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[–]venecia 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Did you notice a whole lot more encounters with trans people here? I swear this seems to be the ''internet bullshit encountered in the wild'' capitol of the world. It's where I met the creature that peaked me.

[–]radikaalirusina 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I actually peaked when I saw an article about Rowling, and a TIM had commented something along the lines of how the language should be changed so that women would be called menstruated/breeders (all in Finnish). I was actually kind of a TRA before but the thought of being called a “synnyttäjä” in a general conversation just made my blood boil.

Is it just me or are TRAs mostly incredibly privileged people? Imagine telling someone in the Middle East that they should just identify as a man in order to stop being sexually harassed.

[–]vitunrotta 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh my god. Exactly that. Imagine telling women - nay, even girls - coming from an extremely oppressed place to begin with, that because DUH they are WOMEN (natal, biological, whatever dumb word needs to be attached...) according to the TRA movement you can just "identify" as a man and that's that! Whoop whoop! No more FGM. No more harassment. No more misogyny. No more child marriages. It's fixed now! It's just ALL gone because you decided you're a dude one day. I mean my fucking god?! If THAT had been the answer all along I think we'd all be "dudebros" by now. Funnily enough, that nonsensical logic doesn't EVER go the other way around (where women would be taken seriously when they acted like women, looked like women, had their vulvas and boobs, and just proclaimed they were MEN now). It does NOT work the other way around. Rachel fucking Dolezal much?!

But we are inherently different biologically and we have been treated differently for centuries because of these biological (factual!) differences. The oppression of women hasn't happened because some people ~felt~ like women. It's because they (we!) WERE and still ARE women. It hurts my heart to think there are these proper second-wave feminists out there - waiting for our support, our understanding, our sisterhood - and these goddamn libfems are only thinking "well, I suppose a dick is as feminine as anything. Yay! Oppression is gone!"

UGH. Is there any radfem movement/organization that is trying to make amends with our oppressed sisters elsewhere? Libfems just seem to say "I like, can't, like, know how you, like, feel so, I like, wear a hijab because feminism, like, yay? Also femaledick like, so openminded like I can't even. Dicks before anything! I am so feminist! Hashtag TWAW! Wow! I changed the world!"

I CAN'T TAKE THIS SHIT. I am livid, in fact. I am done. I want change. How do we change?!