#gender appropriation

[theexodvs]

yeah i hate how people on this site flip their shit whenever a white person wears a warbonnet or bindi, but then bend over backwards to defend creepy fetishistic men wearing makeup and dresses and heels

It's appropriation all the same.

[hypergraphic-rhino]

look, I even like the John Wicks, but I’m never not gonna be pissed they called a MAN Baba Yaga

the. au.da.city.

[fishfrommars]

Question for the trans/nb/agender/genderqueer/anyone who wears a binder community:

If I want to wear a costume, as a person with breasts who identifies as a woman, that is shirtless

Would it be offensive to wear a binder and be shirtless?

[anti-marxistcult]

Feminism has made male-appropriation a thing. Anything of value a man makes, a feminist will feel entitled to dive in and steal it.

[thesunandthemooncollided]

Gender appropriation.

Gender appropriation happens when members of a majority decide that womanhood is a performance. It happens when man decides what the essential qualities of women are and only see women with those qualities as worthy of attention or praise. It happens when fashion is sold as a costume. It happens when men claim they have an inner woman, and when femininity performed by men is seen as transgressive. Most importantly, adopting or mimicking femininity in “admiration” simply reduces womanhood to a stereotype. Just the same as with culture appropriation.

[knowtoryus]

Besides the immediate knowing that these men are not women, why do those who are conned believe that a male medical system with male surgeon, synthetic hormones, and castration can make women out of men? Do they really think that we are just the absence of male parts? Would women so easily believe that someone could use those means to change race or species? “Transphobia” is a lie. Of course women object to and find it offensive when men mimic us with misogynist ideas of “womanhood.” It’s like expecting African Americans to like Euro-Americans putting on blackface and doing minstrel shows. It’s insulting and oppressive. Do Lesbians bemoan how oppressed transvestites and drag queens are? They are caricaturing female oppression, which is exactly what men claiming to be us are doing. Part of the problem is that throughout patriarchy there is an ingrained sense that all females somehow belong to all males, to comment on, to order, to possess, to oppress, to own. That is part of why men can feel so comfortable with just appropriating our identity. We are their possessions to play with as they like. Drag queens and “transwomen” ridicule us. We are not “transphobic.” They oppress us.

https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/fighting-the-lie-of-“trans”-guest-post-by-bev-jo/

[nevertheherd]

'Intersectional' Hypocrisy

White man:

'I just feel a real affinity with the black cause... I feel that my musical tastes, love of smoking weed, hatred towards 'the man' and authority in general, the fact that I have dreadlocks, my understanding of some of the politics surrounding race, history surrounding slavery and just black culture in general mean that I really feel like I should be considered a real ally to black people. They should accept that I am politically black, black in the soul, and in every way that it really matters. Why should the fact that I am physically white, that the biology I was born with, make it so that I am not allowed to contribute to this struggle that I identify with so strongly, especially as race is only a social construct - isn't that the whole point of this struggle, showing that we are all the same, really?'

Intersectional tumblr feminist:

'Fuck right off. Being an ally is not about forcing us to accept you, and ignoring a history that has seen us exploited and oppressed based on the colour of our skin. Yes race is a social construct, but this does not mean you can just 'become' black and appropriate our struggle, no matter how much you think you 'get it', because our history of oppression based on the actual colour of our skin and (extreme exaggeration and misrepresentation of) other biological facts mean that we do have a shared, distinct history. A good ally supports us without demanding space in our movement. What's more, many of the things you say make you feel 'black' are damaging stereotypes that have been used to demean and justify further oppression of black people, so your propagating of these is actually racist in and of itself. So it is extremely offensive, to say the least, that you have chosen to use these in order to affirm your supposed 'blackness'.'

White man:

'I just feel that I really am a woman in reality. I love wearing makeup and having long hair, lipstick and big boobs. I love acting silly sometimes, and all feminine-like. I want to be able to be weak and be accepted for it. I want to be submissive and dominated by my male partners. I love being catcalled and think porn is empowering, and want to have a say in all these debates as the woman that I really am. Why should my biology exclude me from the feminist struggle, that I identify with so strongly?'

Same intersectional tumblr feminist:

'OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING. This woman has gone through so much. She is definitely a woman, and anyone not accepting her as one is just a transphobic piece of shit! Even is you disagree with her, many cis-women think some of these things, and it is only as problematic as if they said it, so its all okay that she does, and if you don't agree you are transphobic and thus anti-feminist and oppressive, and deserve to DIE!!!!'

[51centurywoman]

Is Gender Appropriation a thing?