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[doingitatmybirthdaydinner]

okay i wouldn’t date a trans man either, but if someone i found very attractive identified as a man on the inside it wouldn’t immediately undo my physical attraction to them. because remember nowadays many trans men are identifying as “femboys” and literally are not feminine than me, like they wear dresses and fake lashes and makeup. like if bella hadid said she identified as a man on the inside without changing anything about her appearance and I’m still sexually attracted to her, does that make me bisexual, because i’m now attracted to a man? really????

and again with the definition changing, and then acting all condescending about it. lesbian has been used to refer to female same-sex attraction and female homosexuality for like a century now, because of Sappho and the isle of lesbos. at the time that the usage of the word “lesbian” to refer to female homosexuality became popular, no one on earth had uttered the words “non-binary”, “non-man”, “organic strap”, etc. a singular time, so no that’s not “quite literally” the definition. if i changed the definition of “straight man” to be a 5’8 masc lesbian with brown hair, i’d QUITE LITERALLY be the definition of a straight man. i identify as a straight man!!! if i changed the definition of Asian to include white people born and raised below I-10, i’d QUITE LITERALLY be the definition of Asian. see how this language stuff works? if I call an apple a hippo, then yes a hippo is a shiny red fruit that grows on trees. get it? see how it’s stupid to just mix and match these fucking brand new terms and definitions from tumblr and tiktok and then be like “🥸urmmmr that’s quite literally the definition….” you can quite literally blow it out your ass

[doingitatmybirthdaydinner]

(comment on a matt walsh video where he asks passerby to define woman, and one man responds that he can’t define woman because he isn’t one, and matt walsh says that you don’t have to be a cat to define what a cat is.)

women exist, we are real, measurable, tangible. we aren’t a social construct. we have social constructs imposed upon us because our female sex, but we ourselves are very real.

this is like saying that black people are not real because african american culture is a social construct. or that christian’s aren’t real because religion is a social construct. or that teachers aren’t real because jobs are a social construct. spoiler alert: a lot of things are social constructs! but human people are real!! and there are 2 sexes!! women are one of those 2 sexes! we have stereotypes and expectations and social constructs imposed upon us, but even in a perfect egalitarian feminist world with all social constructs lifted, we would still be real!! WOMEN EXIST!!!!

this is so insulting. to be like oh well cats are real because they can be defined by their physicality, that’s how we know that they are cats and not hippos or zebras. because they have certain physical characteristics. but women? no we have no way to know who is a woman, and in fact no way to define it! that’s just a social construct that can be voluntarily slipped in and out of and taken off by adopting and abandoning certain accessories and mannerisms at whim!

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

No one is saying trans people don’t exist

[capricorn-season]

[doingitatmybirthdaydinner]

like just kill me now. we’re so cooked

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

Instance #10297272 of woman transitioning so she has permission to exist as a human being

[flamefrostfury]

I hate how so fucking many artists have been and still are depicting women in sexualized ways which are not at all necessary

All those women in paintings who are just randomly naked

The artists just wanted to paint women's naked bodies and slapped lame excuses afterwards

[residentofincelistan]

"Teen isn't a disgusting category because teenagers are the main ones watching it111!"

So you admit that the indurstry knows children are viewing their videos?

[feminist-furby-freak]

TRAs outing themselves as pedo apologists. Can’t believe people actually think like this and voluntarily tell on themselves online.

[niiwa-angel]

There is no such thing as a non-offending pedophile, just one that hasn't been caught yet.

[theoretical-terf]

The TRA Harry Potter boycott is just their version of lent or fasting. Believing in their belief system isn't enough, you also have to give up something you enjoy to prove you're willing to sacrifice for them.

[prometheist]

we've arrived at "transphobes are all actually fine with trans men". christ help us

[niiwa-angel]

Weird. Feminists support females. Feminism is open to all females. Crazy stuff. Next you'll tell me BLM is for black people.

[servin-terf-haha]

"they can never define woman but they never seem to struggle with who to call a bitch, huh?"

me, just now

[niiwa-angel]

They can never define woman but they know who to threaten with rape and forcible impregnation. They can never define woman but they know who to call cunts. They can never define woman but they know who to call menstrators. They cannot define woman but they know who's genitals to call "fishy" and compare to roast beef.

They can never define us but they know they hate us.

[manhatingfascist-deactivated202]

not our culture. never will be.

[safije]

Jeans, t-shirts, leggings and mini skirts aren't originally part of India's, Iran's or Somalia's culture either, yet I do not see you making a comparison complaining about that, even though westernization is WAY more prevalent than the niqab in most of these countries mentioned. It's almost like you just have a problem with Arabs or something...

By the way, face covering IS part of Gulf Arab culture.

It also says a lot that you cherry picked images of women without headcoverings like the example for Bosnia even though headscarves are part of Balkan folk clothing including for Christians like Greeks and Serbs. You clearly don't know anything.

[manhatingfascist-deactivated202]

The difference is that no one's forced to wear jeans or tshirts you moron. I'm an ex muslim from india and I live in a predominantly muslim village. I still get judgemental looks when I wear pants. I can't walk around my neighborhood without a shawl on my head because I get stopped by random grown ass men and women who slutshame me for not wearing one. Yes it's a "choice". But made at what cost? How much of a choice is there when the only alternative is to suffer humiliation and bullying? It might be a choice for you because you live in fucking Germany. Why don't you go live in Afghanistan or Iran to experience true freedom of choice?

And I don't have a problem with Arabs. I have a problem with arab imperialism. Because if they hadn't invaded our country and forced their barbaric religion on us, millions of girls like me wouldn't be forced into this fucking cult. You can all pretend that arab imperialism isn't real and that only the British invaded us but fact remains that both Arabs and the British irreparably damaged our country. I was taught to read and write arabic at the age of 6 by an ustad who would pinch my arm for every little mistake. so hard that it would bleed but I wasn't allowed to cry or complain because I'm learning a "holy language". At the age where I should've been eating mud, I learnt to hide my pain and smile. You tell us to learn your superior godly language and visit your godly worship site in Saudi Arabia and I'm supposed to pretend that shit is not imperialism?

I know face covering is a part of arab culture that's exactly why I tagged this as #arab imperialism ? I don't care about your culture. Just don't force that shit on us.

And I did not cherry pick pictures of women without head coverings tf ☠️ are you blind? there's like 5 or 6 women in that picture with head coverings.

Edit: also the implication that most people here wear jeans and t shirts ☠️ girl literally 95% of the non-Muslim women around me wear sarees and churidhars. there's women that wear jeans and t shirts but they get shamed for it. And the women that wear them do not stop wearing traditional clothes either. Even in my age group most girls wear churidhars.

[thehairiestfeminist]

Let me describe to you what kind of world gender abolitionists actually dream about:

When a child would be born it’s biological sex, being an actual physical reality, would be noticed but not a single assumption regarding the child’s personality would be made based on it.

Growing up, children would be free to chose what toys and clothes they prefer. If they want to play with toy trucks or dolls, it would be fine either way. If they want to dress comfortably or in frilly colorful dresses, it would be fine.

Certain personality traits would not be encouraged in members of one sex and discouraged in the other. Females would be free to be strong, brave and assertive and males would not be shamed for being shy and soft spoken.

No female child would be called a tomboy and no male child would be called a sissy. No kid would ever be bullied for what we in our gendered world call “gender expression”.

When children would reach puberty they would still be free to dress how they want. Females would not be pressured to wear clothes that reveal their bodies and males would not be shamed if they chose to. Everybody would have a free choice of accessories, which would not be categorized as “men’s” or “women’s” but people could should whichever they liked. Or chose to not wear accessories at all if that’s what they are more comfortable with.

Females would not be pressured to keep their bodies slim, soft and hairless. Males would not be pressured to be athletic and muscular. Expectations of femininity and masculinity upon the body would not exist and affect negatively people’s relationship with their own body.

Everyone could choose a career without fearing stigmatization within that particular field because of their biological sex. The most important thing would be competence and not what someone has between their legs.

Domestic work would not be considered “women’s work” and would be shared equally between the sexes.

Biological sex would only be thought about when relevant. And everyone would be free to be themselves without ever having to worry about gender expectations. Nobody would feel the need to repress certain parts of their personality and exaggerate others in order to fit into some gender role that is being forced on them.

Gender abolitionism is not about restricting people’s choices but about giving them greater freedom.

- http://burningax.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/a-gender-free-world-boring/

[average-tim-post]

So tims should get a free pass to shoot his parents over the annoyance of cancelling an appointment for which he can reschedule. But if I call an adult human male a man then EYE am the social murderer? Make it make sense

[kkoffin]

off topic but ai overview for a criminal case is deranged. i don’t care how you feel about the environment and whatever else but good god, do not trust AI with literal criminal allegations PLEASE

[iwanttolisten]

I'm perhaps different to radfems in that I don't think a polycule of like 3-4 people could never possibly be a stable and working relationship. I believe the problems with polyamory that we see are due to a few big things:

It requires very very good communication skills, personal responsibility, and stable bonds to maintain, and most of these people getting into them are teenagers or chronically online young adults

There isn't nearly as much public knowledge, advice, or support systems for polyamorous relationships as there are for monogamous ones

The heterosexual ones are all weird misogynistic cults or otherwise frat boy type setups

Though again 0 relationship experience here so I'm far from solid advice for this.

[kkoffin]

people can do whatever the fuck they want and i don’t care, but i take issue when “poly” often just means “harem/man pressuring his girlfriend into it and she agrees, not wanting to lose him” and when children go into their first relationship fucking ever as “poly”

also, i don’t blame this incident on the larger poly community, but my first introduction to it was an adult man telling me, 12, that because i like “boys and girls” that means i like both at once, suggesting polyamory. (biphobia + paedophilic)

i don’t much care as to if polyamorous relationships can be stable and working. go ahead and try, idgaf. for all i care we can legalise multi-way-marriages. i’m just gonna have an issue if it gets exploitative.

every woman i’ve ever met who’s been poly has done it for a man who they wanted to stay with, and after she left him, is dead set on being a life-long poly-hater bc of how awful and exploitive it was. poly men usually think it was great

[actualfeminism]

i like your old memes better than your new memes

[androidsvsvikings]

@ soft-mystic-stuffs “who's saying being attracted to the same sex is transphobic? That isn't a thing.“ People are saying that and I can prove it:

and countless more examples. The more you know, right? ^.^

[hexagon-club]

I saw someone say "when they say cis gay men they mean to say faggots" and I think you can read these posts with much more clarity once you factor that in