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[–]sisterinsomnia 75 insightful - 1 fun75 insightful - 0 fun76 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

And this is exactly how to peak many more people! I felt any residual shreds of kindness I still felt toward trans activists shed today, and I am a fairly kind person who tries to be fair.

The bans are clearly aimed at all vulva women whose human rights are to be meat for porn subreddits and not one single thing more. We are not allowed to exist as human beings, we are not allowed to speak at all unless it is in adulation of some brave and stunning transitioner or in trying to find out how to be a better and more submissive helpmate to men.

We are not even allowed to name ourselves anymore, because doing so is exclusion and other groups are so much more valuable, more vulnerable and more fragile, despite the fact that those other groups (extreme trans activists, really) seem to be ruling large chunks of the Internet, seem to be powerful enough to get people fired, and seem to have vast and powerful organizations in their back pockets. And they now have the right to define us and to name us on the woke left.

That fighting for our hard-won and quite recent rights is bigotry is such a DARVO feat! Yet that interpretation is the winning one. Nobody is allowed to point out that, actually, rights here just might clash, because only the rights of one side in the war matter.

I have read about the transing of the dead which turns so many role models women used to have in history into trans men or at least nonbinary people, and I ask myself what role models the new type of "woman," the one based on only self-identity might be allowed to have, and all I come up with is porn stars, Stepford wives and the Barbie doll.

Yet to express any hesitation about the current wild careening into a world like that is transphobia and bigotry.

[–]dazedandsubdued 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

hi. i'm here! someone who has newly "peaked" i suppose. i only learned about being "gender critical" after the JK Rowling tweets and now i sit here in a bit of disbelief over what is apparently the new "woke" opinion--no female only spaces... no talking about how my experience as a woman has been fundamentally shaped by my fucking biological SEX. i did not know that this is what many in the trans-community were arguing for and as a person who had traditional "liberal" views on trans-rights up until like a week ago, it has really thrown me for a loop.

i'm just so so sad. i've always known that reddit (as with most places) fucking hates women, but i'm still really disappointed and confused. glad to be here though to learn and chat.

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

It's scary when you first peak and get to stare this bare-faced misogyny right in the face.