#terfunsafe

[iguesswhatimtryingtosayis]

Okay I have known for a little bit that terfs exist, and while it makes me so sad, I know that it's because there will always be sucky people in the world. I was furious when I found out though, because my whole life being a girl was something to be looked down on for, because it was bad to throw like a girl, cry like a girl, dress like a girl, everything. It didn't really matter how good at something I got, I had no chance of being anything besides a girl who was 'not like other girls' or something similar. When I found out that people could be trans, it made me really happy, because it meant that being a woman was not only something that someone could want to be, it was something that was worth being, and it made me feel less looked down on. So to find people who said that those women weren't women because they weren't oppressed their whole lives, or whatever reason that they have, it kind of felt like going back to that place where instead of lifting each other up, it was that same 'not like other girls' mindset. And I hate it.

I got a new thing to hate in addition to that when I found out about swerfs recently. (To be clear: the people who spit in other women's faces because they are in that position. Not people who hate the industry.) People don't realize that most of the women in those places are not there by choice. Sex workers are some of the most exploited and abused people, and the majority of them have been forced into those positions, or they fall back on them because they have no other choice. If you ask most people why they don't want to be a stripper or a prostitute or something similar, there is a 90% chance that they will say that it is because they don't have to, because most people have an awareness that most women don't choose that life. And the sex industry abuses most if not all of those women. But the thing is, even if they wanted (not felt like they had no choice, or were coerced in any way shape or form, like they actually wanted to go into it as a career choice and nothing else) to go into sex work, who cares? (as in who are you, a stranger, to judge them for what choices they make in their life) That is their choice to make with their own lives, and they still deserve to be respected by the people around them; their career choice shouldn't make them considered inhuman. This doesn't mean that the industry does not need to be drastically changed because it is not a safe place. But those women are still human beings who deserve your respect. To exclude these two groups feel to me that it is the same as it was years ago, that in order to have the respect of the world, you have to meet certain standards. And that is not the point of feminism.

Like, I understand that some of the best first steps women made as a whole came from Susan B. Anthony, who was racist. (She actively worked against Sojourner Truth from speaking at the seneca falls convention. "During the Civil War, Sojourner Truth took up the issue of women's suffrage. She was befriended by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but disagreed with them on many issues, most notably Stanton's threat that she would not support the black vote if women were denied it. Although she remained supportive of women's suffrage throughout her life, Truth distanced herself from the increasingly racist language of the women's groups. Truth died on November 26, 1883. In her old age, she had let go of Pentecostal judgement and embraced spiritualism. Her last words were "be a follower of the Lord Jesus."" This Far by Faith . Sojourner Truth | PBS) And a huge proponent of peace, Ghandi, was extremely misogynistic. I get that progress often starts in low places. But it doesn't make the bad things about them suck any less. Feminism is supposed to be a beautiful thing where women lift each other up to make the world better, not a place where women tear each other down to make themselves look better.

(I didn't always know these things so in case other people don't know they mean Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist and Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist)

Edit: apparently someone thought that I was excusing the corruption in the sex industry which is not the case so I made some changes to clarify things

[aquiyahoraempiezaelconflicto]

terfs are getting more insane by the minute,, had to take a pic before ripping it off 💀

[nebulousharmony]

Not my dash giving me extremely transphobic reblogs/comments “based on my likes” as a response to RBing posts about predesterone. Surely this site would not.

[bee-unknown]

That moment when you see an amazing pro abortion post but when you check OP's blog you realize she's a terf

[sequencer987]

Graham Linehan is quite possibly the most sorry specimen of a human being I have ever seen. If ever anyone embodied the term ‘wretch’ it would be him.

It’s not even fun to dunk on him anymore, it feels like getting in a boxing match with a hospice patient.

Like how the hell can I make fun of a man whose family left him because he was so obsessed with arguing with trans people on Twitter that he was functionally an absentee husband and father?

I still remember that clip where he was live-streaming with a couple of his TERF pals and his son came into the room to give him a present. A birthday present. Linehan acknowledged him for 15 seconds before shooing him out of the room. That in an of itself should be comedic hyperbole but he just straight up did it. He basically performed the “Not now honey, mommy’s cyberbullying people” meme.

He decided to spend time with his Twitter mutuals instead of his own fucking son. On his BIRTHDAY. It’s not even funny, it’s pitiful.

I just don’t understand how he can be the man he is without a shred of shame. How is he not embarrassed? Does anything embarrass him? Does he have any dignity at all?

[fawnsbloodd]

someone argue with me im bored

[wheredidthepeepeego-mp3]

2024 prediction bingo

[tiredshadowscale]

it's really fun when i follow i blog i thought was cool then they reblog shit defending rowling. like, specifically her whole rant about "people who menstruate." i've gone back, read her old tweets, and the article that caused her brain to rot. she complains that the article using "people who menstruate" erases women. the article wasn't *just* talking about women though, it was talking about- and i need to to stay with me on this- people who go through the biological process of menstruating and who need the tampons that we were going through a shortage of at the time. then because she's ignorant and hateful, she started blaming transwomen buying tampons. she wasn't critizing the "downgrading of language" (which is the dumbest fucking statement i have ever read), she was frothing at the month because an article dared to use inclusive language that terfs find yucky because they don't understand gender.

anyway, if you're a terf, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of reality and should take some time off the internet to think about why you must be a hateful bastard to people who just want to live life. if a beard on a woman makes you have an anxiety attack, you need therapy

[iguesswhatimtryingtosayis]

I have decided to be a reverse terf. no longer do we live in days of wanting women to all have rights, but not trans women; rather all women are equal, and they all need to be in the kitchen where they belong

[halcyonn-the-ratking]

why do terfs always have such victim complexes. “those evil trans people are attacking me and i didn’t even do anything!!!!” my brother in christ you are quite literally opressing trans people! shut the fuck up!!!!

[tiredshadowscale]

it's like when Jowling Kowling got so angry at the phrase "people who menstruate" she implied women aren't people, or should be separated from all the other people who menstruate. te/rfs' brains have rotted so much that if they see something they believe could only ever be about women, they go ballistic and call you a woman hating misogynist.

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

[markuthoaks]

Terfs are not real feminists because when you dissect most of their arguments they always boil down to "Women are inherently inferior to men"

[jumpin-jahoosaphats]

Heyo! Was just scrolling through a terf blog out of spite and just wanted to say

-lesbian women can love trans women

-gay men can love trans men

-straight people can love trans people

-trans women are women

-trans men are men

-trans women are beautiful

-trans men are beautiful

-idnetifying as a "woman" or "man" has very little to do with anatomy outside of a hospital setting (idk if I phrased that one right. I'm sorry if I didn't)

-a strap can be as good as a dick (I should know, I've tried both 😏)

-love yourself

-love the body you are

-love who you want

-dont let anyone put a label on you, you're bigger than them, and they aren't as permanent as the small minded want them to be

-be queer, do crimes

I mean these things in the most inclusive ways and with the best intentions I know, so if any of the above upsets you, for any reasons, let me know and I can adjust/take down the post.

I love you 💜

[wheredidthepeepeego-mp3]

i understand why it happens but i hate it when trans people or cis allies will see any sort of feminism to be "t*erfy." like t*erfs absolutely co-opt feminism however i do believe feminism is very compatible with transness. so it's very sad to me that you can't say "vaginas are not gross and in fact dope as hell" without terfs flocking to it and making it an automatic dangerous space for trans people