[roach000fister-remade-deactivat]

it’s just me and my hairy legs against the world

[vaporwavelich-gotta-move]

[id; desktop screenshot of the above post where op has been highlighted red by shinigami eyes]

unfortunate, but this one's gonna be for your blocklist, friends.

[kvetchcore]

so its more like her and her shitty hateful political views against the world.

[kvetchcore]

Lmao babe you made her change her URL, that's so funny.

[roach000fister-remade-deactivat]

lmfaooo not these randos thinking they’re relevant enough to make me change any fucking thing 😭 like i give a fuck

[amphibiam]

embarrassing

[macroclit-deactivated20230725]

What does "unprofessionally diagnosed" even mean I'm??

[rabiesofficial]

Paid a guy behind a mcdonalds for the diagnosis

[angrrrl]

I'm sorry about the rape threats your getting its truly wrong. But you are a terf and should still kys

[runawaymp3lesbian]

[plansfornigel-deactivated201703]

WE ARE ALL WINSTON SMITH NOW

June 18, 2014 by culturallyboundgender “Trans women are women.”

Among the most important themes explored in Orwell’s 1984 is that of language and its relation to oppression.

One of the most compelling moments in that book describes the…

[thebitchyspider]

I’m copying the text, because it’s important. I may also have to make a wordpress account :)

We Are All Winston Smith Now

June 18, 2014 by culturallyboundgender

“Trans women are women.”

Among the most important themes explored in Orwell’s 1984 is that of language and its relation to oppression.

One of the most compelling moments in that book describes the protagonist, Winston Smith, realizing that the most valuable freedom of all is the freedom to tell the truth.

Later on, he is tortured for the thought he had—the idea that freedom means the ability to tell the truth, to be able to say that two plus two equals four.  His torturer, hired by the state to break his will, seizes upon this idea:

“Only the disciplined mind can see reality, Winston. You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When  you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party. That is the fact that you have got to relearn, Winston. It needs an act of self-destruction, an  effort of the will. You must humble yourself before you can become sane.’

He paused for a few moments, as though to allow what he had been saying to sink in.

‘Do you remember,’ he went on, ‘writing in your diary, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four”?’

‘Yes,’ said Winston.

O’Brien held up his left hand, its back towards Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.

‘How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?’

‘Four.’

‘And if the party says that it is not four but five–then how many?’

‘Four.’

The word ended in a gasp of pain. The needle of the dial had shot up to fifty-five. The sweat had sprung out all over Winston’s body. The air tore into his lungs and issued again in deep groans which even by clenching his teeth he could not stop. O’Brien watched him, the four fingers still extended. He drew back the lever. This time the pain was only slightly eased.

‘How many fingers, Winston?’

‘Four.’

The needle went up to sixty.

‘How many fingers, Winston?’

‘Four! Four! What else can I say? Four!’

- 1984, George Orwell

It’s a powerful scene. So powerful, in fact, that at least two science fiction television shows have used the same concept.

In the Babylon 5 episode, Intersections in Real Time, a government torturer works to destroy Captain Sheridan’s sense of time, but more than that, to get him to agree that time—one of the most measurable, readily perceived concepts available to human consciousness—is malleable to the will.

INTERROGATOR: This is really excellent corned beef. You have to get just the right mustard. The brown with the seeds, not the yellow kind. And not too much of it. If there’s too much, it irritates the corners of my mouth.

Oh, would–would you like some? I know they haven’t fed you since you got here. That’s at least two days. Besides, it’s lunchtime. Isn’t it? Isn’t it lunchtime? You just said it was morning. Well, you can’t have a corned-beef sandwich for breakfast. It would upset your stomach. Corned-beef sandwiches are for lunch. If it’s morning, you can’t have it. If it’s lunchtime you can. Is it lunchtime?

SHERIDAN: I’m sure it’s lunchtime somewhere.

INTERROGATOR: Excellent answer. Here. I ate half of that myself. Killing you does nobody any good. I told you, I’m here to ensure your cooperation. And I can’t do that if you’re dead, now can I? It does prove, though, how everything is a matter of perspective. You think you see daylight, and you assume it’s morning take it away, you think it’s night. Offer you a sandwich, if it’s convenient, you’ll think it’s midday. The truth is fluid. The truth is  subjective. Out there, it doesn’t matter what time it is. In here, it’s lunchtime if you and I decide that it is. The truth is sometimes what you believe it to be and other times what you decide it to be. My task is to make you decide to believe differently. And when that happens the world will remake itself before your very eyes.

– Babylon 5, “Intersections in Real Time”

Star Trek: The Next Generation borrows even more liberally from Orwell in its episode “Chain of Command: Part II,” even re-using the numbers four and five as the basis for the torture.  Picard’s captor insists there are five lights on a ceiling which, objectively, has only four.

Picard doesn’t yield to the torture—he’s rescued just in time.  Smith does, and is executed by the state once he truly loves Big Brother.  Lest anyone believe that starship captains are simply made from sterner stuff than a Winston Smith-style bureaucrat, the episode’s most poignant moment comes from its coda:

PICARD: One thing I didn’t put in my report… at the very end, he offered me a choice… between a life of comfort… or more torture… all I had to do was say there were five lights.

Troi regards him for a brief moment.

TROI: You didn’t say it…

PICARD: No… but I was going to. I was ready to tell him anything he wanted… anything at all. But more than that, I was beginning to believe there were five lights.

– Star Trek: The Next Generation (Chain of Command: Part II)

And therein lies the real lesson of all three works.  The goal of the torturers, in all cases, was not simply to urge the profession of belief.  The ideal party member, in Orwell’s 1984, is capable of a rather neat mental trick known as doublethink.

When a person doublethinks, they simultaneously believe something to be true and not true.  The government in 1984 tells its citizens, over and over, that “war is peace,” and “freedom is slavery.”  This enables editors like Winston to more readily change history, since people are more likely to accept being at war with a nation one day and at peace the next, for instance, if they believe that the two concepts aren’t really all that different.

Which brings us to a four-word statement:

“Trans women are women.”

I’d like to unpack this statement a little bit.

I’ve now asked a number of people making it to talk to me about what it means.  Specifically, I’ve asked them what “woman” means, in this sentence.  I’ve gotten the same answer repeatedly from trans advocates:

“A woman is a person who identifies as a woman.”

This is a statement that is literally devoid of content; a semantic nothing.  When one identifies “as a woman,” what is one identifying with?

When I have asked this question, the answers change drastically depending on the person I am speaking to.  Sometimes, I am told of boys who longed to have “the feeling of a hole between my thighs being filled” and who insist on surgery to correct their feelings of bodily wrongness (even when told that girls don’t feel a “hole” where their vaginas are), or who believed that a vagina, being cleft, would enable them to do the splits in a way their scrotum would not (just in case you’re reading this, V, splits are easier for girls because of their ligaments–not their vulvas).

Other times, I’ve heard of people feeling forced out by imposed sex roles.  “I always empathized more with women.”  “I have a softer side and abhor violence.” “I think I was supposed to be a dad, not a mom, because of the way I interact with my child.”  Many of these people profess to have little or no actual genital dysphoria, and are upset at the idea that such dysphoria is considered necessary to change sex on government forms and so forth.

In other words, when someone says “trans women are women,” they may be saying one of several things.  It can be, for instance, a statement that means “trans women have female brains.”  In this instance, “trans women are women” is being used cover for a much more controversial statement, one that forces the person saying it to agree with the notion that there is “brain sex,” a badly outmoded and anti-feminist idea.

Other times, “trans women are women” means “trans women feel they fit in better with women’s social roles.”  Again, this uses a deceptively simple four-word sentence to cover a much more problematic truth.

“Trans women are women” is a statement that means a hundred different things to a hundred different people, and it all hinges on this question: what does it mean to identify as a woman?  Simply saying that there is only one answer to this question (no matter what that answer is) will yield accusations of transphobia and cause in-fighting.  So the only safe statement—since more clear and unambiguous statements will lead to disagreement and strife—is the four-word mantra, “trans women are women.”

Yet this simple statement has worked to serve another purpose, as well.

In 1984, as well as Star Trek: The Next Generation and Babylon 5, counterfactual statements are used to wield power.

“If it’s lunchtime, you can have a sandwich.” It isn’t, of course, but you haven’t eaten.  So you agree to the counterfactual, starved and not caring.  “If there are five lights, we’ll treat you well (and if you don’t, they’ll torture you).”  There aren’t, of course, but you’re so tired, and the lights are so blurry…two plus two might equal five, mightn’t it?  Of course, it doesn’t, but does that matter when simply saying so will make the difference between captivity and freedom, between contentedness and suffering?

Consider the statement “trans women are women” again. This time, think about how this statement is actually used in online activism circles, rather than how people explain its definition when pressed.

When women refuse to toe the line on the trans mantra, they are harassed, threatened, guilt-tripped.  Women—many of them abuse or sexual assault survivors—are told that any statement contrary to “trans women are women” is not simply rude or even untrue, but actually violent, because it could cause transgender people to feel suicidal.

Women are told that violence is unacceptable, time and time again.  When women are accused of violence because of “misgendering,” they often change their tone nearly immediately.  It doesn’t seem like it matters much whether there are four lights or five, after all.  What’s the difference?  And if it’ll stop me from getting accused of unfeminist behavior, if it’ll stop me being no-platformed, if it’ll stop all of this—if I can come back into the feminist fold—who’s to say two plus two hasn’t been five all along?

I used to use “she” to describe MTF trans people.  I used to use “he” to describe FTM trans people.  I will no longer engage in this practice, except for when directly speaking to trans people who could conceivably direct violence toward me.  Make no mistake, trans folks: many people outside your movement, even the ones who nod in agreement with the statement “trans women are women,” don’t really believe it.  When they are women, they have been trained to spare your feelings and to avoid potential conflict with males—especially those who are backed up by other males with violent tendencies.  I hope your pronouns feel like a hollow victory, wrested as they have been from the mouths of women who know the wrath they face for saying any other words but the ones you told them to say.

Remember this, when you’re told that misgendering is “violence”: “trans women are women” is a statement that is meaningless at best and is used a power exertion over women almost always, since they are not able to disagree or even clarify the speaker’s definition without being viciously attacked.

Do what you have to do, in order to get through your day.  But two plus two is never five.  There are always four lights.  And that corned beef sandwich he’s offering you is poison anyway (seriously, look it up).

[[A note to my readers: I expect my next post to be about the NCAA, Title IX, normal distributions, and exactly why “trans-inclusive” athletics policies fail.  I don’t know when I’ll have it out, but you can expect it to be sometime in the next couple of weeks.]]

[the-butterwitch]

So many times transactivists expressed the hope that you will change your idea while giving no reasoning and while refusing to argument. That’s because they want you to repeat slogans like a parrot, they don’t want you to understand. They chose violence and censorship.

So many times I saw transactivists getting mad at Jk Rowling or some other people because “they should have remained silent! No one wants to hear their opinions!”. She should have remained silent. Not “should have understood us”, “should have protect us”. Nope. All they want is performative activism, all they want is censorship: they don’t give a flying fuck about the cause.

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

This is also why they refuse to listen to our arguments even in order to address them and in hopes of our changing our minds

[butch-reidentified]

> "Lesbian"

Kill me

[runawaymp3lesbian]

[shes-unforgettable]

"women who almost look like men" is exactly my type they're just… phew.

RIGHT 😩🔥🥵

[werewolfpunani]

sometimes i see certain men when i'm out and i think "you would be so sexy if you were a woman but you're not so i feel NOTHING"

[knifefightscene]

How i sleep knowing I never fell for an abuser’s misinformation campaign because i have critical thinking skill and don’t believe everything i read on the internet

[pussystigmata]

demi lovato is a weird person to choose to be your lol gender havers are so dumb punching bag. okso we have a woman who has been being abused and exploited her whole life first from her abusive alcoholic father then by disney channel as a child star with bulimia, drug and alcohol addiction and bipolar disorder. being in a relationship with a groomer middle aged man when she was a teenager. only recently she had such a severe heroin overdose she got permananet brain damage and was raped while she was dying. not to mention clearly lacking a good support system being surrounded by enabler friends living a high profile high demanding life and yes being a bisexual woman clearly struggling with gender expectations as someone who struggled so fiercly and publically with her weight. it makes sense someone like her would struggle with a sense of self, self worth, and misogyny. like sorry we have men like ezra miller using "transness" as a shield for their sexual and violent crimes. yeah her comments are dumb but shes a celebrity ofc shes out of touch and doesnt think that deeply abt her politics. shes clearly an extremely troubled human being that has suffered a lot and people using ~gender~ esp when ur a young lgbt person with identity struggles bc of other things, people who wanna use ur fame for their agendas, wanting to be cool and keep up with trends without knowing what ur talking abt. all that makes sense. im not saying to coddle her but damn i dont think shes a malicious person and she seems like a weird person to want to hate on if ur personality revolves so much abt ~liberating women~. she has serious mental health issues because of the many men in her personal and professional life who have hurt abused and exploited her forgive me if i dont wanna point and laugh cos she said something silly abt pronouns.

[vulvader]

The TERF acronym is actually so hilarious to me because, like...

Yeah, I guess people who believe that biological sex is non-substantive don't feel included in my feminism, because my feminism is rooted in the belief that women are discriminated against on the basis of their biological sex, that that matters, and that they face unique challenges as a consequence of that.

If you don't acknowledge one's sex when they are being discriminated against by members of the opposite sex on that very basis, you are not an ally, and you are not a feminist. You cannot combat sexism while closing your eyes to it. You are providing shelter to the system of oppression that disenfranchises women on the basis of their sex.

But, regardless of what you may think, or whether or not you think you are excluded from my feminism because you adhere to an ideology that is completely antithetical to the root foundation of feminism, biological sex exists. And it will continue to exist. And women will continue to be discriminated against on the basis of their sex by male people, in ways impossible for women to even hypothetically utilize systems of oppression against them, because males and females are different, and there are lived consequences to that truth.

But, even whilst you may feel excluded from radical feminism from an ideological standpoint, if you are a female, radical feminists, whom you deem exclusionary, will still continue to fight to ensure your bodily integrity as a woman, as an adult human female, and that the unique experiences you face as a female will not be exploited by a male oppressor class.

In the same sense that I am a "trans-exclusionary radical feminist," (apparently, for whatever reason deemed fit) I am also a CERA: Christian-exclusionary radical atheist.

I wouldn't expect a religious person to feel included in my atheism, because their beliefs are completely antithetical to mine. But, again, this is just a metaphor for gender ideology in general, because we as women, and as feminists, are not allowed to differentiate between two different phenomena (men, and, of course, women), lest we are deemed exclusionary.

But, to be different, to belong to a different category, is naturally to be exclusionary. That is the very nature of existence, and I think it is high-time we acknowledge that their is no basis to fear this acronym.

The Christian may feel excluded from my atheism, but they can rest-assured that I will never take part in any political efforts to enshrine into law a personal interpretation of their scripture or any other that may infringe on their rights and freedoms.

So, yes, we should acknowledge the insidious and disingenuous way these words (words like TERF) are weaponized against us, and the way these words are often correlated with calls for violence to be enacted against us. But we should never internalize them. And this acronym on its own should not spark just vitriol in our on community in its own regard. These words are just words. And they are incredibly empty.

[shrikefem]

maybe highly unpopular opinion here on radblr dot com but actually maybe we shouldn't coddle and tread lightly around newly radicalized women. they're not made of glass bones and paper skin. if they feel threatened by our anger and decide to withdraw from these beliefs/the movement bc some woman online was a meanie, maybe they never had women's best interest in mind at all. sorry for not intending to put up with this bs as if its my fault x

[savedbythe-bellhooks]

[misgenderer]

one of the most baffling thing of the pro prostitution movement is their favorite mantra, “sex work is work.” that’s so funny. what do you expect me to say, “no it isn’t?” because i don’t care. makes not a lick of difference to me. you know what else is work? child labor, sweatshop labor, prison labor, slave labor, sharecropping, indentured servitude. all work. do you know why reasonable people are against those things? it’s not because they aren’t work. it’s because the inherently exploitative and potentially injurious conditions of the jobs make them morally unjustifiable. “sex work is work,” so what? what’s your point?

[darkwood-sleddog]

oh and btw if you're not aware Thomas has stated (very clearly) that they are coming for:

Griswold (contraception)

Lawrence (same-sex sexual intercourse)

Obergefell (gay marriage)

[starry-eyed-psychopomp]

For context, all three rulings hinged on the constitutional right to privacy under the 14th amendment. The Court’s reasoning for overturning Roe was that privacy is NOT a constitutional right, and so cannot extend to abortion access. This same logic can, and likely will, be applied to these three landmark cases, and Justice Clarence Thomas has released a statement explicitly declaring his intent to do so.

Obergefell is likely their next big target, though all are vulnerable. Its ruling was originally made on slim margins, 5-4, and there are currently only 3 liberal justices on the court. We’d need 2 conservatives to flip, and the only one who typically does so, Roberts, ruled AGAINST Obergefell originally. I don’t have high hopes for Griswold, though Lawrence might be a bit more difficult to overturn. Still, anything is possible nowadays, and there are A LOT of cases that hinge on the right to privacy from the past century. Precedent matters a great deal in the judicial world (though obviously not enough in the case of Roe), and they’ve set a new one here.

This is what they’ve been calling for for years. Don’t let people call you paranoid for listening.

[joannerowlingwashere]

When a young girl / woman tells you that she can't go without conforming to beauty standards, your reaction as an older, confident woman, should be not to tell her to just try to drop make-up / shaving / stop criticising her body, but to ask her questions, and listen. Ask her why she feels like this. Remember how you felt when you were that age. Empathise. It's so important because these girls often have no one else to talk about it. They don't talk to their mothers because they want to build themselves as adults without constantly having to rely on mum (which is healthy), and their female friends of the same age range are struggling with the same issues. Feminist manifestos are great, but sometimes all a girl needs is to see a slightly older woman who is at peace with herself and has fun, and genuinely cares about her. That doesn't mean faking happiness, by the way, but being aware and honest about your messes and struggles, not taking yourself seriously, yet knowing your worth, and reassuring younger women by presenting a sincerely desirable alternative model to the frozen, plastic smile of celebrities.

[trans-misogyny]

Montana woman, 38, charged with repeatedly raping a 12-year-old girl

Reene Marie Mills, 38, of Helena, Montanna, was booked into the Lewis and Clark County Jail on Friday afternoon on one count of sexual intercourse without consent and one count of sexual assault.

Not a woman. A man. A transgender male raped a 12 year old girl and people are reporting it as “mother of 3″ and “38 year old woman”.  Call. It. What. It. Is. This is male violence. This is a male pedophile. 

[shollymannon-deactivated2019032]

we’re about to see a massive spike in rapes committed by “women”, who before self-ID were statistically estimated to commit about 5% of sex crimes

this is a blatant attempt to soften the statistics so that females can no longer accurately name the violence that we are overwhelmingly victimized by, it is VERY RARE for an actual female to commit sexual assault but because of trans activists demanding that freaks like this have their precious pronouns respected, that extremely important sex dynamic is going to become lost in a swamp of inaccurate reporting

[dateon]

*males raping with their penises* fucking psychopathic lying media: woman on woman rape!!! wow remember that lesbians are evil?? women raping other women!!

[yourimaginaryfryend]

Are you people insane? you literally only have pronouns to determine her gender. jawlines don’t mean shit, builds don’t mean shit. Rape is fucking rape regardless of who did it. Get off the crazy train and do something about rapists besides bitch about trans women

[celtyradfem]

He raped a 12 year old girl with his penis.

Women don’t have have penises.

You have the audacity to call us crazy when you are calling a pedophilic man who raped 12 year old girl (who have female bodies which means that have vaginas) a ‘woman’.

He raped her with his penis and he exposed her to any dirty diseases he has which he could have infected his female victim.

He raped her her tiny body and he could have broken her pelvis with is huge male body.

He raped a little girl and he gets off on peerage is really a woman ‘on the inside’.

He could have impregnated her and she would be left with the trauma and stigma of being raped and being impregnated by an pedophile.

He raped a 12 year old girl and the media is complicit in obscuring the reality and covering for pedophiles and rapists by pretending they are really women.

She has to live with the psychological trauma and confusion of having and adult man rape her and having psychotic, misogynist trans fanatics scream that “women rape toooooooo” and chant that he raped her with his ‘female penis’ any one who states that he is a man will be told they are insane and will have character assissination campaigns enforced by the trans lobby and have the media try to force their woman hating psychosis on the world.

They have no idea what they started.

This is a war on women and we will fight you to the death.

[thegoddessesprotectme]

He has no place in womanhood.

He is Male and this is the actions of a male.

[butch-reidentified]

@yourimaginaryfryend

While I appreciate the attempt at gaslighting as if we can’t all tell this person is natally male, let me elaborate on how we know besides “jawline” or other phenotypic attributes. The screenshots below depict the definition of “rape” and the definition of “sexual intercourse” under Montana law. If this individual had a vagina, then the charge would more likely be sexual assault, sexual battery, and/or other similar charges. Very, very few places in the world will charge an individual with rape if no penetration is involved. On top of that, it is exceedingly rare for a female individual to commit sexual assault at all, and even MORE exceedingly rare for a female-on-female sexual assault to involve penetration by fingers, toys, or other objects. You can download a PDF detailing Montana’s sexual crimes laws here:

Here are photographs from simply Googling the definitions. These photographs are the same as the definitions you will find in the PDF above.

So combining the fact that this person has an obviously male facial structure with the fact that the likelihood a given rapist is male is 95%, and the fact that in Montana, a female rapist will likely receive a different charge than rape… I’m sure you can see how remarkably unlikely it is for this person to be female.

Furthermore - though unrelated to my above points - please understand that I and the vast majority of radical feminists I know are EXTREMELY active in IRL work. While most TRAs I have known occasionally attend a protest at best and spend most time in discourse groups online, most radfems I’ve known are organizers and genuine activists who commit large amounts of their spare time to fighting for women’s rights. What makes you think that just because a woman makes a Tumblr post, she isn’t also volunteering in shelters, calling her congresspeople, and protesting in the streets as well? What’s stopping us from doing both? Every radfem friend I currently have irl is doing all these things; most are doing even more. Meanwhile almost all TRA friends I’ve had or currently have irl spend 90% of their time online, a few attend BLM protests occasionally, and a couple actually sometimes come out and show up for women’s issues… when there’s a major crisis (ie protesting overturning Roe v Wade). How are you fighting for women? What are you doing to stop rape?

[magnetictapedatastorage]

literally though comparing written erotica to filmed prostitution is like comparing the street fighter arcade game to an actual street fight

[dykefibers]

females who hold radical feminist beliefs, unhinge yourself from identity politics. Do not swap out gender identity for “radfem identity” it’s a capitalist scam!!!!!

[dykefibers]

I’m seeing so many young girls come right out of the trans right activist pipeline into radical feminism (understandable!!!) treating it like it’s another “identity”. babes it’s an ideology - you can believe in it (parts of it) but it’s not who you are. You’ll burn out treating like an identity, just take a step back from treating online communities like a defining feature of the self.

[thyrell]

me when im coping super well and also btw am not a sex criminal

[bluesturngold]

x