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[thefutureisdyke-deactivated2018]

when we say trans women are male and trans men are female, we are not saying they deserve to be discriminated against or that their dysphoria doesn’t matter. we are saying biology exists and matters in certain contexts.

when we say we won’t date trans women because we’re lesbians, we are not saying trans women don’t deserve to have happy, fulfilling relationships. we are saying that we are not romantically or sexually attracted to them and so that neither of us would have a happy, fulfilling relationship if we dated.

when we say we are gender critical, we are not saying everyone should be gender-conforming. we are saying the opposite, that men and women should be free to dress and act however they like instead of being forced into certain gender roles based on their sex.

when we say female-only safe spaces are important, we are not saying trans-only or mixed safe spaces aren’t also important. we are saying that based on our biology, women have certain shared experiences and face specific oppression that we deserve to be able to discuss among ourselves.

when we say one thing and you hear another, that isn’t our fault. when you’re ready to listen to what we actually believe or to have a genuine discussion, we’ll still be here.

[the-land-of-women]

I hate that the actually very good notion that we should show trans people the basic respect everyone deserves and not let them be discriminated against has just completely snowballed into pretending that men can be women and that straight people can be gay

[aman1taverna]

Trans people deserve the same healthcare as everyone else and the autonomy to choose cosmetic surgery/hrt on top of that with informed consent if they are in a position to be able to receive informed consent. Trans people deserve to be treated humanely in day to day life and not be constantly asked invasive questions by strangers. Trans people deserve to be able to play sports, albeit not on teams specifically designed for the sex they do not belong to. They are people. And none of that changes the fact that you cannot change your sex which is the basis of people's sexuality. I wish more people understood that all of the above beliefs can and do and should coexist.

[bittermarching]

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[thecoloredcanvas]

I support the same rights for trans people as I expect to be protected for white people in black face.

These people don't deserve to lose their housing or access to food, things like that, but, tbh, it's understandable if their employers fire them based on their misogynistic behavior, just like it's reasonable for someone to fire an employee who won't stop showing up to work in blackface.

The same goes for sports; like, you're free to audition for such and such Olympic team wearing a t-shirt advocating ableism, but the coach has the right to pass on giving you a spot.

Trans people, transwomen and male enbies in particular, think they have some inalienable right to be as misogynistic and sexually inappropriate as they like.

Remember that guy who was a woodshop teacher or whatever and wore a huge prosthetic chest piece? That's the sort who should be fired, no question. Creating a misogynistic and sexually predatory environment for the other people firced to be around you, especially children, is unacceptable, the end.

And, yea, no one has the right to be medically experimented on.

None of these procedures and "treatments" actually help someone change their biological sex, cos that's literally impossible. All that shit should be banned and people can grow the fuck up and deal with it. Like, you can't turn yourself into a bat, either, and any doctor trying to help you do that needs to have their medical license removed.

There's no compromise to be made with this ideology. It's not a little silly-dilly tin-hat bit of fanciful nonsense like the idea that the world is flat. It's like eugenics; built entirely off of the philosophy of oppression and used to cause systemic harm.

No one, trans ideologues very much included, has the right to preach intolerance and incite harm without consequence.

[capricorn-season]

[benyw]

Remember ladies; these males will fetishise every aspect of our lives, every inch of our bodies, and every ounce of pain we experience. Our humanity means jack shit to them.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

If it's not just the cyclical bleeding that makes the period, but the secondary symptoms as well, then everyone, men and women, are on their period in some form most of their lives, before and after female menstrual age. Suddenly feeling very emotional? You're on your period. Craving for iron-rich food? Period. Took a massive shit? Period. Breast tenderness? Period. Yes! Even if it's because you're pregnant. Breast tenderness is a period symptom; therefore if your breasts are tender you are on your period! Food poisoning, indigestion, hormone poisoning, alcoholism, medication, etc. doesn't matter. If you have a period symptom at any time for any reason, you are on your period!

[amilta]

[capricorn-season]

[scumbhag]

KAM

[emma-radfemcanu]

Men will write things like this and then insist that misogyny isn't real and that women are privileged

[fahbee]

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Bonus:

[gnomebutch]

feeling suicidal because you aren’t being dehumanized and objectified like the hentai girls you jerkoff to yeah go ahead and kys idccccc.

[womynsreality]

What’s so fucked is that most of this is objectification, but also the things he says he wants are what the average het relationship involves.

Like most women literally are centering making HIM feel loved, and it’s usually the most average man around. Women are not out here only choosing “ripped” and “rich” men. They pick average dudes.

And, unfortunately, they do lick their chests and squeeze their butts 🫩

Also.

He talks about finding women’s bodies attractive but literally only describes animated hentai porn. As if that’s an accurate representation of women…

[datasoong47]

[linguisticparadox]

[sybilspretexts]

while you were studying the blade i studied

[sybilspretexts]

oh are you fucking kidding me. a book about how understudied female biology is and you decided to devote an entire chapter of the flawed male ideal of female biology that already reigns supreme in the sciences?

[sybilspretexts]

how do you write a book that is explicitly about female biology then keep interjecting with inane disclaimers like this. more importantly how do other people read this and take it seriously

how are you going to get any clarity on female anatomy if you insist that the way ahead is actually defining it out of existence

[pusheen-the-radical]

so many books about female anatomy and female specific health experiences have done this in recent years, that honestly i think this is to get the book past sensitivity readers and get it published, i bet half of them at least don’t actually believe this shit.

[thesquidwizard]

I had a book about menstruation the science and history and it had a whole page and a half dedicated to this - i wanna talk about the language im using in this book going forward not all women menstrate not everyone who menstrates is a women blah blah blah blah worship transwomen blah blah but for this book ill be predominately using women and female because much of the book is about people we would have thought to be be “women” we should all use people instead where ever possible blahhh blahh blahh-

it was so frustrating because like how am i supposed to take you seriously as an authority on this topic when your so desperate to appease a group that youll ignore what your own studies are teaching you in order to play nice.

[meanevilwitch-deactivated202601]

“i would rather you call me a slur instead of a man”

translation:

“i would feel less angry and dysphoric if you fueled my victim complex instead of contextualizing my misogyny. i don’t want to be held accountable as a man & i would prefer it if you bullied me, so i could comfortably frame you as the persecutor and me as the persecuted.”

Yeah basically.

I've noticed that "just call me a slur" is a phrase I see thrown around a lot amongst the tq+ and I wonder if they realize that it's not generally standard practice for marginalized people to beg their oppressors to call them slurs.

It's almost as if...

[nicenormalwitch]

the post modernist project of destroying language is so devastatingly evil tbh

[nicenormalwitch]

post modernists think that by erasing the meanings of certain words we erase discrimination against certain marginalized groups. If no one knows what sex is they cannot be sexist against you, if no one knows what sexual orientation is they cannot be homophobic towards you, if no one knows what mental illnesses or neurodevelopmental disorders are they cannot ostracize you, ect

I can see why people might believe this on paper, but we can see how it's going in practice and it's horrible.

Men are calling themselves women while proudly discriminating against the female sex. Heterosexuals are calling themselves gay while calling homosexuals bigots for being exclusively same sex attracted. People who have never been diagnosed as autistic are calling themselves autistic and confidently declaring that being autistic is no excuse for struggling with the symptoms of autism.

The project didn't work. You cannot use linguistic tricks to erase discrimination. All you do is erase the marginalized and facilitate abuse against us under the banner of inclusivity and progress.

[river-grunfeld]

Specifically the idea that the truth cannot be fully known, and all access to knowledge or knowing depends on your position in society is ridiculous. If someone, even someone who is oppressed believes something wrong, it doesn't mean it's any more or less correct than when anyone else says it.

[nicenormalwitch]

As soon as you realize you can find someone in any demographic who believes any possible opinion, you realize that you can't use someone's position in a marginalized group as the be all end all metric of whether or not what they're saying is correct.

Just because there a women who say men masturbating to filmed rape isn't misogyny doesn't make it true.

Just because there are black people who say it's fine for anyone to use the n-word doesn't make it okay.

Just because there are Hispanic and Latino immigrants who voted for Donald Trump doesn't mean that Trump is an ally or friend to immigrants.

While it might be difficult at times to draw the line between objective and subjective, what is and is not true doesn't change based who is saying it. That is an absurd concept on it's face, but it's an opinion earnestly believed in by many.

[majchic]

[creatingblackcharacters]

"How often have you heard the argument that we have to slowly implement gender and racial equality in order to not "shock" society? Who is the "society" that people are talking about? I can guarantee that women would be able to handle equal pay or a harassment-free work environment right now, with no ramp-up. I'm certain that people of color would be able to deal with equal political representation and economic opportunity if they were made available today.

So for whose benefit do we need to go slowly? How can white men be our born leaders and at the same time so fragile that they cannot handle social progress?"

Introduction- Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

[radiant-spirit-guardians]

Growing up reading The Hunger Games definitely influenced how I view body hair. Looking back now, I appreciate how Suzanne Collins wrote Katniss going through all those unnecessary beauty treatments not as a makeover sequence, but as yet another way the Capitol tried to strip the tributes of their humanity and shape them into something else. Smooth. Wax-like.

Katniss describes the process as leaving her raw, vulnerable, a plucked bird ready for roasting. It's an interesting visual, what with her mockingjay wedding dress, her role as the girl on fire and a symbol for the rebellion, and of course the outcome of the war. But that's neither here nor there of course.

This passage used to make me genuinely sad as a 13 year old. Again she describes herself as plucked, raw. What's a bird without its wings?

People have taken to calling Katniss a "I'm not like other girls" main character. She repeatedly talks about how freakish the Capitol residents look, how Snow's puffy lips are unsettling, how she dreads being left to her prep team's whims and having yet another aspect of her agency taken away from her. It goes to show how reading comprehension is in the gutter these days. Collins' intent with writing the Capitol as she did couldn't have been more obvious. This is a YA series, of course the social critique is on the nose. Katniss was a traumatized child even before the games, starved and poor, responsible for the survival of her family. Of course these foolish beauty routines seem outlandish to her as an outsider, and that's because they are, people have just grown accustomed to them.

The first time I felt the need to shave my legs was the night of my high school graduation party and by the time I was done with one leg I knew it wasn't worth it. It felt wrong and it still does.

I hope young girls today have stories that depict body hair as a normal, human thing to have. I hope they know this expensive quest to remove all human aspects and render one's body as that of a wax doll isn't worth it.

Katniss Everdeen, they could never make me hate you ❤️

[lynxling]

Anyone who thinks a rapist (any rapist) can be rehabilitated is an idiot.

No, I don't care if this is a "slippery slope" and doesn't fit in with your rehabilitative justice fantasies. A rapist should not be allowed to "reintegrate" into society because he went to bed in time and was polite to guards in jail.

[butch-reidentified]

and a concerning # of men willingly outright admit to having committed sexual assault just by being asked, apparently...

[selkie-on-land]

This 👆👆👆

Men love to rape but they hate being called rapists so they categorised rape as only one possible scenario and all of the other way to rape aren't really ''rape''. So they can protect themselves while still raping girls and women.

[capricorn-season]