#"terfs

[the-fucking-fuck]

And get off my fucking blog 💅

[snicklefritzthecat]

[maidslime]

It's very telling how many terfs think "porn addiction" is a real thing when researchers found it to be a Christian invention that has to deal with shame and not actually a real addiction.

*Gasp!* You're telling me terfs are just conservative Christians?!

[eldritchbauble]

TERFs and nazis are on the same side.

[football-in-tuxedos]

What's distressing, but also important to understand, about JK Rowling hitting the "Denying trans people were targeted in the Holocaust" point is that it's kind of the last stop before she just goes full alt-right weirdo.

Joanne is denying the Holocaust (if a group was targeted, denying they were targeted is Holocaust denial) and that's going to lead to pushback from historians and experts. But Joanne is too deep in to believe what anyone who disagrees with her says, so she's just going to dismiss what those historians and experts tell her. And once she's disbelieving them about that one thing, well it's just a tiny step to start disbelieving them about other things.

This isn't by accident either, transphobic circles are swarming with far right agitators, ready to use hatred of trans people as an in to recruit people into their causes. They have handbooks for this sort of thing and they are, unfortunately, good at it. I suspect Joanne will be spouting coded versions of Great Replacement stuff by the end of the summer.

This is not a plea to try and pull Joanne out. She's too deep in, and even if she wasn't, she's already demonstrated an inability to examine her own prejudices, an unwillingness to hear criticism and a weakness to flattery. She is perfect recruitment bait for people who know what they're doing, and my impression is she's surrounded herself with people like that.

No, this is to understand two things: First is to use her as an example, to understand how a well meaning liberal can chase their own prejudices down a very dark rabbit hole. We are none of us immune to propaganda and even if we can't change what's happened to her, we can at least use it to protect ourselves.

And second is to understand that one of the main reasons you can't pull Joanne out of the transphobic pipeline is cause she is the pipeline now. She is the transphobic banner bearer now, she is funneling money and attention to these groups, she is their most famous celebrity and she is helping recruit people. Being able to show people how far she's gone, how deep into the right wing rabbit hole she's going, is important to help other people who still think she just "Had some concerns" know where her path leads.

[keebiecoo]

i do think part of why people aren't willing to understand that sexism hurts both men & women & that men should be able to talk about the ways sexism hurts them is partially because a big part of sexism against men is assuming that men are always the perpetrator & never the victim, male domestic violence victims aren't believed, male rape victims aren't believed, men who look unkempt or unattractive are seen as predatory by default, men who cry or complain are seen as weak & annoying, & that is sexism! but when that is how you are programed to think of men, men who talk about that sexism will seem like predators trying to convince you they're victims, instead of just understanding that they are victims talking about their experiences

[green-feminist]