Tag: trans activism
I have sympathy for people who genuinely believe they live in the wrong body, but my sympathy starts to wane when I am labelled a “menstruator” with a “front hole”. My sympathy also wanes when actual women’s concerns about sharing private spaces with men are dismissed, and women’s views ignored. I have almost no sympathy left however when I and everyone else is asked to alter objective realities in the public space to accommodate someone else’s desire to change their sex.
— Anne Marie Waters
Y’know what, let those fuckers have “woman.” We deserve a word for ourselves that doesn’t have “man” in it anyway.
They can try to twist language till they’re blue in the face, but they can’t do a damn thing about the fact that half the population is still here, daring to exist with our vaginas, just like every one of their mothers did.
Like, the solution to eliminating patriarchy isn’t to pretend it doesn’t exist by allowing men to invade women’s spaces and stake claim to our lived reality.
The solution is to end patriarchy.
The solution is not to house males in women’s prisons and shelters on the basis of ~personal feels~; the solution is to eliminate male violence and the staggering “1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted” statistic. The rape rates, the murder rates, the domestic violence rates, and all the subtle psychological violence that the male sex inflicts upon us via the enforcement of social gender constructs. Eliminate the pressure for women to wear makeup. Eliminate sex trafficking. Eliminate the lack of access to safe birth control and reproductive healthcare. Eliminate misogynistic religions (aka all of them). ALL of these problems are caused and upheld by the male sex class.
My blood boils when a trans activist compares sex segregation (i.e. female safe spaces) to racial segregation. Women’s safe spaces were created to protect them from male oppression and violence. Our safe spaces were made necessary because your sex is full of violent misogynists. Wanna change that? Start fighting the violent misogynists instead of acting just like them.
Our problems AND yours are the result of patriarchy, so maybe start addressing and solving the problems caused by your own sex instead of telling us the problems don’t exist, or they they’re women’s fault. Stop fighting women who won’t suck your dick and start fighting the reasons we need feminism – that is the only action that will earn you a “place” in the women’s movement.
I swear, I have never seen an actual woman hate women as much as the men claiming to be women do. Incredible.
I love how “you just haven’t met the right man yet” didn’t work so they resorted to “WELL ACKSHUALLY I’m a woman inside so if you won’t have sex with me you’re a bigoted genital fetishist!”
(Being a bi radfem is fun because I get to be like “no buddy it’s not your dick I have a problem with IT’S YOU.”)
Synanon, the Brainwashing “Game” and Modern Transgender Activism: The Orwellian Implications of Transgender Politics.
Fantastic exploration by Jenn Smith.