty sure i'm not intersex, but tbf I haven't taken a chromosome test so there's a chance but a small one.
also, you're arguing that you're mad at transmen for protecting gender norms because u think they're women who are just gnc (which btw ur being reallyyy fucking transphobic ur literally a terf). but that assumes every single trans man is masculine. the same way there's feminine cismen, there's also feminine transmen.
like lol how are you all saying that you can be a woman without being feminine and simultaneously assuming every single transman is masculine. like u just admitted gender expression is different from gender and then when it comes to trans people ur all like noooo not like thattttt.
"you support a system that says women can be feminine or pretend to be a man.."
("pretend to be a man" once again really fucking transphobic u terf) i agree you can be a woman and not perform femininity, i'm one of those women. But i've never felt like i wanted to be a man, excluding when in the past i dealt with sexist shit and thought if "i was born a guy I wouldn't have to deal with this". but right after I'd think "yea i wouldn't have to deal with this shit but then i wouldn't be a girl and i actually really like being a woman excluding the opression i face". Meanwhile transmen want to be men irregardless of disliking performing feminity and the opression of being a woman. that's the difference. and transmen also face opression so being trans doesn't even prevent the sexism they face.
anyways sorry for getting discoursey on the yay trans men post so heres some happiness.
TRANS MEN ARE COOL AND AMAZING AND BEING MASCULINE AND/OR A MAN DOESN'T MAKE YOU A TRAITOR TO FEMINISM AND YOU'RE MEN IRREGARDLESS OF THE BULLSHIT THESE TERFS AND RADFEMS SPEW AT YOUUU SO STAY ALIVE ANOTHER DAY TO BE HAPPY MEN AND SPITE THOSE FUCKERSSSS ILYYYY
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saw a post about how feminists, usually terfs and radfems but also other feminists, act like being a transman is anti feminist and "betraying" womanhood and just the rampant hatred of masculinity in feminist spaces and i didn't wanna speak over all the transmen there so i'm saying it here:
Realising you're a transman does not make you against femininity or feminism. It means that being a woman wasn't for you. And i think that's beautiful. And anyone that fails to realise how beautiful and joyous being your authentic self is is a piece of shit. And it's your right to yourself freely and without hate.
#the trans lobby misinformation campaign is so strong and then they make you block all other opinions so youre trapped thinking#that feminists are your enemeny when we are just pursuing womens rights and freedoms#prev tags#i am a feminist#and being a feminist means i stand for the gender equality of ALL genders#that includes intersex and trans people and men#not just ciswomen#feminism#intersectional feminism#trans rights#fuck off terfs#fuck off radfems#trans men#trans masc#trans male#trans boy#transblr#transgender#trans gender#trans
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While 4B has been a topic of conversation online for a few years, sporadically gaining popularity among U.S. TikTok users in moments like the “I chose the bear” trend, Trump’s reelection brought it front and center again. In the days following Trump’s win, online searches for the 4B Movement saw an unprecedented spiked. Across social media, women are posting that they need to divest from men, amassing hundreds of thousands of likes and millions of views. But the conversation about 4B in the U.S. is rife with misconceptions about the movement, including false assertions that 4B accounts for the majority of feminist thought in South Korea. It’s important to note that despite the global attention, 4B is a fringe movement in South Korea, and Han says the vast majority of South Korean feminists do not abide by it. “I just want to make sure that people understand that 4B does not speak for Korean feminism,” Han tells Them. “4B is not representative of Korean feminist politics. A lot of us see something a lot more diverse and a lot more intersectional than what 4B calls for.” Though the 4B movement is quickly gaining wind in the U.S., this is far from the first time American feminists have called for a divestment from men to combat misogyny. In the 1960s, political lesbianism emerged from the second-wave feminist movement as a means of decentering men from the lives of women. Like 4B, political lesbians aimed to divest from dating and having sex with men. They asserted that any feminist can be a lesbian, defining lesbian as any woman who did not have sex with men. “We call it 4B now, but it's political lesbianism,” Han says. “Essentially it's the same thing too, but the one aspect of being a political lesbian was you may or may not [actually be a lesbian], and sometimes you really didn't have sex with other women, but [instead lived by] the idea that you prioritize your relationships with other women, that you prioritize your solidarity with other women.” But with the 4B movement both in South Korea and the U.S., Han says this isn’t the case, as men still find themselves front and center in the discourse. She adds, “I've never heard so much discussion of straight men. Can we just decenter them?” [...] Han says that they hope this blip in interest about 4B fades into the next news cycle, as there are so many other forms of intersectional South Korean feminism that do include queer and trans people. Ultimately, many of the current discussions about 4B are coming from a place of privilege that queer people don’t have the luxury of accessing. “Queer and trans folks know that isolation or imagining a life ‘just on our own’ — that's not our reality,” Han says. “That's not our vision. In many ways, I think our experiences tell us that we have to live with people who hate us. We have to work with and against and fight folks who mean to harm us and simply disavowing them or refusing to interact with them or somehow running away and keeping to ourselves, that's never been possible.”
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The main reaction to me criticizing transandrophobia theory has been calling me a radfem. And I have been rambling on about the misuse of words like "radfem/terf" before, but like come on. It happened like thrice now, in different conversations and at this point I might make it an instant block condition.
If you are going to call trans women "radfems", I suggest that you first define your terms. Like answer the following: what do you think radical feminism is, what separates it from other forms of feminism, why do you think it's bad, and what exactly has this trans woman said that marks her as a radfem?
I suspect basically none of them can do it. That's because their definition of "terf" has more to do with 70s era reactionary caricatures of feminists as evil hairy man-hating lesbians than their actual beliefs. (This site's definition of "baeddel" is that caricature, except transfem.) And whatever understanding there is poisoned by a general unacknowledged antifeminism, so talking about basic feminist concepts like patriarchy, male privilege and misogyny is terfy/radfem.
What marks a radfem as distinct from other forms of feminism is not to talk about male privilege and misogyny, but to understand those terms in bioessentialist and biodeterminist terms, as "sex-based oppression." Not that bioessentialism or transmisogyny among feminists is unique to radfems, but their ideology is uniquely defined by it.
I've seen transfeminists accused of being "trans-inclusive radical feminists", of taking radfem ideas and removing the bioessentialism so trans women are counted as women. But that's another thinly disguised antifeminist argument, because what is supposedly left that is distinctly radfemism without its bioessentialism and how is that distinct from general feminism? The idea that we live in a patriarchy in which men have privilege and women are oppressed are pretty foundational to all of feminism.
Both trans women's claim to womanhood and the intersectional concept of transmisogyny is directly opposed to radfem's bioessentialism, so maybe be smarter about labelling transfems talking about transmisogyny "radfems."
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⚠️ IMAGE TW: Suicidal Ideation




These posts are by the same TERF, who is subjecting herself to personal conversion “therapy.” I have blocked out the username because this individual is clearly not well. And, yes, “not well” here clearly refers to the individual’s suicidal ideation. (Yes, I reported this threat of self-harm to Tumblr.)
In the gender-critical case against trans inclusion, structural subordination on the basis of sex dominates the discussion to the virtual exclusion of anything else. That's not to say there's no such thing as a male dominant society. I would never claim that just the same I would NEVER claim there's no such thing as a white supremacist society.
This is more a commentary on two things: the presupposition of social hierarchies in the ideological investments in structural oppression and structuralist frameworks that gender-crits care deeply about as well as the lack of engagement with intersectional frameworks.
Ideological investments in the structural oppression gender-crits care deeply about has led them to presuppose the validity of the frameworks they're using to interpret this structural oppression rather than take their validity as a hypothesis. This presupposition can lead one to miss noticing other things that are going on, especially things that just can’t, and probably should not, be forced into the explanatory frameworks gender-crits use to interpret structural oppression.
—The Feminist Philosopher, here on Tumblr
The above 👆 observation is often brought forth in critiques of how Exclusionarism fails to consider the intersection of womanhood and race, often to the detriment of Black women in feminist movements. It’s an intersectional critique of what is ultimately, at its core, nothing more than a reactionary anti-intersectional movement. But this critique of Exclusionarism is broadly applicable to other intersections that it also fails to consider, as “intersections produce more complex, shifting, and context-dependent power relationships than are captured by [a simple, binary] M > F formula.”
Exclusionarism considers only sexism to the detriment of analyzing heterosexism and cissexism, and that is on full display in the featured photos. Gender *is* socially constructed (“a product of culture”), that is very true. The bounds of proper gender, however, aren’t only defined by sexism, but also things like racism, heterosexism, and cissexism. So, a TER’s analysis always fails to consider how it’s not just misogyny, but also homophobia and transphobia that socially construct our sex caste system. One’s assigned sex caste is not informed simply by whether or not a child has a dick, but by how well the attending doctor thinks the child will perform a certain role in heterosexual sex and heterosexual reproduction (this is the excuse often made for performing genital surgeries on intersex infants).
“Sex is [] a very unstable category that people can disrupt in many ways even without an explicit trans identity, because patriarchy is a natalist, heterosexual regime oriented around reproduction as much as around male-supremacy… [A]ll forms of gender-marginalization are at their root a disruption of heterosexuality.” —taliabhattwrites, here on Tumblr**
“Some areas in biology still refer to behaviours as sex characteristics. the whole idea of the ‘invert’ category was the idea that gays and transes were ‘doing sex backwards,’ and ‘doing the wrong sex.’ … This wasn't about a biological scientific test, and it wasn't just about coitus; it was about not fitting into a binary system of social behaviours and activities that connect to sexual behaviours… sex was both what we did, who we did it with, how we did it, and who we were.” —braindamagebaeddel, here on Tumblr
“Rather, this is an explication of the underlying root of patriarchy, its core mechanisms and systems that constitute the guiding principles of (trans)misogyny, lesbophobia-all instances of gender-marginalization. Sex is not quite as binary as advertised, because the heterosexual regime has always regarded people as one of human, broodmare, or freak. If you are not a person with autonomy, then you are a vessel for those who are ... and if you cannot even be that, then you are a waste of flesh, something to be fucked, killed, or both… The butch derided and beaten as a delusional ‘he-she,’ the tranny who can be endlessly violated, and even the woman who merely refuses to have children, are bound by this commonality. If we cannot participate in reproduction, we must be fixed… or disposed of.” —taliabhattwrites, here on Tumblr
So, someone saying, “No, I reject that” in whatever capacity, whether it’s being trans or being a lesbian or simply refusing to have sex and children, *is* radical, and not a conformance to the sex caste system *or* stereotypes. The patriarchy wants a woman to be classed as female, and clearly distinguishable as so to make her and keep her opposite that a man. Patriarchal ideas and actors do everything to convince someone to maintain a sex’s “naturally ordained” sphere of biodestiny, right down to convincing you that sex is immutable, trans is wrong, and you need a dick to be a man.
Because the OOP is right about one thing, being a man is not about having any one kind of body. Wanting is enough.
“The standards by which I can be trans and be a man are determined by a cissexist understanding of sex. And that is never more clear than in the questionnaires that shrinks give patients to “determine” if one truly has “transgender.” They will interrogate whether the patient acts in a manner “stereotypical” of the sex they were NOT assigned at birth, a concept so very loaded with patriarchal, anti-feminist, and anti-trans assumptions.” [SOURCE]
Not considering cissexism is one fundamental flaw in a TER’s “feminist” analysis. It always has been. This intentional “oversight” leads to an overwhelmingly cissexual understanding of gender diversity. TER’s are capable of only seeing transness through stereotypes and a very binary, hierarchal, and segregated lens, where “men are men, women are women, and never the twain shall meet.” They refuse to consider the way variance outside the traditional definitional bounds of our sex castes is also punished and pathologized by society. They insist on seeing transness as something that upholds the strict caste system rather than something that aids in breaking down their dichotomy of fucked and fucker in a heterosexual regime. And they do this—as well as refuse to consider the intersectional hypothesis—to avoid analyzing how they reinscribe themselves into the dramas of cissexuality, and thus uphold a foundational tenent of the patriarchy: oppositional sexism.
Trans people aren’t the only ones with socially constructed genders. Cis is not an “more natural” gender by virtue of administrative caste assignment at birth.*** Trans is not “the mind that needs fixing” while cis is “perfect in every way.” Trans is not “mutilation” while cis is “natural and whole.” It is cissexism, too, that treats transness as hysteria and simply a “feeling” with no basis in reality. Gender literally is a social construct, so that “idea in your head” can be as much a man as a woman as nothing in particular at all, so long as you want it. Because wanting *is* enough. OOP never needed “fixing,” and other gender diverse people don’t, either.
You can do something about your suicidality. You can be happy. You can be yourself. You don’t have to have everything figured out. You can remain complex and vague. Don’t die wondering.
**It is important to note here that I believe that Radical Feminist thought is, at its foundation, transphobic, colonial, and Zionist-sympathetic. So, I do not believe that it can be re-appropriated from a transphobic hate movement into something which can meaningfully fight for trans liberation or women, and break down things like western patronism and chauvinism. I do not think that the movement is separable from its history of things like anti-blackness or from thinkers like Mary Daly, Shelia Jeffries, Julie Bindel, or Janice Raymond. The fact radical feminism is so widely transphobic (also racist and misogynistic) is not a fluke; it is rooted in the philosophy’s fallacies and frequent use of essentialism. Today’s average rad fem is not a “misbegotten” inheritor, but the movement’s direct ideological descendent.
***And gender—much like sexuality—being socially constructed does not make it any less significant or real as part of sociocultural systems and identities. TERs often utilize an ad naturam fallacy to talk about social constructs, operating from the idea that there is some non-socially constructed default (natural state) from which we all originate. A sort of… state of nature, if you will. As a social species, there exists no system that is not socially constructed; even the hermit is constructed in relation to society. We should be analyzing a system on its merits, considering the social mores we wish to value, not whether it is “the most natural,” where we presuppose “naturalness” as inherently good.
“All women feel gender dysphoria. You aren’t trans; you’ve just been alienated from your reproductive labor. I used to feel this way too, and then I got over it!”
No baby, they don’t. Most cis women do not feel gender dysphoria. You also don’t simply “get over it.” Like— half your blog is dedicated to how miserable you are and the other half to calling trans women “moids.” You are having a very normal experience— gender dysphoria— that you have demonized and abnormalized. Your behavior is not a rational reaction to the way you feel about your body. You hate the way you feel, you hate what this would mean for your place in larger society, and you are externalizing this, blaming your “bad thoughts” on “Jewish Doctors” and “Transgenderism” and “Hysteria” (social contagion) because your catholic background taught you that your only worth is in using your “womb” to create more (white) babies. For the love of fuck— just go to therapy.
#gender dysphoria#gender journey#feminism#intersectional feminism#transphobia#gender essentialism#queerphobia#homophobia#transphobia is why many TERs are suicidal#and a refusal to deconstruct transmisogyny is what’s holding them back#Does she know that the TER movement as a whole#finds the *way* she’s attracted to women (carnally. sexually. kink. etc…) to be base and immoral and degrading and abusive and disgusting?#because they think any an all attraction to a woman is a patriarchal dehumanization.#and I wonder… does that rhetoric makes her feel like a monster?#just as their accusation—in their crusade to desex us—that my attraction to men is nothing more than a paraphilia#made me feel like a monster?#And—girl. It’s okay if your gender is ultimately ‘lesbian’ or ‘none’ << those are also a possibility#just understand: you don’t need to be fixed#it’s okay to be genderqueer
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