there’s nothing radical about radical feminism

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[detectivehole]

what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

[detectivehole]

"how do you write such believable men as a woman?" "how do you write such believable women a man?" and the answer people who are good at it always give is "i just write people. were literally the exactly the same. do you think the opposite sex is some sorta totally different animal???" and people respond "woah that's wild. yea i do. and im not gonna stop thinking that goodbye :)"

[anarchistmemedistro]

[self-loving-vampire]

[birdsareblooming]

Dorothy L. Sayers: Are Women Human (1938)

it's older than ripley

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[hubris-i]

"Are butches butches because they love femmes, or because there's something about our gender expression? It would seem to be just sort of a moot point, like how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, which came first, the butchness or the lesbianism, except that there's another one of these great misunderstandings: if you simply identify that butch and femme go together like love and marriage, like horse and carriage, like soup and sandwich, then it leaves out butches who are attracted to other butches; it leaves out femmes who wanna be with other femmes; it leaves out bisexual butches; it leaves no area at all to define why some women are so masculine and yet are heterosexual. To me, being butch doesn't mean what you do in bed. I mean, to be butch on the street, that's what being butch is to me. When a group of bashers, on the street, says, 'there goes one of them now,' that is the social definition of what butch is. And if you can survive that on the streets, you have the right to go home and do any thing in any combination in bed that you want, without being ashamed of yourself."

Leslie Feinberg in Outlaw (1994) - dir. Alisa Lebow

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[bsaka7]

excerpts from erin in the morning's article on the ioc's ban on transgender women and sex testing policy

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[genderkoolaid]

i think genuinely one of the biggest political weak spots on the trans community in terms of actually pursuing liberation is people's aversion to meaningfully challenging the gender binary because it is personally gender affirming for them. so much reactionary bullshit in this community is intimately tied to exorsexism and transmedicalism/

and like. i also don't want to downplay why people would feel like that. you spend your entire life suffering because of being denied your gender. it impacts your identity and your relationships and your work and your everything. and then when there's finally a chance that you may actually be able to cross the great divide that separates the group you are forced to be to and the group you have always felt you belonged in, there is all of this talk about how we should dismantle the groups entirely, when you have barely - if at all - gotten a chance to even exist in a way that doesn't make you want to kill yourself, when the groups are still influencing everything about the world all the time.

but the thing is! we feel this way primarily because in our present culture, to be gendered as cis-binary is to be made human. it is to socially exist, to be seen, to be loved, to have existential, ontological meaning as a person. and nonbinary people do not get to pursue gender euphoria that also makes us human, you understand? nb/gq/gnc people do not have the option of pursuing being socially recognized as you truly feel you are and not wanting to kill yourself. some people can be happy on either side of the chasm and carve out space for themselves there, but too often only on the precarious edge. and the rest of us can only jump off or wait to be shoved off.

do you understand? we don't have the option. our insistence on fighting and deconstructing the binary is not an abstract political choice based on what we speculate would be the most #radical. it is as much a choice made out of trans survival as any binary trans man or woman's pursuit of a passing and stealth life. and plenty of us also do not want the concept of "man" or "woman" to be erased entirely; many of nb/gq/gnc people are men and women! sometimes both at the same time! others want to see new concepts to gain acceptance and social recognition!

but that is the problem with the community's exorsexism when it comes down to it. it is binary gender ideology which provides the foundation for patriarchal ideology and power as a whole, and so as feminists it is the binary we need to challenge (early radical feminists circled this realization, although they failed to develop it productively; intersectional feminism leads us to challenging the gender binary by challenging the related privileged oppressor/powerless oppressed binary). nb/gq/gnc people strain under a binary system and binary culture, and so tend to be more conscious of the binary and the need to challenge it, just like cis perisex women are more likely to be conscious of patriarchy than cis perisex men because they experience a lot more direct and obvious strain under it. all trans people are ultimately oppressed by gender binary ideology and exorsexism, and it goes against trans people's class interests to support it. but a lot of trans people who identify strongly with the binary have, for decades at this point, actively decided to sacrifice the pursuit of trans liberation and liberation from patriarchy as a whole, in favor of keeping the binary in place so they can experience being the ones who benefit from it and wield it against others. like lower-middle class people being fierce defenders of capitalism and taking great pride in self-sufficiency and financial sense and not relying on handouts.

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[finalgirlianthe]

it's scary the amount of people who wholeheartedly believe that men and women are fundamentally different creatures

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[quastions-i-dont-ask-on-main]

"Trans men can't be lesbians because they're men and when they're in lesbian spaces they're invading it!!!! If trans women wanted to be in gay spaces NO ONE eould accept it >:[" Hey so I wss on Grindr and for every gay trans man I saw 3 trans women and as far as I've been alive gay spaces are pretty accepting of trans women. I think. Maybe you should review why do you think "men invading women's spaces" is such a issue for you.

[quastions-i-dont-ask-on-main]

"But I don't want to fuck a man!" Well the good news is that you don't need to fuck everyone who comes into your lesbian space. Or are you like. Saying that you need to find every woman that comes in fuckable.

Also real quick can you tell me your opinion on trans women specially those pre-op/pre hormones or that don't pass.

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[learn-how-to-love]

Trans liberation will never be accomplished if our community can’t understand that sex is as much of a made up false binary as gender is. I’m serious. “Sex” is just a set of terms for a group of phenotypic traits sorted into two boxes for the ease and comfort of cis and perisex people. It’s arbitrary. We’ve only clung to the idea that sex correlates with gender because that made deciding who was or was not worth personhood easier to enforce. Anyone of any gender can have- and enjoy having- a particular sex-associated trait. Whether it’s their genitalia, their chest, their dominant hormones, any of it, it doesn’t matter. Everyone should have the right to change those traits for any reason at any time, without exception. Transmedicalism is a doomed strategy aiming to assimilate trans identity into the existing gender/sex binary that will never succeed, because we are all considered a threat to the system no matter how much we try to reproduce the status quo. You will never be acceptable to transphobes, you can only stand united against them with the “trenders” and the “theyfabs” or you will be thrown aside as soon as we’re out of the picture. Reject all binaries.

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[learn-how-to-love]

Gender essentialism is useful for those who utilize it because it allows for a complete and total enabling of abuse from all angles. To label all men and/or masc-aligned people as inherently predatory and all women and/or fem-aligned people as inherently victims excuses behavior as either a symptom of an immutable, nature-based trait or as literally impossible, depending on which group you are shuffled into. To acknowledge the behavior typically associated with cis men is nurtured by society and completely within our power collectively to change is far less convenient than the idea that this is simply how things are. Especially so if you are interested in denying the victimhood of members of the former camp/the abusive actions of members of the latter. Nothing will ever improve if we continue to fall into this way of thinking, especially as trans people who have experienced our society’s gender dynamics in a fundamentally different way to the average cis person. It absolutely must be purged and we must acknowledge that while society may influence and incentivize certain behavior, it isn’t an inherent trait and therefore individuals must be able to be treated as just that- individuals whose capacity for harm or to be harmed is in no way an inditement upon their identity, let alone anyone else’s.

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[learn-how-to-love]

That “cringe” nonbinary xenogender genderfuck therian who uses neopronouns and may or may not go on HRT while being loudly, proudly themselves will always be more revolutionary and subversive than a binary trans person who aggressively reproduces the cis status quo and shames anyone who doesn’t do the same.

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[cock-holliday]

oh, how riveting, the trans person that hates themself has found a theory that manages to reinforce the worldview of the bigoted system that made them this bitter, but presented as "radical" this time--how novel!

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[zinjanthropusboisei]

Hell yeah CLRG!

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[perverted-asexual]

Every day tumblr users get closer and closer to saying you can only be trans in a god honouring way.

Edit: my problem is with the comparison and trying to rate people's transness and who's more transgressive. If you attempt to turn this into a trans guys vs trans girls post you are missing the point.

[ftmtftm]

This is what white supremacy looks like in the trans community. Genuinely.

These screenshots are literally just white supremacist, right wing talking points about conformity to the status quo being more "transgressive" than people who actually transgress social norms. It's quite literally no different than Christians, MAGA, the right wing, etc. thinking they're the ones who are actually oppressed despite engaging with ideas, values, and presentations that have actually been the ruling class status quo for centuries. It's all taken from the same self victimization playbook.

It's especially clear with the 4chan language mixed in that is just white supremacist incel shit, "gigastacy", "mog", "aura" — that's incel forum channer language that's infiltrated broader internet vernacular and it doesn't matter if the OOPs here are actually explicitly 4chan using white supremacists. They're still engaging with 4chan white supremacist language, behavior, and beliefs.

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[luulapants]

actually there's no identity you can hold that magically cures you of socialized bigotry. listing your marginalized identities does not mean you actually did the work to unpack the things you were taught growing up. women need to work to unlearn patriarchy. queer folks need to work to unlearn homophobia. disabled folks need to work to unlearn ablism. POC need to work to unlearn racism. and this is not just "internalized" bigotry - any bigoted ideas you hold toward your own marginalized identity are ideas that you also hold about other people whether you actively engage with those ideas or not.

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[scramratz]

“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be free” men CAN get pregnant and they’re treated worse than women who can get pregnant

[scramratz]

oh folks really don't like being asked to consider trans men

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[learn-how-to-love]

That “cringe” nonbinary xenogender genderfuck therian who uses neopronouns and may or may not go on HRT while being loudly, proudly themselves will always be more revolutionary and subversive than a binary trans person who aggressively reproduces the cis status quo and shames anyone who doesn’t do the same.

[learn-how-to-love]

^ fash loser to block

[learn-how-to-love]

@/elfetamine

@/doingitatmybirthdaydinner

@/blueeyesterfdragon

More transmed losers/chud TERFs from the notes to block (also report the last one for violent threats)

[learn-how-to-love]

Yet another example of how TERFs and TRFs are basically the same genre of person but with different fonts. So pissed off at the idea that their transmedicalism isn’t praxis that they start going off about other shit that shows their ass completely. “Cissexual nonbinary transmascs” just call them theyfabs and move on, Jesus Christ

[learn-how-to-love]

Another person babyraging because she had to confront the idea that conformity is counter-revolutionary and really didn’t like that!

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]

[teaboot]

why would you post radfem talking points and then claim to be anti terf

Terfs and Radfems are slightly different, they just have a lot of overlap

"The patriarchy has a negative impact on men in a way that fosters a hostile environmen for women", "the patriarchy is bad for all genders", and "men as human beings are not fundamentally different from women" are not contradictory statements

I'm anti terf AND anti radfem

Can we not just be decent to each other

[ipostradicalfeminismisntrad]