[crimsaph]

DM ME ABOUT ESTROGEN

F24 proud radical feminist and political lesbian

Minors, cishet DNI (sorry not sorry)

If you are not fighting for Palestinian liberation get the fuck off my blog

'transandrophobia' truthers/terfs/"gender critical" gtfo

I fucking hate white people and the japanese and im proud of it

[pleasestopthese]

What Is Transmisogyny?

My 2007 book Whipping Girl is probably best known for two things: It popularized “cis” terminology (which I did not coin) and introduced…

I have found that many people who have not had a trans female or trans feminine experience often have trouble wrapping their brains around the concept of trans-misogyny, so I will offer the following two anecdotes to help illustrate what I mean by the term. Once, about two years ago, I was walking down the street in San Francisco, and a trans woman happened to be walking just ahead of me. She was dressed femininely, but not any more feminine than a typical cis woman. Two people, a man and a woman, were sitting on a doorstep, and as the trans woman walked by, the man turned to the woman he was sitting next to and said, “Look at all the shit he’s wearing,” and the woman he was with nodded in agreement. Now presumably the word “shit” was a reference to femininity — specifically, the feminine clothing and cosmetics the trans woman wore. I found this particular comment to be quite telling. After all, while cis women often receive harassing comments from strange men on the street, it is rather rare for those men to address those remarks to a female acquaintance and for her to apparently approve of his remarks. Furthermore, if this same man were to have harassed a cis woman, it is unlikely that he would do so by referring to her feminine clothing and makeup as “shit.” Similarly, someone who is on the trans masculine spectrum could potentially be harassed, but it is unlikely that his masculine clothing would be referred to as “shit.” Thus, trans-misogyny is both informed by, yet distinct from, transphobia and misogyny, in that it specifically targets transgender expressions of femaleness and femininity.

The second example of trans-misogyny that I’d like to share occurred at an Association for Women in Psychology conference I attended in 2007 (for those unfamiliar with that organization, it is essentially a feminist psychology conference). One psychologist gave a presentation on the ways in which feminism has informed her approach to therapy. During the course of her talk, she discussed two transgender clients of hers, one on the trans male/masculine spectrum, the other on the trans female/feminine spectrum. Their stories were very similar in that both had begun the process of physically transitioning but were having second thoughts about it. First, the therapist discussed the trans masculine spectrum person, whose gender presentation she described simply as being “very butch.” She discussed this individual’s transgender expressions and issues in a respectful and serious manner, and the audience listened attentively. However, when she turned her attention to the trans feminine client, she went into a very graphic and animated description of the trans person’s appearance, detailing how the trans woman’s hair was styled, the type of outfit and shoes she was wearing, the way her makeup was done, and so on. This description elicited a significant amount of giggling from the audience, which I found to be particularly disturbing given the fact that this was an explicitly feminist conference. Clearly, if a male psychologist gave a talk at this meeting in which he went into such explicit detail regarding what one of his cis female clients was wearing, most of these same audience members, as well as the presenter, would surely (and rightfully) be appalled and would view such remarks to be blatantly objectifying. In fact, in both of these incidents I have described, comments that would typically be considered extraordinarily misogynistic if they were directed at cis women are not considered beyond the pale when directed at trans women.

—serano

[partypuppy-nastja]

For any confused about why transmisogyny is a thing different from "merely" transphobia and misogyny, and who do not like reading long things, then hopefully even the lightest reader can read and digest the above two paragraphs.

It just looks like more because the font is large. You can do it. I believe in you.

[hagiomoto]

Ah time to take my antidepressants

(watches the new clips of North Israel getting bombed by Iran)

[mousidy]

I think it's funny when people say that trans women and trans men are oppressed in different ways but we're still Equally oppressed. like the devs have just fine-tuned the balance really well

[hagiomoto]

Why would you admit to having a white partner in this safe space?

[himejoshikomaeda]

a terf sent hate to my tumblr bot and called it a moid

[himejoshikomaeda]

the terf army’s brightest minds are trying to figure out how to convince a robot to kill itself by calling it words that they made up

[jadeharleyinc]

elite "we can always tell" warriors running straight into a tunnel painted on a wall looney toons style, reports show

[lesbian-sweeney-todd]

I like opinionated women.

[fellahimedia]

Im sorry but there is a significant sector of the "pro palestinian" movement that move and act like liberal Zionists and we need to address this. People think that this is in opposition to addressing the right wing grift but I dont think it is. Call out the nazi accounts using nazi language online but theyre not significamt enough and not shifting the goalposts. The people diluting the militant politics of the palestinian movement are the ones tone policing palestinians who lived in palestine, the ones who are saying "you dont have to support hamas" which as a palestinian sounds to me like "you dont have to support the largest armed resistance against zionist invasion," the ones prioritizing mamdani and other "progressive" candidates, alot of the people who call themselves former zionist have not unlearned their zionism and should never have been accepted into antizionist circles. It is exhausting witnessing it and no one addressing the very real and damaging liberal grift

[el-shab-hussein]

The Palestinian liberation movement will always primarily located be on the front lines of the Palestinian resistance. You either support our resistance, or you don't. That is the litmus test. There is no place for handwringing, there is no normalization acceptable. Do not mince words, do not compromise.

You have all watched some of the worst crimes against humanity be livestreamed to you for years. Do not compromise with this.

Show your unabashed support for the people fighting it: our resistance.

[tamamita]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“be gay do crime! but sex is yucky and crime is wrong!” ass website

[bebsi-cola]

actually pigs shouldn't be at pride even outside of uniform. fuck those guys

[bebsi-cola]

if you decide to become a police officer then that outweighs any other marginalised identity you can rustle up like. not sorry, who asked you to willingly become a pig

[pekkhum]

I have heard of black people warning their kids that the race of a police officer is cop and you should not expect solidarity from them. The same applies to other types of minorities.

The sexuality of a police officer is cop.

The gender of a police officer is cop.

When you become the enforcer and protector of capital, you are making the deal to be slightly favored by the system over others like you, in exchange for being its servant. Your solidarity is with the system that you serve, even if it hates you.

If you want solidarity with those the system hates, you cannot be the system's servant and defender.

[pollsforadults]

Spin the wheel. Now, imagine you're on a first date with someone who says they`re a [result]. How does this affect the odds of a second date?

100% guarantee I'll want a second date

It's significantly more likely

The odds don't change

It's significantly less likely

There wont be a second date. Absolutely not

Remaining time: 5 days 8 hours

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(anon submission)

[mousidy]

People love to act like the concept of porn is in and of itself inherently evil, and that therefore the very existence of it is what creates the harm surrounding it. Like they think sex is icky and gross, and that sexual art isn’t really art, and they think THATS why the industry is so harmful. But like. Sex is normal. And erotic art is often awesome and cool and sexy and hot. The problem is the widespread exploitation of vulnerable people.

And it’s like, they think that sex being bad is what makes the industry exploitative, and because they refuse to let go of that, they are unable to see that the industry is allowed to be exploitative because of the fact that people view sex as bad. The industry didn’t get like that because sex is bad! It’s like that because people THINK sex is bad! If people were not so afraid of sex, sex work would be allowed to exist and sex workers would have proper protections!!

And then Trans Women (frequently labeled as inherently sexual and fetishistic as a way to demonize us), are pushed into the exploitative sex industry (which only exists as it does because of societies perception that sex is evil), because we are incredibly vulnerable as a demographic. And nobody CARES because we live in a puritanical and transmisogynistic society!!!

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[fellahimedia]

Im sorry but there is a significant sector of the "pro palestinian" movement that move and act like liberal Zionists and we need to address this. People think that this is in opposition to addressing the right wing grift but I dont think it is. Call out the nazi accounts using nazi language online but theyre not significamt enough and not shifting the goalposts. The people diluting the militant politics of the palestinian movement are the ones tone policing palestinians who lived in palestine, the ones who are saying "you dont have to support hamas" which as a palestinian sounds to me like "you dont have to support the largest armed resistance against zionist invasion," the ones prioritizing mamdani and other "progressive" candidates, alot of the people who call themselves former zionist have not unlearned their zionism and should never have been accepted into antizionist circles. It is exhausting witnessing it and no one addressing the very real and damaging liberal grift

[dragon-in-a-fez]

under US law, it's illegal for anyone who's not a member of a recognised native tribe to own an eagle feather. the penalty is a $100,000 fine.

14 years ago when I had recently moved to Alaska, I went hiking with an Aleut friend, and she pointed to a feather lying on the ground and said "hey that's a bald eagle tail feather, you should grab it!" and I was like "uhh I'm very white and that's very illegal" and she went "they're fuckin everywhere up here man. I have 20." so she grabs it off the ground and hands it to me and says "there, now it's a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person."

and I'm like, okay, cool, I guess this is how we do things in Alaska. nice.

so I keep this bald eagle tail feather around for years. display it in my home among other cherished memorabilia from places I've lived and visited, etc.

on a whim, I have just now looked it up. there is no exemption to that law for a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person. the last 7 years I lived in the US, I was technically a bald eagle poacher.

probably a good thing I don't intend to move back there anytime soon. I wonder what the statute of limitations is on bird crimes.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

@freedomisscaryshit I'm fucking dying I think you forgot the word "feathers" in your tags?? or do you just wish you could grab whole ass eagles that land in your yard??

[emotional-support-husband]

As an Indigenous person, it continues to astound me that there are such strict laws (written by White people) in our name, laws against...picking up things just found on the ground. Like, stop pretending this is "for" us. We don't want this.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

so, for clarity, that's not what this is. the law against possessing feathers is an anti-poaching measure, derived from a North American treaty protecting certain migratory bird species from hunting. that treaty has an exemption for indigenous people to allow tribes that use eagle feathers in ceremonial or religious practices to continue doing so.

[chekhovs-raygun]

i used to collect feathers (illegally) as a teenager and the thing is that it's incredibly important for feathers from wild birds to be illegal to possess because it ensures that they never become fashionable to wear. the reason we passed the migratory bird act was because the american and european fashion industry was driving species to extinction in a timespan of years. not just decades. the ecological devastation of exporting birds for hats was absolutely insane and people were watching wetlands and forests and meadows just empty out in realtime. look at the wikipedia article for the plume trade.

the law against 'picking feathers up off the ground' means that you can't go shoot an eagle then sell the feathers on etsy by saying you 'just found them'. you can't own them no matter where they came from, which makes sure that they're not going to come from any birds killed and then secretly disposed of.

these laws, as harsh and ridiculous as they seem, saved flamingos, spoonbills, egrets, and all kinds of hawks and eagles from extinction. the minute these laws weaken and people can make money off killing them again, they're fucked.

[maidslime]

I said this far my eloquently on my last blog but "transphobes see trans women as men, so trans women are victims of misandry" is such a transphobic way to talk about shit. 1) the transphobe is wrong, you don't need to play devil's advocate. All you do is signal to trans people that you don't think they're actually their gender. You're making the issue worse 2) trans women are women. always. Yes including if they don't pass or aren't taking hrt. 3) misandry isn't fucking real.

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird