Categorizing and defining woman not only furthers our oppression and the people who do so are misogynist

submitted by inneedofspace from self.GenderCritical

Edit: Sorry I screwed up the title but this is pretty much twitter right now. Now it's objectifying for women to confine womanhood to female, I don't know where to begin. Women are oppressed for being female therefore it's necessary to define what a woman is, it's necessary to form a coalition against the oppression, it's necessary to identify the people who are at risk for this oppression. By this logic, that women are just as bad as misogynist or that women are somehow fetishizing ourselves by naming and discussing our oppression it means that the female body is doomed to be a walking vagina unless we branch out and include men in our definition of womanhood and in our everyday life. Naming and classifying the female body as female/woman/girl isn't the problem because no matter what, we are going to exist and no matter how much reclassifying no matter how many times society tries to regroup women into vagina havers and menstruators, being female is the source of female oppression.

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[–]Sun_bear 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think the problem is most people simply don't believe sexism exists, they believe instead that women are inherently inferior and deserving of hatred.

[–]inneedofspace[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's exactly what it is I can't believe the solution to women's oppression is to include men that way somehow sexist will see that we're just as human which makes absolutely no sense because what about actual women who were actually born women? We don't cease to exist because they included men and made a less "rigid" idea of womanhood.

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

Posted this elsewhere but it applies here as well.

TRA ideology's dictatorship is dangerous in that it disallows us to talk about women specifically. Where will we be when we're robbed of the language with which we need to communicate?

A twitter quote I found sums it best, "Oppressing women on the basis of their sex and then denying that sex is a meaningful concept is a particularly brazen form of gaslighting. It's like repeatedly kicking someone in the shins and then denying that they have shins at all." https://twitter.com/Mgardner2000/status/1149085905250127872

So many things are kicking women's shins, but only one of them is telling them they don't have any.