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i see trans women attacking femboys and I just want to roll my eyes. I get why you do it, but femboys are among one of your most reliable pool of potential allies as they share a similar position to that of trans women not only in society, but especially when it comes to cisfeminism, which is their enemy for the same reason it is that of trans women. I understand that under a cisfeminist regime associating trans women with femboys is a risky move, as it could make the former even more vulnerable to cisfem violence against them, but this lack of a united front between the two groups against their common enemy also empowers it

i see this hostility from trans women towards femboys as a symptom of how powerless trans women are within the pop lib-leftist coalition, especially especially within cisgender feminism. they are so powerless that they have to attack one of the most trushworthy base of potential allies in order to prevent their self-unaware terf sponsors - cisfeminists - from abusing them even further for possible betrayal. the situation is so bleak

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The co-opting of the trans movement by cisfeminism is why so many gender theories and politics developed by trans women for other trans women remain flawed in a terf way, riddled with the same blind spots that cisgender feminists take for granted. If they challenge these cisfeminist dogmas too directly, trans women and their allies find themselves marginalised, or even outright casted out from the mainstream liberal-left coalition through accusations of anti-feminism or the like, really showing how potent cisgender feminism as a power structure is. So for them parroting these garbage cisfem assumptions about how the gender system works is a strategy for political survival. they don't have much freedom of intellectual movement otherwise

(this is also true for gay/queer movements in a more general sense)

Either they join this terfy liberal left-wing alliance in the hope of improving the situation somewhat, or they find themselves with virtually no other platforms for pursuing long term, radical anti-transmisogyny activism bc the political right, besides being a racist procapitalist hell - conditions that already prevent tackling transmisogyny at its root - is also insanely transmisogynistic not just in traditional patriarchal ways, but EVEN in cisfeminist ways. Cisfeminism has become so embedded in society that even the bloody right has implicitly incorporated its brand of transmisogynist assumptions into its worldview or at least used them to highten its preexistent transmisogyny, although terfism there is less virulent, not for any good reason, but just because it's overall less feminists than the left

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so many trans women still have to pretend for the sake of their mental health and as a matter of strategy that nonbinary TERFism is not a legit ideology living within queer spaces

they are in denial of this just like they are in denial over the fact that feminism is already terfy even when it's “trans-inclusive”

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theyfabs are the left wing of terfism

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i just write about cis female violence against trans women, and ofc another idiot flies under my posts to do the distressed mosquito by crying out about the patriarchal kicks, punches suplexes and armbars cis women go through in order to derail the discussion and and put the victim crown back on cis women's heads

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Feminism is terfy because it still carries on its back its christian legacy (it started as a christian movement) with all the metaphysics that goes with it, even when expressed in secular terms; so if one wishes to account how feminism de-TERFified itself over the ages, this must go hand in hand with taking into account its (pretty mediocre) de-Christianisation

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can we cut down the theater with ''you can't be a feminist while being right wing"

Feminism was also funded and led by typically christian women from the upper and upper-middle classes who held conservative political views, EVEN by the standards of their time(Angela Burdett-Coutts, Lady Constance Lytton, Margaret Olivia Sage, etc.); but even if we were to consider the more ''progressive'' figures of feminism of the 19-20th century period and judge their views on race, sexuality, gender, immigration and religion through our contemporary liberal or left-wing lens, we would unhesitatingly classify them as far-right and patriarchal. So, if we still regard these early feminists as feminists despite the fact that they held such views, then right-wing feminism is a thing

Being a feminist and wanting a benevolent-patriarchal white ethnostate are not two incompatible things. And yes, feminism can be (and IS) patriarchal. Most feminists (historically and today) simply want to reform it, not destroy it completely down to its roots.

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Less ''how feminists became TERFs'' and more ''how feminism got de-TERFified'' because historically feminism was already a TERF movement, and it still is in its worldview

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transmisogyny, like "classical misogyny" is absolutely central to patriarchy, because without it cis men would not be cis men (and cis women would not be cis women)

cisfeminist theories tend not to adequately account for how (cis) males are produced and maintained which why they end up reinforcing garbage assumptions about transfemininity

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The existence of theyfab terfs isn't at all suprising if you understand that terfism is either a cis female or an afab supremacist movement. The afab non-binary terf just cloaks it in queer ngo/academic jargon and are often too self-unaware to realise that they themselves are TERFs. They sincerely believe that they are on the same boat as trans people, fighting against transphobes and TERFs, whereas in reality, they do not even have a solid understanding of TERFism; their involvement in the trans-terf wars serves to obscure what terfism actually is, which works to their advantage as it allows them to propagate it

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The recent resurgence of cisfeminist homophobia towards (cis) gay men must be seen as a crypto-TERF ringing of trans women. They Isolate the latter from another population close to transfemininity - their allies - before tearing them apart

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masculine cis women have been male socialized to some degree, which is why they are masculine. see how easy it is? anyone can be socialized into whatever gender to some extent without being perceived as belonging to that gender because socialization is also a mental process, not just the way you are treated by external actors

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We hear cis feminists talk far more often about the misogyny of gay men than about female homophobia, even though the latter is much worse because cis women have power over gay men thanks to their numbers and social status. They discuss it in a way that often ends up leading to, or has homophobic and transmisogynistic implicatios too. As always, they erase cis female oppressors and abusers, always focusing on beating down groups below them, especially when those groups are men or amab ppl who don't want to engage in cis/heterosexual theatrics. they are so insecure

[hananfamily]

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It's not emphasised enough how entitled TERFs are toward trans women's bodies. They use the idea that trans women are ''male'' to rhetorically disposses them of their own bodies and assert control over them, it's something that goes like " blahblah the fact that you are a male makes you illegitimate to have female characteristics, but since you have traits that resemble mine, i'm fully entitled to decide what you can and cannot do with those traits. like, you cannot post sexualised photos while looking like a female because otherwise you are participating in the sexualisation of women'' basically

They treat trans women as their propriety, and it's how they end up accusing them of engaging in violence against cis women through their own transfem bodies! While at same time saying that these traits aren't female, just medical abuse. They claim them as theirs - imposing restrictions and obligations - while rhetorically rejecting their status as female. Unironically all their bs shows that terfs do see trans women as women to some extent

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terfs' entitlement ˎ

While denying the femaleness of trans women's physical characteristics resulting from transition, TERFs continue to treat those characterists as their own property because they are female-like. This means that they impose restrictions and obligations on trans women just because they posses pieces of what TERFs consider to be their propriety. They view femininity and femaleness as resources that they have ownership over and one of the conditions for access includes "not being born with a dick." This is why TERFs sometimes claim that trans women degrade or violate cis women simply because they make porn while looking like women, even when their transgender status is clearly indicated! Literally terf-owned bodies

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They truly consider themselves to be the sole rightful owners of "femininity/femaleness". They don't just have their own individual characteristics, they believe they own femaleness as a general model. And why do they gatekeep what they clearly see as a resource, if not for heterosexual competition? All this territorial behavior is implicitly based on the belief that cis women are the only valid objects of cis men's desire for sex, intimacy, couple, marriage, family, and all kinds of positive treatment and considerations associated with being a woman (cisgender). They believe that cis male's emotional resources should not be "diverted" from cis women the owners, by directing them to invalid recipients such as trans women, but also trans men and cisgender men. They believe that all these other groups, especially if they are AMAB, do not ''deserve'' these things

....This is also why so many cis women are insecure about cis male gayness or bisexuality. they feel that their monopoly over cismale's sexual and romantic attention is threatened, which translates into homophobia

I honestly believe that this partly explains why we are seeing a resurgence of homophobia towards cis gay men among some cis feminists

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Just as feminism has largely proven itself incapable of properly defending trans women/trans people against TERFism (because most feminists have latent TERF beliefs), it will be incapable of defending people of colour, especially the men, against the rise of the white nationalist feminist movement

It rests upon assumptions about the world (particularly sexual violence) that create ideological bridges to transphobia and racism. I am genuinely surprised that there are not more feminists who openly identify as white nationalist feminists