#section 928736587: transphobia in feminist circles

[transwrongs]

sorry i hate myself and spent my NYE blocking tons of transphobic people so i’ve seen a lot of BS the past couple hours. (but making posts about them attracts the vocal ones so they’re easier to block) some things i just wanted to note here (this is not discourse or discussion lmao):

terfs are right. terf is not an identity or an ideology. it is fascist rhetoric. it's actually incredibly pointless to view it any other way, i think. the only thing that links terfs together is transphobia and radical feminism. radical feminism encompasses much more than whatever the fuck they've got going on over there. and transphobia is not an identity or an ideology. it is fascist rhetoric. i think we really shot ourselves in the foot trying to view it any other way.

literally co-opting a legitimate movement/organization like (rad)feminism with real legitimate problems like misogyny/patriarchy and pushing blame onto evil scapegoats that are the cause of all their problems ("trans identified males", all and only males). calling for segregation (female separatism). vehement hatred of liberalism, touting it as the cause for all this degeneracy, etc etc.

it's absolutely fascinating that if you call terfism fascist, people will go "how is radfem fascist???????????????????" or "omg no it's not I don't see terfs committing genocide so it's not fascism" because,,, first of all, reading comprehension is severely lacking but second, it is incredibly not a good look that your response to an 'accusation of fascism' is "I'm not doing the WORST things fascism has enabled so, therefore, I am not fascist". truly anti-intellectual brain rot. adolf hitler was a fascist before he came to power. he had fascist thinking before he came to power. he sought and came to power explicitly because he was a fascist.

fascism is meant to trick you, you're not meant to know you're falling into fascism, that's literally all that keeps it alive. fascism tells you that natural progression/change of society is actually the cause of all your problems and if only we could force everyone to just play it our way then nothing would be bad. if only we can make all the girls and boys stop interacting with each other then all our problems will go away.

i think fascism is ultimately a lot about power, power for groups of people (an absolution/abolition of the individual/identity), and the control of power. it is no surprise to me that, now, society(and fascism by extension) evolved to give marginalized people the idea that we too should have access to that power and that some people will leap to the same fascistic conclusions that our ancestors have lept to their death to reach. it's why so many transphobes want trans people in conversion therapy and call for female separatism and hate when men wear dresses (because they could be the evil TRA rapists u see) and care so much about the definition of Woman. transphobic people want to control who has gendered power. you can't call yourself a woman, you haven't earned it. you have to call yourself a woman, you've earned it. it's ok to want to control our behaviors, those behaviors are wrong. being trans is wrong. "we just want you to get the help that will actually fix you".

radical feminism is an especially fascinating breeding ground for this lapse in cognitive function. because again there is a legitimate problem of patriarchy and misogyny and sex-based oppression but transphobic people's heads explode when they see "males" (enemy) being allowed to just "switch sides". there is no "oppress women" gene. there is no "oppressed" gene. we all as a society contribute to and are harmed by patriarchy and misogyny (yes even males i know sweet children you don't want to hear it but you must!). this refusal to acknowledge this in favor of pushing blame onto all and only males is embarrassing to say the absolute very least.

TLDR;;

"define woman"

define god. define love. define hate. define the internet. define sadness. define the color red. define infinity. define nothing. define everything. what the fuck are you people talking about?

fascism doesn't have a concrete definition either. but it's real, yes? not having a concrete definition for sumn doesn't make it unreal and having a definition for sumn doesn't make it real. what does real even mean? natural? tangible? visible? to who? what does it mean to exist? what does it mean to be?

anyways im burning out, TLDR terfism is so sad everybody cry for the transphobic feminists get well soon we're all praying for yall.