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Trans people should be allowed to murder one person a year, just like retail workers.
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You're right that transphobia is so common that you should scream. It's so common that even trans people engage in it often .As an enby, I'm terrified to know that if this were permitted, some trans people would use it on other trans people.
Yeah, sorry, trans liberationists (NOT assimilationists or transmeds) should be allowed to kill one person per year.
Based.
The only good kind of trans gatekeeping.
Guarding the gate to the trans armory
Recently found out a friend of mine is transphobic
It just hadn't come up bc im not trans, debating on how i should cut contact or if i should try to change his mind
I'd say try to nudge people you're already friends with. People tend to be receptive to those that are close to them. Of course, that's entirely dependent on your level of comfortability of approaching touchy subjects with other people.
Try to change their mind. Cut them off if they won't budge, even a little
If you were trans, i'd strongly recommend to cut contact ASAP, it never goes well in these cases. As it is, you may be able to influence him, but these particular brainworms tend to bury deeply. If we're not just talking about the sadly normallized amount of structural transphobia you'll run into everywhere ("gatekeeping is necessary to save people from making mistakes with permanent consequences", "trans women in sports are a complicated issue", "there's a conflict between trans rights and women's rights"), but the really dedicated, terminally online transphobes that have no other hobbies than harassing trans people, these are among the most unhinged, most radicalized bigots. They're about as far gone as hardcore elders of zion antisemites.
I saw that animation. Didn't know what was going on until I recognized Keffals.
Idk why people think that transwomen are somehow "taking over women's day". I only hear stuff about awareness of women's issues on that day, no trans issues. And even then, trans women have woman issues, because they're women. There must be some kind of cognitive dissonance here.
I’ve never seen an actual trans woman be creepy in a woman’s space. Hell I don’t think I’ve ever seen a trans woman in a woman’s space at all. And can you blame them when being out about it in those spaces gets you this reaction? I swear stuff like this animation keeps setting back my transition timescale. I would have used “us” to refer to trans women before seeing it or being exposed to so much transphobia but being merely exposed to it has shaken me enough to make me feel invalid again.
TERFism is such a weird brand of “women are weak and need to be pwotected 🥺” brainworms. No actually, women are more than capable of telling if a trans woman is being creepy or not independent of them being trans and reporting it, and don’t need vigilant transphobic moderation to delete all the “scawy trans people” before they actually do anything.
Even in Simone de Beauvoir's book, "The Second Sex", which is basically the foundation of feminist philosophy, explains that one is made into a woman, not born as a woman, which is the basis of the argument as to why men and women shouldn't be treated differently : " We aren't born as women, we become women" (idk how to translate this well).
Gender essentialism is completely against feminist philosophy. How can they call themselves feminists?
So ironically, their title as feminist is not valid, but your gender is 😉. Never give up!
I suppose their argument is that women are socialized into becoming women and therefore trans women or trans men are “socialized” as the gender they’re born as and not their actual gender. I’m going to call bullshit on that, though, because the way that translates into their full ideology is questionable at best.
Deconstructing the gender binary should be the ultimate goal here, because it’s rooted in patriarchy and fucked up in general. Trans liberationism does this by radically challenging the idea that gender is something inherent to anything at all. And the tip-off that these TERFs are full of absolute bullshit is that they almost always support transmeds and trans assimilationists, but never trans liberationists.
This is because they are transphobes, and are not actually motivated by feminist ideology. If they wanted to actually criticize any segment of “trans culture” from a feminist perspective they would probably just come away with the exact same take the majority of trans people who aren’t rich and don’t have the ability to afford tons of surgeries and shit have: Trans assimilationists suck ass.
The fact that their depictions of “evil trans women” are always these stereotypically “ugly”, masculine people, as if it is somehow inherently part of being evil to be “ugly”, without any introspection into how those definitions of ugliness are defined, is suspect. It is, of course, a rhetorical trick to make their transphobia clearer, as they are aware most trans women that do look like that aren’t evil perverts, but they feel fine slandering trans women like that anyways. But it still reveals their main belief: “Trans people should just be invisible and assimilate like they should have long ago.” See JK Rowling or whoever saying that the “normal trans women” are ok but not “weird trans women”, whatever that means in a cis transphobe’s deranged mind.
TERF + endorsing the U.S. army
Also, being physically unattractive or looking too masculine is not a thing exclusive to trans women, as always TERFs are as much of misogynists as they are transphobic, depicting a woman as being bad exclusively because she is unclean, ungroomed, unattractive or too masculine is the same thing that men misogynists do to cis women, look up any chud making fun of feminists and see how he'll depict them as having hairy legs, looking out of shape and having smelly armpits
woman is when armpits never smell
The great thing about having half my brain eaten by worms is that I can watch Maria Holic and think it's hilarious, because any day is a good day to laugh at cis people being weird and ignorant......... Uuuuuntil I'm sitting right opposite of some broad-shouldered chud with Goebbels eyes who's going on and on about the wokies and identifying as attack helicopters and so forth, and I'm once again reminded that resting assured in how flimsy the transphobic worldview is does not negate the fact that transphobia is a phenomenon with material origins, that the transphobes are the people in power, and that they could beat the shit out of me at the drop of a hat.
First time I've logged into my NG account in over 10 years. They don't even have an option to report hateful content lmaoooo