#terves

[lorynna]

Is it TERFS or TERVES?? Cast your vote, gyns!!

TERFS

TERVES

Voting ended onJan 5

I have seen both versions being used and I must know the truth.

Also, do not hesitate to leave an explanation for your vote of choice in the comments/reblogs.

[hjellacott]

I reject the label Terf. It doesn't hurt me. It doesn't offend me. It's as meaningless to me as shouting "bleh" at me. It's simply one more ridiculous label a certain collective invented, like they invented gender ideology:

- To control women.

- To hurt women.

- To ridicule women.

- To take away women's rights.

- To attack women.

And like all of their ridiculous inventions, it has no power over me. Gender cultists don't get to define me. They don't get to label me. They don't know what a woman is, let alone who I am.

[gemofobsidian]

it might be a bit white of me that I only just now noticed this, but the way white TERFs keep comparing trans women to blackface is soooo fuckin cringe dude. how could they as white women possibly know what could reasonably be compared to blackface? if I called everything that I considered to be mocking me a form of blackface, people would probably be calling me racist! and they'd be right. but their spaces are all seemingly fine with it. maybe the black terfs are all just giving the white terfs the pass on this one, but I can't say ive observed this to be the case. it seems more like no one ever questions it. it seems like they're just very comfortable using this term "womanface" without even thinking about it. kinda weirdchamp

[hyperdemona]

Hi guys. Am Indian terf.

[start-anywhere]

why is anon in my inbox telling me fran lebowitz is a terf? and then i’m reading about it. okay. did i post fran lebowitz? once, two years ago? the last time i got anything in my inbox it just said hi. and the time before that was also 2021.

[linguist-breakaribecca]

Quick reminders for the new year:

Trans women are women.

Trans men are men.

Someone’s gender identity is theirs alone to declare and your input means diddly.

Someone’s gender expression is also not where your opinion belongs.

Gender is a spectrum.

Gender is not a static thing.

Singular ‘they’ is perfectly good.

Neopronouns are perfectly good.

People are not forever defined by which of 2 boxes a doctor or midwife checked when they met them as an infant, and to say they are is about as bonkers as saying you refuse to acknowledge they’re not 8lbs 6oz or blond, because those are what their original birth certificate said they are.

And this blog is a no-TERF zone.

Even if this were a purely academic linguistics-centric blog with citations and independent research, I would still easily be able to dunk on terves because they so obviously twist language into the specific way they think protects them, and with that tangled-ass web they also try to ensnare anyone who believes that trans people are valid. The hypocrisy and invented definitions are just… so bad.

But, because this is just the personal blog of someone who happens to be a linguist:

🏳️‍⚧️ I will definitely dunk on terves whenever the opportunity presents itself. 🏳️‍⚧️

Your feminism isn’t made better by clinging to a narrow definition of who deserves respect, and you sound like a fool when your worldview boils down to “it’s bad to judge women and their worth by their bodies! now I’m going to judge your womanhood and your worthiness for basic human rights based on your body.”

Just look at HOW. MANY. TIMES. a terf will think she’s doing The Right Thing by telling another woman that she’s “not fooling anyone” and is “clearly a man” because the terf is channeling their inner misogynist and weaponizing “non-feminine” aesthetics… but she’s raging against a cis woman with muscular arms or a receding hairline. With that much friendly fire, you’d think they’d realize their ideology sucks.

I will dunk on anyone who proudly calls themselves a TERF or radfem, just as I’d dunk on anyone else who thinks it’s fine or cute to identify primarily with their bigotry. Feel free to keep putting your ignorance in your bio, or reblogging from [hate group]-r-us, so the rest of us can know to just hit that block button instead of wasting our time.

[seaglassmarbles]

there’s really people who lie awake at night thinking this and then say trans folks are the ones obsessed with genitals

[be-ca-lm]

wait wait wait wait. so you’re telling me. lesbians have to become comfortable with male sexed genitalia if the person it’s attached to identifies as a woman. and gay men have to become comfortable with female sexed genitalia if the person it’s attached to identifies as man. otherwise it’s bigoted and transphobic and awful.

but people encouraging a person to become comfortable with the genitalia they were born with if they struggle with dysphoria is....not ok? everyone else has to do it? but not them? am i missing something?