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Naming and deconstructing a problem on the societal level is not “shaming”. It isn’t about your personal ’empowerment’ or any of the other neo-liberal drek that passes for so much of mainstream feminism these days. So the example here is prostitution and no – I won’t call it ‘sex work’ or any other patriarchally approved euphemism for the female sex slave trade.
Prostitution is female slavery and is only around because men are unwilling to make the effort to regard women in our society as full human beings. Cheery stuff, I know, but fixing the problem doesn’t happen until we recognize that there is a problem and begin to take steps to rectify it.
These are the threats that entitled misogynists in dresses regularly hurl at women. These are the actions of men when you disagree with them. Feeling progressive and supportive of the trans-cult agenda yet? I know I’m not. Male violence and the threat of male violence is the first tool use in patriarchy to oppress females, if these ‘trans-women’ had even one small fucking inkling of what actually being a woman in society is like, they wouldn’t do shit like this. But they do, almost every time. So if you go against their pornified-male-gaze based version of what a woman is – this is what you get.
Transactivsm isn’t progressive, it isn’t ‘inclusive’ and sure as cats shit in my garden, it ain’t no feminism.
http://vuvaliniterf.tumblr.com/post/167948405167/kaoticwitchmemes-bitter-badfem-
Men will do pretty much anything to blame others for their problems. Including telling a false narrative and trying to subvert the feminist movement for their own ends. Sorry for the segmented presentation, but it is the best twitter has to offer.
The fiery words of a radical feminist who refuses to be erased by men in our so called progressive society.
I am heartened to see the criticism of the word ‘cis’ from more places around the world. Women are waking up to the misogyny that is transactivism.
“Loudly proclaiming that the use of biological, scientific words are bigoted, exclusionary, or even violent is actually bigoted, and exclusionary. It’s not violent though, because that’s just a ridiculous exaggeration. It’s projection on a grand scale. The truth is that if you are so terribly triggered by the use of biological terms for your body, or the bodies of others, you don’t need your language rewritten, you need therapy.
Anyone who truly believes that trans people are fighting a losing battle hasn’t considered how much erasure of women’s lives they have achieved in order to protect their own feelings. Meanwhile, birth activists can’t even have a discussion about forced episiotomies or caesareans without being told that women are lying, women are selfish and only care about their birth experience, doctors know best, women in “Africa” die etc etc. We find ourselves in a precarious position when apparently it is trans exclusionary to say “pregnant woman” but we can’t discuss forced episiotomies.
Apparently it is “cis privilege” to give birth. But is it really privilege when our bodies are being forcibly cut without consent, and we can’t even name our body parts or the role we play in giving birth? Many of us can’t choose where we will give birth, or who will attend our births? We can’t access birth control or abortion? When a man who rapes us can take us to court and seek visitation with a child that resulted from his rape? When a woman of colour is at a significantly increased risk of death during or shortly after birth?”
Accessing a space where gender can be discussed is often fraught with hazards. Many transactivists are violently opposed to hearing about, never mind discussing, the recent trends in gender identity. When calls for discussion are met with thought terminating statements -“transwomen are women” or manipulative statements “misgendering is violence and I’ll kill myself if you don’t follow my dictates” clarity is often hard to find. I gleaned this conversation from the Auntie Wanda tumblr about some possible down sides to gender transition or sex ‘reassignment’ surgery.
I read this and asked, why is this particular body dismorphic disorder being treated so differently than other disorders? We certainly don’t council anorexics to diet, or tell them how fat they are, nor do we give people who suffer from Body Integerity Disorder or Apotemnophilia access to surgeons who will remove their limbs that clearly (for them) do not belong to them.
So why do foster the illusion that men can become women (and vice versa)? You simply cannot. And the pale imitations medical science can conjure up are simply that, bad copies the opposite sex, that require a lifetime of medical upkeep and care that often do nothing to solve the body dysphoria (if the condition is present) at all.
http://auntiewanda.tumblr.com/post/166640748556/benyw-appropriately-inappropriate
Yep. Women got 99 problems and worrying about pronoun use shouldn’t be one of them.
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