wgh hey yall i just spent a good hour weeding out terfs from the reblogs of popular posts and i want to remind you- specifically i want to remind cis ppl and other transmascs- about ways to actually keep terfs away from you and your blog!!!
if you have a lot of terf followers, or are following a lot of terfs without realising, blocking isnât going to do you any good. obviously blocking them is pretty useful and sexy but if you have a pattern of attracting terfs, you have to figure out how to Break the pattern first.Â
look out for urls that include afab sex organs, anything to do with the phrases âgender criticalâ oftened shortened to âgcâ, âpreferred pronounsâ, âtrans-identifyingâ, etc. if you follow someone/have a follower with âfeministâ in their bio or url, make sure to search their blog for any of those kind of dog whistles ive just mentioned. keep an eye on anybody who posts about âfemale genital positivity/acceptanceâ, or something. IM NOT SAYING feminism or genital acceptance is BAD, because i believe that both of those things are good, but most of the terfs iâve seen have been loud about both of those as a cover for their Shit.
when anybody follows you- or when youâre looking to follow anyone- search their blogs for those phrases. or just the terms âtransâ, ânonbinaryâ, âwomanâ, âmaleâ, etc. AND ALSO keep an eye on the people they reblog from. if theyâre reblogging from terfs- even if theyâre not reblogging the actual transphobic posts- they might be on the path to becoming terfs themselves, because they are absorbing that kinda content by following terfs.
if all else fails, be loudly supportive of transfems. make your blog as loudly proudly transfem positive as possible. make your activism INSUFFERABLE to terfs. itâs not enough to just be anti-terf, you have to be pro-transfem.
and also??? terfs tend to ignore DNIs. they think they can âRescueâ you. yes, that goes for us transmascs. it is important to follow these steps to ensure that their rhetoric doesnât come anywhere near you, regardless of if youâre transfem, transmasc, or cis. they will either rescue you (as a transmasc) or try to give you that unsexy, unsuper, subconscious transmisogny (no matter who you are). the human brain will pick things up and internalise them by seeing or reading them repeatedly, and that is what terfs aim to do i think.
also most of this gets a big fat âi thinkâ because i follow these steps and stay the fuck away from terfs; it is not worth it to try and interact with them.
if anyone else has any Terf Repellent Techniques please feel free to rb and add!!
cis people should reblog actually and any terfs on this post get a fucking one way trip to blocktownÂ