Ethel Cain being accused of "flashing" people for posting (very tasteful) nude pictures of herself is such silly transmisogyny. This isn't the first time I've seen this happen to a transfem musician. When Patricia Taxxon was being harassed off the site, she was accused by her harassers/stalkers of "e-flashing" for posting nudes of herself on her twitter. One woman's music is more popular than the other, but same transmisogynistic tactics is used against both.
It's such a ridiculous argument. It's clearly rooted in transmisogyny, painting transfems as predatory for actions that clearly aren't. And it's based in the idea that transfem bodies are so disgusting that cis people just seeing them uncovered is a violation, which is common to the changing room "debate."
Also calling posting nudes to your own social media account "flashing" for this frankly minimizes the actual act of sexual harassment that word refers to. When a man actually flashes a woman in meatspace, it's a serious, frightening situation for the woman where the man being a creep constitutes an actual physical threat. Comparing that to a woman posting a nude picture of herself on her own social media account is an absurd and deeply offensive comparison.
