FeministNotSjw

my radfem side blog.

[gnomebutch]

men can’t imagine a utopia where there’s not a subset of women they can sexually exploit

[lixomania]

[meawsupport]

this is so late renaissance early mannerism. the controversial male nudity? the lighting and value on the figure of emphasis?? him bathed in light and placed ABOVE while the police are clad in dark and BELOW?? Uh HES HITTING THE CONTRAPPOSTO??

[emmarose17]

On one hand: this imagery touches on themes of freedom vs oppression and how in shedding the various layers of shame placed upon us by the regime we can transcend to a higher place above the forces that seek to hold us to unjust societal standards.

On the other hand: cheeks out at the Krispy Kreme.

[g1rluninterruptedd]

christianity is not for women. you cannot believe in the bible and be a feminist.

i’m reading the Bible and other mythology because i’m interested in it and the face that this is taken seriously is absurd and sad. but it’s even more sad to see women happily praising a religion that defends our subjugation. take the story of adam and eve and that clearly showcases what men think of women and the patriarchal attitudes in the world. adam is made first by a male god. adam is made from the dust of the earth and male god breathes life into adam, a direct creation of god, a direct creation in his image. then god creates eve… from adam’s rib. an extension of adam rather than her own whole being. now, in some other world, maybe that could be poetic how god takes a piece of him to create her, how they are equal. but this is the real world and it’s obvious that this “equality” the sexes doesn’t hold up in the bible or the patriarchal society this dynamic mimics.

if they were truly equal, how come god didn’t make her in his image as well. he could’ve made her from the dust the same way he made adam. adam is allowed to be his own complete self, eve is made from him for him.

i also interpret this as subtly showing how women are somehow perceived to be farther removed from god compared to men. while everyone is allegedly “born into sin” women’s salvation is harder. she is reduced to being lesser than a man but also somehow has a greater capacity for evil (considering eve is claimed to have eaten the apple and therefore is to blame for the damnation if not only women but ALL of humankind). throughout the bible, women are demonized, called sorceresses and forced to be put to death, they are raped and abused and ignored. it reminds me of in Woman Hating when Dworkin talks about the witches and how christianity demonizes female spiritual practices and portrays that women are “by nature instruments of satan”

some christian women tend to argue that just because women are included in the bible and somewhat respected at times, that suddenly dismisses the overarching fact that women throughout the bible and history are not treated as human beings equal to men.

[gnomebutch]

99% of males seemingly think it’s okay to sexualize their female political opponents as a form of activism regardless of their other views

[this-is-trans-joy]

Reminder to newly out trans women/fems or anyone else on E, don’t let anyone gaslight you about your period symptoms. don’t let anyone with a child’s level understanding of how periods work make you feel like you’re stupid or delusional for experiencing period symptoms, especially if you think there might be something wrong.

things like endometriosis can develop in an estrogen-dominated system, because its the hormones that cause the growth of endometrial lesions, not the “parts” themselves. If you’re experiencing unusually painful symptoms* then you have a right to find a doctor who will take you seriously and not try to gaslight you into thinking that the pain is “normal”.

*period pain is not supposed to affect your daily life. It’s supposed to feel more like an inconvenience rather than a medical emergency. If you are struggling to go about your life, if you can’t move due to the pain, if you’re bed-ridden for the majority of your period, then that is not normal and you need to find a doctor who is going to take your pain seriously. This obviously goes for anyone who experiences periods because unfortunately it’s not common knowledge that experiencing agonising levels of pain is NOT NORMAL!!!

[jayavarmanvii]

People who have "child's level understanding of periods": women who have periods

@gendiebrainrotreceipts

[finnishrogue]

The fact that you are taking estrogen as a male whose endocrine system 1) doesn't need estrogen in such quantities and 2) doesn't know how to deal with it very well is risky in and of itself. These risks can manifest in all sorts of health symptoms that have nothing to do with either periods or endometriosis, but they STILL need treatment. So if you're experiencing ANY pain that you haven't experienced prior to transitioning, ANY pain AT ALL, you will have to book an appointment with a doctor.

There is a chance that this leads to you being told to stop taking estrogen, but that isn't a reason to not go. You could end up dead otherwise, and no, not because of fucking endometriosis.

Endometriosis doesn't happen in male bodies just because they are taking estrogen. It can happen if they have certain leftover dormant embryological cells from the time they were still developing in their mother's wombs, and THEN these cells get stimulated by estrogen years later. That has been recorded to have happened 16 times in the whole fucking planet in the whole fucking human history, usually to males with prostate cancer. So whatever you fucking do, don't jump to that conclusion first. You'd have a child's level understanding of the matter if you did.

But then again, thinking that any of this could have anything to do with periods in ANY CASE means you have a child's level of understanding of biology in general. Periods by fucking definition require organs that you don't have, and if you did have them, you would not have had to transition to begin with.

[kkoffin]

I honestly think that if you're trying to assist in social change for a marginalised group, you should never have to sacrifice feminism. at all. every step of the way, every decision, women should never be put on the back burner.

people act like that's really hard but its really not considering all you have to do is have female default when asking "what can we do to help these people" rather than male default. at least 50% of whatever group you're talking about is probably women. further: helping women will help the children too.

you are not being anti-racist if you ignore racism against and the struggles of POC women. you are not fighting ablism if you don't consider how disabilities effect women specifically. you are ignoring at least 50% of the group you claim to advocate for - that means you are not advocating for that marginalised group, you are just advocating for men.

[evenlesssentimentaltranslator]

This includes leftism in general.

You are not defending the proletariat if you want to pimp out impoverished women and girls because they are the proletariat as much as you are.

You are not defending the proletariat if you want to rent the wombs of impoverished women because they are the proletariat as much as you are.

You are not defending the proletariat if you want to remove consequences for violence against women and girls because those victims are the proletariat as much as you are.

You are not defending the proletariat if the only thing you say about abortion is “well those spoiled wealthy white women can still get them” because pregnant proletarian women and girls are the proletariat as much as you are.

And you are not defending the proletariat if you think female comrades who get raped by a male member or leader of La Resistance should stay quiet about it so as not to jeopardise The Movement because those victims are the proletariat as much as you are.

So, so, so often what we’re asking men to sacrifice is simply their habit of committing violence against women. If that is hard for a man, what is he doing outside of a prison?

[lostandfem]

getting into transness isnt like “huh i saw trans people happy, maybe ill be happy if i do what they do”. thats such a gross oversimplification.

youre introduced to the trans narrative first. youre supportive, you listen. slowly you start to relate more and more, and that feels weird. it touches on childhood experiences (which for TIFs ive found are all just traumas from growing up female so far) or feelings of alienation from members of your sex (which can be related to being gnc or mental illnesses). you question, you try on a few pronouns or labels.

you start to think maybe this is the reason youve been unhappy all along. the more you ponder, the more sure you are because its p hard to mentally dispute. after all, all it takes is a “feeling”, so its pretty easy to mistake any strong desire to do it as the “feeling”. you start to make other changes that excite you. after all this time being feeling trapped in your life for one reason or another, you finally get to decide what you are and what you look like. every change feels amazing.

the regret never hits right away. you never realize what youve done. stop painting it like we saw someone being happy and went “thats it! ill transition!”. we were trans, we were a part of that community, we had reasons supporting that we were legitimately trans. not some ‘cis’ person just looking to take the first quick fix they could find without the true trans experience

[servin-terf-haha]

I've still yet to meet a genuinely happy trans person who didn't, at the very least, have to remind the world they were trans every few hours... like I've seen some who realistically are just androgynous but in denial about their labels, sure, but any of the overtly, especially cultish trans folks are literally just...always miserable? Always complaining. Always angry. Always on the defensive or attacking. Never actually living their lives like they say they want to.

And don't give me that 'well, they're rights are in danger, how can they live their lives?!' Not only are there no exclusively-trans rights, let alone ones that are actually in danger but, regardless, they continue to make the choices that worsen their lives, let alone society's of them. They chose to irreversibly ruin themselves. They choose to try to force their way into spaces they don't belong AND get violently upset at the outcome. They choose to defend the indoctrination of kids and, again, get violent when people finally put their foot down.

All of these things are choices.

And, coincidentally, the more they make, the more miserable they seem... (almost like entertaining mental illness with entitlement and medicalized self-harm isn't the answer...)

[g1rluninterruptedd]

feminism will save your life.

feminism “ruins” everything because it makes you think. it stops you from blindly following anything. when i see myself in the mirror and my eyes are distracted by my acne or my crooked teeth or asymmetrical eyes, my brain starts recalling The Beauty Myth or Susan Sontag’s essays on beauty in On Women. with that, i can no longer stare at myself and see genuine imperfections meant to be fixed but rather i am allowed to confront the actual reason i see these imperfections in the first place. when i find myself or others being too quick to judge a woman and ignore the man’s wrongdoings, i think of Woman Hating and acknowledge these judgements. when i habitually refer to everyone as “guys”, i think of Invisible Women and recognize the default male in my language. when i start feeling lost and am tempted to fall back into religion, i think of the excerpts i read from When God Was A Woman and remember everything “Jesus” and “God” stole from us.

feminism gets tiring and frustrating because misogyny is everywhere. from language to behavior, misogyny just lingers in the air. and feminism forces you to acknowledge its presence instead of trying to shoo it away. and as much as it hurts sometimes, it never fails to help me grow. what i was blinded to yesterday, i see clearly now. i don’t have to let patriarchy run my life, i don’t have to lay under men’s boots and cry. i can be the change i want to be in the world and i am capable of doing the things my ancestors would’ve loved to have the freedom to do. especially being a black girl, the freedom i have now is not something i can take for granted. those women before me fought tooth and nail with everything they had for me to be here.

[dianaof-themyscira]

Wonder Woman by Tim Shinn

[thescaredfluid]

Wonder Woman says Trans Rights

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

You see a boy with a female role model and your automatic response is ‘trans rights’? How can you pretend you actually support gender non conformity when, to you, any gender non conformity=trans?

[randomstringofletterandnumber]

I can pinpoint the exact moment I turned on libfems. I can remember my facial expression and everything. Hell, I even remember which hoodie I was wearing.

A video was created on TikTok by a tra saying that women don't get killed for just being women.

So I stitched the video detailing 3 prominent femicide cases in the UK. I wasn't even necessarily angry or nasty about it. I was ruffled at most.

My comments - within minutes - were flooded with people calling me transphobic. I had deliberately and maliciously misinterpreted the initial video. How dare I speak over a trans woman?!

I deleted the video out of fear.

I went through many stages of grief as I processed the response to this video. Guilt at being perceived as transphobic. Upset that I hadn't gotten my point across the way I wanted to.

And then pissed off that I got tone policed when I brought up femicide.

So tras, if you ever find yourself wondering why people like me do not like people like you, this is why.

Women are being spoken over when they speak about sex based violence and oppression and policed to be "inclusive" when sex based violence will never affect trans women in the same way as biological women.

[sigmadawg]

"Women are being spoken over when they speak about sex based violence and oppression and policed to be "inclusive" when sex based violence will never affect trans women in the same way as biological women."

im not sure if any tra have said this, but true radfems know and accept that trans people are a genuinely hated/oppressed group. when we talk about stuff like sex-based oppression and tims who take advantage of being allowed into women's spaces/endanger children, we are not saying it's a transgender problem, it is a men problem.

you are not inherently evil or a monster for being born a man. if your desire to transition from a man into a woman comes not from a fetish*, but because you genuinely hate your male body, you are not an evil person.

* and what i mean by that is if you just want to become the opposite gender because it gets you horny, you aren't inherently a bad person, i believe. fetishes come from some weird shit, and im saying this because i have some. they can come from watching fetish content at a young age, being groomed, trauma, maybe you're born with it (maybe it's maybelline). im not here to define what causes fetishes.

it only becomes bad when you start to endanger people, ie entering sex-only places like bathrooms, changing rooms, any places where the sex you're trying to emulate is vulnerable. even if you don't have the intention of endangering, spectators and those around you don't know what your intentions are by being in there, and people often assume the worst, especially when you're a minority group. talking about specifically tims who enter women only spaces, your comfort doesn't override our safety from the possibility of being assaulted and/or raped.

[catboywarehouse]

the people who were pretending to care about black men being killed in the streets because a white woman called the police on them for existing, are the same people making posts about how men are universally more privileged than women.

[omgitsburning]

All men have male privilege under patriarchy just like all white people have white privilege under racism. Hope this helps.

[venusdeleon]

The homeless man on the street after the billionaire doesn't give him a dollar because she's an oppressed ol' lil baby and he has "male privilege"

"why does nobody like feminism" because of you idiots who can't properly class analyse.

[omgitsburning]

He does have male privilege over her. She has class privilege over him though. That’s what we call “intersectionality.”

[venusdeleon]

"billionaires are actually oppressed too"

No?

[skyjellyfem]

That’s not what she’s saying. People who are predominantly privileged can also be oppressed on other axes; A black billionaire will still be vulnerable to racism by a white person with significantly less money, and the same applies to misogyny.

Yes, on average, the billionaire in this scenario is much more privileged than the non-billionaire, but you seem to be considering a more black-and-white situation, in which anyone who is privileged on one axis cannot be oppressed on another, and I’m sorry, but that’s not how the world works.

Misogyny pervades every aspect of society. I can guarantee you that homeless women have a wildly different experience than homeless men, and the same applies to basically every group of people. No matter whether you’re talking about race, class, disability, every woman in every group is oppressed by men in that same group.

Let’s take disability and race. I’m chronically ill and Asian. My doctor is able-bodied and Black. Me being oppressed on one axis that she is not (disability) does not automatically mean that I am incapable of being racist towards her; Non-black patients can and will mistreat Black doctors.

Now let’s consider a hypothetical scenario. Let’s say you have a disabled male patient and an able-bodied female caregiver or doctor. Just like I am not incapable of being racist to my doctor, this disabled man is not incapable of being creepy or misogynistic to his female doctor. In fact, there are frequent reports of things like male patients asking for female assistance for changing because they get off on it. Just because the doctor holds power over the patient in one way does not mean that the patient holds zero power over her. Things are more nuanced than that.

[terftwice]

holy shit i’m losing my mind

“neither am i” oh so you’re allowed boundaries but female lesbians aren’t? i’ve seen this argument so many times, trans lesbians who identify as such because they’re not attracted to penis but demand females are attracted to theirs… if this ain’t male entitlement…

[lowkey-radical]

“forgive me for thinking you’d be a decent human being” bc apparently being a decent human being = fucking a penis

[spacemonkeyg78]

First comic is the idea that if a woman is looking for sex then any man who wants to have sex with her is entitled to do so whether she consents or not. It’s the idea that your yes cannot be rescinded.

The second is the idea that women’s bodies must be offered sexually as a part of advocacy. It’s the idea that lesbians must prove our goodness to Transwomen by revoking any sexual autonomy. Its the idea that it is bigotry to be homosexual. It’s also the idea that rape by deception is acceptable.

The third is the idea that only transwomen are allowed sexual autonomy and others, especially lesbians are not allowed to live their own sexuality. It’s the gas lighting idea that transwomen no longer have male bodies.

The fourth is again the idea that being a lesbian is wrong, awful, bigoted, oppressive. It’s also the repeated idea that lesbians are simply tools to sexually validate the ego of males.

And the entire comic strip is the idea that female homosexuality isn’t real and targeted harassment of lesbians by hetero/bisexual males is suddenly less homophobic if that sexual harassment is done by a trans identified male.

[slayerr-of-tims-deactivated2021]

More trans women and trans activists advocating for rape nothing to see here

[witchlingmother]

Was this supposed to demonize lesbians? Because all i see are women setting clear boundaries regarding their sex life.

Remember kids, only rapists argue against boundaries!

[feminism-is-not-radical-deactiv]

If you replaced this with a straight woman being talked to by a straight man, this would be considered an attempt at coercive rape.

[thevaginamonoblogs]

Panel 1: rape and coercion “but you just said you wanted it!” Is a coercive tactic to turn a no into a yes.

Panel 2: assuming concealing things from others that would turn a yes into a no is decent behaviour. People are again, allowed to change their mind, for any or no reason. Calling them indecent for doing so is a coercive tactic.

Panel 3: has already been explained well above.

Panel 4: rejecting you does not make someone a jerk. someone enforcing their sexuality does not make them a jerk. Calling them a jerk is manipulative and coercive.

Are we getting the hint here? OP is manipulative and coercive.

[butmuhgains]

We’ve been in the “take the dick, lesbian” stage of trans activism all year. I wonder what the next one is?

[kompanie-mutter-deactivated2021]

the one where lesbians start carrying pepper spray and/or guns, hopefully

[do-angels-dream-of-starry-seas]

… so I’m gonna assume all my followers and mutuals will block these people too, but just so we’re clear:

If you think that a person being trans is a dealbreaker, then you need to seriously evaluate yourself to make sure you mean that not in a transphobic way, cause that definitely sounds transphobic

Trans people don’t owe you the right to immediately come out to them, especially since they have to deal with shit like this.

I’m gonna assume that the original artist didn’t say if they had surgery or not and only said “I’m trans”. It’s honestly fine if you’re not into a certain body part, but be fucking respectful when telling a trans person this

Trans women are women. Trans lesbians are lesbians. Trans men are men. Trans gay men are gay men. I hope all of you have a painful death.

Oh sure, a trans person trying to have a dating life and being confident and comfortable enough to admit their gender and hoping for basic human decency is rape. How fucking dare you.

All the TERFS in the reblogs keep saying that this person (sorry original artist) is targeting lesbians… where does this say that they have been seeking out lesbians? All it says is the responses she gets from lesbians, nothing about how she only dates lesbians, so how about using your brain for once… then again, you wouldn’t be a transphobe now, would you?

And finally, towards the person I reblogged this from, how dare you think I’m one of you?

[hellstarremina-blog]

1. Being trans can be a dealbreaker for any reason. For lesbians specifically, they may simply not want to date a male (penis-haver, semen-spitter, prostate-bearer, whatever you want to call them), no matter what they look like, how they identify, or what they call themselves.

2. Trans people should at least divulge this information before getting into a sexual relationship with another person, otherwise it is rape by deception. I’m a lesbian, if my partner revealed a penis when we were about to get sexual, I’m not going to suddenly declare myself as being okay with it.

3. If it’s a trans person who’s going after lesbians, chances are that it’s going to be a trans woman. A lot of trans women can’t afford surgeries, and some don’t even want those surgeries, so they’d often still retain their penises; however, even if they do have it, those surgeries will not result in an actual vagina, just a hole that often fills with fecal matter, mucus, or even hair, according to trans women who’ve actually had those surgeries.

4. Trans women are still male. Trans “lesbians” are still heterosexual males. Trans men are female. Trans “gay” men are still heterosexual females. Telling people they should die/experience painful deaths won’t change this reality.

5. Anyone can say no for any reason. Trying to change someone’s mind about dating you or having sex with you, even upon them declaring something about you is a dealbreaker, is just plain shitty. It’s also rape rhetoric, considering that you are attempting to manipulate the situation until you receive consent, but it’s not rape.

6. This isn’t even relevant. The OP is declaring that this is the response they get when trying to date lesbians and admitting they’re trans, but they are also adding in their own little “witty responses” in the sidebar.

I do have to point out that it’s extremely hypocritical of you to act as though lesbians can’t have dealbreakers (namely about being a trans woman), but the trans woman also declares that they (paraphrasing) don’t like dicks either.

The OP is being manipulative and coercive here, as they give their own rebuttals as to why these women shouldn’t refuse them.

“You literally said you wanted to hook up, though.” Consent can be given and revoked at any time.

“Forgive me for assuming you’d be a decent human being.” Guilt-tripping for being called out.

“I’m not into dicks either.” Hypocrisy.

“…you’re also a jerk.” The familiar incel’s tail-between-his-legs cry of “I didn’t want to fuck you anyway!”

I’d also recommend you look into lesbians’ stories about their experiences with trans women, as well as the “cotton ceiling”, invented by Canadian trans woman Drew DeVeaux. In fact, the below screenshot shows just what OP and Drew have in common.

Getting laid, and specifically by lesbians who would prefer not to sleep with males.

[not-the-shinigami-eyes]

I hate how nowadays we have to write whole essays defending our right to reject someone. What happened to “no means no”? What happened to “no one owes you an explanation”?

[finnishrogue]

“Trans people don’t owe you the right to immediately come out to them, especially since they have to deal with shit like this.” This is literally the stupidest contradiction ever. You will have to deal with “shit like this” ONLY IF you don’t come out to people from the get-go. The longer you remain silent, the more intense the negative reaction will be, and the faster you make it clear, the faster you can reduce your dates to only those who will reply “I don’t mind”. Which… coincidentally, is not lesbians. Try bisexuals or straight women, and do not harass people who by DEFAULT have already ruled you out.

I like men and yet I have never in my whole life tried to go ask gay men to create excuses for me, because I am not a homophobic dipshit.

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

Imagine if a gender-haver was trapped in a room with two people: the first is a man guilty of murdering countless trans people, the second one is a radfem who never physically or verbally harmed anyone in the trans community, never called for violence against them, but simply believes in protecting women and girl’s spaces, dismantling the patriarchy, and doesn’t believe in gender ideology.

Now let’s say this gendie has a gun with only one bullet in it so they have to choose which one of their enemies to kill……….how much do you wanna bet they’d kill the “terf” instead of the man :v

I know this is a stupid and ridiculous hypothetical but I just find it insane how they always scream about punching/raping/killing “terfs” but never have the same energy towards the men who actually DO go around killing then.

[virgoanmaenad]

Imagine if an XX-chromosome decided she wanted to ‘protect women from abusers’ and instead ran a hate campaign against a women for looking ‘too mannish’ at the Olympics while a literal male child predator got his own protection team to do gymnastics at the same time.

Who do you think this producer-of-the-large-gamete would go after? The woman or the male child sexual abuser? Who do you think she would make several tweets about, nearly ruin the life and career of, and never apologize for it?

I know this is a stupid and ridiculous hypothetical but I just find it insane that this hypothetical, totally-not-real person always screams about male abuse but never has the energy to go after actual abusers, people who DO abuse women and girls.

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

Yes she should’ve criticised him too, but she wasn’t wrong about Khelif either

Boxer Imane Khelif says she took hormone treatment to lower testosterone before Paris Olympics

In an interview with a French sports daily, the 26-year-old Algerian, who has been the target of repeated attacks, confirms that she has the

[virgoanmaenad]

But she didn’t. Why not? Why is her ire focused directly on trans people, or people she believes to be trans?

Also, we did not know any of that prior to this interview, so I just wonder what this ‘champion for women’s rights’ could have gone on to say such cruel things about another woman? I just…don’t know. It must be a mystery! I sure hope it wasn’t just based on her appearance!

Anyway, I have also taken meds to lower my testosterone, that doesn’t make me a man. You fucking weirdos are just as ‘gendie brained’ as anyone you criticize, just replace ‘pink is for girls’ with ‘estrogen is for women!’ Women have testosterone, some women have an abundance, that doesn’t necessarily mean they are men or a danger.

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

She doesn’t ‘believe’ khelif is trans, she knows they have a DSD. A DSD that includes an active SRY gene, which makes it unfair for Khelif to compete against women. But keep misrepresenting what she said I guess, I know you guys have to lie to make even a semi coherent argument so it’s not surprising

[virgoanmaenad]

No, she believed Khelif was trans when this whole shitstorm started. She had no clue what Khelif’s genetic makeup was except for what she could see, and what did this bastion of women’s rights see? A woman who didn’t look ‘womanly enough.’ I know you idolize her, but Rowling is not psychic and could not have known anything about Khelif initially. But we all knew about the child sexual predator.

You can sit here now, in hindsight, feeling vindicated, I’m sure, but Khelif is not trans, she is intersex, as are millions of people around the world. That doesn’t make her a man.

A billionaire mega-celebrity tried to ruin the life and career of some random Olympian for what? Bigotry. Because she hates trans people and gender-non-conformity.

You can insult me all you want, but the truth of the matter is JKR tried to ruin a woman’s life instead of going after an actual abuser of girls. Really tells ya where her fucking priorities lie, don’t it?

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

No she didn’t?? Get your facts straight, she believed from the beginning Khelif was an intersex male. And she was right. It wasn’t solely based on appearances. There was a leaked sex test about chromosomes

If idolised her I’d defend everything she does. I do not. I also think she should’ve criticised that man being allowed to participate in the Olympics. But regardless she also wasn’t wrong about Khelif.

And yes it does, Khelif is an intersex *male*. Raised as a girl, yes, but went through male puberty. You have no idea what you’re talking about lbh 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[weeinterpreter]

Wonder Woman Lynda Carter defends trans rights amid JK Rowling controversy

Wonder Woman icon Lynda Carter tweeted out her unwavering support for the trans community amid the latest JK Rowling controversy.

The fact that a children's author is focussing that obsessively on other people's genitalia is truly disturbing... so, let's focus on some true hero instead!

[the-land-of-women]

Jkr is literally just acknowledging male people commit the majority of violent crime and that including male people in female crime reports is actively skewing crime statistics. But yeah let’s deflect and pretend this is just her being weird and creepy about strangers’ genitals 🙄

[weeinterpreter]

I assume you are referring to She-who-shall-not-be-named's latest tweet. Unfortunately, this isn't the first or most controversial tweet of hers. The past has shown that she isn't interested in stating facts but merely wants to push her transphobic opinions. Don't let yourself be blinded by this rethoric.

If you have a look at her past contributions, you'll also notice that she isn't interested at the problem at hand either, but keeps diverting it, too.

It's like someone pointing out that dolphins get caught in fishing nets and some random person comes along and screams: "But turtles get caught too, what are you going to do about that?!?!"

[the-land-of-women]

She’s talking about women’s rights; and how modern trans ideology is effecting them. Are women’s rights not important to you?

[lorynna]

The YouAreBased blog is pro-rape and pro-male supremacy. The entire blog is about hating on women, feminists and heterosexual women. Are they going to magically end the patriarchy by generalizing women as these dumb bitches who deserve to have no rights? I wonder if that blog is run by an incel who’s trying to infiltrate radfem spaces as a hateful platform against women so they can promote their usual semen-science bullshit or blame women for everything.

totally 100% with you here. there are a lot of theories going around wether it is TRAs trying infiltrate our spaces and get radfems to agree with those talking points or if it could be actual incel trolls. I'm very much convinced that specifically @youarebased is a male in disguise. I just can't imagine that a woman could post such things. Ofc I could be totally mistaken and @youarebased could be a severely mentally ill woman.

Sadly I'm also convinced of the authenticity of some few female blackpill aligned users on here and I am sure that they truly believe in what they preach.

I remember when I made a post about blackpill ideology some weeks ago saying that it is really similar to inceldom, especially in terminology and the outrage was big, even from some other radfems - but I think they've seen for themselves now.

Every now and then someone shows up demanding evidence and then pulls a "no true scotsman" when seeing the blackpill receipts. Uh yeah.

[drbased]

I actually think *that blog* is a TRA-run thing, rather than a secret incel. TRAs want to prove that radfems are all secretly the ‘real’ misogynists who will believe any bio-essentialist and conspiracy theory-esque bullshit in the name of ostensible ‘misandry’. TRAs have been saying for ages now that radfems and incels are two sides of the same coin, so it would make sense that a reasonably savvy one would be able to latch onto the less, err, intellectual parts of radblr and use their frustrations and ignorance to radicalise them out of feminism and into the pit of despair that TRAs think we’re all covering up.

For the record, I don’t think this means that these TRAs are especially ‘on the pulse’ of what radblr is truly about; rather, TRAs and blackpills operate under the same fundamental ideology - that is, of believing in some inherent ‘essence’ of femaleness and maleness. So, it makes sense that they would come to ostensibly opposing but ultimately synergistic belief systems.

I think this is what people get wrong about ‘horseshoe theory’ - it’s not that being sufficiently ‘radicalised’ in either direction means that you’ll come to the same conclusion (an ostensibly more intellectual way of saying ‘both sides bad’) but rather, that we all operate under the ideology and values of hegemonic power systems, and truly deprogramming yourself from that is actually really difficult. So groups that set out to ‘fight the power’ will often struggle to grasp the depth and extent of said power, and it’s human nature to seek shortcuts.

Additionally, it is the nature of said power structures to obfuscate their own ideological positions as simply ‘common sense’ or ‘just how life is’ - so those seeking to resist power often feel that they’re uncovering some big social taboo by ‘saying the quiet part out loud’. Incels, pornographers, kinksters and blackpill ‘feminists’ alike all think they’re being revolutionary by calling women whores, purely because polite society doesn’t let us do these things. What they refuse to recognise is that the only reason we have that nonsense word in our lexicon is because of the patriarchal ideology that underpins our conception of reality and thus our use of language; our ‘polite society’ can only exist in its current form because of the belief that ‘whores’ exist.

[mooseyondaloosey]

just saw someone on here say that "being on the right side of history" is the leftist version of "going to heaven" and i was like damn....

[lostandfem]

getting into transness isnt like “huh i saw trans people happy, maybe ill be happy if i do what they do”. thats such a gross oversimplification.

youre introduced to the trans narrative first. youre supportive, you listen. slowly you start to relate more and more, and that feels weird. it touches on childhood experiences (which for TIFs ive found are all just traumas from growing up female so far) or feelings of alienation from members of your sex (which can be related to being gnc or mental illnesses). you question, you try on a few pronouns or labels.

you start to think maybe this is the reason youve been unhappy all along. the more you ponder, the more sure you are because its p hard to mentally dispute. after all, all it takes is a “feeling”, so its pretty easy to mistake any strong desire to do it as the “feeling”. you start to make other changes that excite you. after all this time being feeling trapped in your life for one reason or another, you finally get to decide what you are and what you look like. every change feels amazing.

the regret never hits right away. you never realize what youve done. stop painting it like we saw someone being happy and went “thats it! ill transition!”. we were trans, we were a part of that community, we had reasons supporting that we were legitimately trans. not some ‘cis’ person just looking to take the first quick fix they could find without the true trans experience