[lesiansrus]

"I'm not homophobic, but you should change your sexuality to fit my narrative, or you're a bigot."

Yeah, sure, okay, change who I am because you don't like me this way.

[philipkindreddickhead]

The thing that I find so exhausting about "if the roles were reversed" is that the roles will NEVER truly be reversed. There is too great a difference between a man doing something, his motivations, his capabilities, and a woman doing something with her motivations and capabilities. Fundamentally a woman breaking a restraining order to show up at her ex's wedding will never be the same threat as a man doing the same. Not when women commit only 10-20% of violent crimes and carry guns at half the percentage men do. Not when the average man can overpower the average woman.

[horsebacteria]

trans women say they need to avoid male bathrooms because males are dangerous and they would be assaulted or raped. but when women say the same thing about not wanting males in our bathrooms, we’re bigots.

trans women are male. they retain male criminality patterns. It’s perfectly reasonable for women to not want males in out private spaces.

women’s comfort and safety shouldn’t be sidelined for any male.

[capricorn-season]

[intolitude]

[feminismoaqui]

JAPAN: Rape Crisis Center Denied Funding After Founder Denounced as 'Transphobic' - Reduxx

Japan’s longest-running rape crisis center has been declared ineligible to receive public funding following statements made by the facility’

"Japan’s longest-running rape crisis center has been declared ineligible to receive public funding following statements made by the facility’s director which were deemed by government officials to be discriminatory against males who identify as transgender.

Tokyo’s Rape Crisis Center was founded in 1983 by six women, half of whom were survivors of sexual assault. Michiko Orita, one of the founders, first confirmed the punitive measure during a meeting held last year in May organized by women’s rights campaign group Save Women’s Spaces, which was primarily concerned with the potential ramifications should gender identity policies be adopted in the nation."

[marbleguard]

[doingitatmybirthdaydinner]

"is it okay that I'm a homosexual?"

"yes it's totally okay to have a PREFERENCE, as long as you aren't too loud about it and still validate trans women's identity, and as long as you like males with neovaginas too"

[ruuling]

its hilarious to me that people try to claim this website is anti-trans when as soon as i switch from the following tab to the for you tab, im inundated with pro-trans propaganda.

[pikachu2035]

cw: pikachu, gender critical electric rodents, ash ketchum slander, i'm sorry

okay but can we talk about how Pikachu has been a TERF sympathizer THIS WHOLE TIME and we just... let him get away with it because he's cute?

y'all really looked at a small yellow creature who refuses to evolve, refuses to be "put in a ball," and refuses to respect boundaries and thought "aww, feminist icon!" NO. that is NOT what is happening here. that is a reduction of what is happening here.

let me break this down because i'm literally shaking.

first of all—the electric type. you know what electricity does? it gates. it creates barriers. it says "you cannot pass." Pikachu's entire move set is about establishing boundaries and defending them with violence. thunderbolt? that's a boundary. thunder wave? that's literally the "you're making me uncomfortable" of pokemon moves.

but here's where it gets DARK.

he won't evolve into Raichu — this is not "trans joy." this is "i am biologically essentialist about what a Pikachu IS." he looked at evolution—at CHANGE—and said "no, actually, i was born perfect and any alteration to my body would be a desecration of God's design." that's not radical acceptance, that's gender critical ideology with a lightning tail.

his relationship with Ash — Ash is clearly a confused child being manipulated by an adult-adjacent electric mouse. "Pika Pika" is not cute, it's dogwhistling. every time he says it, he's testing the waters for who in the vicinity is "gender critical." he's building a community. he's networking.

the Thunder Stone incident — remember when they tried to MAKE him evolve and he literally electrocuted the concept? that was a protest. that was "get your hands off my biology." but make no mistake: this is ONLY acceptable when it's about not changing. the moment someone ELSE wants to evolve, suddenly he's very "protect the children" about it.

the Team Rocket of it all:

Jessie and James are the most gender-nonconforming characters in anime history. they crossdress EVERY EPISODE. they are living their truth. and who is trying to blast them off every single time? who is literally weaponizing electricity to silence transgressive gender performance?

Pikachu.

he doesn't care that they're criminals. he cares that they're confusing the binary. he sees James in a bikini and his little electric brain short-circuits with rage. "PIKA!" he screams, which translates roughly to "biological reality!"

why this matters:

because Nintendo has been quietly platforming this ideology for DECADES. while we were distracted by Jigglypuff's nonbinary energy (valid), Pikachu was becoming the face of "sex-based rights" in the pokemon world. there's literally an episode where he refuses to enter a contest because it's "for girls only" and instead of challenging the binary, he RESPECTS IT and watches from outside like a little yellow guardian of biological reality.

and the WORST part? the other pokemon agree with him. you think Eevee—literal evolution incarnate—feels safe around Pikachu? absolutely not. there's tension there. you can see it in the Smash Bros taunts.

the implications:

if Pikachu—global mascot of the highest-grossing media franchise in human history—can be quietly gender critical for 25+ years while we all buy his plushies and put him on our keys, what ELSE are we missing? is Togepi a SWERF? is Snorlax just "concerned about women's sports"???

anyway in conclusion: Pikachu doesn't want trans liberation, he wants segregated pokemon centers and female-only riding lanes on Route 1. he wants to go back to a time when there were only 151 genders and they were determined by Professor Oak at birth.

[hurlingirl]

Holy crap, I'm laughing so hard.

The TERFS win again, girls. Who knew they had all of these icons under their belt?

[its-terf-or-nothin]

For real, first it was SpongeBob and now Pikachu. I’m honored. 🥰

[skygenders]

College should be free and you should be able to study “useless” degrees just for the love of learning

[lesiansrus]

I've said this before, and I'll say it again: I don't think all trans supporters are bad, and I'm tired of them being villainized so much. Friends, families, and yes, politicians in some cases, all believe they are doing everything they can to be an ally and support the community/loved ones, the problem is those who know the harm transitioning as a minor will affect them long term, there are many good faithed parents who buy into "this is their only option to stay alive." We need to stop going after trans supporting parents for simply doing what parents should be doing, being their for their child. If we want to make a difference in the current climate, we need to go after the system, the real driving force behind the movement, not the people just trying to do what they think, or were told is the right thing to do.

[lesiansrus]

Today I asked a co-worker if he has ever been to a club in my town, it's an lgbt night club, but it's also pretty popular among non lgbt people, he immediately says he doesn't want to go because he likes women, and doesn't want to get hit on by men. Another co-worker spoke up and mentioned she was bi, he said he's cool with whoever you love, he's just not men, then immediately after he said he was pansexual.

[ruuling]

i saw this post a couple days ago and i just can't stop thinking about it. i've been asking the people i'm in dialogue how it's different and nobody has an answer. so tell me how it's different.

[opisaradfembtw]

the thing with certain trans people is the fact that they criticize jk rowling funding that women’s only shelter as transphobic when it’s just … not ??? females deserve spaces for their needs just like trans women

[gender-critical-butch]

why is gender dysphoria the only mental illness that’s “affirmed”?

granted i’m not a professional psychiatrist but i can’t think of any other mental illness where the unwell patient makes a statement about reality and that statement is “affirmed.” a patient with a restrictive ED states they need to be severely underweight to be worthy as a person, a patient with OCD states that if they don’t repeat same ritualistic behavior something terrible is going to happen to them, a patient with depression states that the world would be better off without them in it…all of these hypothetical patients are making statements about reality as a result of what their mental illness/disorder is telling them. but no therapist in their right mind would “affirm” any of these beliefs because they’re obviously the result of a mind that is unwell and “affirming” these individuals would just make them sicker by pushing them deeper into their unhealthy line of thinking.

the same cannot be said of gender dysphoria, where a patient states that they were born in the wrong body/they should have been the opposite sex and that belief about reality is then “affirmed” by medical professionals. in not all, but many cases it’s “affirmed” with barely any questioning/pushback at all. there are a lot of things about “gender affirming care” that i find concerning, but i think the most questionable thing of all literally comes down to it’s name.

i mean if you ever wonder why the trans community is the way it is just think about what would happen if a therapist “affirmed” their patient with social anxiety by saying they’re correct about their friends and family secretly hating them, or “affirmed” their patient with anorexia by saying they’re correct about needing to eat a dangerously low calorie diet… the individual would inevitably get sicker, pushed deeper into their disordered thinking. they might even become passionately adamant about the fact that they’re correct to be thinking the way they do to an almost unhinged degree because their doctor, an individual with power who is more educated than the average person, “affirmed” them and said that they’re right. and it feels really fucking good to be told you’re right, it can become pretty damn intoxicating…

[doingitatmybirthdaydinner]

do you fucking hear yourself

[lesiansrus]

Everybody's identity and sexuality is valid, until it isn't.

[avicecaro]

oh so men beat and kill people but women are mean sometimes? maybe even behind your back? wow and that’s so subtle and insidious. and moreover, people seem to think that’s not as serious as beating and killing people. which, if you think about it, kind of makes it even WORSE. this will blow your mind since everyone has always believed women are moral angels, but sometimes they’re wicked nasty bitches. worse than men actually if you think about it.

[avicecaro]

like. “if we count verbal/relational aggression as violence, women are as aggressive as men” and if we count mice as kia sorentos then a man will see a car and eat it. if we count ocean water as drinkable and rocks as food then no one should be going hungry or thirsty. like you’re not disproving something you’re changing the terms.

[avicecaro]

like i can’t even come up with funny comparisons. yeah if we count murder and spreading rumors in the same category of aggression we can erase the reality of gendered violence. if i count rejection and sexual harassment in the same category of facilitating an environment of sexual dissatisfaction then it’s a zero sum game and we’re all the same. do you see how this works?

[sichorean]

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