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âI wasnât gender socialized because I was bullied for being gnc as a childâ itâs almost as if thatâs one of the most direct examples of gendered socialization
every time they say this i remember this vine.
âi am going undercover as a woman to find out what they go through everydayâ [video cuts to later] âi discovered that women are called faggot a lot.â
why does oscar wilde take 150 pages to write something he could literally say in a paragraph
compelling argument
what does this say about victor hugo
no he was just french
R.R Tolkien?
autistic infodumping
Put this together and I dread to think how long a novel by an autistic gay Frenchman would be. :p
How to spot a smear campaign:
Victimsâs âcrimesâ will be enlarged, and even if theyâre small missteps, they will be treated as if only the worst person on the planet would do such a thing
Accusations against the victim will always be a reach, aka, they did âthis little thingâ but it actually means theyâre a racist/murderer/genocide supporter/fascist/have blood on their hands, even when the personâs actions never conformed to those crimes
All and any actions of the victims will be misenterpreted in the worst possible way, anything the person does will be taken as an offense and intentions will be read as hostile and manipulative, regardless of how clear they are
All victimâs actions will be taken out of context; ie, victim said something cruel to someone, but they take out the context of the victim being abused, threatened, tortured, forced into defense mode and finally attacking out of desperation to defend themselves and get free
The victim will commonly get provoked into giving a bad reaction, (anyone gets defensive if theyâre accused of the crimes they never did, or simply triggering insults until they snap), and the reaction will become the new âproofâ that the victim is in fact, evil and guilty
A lot of pressure will be put on you to react âcorrectlyâ to the smear campaign; if you donât accept to demonize this person at once, youâre getting scrutinized, shamed for your lack of morality, told that you support all these horrid things and that you are just as despicable
You will notice a trend of people ganging together based on their demonization of the victim; they will set a standard where youâre accepted and welcome if only you also will demonize and hate this person, and if you donât, youâre blocked, cast out, and accused of causing harm
It will feel very easy to accept to demonize this person, and going against it will feel risky, like going against the grain, doubting the word of the many and risking being demonized yourself.
The smear campaign continues all the way until the victim is chased out of the community and denied a voice, even if the victim commits no further crimes, awful things will be said about them, their past âmisdeedsâ continually brought up, until the victim is commonly believed to be worthless, and becomes completely isolated, scared of society and alone
There will be no limit to what is considered okay to do to the victim of a smear campaign; even if the victim is accused of minor bad behaviour, it will become okay to threaten, insult, shout slurs, trigger, provoke, humiliate, manipulate, and repeat any kind of abusive behaviour to the victim, all because âtheyâre bad so they deserve itâ.
People leading the smear campaign will switch between being âextremely grossed out and enragedâ to showing absolute joy and satisfaction when they find a new reason to demonize and smear the victim. People truly horrified of someoneâs actions do not get a leap of joy when a new disaster happens, theyâre not beside themselves to abuse the perpetrator all over again.
It will never, ever be acceptable to show any mercy to the victim. Forgiveness is out of the question, trying to understand them is out of the question. Even reading or listening to what this person is saying will be banned and forbidden, unless itâs for humiliating purposes. They will be shown as absolutely irredeemable, and associating yourself with them as evil and unforgivable. You will be instructed to block or unfollow or report the person based on what youâre told, without any significant proof.
Do not fall for smear campaigns. If a large amount of people all agree that a person is the worst, but their story is exaggerated, out of context, sounds fictional, and doesnât show any proof, and the people switch from being enraged to eager, doubt it. Participating in a smear campaign will help the abusers isolate and abuse someone, and you do not want to be a part of it. They will also smear anyone who stands up to their abuse, so youâre helping the abusers to create a place where pointing out abuse gets you cast out of the community.
âIn the new wave of transgenderism, gender becomes biology. Instead of recognizing that gender is a social and political construct, trans advocates claim it is a personal issue of self-identification by declaration, with or without hormonal treatment and/or surgical interventionâa biological toggle switch to turn on and off at will.
In other words, it is a self-assessment of oneâs stereotypical degree of masculinity or femininity and is mistakenly confused with biological sex. This confusion stems from a cultural inability to understand the wide distribution of personalities and preferences within the sexes and a possible overlap between them.â
From the âNeutralâ Body to the Postmodern Cyborg, Silvia Guerini
I think the fact that many feminists are hesitant to state at least some women were and are enslaved within their families (by husbands/fathers) is telling as to just how prevalent misogyny still is. non-feminists will straight up laugh in your face if you bring it up.
meanwhile judges in late 1800s America were stating â[NOW, as per this NEW law] the wife is not to be considered as the husbandâs slaveâ (Fulgham v State (1871) and TODAY governments are using the terms âslaveâ and âmasterâ in several sections of law regarding wives and their husbands (Afghanistan). Child (and older) brides are owned by their fathers and sold into the possession of other men. in some places, itâs still legal to murder women you âownâ.
These women are owned and sold as property and are expected to do unpaid, life-long labour for their âownersâ. this labour is 24/7, being pregnant, looking after children, cooking, cleaning, mental load etc etc. one part of that âlabourâ is pretending to love their âownersâ. That doesnât mean itâs not slavery. Sometimes their âownersâ will treat her like a dog and give her treats and toys and let her sleep on the bed. Sometimes their âownersâ will be affectionate towards her.
that doesnât mean itâs not still buying and selling a human being for the purposes of forced, unpaid life-long labour. The men making these laws will call it what it is meanwhile we shy away from the term. Marriage is the social construct which provides all men can have a maid slave. maids are paid.
before anyone goes crazy
I am not saying marriage = cotton-picking. i am not saying marriage = sugar plantations. they are not the same. that doesnât mean there arenât wives which are enslaved to their husbands. that doesnât mean your great-grandmotherâs condition doesnât fit this definition.
@friendlyfreakazoid fantastic addition
further reading: this post
Whenever people look at me, a gnc lesbian with a buzzcut, no makeup, and unshaven body hair, and ask me my pronouns, all I hear is âI see youâre not being a woman correctly. Do you want me to pretend youâre not a woman?â
I think the fact that many feminists are hesitant to state at least some women were and are enslaved within their families (by husbands/fathers) is telling as to just how prevalent misogyny still is. non-feminists will straight up laugh in your face if you bring it up.
meanwhile judges in late 1800s America were stating â[NOW, as per this NEW law] the wife is not to be considered as the husbandâs slaveâ (Fulgham v State (1871) and TODAY governments are using the terms âslaveâ and âmasterâ in several sections of law regarding wives and their husbands (Afghanistan). Child (and older) brides are owned by their fathers and sold into the possession of other men. in some places, itâs still legal to murder women you âownâ.
These women are owned and sold as property and are expected to do unpaid, life-long labour for their âownersâ. this labour is 24/7, being pregnant, looking after children, cooking, cleaning, mental load etc etc. one part of that âlabourâ is pretending to love their âownersâ. That doesnât mean itâs not slavery. Sometimes their âownersâ will treat her like a dog and give her treats and toys and let her sleep on the bed. Sometimes their âownersâ will be affectionate towards her.
that doesnât mean itâs not still buying and selling a human being for the purposes of forced, unpaid life-long labour. The men making these laws will call it what it is meanwhile we shy away from the term. Marriage is the social construct which provides all men can have a maid slave. maids are paid.
before anyone goes crazy
I am not saying marriage = cotton-picking. i am not saying marriage = sugar plantations. they are not the same. that doesnât mean there arenât wives which are enslaved to their husbands. that doesnât mean your great-grandmotherâs condition doesnât fit this definition.
i'm not really sure how people got it in their heads that natal women are a privileged class whose desire for language to articulate their struggles and spaces to talk about it privately is an archaic desire to roleplay victimhood when it still isn't even considered a hate crime for someone to murder a woman for no other reason than that she is female and a woman is murdered every 11 minutes, according to a 2020 study by the united nations.
the study is here. i don't doubt that trans women are murdered and suffer hate crimes for being transgender, but the notion that femicide simply does not exist, that natal women do not live in fear that each time they step outside their home or welcome someone into it it may be the last time, is not a reflection of reality, but a reflection of how disposable female lives are and how numb to their deaths we collectively are. 47,000 deaths- and this is only counting intimate partner or family violence -of a single marginalized population in one year is not normal, nor should it be a tolerable state of affairs for anyone who recognizes our humanity.
by some stats in the US a woman is raped about every minute, the lower estimates show 48 in an hour
In analyzing the sex-class system, feminists are accused of inventing or perpetuating it. Calling attention to it, we are told, insults women by suggesting that they are victims, stupid enough to allow themselves to be victimized. Feminists are accused of being the agents of degradation by postulation that such degradation exists.
Andrea Dworkin
By failing to remove John Davidsonâs tic from the broadcast, editors let down both black and disabled people, says Guardian assistant Opinio
Itâs been kinda shit being someone with Touretteâs this past week.
Hey Iâm aware this is an Unpopular Opinion⢠but I watched a bit of RuPaulâs drag race for the first time today and itâs some of the most sexist fucking crap. Iâve always had a bit of a pet peeve about drag queens but this show has cemented it as actual boiling rage. These men are putting on ten pound wigs, monstrous makeup and trashy clothes, bitching about each other, swatting at each otherâŚand the âpersonasâ they adopt to do these things are, without exception, women.
Please THINK about this. Please understand what this means. Drag queens are such a perfect example of the way men - yes, even gay men - think about women. Nothing but walking sex, irrational and petty and mean, unable to befriend each other, obsessed with catering to the male gaze, obsessed with praise and validation of our bodies.
And one other thing I actually hadnât thought of before: the reason these men look like models on the catwalk?
Because theyâre men. They have flat stomachs and skinny arms and long legs and no arses or tits because their fat distribution is different, because theyâre naturally taller, because their bodies werenât made to carry and feed children, because the fashion world is run by gay men who have made the âidealâ womanâŚâŚâŚ.a man.
And these fuckers DARE to call themselves women. Itâs fucking sickening. Do whatever the fuck you want, wear whatever the fuck you want, be the most spoilt, petty brat you want to be, but donât you DARE think any of that could ever make you a woman, that any of that is even a little bit of what it means to be a woman.
hi iâm mansplain hipsterglasses and this is my girlfriend undercut purplehair. weâre here to queer heterosexuality and explain to you why lesbianism is regressive
you arenât a marxist leftist if you donât believe in sex oppression and reproductive exploitation of the female. marx was a fuckin terf, engels was a fuckin terf, you loons. you vapid goofs. literally that is the basis of collectivist-communalist political theories, the bourgeois exploitation of female reproductive labour as a way to serve the maintenance of a large proletariat wage slavering workforce
the tie is inextricable and this âsoft queer radical communistâ tripe has no actual basis of intelligent, coherent thought behind it liberalist tarrycockâŚneocaptialist idiocy
why have the queer cabal co-opted all of the edge with none of the analysis? this is starting to become more and more apparent to me and is disconcerting. it is a real obstacle to liberatory direct action when identity politics take precedence over materialist analysis.
if your identity is dependent upon the capitalist consumption of goods engineered to perpetuate the oppression of the marginalized sex caste (females), you arenât a fuckin marxist leftist. youâre a che fanboy with a gun fetish and a fat wallet. ridiculous
wow look at marx using the word âwomenâ to refer to female people. how regressive
marx is a swerf???? oh my god
Engels wrote âOrigin of the Family, Private Property, and the Stateâ which was basically several hundred pages detailing how the origin of all hierarchical class structures and economic inequities lies in the biological/reproductive exploitation of women.
Thatâs why I donât understand why so many Marxist Leninists are trans women. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Che, and Fidel wouldnât bend over backwards for your delusion. Your delusion is the antithesis of materialism lmao
Not just Marxist-Leninists, but most prominent socialists in general. Everyone from Parsons to Luxemburg, to Goldman, Newton, the Black Panther Party, Davis, the French Materialist feminist school, Chomsky, Zizek, etc., they all understood the biological foundations of misogyny and sex-based oppression. Even postmodernists like Foucault and Butler didnât deny the material conditions of it. It canât even be chalked up to bad ideology because no notable thinkers believed the things TRAs assert as truth. TRAs who claim to be Marxists/socialists are just straight-up reactionaries LARPing another personality the same way they LARP gender identities.
last year or maybe two years ago I was at an event for marx birthday, there were just a lot of lectures/tedtalks(?) at that location I was shocked by the sheer amount of self proclaimed marxists shitting on âorigin of the family, private property and the stateâ because it didnât fit the trans agenda. needless to say I didnât stay long. I went to a marxist event and to my horror it was overtaken by queer activists.
Why am I not even phased. This is why I donât directly involve myself with any leftist organizations anymore, they always turn out to be echo chambers saturated with people who know no real-world issues.
they call themselves marxist leninists because it sounds cool. thatâs literally it. they think it makes them appear subversive, rebellious and intellectual. their whole lives are about labels (which they claim to hate) and appearances, nothing else. they donât care if a label actually applies to them (woman, marxist, âqueerâ, radical, âŚ), they just appropriate it when they like the sound of it and then cry violence when somebody states that definitions exist for a reason. thatâs how they build their âidentityâ.Â
Iâve been to too many âsocialistâ events where the only women whose oppression was so bad it needed to emphasized were trans women and âsex workersâ. Of course many of them were ok with women staying in prostitution.
The Woman Worker PDF
dude i used to identify as nonbinary and shit and when people ask me âwhy did you become a terfâ itâs genuinely because i took anatomy as an elective. once you get away from social media and sit down and actually learn what the human body does you realize a bunch of shit tras say either makes no sense or is contradictory to what we understand about the human body
How does advocates saying wrong things disprove the existence of trans people?
What about being trans contradicts our understanding of the human body?
1. Sexual dimorphism is prominent enough that it can be identified in skeletons even after all other cells have rotted away.
2. Every cell in the body has DNA and a sex chromosome. This is necessary because the 2 sexes code for very different endocrine systems (your hormonal systems), which are crucial regulators of all other organ systems. Your skin, heart, lungs, muscles, digestive system, and (of course) reproductive system are all regulated by your endocrine system.
3. All intersex conditions cause variations of male or female sex characteristics. Some people occasionally have both male and female parts, but no one who experiences that is a true hermaphrodite, because the endocrine system only allows one to operate functionally (if either system Does operate, which is not always the case). There is no third type of genitalia or endocrine system associated with intersex disorders. When a person is born with just one chromosome, it is always an x chromosome. It results in atypical female development, not a third sexual state. Thus, transitioning to any nonbinary state is impossible. There is no naturally occurring nonbinary or gender fluid person, the existence of these genders are a social construct made to describe certain personalities.
4. While there are variations in the arrangement of grey matter in the brain, no research has proved that this has to do with sex or self-identified gender. These differences likely has to do with the brains plasticity and responses to environmental stimuli that influence its development. Furthermore, if brain sex was real and could be tested to identify transgender people, ALL people seeking trans healthcare would be required to have brain scans as part of the diagnostic criteria. That does not happen; you can ask your transitioning friends or read interviews of detransitioners.
6. Puberty blockers, HRT, and affirming surgeries all have potentially life-threatening complications associated with them. Despite what the doctors on Ted talk may tell you, puberty blockers like lupron are not safe, they are associated with early onset bone degeneration. Testosterone applied to a female body is associated with an increased risk of post-menopausal health issues like vaginal atrophy. This issue may be mild on its own, but it increases your risk of BV, which is likely what led to Buck Angel nearly dying of sepsis based in his own account of the situation.
These are not healthy reactions to HRT. these are signs of sickness and pain caused by attempting to force incorrect hormone regulations onto cells programmed for a specific set of hormones. I will not describe the complications associated with surgery because when trans surgery goes wrong, it is often very painful and traumatizing for the victims. However, i do think the high rates of complications for all gender affirming surgeries is indicative that it is not actually possible to change your sex. If you wish to learn about how a person's body may reject "gender affirming" surgeries, Please go hear stories of complications directly from trans people because I cannot describe those experiences in a respectful way.
Scientifically, it's just not possible to change your sex. So what about gender? What is gender? It's not your physical body. It's not the structure or function of your brain. When you analyze gender, at the core, it is a feeling. It's an emotion you have. Like any emotion, it is volatile (subject to change -> explains why many people question their identity frequently before and after coming out; explains genderfluid identities; explains detransition). Like any emotion, it is a reaction to your environment.
Many trans people have stressful home environments. Many trans people are victims of CSA or rape. Many young trans people are autistic, and have never been able to fit in with others or correctly follow social rules like gender roles (and if you've ever lived around other people, been to school, been to work, or been outside, then you have been subjected to gender roles, whether you realize it or not). Many trans people are also gay or bi, and may have grown up in an unaccepting community. All of these experiences cause feelings of alienation, feelings of being "wrong" or "abnormal," and detachment from your body. Gender is a way to explain and justify those feelings, because it is easier to change yourself than it is to change an unaccepting community.
reposting this as a summary of all my concerns about trans ideology and a concentrated list of all the contradictions the movement spews. as well as the obvious sociological/psychological explanations of trans dysphoria.
sis i don't understand your mentality.. how can you support women but not trans women?? they are STILL women! if you are born with male reproductive organs that just make you feel so confused and horrible and eventually feel so happy by identifying as female, how can you not accept them? *genuine question*
here's my honest answer.
my beliefs about trans women are only the incidental product of my beliefs about feminism. I fundamentally believe that women are oppressed for their sex, not for their femininity. I believe that the society that fosters this sex-based oppression uses compulsory femininity as a method of oppression. I believe that we need distinct terminology to discuss and try to heal the division between the sexes. As a result of this, I believe that efforts to facilitate confusion of these terms hurt and hinder the progress of feminism. If women are oppressed for their gender and not their sex, then no one except people who wanted to be oppressed would identify as women. I think the root of the reason terfs have the reputation they do is that we just refused to change the terminology, which TRAs took as a denial of their cause.
I want to ask you, what is womanhood? what is the common trait that all women have that identifies them as the ones men oppress? what does it mean for someone to "feel like a woman" cis or not? if sex has no bearing on gender, what causes the desire to transition sex? what is it about "feeling like a woman" causes people to want long hair and makeup?
I didn't start off a terf. I was deeply involved in the TRA movement for a long time, genuinely believing your cause and wholeheartedly agreeing that trans women were women. i encourage you to think critically about what a woman is, about how your definition may be impacted by the sexist culture in which it was formed, about how to effectively protect or even discuss the rights of a group so ill-defined that there is no functional difference in definition between the oppressor class and the oppressed class. I encourage you to think critically about this, even if you don't admit it aloud.
I support biological females because we share an anatomical trait that has been exploited, abused, and cited as both cause and proof of our âinherent inferiorityâ to males for millennia, and I believe there should be a designated movement just to support, defend, and liberate people affected by this. I believe that movement is called feminism and those people are called women. that is how I don't see the place for trans women in that movement. It is a movement for the protection of sex-based human rights for the human sex which has been oppressed for the sex of our bodies. And thatâs without even getting into the issue of gender-based activism.
The idea of an inherent âwoman-brainâ just reaffirms the idea that there is an ephemeral woman-essence that is innate and inborn and is what makes a woman; this is necessarily in conflict with the core tenets of feminism, which has been arguing for over a century now against the misogynistic doctrine of âwomen are just better at housework and nurturing and obsessing over beauty and their hormones make them baby-crazy the way their periods make them unsuitable for leadership,â insisting that the social constructs and constraints of womanhood are not baked into our second X chromosome. âFeeling like a womanâ is no different from feeling like a man. We are neutral fucking mammals. There is no one way women think, there is no one way men think, we are all individuals and the notion that oneâs individuality needs to be labelled as a gender in relation to oneâs sex just reinforces the ideas that:
(a) there is an expected gendered brain for your sex (i.e., âman-gender-brainâ for males, âwoman-gender-brainâ for females) and that people are born with these gendered brains. (b) the majority of the population (i.e. the âcisâ demographic) does have an innate gender-brain corresponding to their sex; so, claiming the entire population of âcisâ women actually do have innate âwoman-gender-brainsâ. (c) those who do not feel like their gender-brain matches up to what is expected of their sex are oppressed by the âcis,â on the basis that having the expected gendered brain is a privilege; so, claiming that âcisâ women are privileged for their supposedly-innate âwoman-gender-brainsâ because thatâs what corresponds to their female sex, while simultaneously claiming that female humans who realise they do not have innate âwoman-gender-brainsâ are not women AND that male humans (whose only notion of what a âwoman-gender-brainâ feels like compared to a âman-gender-brainâ is based in conjecture) who feel that their brain is innately gendered âwomanâ are women and that they are oppressed by âcisâ women because their bodies âdonât matchâ their supposedly innate woman-gender-brain (again reinforcing the association between âinnate woman-gender-brainâ and âfemaleâ by having this demographic as the vocal exception). (d) that this gender-brain, not the sex with which it is forcibly and artificially associated, is what sexism/misogyny has been based on all along; so, claiming that that supposedly-innate woman-gender-brain (which we canât detect or coherently define) is the trait for which women were/are paid less, objectified, denied the vote, forcibly married and indentured into housework, genitally mutilated, raped and trafficked and sold en masse, forced to give birth... I could go on.
Can you see now how this is reinforcing the same sexist ideas about gender it claims to be overturning? The very idea of innate gender is sexist. the idea that women either identify with the misogynistic societal notions of what womanhood is or they shed the title âwomanâ is not progressive or feminist at all. There are three potential definitions of âwomanâ at this point:
1. anyone who feels like a woman (tautological, meaningless, and functionally useless for feminism; indestinguishable from âmanâ when likewise defined as âanyone who feels like a manâ. How can one oppress the other and on what basis? for what trait? how can we legislate when we canât define whom weâre protecting and from whom?) 2. anyone who identifies with the social associations with womanhood, (e.g., femininity, nurturing, or any of the ever-fluctuating social tropes or expectations of women, any conception of âwomanhoodâ which is opposed to parallel conceptions of âmanhoodâ; a definition fundamentally based in misogyny for its assumption that these traits are not only innate, but innately tied to womanhood. itâs bioessentialism without the bio-; itâs just gender essentialism. itâs sexism.) 3. human of the female sex. (womanhood denotes nothing inherent other than sex; no inborn traits, no natural femininity, no innate woman-gender-brain. we are neutral humans the same as men, with the same internal range of individuality, and the only inherent difference between us is our physical sex. useful for activism because it includes everyone oppressed for their sex by--again--simply denoting our sex.)
None of this means I hate/oppose/wish violence on males who engage in "feminine" behaviour or dress. I honestly donât care what people wear. Some have argued that they are helping to break down the gender barriers assigned to the sexes by engaging in activities that men consider "womanly" and simultaneously "weak" (which, to be clear, are considered weak not because of menâs hatred of femininity, but because of a disdain for the roles theyâve forced us into to uphold the charade of their superiority). however, engaging in activities that men historically limited women to does not make you a woman. The men who claim that enjoying or being intrigued by femininity makes them women are misogynists. The insinuation that being drawn to âgirlyâ âfeminineâ behaviours/things (the products of a culture bent on keeping girls pretty and vacant) makes them women is misogynistic in itself.
sometimes I really do snap myself back into perspective with the realization that I'm a very small fraction of women in the world who have these freedoms in 2024
Guiding the conversationâtypes of regret after gender-affirming surgery and their associated etiologies
